Carnation milk is best of all.....

When opening a can of Carnation Evaporated Milk for your recipes just smile and think of this story.

A little old lady from Newfoundland had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.

When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores, during the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan.

The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with "Carnation Milk is Best of all...."

She said..."I know all about milk and dairy farms... I can do this!"

She sent in her entry and, about a week later, a black limo drove up in front of her house and a man got out and said, "Carnation LOVED your entry so much, we are here to award you $1,000, even though we will not be able to use it."

HERE IS HER ENTRY:

Carnation Milk is Best of All.

No Tits to Pull, No Hay to Haul!

No Buckets to Wash, No Shit to Pitch,

Just poke a hole in the Son-of-a-Bitch!

New Trend In Rapping: Words Rhyming With the Same Exact Words

Previously in rap, emcees would have to think of new words to rhyme with words they already used--but not anymore. The best rappers in the game today rap words with--if you can believe it--the same exact words. Starting in 1992 with the Beastie Boys' Check Your Head LP ("the beginning of their downfall,"), when the Beasties dropped this monster on the sidewalk (radio):

"Everybody's rappin' like it's a commercial /
Acting like life is a big commercial"

First American "gangster" rapper Emily Dickinson did similar in "Because I Could not Stop for Death":

"We paused before a house that seemed /
A Swelling of the Ground-- /
The Roof was scarcely visible-- /
The Cornice--in the Ground."

If you like things that rhyme such as the words in rap songs (or rap & roll), you might consider reading more here.

But perhaps you need your appetite whetted! That is OK too. Below is an extensive timeline of milestones in the history of rhyme:

1995 - Seconds after triggering the first one, DJ Premier rhymes a Roland drum machine handclap with yet another Roland drum machine handclap. Then he does it again. And again. Premier rhymes the handclap five times, which at the time constituted the most consecutive rhymes in music history.

2000 - The Ying Yang Twins hit the scene, and become the first rappers who, physically, rhyme.

2001 - MC Hammer, in an effort to relaunch his career, tries to push rapping to the next level. In his song "Pushing Rapping to the Next Level", he rhymes:

"You can't touch this /
You can't touch this /
You can touch this..."

Within seconds, nothing happened.

2007(?) - For his follow-up record to Let's Get It, Young Jeezy starts off by shouting "aaay!", then holds one long "aaay" for 79 minutes. The disc comes with a companion DVD, which features bloopers and outtakes of the studio session, including an ill-fated remix with G-Unit's Yayo: Instead of rhyming, Yayo sits by the studio window, barking at moving cars.

Patagonia Closes Loop on Polyester Recycling Program

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 19, 2005 - Patagonia has partnered with Japanese textile firm Teijin to implement a polyester product recycling program starting next month.

Under the program, Patagonia will recover from customers used Capilene undergarment products. Teijin will recycle them as polyester materials at a "fiber-to-fiber" recycling facility in Teijin Fibers' Matsuyama plant.

The new partnership closes the manufacturing loop on post-consumer recycled (PCR) textiles already in use by Patagonia. In 1993, the company incorporated into its product line fleece made from PCR plastic soda bottles. Patagonia now uses PCR materials in about 30 of its products, which the company says saves some 26 million plastic bottles from landfill.

This year, Patagonia began using a new PCR filament yarn containing 30%-50% post-consumer feedstock made from discarded soda bottles, polyester uniforms, tents, and garments. The remainder of the yarn comes from post-industrial feedstock -- yarn and polymer factory waste products.

"We're constantly trying to innovate our supply chain," says Jill Vlahos, Patagonia's director of environmental analysis. "Everything we make pollutes, but we're trying to improve every step of the way. We're excited to create our own supply rather than pulling from raw virgin resources."

Vlahos is careful to note that while the recycling program does not save money, it adds no extra costs to the manufacturing process. "We’re trying to inspire other businesses to move in an environmental direction, and the only way we can do that is to run a profitable business," says Vlahos. "The added expense of recycling and logistical costs is offset by the fact that we don’t have to purchase or create raw polyester material."

Patagonia is currently working on shifting its entire Capilene line from raw materials to recovered materials, according to Vlahos. By the fall of 2006, the company plans to manufacture Capilene products from 50% to 100% PCR polyester.

GM Crops Lead to Herbicide-Resistant “Superweed” in UK

August 2, 2005
by Roddy Scheer
British agricultural scientists have found that a genetically modified (GM) variant of rapeseed has cross-fertilized with local wild charlock plants, creating a herbicide-resistant “superweed” in the process. The transformation of a plain charlock into a superweed is something scientists had thought to be “virtually impossible.” The resulting charlock plants, which showed no ill-effects after treatment with a normally lethal herbicide, were discovered among many other unaffected plants in a field that had been used to grow GM rapeseed as part of the British government’s three-year trials of GM crops.
While British officials were quick to downplay to discovery as insignificant in the larger view of millions of unaffected plants, other experts aren’t so sure. Ecological geneticist Brian Johnson, a member of the UK’s scientific group assessing the farm trials, told reporters, "You only need one event in several million. As soon as it has taken place the new plant has a huge selective advantage. That plant will multiply rapidly."
What especially worries environmentalists is that because millions of charlock seeds can remain in the soil for 20-30 years before germination, it would be nearly impossible to remove any of the genetically modified strains. Potential problems such as these are what led many other European Union representatives, especially the French and Greek delegations, to seek an outright ban on GM rapeseed.