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Can you cook fries in space? If humans ever voyage to a planet far bigger than Earth,
french fries cooked at the planet's surface will be crispier. That's one way of interpreting new research investigating how unusual gravity changes the physics of deep-frying.
and have expressed even cravings for fries. That's part of the reason why Lioumbas and Karapantsios decided to study deep-frying in space.
Gravity simulationthe researchers wanted to know how these differences affect the way chips fry. While achieving low gravity is difficult
which is enough to put anyone off their fries), artificially increasing the force of gravity is relatively easy.
Lioumbas and Karapantsios fixed a deep-fryer containing potato sticks in half a litre of hot oil onto the end of the 8m-long arms of the Large Diameter Centrifuge at the European Space Research
The researchers monitored the temperature just below the surface of the potatoes where the crust of the chip forms,
and also examined the thickness and profile of the crust under the microscope. Convection currents are created both within the pan as a whole
and from the rising of bubbles that grow on the potato surface as the oil begins to boil.
the bubbles are so small that they get stuck to the potato by capillary forces, and so further increases in gravity make little difference.
becoming crispier oe and the chips fry faster. Beyond 3g, however, the crust then starts to separate from the softer core of the potato,
as superheated steam from the moist potato flesh blows a bubble between the two. But who wishes to eat chips with bubbles in?
So the researchers conclude that if you want fries (or anything else) to deep-fry faster,
making them crispy in a shorter time, cooking in a bit of extra gravity helps, but there's nothing to be gained,
and in fact some disadvantages, from centrifuging to a force greater than 3g. This could be worth knowing for the food industry,
the work suggests that fries cooked in zero g could end up a soggy flop, with barely any crust.
but for now it looks as though fries in space are off the menu. If you would like to comment on this story
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Potato power: the spuds that could light the worldmashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes.
Haim Rabinowitch, however, likes his spuds"hacked Â. For the past few years, researcher Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of"potato power  to deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids.
Hook up a spud to a couple of cheap metal plates, wires and LED bulbs, they argue, and it could provide lighting to remote towns and villages around the world.
They've also discovered a simple but ingenious trick to make potatoes particularly good at producing energy."
"A single potato can power enough LED lamps for a room for 40 days, Â claims Rabinowitch,
who is based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The idea may seem absurd, yet it is rooted in sound science.
Still, Rabinowitch and his team have discovered that actually launching potato power in the real world is much more complex than it first appears.
While Rabinowitch and team have found a way to make potatoes produce more power than usual,
the basic principles are taught in high school science classes, to demonstrate how batteries work. To make a battery from organic material
all you need is two metals oe an anode, which is the negative electrode, such as zinc,
The acid inside the potato forms a chemical reaction with the zinc and copper, and when the electrons flow from one material to another,
Super spudspotatoes are preferred often the vegetable of choice for teaching high school science students these principles.
Yet to the surprise of Rabinowitch, no one had studied scientifically spuds as an energy source. So in 2010, he decided to give it a try,
"We looked at 20 different types of potatoes, Â explains Goldberg, "and we looked at their internal resistance,
 They found that by simply boiling the potatoes for eight minutes, it broke down the organic tissues inside the potatoes,
reducing resistance and allowing for freer movement of electrons oe thus producing more energy. They also increased the energy output by slicing the potato into four or five pieces,
each sandwiched by a copper and zinc plate, to make a series.""We found we could improve the output 10 times,
 Their cost analyses suggested that a single boiled potato battery with zinc and copper electrodes generates portable energy at an estimated $9 per kilowatt hour,
Which raises an important question oe why isn't the potato battery already a roaring success?
In 2010, the world produced a staggering 324,181, 889 tonnes of potatoes. They are the world's number one non-grain crop, in 130 countries,
With 1. 2 billion people in the world lacking access to electricity, a simple potato could be the answer oe
companies or organisations embraced potato batteries?""The simple answer is they don't even know about it, Â reasons Rabinowitch.
are there enough potatoes to eat? Then, are we not competing with farmers making income from selling potatoes?
 he explains.""So if eating potatoes is covered, selling potatoes is covered, and there's some potatoes left, then yes,
it can work  In a country like Kenya, the potato is the second most important food for families after maize.
Smallholder farmers produced around 10 million tonnes of potatoes this year, yet around 10-20%were lost in postharvest waste due to lack of access to markets, poor storage conditions,
and other issues, according to Elmar Schulte oegeldermann, potato science leader for sub oesaharan Africa at the International Potato Center in Nairobi, Kenya.
The potatoes that don't make it to the market could easily be turned into batteries. Pithy answeryet in Sri lanka
for instance, the locally available potatoes are rare and expensive. So a team of scientists at the University of Kelaniya recently decided to try the experiment with something more widely available,
and free oe plantain piths (stems). Physicist KD Jayasuriya and his team found that the boiling technique produced a similar efficiency increase for plantains oe
and the best battery performance was obtained by chopping the plantain pith after boiling. With the boiled piths, they found they could power a single LED for more than 500 hours,
provided it is prevented from drying out.""I think the potato has slightly better current, but the plantain pith is free,
it's something we throw away, Â says Jayasuriya. Despite all this, some are sceptical of the feasibility of potato power."
"In reality, the potato battery is essentially like a regular battery you'd buy at the store,
 says Derek Lovley at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.""It's just using a different matrix.
 While the potato helps to prevent energy being lost to heat, it is not the source of the energy oe that's actually extracted via the corrosion of the zinc."
This means you'd have to replace the zinc oe and of course the potato or plantain pith oe over time.
But potato advocates must surmount another problem before their idea catches on: consumer perception of potatoes.
Compared with modern technologies like solar power, potatoes are perhaps less desirable as an energy source.
Gaurav Manchanda, founder of One Degree Solar, which sells micro-solar home systems in Kenya,
Basically, some people might not want to show off their potato battery to impress a neighbor. Still, it cannot be denied that the potato battery idea works,
and it appears cheap. Advocates of potato power will no doubt continue to keep chipping away.
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or sliced potato. It's easy to see why these folk remedies take hold. Any new burn exposed to the air is incredibly painful
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Plus egg powder, beetroot juice, breadcrumbs, salt and saffron to add texture, flavour and colour to the otherwise white meat.
The best that most in the apple-free Big Apple can dream of is a soylent steak made of soya and lentils.
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 Would you like cucumber with that? Susan Berfield Business week 3 july 2013 Story behind the introduction of the Mcdonald's Mcwrap,"a 10-inch, white-flour tortilla wrapped around 3 ounces of chicken, lettuce, spring greens
, sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, and cheddar jack cheese Â. Everything was focus-grouped, from the name to the dressing.
First time cucumbers have been used in a Mcdonald's product. Gently does it.""We talked a lot about the veggies.
But we went too far. People thought it was a salad. Â America's artificial heartland Venkatesh Rao Aeon 11 july 2013"The modern system of retail oe distant large-scale production facilities coupled with local human-scale
consumption environments oe was the first piece of what I've come to think of as the Ëoeamerican cloud':
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supplying fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and Farmedhere in Bedford Park, Illinois, a 90,000 square-foot (8, 360 square metre) empty warehouse several storeys tall that was converted into an indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables,
and several value-added products. Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.
such as leafy greens and tomatoes. In early 2013, Phillips in The netherlands announced it had invented an LED light with energy efficiency 150%greater than existing LED grow lights.
Although most current vertical farming operations have chosen to specialise in cash crops consisting of leafy green vegetables (easy to grow and much in demand), in the near future,
consumers are likely to ask for a wider variety of vegetables and fruits grown without pesticides,
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either by swindling middlemen to sell cabbage at nearly a tenth of the price, or waste it all together.
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Young inventor's flash idea to scare off lionswhen dawn rose one chilly morning last July in Kitengela, a dusty savannah on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya,
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primarily to make space for cattle and soybean production. But the soil exposed by this clearing is only productive for a short period of time
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such as the incessant clapping after each speaker (a TED attribute parodied by the satricial website the Onion, in a series of videos).
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Around the size of a lentil, the common bed bug*,Cimex lectularius, can drink up to seven times its own weight in blood in one feeding,
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The professor of genetics at Barnard College sent his students out to trawl the markets'open-air displays of exotic fish, fruit and vegetables,
and chunks of vegetables or meat. Most recently they've been inundated with fish filets, which are nearly impossible to identify."
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and the War of the Pacific kicked off between the guano-and saltpetre-rich nations of Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
Britain supported Chile, enabling it to win most of the guano and saltpetre area and Bolivia's entire coastline in the process.
Billions of people owe their daily bread, rice or potatoes to artificial fertilisers. And fertilisers formed the backbone of the Green revolution across Asia and South america,
Planting legumes that fix nitrogen can take up space in the field that many farmers would prefer to dedicate to cash crops.
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vegetables and meats without it turning bad.""I left the system with the fundi's oe the carpenters
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The first, Noah, a threatened species of ox from Southeast asia called a guar, was born seemingly healthy on 8 january 2001.
And like the guar, other attempts to clone endangered species through somatic cell nuclear transfer tended to be one-offs.
and scientists hope their bones could be a source of DNA-containing marrow cells for cloning.
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where his new friends order him up a meal of clam chowder, roast beef, beets, asparagus, pie and coffee.
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'which includes plants like legumes that contain in their root systems bacteria that can make nitrates from the air.
who has developed different types of promiscuous soybean oe a nutritious nitrogen fixer oe that can be intercropped with cereals
Okoth says his soybean variants are, more effective than industrial fertilisers, which are not only expensive
Give peas a chancea growing body of scientists is arguing that the common pastoral scene of a man in a hat driving a plough is causing some of the biggest damage to our soils.
In the next field, Ashby was resting his wheat field by growing turnips for the sheep,
and nitrogen-fixing peas and beans to help improve his soil. Back in my office,
I reflect that there is more mud on my boots than on parts of the chalk-exposed Kent Downs,
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When this happens, yields can improve by 15%in vital crops like wheat, rice and soybean.
and colleagues from the University of Nebraska have carried out some initial tests on soybeans transformed with the same gene,
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From chocolate chips to potato chips, many of todays most popular products were invented by mistake. They say that necessity is the mother of invention.
a restaurant cook, sliced up potatoes as thin as possible to serve to a customer displeased with the way his spud was cooked.
The result was the worlds first potato chip. Margaret Rudkin, a mother of three, had no idea she was developing a commercial product
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#Hunger Pains Wearing Food a New Fashion Trend Artichoke heart gown Just when you thought that you had eaten enough for the next month we bring you Hunger Pains.
The artichoke heart gown took over 6 hours to finish and the model stood the entire time
red cabbage, tomatoes and spring onions and bananas, in this case. Each of her pieces consists of one kind of food.
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The Spemann-Mangold Experiments German scientist Hans Spemann and Ph d candidate Hilde Mangold take the proverbial cake for strange brain experiments.
Spemann and Mangold would also conduct studies involving splitting salamander embryos in two and injecting parts of one half into the other just to see what would happen. http://ts-si. org/biology/3305-brain-before-body-the-spemann-mangold-experiments 12.
Brain Preference Experiment Using Coke and Pepsi If you adamantly prefer Coke, then youve been brainwashed
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herbs, vegetables and even a few wandering weeds that slipped in. The plants were chosen for their ability to tolerate foot traffic,
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bringing tofu. oethis is very soft, like the brain, he said, letting it crash down.
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some Thanksgiving leftovers namely pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes and cranberries can be used as affordable moisturizing bases for at home, do-it-yourself skin care treatments.
For starters, Cox told AOL News that pumpkin in its many forms, works wonders as a oenatural exfoliant, making it a useful ingredient in any facial. oethe enzymes
and natural properties in pumpkin exfoliate the skin and eat away dead skin so you get this nice, fresh, instant glow.
you can use leftover pumpkin filling or cooked and canned pumpkin, Cox said. To finish off the rejuvenating pumpkin facial mix,
the beauty pro suggested adding half a teaspoon of honey and a quarter teaspoon of milk or soy milk to the batter. oeboth of those ingredients hydrate
and support the pumpkin in the elimination of dead skin. The honey really binds the mask together
With so many beauty benefits, Cox considers pumpkin the oehero ingredient of Thanksgiving foods if youre planning on repurposing leftovers for a unique skin care treatment. oeif you isolate one thing
or save anything this year, save the pumpkin. Its a key ingredient in facials 365 days a year.
I offer a facial with pumpkin enzymes all year long at my spa, said Cox.
Mix a cup of cranberry juice or puree with one beaten egg yolk, two teaspoons of sour cream and one teaspoon of potato flour until it turns into a paste.
If you find yourself with a fridge full of mashed potatoes, Cox suggested making a body scrub.
Apparently, sweet potatoes reduce inflammation and irritation on the skin, so, in theory, a mashed potato scrub may be able to help reduce that puffiness we all feel the day after Thanksgiving. oemix two cups of mashed potatoes with one cup of sea salt and one cup of aloe vera juice.
The salt helps scrub everything away and, if you want, you can add scented oil for a little fragrance,
Additionally, she said pumpkin leftovers call also be used as a fine body scrub simply by adding a little abrasive brown sugar.
so you can wind down from Thanksgiving while wearing your pumpkin mask, cranberry conditioner and mashed potato body scrub.
Although your stomach may start to grumble while using your repurposed leftovers as beauty supplies,
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#Winners of the 2010 Turnip Prize for Bad Art oegetting in a Pickle, the winner of the 2010 competition.
The Turnip Prize is a spoof of the Turner Prize and: encourages art which demonstrates a complete lack of talent
The Turnip Prize is organised by the pubs landlord Trevor Prideaux. According to the website, oethe Turnip Prize is a crap art competition.
You can enter anything you like, but it must be rubbish. Pictured above is oegetting in a Pickle, the winner of the 2010 competition.
The artist responsible won a turnip with a rusty nail shoved through it. At the link
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monocotyledons (grasslike plants) and dicotyledons (plants like beans that have seed two leaves.)The researchers note that plant biologists led the way in discovering receptors that sense
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along with some kind of vegetable such as a can of green beans. He could not say whether he considered his diet healthy or unhealthy,
I just think it is unrealistic to expect people to totally drop these foods for vegetables and fruits.
questioning how the body is affected by a lack of fruits and vegetables over the long term.
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#Spontaneous GMOS in Nature A real life Jack and the Bean Stock! Genecially modified plants Genetically modified plants can come about by natural means.
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or the newly popular tea vodka Prepare the Ingredients for Infusion Choose one to two pieces of fruit or veggies or two to three handfuls of berries,
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Dairy management runs the largest of 18 Agriculture department programs that market beef, pork, potatoes and other commodities.
and the use of cheese to entice children into eating healthy foods like string beans. An All-out Campaign On Oct 13, Dominos announced the latest in its Legends line of cheesier pizza,
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raw, steamed or fried with garlic or soya sauce.¢¢Birds Nest The Chinese make soup out of this,
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#The Engineers Guide to Supersizing Pumpkins! Who Wants 1 Million Pumpkin pies!!!THE GREAT PUMPKIN! Chris Stevens record-breaking pumpkin weighs 1,
810.5 pounds, shown here with New york Botanical garden staff. Scientists now think they understand how pumpkins like this one can grow to enormous sizes without splitting apart.
Linus was right after all. Not only does the Great Pumpkin exist, but scientists have figured out how he manages to get so big.
In a sort of self-perpetuating cycle, the bigger a gourd gets the more physical stress it experiences
thus triggering giant pumpkins to grow even more. oetheir weight generates tension, which pulls cells apart
and accelerates growth, says David Hu, a mechanical engineer at the Georgia Institute of technology in Atlanta whose team has submitted a paper to a peer-reviewed journal.
Such research doesnt just illuminate the story behind record-setting pumpkins, like the nearly 1, 811-pound behemoth recognized this month by Guinness World records.
All giant pumpkins are grown from a single strain, the Atlantic Giant seed, which has a longer growing season than normal pumpkins.
The fruits start out round, but once they get to about 220 pounds they begin to flatten under their own weight,
The model predictions matched observations of giant pumpkin dimensions sent in by 50 farmers from around the country.
where the worlds biggest pumpkin will be carved this weekend, says that a 2, 000-pound pumpkin could be grown within the next few years. more via sciencenews. org Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati e
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#Eating Almonds Can Help the Body Fight off Viruses Eating almonds boosts immune system response to viruses.
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and for U s. users there wont be any special chip for operating the phone outside the country.
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large fries and diet soda as if a zero-calorie chaser can compensate for the 1, 300 calorie overload.
Or are you guilty of scarfing down a whole big bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos and a Diet Mountain Dew?
People would crave more high-calorie sweet foods and fewer healthful, less sweet foods, such as fruits, vegetables,
and legumes. oeeven if diet drinks prove to aid long-term weight loss when used to replace sugary beverages,
and plain water spruced up with cucumber, orange, lemon or lime slices. As for me, I admit not a day goes by that
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Everyone runs around with GPS chips in their sneakers nowadays to track their runs and share them online this is like that for cyclists oeicase:
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#Amateur Gardener Grows Worlds Biggest Potato Thats One Crazy Big Potato! An amateur gardener has grown the worlds biggest potato.
The prize potato, grown by Peter Glazebrook, tips the scales at a whopping 8lbs 4oz (3. 76kg), smashing the previous world record by 9oz.
The vegetable, Peters Kondor variety, was put on show on Friday at the National Gardening Show in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
It is not the first time Mr Glazebrook, 66, from Northampton, has hit the headlines. The retired chartered surveyor has held previously the world record for the longest carrot,
after producing a 17-foot long specimen He has also been the double Guinness World record holder for the heaviest parsnip,
at 13lb, and the longest beetroot at 21ft. Speaking before his latest triumph, he said:
The secret to success is starting with the right seed. Its learning how to grow them
The potato was weighed at the shows Giant Vegetable Competition and Mr Glazebrook is now awaiting verification from Guinness World records.
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The elephants avoided those trees like a kid avoids broccoli, Dr Palmer said. It seems that elephants simply do not like ants swarming up the insides of their trunks
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Eggs, lettuce, peanuts, spinach. It seems as if every time we turn around there is another outbreak of a scary foodborne illness.
and her doctors thought she got from bagged lettuce. The 50-year-old novelist described her new routine:
my cutting board is labeled clearly on either side for meats and vegetables and I keep a little hydrogen peroxide on my sink to wash down surfaces where any dangerous germs could lurk.
Even if you are going to peel a cucumber or melon, give it a good scrub so you dont transfer bacteria from the knife
Most important, wash all lettuce even if it comes in a bag that says triple washed.
and poultry on one cutting board, using another for vegetables. Clean both with warm soapy water after each use.
when some organic growers were involved in the recall of E coli-tainted spinach. On the other hand there is something reassuring about buying from a small organic farmer at a local stand or farmers market,
and vegetables separate to avoid cross-contamination, wash all produce thoroughly and wash platters and other surfaces that come into contact with raw meat and poultry.
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and soybeans earlier this year. The reason for the delay in analyzing wheats genetic code,
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Anthocyanins provide the dark colours of many fruits and vegetables such as blueberries and red peppers. They are
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if we subsidized the cost of broccoli and asparagus instead of the cost of corn? But it takes a lot of political will to change systems that have existed for decades.
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and vegetables before eating them, especially if you are pregnant. Via Chicago tribune Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati n
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#Federal Judge Bans Genetically Modified Sugar beets Sugar beets On Friday, U s. District Judge Jeffrey S. White revoked a five-year-old approval of genetically altered sugar beets from the U s. Department of agriculture.
Judge White cited the USDAS insufficient testing of weedkiller-tolerant sugar beets and their possible effects to the environment.
Genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets are planted already on more than one million acres of farmland, spanning 10 different states from Michigan to Oregon.
In fact, the Roundup-resistant gene is present in 95-percent of U s.-grown sugar beet plants
and the Organic Seed Alliance have been trying to stop the biotech beets since 2008. Andrew Kimbrell, the Center for Food safetys executive director, hailed Fridays decision as a major victory,
This could be a major headache for sugar beet growers and food producers. Sugar beets make up one-half of the U s. sugar supply.
This could also be a huge win in the fight against GMO foods as U s.-grown corn,
soybeans and cotton are all mostly GMO seeds. But Judge White has little concern over the impact of his decision.
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#Facebook Trying to Gain a Foothold in the Location-based Social networking Space with Hot Potato Hot Potato focuses on events
squash them might be Facebooks new mantra in trying to create a foothold in the location-based social networking space.
Since Foursquare spurned Facebooks advances for acquisition in favor of seeking more funding the mighty social network of half a billion has put Plan B into motion acquiring Hot Potato,
What differentiates Hot Potato from Foursquare is its focus on events versus location check ins. By Facebook layering location-based services on top of its platform for mobile phones,
integrate it with Hot Potatos location-based application and virtually offer discounts and deals based on where the user is located at any moment in time.
and Hot Potato into its mobile platform, there will be no stopping this social network from virtually dominating the location-based service space before the years out potentially leaving Foursquare,
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