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SOURCE: SunSi Energies Inc.
February 06, 2013 08:31 ET
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 6, 2013) - SunSi Energies Inc. ("SunSi") (OTCQB: SSIE), an international manufacturer, seller and distributor of energy products and solutions, today announced its plans to change its name to ForceField Energy Inc. The name change and strategic rebranding of the Company reflects its increased focus on renewable and more efficient energy generation technologies, systems, products and solutions.
The new name underscores the strength of the Company's transformation in 2012, as it expanded and diversified into two high growth multi-billion dollar markets. First, the Company secured a majority ownership interest in TransPacific Energy, a renewable energy provider with a patented technology which uses proprietary multiple component fluids to efficiently and profitably convert "waste heat" into clean electricity. Second, the Company acquired the exclusive distribution rights to North America and Mexico from Lightsky for high performance light emitting diode (LED) lighting products. Both acquisitions offer energy consumers the opportunity for reduced operating costs, increased ROI and more environmentally sound solutions.
In conjunction with the Company's name change process, the following Company logo will be implemented when the name change becomes effective.
The Company's Board of Directors and a majority of its shareholders have approved the name change and the Company has filed a certificate of amendment with the Nevada Secretary of State to reflect the change in its articles of incorporation. Also SunSi has filed an informational statement on Schedule 14C in accordance with the SEC's rules and regulations and intends to complete the filings required by FINRA to finalize the name and trading symbol changes as a corporate action pursuant to its rules and regulation. The Company expects the new name to become effective within one to two months.
Until the new name is approved, SunSi's trading symbol for its common stock will not change. Furthermore, the name change will not affect the validity or transferability of any currently outstanding stock certificates; nor will the Company request any of its shareholders to surrender for exchange any SunSi stock certificates presently held by them.
Addressing the Company's proposed name change Richard St-Julien, SunSi's Chairman, stated, "The proposed new name better reflects our current path and business operations, the initiatives that we are undertaking and our commitment to developing innovative energy technologies and solutions for consumers worldwide. We have our eyes set on the future and believe that the ForceField Energy name provides us with a unique opportunity to establish a long-lasting brand in the constantly growing world energy industry."
About SunSi Energies Inc.
SunSi Energies is a global company whose products and solutions focus on renewable energy and improved energy efficiency. SunSi's subsidiary, TransPacific Energy Inc. ("TPE") has patented a technology which uses proprietary multiple component fluids that are environmentally sound, non-toxic and non-flammable. Custom formulated mixtures efficiently capture and convert heat directly from the heat source at temperatures ranging from 80° F to 1000° F. TPE's technology offers applications at broader temperature ranges than other energy recovery systems. TPE's systems in certain applications reduce operating and maintenance costs thereby significantly improving return on capital expenditures thus making the purchase of waste heat recovery systems which previously yielded nominal savings, economically viable.
SunSi is the exclusive distributor in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico of Light Emitting Diode ("LED") commercial lighting products and fixtures for a premier LED manufacturer, Lightsky. An LED is a semiconductor device which converts electricity into light. The LED light is considered "green" because of the absence of dangerous chemicals and an accompanying significant reduction in energy consumption depending on the application, from 50% to 70% of traditional lighting products.
SunSi, is also a significant manufacturer and distributor of trichlorosilane ("TCS") in China. TCS is a specialty chemical primarily used in the production of polysilicon, which is an essential raw material in the production of solar cells for PV panels that convert sunlight to electricity. For additional information regarding SunSi Energies Inc. or Transpacific Energy, Inc., please visit the companies' websites at www.sunsienergies.com, www.transpacenergy.com, www.lightsky-led.com or contact Richard St-Julien at (646) 205-0291.
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for statements of historical fact, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "future," "plan" or "planned," "expects" or "projected." These forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that may cause actual results to differ materially from stated expectations. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein include (i) a decision by the SEC or by FINRA not to approve the Company's name change, and (ii) without limitation are detailed in documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov.
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Hold the front page! The iPhone 5 has been revealed with an advertisement highlighting all of its key features. Okay, so said commercial is in fact a parody that lightly mocks iPhone fanboys in the process.
The video centres around Apple asking its customers how they use their phones and subsequently developing the new iPhone 5 in accordance with their habits. Its findings? "People only use their iPhones to take photos of their food."
Suggesting iPhone users employ their handsets to replace real-life relationships and happiness with endless photos of their food, which they post on social networks in the hope of getting likes and retweets, the mock-up iPhone 5 is in fact just a DSLR camera.
Greg Mansfield, "vice-president of iPhone product design" (he's not really), runs us through some of its features, including a 50mm macro lens and ISO of up to 6500.
Of course if this commercial rings true with you, you might want to have a look at the Nikon CoolPix S800c that pretty much does everything seen in the parody but for real.
Does this parody ring true with you? Come on 'fess up in the comments below...

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All these graphics came from the newly launched google.com/phone site and we loved them so much we wanted to share them with anyone who may have missed them. On the Google site there is an interactive tour discussing the features of the phone itself and a really amazing live phone demo showing many new features of Android 2.1.
Side note: If anyone knows who is responsible for these motion graphics or is familiar or close with the project, please drop us a comment. The style is amazingly tight and I'd love to know who put these together.


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FlashForward: Board to Death
Let's focus on that evidence corkboard. (There will be time for several cupcake breaks and a cameo appearance by Cameron from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.')
The second episode of FlashForward (Lost with a side of Armageddon, hold the Island, for those of you just joining us) puts us three days out from the mysterious worldwide blackout, when traffic is moving smoothly in Los Angeles, and the plot thickens around the creepy surveillance image of a single man awake in a Detroit stadium while the rest of the earth was out. Since we've already met everyone, let's focus on that corkboard — the one with the index cards, spotted by Agent Benford in his flash-forward — as handy a repository for a mystery show's clues as any we've seen. There will be time for several cupcake breaks and a cameo appearance by Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Card No. 1: D. Gibbons
Agent Janis Hawk, whom we've been told is "a bit of a tomboy" (read: comes out as lesbian in a future episode) and a brilliant analyst, narrows down a list of some 15,000 D. Gibbonses to a thousand or so with criminal records; meanwhile, a bakery owner named Didi Gibbons (played by MadTV alum Stephnie Weir) wanders into the FBI office with a box of red-velvet, carrot, and peanut-butter–crunch cupcakes. She describes her flash, in which she argues on the phone with a credit-card company, says something about pigeons, and mentions agents Benford and Noh by name.
Later: Didi's flash leads Janis and field-office chief Wedeck to investigate a few weird credit-card charges on her bill in Utah, and then, absurdly quickly, send Benford and Noh off to a town in that state called Pigeon (more on that later). Didi is probably not the D. Gibbons in question, however — little Charlie Benford mentions a D. Gibbons from her "dream," and he is a "very bad man." But that doesn't stop Didi from bringing over another box of cupcakes! This time they include ones with "tropical flavors," which we believe is a subtle, and still racist, apology for essentially calling Agent Noh a Chinaman in her flash (he's actually Korean).
Card No. 2: Doll Photos
In Pigeon, Noh meets a female sheriff who, like him, saw nothing in her flash. She waxes wise about how she's glad she's not tortured like everyone else about glimpsing their near futures, and that night helps the Feds stake out a bus station next to an old horror-movie set — er, an abandoned doll factory.
Later: After failing to catch a credit-card defrauder skipping town, Benford notices the doll factory and gives Noh (who knows the doll card on the corkboard) the old "this enough of a coincidence for ya?" They go in with the sheriff, guns out, and spot a shadow moving in an office upstairs. Benford trips a booby trap that sends a bunch of hanging dolls swinging and singing ("ashes, ashes ... ") and sparks a shoot-out with a trench-coat–clad lunatic, who keeps his computers submerged in fish tanks full of gasoline, all the better for torching. The lunatic and the sheriff die; the latter has Noh fretting over his own even-more-apparent death.
Card No. 3: Friendship Bracelet
Noh gets worked up when he sees Benford sporting the braided friendship bracelet from his flash-forward, because freely wearing it is like a symbol of giving in to fate, or something. (Creepy daughter Charlie gave it to her daddy on the day of the blackout.)
Later: Olivia Benford wakes up to find Mark sitting by the fireplace at 3 a.m. But she's the one with some explaining to do — she met the shirtless man from her flash, and he turns out to be Lloyd Simcoe, the father of her autistic boy patient. "By the way," she asks, "why'd you make a fire?" We see the friendship bracelet burning amid the logs.
Card No. 4: Mosaic
It's the name the FBI has given to the investigation, as well as to the website they've built to track people's visions from around the world and search for patterns within them. Lynn Whitfield makes a regal entrance as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Anastasia Markham, a doubting Thomasina about the pricey web project and Agent Benford's attempt to lead the world's most important investigation.
Later: A cupcake or two down the line, Markham "eats crow," having seen footage of Suspect Zero and then watched Janis trace a cell-phone call made during the blackout to the very Detroit stadium where they spot him.
Janis and Demetri Noh each submit their stories to the Mosaic website, and Demetri gets a chilling call from a woman in Hong Kong, who tells him she saw a case report in her flash with his name on it — and he'll be getting murdered come March.
Meanwhile, there's a funny little cameo by journeyman character actor Alan Ruck (best known as Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off). He shows up to an AA meeting hammered, talking about seeing himself off the wagon again in six months. We hope this is his last appearance, if only because seeing how old he looks has us flashing forward ten or fifteen years ourselves, and such disturbing visions are not what we look for in escapist television.


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Humble Bundle Mojam - Watch Mojang Create a Game Live
Posted: 12:00PM
Author: bp9801
If you have ever wanted to watch a game get created live and also help influence the type of game, now is your chance. Mojang and Humble Bundle have teamed up to livestream the creation of a video game this weekend, and Mojang looked for the input of gamers to determine what game is created. The votes came pouring in on Mojang's website, and the winning game is an ancient Egyptian, real-time strategy shooter with a steampunk theme. You can head on over to the Humble Bundle website to watch the feed and see everything that goes into creating a game, plus you can contribute some money to help out different charities. Any amount you contribute will give you access to the created game, and it is for a good cause as the charities are: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, American Red Cross, and charity: water.
So head on over to the Humble Bundle website, donate some money, and watch a game be created before your very eyes. Mojang has until the end of the weekend to finish the game (as of now ~50 hours remaining), and has already garnered nearly $120,000 in donations.


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A vibrant and exciting live album, the aptly titled Live by the Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet finds the Austrian singer in her element and backed by a spirited and colorful band. Her nuanced, natural tones are a perfect fit on stage and her enunciation pulls us into the notes and words with almost hypnotic effects.
Live was recorded during Lohninger's spring 2012 tour of the Czech Republic. The singer is joined by pianist Walter Fischbacher, bassist Petr Dvorsky and drummer Ulf Stricker. The band easily swings between delicate moments and seriously sharp jams, with Stricker popping out some hearty solos and Fischbacher supporting with intuitive and insightful playing. Dvorsky appears to be the pin to hold it all together, but he exceeds his robust role to provide some oaky layers of his own.
Of course, for the quartet it's all about connectivity — and that's something that comes with time.
"The music gets more intense, more intimate," Lohninger explains. "After a few shows, you feel more liberated and communicate more freely with each other because you simply know each other so much better on a musical and personal level. The audience senses that."
The audience certainly does seem to appreciate what the group is up to on Live and they've got a lot to be thankful for.
Commencing with the John Lennon and Paul McCartney-penned "Here, There and Everywhere," the group presents a slightly jazzy flow to the original. Lohninger hits the higher notes with soft beauty and manages the tempo change gracefully, picking up the gait and shifting back down again with effortlessness.
The lovely "River" by Joni Mitchell is handled with care. Accented nicely by Fischbacher's ivory flourishes, the piece is wonderfully and sensitively delivered. Lohninger makes all the right adjustments for her voice, sinking it a little deeper in texture and drawing the words into her own emotional space. The disorderly "La Puerta" may well be the counterpoint, jamming as it does with a rowdy Latin feel. Lohninger handles the lyrics beautifully, but it's Stricker who steps to the fore with a lively solo that has the place rocking.
Also of note is a version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," a song that many believe has been sung by too many artists too many times. Running into this sort of material is always a risk, especially given the quality of the original, but the quartet is game. The piece lets Lohninger reconnoitre the borders of her range. She soars and doesn't fake the emotion, delivering more than a few heartrending moments along the way.
A vigorous and refreshing piece of work, LIVE is an album that conveys the words and work of one of jazz's most interesting and imaginative vocalists in a live setting. The Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet stuns and delights, verifying their awareness of the songs and, even better, their awareness of one another.
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A well-known Mendocino County psychiatrist was struck and killed by a big rig Friday morning while riding his bicycle near downtown Ukiah.
Douglas Rosoff, 56, of Ukiah, was an avid cyclist known for his regular morning, pre-work rides.
He also was a respected figure in Mendocino County government, where he was the chief psychiatrist in the county's mental health division until a 2011 move to work for the Veterans Administration.
He died shortly before 8 a.m. on his regular East Gobbi Street route, apparently as he and the trucker approached the South Orchard Street intersection.
Preliminary investigation indicated the westbound trucker turned right from East Gobbi onto northbound South Orchard, colliding with Rosoff, who also was westbound, CHP personnel said.
Ukiah Police Capt. Justin Wyatt, whose agency is leading the investigation, declined to release further details or the name of the truck driver. Wyatt did not clarify whether the driver saw Rosoff in advance of the crash or not.
A female companion traveling behind Rosoff was unhurt, Wyatt said, though witnesses described her as distraught.
The 7:57 a.m. collision and its aftermath were highly visible to commute-hour traffic along the busy road.
Among those stopped in traffic immediately afterward was Tim Walsh, owner of Ukiah Schwinn/Ukiah Bike Center a few blocks down East Gobbi Street from the accident site.
"I'm just devastated," Walsh said, describing Rosoff as "a heck of a nice guy."
Former colleagues in Mendocino County government echoed those sentiments Friday. Rosoff oversaw care and cases for adult and juvenile patients, including those in the criminal justice system, officials said.
"He was very well respected," said Stacey Cryer, director of the county's health and human services agency, which includes the mental health division.
"He was probably one of the finest human beings I've ever met," said sheriff's Capt. Tim Pearce, who commands the jail division and worked with Rosoff for 15 years. Rosoff continued to work with juvenile hall detainees after his job move. Pearce called him the "heart and soul of the county's mental health system."
"He was an advocate for all those with mental health issues," said sheriff's Capt. Kurt Smallcomb.
As word filtered down of his death Friday, there was an outpouring of grief and sadness among his former co-workers, Cryer said.
"That goes throughout the county," she said. "This is a community loss for sure."
Rosoff's family members were not available for comment Friday.
East Gobbi Street is a key bicycling route because of bike lanes that run the length of the road, over Highway 101 and to the street's end about a quarter-mile east of the highway.
"It's one of the more regularly and heavily traveled bike routes going east and west," said Dave Minsinger, owner of Dave's Bike Shop, located across the street from Walsh's store and, like Walsh's, just blocks west of the crash scene.
He and Walsh said customers coming into the shop were alarmed by the news Friday, many of them having seen the road closure and crash scene.
Several of Rosoff's co-workers were in the vicinity, as well.
Walsh said he saw the cyclist face down on the pavement and said he was wearing bright riding gear and a helmet. But he said he was not prepared to cast blame until he knew something about how it had happened.


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Science=prunes. Because no one likes prunes.
OK science is officially el dumbo. Not that it wasn't before or anything, but now it is totally unbearable. We have a test tomorrow on heredity crap and I was reading the textbook. And we all know how boring textbooks are. Because you're supposed to learn from them. HANYWAYS, so I was reading about those... err... "reproductive cells"... and I was totally bored, because as I said before, textbooks are boring. So I zoned out like any normal person would and I thought it said "spam and eggs" instead of that... uh... thing... that guys... have... and that thing.... that girls... have. Whatever. Just to warn you what can happen when you zone out while reading a science boooooooook. Well I'm going to go finish studying for science and NOT zone out. :)
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If you have chosen cremation, the cremated remains are placed in a permanent urn. The urn may be used for the final interment or kept in a special place, in the home. Urns are generally made of hardwood, metal or stone, and can engraved with an inscription of the deceased name and dates of birth and death. We offer a wide range of urns, in all price ranges.


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The coming together of LifeLabs, BC Biomedical and CML HealthCare.
LifeLabs is Canada's largest community laboratory testing services provider.
Posted on: 1/21/2016
TORONTO/VANCOUVER, January 21, 2016 – Expectant mothers all across Canada are taking advantage of improved access to a simple blood test that can provide important information about their pregnancy, including if their baby is at risk for fetal problems and genetic conditions, at as early as nine weeks gestation. The Panorama Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) is the most accurate prenatal test available and has been performed by LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services ("LifeLabs") at its genetics lab in Toronto since October 2015. LifeLabs is the first Canadian laboratory to perform NIPT in Canada, which can decrease the need for invasive tests like amniocentesis in many pregnancies.
"Since beginning to offer the test in October, interest and uptake by healthcare professionals and their patients has been tremendous. In less than three months LifeLabs is now performing the pre-natal test for expectant mothers in all ten provinces," said Sue Paish President and CEO of LifeLabs. "By conducting this test in Canada, Canadians have better access to the test and are receiving results faster. Our healthcare system is also realizing meaningful savings."
Non-invasive prenatal testing has become a routine screen for higher risk pregnancies. Panorama is a safe and simple way for expectant mothers to learn about the health of their baby without an invasive diagnostic procedure. It also delivers the most accurate results of any prenatal screening test. Panorama analyzes cell-free fetal DNA circulating in the mother's blood to accurately screen for common fetal chromosomal abnormalities, including trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), monosomy X (Turner syndrome), and triploidy. The test can be performed as early as nine weeks into a pregnancy without any risk to the mother or the fetus. The test has a false positive rate of less than 0.1%. By comparison, the standard maternal serum screening has a 5% false positive rate.
"From the interest and uptake we have witnessed for the Panorama NIPT, it is clear that healthcare professionals across Canada see the benefits of making this test available to expectant mothers across the country," said Dr. Ron Carter, Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory at LifeLabs.
Leading professional associations such as the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) have recommended that NIPT be offered as a test option to women with increased risk factors for fetal DNA abnormalities.
In Ontario and British Columbia, the Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care cover the cost of performing NIPT testing at LifeLabs for expectant mothers who are considered high-risk and meet certain criteria. The test is also available on as a private pay basis to women at lower risk for fetal chromosome abnormalities.
Patients should consult with their healthcare provider to determine if Panorama is right for them. The test can be ordered by healthcare providers across Canada and consists of a simple blood draw collected at any LifeLabs, CML Healthcare or BC Biomedical collection centre in BC or Ontario or collection option in other provinces. Patients or healthcare providers can contact LifeLabs Genetics to get more details on these options.
About LifeLabs: www.LifeLabs.com LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company with over 50 years of experience providing laboratory testing services to help healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients. In communities across British Columbia and Ontario, LifeLabs delivers cost-effective, convenient access to laboratory testing services essential for optimal outcomes in healthcare. LifeLabs employs approximately 5,400 professionally trained staff and delivers over 100 million laboratory tests, supporting over 19 million patient visits annually. In 2013, LifeLabs acquired BC Biomedical in British Columbia and CML HealthCare in Ontario making LifeLabs the largest community laboratory in Canada. LifeLabs is indirectly owned by OMERS Administration Corporation, whose interest is managed by Borealis Infrastructure.
NIPT is one example of LifeLabs' commitment to provide innovations that benefit patients and their families, healthcare providers and governments. In addition to being the first community lab to conduct NIPT testing in Canada, LifeLabs is the first lab to provide online appointment booking for patients, non-fasting protocols and secure, on-line access to lab results for patients. For more information about LifeLabs, visit: www.LifeLabs.com.
For more information about the Panorama Non-Invasive Prenatal Test and LifeLabs Genetics, visit www.LifeLabsGenetics.com or call 1 84 GENE HELP (1 844 363 4357). About OMERS Private Markets ("OPM")OPM (Borealis Infrastructure and OMERS Private Equity) invests globally in infrastructure and private equity assets on behalf of the OMERS pension plan. Investments are aimed at generating superior, risk-adjusted returns to help deliver strong and sustainable pensions to OMERS members. OPM's diversified portfolio of large‐scale infrastructure assets exhibits stability and strong cash flows, in sectors including energy, transportation and government--regulated services. OPM has offices in Toronto, New York, London and Sydney. OMERS is one of Canada's largest pension funds with net assets of CAD$72 billion. For more information, please visit www.omers.com.
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Make your own Flying V Guitar with nanoblocks!
A great gift for the guitarist or any fan of constructive toys and 3D models. Detailed instructions walk you through it all, and before you know it, you have the Flying V pictured above. We have found the nanoblocks to be a blast and are really impressed with their finished detail.
130 pieces. Finished size : 1.75" w x .25" d x 5" h.
Recommended for children 8 and up.
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TextielLab Yearbook 2010
Published by
Audax Textielmuseum
Tilburg, 2011
Texts by
Suzan Rüsseler,
Hanneke Oosterhof
and Yoka Stada
For TextielLab, the specialized textile workshop at the Audax Textile Museum in Tilburg, we have been lucky to have made this years' Yearbook. We have made a modern variant of the oldfashioned traditional Dutch "merklap" – stitching type and illustrations together which are printed on several papertypes. This emphasizes the conceptual difference between origin and design and gives the reader the possibility to have a close look on the beautiful designs that are made within the experimental TextielLab. The book has been be presented at the Salone di Mobile 2011 in Milan.


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Filling in the Middle
Lesson 4 of 6
Objective: SWBAT understand the term area and differentiate perimeter and area.
Big Idea: Perimeter is the outside, and area is the inside of a figure. Students can use both concepts to work with geometric shapes.
Warm Up
The students have been introduced to finding the perimeter of a field. Today we will introduce finding the area of that same field.
I ask students if they remember the farmer with the bunny who ate his lettuce? I tell them that today we are going to look in on the farmer again. The farmer is tired of planting lettuce and he has decided that it would be easier to grow hay for his cow on the field.
When the video is over, I ask students if they remember creating arrays? Finding the area of a shape is a lot like making and counting an array. I draw an array on the board and we count the squares to find the area, or total number of squares inside the figure.
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I draw a large rectangle on a piece of graph paper. I ask students how I can find the area of my rectangle. I tell them I am like the farmer and I want to fill in all of my rectangle but don't know how to figure out how big it is.
Students who make the connection to the farmer in the field, will be able to tell me to count the squares. We count together and find the area of the shape. I ask students what it might remind them of (arrays). If no one comes up with the idea of an array, I try writing the the repeated addition sentence ( 2 + 2 + 2) on the board next to my rectangle. This helps students see the connection between the array and the area.
I ask students how many of them remember doing arrays? I tell them that finding the area of a rectangle is just like finding the total of an array.
I draw a second rectangle on the graph paper. I ask how we might find the area? (counting the inside). I help students count the total number of squares. I also ask if anyone could figure out the total the way to count an array? I ask for a volunteer to show us how they might use repeated addition, or multiplication to solve the array.
I ask students if the area and the perimeter are the same? How could we figure that out? (count the outside - like the farmer with his fence). We count and find the two numbers are different.
I draw a last example for us to compare perimeter and area. When I feel that most students are understanding how to find area and perimeter, I stop and explain the centers we will work with today.
Today students will circulate through 4 centers. They will work with perimeter and area at each center.
Center 1: Students will roll 2 dice and use chips to fill in rows and columns of an array on graph paper. They will trace around the outside of their shape and then write the area (the number of squares that contain colored chips) inside the figure. Students will continue to build shapes and count the area of each one.
Center 2: Students will use geoboards to build shapes. They will build rectangular shapes on the geoboard by rolling 2 dice. The first will be the number of sides of the shape, and the second is the number of pegs on each side. When the shapes have been built, each student will then add the sides to get the total perimeter of the shape.
Center 3: The students will be given a number of shapes drawn on graph paper. They will count the perimeter and area of each shape and figure out which is larger. Today I have them use only squares and rectangles. We have not talked about how they might find the area by counting when the shape has diagonal lines.
Center 4: I tell students to draw a large block letter for one of the letters in their name, on a piece of graph paper. The students then count the blocks by numbering to find the area of the letter. They can also count around the outside to find the perimeter of their letter.


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AURORA iam spargit polum:
terris dies illabitur:
lucis resultat spiculum:
discedat omne lubricum.
Throughout the sky dawn filters through
And day flows down to earth anew
And javelins of sunlight spring
The realms of lies enlightening.
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These days, toys are more than just kid's stuff. Items such as video games, yo-yos and model cars are proving just as popular with adults as they are with children, and retailers are eagerly cashing in on the craze.
The Sharper Image, a San Francisco-based chain with a local outlet in the Gallery at Harborplace, is frequently described as a "toy store for adults." Along with cordless phones and tiny TVs, the Sharper Image sells an amazing array of model cars, ranging from $15 Corvettes to a $299 remote-control-operated monster truck. These miniature vehicles give everyone who loved playing with Matchbox cars a way to carry their passion into middle age.
"The people who are buying [the cars] are typically men and they are about 40 years old," says Sara Wong, public relations coordinator for the Sharper Image. "They work hard during the day, and they want to come home and play."


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Garage rap artist Wiley garnered plenty of approving head nods for his gif-filled, heavily coordinated "Numbers in Action" music video. The artist is at it again, but this time with a simpler video for "Evolve or be Extinct," released today.
The concept is fairly simple, with Wileys's rapping mug featured on an iPad that's passed amongst a group of people around the streets of what looks like London. Rapid cuts combined with grainy footage reminiscent of an old television set gone awry makes the video three minutes of barely controlled chaos. It may not have 10 Wileys on the screen at a time like in "Numbers in Action," but the rapper's gusto is engaging enough.
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Sydney's Purple Sneakers DJs Announce Debut 2CD CompilationWritten by John Ritchie on April 21, 2010
Sydney's most popular and iconic indie club night, Purple Sneakers, will release its first-ever mix compilation, We Mix You Dance, this 11th June on Boundary Sounds through Inertia.
Spearheaded by Purple Sneakers DJs PhDJ, M.I.T and BenLucid, the 2CD mix will encompass the hottest in indie sounds from Vampire Weekend, The XX, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Miike Snow, Animal Collective, La Roux, Art vs. Science, Friendly Fires, Major Lazer and many more!
Born from the womb of the Sydney institution that is Purple Sneakers, PhDJ (founder Martin Novosel), M.I.T, and BenLucid mix guitar-based indie hits into dancefloor destroying tracks and prove that just because you play indie you don't have to suck as a DJ. Their boundary-pushing dance-floor bombs mean you can expect to hear Friendly Fires mixed with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cool Kids mashed up with The Hold Steady, and Major Lazer, Surfer Blood, Delphic & Two Door Cinema Club all smashed in together. As dance music authority InTheMix puts it "those Purple Sneakers cats can really f*cking mix!"
Founded by Boundary Sounds CEO and music aficionado, Martin Novosel (PhDJ) in 2005, Purple Sneakers has enjoyed a five-year run (and counting) as Sydney's hottest weekly indie gathering. Bolstered by DJs M.I.T (known for his tendency to don animal costumes and dive off tall stages) and BenLucid (the mash-up wiz), the night has become famed for its house party atmosphere and packed out crowds.
Run in Sydney's inner-city, the Purple Sneakers brand has become such an institution that regulars now attend from as far as NSW's Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, and Wollongong. In 2009, one party-goer was so impressed that he got the club's stamp tattooed on his wrist (he now gets lifetime entry). A successful sister-night has since been launched in Canberra, and plans are underway to launch a Melbourne night later this year!
Further branching out of Sydney, the Purple Sneakers DJs garnered massive attention on the 2009 Parklife tour, by engineering the world's first "decktar"; where a live CDJ was built onto the neck of a guitar, allowing the PSDJs to wield their axe while dropping tracks at the same time. On top of this, they have played festivals including Big Day Out, Splendour In the Grass, Falls Festival, Playground Weekender, and Good Vibrations, as well as supported acts including Grizzly Bear, La Roux, Santigold, Bloc Party, The Presets, and The Rapture!
With an inventive, genre-mashing sound, the Purple Sneakers DJs' 'We Mix You Dance' is like no mix this country has ever seen. Blending established indie hits with the world's most buzzing up-and-coming artists, it will galvanise dancefloors and soundtrack wild times from coast to coast!
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Birdworld is one of England's largest bird parks. Covering 26 acres, it is located south west of the town of Farnham, Surrey near the Alice Holt Forest.
The park includes Underwater World, Birdworld's own aquarium and Jenny Wren children's farm. There are more than 150 different species of birds, many of which are critically endangered, as well as a flock of pelicans on pelican island, one of the largest free flying parrot aviaries in the world, two flourishing penguin colonies, a seashore themed aviary and a birds of prey area.
Underwater World, houses a variety of fish and reptiles including two rescued crocodiles. There is also a group of Hermann's tortoises in the park, and many wild grey heron that are attracted by the fish fed to the penguins and pelicans. Jenny Wren Farm has a popular children's petting zoo, and houses a number of farm animals as well as a small pet shop. There is also a wide range of food served on site, freshly prepared by their own catering division.
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Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo is expressing pride in building a legacy of unity and stability after he served two consecutive term limits in office. Constitutionally, he can not run for a third.
Mr. Obasanjo was the first democratically-elected president in Nigeria to hand over power peacefully in multi-party polls.
The former Nigerian leader was recently in Washington, D.C. as guest and former honoree of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation.
"We played our role, we followed the constitution and then those who are there [successors] you support them. That doesn't mean that when they do wrong, you cannot make them [aware of it]," said Obasanjo. "Normally, those who are there don't want to listen to those who have been there before, but if you are not overbearing and the incumbents are also wise, they will listen to words of those who have gone before them."
His administration, some analysts say, enabled Nigeria to become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. He underscored the need for African leaders to abide by the tenets of democracy.
"It will be wrong of any executive leader to bend the constitution to suit his own purpose," said Obasanjo.
The former Nigerian leader says Africa's burgeoning democracy needs encouragement.
"I believe Africa is in the process of making progress," said Obasanjo. "Nation building does not begin or end with one regime. Some mistakes will be made, but whatever mistake it is, those who made the mistakes and those who come after them should learn from the mistakes."
Obasanjo also talked about ways to resolve the security challenges presented by the violent Islamist sect Boko Haram. The group is blamed for more than 100 deaths across the country's northern states and for a bombing of a U.N headquarters in the capital, Abuja.
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June 19th, 2013 by WCBC Radio
On Tuesday June 18, 2013, Cumberland City Police served a Bench Warrant on Chris Platter, age 28 of Cumberland. The warrant was issued as a result of Platter failing to follow his conditions of probation set forth by the Allegany County District Court for a previous Disorderly Conduct arrest. He was processed, served and taken to the Allegany County District Court Commissioner for a bond hearing. Platter was held on a $10,000.00 bond at the Allegany County Detention Center.
Chris Platter, age 28. Cumberland, Maryland.
CHARGE: Bench Warrant-Violation of Probation
On Tuesday June 18, 2013, Cumberland City Police responded to the pedestrian shopping area of the downtown mall. Upon arrival officers met with a City Code Enforcement officer who observed Westley McClarren, age 32 of Cumberland acting in a disorderly manner in front of mall patrons. McClarren was criminally cited and released pending trial at the Allegany County District Court.
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CHARGE: Disturbing the Peace
January 10th, 2012 by WCBC Radio
Monday, January 9, 2012 @ 2:54 PM M/V Crash
Officers responded to the intersection of Bishop Walsh and Seton Dr. for a report of a M/V crash. Upon their arrival they contacted the operators of both vehicles who were identified as Philip Heatwole and Shelia Mathews. Investigation revealed that that the vehicle being driven by Heatwole was stopped at the stop sign on Bishop Walsh Rd.. Heatwole then pulled into the intersection of Seton Dr. into the path of the vehicle being operated by Mathews on Seton Dr. Mathews was unable to stop or avoid the collision with the vehicle being operated by Heatwole creating a "T-Bone" collision with the vehicles. Mathews was taken to the WMRMC by CFD ambulance for treatment of minor injuries. Heatwole was issued a citation for starting from a stopped position when unsafe and released. Both vehicles had extensive damage and had to be towed from the scene.
District Court arrest Warrants served
Carl Raymond Skidmore III Age: 28 W. Second St., City
Charge: Bench Warrant Body Attachment
Skidmore was held in the ACDC without Bond.
Christopher Lee Kaylor Age: 24 W. First St., City
Charges: Disturbing the peace, Disturbing the peace loud noise
Kaylor was taken for a Bond Hearing and released on his personal recognizance.
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Career development on track with Australian Rail Track Corporation
The Australian Rail Track Corporation has headed down the path of trialing their first Navitas Professional intern, and is delighted at the results.
ARTC was approached by the training division of Engineers Australia, Engineering Education Australia (EEA) with a view to offering a placement to a young engineer. Former University of Adelaide Bachelor of Engineering Honours student Mr Xilin Lu (pictured left) was successful in the interview process and is quick to praise the value of his placement.
"Working within ARTC, has helped me practice my technical, communication and problem-solving skills," Xilin said.
David Ogucha (pictured right) is the Track and Civil Standards Engineer at ARTC's Enterprise Services and he was full of praise for the professional attitude Xilin brought to his internship. "He has done research and engineering analysis to produce reports that will help implement changes in how ARTC undertakes work to control thermal stress in rail." David said.
Following the completion of his internship Xilin applied for an available engineering position at ARTC, and following a competitive interview process was appointed the role.
From internship to work, what it's all about at City of Burnside
The City of Burnside lists a number of reasons why it takes Navitas' young professionals on three-month internships, among which is staff development.
"We have found that all of our interns embrace the training and like to absorb as much information as possible and require only the normal training time/sessions like any new employee would," said Coordinator, Rates and Finance, Ms Janice van der Pennen.
"This also provides opportunities and experience for our staff to undertake mentoring, training, supervising interns throughout the three month placement," she added.
Ms van der Pennen said the council has been very impressed with the quality of interns it's offered placements to. "Burnside aims to provide an opportunity for Navitas young professionals to experience how a busy office environment and organisation culture operates. All of our interns have been professional, eager to learn, willing to tackle any task thrown at them," she continued.
"This has been a beneficial experience for both Burnside Council and our professional interns that have worked with us. It is always hard to see them leave, however we have seen many of our previous interns succeed to secure fulltime employment elsewhere," she concluded.


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text: Secret State with Rupert Graves - Review * 24 December 2012 Thirty years after it was first published, Chris Mullin's complex political conspiracy thriller novel has found itself dramatically re-imagined as Secret State, a four part mini-series shown on Channel Four in the UK in November 2012. Featuring Gabriel Bryne, Charles Dance, Rupert Graves and Gina McKee among the large cast, the series is formed out of an incident packed four hours, where the machinations of politics, Big Oil, terrorism, the looming threat of war with Iran and past conflict in the Balkans, finance, surveillance and long buried secrets coalesce in a melting pot that is filled nearly to the brim. Opening with the aftermath of a devastating explosion at a fuel refinery in North East England ahead of a crucial General Election, the plot concerns the ascent of the deputy Prime Minister Tom Dawkins (Gabriel Bryne) to the head of Government, following the apparent murder of his predecessor in a terrorist attack. From that already dramatic premise, the narrative spins out in a variety of directions that ultimately meet in a neat, idealistic conclusion. The only major issue with Secret State is the series feels too short, with such a high degree of incident and so many elements packed into its runtime it feels slightly rushed. There is an unshakeable sense that if the plotting had been allowed to stretch on an extra hour or two the entire series would have a greater chance to breath. As it is, Secret State barrels through a huge variety of events at a relentless pace. This in turn would be no issue at all ordinarily - fast paced drama is our bread and butter after all. The crux of the problem is the sheer size of the events depicted lead to a degree of implausibility - the magnitude of them, and that they occur at such an incredible frequency, lends the series an unavoidable tinge of the absurd. There are serious points being made here about nobility from leaders in exceptional circumstances, but the telling renders them slightly inert by the close. Enough of the criticism though, for as a sum of the rest of its parts Secret State is excellent television. As you would expect from a cast of such calibre, the performances are superb. Formed around the principled, haunted performance of Gabriel Bryne as Dawkins, who has had the position of Prime Minister seemingly thrust upon him thanks to his outstanding response to the industrial disaster at the start, the other members of the cast circle around him, some benevolently, the rest intent on destroying him, looking for any chink in the armour of the former soldier that will see him thrown down from the ramparts of Westminster. Rupert Graves straddles both sides of that line in his role as Felix Durrell, the home secretary. Working mostly in the background of proceedings, he is initially hungry for party leadership, but later uneasily toes the party line when it becomes clear Dawkins is the public's preferred candidate. Consistently dressed in a clean cut suit and impeccably groomed, Durrell is every definition of the quiet, ambitious, and yet potentially dangerous politician. While Rupert is very much a supporting player in the drama, his role is a vital one, and his final appearance onscreen suggests a more prominent rise to power for Durrell at the close. Another Sherlock alumni pops up in the course of the series too - Al Weaver, so memorable as lovelorn Andy in The Blind Banker. He features here as a supervisor at GCHQ who operates on the fringes of the plot, and eventually attempts to impede attempts at unravelling the truth. Visually Secret State is cleanly and stylishly shot and edited, and backed with a pulsating yet ominous soundtrack. Make no mistake, the production values are consistently high throughout, and coupled with the excellent work of the cast it is a very good way to spend four hours. Just make sure to be prepared for the very definition of a narrative rollercoaster before you step aboard, as your enjoyment of the ride ahead may very well depend on it. Secret State is available now in the UK on Region 2 encoded DVD.


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Christopher Meisenhelter
- B.S., York College of Pennsylvania, 1980
- M.B.A.(concentration in Operations Management), University of Baltimore, 1983
- MS (Information Systems), University of Baltimore 1985
- D.P.A (ABD), The Pennsylvania State University
- Sam Walton Fellow
- York College SIFE
- Operations Management
- Principles of Management
- Leadership
- Executive Leadership (MBA)
- Business & Government (MBA)
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- Influence of business lobbying on government action
- College – community relationships
- Improving student writing
- Executive Leadership
Recent Presentations
- Transitioning from curmudgeon to new blood: The battle to transform a business department in the new decade. Academy of Business Education Annual Conference 2008. Co-presented with Brian Davis (primary author) and Mary Meisenhelter.
- Partnerships in entrepreneurship: students and local residents get "AHEAD". Institute of Applied and Behavioral Management 2008. Co-presented with Brad Geiger, Brian Davis & Mary Meisenhelter.
- The Community Fellows Program: How a college and its community can turn "Brain Drain" into "Brain gain". Academy of Business Education Annual Conference 2009.Co-presented with Mary Meisenhelter (primary author).
- Great Beginnings: Making the best of the first day of class. Academy of Business Education Annual Conference 2010. Co-presented with Mary Meisenhelter (primary author).


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We love bamboo - we really do. It is versatile, beautiful and best for 'Huggers - renewable. But (why must there always be a "but" in sustainability?), bamboo has its problems as well. Are we too much in praise of this fabulous fiber, or have we really woken up to the possibility of a nearly perfect resource?


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New York City's elite Metropolitan Republican Club has lost 20% of its members since the start of a blatant anti-Trump purge that GotNews exclusively reported last month, as only 2 of 17 speakers invited to speak at the club over the last 2 years were vocally pro-Trump, according to records obtained exclusively by GotNews — the rest of the list included people like anti-Trump failed presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham.
Both Jeb Bush Sr. and Jeb Bush Jr. were welcomed to speak at the Club, as well as anti-Trump South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Anti-Trump media people like John Fund of the National Review and Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal also spoke. John Sununu, who wrote a column titled 'Don't Drink The Trump Kool-Aid' spoke at the Club too, as well as former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who pledged opposition to Trump in an open letter in March 2016.
The only two speakers on the list who openly supported now-President Donald J. Trump at the time of their speeches to the Club were two Trump campaign surrogates: Roger Stone (who spoke in mid-May 2016) and Carl Paladino (who spoke in mid-June 2016).
Stone and Paladino were only allowed to speak well after Trump had secured the Republican Party nomination. According to reports from inside the club, even at that late date it ruffled feathers on the board to have these Trump surrogates speak. Even well after the election, on the February 14, 2017 episode of the Gavin McInnes Show, Club board member Robert Morgan III took a jab at both pro-Trump speakers saying about Roger Stone: "With respect to being a serious political figure – he's just NOT," and claimed Carl Paladino had been "barred from the Trump organization".
Ann Coulter, who is on the record as a Metropolitan Republican Club member and an avid Trump supporter was welcomed to speak at the club June 7, 2015, before Trump announced, and then welcomed back August 28, 2016, well after the Republican nomination had been secured.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his family were allowed to hold three events at the Club in the run-up to the New York state Republican primary in 2016, while Trump's surrogates were kept out until very late in the process.
Per the Club's list of speakers, only vocally anti-Trump or Trump-neutral speakers were allowed to speak during the year-long Republican primary period that lasted from Donald J. Trump's announcement in June 2015 to the time he secured the nomination in May 2016.
Not one Trump supporter or surrogate was allowed to speak during that time, an issue that caused quite a rift in the club, leading up to the January 31, 2017 Trump purging of the board that GotNews exclusively reported and was later picked up by the New York Post.
"The people trying to bring a wider variety of speakers into the club were fought every step of the way," said Met Club member Allan Stevo. "They had a fantastic plan for using a national speaker series to help rebuild the membership roles. Ultimately they were thrown off the board."
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On January 31, 2017, five Trump supporters were wrongly and forcibly purged from the board of the Metropolitan Republican Club – Georgia Palmieri, Alain Palmieri, Sandra Chase, Allan Stevo, and Michael Javelos. The Purge was led by Club President Deborah Coughlin (2015-2017), former Club President Peter C. Hein an attorney at the white glove law firm Watchell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz (1980-1985), the son of a former Club President Robert L. Morgan III (2006-2012), Club Chairman Ian Walsh Reilly, and Club Secretary Jeff Charles Goolsby.
Before the Trump supporters were purged from the board, the club saw as many as five speakers in some months. In February and March 2017, in contrast, the club schedule shows only one speaker each month. According to club president Deborah Coughlin, who spoke the night of the annual meeting, the club now has 430 members, a statistic met that night with applause. Unfortunately, this is a sharp decline of more than 20% from months earlier when Trump supporters started to be marginalized on the club's board and in club activities.
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31/03/2018 - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Overeating is a common problem. Having digestive problems regularly should be so common. It may take time, and sometimes a visit to a doctor, for some people to realize the difference between just eating a little bit too much more than you should and feeling too full because your digestive system isn't working properly. A few supplements can be helpful, so we present you 4 supplements to improve digestion.
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Known as one of the best products to support the digestive system, probiotics contain living organics such as bacteria and yeast that can help improve gut flora composition. Some probiotic products can also provide relief from diarrhea as well as minimize symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
2. Digestive Enzymes
Digestive enzymes can help in many different ways from speeding up digestion to alleviating constipation, from reducing the full feeling to minimizing bloating. These supplements contain a variety of ingredients known to enhance digestion and can also help with food absorption, increasing the amount of vitamins and minerals people get from food.
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New labor laws factored into UC cost studies for table grape production
The studies focus on four table grape varieties. There are two early maturing varieties, Flame Seedless and Sheegene-21, that begin harvest in July, one mid-season maturing, Scarlet Royal, and one late maturing, Autumn King, which begins harvest in October. The studies estimate the cost of establishing a table grape vineyard and producing fresh market table grapes.
"Labor costs are expected to rise with reduced labor availability, increases in minimum wage rates and new overtime rules that went into effect in 2018," said Ashraf El-kereamy, UCCE viticulture advisor in Kern County and co-author of the cost studies.
"We included detailed costs for specialized hand labor of certain cultural and harvest operations."
"The new California minimum wage law will gradually decrease the number of hours employees can work on a daily and weekly basis before overtime wages are required. There are additional stipulations for overtime wages and scheduling of work that are part of the new law," said Daniel Sumner, director of the Agricultural Issues Center.
Input and reviews were provided by UC ANR Cooperative Extension farm advisors, specialists, grower cooperators, California Table Grape Commission and other agricultural associates. The authors describe the assumptions used to identify current costs for table grape establishment and production, material inputs, cash and non-cash overhead. A ranging analysis table shows profits over a range of prices and yields. Other tables show the monthly cash costs, the costs and returns per acre, hourly equipment costs, and the whole farm annual equipment, investment and business overhead costs.
- "2018 - Sample Costs to Establish and Produce Table Grapes in the Southern San Joaquin Valley – Flame Seedless, Early Maturing"
- "2018 - Sample Costs to Establish and Produce Table Grapes in the Southern San Joaquin Valley – Sheegene-21 (Ivory™), Early Maturing"
- "2018 - Sample Costs to Establish and Produce Table Grapes in the Southern San Joaquin Valley – Scarlet Royal, Mid-season Maturing"
- "2018 - Sample Costs to Establish and Produce Table Grapes in the Southern San Joaquin Valley – Autumn King, Late Maturing"
All four table grape studies can be downloaded from the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics website at http://coststudies.ucdavis.edu. Sample cost of production studies for many other commodities are also available at the website.
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NPI study finds that prices for fruits and vegetables may be higher in low-income neighborhoods
Shoppers purchasing fruits and vegetables in stores located in low-income neighborhoods in California may pay more for those fruits and vegetables than shoppers in other neighborhoods, according to a study that examined prices in a large sample of stores throughout the state.
Published online in March 2018 in the journal Public Health Nutrition, the study, conducted by researchers at UC's Nutrition Policy Institute, involved more than 200 large grocery stores, 600 small markets, and 600 convenience stores in 225 low-income neighborhoods (where at least half of the population was at or below 185 percent of the Federal Poverty Level) and compared observed prices to purchased price data from chain grocery stores in the same counties during the same months.
The study found that produce prices for the items examined (apples, bananas, oranges, carrots and tomatoes) were higher in stores in low-income neighborhoods than the average prices of those items sold in stores in the same counties during the same month. Fruits and vegetables for sale in convenience stores in low-income neighborhoods were significantly more expensive than those for sale in small markets or large grocery stores. Yet even in large grocery stores the study found prices in the low-income neighborhoods to be higher than average county grocery store prices during the same month.
"Americans eat too few fruits and vegetables to support optimal health, and we know that dietary disparities among socioeconomic groups are increasing," said study author Wendi Gosliner. "This study suggests that one important issue may be fruit and vegetable prices — not just that calorie-per-calorie fruits and vegetables are more expensive than many unhealthy foods, but also that there are equity issues in terms of relative prices in neighborhoods where lower-income Californians live."
Additionally, the study examined the quality and availability of fruits and vegetables in stores and found that while less than half of convenience stores (41 percent) sold fresh produce, even fewer (1 in 5) sold a wide variety of fruits or vegetables, and few of the items that were for sale were rated by trained observers to be high quality (25 percent for fruits and 14 percent for vegetables).
"This study suggests that convenience stores in low-income neighborhoods currently fail to provide access to high-quality, competitively priced fresh fruits and vegetables," said Pat Crawford, nutrition expert and study author. "A healthy diet can prevent disease and reduce health care costs in the state. States need to explore new ways to help ensure that families, particularly those living in low-income neighborhoods where convenience stores are the only food retailers, have access to healthy, high-quality foods that are affordable," Crawford added.
The study also found that convenience stores participating in federal food programs (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] and/or the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children [WIC]) were more likely to sell fresh produce and to offer higher quality and a wider variety of fruits and vegetables than stores not participating in either program.
The study was conducted under contract with the California Department of Public Health. Funding is from USDA SNAP. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
What's that in your cornmeal?
You're thinking about making Grandma's Southern Cornbread.
You head for your pantry. You remember that six months ago you purchased a bag of cornmeal from a local supermarket and that you immediately emptied the contents into a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid.
You open the airtight jar and notice something strange. It's moving. Moving? Moving? Yes! It's crawling with a transparent carpet of dozens of nearly microscopic critters.
What? First, what are they? If you're like me, you grab your camera--in this case, a Canon EOS 7D with an MPE-65mm lens that can magnify an insect five times its life size--and click the shutter.
You post the photo on BugGuide.Net and request an identification.
The entomologists all agree: They're booklice, Liposcelis bostrychophila.
- Class Insecta (Insects)
- Order Psocodea (Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice)
- Suborder Troctomorpha
- Family Liposcelididae (Booklice)
- Genus Liposcelis
- Species bostrychophila (Booklouse)
These Liposcelis bostrychophila, or "psocids" (pronounced "so kids"), are common pests in stored grains. They're usually unseen because they're about a millimeter long--about the size of a speck of dust--and are transparent to light brown in color. They're also wingless, but can they ever crawl!
Fact is, their name, "lice," is misleading. These tiny insects are not lice; they are not parasitic. And they're everywhere. They feed on flour, cereals, grits, molds, fungi, papers, books, pollen, dead insects and the like. In fact, you've probably unknowingly eaten them--or parts of them--in your pancakes, your oatmeal or maybe even your chocolate birthday cake.
Entomologist Jeff Smith, who curates the butterfly-moth collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis, took one look at the photo and commented: "They're pretty thick in there!"
"Booklice can be scavengers and often feed on the bits of mold or fungi that grow on damp materials," Smith explained. "Very old, neglected food stuffs are also subject to them, and the key to prevention is to use food materials reasonably quickly and not store them for years, store them in a nice dry location and in airtight containers."
"They very well could have been in the food already when you bought it, but they're so common that you probably have some roaming around in the house all the time, just looking for something good to eat. They'll feed on dead bugs in window sills, stale pet foods, etc."
If you're worried about what's in your cornmeal, flour, oats, biscuit mix, cake mix and other stored foods, you can pop the contents in your oven at about 120° for a half hour, and then transfer them to an airtight container, Smith says. "Your food should be okay--albeit perhaps containing a few dead booklice. We had them in an old bag (paper) of rice one time, and in several packages of cornmeal mix that were forgotten in the back of our cupboard."
A UC Davis colleague said he's seen them crawling in his flour, but his wife made pancakes from them anyway. No issues. No problem. "Just protein!" he chortled.
And from another colleague: "I once had an entire case of instant grits. The grits were completely factory-sealed in unopened plastic bags. I opened the bags and the grits were poured into hot water, but they would not sink and mix with the water. Instead the grit floated on the top of the water. I opened a second bag and looked at the grits under my stereo microscope. Each and every grain of grit had two or three little six-legged creatures standing on each grit. These creatures were 100 percent transparent, the only color was in their bodies which was the same color as the grits they were eating. I opened every 100 percent factory-sealed bag, and every bag was contaminated in this matter."
"There is nothing new about insect contamination of grain products," she added. "Another personal experience was a biscuit mix. For no particular reason, I sifted the biscuit mix while making the batch of biscuits. After sifting several cups of biscuit mix, in the sifter screen there were 4 worm-like creatures about the diameter of a standard pencil and about an inch long. These worms were 100 percent transparent, each filled with the white biscuit mix. "Consider we all eat insects, spiders, and urine and feces of all sorts of animals."
We live in world where we all eat bugs, whether we know it or not. Sometimes we may not want to know!
Statistics indicate that the average American unknowingly eats one to two pounds of insects a year. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "has very specific tolerances for the amount of residue in food stuffs," said Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis.
Want to know what the action level is? Check out this FDA document.
And the next time, you're yearning to make Grandma's Southern Cornbread, you might want to check for bugs first. Or maybe not. You might not want to know!
Got backyard chickens? Get their eggs tested for free
Californians who raise poultry outdoors are invited to get their eggs tested for contaminants.
To find out if harmful substances on the ground that are eaten by birds get passed along in the eggs they lay, Maurice Pitesky, UC Cooperative Extension poultry specialist at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, is providing free egg testing.
"We're trying to understand the connection between the environment that backyard poultry are raised in and the eggs they are producing," Pitesky said.
Eggs from counties recently affected by wildfires will be tested for chemicals, building materials and heavy metals that may have been carried in the smoke and ash. Pitesky and Puschner are also looking for lead and PCBs in eggs from certain regions of the state.
The UC Cooperative Extension poultry specialist will share individual egg results with each poultry owner. At the end of the study, all of the results will be summarized and made available to the general public.
Pitesky describes the project in a video produced by CropMobster for UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/3ZlytlUIS3I.
For more information about the study and how to package and ship eggs, visit http://ucanr.edu/eggtest.
Residents in Sonoma County may drop off eggs at the UC Cooperative Extension office at 133 Aviation Blvd Suite 109 in Santa Rosa. The UCCE office in Sonoma County is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Urban farming workshops start soon in Sacramento and San Diego
Are you an urban farmer in the Sacramento or San Diego region? Are you a gardener thinking of selling some of your produce to neighbors, restaurants or at a farmers' market? Are you part of a non-profit organization growing and distributing food in your community? If so, you are invited to join other urban farmers at one or more of four low-cost full-day workshops starting soon in both the Sacramento and San Diego regions, offered by UC Cooperative Extension and local partners.
Learn more about the workshops, as well as the 2017 workshop series' held in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area regions, at ucanr.edu/sites/UrbanAg/Urban_Ag_Workshops.
If you're growing more food, herbs, flowers or fiber than your family or organization consumes, and if you are selling or otherwise distributing the excess, and if you are growing in or at the edge of a city or town, then you are one of an increasing number of urban farmers. Urban farms are often very small scale, commercially marginal and operated by beginning farmers. They can be operated by individuals, families, non-profit organizations, schools or colleges, or by other groups. Research shows that successful urban farms can bring social, health, environmental and economic benefits to local communities, including improved access to healthful food.
A UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) team recently assessed the needs of urban farmers around the state, and found that they struggle with production, business, and marketing challenges, many of which are specific to the urban context of their farms. Additionally, many urban farmers are unaware of agricultural regulations, city zoning and permitting rules, food safety, soil quality issues and pest quarantines.
To help new urban farmers get started effectively, and to help more experienced urban farmers improve their skills and profitability, the UCCE team is offering a series of four urban agriculture workshops in each of the Sacramento and San Diego regions. These communities have recently put policies in place to encourage urban farming, and many residents are getting involved. The workshops will be held at urban farm sites and will include farm tours and discussions with local urban farmers sharing challenges and success stories.
The 2018 workshop series starts March 16 in the Sacramento area and March 23 in the San Diego area.
Workshop #1 will cover urban farming legal basics, including types of urban farm enterprises, zoning issues, soil testing, required permits and licenses, and an introduction to key local resources such as the Agricultural Commissioner and UCCE staff.
Workshop #2 will cover marketing and business management for urban farms, including business planning, record keeping, market channel options, and an introduction to labor laws and risk management.
Workshop #3 will be about production considerations for urban farmers, focusing on water management, integrated pest management (IPM), and soil contamination/soil improvement.
Workshop #4 will cover pre- and post-harvest food safety practices, using CDFA's Small Farm Food Safety Guidelines.
Cost: Each workshop is $20 for a full day of expert speakers, participatory exercises, lunch and refreshments. Each workshop will be a one-day event. Urban farmers and future farmers, and others who are interested can take one, several, or all four of these workshops.
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Sacramento registration: http://ucanr.edu/sacurbanag2018
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Santiago - The Vibrant Capital of Chile
Home to 5 million inhabitants, Santiago, Chile's capital, is one of Latin America's most sophisticated cities. Although far less popular than Rio de Janeiro, and not really a tourist hub by itself even within the country, this vibrant metropolitan city has a variety of cultural and tourist attractions for the discerning visitor – ski slopes, sandy beaches, excellent wineries and heritage homes. Nestled at the foothills of the Andes Mountains, the snow capped peaks provide a breathtaking backdrop for the city. Most of these spectacular views, however, are blocked by the smog that envelops much of Santiago. The best time to visit is the period between December and February. That's the time when most Santiaguinos leave the environs of the city to spend summer elsewhere, leading to a dramatic drop in the smog level and thus, better vistas of the peaks. The city has left most of its troubled military ruled past behind and is in the process of reinventing itself. Newer restaurants and night life venues have sprung up and the cultural and arts scene is undergoing a makeover. All these reasons added to the fact that Santiago is the countrys historical center, make Santiago definitely worth more than just a transit stop on the way to the more popular Patagonia or Lake District areas.


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7 Precious photos from SHINee's Key Instagram that will bring you joy during the Let's Drink finale
Let's Drink ends its 16 episode run tomorrow. While we all feel like shedding a tear, the romantic comedy had brought us so many laughs over the past several weeks it would only be proper to give it a happy send off. So, let's take a look at seven precious photos from Key's official Instagram account that will make you beam with joy this finale week.
1. He and his on-screen Let's Drink buddies giving a thumbs up for the camera.
2. It's V sign time, but Gong Myung decides to stand out by sticking with his thumbs up.
3. Key's dogs aren't puppies anymore, but they are still cute as a button. Doggie looks like a genius!
4.He is spending quality time with them following his hectic filming and 1 of 1 album promotion schedule.
5. After his fellow SHINee member Minho guest starred, the lovable Jo Kwon made a hilarious guest appearance as the student who couldn't make up his mind. The idols took a great selfie together! I wonder what career path his character finally chose.
6. Key promoting his first TV show just 7 weeks ago. Great memories!
7. Key getting ready to enjoy a delicious meal for one of his scenes. A tasty foodmakes everyone happy, right?
Are you ready to thoroughly enjoy the last two episodes of Let's Drink?
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• Partnering with leading women and girl-focused organizations in Colorado to raise awareness about leadership development, violence prevention and economic wellness.
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• In conjunction with Girls Inc. of Metro Denver, hosted a youth Media Literacy Workshop to educate at-risk girls about global women's issues.
• Asking for submissions for on-air vignettes celebrating some of the extraordinary women and girl leaders in Colorado
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