Fairlife, stylized as fairlife,
is a brand of milk distributed in the United States by The Coca-Cola Company.
The milk comes in four varieties: reduced fat, chocolate, fat-free, and whole milk. In regard to Coca-Cola's
strategy for Fairlife, the company's North America President Sandy Douglas
stated, "Our vision for the nutrition beverage business and the milk
product that I showed you which is made on a sustainable dairy with fully
sustainable high-care processes with animals, has a proprietary milk filtering
process that allows you to increase protein by 50 percent, take sugar down by
30 percent, and have no lactose, and a milk that's premiumised and taste better
and we'll charge twice as much for it as the milk we're used to buying in a
jug." The cost of Fairlife is indeed,
roughly twice as high as conventional milk; Fairlife's national average price
in the US is $4.29 per 52 oz., compared to the national average pricing of
conventional milk at $2 per 64 oz. Following
its widespread launch in February 2015, Khushbu Shah of Eater.com wrote that
overall reviews of the milk was mixed, although that the chocolate variety, in
particular, was generally well received. Dietitians and
nutritionists were generally critical of the milk; Alissa Rumsey, a
spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics expressed, "When
you really look at the numbers, it can sound appealing, but in general most
Americans are already getting enough protein," adding, "If you need
more, eat an egg or a handful of almonds.
And people who need more calcium should up their intake of dark leafy
greens, not the so-called Frankenmilk." Registered
dietitian Keri Gans claimed, "milk is already a great package of
nutrients; I’m not quite sure why it needs to be changed," and commented
on the removal of sugar in Fairlife milk with, "I never looked at the
sugar in milk as a problem." Meredith Engel of New York Daily News speculated
that, "it’s clear why Coke is trying to get into the milk business:
More and more Americans are turning away from sugary soft drinks, and soda
sales fell to a 19-year-low in 2013." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlife
You may be aware that over the last 25 years, there has been a major effort to convert paper
production from acidic products that deteriorate quickly to more stable
paper. The movement largely came from
the library community’s concerns about rapidly deteriorating paper in their
collections. The result is that there are
now no western producers making acidic papers anymore (other than newsprint),
which is great news for libraries, archives and consumers. Not all of these papers, however, can be
guaranteed to truly last long-term (by that we mean over 300 years). Manufacturers can, and do, change the
chemical composition of papers quite regularly, and as consumers and staff in a
library/archive, it is good to know what is available and how to use it best. For long-term
quality, look for papers that are marked “permanent” or “archival,” with the
infinity symbol set inside a circle. Permanent papers can be made with wood pulp
(where the harmful acidic lignin is found), but the lignin is generally removed
and no acidic additives are included during manufacture. Permanent papers are expected to last several
hundred years under normal library or archival storage conditions. To be labeled “permanent” with the infinity
symbol, the paper must meet either ISO 9706 or ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992
standards. Archival papers
are made to an even higher standard and will last up to 1000 years. These papers are produced with cellulose
fibres from plants other than wood and do not contain lignin (usually cotton or
linen). Also, the standard for archival
papers (ISO 11108) includes requirements for paper strength, which the standards
for permanent papers do not include. As a final note, it is important to remember
that the storage environment for paper also has a huge impact on its
longevity. For every five-degree
reduction in temperature, it is estimated that the lifespan of paper
doubles. See graphics at https://thediscoverblog.com/2015/01/27/all-papers-are-not-created-equal/
According to the 1988
edition of the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase
Origins: Normal Schools derive their name from the
French phrase ecole normale. These
teacher-training institutions, the first of which was established in France by
the Brothers of the Christian Schools in 1685, were intended to set a pattern,
establish a “norm” after which all other schools would be modeled. The
first normal school in America was established in
Vermont in 1823. The name fell out of favor toward the end of the 1920s,
when the influence of Columbia University’s Teachers College became paramount
in the field of public education. Most such institutions changed their
names to “teachers colleges” during the 1930s. Now that the “progressive
education” teachings of the Columbia group have been discredited, the
Progressive Education Association itself has disbanded and most colleges have
dropped “teachers” from their names.
Normal is a town in McLean County,
Illinois, United States. As
of the 2010 census,
the town's population was 52,497. Normal
is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normalmetropolitan
area, and Illinois' seventh most populous community outside
the Chicago
metropolitan area. The main
campus of Illinois' oldest public university, Illinois State
University, a fully accredited four-year institution, is in Normal,
as is Heartland
Community College, a fully accredited two-year institution. There is also a satellite campus of Lincoln College,
which offers associate degrees as well as four-year programs. The town was laid out with the name North Bloomington on June 7, 1854
by Joseph Parkinson. From its founding, it was generally recognized
that Jesse W. Fell was
the force behind the creation of the town.
The town was renamed Normal in February 1865 and officially incorporated
on February 25, 1867. The name was taken from Illinois State Normal
University, a normal school (teacher-training
institution) located there. The school
has since been renamed Illinois State
University after becoming a general four-year university. Normal is adjacent to Bloomington, Illinois,
and when mentioned together they are known as the "Twin Cities",
"Bloomington-Normal",
"BN", or "BloNo". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal,_Illinois
Remembering the Freedom Train by Ted
Widmer In 1946, William Coblenz, a
junior official at the Department of Justice, had an idea for an uplifting
display of American values. During his
lunch break, Coblenz liked to walk across the street to the National Archives,
to inspect the exhibit of recently captured Nazi artifacts. Coblenz felt that Americans lacked a coherent
understanding of their own, history; soon, he was pressing forward with the
idea of a mobile display of America’s greatest documents. Officials from the National Archives were
intrigued, and the heads of Paramount Pictures, U.S. Steel, Du Pont, General
Electric, and Standard Oil lined up in support.
A bipartisan American Heritage Foundation convened to direct these
energies, raise funding, and sell the concept of a moving museum to the
public. The documents would be carried
across America by a special railroad, guarded by Marines: the Freedom Train. By the fall of 1947, Americans were awash in
Freedom Train-themed comic books, school kits, and other materials heralding
the approach of the exhibit. The
American Heritage Foundation unveiled a new slogan, “Freedom is Everybody’s
Job,” and Irving Berlin wrote a catchy song, which débuted in a
carefully coördinated media blitz, just before departure. All the radio networks covered the train when
it left Philadelphia, on September 17, 1947—the hundred and sixtieth
anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Read more and see pictures at https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-the-freedom-train
The NBA's Secret Wine Society, the inside-the-bottle story of the intense love affair
between NBA stars and the gilded grape. by Baxter Holmes The river of
black shuttle buses negotiates sharp switchbacks, bouncing upward along miles
of uneven pavement that fades into dirt, from two lanes to one, climbing
beneath oak forest that blocks out the morning light. Cellphone service
dwindles to nothing. Finally, a metal
gate appears, a large "M" at its center, and soon the Cleveland
Cavaliers pour out of the buses. About
60 members of the franchise gather near tables covered in white cloth, sitting
atop cedar bark spread across a small clearing. They clink flutes of 2006 Dom Pérignon in
toast. Nearby, all around the property,
lies charred earth. Burned hillsides,
stippled with the black skeletons of trees, loom ominous. This is Napa Valley's Mayacamas winery. Not many of the Cavs have been here, but
LeBron James has, and he recognizes that the area where he's standing now, the
small clearing, once belonged to a building that is no more. The fire, when it came, had raced in from the
west, feeding on dry underbrush, roaring over the hills. Winds swept it along the edges of and into
Mayacamas' vineyards, the intense heat threatening dormant vines harvested not
long before. Workers evacuated as flames
neared the winery, not knowing what--if anything--would survive. When staffers returned weeks later, they saw
how the flames had crept to the edge of the three main buildings, licked up
their sides, leaving deep black scars near the foundation. Millions in damage was caused, though the true
toll will be tallied when it becomes clear which vines can still bud in the
spring. But somehow the fire had
devoured only one of the buildings, a 5,000-square-foot, two-story Italian
villa-style structure used for hospitality and dining. "It's a miracle," says Mayacamas
assistant winemaker Braiden Albrecht. Mayacamas
hadn't hosted any groups since that October blaze. No groups, that is, until today, a clear,
brisk late-December Thursday--two days before James' 33rd birthday--when the
Cavaliers arrive for a midseason two-day Napa getaway. After the champagne toast, players gather
beside fermentation tanks before moving next door to a spacious living room,
where glasses of 2015 chardonnay and 2013 cabernet dot a heavy wooden table. They playfully sneak more glasses of wine. James tries to tempt rookie forward Cedi
Osman, who, along with some of the other rookies, isn't into wine just yet. "Drink me . . . " James says, holding the
glass near Osman, but Osman declines. "Their loss," James would say later.
"More for me." Read much, much more at http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22358028/the-nba-obsession-wine?sf182012887=1
Thank you, Muse reader!
http://librariansmuse.blgspot.com Issue 1842
February 14, 2018 On this date in
1922, Italian composer Riccardo Zandonai 's new opera, “Giulietta e Romeo,”
based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, premiered in Rome. Today, Zandonai’s music is seldom heard
outside of Italy, but the classic story of Romeo and Juliet has attracted a
remarkable number of different musical settings. The most famous opeera based on Romeo and
Juliet" is by the French composer Charles Gounod, first staged in 1867. First runner-up, some distance away, is
probably Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” of 1830. It’s intriguing to speculate what might have
been if Tchaikovsky had ever followed through on his idea to write his own
“Romeo and Juliet” opera. He made a few
sketches, but instead of an opera he turned to the idea of a
“fantasy-overture,” tinkering with it over a period of a dozen years. The finished product is still one of his most
beloved concert pieces, and is often quoted in movies and TV commercials as an
instantly recognizable musical cue for love and romance. Composers Datebook Word
of the Day philematology noun
The scientific study of kissing
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