| Spring Street International School "Dispatches" from the field
The river is wide and slow as a lake, sweet and languid. The other side is a flat empty sand field ready to be covered in water when the monsoons come. Monkeys run on railings and rooftops, snakes in sacks to dance for horn players on the ghats, rats will eat food left in your room, mangy dogs bark all night, and sleep by day. Cows walk wherever they will, sometimes in the middle of a wedding party, sometimes in the middle of a narrow stairway, sometimes giving birth in the street with a garland of fresh marigold blossoms hanging around their neck. You cook on an open fire in your 1000 year old stone house filling it with woodsmoke. All the water for washing and cooking comes from an outdoor faucet, but you have a cell phone in your pocket. You can tell the history of your country, but not without including the activities of the Gods.
Viruses Removed From Drinking Water Using New UD Technology
University of Delaware researchers have developed an inexpensive, nonchlorine-based technology that can remove harmful microorganisms, including viruses, from drinking water.
UD's patented technology, developed jointly by researchers in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering, incorporates highly reactive iron in the filtering process to deliver a chemical "knock-out punch" to a host of notorious pathogens, from E. coli to rotavirus.
The new technology could dramatically improve the safety of drinking water around the globe, particularly in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over a billion people--one-sixth of the world's population--lack access to safe water supplies.
Four billion cases of diarrheal disease occur worldwide every year, resulting in 1.8 million deaths, primarily infants and children in developing countries.
Johanna Foods Expands CHEP Program to Yogurt Lines
FLEMINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Johanna Foods, a state-of-the-art food manufacturer, has announced that it is transporting its line of yogurt products on pallets from CHEP, the global leader in equipment pooling, effective immediately. The company's popular La Yogurt and Sabor Latino yogurt lines are being shipped on CHEP pallets to supermarkets, warehouse club stores, convenience stores, wholesalers, dairy distributors, and independent grocery store organizations across the country. Johanna Foods, which also manufactures products for numerous leading retailers and brands, has been using CHEP pallets for its beverage business since 2005. Johanna's decision to use CHEP pallets for the shipment of yogurt was made following validation of the pooling system at CHEP's Innovation Center in Orlando.
12 Money Saving Tips For Young Families!
Since becoming a young family ourselves last year, we've been astounded by the number of discounts and freebies we've been offered. It seems that practically everyone will try and entice you to their shop or website when you have kids! And although each obviously has its own axe to grind, I'd like to think that, in a way they feel they're doing their bit to help us, when our finances are hit by the costs of those little bundles of joy. So anyway, I've collected up all of the offers I can find, and put them together for other parents of young children to benefit. And while I'm afraid most of the offers are aimed at parents of under twos (there are a few for the under sixes) if your kids are too old, why not forward this article onto friends with babies and toddlers who could benefit? Freebies and Discounts 1.
Women's rugby to play in national championship game next month
The men's team wasn't in need of their services, so the girls approached the coaches and the four agreed to help them out. "By some miracle we got in touch with these four guys," O'Keefe said. "It was a stroke of luck. We saw them leaving and asked for their help and they stayed for practice. I guess we're just a charming group of girls. It was a complete turn around and we're really excited about that." The team had the money in its budget to pay the four coaches, but the coaches refused to be paid. "They're doing it just because they love rugby," O'Keefe said. "They love being around it. They saw the potential that we had and they just genuinely wanted to help us out." The team showed vast improvement in every aspect of the game this year under the guise of their new coaches.
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