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2 Tuesday, November 16. aoio | The Red a Black Product’s sell-by date can deceive By KELSEY BYRD Thk Rkd & Black Though some fuzzy things are cute, hairy food is not one of them. Most food products in stores come with a sell-by date, but Judy Harrison, a professor and exten sion foods specialist at the University, said those dates can be misleading. •‘People think that dates on packages have to do with the safety of the food, and they really don’t,” Harrison said. “They are there for quality purposes. There are really only a couple of foods that are required by law [to pro vide a sell-by date], and that’s infant formula and some types of baby food.” Baby food is required by law to have a date because the growth of the infant is so crucial, Harrison said. The food must be used by the date on the package. “So basically there are sell-by dates, which tell the stores how long to display a product for sale, and a consumer would want to buy that product before that sale by date expires,” Harrison said. “And then there is use-by date which is the last date recom mended for use of the product, and still have that product be at the peak quality." Harrison stressed the fact that for packaged foods, the date does not mean the food is bad alter the package date has passed. “So just because a product is past its use-by date doesn’t nec essarily mean ’Oh today that product isn’t going to be safe any more.’ It simply means that it may not be as good of quality as it was before that date passed.” Harrison said. Most foods have different dates on the packages, but anything that is fresh has specific things to look for. “I’ve been drinking milk like a month after the sell-by date before,” said Amonae Dabbs- Brown, a wildlife major from Marietta. “I can’t drink the stuff fast enough before the date.” Harrison says dairy products are fine up to seven days after the sell-by date, but once it starts to smell rancid, it’s time to throw it out. “Something on the small amount of cheese you would have at home, you probably want to go ahead and discard it if it’s moldy,” she said. “Once a product starts to mold, it’s not going to taste very good anyway so its probably time to get new cheese or bread.” Harrison said fresh produce has very specific ways to tell the produce is going bad, but added those same requirements can be used as a general rule for check ing food. “When you see wilting, mold growth, sliminess those are all visible signs of spoilage and visi ble signs of quality loss,” Harrison said. “You would not want to use the product at that point.” Pearls Before Swine® by Stoma* Pasts wmats \ roow day. r mate row [ i wave ro push arounda ' irs iestnotto whimc aaowiT WRONG TO THE P.MV TO SETMY GIANT BAH OF DUNG BONNY THE PONG BEETLE. 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Brawley developed “reef balls” in the mid-1980s out of common sense. “For the most part, if you wanted to build artifi cial reefs, people would just dump tires or junk cars and things like that,” he said. “The way we looked at that is by putting those items in the ocean, that’s just trash in the ocean.” Brawley and his University roommates had a much more effective alternative to restore reef sys tems. By using natural materials to further the propagation of microorganisms and a concrete cast to withstand tidal currents, the Reef Ball Development Group and Reef Ball Foundation can preserve marine environments. “The ocean is like a nutrient-rich desert," Brawley said. “There’s lots of food in the water but it’s sand on the bottom. By putting in these reefs, we essentially create an underwater oasis for all these little spouts of life to start to grow.” But the artificial reefs which range in price from about $2,500 to $6,500 provide more than a habitat for turtles and fish. Every month, Brawley solemnly steers a charter boat bearing mourning strangers. While passengers nibble on snacks and sip bottled water, Brawley hands out fresh flowers and a miniature “tribute reef," slightly smaller than a soccer ball. As the boat rests silently still above a grave, Brawley begins to read a short passage from a speech by President John F. Kennedy, titled “The Sea” “We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea ... We are going back from whence we came,” he tells a somber crowd, empathizing with its grief. It has been more than 10 years since Brawley’s father-in-law, Carleton Palmer,, went back to the sea. Palmer was the real founder of Eternal Reefs. In 1998, after Palmer was diagnosed with cancer, he had dinner with Brawley to ask for a service he couldn’t receive anywhere else. “He said, ‘You know Don, I got a favor to ask you,”' Brawley said. “He said he wanted to spend The Daily Puzzle 1 2 3 7 8 rTBIT" 11 12 13 Hfl |||| 20 " * J' " Jj|§~ 23 ” Hjrzzzz M ~ JBBm - 34 35 M I - 4^ 44 “**“ """""" """"“ 4 13 ■■34 ““ SS ■■se 57 59 59 _ ■K r ~ -V “ m 68 Concludes 69 Way In DOWN 1 up; bound 2 Take apart 3 Arrestee's bond 4 Convert into symbols 5 Take back 6 Theatrical medley 7 Inspires with reverent wonder 6 For each 9 Attempting 10 Invalidated 11 Like bub bling hot water 12 Small mesa 13 Guide: direct 21 Each _j ! one another I 23 _ tide 25 Fore-and-aft! rigged sail- : boat 26 Out of ; Inharmoni ous 40 Cures 43 "My country tis of 45 Spirtjj 48 Interior 50 “In this," in a legal docu ment • 51 saw: electric cut ter 52 Unrefined 27 ‘...a par tridge in a I _ tree.” 28 Alleviate 29 Respond to a stimulus 32 Approaches 34 Assistant 35 Abel's broth er 36 Shade trees 38 Evaluated NEWS eternity down there with all that life excitement going on. And I never did think much about it at the time, but unfortunately he had cancer and he passed away two months later.” At the service, the fUneral director walked up to Brawley and handed him Palmer’s remains. “We got the remains and I put them on the shelf like many people when they get remains,” he said. Then Brawley was asked to do a project in Sarasota, Fla., and that’s when he remembered what to do. “We went down there and we added the remains into the casting process,” he said. “So many folks who choose cremation think they’re always told to scatter the remains. Well, families don’t feel right about that. They feel like they’re not giving their loving respect or due. They feel like they’re throw ing their loved ones away by scattering them.” Palmer’s ashes were the first to be molded in a nautical urn. “Really we’re in the closure business for the families who have had loved ones lost, and we’re facilitating it with the memorial reef,” Brawley said. “These are individuals, families and people who love the ocean for one reason or the other and have their final resting place be the ocean.” Eternal Reefs strives for solace in each crema tion memorial. Families are given a range of options to personalize their memorial. All reefs come with bronze plaques for custom-made epitaphs. Through the use of bronze, the plaque can resist seawater corrosion and remain intact for centuries. The arti ficial reef itself can last more than 500 years. Families can also place handprints or cherished items in the wet concrete. “I've seen them put wedding rings in the top portion [of the reef],” Brawley said. “Sometimes they’ll wait until the concrete hardens up a little bit and make little divots, like you would write in a concrete driveway.” Some common tokens of love include police and fireman badges, military mementos and letters. Brawley said one customer asked for Gumby and Pokey figures to decorate the reef. Even though Brawley said his business is about helping families find closure, Eternal Reefs imparts a rare, vast meaning to death by giving people the opportunity to make a difference after life. “The individual is creating a habitat for life to occur,” Brawley said. It may be dark and cold 60 feet under, but Palmer and hundreds of others are a piece of a flourishing ecosystem. 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But when it comes to climbing into the back seat of a stranger's taxi, most never think twice. Students may reconsid er, however, after the recent arrest of one Athens cab driver. Five Stars Taxi Cab driver Billy Joe Rut, 54, was charged with open container, driving on a sus pended license and failure to display a valid taxi per mit at 2:37 a.m. Monday. A passenger was in Rirr’s cab at the time of his arrest, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report. State Patrol Officers also arrested Furr on charges of involvement in a hit-and-run, the report states. Officers approached Rut after his taxi, which matched the description of a vehicle involved in an earlier hit-and-run, pulled into a parking lot on Oglethorpe Avenue. Furr was never able to produce a driver’s license and a check revealed it had been suspended for failure to appear, accord ing to the report. A State Patrol officer then tried to locate Rut’s permit to operate a taxi, but found none. However, he did find a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade “at the base of the driver’s seat,” accord ing to the report. Furr was transported to Clarke County Jail. Compiled by Jacob Demmitt SGA: Some say speech is hindered ► From Page 1 “I think the resolution serves as a blanket state ment imposing one opinion for the entire University,” he said. “We believe it’s hin dering free speech at the University of Georgia.” Though he said he isn’t against SGA being involved in political matters, Christensen said passing a resolution supporting Israel would make SGA inherently' unfair to AJP “It automatically makes the SGA biased and preju diced,” Christensen said. If the resolution is on the agenda for today's meeting, the group will attend and maybe give speeches, he said. AJP has also been circulating a peti tion among students against the resolution. Thompson reminded that a resolution is just a policy statement from SGA. “They’re not rules,” he said. “Our job is to make a statement and then try to change rules.”