Pepperidge Farm Employees Get Norwalk Beaches Ready for Busy Summer Season

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

In keeping with one of its company values, teamwork with a spirit of genuine caring, Pepperidge Farm, Inc. today held its seventh all-employee service day for Headquarters employees. More than 200 employees donated their time by gardening, painting and picking up litter in time for Memorial Day weekend.

As with many beaches along the shores of Connecticut, Calf Pasture Beach was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy last fall and getting the resources to fix it in time for the summer season was challenging, said Norwalk Mayor Richard Moccia. And then our community partner, Pepperidge Farm, stepped up to help as they always do. We can always rely on them to assist the City of Norwalk whenever it needs it the most.

A healthy community requires a good working relationship and collaboration from all parties including the business sector, City Hall, non-profits and the community. Pepperidge Farm is committed to doing its part to strengthen and improve Norwalk, said Ruthann Walsh, Pepperidge Farm Director, Corporate Citizenship. In this particular case, we came out today with two goals in mind: to beautify the beach for Norwalk residents and to be sure the beach was cleaned up and safe for the hundreds of children who will enjoy it over the summer months. With the national obesity rates at epidemic proportions, it is critical that todays children get plenty of exercise and there is no better place to get that than at the beach! Some of the supplies used in todays cleanup were donated by The Home Depot of Norwalk.

Past Pepperidge Farm all-employee service days have included painting, refinishing furniture and re stocking pantry shelves at Norwalks food pantry, renovating the camp at the Carver Foundation of Norwalk and building edible gardens at Norwalks public schools. In addition, Pepperidge Farm has donated time and money to the community of Norwalk through various programs such as the Kids Back Pack program, participating in building a new playground in South Norwalk and supporting Project LEAN, in its third year at Jefferson Science Magnet School. This pilot program is an initiative Pepperidge Farm is co-leading with the Norwalk Health Department, the Norwalk Hospital and Jefferson School to reduce the rate of childhood obesity.

Pepperidge Farms contribution to the Norwalk Community has been recognized by awards from the Human Services Council, the CT Food Bank, The Carver Foundation of Norwalk, and induction into the Chairmans Circle of the United Way of Coastal Fairfield County.

About Pepperidge Farm

Pepperidge Farm, Incorporated, based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a leading provider of premium quality fresh bakery products, cookies, crackers, and frozen foods. Among the companys most popular products are Sausalito and Milano cookies, Goldfish and Baked Naturals crackers, frozen Puff Pastry, frozen garlic loaves and Texas toasts, and more than 50 varieties of fresh baked breads including Pepperidge Farm Swirl, Farmhouse and Whole Grain. The company added Ecce Panis gourmet artisan breads to its portfolio in 2009. Pepperidge Farm was founded in Connecticut in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, an entrepreneurial homemaker who began baking fresh, all-natural bread for her allergy-afflicted son. The company is now a nationwide business with 9 manufacturing facilities and almost 5,000 employees. Pepperidge Farm has been part of Campbell Soup Company since 1961.

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Nacpan and Calitang Twin Beaches in El Nido Palawan

Asia, Best Beach, Ecotourism, Nature Trip, Philippines By melo on May 14, 2013 5:33 am

It was during our trip to Puerto Princesa when I decided to plan a trip to El Nido to visit other places I havent explored in my past El Nido trips. Prior to visiting Puerto Princesa, I already had my ticket re-booked to a later date even if Im still undecided where to go next.

Fishing Boats

The growing popularity of Twin Beaches of Nacpan and Calitang led me to take a decision to go back to El Nido and visit the long white sand beaches situated in a rare zone in Bucana Village, El Nido, Palawan.

Calitang Beach

It was cloudy when i arrived in Nacpan Beach but despite of the humidity, seeing the pristine beach is really rewarding. Its probably one of the best beaches Ive seen in the entire archipelago. The brilliant blue waters are so inviting and the place reminds me of Boracay without the crowd, annoying beach vendors and concrete buildings.

Kylas Cochina

As I walk towards the Hill, I passed by a small sari-sari store to buy water. I had an almost an hour of conversation with some of the locals which made me realize how nice it is to live in that village. Fresh seafoods, clean air and friendly people I just wish theres a decent internet connection.

Nacpan Beach

These beaches are specifically referred to as the Twin beaches because of the fact that it partly carries a lengthy shore line mutually taken up by two bordering sitios, namely, Nacpan and Calitang. The birds eye view of these twin beaches offers a breathtaking sight which made it one of the most picturesque beaches in El Nido if not the entire Palawan.

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A guide to Mexico’s beautiful beaches

Quintana Roo in Cancun. (Photo: jthetzel / Flickr)

On Mexicos beaches, Ive been sporty, social, or had my solitude. Ive had the friendliest service in the world, the best housemade guacamole, and left with killer suntans. Beach vacations dont get much better than this.

Cancun

(Photo: jthetzel / Flickr)It was my firstand everyone elsesbrush with Mexico and I keep going back. Thats because it simply boasts the gold standard of beaches. Powder-white sand is such a clich and almost never true. But its accurate here. Even more gorgeous is the water, so pale and iridescent, with such a flawlessly sandy bottom that the patterns the light makes on the surface evoke the kind of swimming pools that Hockney painted.

I stayed at Live Aqua Cancun when it was just called Aqua, before Hurricane Wilma wrecked it; and I stayed there after the extensive rehabilitation (its now all-adult and all-inclusive). If the beachfront location werent enough, the place has one of the choicest pool gardens in the world, with eight pools of different temperatures and types: round, infinity, wadingand one is elevated so you can fall from it, into the pool below. Did I mention the oceanfront cabanas with the sun beds that are suspended from the ceiling and gently sway with the breeze? I have now.

Cabo San Lucas

I lived in Southern California for years, and Cabo was the go-to place for Angelenos who cant bear the 70 degree winters at home. Its around a two-hour flight (movie trivia: in Tarantinos film Jackie Brown, the L.A.-based heroine works as a flight attendant for the fictional Cabo Air). Among Cabos swimmable beaches, the most famous is Lovers Beachits the one with the rocky arch that launched a million postcards. This beauty can be reached by boat or via a hike from Solmar Beach. The One&Only Palmilla resort is among the areas most luxurious: it features Jack Nicklaus first Latin American golf course, a renowned 13-treatment room spa, and a safe-to-swim beach.

Costa Maya

Remote and unspoiled, Costa Maya probably only exists in its current form because of its proximity to a cruise ship terminal. Its located on the Yucatan Peninsula near the Belizean border, but its a full 200 miles from the Cancun Airport. The only reason I even learned about it is because I was the editor of a magazine for Holland America and I visited the port on a Caribbean cruise. I was glad I did. Some staffers from the ship suggested I check out the main town, Mahahual, which turned into a barefoot beach paradise during its rebuilding after Hurricane Dean hit in 2007. The towns malecon (promenade) is flanked on one side by spiffy boutique hotels and bars to get your Dos Equis on, and a beach dotted with thatched-roof palapas on the other. The Nacional Beach Club & Bungalows, overseen by hosts/owners Evan and Anna, serve up great hospitalityand quesadillas.

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Love of astronomy launches Pittsfield native's education to new heights

Duane Lee, a Williams College graduate, is close to attaining his doctorate degree in astronomy at Columbia University. (Courtesy photo)

PITTSFIELD -- For Pittsfield native son Duane M. Lee, the next stop after graduating this year from the School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University will be starting a post-doctoral fellowship at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China this fall.

His story begins, however, as an African-American child growing up on Linden Street on the city's west side, a less-affluent section of Pittsfield that also is teeming with young children full of potential and dreams.

"I was always interested in science," said Lee, 33, during a recent interview from Columbia University in New York City, where he is fine-tuning his final dissertation for a doctorate degree in astronomy.

"Particularly, I remember my neighbors across the street had a telescope. In the summer, they invited neighborhood kids to come look through it," he said. "I was fortunate. Where I grew up we had very dark skies, where you can see stars and planets with the naked eye."

His mother, Francine Lee, said she recalls that her son wanted to be an astronaut, but issues with asthma prevented his pursuit.

Duane recalls how his father, Henry Lee, did buy him his own telescope. "I was about 11 or 12 and that pretty much cemented my love of astronomy," Duane said.

Before that, however, Francine said she wanted to instill an early love of learning in all of her children.

In 1981, when Duane was 2, she enrolled him in Pittsfield's free Parent-Child Home Program, a home-based

While attending Conte Community School, Duane also received Title I reading support through second grade, a program that also supports disadvantaged students.

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Boulder-based Ball Aerospace to build sensor for South Korean satellite

Boulder-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. won a contract to build a sensor for a South Korean geostationary environmental monitoring satellite, officials announced Monday.

Officials for the locally based division of Broomfield's Ball Corp. said the contract not only could open the door for more international contracts for Ball Aerospace, but also serves as another piece of the puzzle in monitoring the air and environment over Asia.

Under the contract awarded by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute, Ball Aerospace will build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer for the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite that has a scheduled launch of 2018.

The spectrometer will be designed to monitor air pollution for the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region.

The satellite and sensor, when launched, would complement other geostationary satellites -- among them the Ball Aerospace-provided Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution spectrometer -- positioned around the globe to monitor air quality.

"It really provides an enormous service for all the other countries of Asia," said Liam Weston, Ball Aerospace's senior manager for commercial and international business development.

The contract with KARI has been three years in the making and also marks a significant step for Ball Aerospace in developing its international efforts, he said.

"This is a good opportunity for us to show ... that we have the ability to export our hardware," he said.

Ball Aerospace beat out Dutch Space, of Holland, and Astrium, of Germany, he said.

Financial terms were not immediately available and Weston declined to disclose specific details.

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Embraer Selects Liebherr-Aerospace for Several Major Systems on the E-Jet G2

Embraer has selected Liebherr-Aerospace as the supplier of the advanced high lift system and the integrated air management system for the next generation of their highly successful E-Jet commercial aircraft.

Embraer has chosen the best of the latest-generation solutions in high lift and air management. Liebherrs systems will provide higher reliability and lower operating costs for our airline customers. This new partnership strengthens the long-standing relationship between Embraer and Liebherr-Aerospace, said Embraer.

Selecting our flight control system and air management system, Embraer will provide crews and passengers with the most advanced systems certified in the history of aviation. Our technologies allow for increased flight control agility, optimized safety and comfort, and substantially reduce operating costs. Their robustness was proven under all operating conditions of the aircraft, Francis Niss, President of Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, said. The E-Jet G2 program will benefit from Liebherr-Aerospaces decades-long experience in designing, manufacturing and servicing flight controls and air management systems for commercial aircraft.

The high lift system will be developed and manufactured by German-based Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Lindenberg, Liebherrs center of excellence for flight control and actuation systems. It will feature a complete fly-by-wire control system with dual channel skew detection. The system includes integrated computers, highly reliable hydraulic and electro-mechanical actuators and power control units.

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS, Toulouse (France), Liebherrs center of excellence for air management systems, will develop and manufacture the air management system featuring integrated control architecture with lightweight pneumatic and mechanical components. It includes the engine bleed air system, the air conditioning system and the cabin pressure control system.

Liebherrs technologies will allow for a further substantial reduction of the CO2 and noise emissions of the E-Jet family, thus contributing to make commercial aviation more respectful of the environment. Liebherr-Aerospace is proud to contribute its latest generation of flight control and air management technologies to the success of Embraers commercial aircraft family.

Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry.

Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, Toulouse (France), is one of ten divisional control companies within the Liebherr Group and coordinates all activities in the aerospace and transportation systems sectors.

Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry and has more than five decades of experience in this field. The range of aviation equipment produced by Liebherr for the civil and military sectors includes flight control and actuation systems, landing gear and air management systems. These systems are deployed in wide-bodied aircraft, single aisle and regional aircraft, business jets, combat aircraft, military transporters, military training aircraft, civil helicopters and combat helicopters.

Liebherrs aerospace and transportation systems division employs over 4,400 people. It has four aviation equipment production plants at Lindenberg (Germany), Toulouse (France), Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), and Guaratinguet (Brazil). These production sites offer a worldwide service with additional customer service centers in Saline (Michigan/USA), Seattle (Washington/USA), Wichita (Kansas/USA), Montreal (Canada), Sao Jos dos Campos (Brazil), Hamburg (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Singapore and Shanghai (Peoples Republic of China).

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UTC Aerospace Systems Displays State-of-the-Art Innovations at EBACE 2013

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UTC Aerospace Systems will display the latest in business jet aircraft interior innovations at this year's European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE). The 13th Annual EBACE takes place May 21 23 at the Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTX)

UTC Aerospace Systems (Hall 6, Booth 1023) will be exhibiting its state-of-the-art products in business jet cabin interiors including VIP seats, lighting systems, cabin interiors, custom crafted artisan veneers, cabinetry and furnishings, In-Flight Entertainment (IFE), Cabin Management Systems (CMS), and life rafts. UTC Aerospace Systems offers "Total Cabin Capability" providing unmatched products, service, and support for its customers. From composite and plastic molding, to seating, veneers, completion kits, and system integration; UTC Aerospace Systems has the systems and solutions customers want and need.

UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities.

United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries.

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Ball Aerospace Wins Contract to Build Air Quality Sensor for KARI

BOULDER, Colo., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the National Institute of Environmental Research in the Ministry of Environment of South Korea.

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GEMS is a geostationary scanning ultraviolet-visible spectrometer designed to monitor trans-boundary pollution events for the Korean peninsula and Asia-Pacific region. The spectrometer provides high spatial and high temporal resolution measurements of ozone, its precursors, and aerosols. Hourly measurements by GEMS will improve early warnings for potentially dangerous pollution events and monitor long-term climate change.

Ball Aerospace and KARI will design, fabricate and test GEMS which is manifested on KARI's GEO-KOMPSAT-2B geostationary satellite for a 2018 launch.

"Ball is excited to be working with KARI to provide this environmental sensor and enable greater monitoring of pollution," said Cary Ludtke, vice president and general manager of Ball's Operational Space business unit. "This international collaboration represents the beginning of an important relationship."

The GEMS instrument is the Asian element of a global air quality monitoring constellation of geostationary satellites that includes the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer. Ball is the TEMPO instrument provider for NASA Langley Research Center and Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on this Earth Venture line program.

"Both TEMPO and GEMS take advantage of our expertise and technology developed for previous ultraviolet-visible instruments and benefit from a proven track record," said Ludtke.

For more than 30 years, Ball Aerospace has been a recognized industry leader in developing advanced spectrometers. Ball recently provided the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and is building a similar instrument for the Joint Polar Satellite System. Historically, Ball was the primary supplier of spectrometers for the Hubble Space Telescope including the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions for national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications. For more information, visit http://www.ballaerospace.com.

Ball Corporation (BLL) is a supplier of high quality packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ approximately 15,000 people worldwide and reported 2012 sales of more than $8.7 billion. For the latest Ball news and for other company information, please visit http://www.ball.com.

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Stem Cell Therapy Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy with MR by Dr Alok Sharma Mumbai India – Video


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