Nirvino.com is a collection of wine reviews and wine ratings from certified wine critics around the world.

Nirvino.com is a collection of wine reviews and wine ratings from certified wine critics around the world. We attempt to catalog every review and rating available for the wines in our database. These reviews and ratings are then calculated into an overall score, The Nirvino Rating, for each wine. In addition Nirvino provides relevant information on appellations, grapes, vineyards, vintages, winemakers, wineries, wine stores, and other terroir.

What is the Nirvino Rating?
The Nirvino Rating is a representation of whether wine critics overall liked or disliked a particular wine. A wine is considered GOOD when 60% or more of the reviews for a wine are positive and BAD when lower than 60% are positive. To calculate whether an individual review is positive or not, each type of wine scoring system is taken into account:

Who are certified wine critics?
Certified wine critics are individuals or oganizations accredited by the wine industry or with the experience and number of reviews necessary to meet our guidelines. Please contact us for more information on our critic guidelines. To synopsize, the Nirvino Rating is calculated from an experienced and unbiased set of wine critics.

What are some of the other features at Nirvino?
- There are over 4802 wines and 469 reviews in our database.
- Detailed information on each wine from alcohol content to winemaker's notes.
- Standardized naming convention and label graphics for each wine.
- Google search of all our wines and other information.
- Browse for wines in our db by rating, price, region (appellation), grape (varietal), winery, winemaker, vintage, vineyard, and wine stores
- Ability to sort wines by rating, price, winery, title, and vintage.
- Wine critics pages with review and ratings history plus biographical information.
- Information on how often critics agree with each other.
- Detailed information on thousands of wineries, regions (appellations), vintages, grapes (varietals), winemakers, wine stores, and other terroir.

Recipe and Food Social Networking.

Group Recipes wants to be the world's neatest food site. From meeting other food lovers to nifty recipe predictions and taste compatibility, Group Recipes has your grub needs covered. The project's goal is to harness the tastebuds of the masses to create a really useful resource for food lovers.

What's all the jazz about?

* Discover great recipes in unique ways
* Create your own food page.
* Have "Roger" the Recipe Robot (aka Food Prediction Algorithm) learn about your tastes and predict recipes you will like or dislike.
* Show off your personal creations and get feedback as well as honors.
* Meet other foodies (aka food lovers) and see what kind of foods they are into.
* Share & Discover great places to eat in your home town.

CTI helps poor families process their harvested crops into nutritious food

CTI helps poor families process their harvested crops into nutritious food. We have developed several solutions to common processing challenges. Sometimes all that is needed is to protect the crop from pests or to dry the crop to extend its storage life. In other situations it may be necessary to disinfect water or to peel and slice the crops. In all cases our goal is to help people in developing countries make safe food and water, perhaps even more than their families need, so they can sell the excess in the local market.

CTI do this by

* Identifying a situation, usually in a developing country, where people need help making food or treating water,
* Finding appropriate food processing methods to use in that culture,
* Assessing the feasibility of selected methods in the economy and culture of the developing country,
* Selecting or designing simple devices needed to alleviate the most burdensome work or to safely store the food,
* Providing the training to ensure that that people know how to make safe, nutritious food,
* Monitoring the project to troubleshoot problems and measure outcomes.

Our goal is to select appropriate technologies that are safe, affordable, respect the environment, require little or no fuel and electricity, and are compatible with the culture of the users. Most of our technologies are sized for small villages, extended families, coops, or very small commercial users.