Thats the kind of crap youd expect astronauts to eat as a last resort when supplies are low and a Donner Party mentality is starting to creep in.
it would be much less controversial than growing crops for fuel in cars. The process is much less energy intensive than current methods of producing plastic.
even when flying through optical illusions created in a lab. How theyre able to do this, with brains smaller than a peppercorn,
#Biofortification Will Become a Trend in the future Evan Ryan travelled the world looking at trace element nutrition in broadacre cropping A Yarrawonga farmer believes oebiofortification of grain with trace elements will become a trend in the future.
Mr Ryan travelled to four continents for six months last year looking at trace elements and their impact on human nutrition and health.
Easier accessibility to travel has led to cultural influences and increased the penchant of Filipino consumer, Gutierrez added.
According to Gutierrez, another important market driver is sustainability. Shortages in basic commodities such as rice imported milk, butter
a field scientist with University Sabah Malaysia. oedespite our powerful spot lights and the roar of our vehicles engine,
it walked around our vehicle calmly, he told AFP. oeit is rare to see the big cat in the wild.
Since most vehicle engines emit some nitrous acid that can infiltrate the passenger compartments, tests were conducted also on surfaces inside the truck of a heavy smoker,
including the surface of a stainless steel glove compartment. These measurements also showed substantial levels of TSNAS.
a vehicle, etc. where someone recently smoked, knows that the scent lingers for an extended period of time.
Auto manufacturers unsuccessfully sued to overturn rules to slash carbon dioxide emissions from tailpipes. Oil refiners and truckers filed suit this week against a measure to reduce the carbon content of gasoline and diesel.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has made climate change one of his signature issues, is reportedly asking major companies to remain on the sidelines.
Parker and Mcmahons paper focuses on the drivers of the accelerated tree growth. The chief culprit appears to be climate change, more specifically, the rising levels of atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures and longer growing seasons.
including the auto industry, interior design and clothing fashion. oethey meet a couple of times a year, Stewart said,
renewable alternative to fossil fuels with desirable properties as a liquid transportation fuel, there simply is not enough oil produced by the plant to be a competitive gasoline on a gallons-of-fuel yield per acre.
on an unfinished Nevada hotel as a favor to a banker friend with serious money at stake.
oea concrete mixer, 10 wheelbarrows, 20 shovels, and 10 picks. The Los angeles times reported, years later, that the company was a $3 million operation by 1933, the height of the Depression.
Herb Mcdonald, now director of special events at the Showboat and formerly a vice president of Del Webb Hotels, remembers that Webb ordered the same meal every time they dined together. oenew York steak, green beans
when he to finish Siegels new Las vegas hotel Robert Johnson, a longtime employee Webb assigned to work on the Flamingo
on an unfinished Nevada hotel as a favor to a banker friend with serious money at stake.
oea concrete mixer, 10 wheelbarrows, 20 shovels, and 10 picks. The Los angeles times reported, years later, that the company was a $3 million operation by 1933, the height of the Depression.
Herb Mcdonald, now director of special events at the Showboat and formerly a vice president of Del Webb Hotels, remembers that Webb ordered the same meal every time they dined together. oenew York steak, green beans
when he to finish Siegels new Las vegas hotel Robert Johnson, a longtime employee Webb assigned to work on the Flamingo
And in return for his help, Jacobson was allowed to personally buy 20 percent of the stock in the new hotel.
William Bennett, who joined Del Webb Corp. not long after and rose to operate two of its hotels
explained, oeall these hotels originally belonged to owners who owned a percent here, a percent there,
Del Webb Corp. quickly expanded, buying the Thunderbird Hotel and the Lucky Club downtown. It expanded the Mint
It isnt clear whether Webbs entry into Nevada gaming inspired Howard Hughes entry. They shared interests in flying and played golf together in the 1940s.
After Hughes lapsed into eccentricity and reclusiveness, Webb was one of the few people Hughes would meet with face to face.
Johnson told Webbs biographer how those meetings were arranged. oehe would call Mr. Webb, give him directions like Go 10 miles to a dirt road,
then go five miles to the top of a sand dune, then blink your lights twice.
But whatever Hughes wanted the company did it. Webb did more than $1 billion worth of business with Hughes. Unlike the group of hotels that Hughes would assemble,
Webb operations were innovative. It was the Sahara that sponsored the Beatles appearance in Las vegas in 1964.
Webb did not simply acquire classy hotels and wait for rich people to go on vacation.
The Webb hotels sponsored trap shoots, realizing that men and women who could afford to burn 100 shotgun shells every outing also might throw dollars at a hardway eight.
the Mint 400 off-road race exploited interest in trendy vehicles. The Nevada resort operations did the main thing they were supposed to do for Del Webb Corp. insulated the company against misfortune in other endeavors.
And in return for his help, Jacobson was allowed to personally buy 20 percent of the stock in the new hotel.
William Bennett, who joined Del Webb Corp. not long after and rose to operate two of its hotels
explained, oeall these hotels originally belonged to owners who owned a percent here, a percent there,
Del Webb Corp. quickly expanded, buying the Thunderbird Hotel and the Lucky Club downtown. It expanded the Mint
It isnt clear whether Webbs entry into Nevada gaming inspired Howard Hughes entry. They shared interests in flying and played golf together in the 1940s.
After Hughes lapsed into eccentricity and reclusiveness, Webb was one of the few people Hughes would meet with face to face.
Johnson told Webbs biographer how those meetings were arranged. oehe would call Mr. Webb, give him directions like Go 10 miles to a dirt road,
then go five miles to the top of a sand dune, then blink your lights twice.
But whatever Hughes wanted the company did it. Webb did more than $1 billion worth of business with Hughes. Unlike the group of hotels that Hughes would assemble,
Webb operations were innovative. It was the Sahara that sponsored the Beatles appearance in Las vegas in 1964.
Webb did not simply acquire classy hotels and wait for rich people to go on vacation.
The Webb hotels sponsored trap shoots, realizing that men and women who could afford to burn 100 shotgun shells every outing also might throw dollars at a hardway eight.
the Mint 400 off-road race exploited interest in trendy vehicles. The Nevada resort operations did the main thing they were supposed to do for Del Webb Corp. insulated the company against misfortune in other endeavors.
Mr. Siemon says that to fill spot gaps in production he has had to send trucks of milk from the Midwest to the East Coast or from California to the Midwest.
The shortage has compelled also a start-up yogurt company in New york to make plans to produce its yogurt in California and truck it across the country to a plant on Long island,
and ideas travel more freely today than ever before. Peter Lindert is an economist at the University of California at Davis and one of the leaders of the deep history#school of economics,
If you re going to do the Netjet thing##his is a service offering fractional aircraft ownership#for those who do not wish to buy outright
and private planes. We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,
which is home to two helicopters, a submarine, and a swimming pool. But while their excesses seem familiar, even archaic,
The Road to Davos To grasp the difference between today s plutocrats and the hereditary elite,
One of the most recent gatherings was held last May at the Grove Hotel, a former provincial estate in The english countryside,
On a previous trip, he d dined with Caroline Kennedy at the Upper East side townhouse of HBO s Richard Plepler.
you stay in the same hotels. But most important, we are engaged as global citizens in crosscutting commercial, political,
he is ferried around town by a car and driver; the snowy Swiss hamlet, which is too small and awkward for limos,
We are the people who know airline flight attendants better than we know our own wives.#
when he d take the crosstown bus each day to the United nations International School. That evening, Elerian was catching a flight to London.
Later in the week, he was due in St petersburg. Indeed, there is a growing sense that American businesses that don t internationalize aggressively risk being left behind.
the distance food traveled from farm-to-table increased 25, %ranging from 1, 500 to 3, 000 miles.
as he attempts to rewrite the rules for major industries by pushing initiatives like driverless vehicles,
If you had to choose between starting your own company, traveling around the world, or owning your own home,
Driverless cars and Autonomous Vehicles The next revolution in transportation will be here soon, and it won t be streetcars, monorails, Segway s,
or electric vehicles. It will be self-driving cars, and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation planning.
The idea of jumping into a vehicle and having it shuttle you to your destination without anyone driving#it may sound like pure fantasy to some,
but it s far closer than most of us think. Google s self-driving car project has racked already up over 150
000 driverless miles on highways. In 2010 Vislab ran VIAC (Vislab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge), a 13,000 km test run of autonomous vehicles.
In this competition, 4 driverless electric vans successfully drove from Italy to China, arriving at the Shanghai Expo on October 28, 2010.
This was the first intercontinental trip ever completed by an autonomous vehicle. Many car companies including General motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW,
and Volvo have begun early testing of driverless car systems. General motors has stated that they will have a driverless model ready for final testing by 2015,
going on sale officially in 2018. Even though car companies are making plans for the transition planning departments are not.
Most local and regional transportation departments are working with models that assume 20 years from now transportation systems will be basically the same, with only slight variations around the edges.
Driverless cars will be far safer. Human-based foibles like speeding, inattention, inexperience, impairment and fatigue all contribute to road accidents.
Driverless cars will remove the human variable from the system. Along with fewer accidents will come the eventual elimination of traffic cops, traffic courts, stoplights, and parking lots.
Look for rapid advancement in this area and for Google to make a play to design an Android-like operating system for all driverless cars. 22.)
The Drone Side of Life-Sometime over the coming months you can expect to see a version of the following help wanted ad:
Help Wanted: Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery,
and communication drones. We are also looking for drone repair techs, drone dispatchers, and drone salesmen.#
#In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.
The department of motor vehicles seems to be the epitome of mind-numbingly long wait times and Johnson County,
In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.
and travel in different ways, birds have to use songs that can cope with this#.#Birds living in urban areas sing at a higher pitch to reduce the impact of echoes from surrounding buildings, a study claims.
Higher-pitched songs travel further in built-up areas because their echoes fade more quickly, meaning the following notes are clearer and easier to pick out.
and travel in different ways, birds have to use songs that can cope with this#.#The study, published in the PLOS One journal, also found that urban birds songs were heard more clearly in woodland than those of forest-dwelling birds,
Beyond food trucks, burgers and beer, here are some of the hot food trends for 2012.
#Japan hopes world s tallest tower will boost tourism A new record tower. If you re afraid of heights, this may be a story you want to skip.
while at the same time helping to revitalize tourism after the earthquakes and tsunami the country experienced. Sporting two observation decks, at 1, 148 feet and 1
476 feet, tourists are guaranteed to get a spectacular view of the city. Measuring in at 2, 080 feet, the tower cost $440 million to construct.
Elevated Tube Transport Engineers The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks.
Operating at less than 2%of the cost of today s car, truck, jet, ship, and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come.
More details here. The Dismantlers Over the coming years will see a number of industries dismantled requiring a skilled workforce of talented people who can perform this task in the least disruptive way.
Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills
it will create untold opportunity for non-surface based housing and transportation system, weather control, and other kinds of experimentation. 53.
Megacopta cribraria, an insect that hitched a ride to Atlanta on a plane from Asia in 2009, eats kudzu.
The photo was taken by Scientific American editor Mariette Dichristina at the Compass Summit in Palos verdes, California.
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#Yuleahoop a revolutionary new way to decorate your Christmas tree Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase 2011 The Yuleahoopis a small round ring with gripping slots that slips over the top branch
You can hang balloons and crepe paper streamers for an open house or family party. You can create a gazebo for weddings with crystal beads and flower garlands.
Brands, including VW, Lego, and Nintendo are nearly a century or more old. Even Apple and Camaro have been consumer products for decades.
To date the Wii has sold more than 86 million units. 6. Volkswagen Volkswagen was relatively unknown in the U s. during the 1960s,
It was also the first foreign automobile company to open an assembly plant in the country since the 1920s.
According to a Wall street journal article, By 1992, U s. annual sales had hit a low of 49,000 cars,
and VW contemplated pulling out of the U s. altogether.##Just six years later, following the launch of the new Beetle,
In 2000, the car company reported its best U s. sales month in 26 years. In 2010, Volkswagen sold more than 250,000 cars in the U s.#its best year since 2003.
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#The Coming Food Printer Revolution Futurist Thomas Frey: Would you buy a product that was advertised as Naturally grown, completely organic, printed food?#
which transfers the string s vibration to its own sound cell. 3d nylon printed bicycle designed by Andy Hawkins
this bike is constructed from a manufacturing process known as additive layer manufacturing (ALM), which is used also in the manufacturing of satellites.
The world s first fully 3d printed car called, The Urbee The Urbee is a hybrid vehicle that has its entire body
Aside from Malone s quick trip to the top, the list didn t change much this year.
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$1. 99 8. Garden Pilot Garden Pilot combines a directory of more than 14,000 plants with a comprehensive article database.
But the use of a big-wheeled unicycle does add character...Nothing say the fall season is here#quite like a frisky Bulldog running through a pumpkin patch...
After Yellow cab implemented their no pets#policy, some people were forced to get rather creative...Whenever I see floating whales,
Podponics has 16 new pods being built on land at the Atlanta International airport, raised $725, 000+in private investment,
moving to the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International airport and constructing 16 pods. At that location Podponics will be just two miles from the Forest Park produce terminal#the single largest distribution center for produce in the region.
With 16 pods, Podponics should be able to show that their plans are scalable and able to take advantage of any unused urban land.
transportation costs are at an absolute minimum. Considering that about 90%of leafy greens in the US are grown in one spot (Salinas Valley in California),
this means that Podponics has a distinct transportation advantage for their target crop in the vast majority of the nation.
Their Atlanta airport farm will help them increase the payroll of their company from a handful to around 30 in the next year or two.
For two years Kinze and Jaybridge tested the system for detecting obstacles such as fence posts, stand pipes, farm animals and other vehicles.
but that technology works with someone sitting inside the vehicle. Beyond demonstrating the technology to its dealers,
Iowa, sells Kinze carts and planters. Remote-controlled tractors are removed far from the welding shop Kinzenbaw opened in Ladora, Iowa, in 1965,
and adding some flavor is extended essential for periods astronauts spend in orbit. You cant expect an average meal on the International Space station to be like a night at the Ritz,
but no ones complaining. The ambiance of orbital dining apparently more than compensates for lackluster meals. But astronauts have a few standby favorites as well as the occasional special treat.
Dinners in space have come a long way since the start of the Space age but which cosmic gastronomic delights are the best?
Japanese Takeout The addition of Japans laboratory to the space station not only provided a huge new module for science experiments,
In 2008, the shuttle Endeavour astronauts were happy to serve as guinea pigs for a variety of new dishes,
a Thai chicken dish and vegetable curry for the crew of space shuttle Discovery in December 2006.
It wasnt the first time a celebrity chef tried to perk up astronaut cuisine though#Emeril Lagasses spicy green beans,
which were among five dishes flown to the space station earlier that year, apparently held up well in zero-gravity. 8. Yogurt Bone loss is a problem during long-duration spaceflights,
Astronauts can choose from blueberry-raspberry, peach and strawberry. The Russians go one better with garlic-and herb-studded cheeses.
Theres no one to make chicken soup for rundown astronauts. The next best thing might be chicken consomme.
tortillas are the bread of the space program. One of the favored fillings: good old peanut butter and jelly.
On special occasions, astronauts have managed to bring up other yeasty specialties, including bagels (imported from the family bakery of Canadian-born astronaut Greg Chamitoff)
and German pumpernickel bread. 5. Shrimp Among the lessons six-time flier Story Musgrave passed along to rookie astronauts:
Eat shrimp cocktail. The dehydrated crustaceans, coated in a spicy sauce, are requested the most food item in NASAS space pantry.
Musgrave ate them at every meal#including breakfast. 4. Hot sauce A squirt of hot sauce can do wonders to wake up taste buds deadened by weightlessness,
#in NASA parlance, but you and I would call them M&ms. Itd be a tough call
whether astronauts like eating them or playing with them best. What we do know is that the colorful orbs show well on TV. 2. Dried produce Fresh fruits
so astronauts make do with a variety of canned and dried offerings. Russian cuisine presents another option:
but after a few months in orbit, apparently folks will try anything to break up the monotony. 1. Mystery Meals Space station flight engineer Garrett Reisman kept the cameras rolling
while he sat down to dinner with his Russian crewmates and visiting shuttle astronauts in June 2008.
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries#ithout the need to invest in new infrastructure and train
In todays cars, software runs the engines, controls safety features, entertains passengers, guides drivers to destinations and connects each car to mobile, satellite and GPS networks.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
The trend toward hybrid and electric vehicles will only accelerate the software shift#lectric cars are controlled completely computer.
And the creation of software-powered driverless cars is already under way at Google and the major car companies.
Todays leading real-world retailer, Wal-mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
Likewise for Fedex which is thought best of as a software network that happens to have trucks, planes and distribution hubs attached.
And the success or failure of airlines today and in the future hinges on their ability to price tickets
and optimize routes and yields correctly#ith software. Oil and gas companies were early innovators in supercomputing and data visualization and analysis,
which are crucial to todays oil and gas exploration efforts. Agriculture is powered increasingly by software as well,
The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.
Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk. Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover
and a further 28 billon tonnes is generated by cars, factories and other sources of fossil fuels.
flat array will all of the panels on a single plane. The other used the Fibonacci Sequence to create the same spiraled pattern he observed in the trees.
The carrier subsidization will bring the cost to consumers down to free with a 2 year contract for the icloud iphone with the same $199 iphone cost for the iphone 5. He cites three independent sources on the information,
Now, the carriers probably would have a hard time with this concept. But if Apple sold it as more of an ipod touch with 3g capabilities,
The carriers are currently making no money off of the ipod touch, which is a hugely popular product.
Without full $60 or $70-a-month plans for cellular minutes and data, the carriers probably wouldnt subsidize the cost of such a device down to $0.
Instead, Google not only fully hopped into bed with the carriers for their Nexus devices, they got really close for maximum snuggling
Eventually, carriers will exist as data dealers. All information, including voice calls will happen over this pipe.
whether it is a cell phone, a car, a stone floor or a wood board;
Since that time, the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department has managed to save four parks by working with tribal governments and nonprofit groups.
Boggy Depot State Park Heavener Runestone State Park saved! Rhode island Robert J. Paquette, Chief of the Division of Parks and Recreation, says
Her bees live in three hives in a community garden in a once-vacant lot near a fire station and elevated train tracks.
A train without a track is like hope without a wallet...All things truly wicked start with an innocent lab experiment involving leftover genetic material...
Demand for the melons has so far come from the restaurant and hotel trade. Were hoping to sell 50-100 boxes a week.
Jennifer Telfer Pillow Pets The idea for Pillow Pets dawned on Jennifer Telfer after watching her young sons smash down their stuffed animals in order to sleep on them like a pillow.
So she set about creating stuffed animals that unfolded into plush pillows. Telfer and her husband, Clint, decided to wholesale the products themselves in 2003 through their company, CJ Products.
She began by hawking them at a mall kiosk during the holiday season, and then at a home show two weeks after Christmas.
Telfer realized she was onto something. The cuddly toy has exploded since into the marketplace, bringing in $300 million in sales in 2010.
Olaf van Kooten, a professor of horticulture at Wageningen University who has observed the project but has no stake in it,
One of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA
which installed them in the Space shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.
#Van Kooten says, but more research is needed and people need to get used to the idea of sunless, landless agriculture.
#With initiatives such as using otherwise idle school buses to take seniors grocery shopping, the World health organization recognizes New york as a leader in this movement.
#In East Harlem, a yellow school bus pulls up to a curb and 69-year-old Jenny Rodriguez climbs off.
The bus had dropped already a load of kids at school. Now, before the afternoon trip home, it is shuttling older adults to a market where they flock to fresh fruits and vegetables.
Rodriguez usually goes shopping on foot, pulling along a small cart. It can be a hike.
Supermarkets arent too common in this lower-income part of the city, and theres less to choose at tiny, pricier corner bodegas.
youre pushing the shopping cart and almost go flying, #Rodriguez said, examining sweet potatoes that she pronounced fresher and cheaper than at her usual store.
#More than 200 times, school buses have taken older adults from senior centers to supermarkets in different neighborhoods.
A city report found the number of crashes has dropped at busy intersections in senior-heavy communities where traffic signals now allow pedestrians a few more seconds to cross the street.
700 bus shelters to give waiting seniors a place to rest. The citys aging taxi fleet is scheduled to be replaced by a boxier model designed to be easier for older riders
and people with disabilities to open the doors and slide in and out. On the Upper West side, seniors snapped up a report card of grocery stores deemed age-friendly
Cities and suburbs were designed for younger people, full of stairs and cars, he explained. As they become increasingly difficult to navigate, older people gradually retreat.
Efforts are under way in six metro areas, including work to adapt zoning codes to allow more of a walkable mix of housing and retail.
planned senior housing and a bus stop. One town pilot-tested a shuttle for seniors to supplement barebones public transit.
The Atlanta Housing Authority is working with the commission to retrofit high-rise apartments that house a lot of older residents,
safer sidewalk to the bus stop and more time for pedestrians to cross the street. The overall move isnt without controversy.
access to shopping, green space, more freedom from the car. The idea is a mix of ages
low crime and good sidewalks that encourage getting out#is as important to older residents as access to supermarkets, public transportation and good housing.
with safer steps and places to walk apart from bikers. To sustain momentum, Clark created Genphilly,
an initiative that helped bring about more handicapped-accessible cars for the citys light-rail system,
multistory houses are being squeezed into empty city lots#near transportation but still not age-friendly with all the stairs.
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