...Introduction The purpose of this report is to analyze and illustrate the geographical origins of eragrostis tef along with details of its global dispersion. The common name of the crop in Ethiopia is tef. It was chosen for its cultural significance and it’s importance Background In Ethiopia, about 4.9 million acres of land is devoted to its production every year. From 2003-2005 production statistics indicated that tef accounted for about 29% of the land and 20% of the gross grain production of all major cereal cultivation in the country (National Research Council). Eragrostis tef belongs to the grass family Poaceae, and is species of Eragrostis. It contains about 350 species and tef is the only cultivated cereal (Seyfu). Its name tef is originated from the Amharic word yate-tef-ah, which means, “lost”. Since the grains are so small they are easily misplaced (Kloman). It is the world’s smallest food grain and is as small as a grain of sand. It also has quite similar traits to other grains such as quinoa and millet. Tef grows anywhere from 30 to 120 cm in height, with slim stems and long, narrow, smooth leaves. It is a loose or compact panicle. The really small grains are 1.5 mm long, and there are about 2,700 seeds in a gram (Seyfu). The plant uses a Carbon 4 photosynthesis, which uses light efficiently while having low moisture demands. This gives the plant the ability to stand high heat and bright lighting therefore...
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...After reviewing my daily food intake, I found that I am not meeting the recommended allowance made by the MyPyramid Plan for the amount of calories I should be consuming on a daily basis. My calorie intake was below what was recommended I should be getting according to my height and weight. My calorie intake should be 2000 daily but I was almost at 1280. As of the first of the year, I have joined Weight Watchers and I track what I eat on a daily basis in order to not go over a certain amount of points that is assigned to me. I used to skip breakfast but found that breakfast is the most important meal and it helps you to reduce overeating at the next meal. Beginning the Weight Watcher plan, I learned how important breakfast is and how it gets you through to the next meal without feeling like you are starved. Recording what you eat helps to see what you are consuming and writing down a candy bar is something that I do not want to look back on so I don’t eat it. I do try to get in plenty of fruits and vegetables and cook low fat dinners for my daughters and myself. I did find that my fruits and vegetables were high, as well as my grains and protein but not at the recommended daily amounts. I did notice that I was low on dairy but I try to avoid drinking milk due to the high points that it accumulates with Weight Watchers. I really do need to incorporate more dairy in my diet and I now realize that there is a broad selection of dairy to choose from. I find that the evenings are hard...
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...Carbohydrates Carbohydrates: Good Carbs Guide the Way ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form What Are Carbohydrates? Carbohydrates are found in a wide array of foods—bread, beans, milk, popcorn, potatoes, cookies, spaghetti, soft drinks, corn, and cherry pie. They also come in a variety of forms. The most common and abundant forms are sugars, fibers, and starches. The basic building block of every carbohydrate is a sugar molecule, a simple union of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Starches and fibers are essentially chains of sugar molecules. Some contain hundreds of sugars. Some chains are straight, others branch wildly. Carbohydrates were once grouped into two main categories. Simple carbohydrates included sugars such as fruit sugar (fructose), corn or grape sugar (dextrose or glucose), and table sugar (sucrose). Complex carbohydrates included everything made of three or more linked sugars. Complex carbohydrates were thought to be the healthiest to eat, while simple carbohydrates weren’t so great. It turns out that the picture is more complicated than that. The digestive system handles all carbohydrates in much the same way—it breaks them down (or tries to break them down) into single sugar molecules, since only these are small enough to cross into the bloodstream. It also converts most digestible carbohydrates into glucose (also known as blood sugar), because cells are designed to use this as a universal energy source. Fiber is an exception. It...
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...My initial opinion prior to the debate is that in regards to what should be allowed to be used as pesticides, I believe that both synthetic and natural pesticides have its advantages and disadvantages. Natural pesticides that are found in certain plants have been specifically derived by that plant to protect itself from harmful pests. Although it may be effective in killing certain insects, it may not be as effective for other uses. For instance: a plant is found to secrete toxic chemicals in its nectar that target fire ants and the only way for the ant to be poisoned would be if it drank from the nectar, or bit into the plant itself. This toxin is contained inside the plant and has no exterior effects to surrounding animals. If a manufacturer extracted the pesticidal ingredients from the plant and turned it into a spray that people can use in their homes, how do we know what kind of effects it will have on the environment? Yes, the ingredients are all natural, but it was made specifically for the plant and it was fully contained in nature. The toxin could have acidic properties and enzymes that could deteriorate surrounding environments and kill other organisms, not just fire ants. Perhaps there is a reason why the toxin is found to be naturally isolated inside the plant. Although there have been negative opinions towards synthetic pesticides, sometimes man-made pesticides may actually be more beneficial to the environment than their natural counterparts. Scientists are able...
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...Employee Name: Date: 9/27/11 Company: Whole Foods 10-K Annual Report 2010 PESTEL 1.Political pg. 5: We have encouraged innovative animal production practices to improve the quality and safety of the meat and poultry sold in our stores while also supporting humane living conditions for the animals. * Whole Foods has taken a stance on a long debated political issue of the treatment of animals used as livestock. Taking an interest in the living conditions of animals appeases their client base that believes strongly in this issue, and the company also gets the benefit of knowing that the animal products they place on their shelves have come from cleaner and safer environments. 2.Economic pg. 9: Created in 2005, the Whole Planet Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to empower the poor through microcredit, with a focus on developing-world communities that supply our stores with product. * Developing the economy in developing-world areas is necessary to create new capital markets. Microcredit initiatives are an excellent way to start the process, and Whole Foods is using this foundation to help perpetuate the development of the products they sell. Having product made in a country where production is cheaper, while also aiding the growth of a poorer country’s economy can only be beneficial to the company in the long run. ...
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...Evil Neighbor Having read more than few of Steve Taylor’s stories, I must say he is a very talented writer. He writes different style short stories which are very interesting to read, and I can even see myself as one of the characters. Today I read the story which is called “The City of the Future”. It was my choice to read the story, and I think I made a great one. This short story was about a friendly family who moved into new house but weren’t too lucky with their neighbor. The whole story was based on how their family was struggling to make peace with the neighbor. Their neighbor was an old lady Mrs. Dorrit whom nobody saw because she never came out of her house. Even though the family never faced Mrs. Dorrit in person, she still managed to show how mean, careless, and unfriendly she was. When people a get new house, one of the things to consider is neighbors because they are the people who will surround you for the time of staying at the place. In the story The City of the Future, the family had to deal with the worst neighbor, Mrs. Dorrit. She was very mean toward the lovely family. On the day the family moved into the house, the mother baked cookies so that they could visit their neighbor. However, when they approached Mrs. Dorrit’s house and knocked on the door for a couple of times, no one came out even though the lights were on in the house. The mother decided to write a note and leave it next to the door. The note stated “MRS.DORRIT, SORRY WE MISSED YOU. THIS...
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...Student Response | Value | A. | The speed of the song | | B. | The type of note that gets the beat. | | C. | The number of beats in the measure | 100% | D. | Which string to play | | | Score: | 0.5/0.5 | | | 4. | | | The bottom number in a time signature refers to? | | | Student Response | Value | A. | The string number | | B. | The type of note that gets one beat | 100% | C. | The number of beats in the measure | | D. | The fret to play | | | Score: | 0.5/0.5 | | | 5. | | | In 4/4 time a quarter note is worth how many beats | | | Student Response | Value | A. | 1 | 100% | B. | 2 | | C. | 3 | | D. | 4 | | | Score: | 0.5/0.5 | | | 6. | | | In 4/4 time a whole note is worth how many beats? | | | Student Response | Value | A. | 1 | | B. | 2 | | C. | 3 | | D. | 4 | 100% | | Score: | 0.5/0.5 | | | 7. | | | In 4/4 time an eigth note is worth how many beats? | | | Student Response | Value | A. | 1/2 | 100% | B. | 1 | | C. | 2 | | D. | 3 | | | Score: | 0.5/0.5 | | | 8. | | | In 2/2 time a quarter note is worth how many beats? | | |...
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...Course & Section: SC300 – 16 Unit: 6 Date: April 5, 2012 My Two Meals I chose to research what I had for breakfast and lunch as my two meals to show the impact on our world from an ecological and economic perspective. Today my breakfast consists of two slices of whole grain toast, an omelet made with egg white, a cup of low-fat yoghurt with fruit topping, and a (60z) glass of Tropical Fruit Smoothie from Tropical Smoothie Cafe. For lunch I had Turkey quesadilla on whole-wheat tortillas and bottle water. Countries of origin: Whole grain Bread: Neena, WI Egg White: Jackson, MS Dannon Yoghurt: Minster, OH Tropical Fruit Smoothie: Destin, FL Turkey Quesadilla: East Springs, TX I purchased all of the products from Food Lion grocery store: The chain of events that took the product to get from the farm/laboratory to my table: Whole wheat bread- Once harvested, the wheat is milled and turned into flour. The basic process involves mixing of ingredients until the flour is converted into a stiff paste or dough, followed by baking the dough into a loaf. This is followed by the measurement of ingredients, mixing and kneading them properly, fermentation, baking and then cooling it. Egg White - The hatchery houses a flock of thousands of chickens. When the hens are ready to lay, they seek shelter in the coop. The eggs are collected from the coops, washed thoroughly and are positioned onto a conveyor belt. This conveyor is the beginning of a systemized process...
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...Eden Organic Foods Introduction describing your selected organization and scenario Eden Organic was founded by Ann Arbor in the 1960s with the help of friends sourcing natural food. At the time, this organization was founded organic all nature foods were a rarity and hardly available, so Eden food co-op was started as a way to make these healthy alternative more readily available. Eden co-op grew into a nature food store from its first initial $200 order to Erewhon in Boston and Chico-san in California, which lead co-op members to travel to local farms going door to door to find framers to grow foods using all nature organic methods. Eden organic grew to offer whole grains, beans, soy foods, cereals, vegetable oils, seed, miso, nut butter and more. As more demand for Eden products materialized, the brand began to develop as more and more consumers and store took interest in the organic food Eden had to offer. In 1972 Eden organic was available to open its first warehouse and within that same year, established a relation with artisan Japanese traditional food makers along with the imports of many of its products and becoming the best nature food company in United States and Canada (Eden Foods, 2011.) As the oldest natural and organic food company in North American and the largest independent manufacture of dry organic foods, Eden organic is looking into new ways to enhance its existing products and services to meets it customers expanding needs. Eden organics...
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...This lesson needs some work, but it is do-able. Also, write out the quiz so we can perform this lesson as you intend. Lesson Plan Format Title: Basic Rhythms Grade Level: Mid-Level 6-8 Differentiation Performance Objectives (stated in observable terms) Students will have a handout page and have to write the beats on the paper and then after they have completed the assignment will count and clap the rhythms. Students will write rhythms using quarter, eighth and half notes and quarter rests. In 4/4 time? How many measures. Will they perform these rhythms accurately? What do you want to see at the end of the teaching? Standards National Put standard # here PASS or TEKS And here Materials/Resources: Quiz typed up Provide a quiz for us Procedure: Anticipatory Set (preparation) Type up quiz for the class to fill out. No. This is preparing the students for what they will do in class. Focus activity to pique interest and focus attention. For example, have 4 rhythm patterns on the board for class to clap out. Content Delivery (presentation) Review the rhythm patterns Quarter Paired 8th Quarter rest Half note Model (teacher or student) (practice) I will have the students practice before the quiz by writing some patterns on the board. Good. Consider making a game of some kind. Check for Understanding I will have the students clap the rhythms that I have on the quiz after they have completed writing in the beats. What do you...
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...Wikileaks Even though, it uses the “wiki” technology, Wikileaks is completely independent from Wikipedia or any Wikimedia services. It is a combination of high-tech security, free journalism and ethical principles. At the beginning, it was very similar to Wikipedia, people from all over the world could share the information, opinions and news with everyone, but since the new beginning in 2010, the things have changed. Now, the news and confidential reports that are coming from all over the world are double checked and analyzed by Wikileaks journalist. After they read them, they verify them and decide whether they are “important” enough to be published. Sometimes, those documents are so confidential, they need to delay their publication, or wait for some significant time to pass, so they could protect people who are mentioned in them and so they could save innocent lives of people who are mentioned in documents (WikiLeaks, 2010). As I already said, Wikileaks has no head-quarter. Organization is financed with the money of people with good will. The main goal of this revolutionary organization is to keep their sources anonyms. Even though, there have already been some problems. Earlier this year, a 20 years old student hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail. Later on, he was arrested and convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice after WikiLeaks published e-mails. Furthermore, the lawyers are now trying to build a defense of Bradley Manning, who has sent an extremely graphic...
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...The Power of Storytelling Stories have a very important role in society. They affect people in a way nothing else could. Every story, by nature, has a message. Even if it’s not an overt or intentional message, it’s there. Stories have different messages to different people. When people hear a story they automatically begin to process it. Subconsciously, everyone’s perspective has been shaped by the stories they’ve heard. That’s why people tell stories; that is their purpose. They’re a consequence of our need to make sense of what happens the real world, to label people “good” or “bad”, and actions “right” or “wrong”. No author could’ve better conveyed a message about stories in a story than Tim O’Brien with The Things They Carried. Soldiers go to war having heard stories about patriotism and honor and sacrifice. What they find is that the world isn’t a story. They’ve been duped. As O’Brien wrote, “If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue”(O’Brien 68). When Mitchell Sanders says, “There’s a definite moral here”(13) he’s being sarcastic. Things happen in war for no reason. That, O’Brien says, is the only truth to be told in a war story. Anything else is a lie, even if it’s the truth. “Absolute...
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...Short Essay Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”: pg.1411 beginning with “His father, however,” ending at the end of Part 2. In Kafkas “The Metamorphosis”, the question of how much of Gregor’s humanity remains makes up most of the second section of the story. As the members of the Samsa family adapt to the situation they’ve been put in now with Gregor, each one seems to form a different belief of how much humanity indeed does or can remain in him. At the beginning for instance, Grete leaves milk for Gregor, which means she is assuming that his preference for milk when he was still human continues now that he’s a bug. So maybe Grete believes initially that some part of Gregor might still be there. But then she begins to notice that Gregor’s tastes in food have changed and now likes to crawl about the walls of his room, which makes her begin to realize he is now just an insect. Grete suggests taking all Gregor’s things out of his room to eliminate obstacles to his crawling and to make more space and better for an insect. The mother, on the other hand, argues that Gregor will want his things when he returns to his former human self, and she even refers to Gregor as her “unfortunate son” at one point, saying that she still believes Gregor to be the same despite his appearance. But the father show no sympathy towards Gregor or that he is the same, and attacks him as though he were a wild animal when he escapes his room. During all the commotion Gregor hides as usual, but he becomes anxious...
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...United Natural Foods Judith Palmer MGT/521 April 14, 2015 Daniel Kearney Founded in 1996, United Natural Foods, also known as UNFI, is the leading national distributor of natural and organic foods in the United States and Canada (United Natural Foods, 2009). UNFI serves more than 40,000 customer locations, which includes natural food stores and supermarkets. With Whole Foods as one of their leading retailers here in the United States, UNFI currently has 33 distribution centers. Although UNFI has experienced revenue growth, organic food is still only a small part of our food system, and the price of organic foods remains more expensive than conventionally produced foods. The biggest complaint from consumers is the high price of organic foods. Organic foods cost more because of their inefficient distribution network. Strategic and Operational Plans Organic foods are more expensive because of scale. Organic farms don’t operate at scale, so the cost of marketing and distributing organic food is higher. Also, in addition to UNFI’s scale, UNFI also suffers from inefficient distribution network. Now with scale, distribution, supply, and cost taken into consideration, shoppers are limited to purchasing organic foods. UNFI strategic and technology plans to improve their distribution and efficiency of their supply chains is to: * Improve Operations (distribution): The challenge to deliver their organic food in the most efficient way would be dissolved by using distribution...
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...From analyzing the external and internal situation, although Whole Food Market has some big competitors, the company still has a strong competitive advantage over other key rivals in the natural and organic food industry. What is strategy that Whole Food Market implemented to compete successfully with their rivals? II. Process of finding the answers Base on the theory in the textbook and the information from Internet as well as results of the previous BCD, our group will test each of strategy to find out what is the most appropriate one for Whole Food Market Company. Testing 1. Low cost provider strategy Work Condition | Evaluation | Product price between rival sellers is vigorous | YES: From the case, competitors of Whole Food Market are trying to lower their price to compete and gain customers. For example: Trader Joe’s price is so attractive with customer, Fresh and Easy also is 20-25% bellow traditional supermarkets that is similar with Wal-Mart’s price and Sunflowers farmer market... | Products are readily available from many sellers | NO:Natural & organic products are special products. From the case, most of retailers try to supply for themselves and carry their private product labels, ex: 45% of products on Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Market product shelves were supplied by themselves, 2000 items carries the Trader Joe’s label, Whole Foods also private label for their products: Whole Body, Whole Baby... | Industry product are not easily differentiated |...
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