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Jonny Evans believes Northern Ireland are already entering now-or-never territory at Euro 2016 when they meet Ukraine in Lyon on Thursday.
Both Group C teams lost their opening fixture on Sunday to leave them trailing Poland and Germany by three points and, with Michael O'Neill's men facing the world champions in Paris in their final fixture, the clash with the Ukrainians has taken on extra significance.
"It would have been nice to take something from the (Poland) game but we know we can't lose (against Ukraine)," West Brom defender Evans said.
"Especially with going to Paris against Germany in the last game, they are going to dominate the game better than anyone.
"So it might be make or break for us against Ukraine on Thursday night and hopefully it makes for a good game."
O'Neill had always targeted the first two contests in France as defining for their prospects of reaching the last 16.
But, having left the Polish game empty-handed, failing to register a shot on target over the 90 minutes in the process, the onus is now on Northern Ireland to be more bold at the Stade de Lyon.
Evans also wants his colleagues to take heart from a 12-game unbeaten run that preceded the Poland result and a qualifying campaign that saw them become the first team drawn from pot five to top a group.
"We looked back at games in the past, how we got here, and we tried to emulate that," the 28-year-old added.
"The most important thing was to try and take something from the game and it was disappointing that we didn't.
"It's put us in a position now that we have to maybe go for it.
"You might see a different game on Thursday, you might not.
"I'm sure we'll analyse the game, see where we can be better and see what we can improve on."
Defying the odds has been the hallmark of this team, who are the first from their country to reach a European Championships and the first in three decades to feature in a major tournament.
And Evans has not lost hope that there are more chapters to come in their tale as they bid to advance to the knock-out stages.
"There were times in the qualifying campaign when things looked to be slipping away from us and we managed to produce something," he acknowledged.
"I still think we have a lot of belief that we can produce something.
"I think you'll definitely see an improved performance on Thursday night."


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Mayor Chris Beutler today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for October to City Recycling Coordinator Gene Hanlon from the Public Works and Utilities Department. The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Hanlon has been an employee of the City since 1987. He was nominated twice in the last three months for his recycling efforts during the Special Olympics USA National Games in Lincoln this summer. He was nominated by Superintendent of Solid Waste Operations Karla Welding and Utilities Laboratory Supervisor Jorge Samayoa in the categories of productivity and customer relations.
Hanlon began planning the effort a year before the event. He worked with Keep Lincoln and Lancaster County Beautiful, the Lincoln Public Schools, UNL Landscape Services and the Mayor's Office to develop a solid waste management plan for the week-long event. The goals were to divert 67 percent of the waste from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the Olympic Village; to divert 50 percent of the waste at all other events; and to designate all locations as litter-free. A green team of volunteers was formed to remove litter on a continuous basis. Hanlon's committee visited every venue to develop a recycling plan for each site.
About 670 recycling containers were used during the Games to collect traditional recyclables and organic materials as well as food waste. That includes 315 portable containers purchased with $21,000 in grant funds from the State Department of Environmental Quality. These containers are now available for loan to local organizations and businesses at no cost.
The 230 green team volunteers worked more than 2,000 hours. They kept more than 15,000 pounds of bottles and cans, 24,000 pounds of cardboard and paper, and 9,000 pounds of compostable items out of the landfill. Samayoa, one of the volunteers, wrote, "It was because of Gene's efforts and excellent leadership skills and dedication that we, as a team, were able to accomplish the task of separating recyclables from regular landfill trash and compost items."
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are loss prevention, safety and valor. Consideration also may be given to nominations that demonstrate self-initiated accomplishments or those completed outside of the nominee's job description. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected and appointed officials. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: personnel) or from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.

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"Red Chapel" chronicles the journey of documentarian Mads Brügger, as he uses two Danish-Koreans, one a comedian, the other a self-identifying "spastic," as decoys so he can bring his cameras into Kim Jong-il's notorious Hermit Kingdom and uncover the horrors of life in North Korea.
As is so often the case with documentaries, "The Red Chapel" succeeds mostly on the strength of its subject matter, but Brugger is to be commended for the clever, if morally dubious, charade he has concocted, getting two fellow Danes of Korean heritage to pretend to be a comedy troupe that is eager to visit their motherland.
Jacob Nussell is the "spastic" half of The Red Chapel, the name Brugger gives his faux comedy troupe in homage to a long ago Communist spy cell. Nussell, who presumably suffers from cerebral palsy, is an otherwise perfectly normal, bright, funny kid who just happens to lack the finer motor function of the unafflicted. But in North Korea, where children with most any disability quietly disappear, Jacob is a heartbreaking oddity who brings out the mother in any woman over the age of 40.
The main victim of this emotional manipulation is Mrs. Pak, the middle-aged North Korean guide/minder/watchdog—" the caretaker of the virtual reality," Brugger calls her--assigned by the local government to The Red Chapel. Watching the woman discuss her loyalty to the state or Kim, it's hard to tell if she has drank the Kool-Aid or is just following orders to stay alive. It's truly, deeply sad.
To Brugger's credit, he acknowledges that he's using Jacob just as much as the North Koreans are, but insists that he's doing so for good and with Jacob's full consent and participation. It may be a rationalization, but the man has a point, and unless you turn away, you're complicit in his trespass.
Simon Jul Jørgensen is the other half of The Red Chapel, a beefy, easygoing, guitar-playing tattooed kid. When a representative of the state sees a rehearsal of the show The Red Chapel intends to perform for a North Korean audience, he guts it of anything distinctly Danish and structures the action to hide as much as possible any hint of Jacob's disability. Needless to say, both kids are pissed.
The film's primary weakness is that Brugger is so aggressive in his constant condemnation of Kim and North Korea. Yes, Kim is a monster, and North Korea has been home to unconscionable crimes against humanity. But the film is so much more effective when it follows the age old maxim "show, don't tell." Perhaps no moment captures this better than when the camera is trained on a group of small children who just keep clapping and clapping with rictus-like smiles on their faces. Bu the scary power of the moment is lost the moment Brugger's narration points out the creepiness.
Despite Brugger's over-the-top commentary, the film is still a fascinating, bleak, sad and humorous peek at what goes on in a totalitarian nation. As Brugger notes, "Comedy is the soft spot of all dictatorships."
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The sizzling heat will first hit parts of the central U.S. during the latter half of the week and will then spread toward the Northeast and mid-Atlantic later this week into the weekend, according to weather.com. Heat alerts have been extended to parts of 21 states, including Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois.
Starting Friday, major cities along the eastern seaboard, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City could experience highs in the upper 90s to close to 100 degrees. The nation's capital hasn't had 100-degree weather since July 2012, weather.com said.
About 200 million people will experience 90-degree temperatures or higher, while 130 million will take in heat indices of 100 degrees or higher, according to meteorologists.


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Mark Hamill wants 'whole gang' in Star Wars 7
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Mark Hamill wants to get the "whole gang" of original actors to appear in the initial 'Star Wars' trilogy to be in the planned new film
Mark Hamill wants to get the "whole gang" of original actors to appear in the new 'Star Wars' film.
The star and many of the cast from the first film in the iconic series - 'Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope', released in 1977 - have been approached to appear in the seventh instalment, and he hopes to get them all on board.
Mark told US TV show Entertainment Tonight: "I said to George [Lucas, Star Wars creator] I wanted to go back to the way it was.
"And another thing I'd want to make sure of is, are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie [Fisher] and Harrison [Ford] and Billy Dee [Williams] and Tony Daniels, everybody that's around from the original returning?
"I want to make sure that everybody's on board here, rather than just one."
'Star Wars' was filmed as episodes IV, V and VI between 1977 and 1983, then a trilogy of prequels were made between 1999 and 2005. Harrison Ford has reportedly already signed up to reprise his role of Hans Solo.
Mark - who played the lead role of Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy - added he hadn't signed a contract to appear in the new film, to be directed by J.J. Abrams, but is set to have a meeting with its writers.
He said: "They're talking to us. George wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.
"I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts. We're in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm.
"Both have had meetings set that were postponed - on their end, not mine. They're more busy than I am."
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Welcome to Lycoming County Genealogical Society
The Lycoming County Genealogical Society, Inc. (LCGS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouragement of research, publication, collection and preservation of genealogical materials. Our members work hard toward the improvement of genealogical research and publication.
The LCGS Library is located within the Thomas Taber Museum, also the home of the Lycoming County Historical Society, on Millionaire's Row in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Newest additions - Orphans Court Docket Index and Will Book Index. We have copies of these books in our library. Go to the Resources page to access the index. We will scan and send you a copy for only $1 each. To pay, just use the donation button
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Building Things the World Has Never Seen Before
Will she come or will she cancel at the last minute? She has already made it clear that she will only stay for half an hour and will give no exclusive interviews. If reports and anecdotes are anything to go by, Zaha Hadid is the pop star of the architecture world and just as capricious as her designs, those built sculptures that seem oblivious to the laws of gravity.
Her designs are statically perfect structures that give the appearance of being dangerously instable because they are unexpected and like nothing the world has ever seen before. Hadid's drawings and models of such post-modern structures became famous even when they were still considered "unbuildable".
The first Hadid building to be constructed was the Vitra fire station in Weil am Rhein, a small town on the German-Swiss border, in 1993. Ever since, visitors to Art Basel have often used their lunch breaks to take a trip over the border to see Hadid's first work.
A designer who knows no borders
All of a sudden she arrives and confirms all the clichés. It's all there: the stilettos, the black designer clothes, the permanent fiddling with her mobile phone, the reverent entourage of young project managers, and an aura that can switch from charm to arrogance to latent irritation to open hostility within seconds.
The appeal of all this may be limited, but the impressive overview of the world built by Hadid over the past 15 years – a 30-minute video shown at the conference – certainly makes up for it. We see objects, interiors, stage designs, exhibition architecture, railway stations, hotels, museums, and industrial complexes.
This "architect" is undoubtedly a designer who knows no borders. For her, the delineation of art, architecture, and design is as fluid as that of research, tuition, and practical work. She would transform the entire world according to her designs if one would only let her.
Late starter
Now 56 years of age, Hadid's first buildings came late in life. The daughter of an entrepreneur and opposition politician, Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad in 1950 and moved to London in the late 1970s. She studied at the renowned Architectural Association School of Architecture and after only three months in Rem Koolhaas' OMA-Office founded her own office in 1980.
She gained notoriety with her exhibition design for the MOMA show for Dekonstruktivis (1988) and then created a variety of spacy interior designs, for example for a restaurant in Japan. She finally began winning competitions in the 1990s and found both public and private clients the world over.
Symbolically, her "Mind Zone" for the Millennium Dome in London marked the beginning of the global Hadid construction boom of the past few years. Among others, her designs for a tram station in Strasbourg, a bridge in Abu Dhabi, a university in Mexico, a ferry terminal in Salerno, the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, and the first museum for contemporary art in Rome have been implemented since 2000.
Her most famous buildings demonstrate what makes her designs so unique: Hadid builds as if she was reinventing the art of building. The Bergisel ramp near Innsbruck was opened in 2002: this 90-metre long concrete and steel structure stretches up into the sky like an elegant dinosaur neck while the spectacular café and viewing terrace, both 40 m above the ground, give visitors a breathtaking view of ski jumpers in mid air.
A symbiosis of two worlds
Her goal is to achieve the best possible combination of function and form, while simultaneously meeting technical, social, and aesthetic requirements. Two recent examples of this creed can be found in Germany, currently the country with the highest density of Hadid buildings. The Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg opened its doors in 2005.
The new headquarters of the BMW plant in Leipzig, which employs 650 people, was also opened in 2005 and has since won numerous awards. What made Hadid's BMW plant design so innovative was the fact that she did away with the traditional separation of planning, production, and administration. The headquarters are hinge, interface, and brain in one; the point at which all production and communication flows within the factory converge.
In architectural terms this means that Hadid did away with exclusive areas and designed an open space office with an open canteen for all employees. Over the heads of the diners, car parts sail along on conveyor belts on their way from the chassis production unit to the paint shop and then back again for final assembly. In social terms, this means the symbiosis of two worlds and status groups: blue and white collar workers sitting and working side by side.
The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize
Zaha Hadid is currently at the zenith of her success. Her construction projects have reached the dimension of master plans for entire urban residential and industrial complexes. Examples include "One North" in Singapore (currently under construction), "Zorrozaurre" in Bilbao, "Olebeaga" in Spain, "Soho City" in Beijing, or her most recent competition winner, the Kartal Masterplan in Istanbul.
The press package lists thirty prizes and awards, including the so-called "Nobel Prize for Architecture", the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which she became the first woman to win in 2004. She also lectures in London, Harvard, at Columbia University, and is currently a professor in Vienna and Yale. In 2006, the Guggenheim New York held an extensive retrospective of her work. Meanwhile her objects, models, and drawings are selling like hot cakes on the art market.
The Hadid video ends with a view of her "ideal house" for the Cologne Furniture Fair, where the architecture is appearing as a designer. After all, "for me, architecture and design are one and the same".
When her colleague Naoto Fukasawa links up to the press conference by video from Japan, he gives his view of the star architect's daring visions with typical Asian politeness. By that time, Zaha Hadid has already left the building. Things to do, people to see …
Melanie Weidemüller
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Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan
Zaha Hadid
The First Woman to Win the "Nobel Prize of Architecture"
Baghdad-born British creator Zaha Hadid, known for her path-breaking designs that have energized the art of building, is the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award which was awarded on 31 May. By Sonia Phalnikar
Portait Hassan Fathy
"Architecture for the Poor"
Hasan Fathy, the most eminent Egyptian architect of the 20th century, was always controversial in his native country and little known beyond its borders. A portrait of the artist by Ingeborg Flagge
Rasem Badran's Architecture
Building in Context
An architecture exhibition in Germany shows works by Rasem Badran, one of the most influential architects in the Arab world. Youssef Hijazi introduces the artist


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New York (Reuters Health) - On any given day in the U.S., 18 percent of men and 11 percent of women drink more alcohol than federal dietary guidelines recommend, according to a new study that also finds 8 percent of men and 3 percent of women are full-fledged "heavy" drinkers.
That still means the great majority of Americans stay within the advised limit of two drinks a day for men, and one for women.
"And in fact, most adults don't drink at all on any given day. But the fact remains that it is a significant public health problem that many people do drink in excess," said Patricia Guenther, the lead study author and a nutritionist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.
Guenther said members of the committee that drafted the current USDA guidelines on alcohol consumption wanted to know how many adults exceeded the limits.
She and her colleagues collected data from a nationally representative survey on health and nutrition, which included about 5,400 adults over age 21. Among other things, each was asked how much alcohol they drank the previous day.
The researchers found that 64 percent of men and 79 percent of women said they drank no alcohol at all that day, and another 18 percent of men and 10 percent of women drank within the recommended amounts.
Nine percent of men said they had three to four drinks the day before and 8 percent of women said they drank two to three alcoholic beverages, the researchers report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The heaviest drinkers of all were the 8 percent of men who had five or more drinks, and 3 percent of women who had four or more.
"Overall the study confirms that rates of unhealthy alcohol use in the U.S. are significant," said Jennifer Mertens, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, who was not involved in the study.
Regularly drinking more than recommended levels "is linked to increased alcohol-related problems," Mertens wrote in an email to Reuters Health.
"Binge drinking (more than four drinks on any one day for men and more than three on any one day for women and older adults) even one time can increase the risk of injury from falls, motor vehicle accidents, and other accidents," she added.
Among men, the 31-to-50-year-old age group had the most heavy drinkers - 22 percent. Among women, the heaviest drinkers - 12 percent - were between 51 and 70 years old.
Guenther said that's important to note because it highlights that heavy drinking is not just part of life among the college-age set.
"People need to be aware that there are people of all ages who drink to excess," she told Reuters Health.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed advisory group, urges health care providers to screen all adults for risky drinking behaviors (see Reuters Health story of September 24, 2012 here: reut.rs/Vz4Fpp).
Guenther said her team's study is also important in that it may help people recognize whether they themselves are drinking more than recommended.
"There are people who don't realize that they are drinking more than what's beneficial to their health," she said.
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April 26, 2005 • Posted By Shaun Lyon
The Mind Robber starring Patrick Troughton and Horror of Fang Rockstarring Tom Baker are the next two DVD releases to be confirmed for North American release, as first reported on the TV Shows on DVD website. The cover illustrations as displayed on that site are seen below. The two DVDs will likely be released in early September 2005 on the usual three-month release schedule; "The Leisure Hive" and "Ghost Light" are due out in June. Once details are released by Warner Home Video we'll have more details, including confirmed release dates, and high-quality cover scans. (Thanks to David Lambert at TV Shows on DVD and everyone who let us know!)


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Novel coronavirus infection - update
26 March 2013 - The Robert Koch Institute informed WHO of a new confirmed case of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
The patient was a 73-year-old male from United Arab Emirates, who was transferred from a hospital in Abu Dhabi to Munich by air ambulance on 19 March 2013. He died on 26 March 2013.
In the United Kingdom, the index patient in the family cluster reported on 11 February 2013 with travel history to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia prior to his illness, has died.
To date, WHO has been informed of a global total of 17 confirmed cases of human infection with nCoV, including 11 deaths.
Based on the current situation and available information, WHO encourages all Member States (MS) to continue their surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and to carefully review any unusual patterns. WHO is currently working with international experts and countries where cases have been reported to assess the situation and review recommendations for surveillance and monitoring.
All MS are reminded to promptly assess and notify WHO of any new case of infection with nCoV, along with information about potential exposures that may have resulted in infection and a description of the clinical course.
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If you're clued-up on math equations, lend your eye to Google's video down below, and see what it took for chancer Sylvain to win one of the CR-48 laptops. Flunked math? Nevermind, you should watch it anyway!
Apparently once the equation was solved (it spells out "speed and destroy" for those unable to add and subtract), Sylvain added it to Google's URL shortener goo.gl, which then took him to a site where he could claim a free Cr-48 laptop for himself.
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ABC Family to Air Award-Winning Drama in Fall 2010
Burbank, CA (May 25, 2010) - ABC Family has acquired the basic cable television rights to the Emmy(R) Award-winning television series "Friday Night Lights," in a deal with NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, it was announced today by Tom Zappala, Executive Vice President, Program Acquisitions & Scheduling, ABC Cable Networks Group, and Frances Manfredi, Executive Vice President/General Sales Manager, Cable and Non-Theatrical Sales for NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution.
The deal gives ABC Family the rights to five seasons of the critically acclaimed series. ABC Family is tentatively set to begin airing the series' first season in September 2010. The fourth season of "Friday Night Lights" is currently airing on NBC (Fridays, 8 p.m. ET/PT.)
"We're thrilled to add NBC's critically-acclaimed series 'Friday Night Lights' to the mix of our defining original and quality acquired series," said Zappala. "The series is beloved by critics and viewers, and fits in perfectly with ABC Family's blend of optimistic, heartfelt programming."
"'Friday Night Lights' is a perfect fit for ABC Family's sensibility for the modern day family program," said Bruce Casino, Senior Vice President Cable & Ancillary Sales NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution. "ABC Family will introduce this award-winning show to a whole new audience segment where the series can thrive in its new environment."
Expanding on the hit feature film and best-selling book "Friday Night Lights," the award-winning show centers on life in Dillon, Texas, where high school football brings the community together -- and the drama of small town life threatens to tear it apart. The series debuted on October 3, 2006 on NBC. Beginning in October 2008, the third and fourth season of the drama began airing on satellite provider DirecTV's The 101 Network and rebroadcast on NBC.
Hailed as one of the top ten shows by such publications as Time magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times and TV Guide, "Friday Night Lights" also has been honored three times (2006/2007/2009) as an American Film Institute (AFI) Television Program of the Year, received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in 2006 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series in 2007.
The series is executive-produced by Peter Berg (the film "Friday Night Lights," "Hancock"), who also wrote and directed the pilot. Joining Berg as executive producers are Jason Katims ("Parenthood"), Brian Grazer ("Frost/Nixon," "The Da Vinci Code"), David Nevins ("Arrested Development") and Sarah Aubrey ("The Kingdom"). "Friday Night Lights" is a production of Universal Media Studios, Imagine Entertainment and Film 44.
About Disney-ABC Television Group, ABC Family:
Part of the Disney-ABC Television Group, ABC Family is distributed in over 98 million homes. ABC Family features programming reflecting today's families, entertaining and connecting with adults through relatable programming about today's relationships - told with a mix of diversity, dysfunction, passion, humor and heart. ABC Family's programming is a combination of network defining original series and original movies, quality acquired series and blockbuster theatricals. ABC Family is also the destination for annual Holiday events with "13 Nights of Halloween" and "25 Days of Christmas!" ABC Family. A New Kind of Family.
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The NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution division is responsible for the distribution of NBC Universal product to all forms of television within the U.S. and Canada. This includes distribution of current and library film and television product, including formats and non-scripted programming, in the pay, free, and basic markets, as well as the domestic syndication of first-run syndicated TV programs and theatrical and TV movie packages.
Current first-run strip syndicated programming at NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution includes Access Hollywood, Deal or No Deal, The Jerry Springer Show, The Martha Stewart Show, Maury and The Steve Wilkos Show. Current first-run weekly syndicated programming includes The Chris Matthews Show, The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo and the off-network distribution of 30 Rock, Heroes, House, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Office, The Real Housewives franchise and much more.


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EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS! Alleged Mistress Brittney Jones Goes On Record — Ashton & Demi Have An Open Marriage!
After fighting off rumors of infidelity and an impending divorce, Ashton Kutcher's alleged mistress, Brittney Jones claims that his marriage to Demi Moore isn't as exclusive as the couple makes it out to be.
Poor Ashton Kutcher, he chose the wrong girl with whom to allegedly fool around . The 21-year-old aspiring chef, Brittney Jones, is at it again, going on record with Star magazine — and this time pointing the finger at Ashton and Demi Moore, claiming that her tryst with Ashton was just his taking advantage of the couple's open marriage policy.
"Ashton said he and Demi have an open relationship and have threesomes often," she said. "I didn't feel at all like he had just cheated on his wife. It felt normal and OK."
When news about Ashton's cheating scandal broke , everyone assumed Demi, 47, would be devastated that Ashton, 32, had allegedly broken his marriage vows and that the couple's 5- year union might be over, but according to Brittney, Demi is actually upset over her own lack of involvement.
"He said they share women, but he isn't supposed to go off and sleep with women on his own," she told Star. "He said Demi had to be there and that Demi likes to pick the girls out."
While Brittney thought she could be Ashton's girlfriend on the side, he quickly squashed that possibility. "He explained that he and Demi had a deal where they had to share lovers. He felt bad that he had been with me and didn't share," she claimed.
Ashton and Demi have vehemently denied Brittney's cheating allegations which she's continued to make for several weeks in a row.
What do you think of these recent developments? Sound off below!


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With iOS 6, Apple is replacing the previous, Google-powered Maps app on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, with a completely redesigned, re-rendered, and re-imagined Maps app. The data itself is supplied by TomTom, but Apple has draw all the maps, and while they've lost some features, like Street View, they're adding new ones, like turn-by-turn navigation
Rumor has it, Apple's been wanting to add turn-by-turn for a while now, but Google would only give it to them if Apple took the location-tracking Latitude feature as well. Apple declined. Now, in command of their own geo-destiny, Apple will soon be providing free navigation for one and all, and thanks to Siri on the iPhone 4S and future devices, it'll have full on voice directions as well.
Here's how Apple describes it:
Find your way to your destination using turn-by-turn spoken directions, a 3D view, and real-time traffic information. As you approach a turn, Maps speaks directions, so you can keep your eyes on the road. In addition, the screen turns into a 3D perspective view of the road ahead. Large signs and arrows superimposed over the image show you which way to go and how long it's going to take to get there — even if your screen is locked. As you approach a turn, the camera angle changes dynamically to show you where to go. If you miss a turn, don't worry. Maps automatically reroutes you and updates your ETA.
Based on what Apple's shown off so far, here are the features:
- From any location in the Maps app, tap on the Quick Route button to start turn-by-turn navigation.
- You can also just ask Siri to tell you how to get where you want to go, and it will launch you into Maps and turn-by-turn.
- Once Maps knows where you want to go, it will start navigating you there, with the Siri voice providing audio directions.
- You'll be able to monitor your estimated time of arrival (ETA) right from the navigation screen.
- Maps will monitor traffic and, if it slows down or a problem arrises, will try and re-route you around it.
- Turn-by-turn navigation will have access to the Lock screen, so you can keep getting directions even when out of the Maps app.
- Using Siri, you can also ask for point-of-interest information, like where gas stations and stores are located.
Apple's finely crafted, vector map tiles, exquisite turn-by-turn interface, and Siri powering it all, makes for an excellent, if online-only solution. Still, for quickly finding your way somewhere, and even more quickly finding places on the way, iOS 6 Maps should be just what the navigator ordered.
iOS 6 is scheduled for release this fall, perhaps as soon as September 19. For more on iOS 6 and Siri, check out:
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For $\lambda$ any partition and $n$ a positive integer, write $\lambda[n]$ for the sequence $(n - |\lambda|, \lambda_1, \lambda_2, \ldots, \lambda_r)$. For $n$ large enough, this is a partition of $n$.
The irreducible representations of $S_n$ are indexed by partitions of $n$; we denote them by $S_{\lambda}$. The Kronecker coefficients $g_{\lambda \mu}^{\nu}$ are defined by the equality $$S_{\lambda} \otimes S_{\mu} \cong \bigoplus g_{\lambda \mu}^{\nu} S_{\nu}$$ of $S_n$ representations.
It is a theorem of Murnaghan that $g_{\lambda[n] \mu[n]}^{\nu[n]}$ becomes constant as $n \to \infty$. This constant value is called the stable Kronecker coefficient, and denoted $\overline{g}_{\lambda \mu}^{\nu}$. It is also a result of Murnaghan that, for given $\lambda$ and $\mu$, there are only finitely many $\nu$ for which $\overline{g}_{\lambda \mu}^{\nu} \neq 0$.
Therefore, we can define a commutative, associative ring to be spanned by the generators $\overline{S}_{\lambda}$, with relations $$\overline{S}_{\lambda} \overline{S}_{\mu} = \sum \overline{g}_{\lambda \mu}^{\nu} \overline{S}_{\nu}.$$
I'll call this the stable Kronecker ring.
I can prove that the stable Kronecker ring is isomorphic to the ring of symmetric functions. Is this fact already in the literature?


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Dear Mr. President-Elect,
It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much thought to, at least since the Nixon administration — the last time high
Complicating matters is the fact that the price and abundance of food are not the only problems we face; if they were, you could simply follow Nixon's example, appoint a latter-day Earl Butz as your secretary of agriculture and instruct him or her to do whatever it takes to boost production. But there are reasons to think that the old approach won't work this time around; for one thing, it depends on cheap energy that we can no longer count on. For another, expanding production of industrial agriculture today would require you to sacrifice important values on which you did campaign. Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or
After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy — 19 percent. And while the experts disagree about the exact amount, the way we feed ourselves contributes more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than anything else we do — as much as 37 percent, according to one study. Whenever farmers clear land for crops and till the soil, large quantities of carbon are released into the air. But the 20th-century industrialization of agriculture has increased the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the food system by an order of magnitude; chemical fertilizers (made from natural gas),
In addition to the problems of climate change and America's oil addiction, you have spoken at length on the campaign trail of the health care crisis. Spending on health care has risen from 5 percent of national income in 1960 to 16 percent today, putting a significant drag on the economy. The goal of ensuring the health of all Americans depends on getting those costs under control. There are several reasons health care has gotten so expensive, but one of the biggest, and perhaps most tractable, is the cost to the system of preventable chronic diseases. Four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to
The impact of the American food system on the rest of the world will have implications for your foreign and trade policies as well. In the past several months more than 30 nations have experienced food riots, and so far one government has fallen. Should high grain prices persist and shortages develop, you can expect to see the pendulum shift decisively away from free trade, at least in food. Nations that opened their markets to the global flood of cheap grain (under pressure from previous administrations as well as the
Rich or poor, countries struggling with soaring food prices are being forcibly reminded that food is a national-security issue. When a nation loses the ability to substantially feed itself, it is not only at the mercy of global commodity markets but of other governments as well. At issue is not only the availability of food, which may be held hostage by a hostile state, but its safety: as recent scandals in
This, in brief, is the bad news: the food and agriculture policies you've inherited — designed to maximize production at all costs and relying on cheap energy to do so — are in shambles, and the need to address the problems they have caused is acute. The good news is that the twinned crises in food and energy are creating a political environment in which real reform of the food system may actually be possible for the first time in a generation. The American people are paying more attention to food today than they have in decades, worrying not only about its price but about its safety, its provenance and its healthfulness. There is a gathering sense among the public that the industrial-food system is broken. Markets for alternative kinds of food — organic, local, pasture-based, humane — are thriving as never before. All this suggests that a political constituency for change is building and not only on the left: lately, conservative voices have also been raised in support of reform. Writing of the movement back to
There are many moving parts to the new food agenda I'm urging you to adopt, but the core idea could not be simpler: we need to wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine. True, this is easier said than done — fossil fuel is deeply implicated in everything about the way we currently grow food and feed ourselves. To put the food system back on sunlight will require policies to change how things work at every link in the food chain: in the farm field, in the way food is processed and sold and even in the American kitchen and at the American dinner table. Yet the sun still shines down on our land every day, and photosynthesis can still work its wonders wherever it does. If any part of the modern economy can be freed from its dependence on oil and successfully resolarized, surely it is food.
How We Got Here
Before setting out an agenda for reforming the food system, it's important to understand how that system came to be — and also to appreciate what, for all its many problems, it has accomplished. What our food system does well is precisely what it was designed to do, which is to produce cheap calories in great abundance. It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, fries and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage — indeed, in the long sweep of history, this represents a remarkable achievement.
It must be recognized that the current food system — characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table — is not simply the product of the free market. Rather, it is the product of a specific set of government policies that sponsored a shift from solar (and human) energy on the farm to fossil-fuel energy.
Did you notice when you flew over
This did not occur by happenstance. After World War II, the government encouraged the conversion of the munitions industry to fertilizer — ammonium nitrate being the main ingredient of both bombs and chemical fertilizer — and the conversion of nerve-gas research to pesticides. The government also began subsidizing commodity crops, paying farmers by the bushel for all the corn, soybeans, wheat and rice they could produce. One secretary of agriculture after another implored them to plant "fence row to fence row" and to "get big or get out."
The chief result, especially after the Earl Butz years, was a flood of cheap grain that could be sold for substantially less than it cost farmers to grow because a government check helped make up the difference. As this artificially cheap grain worked its way up the food chain, it drove down the price of all the calories derived from that grain: the high-fructose corn syrup in the Coke, the soy oil in which the potatoes were fried, the meat and cheese in the burger.
Subsidized monocultures of grain also led directly to monocultures of animals: since factory farms could buy grain for less than it cost farmers to grow it, they could now fatten animals more cheaply than farmers could. So America's meat and dairy animals migrated from farm to feedlot, driving down the price of animal protein to the point where an American can enjoy eating, on average, 190 pounds of meat a year — a half pound every day.
But if taking the animals off farms made a certain kind of economic sense, it made no ecological sense whatever: their waste, formerly regarded as a precious source of fertility on the farm, became a pollutant — factory farms are now one of America's biggest sources of pollution. As Wendell Berry has tartly observed, to take animals off farms and put them on feedlots is to take an elegant solution — animals replenishing the fertility that crops deplete — and neatly divide it into two problems: a fertility problem on the farm and a pollution problem on the feedlot. The former problem is remedied with fossil-fuel fertilizer; the latter is remedied not at all.
What was once a regional food economy is now national and increasingly global in scope — thanks again to fossil fuel. Cheap energy — for trucking food as well as pumping water — is the reason
Whatever we may have liked about the era of cheap, oil-based food, it is drawing to a close. Even if we were willing to continue paying the environmental or public-health price, we're not going to have the cheap energy (or the water) needed to keep the system going, much less expand production. But as is so often the case, a crisis provides opportunity for reform, and the current food crisis presents opportunities that must be seized.
In drafting these proposals, I've adhered to a few simple principles of what a 21st-century food system needs to do. First, your administration's food policy must strive to provide a healthful diet for all our people; this means focusing on the quality and diversity (and not merely the quantity) of the calories that American agriculture produces and American eaters consume. Second, your policies should aim to improve the resilience, safety and security of our food supply. Among other things, this means promoting regional food economies both in America and around the world. And lastly, your policies need to reconceive agriculture as part of the solution to environmental problems like climate change.
These goals are admittedly ambitious, yet they will not be difficult to align or advance as long as we keep in mind this One Big Idea: most of the problems our food system faces today are because of its reliance on fossil fuels, and to the extent that our policies wring the oil out of the system and replace it with the energy of the sun, those policies will simultaneously improve the state of our health, our environment and our security.
I. Resolarizing the American Farm
What happens in the field influences every other link of the food chain on up to our meals — if we grow monocultures of corn and soy, we will find the products of processed corn and soy on our plates. Fortunately for your initiative, the federal government has enormous leverage in determining exactly what happens on the 830 million acres of American crop and pasture land.
Today most government farm and food programs are designed to prop up the old system of maximizing production from a handful of subsidized commodity crops grown in monocultures. Even food-assistance programs like WIC and school lunch focus on maximizing quantity rather than quality, typically specifying a minimum number of calories (rather than maximums) and seldom paying more than lip service to nutritional quality. This focus on quantity may have made sense in a time of food scarcity, but today it gives us a school-lunch program that feeds chicken nuggets and Tater Tots to overweight and diabetic children.
Your challenge is to take control of this vast federal machinery and use it to drive a transition to a new solar-food economy, starting on the farm. Right now, the government actively discourages the farmers it subsidizes from growing healthful, fresh food: farmers receiving crop subsidies are prohibited from growing "specialty crops" — farm-bill speak for fruits and vegetables. (This rule was the price exacted by California and
The power of cleverly designed polycultures to produce large amounts of food from little more than soil, water and sunlight has been proved, not only by small-scale "alternative" farmers in the United States but also by large rice-and-fish farmers in China and giant-scale operations (up to 15,000 acres) in places like
Federal policies could do much to encourage this sort of diversified sun farming. Begin with the subsidies: payment levels should reflect the number of different crops farmers grow or the number of days of the year their fields are green — that is, taking advantage of photosynthesis, whether to grow food, replenish the soil or control erosion. If Midwestern farmers simply planted a cover crop after the fall harvest, they would significantly reduce their need for fertilizer, while cutting down on soil erosion. Why don't farmers do this routinely? Because in recent years fossil-fuel-based fertility has been so much cheaper and easier to use than sun-based fertility.
In addition to rewarding farmers for planting cover crops, we should make it easier for them to apply compost to their fields — a practice that improves not only the fertility of the soil but also its ability to hold water and therefore withstand drought. (There is mounting evidence that it also boosts the nutritional quality of the food grown in it.) The U.S.D.A. estimates that Americans throw out 14 percent of the food they buy; much more is wasted by retailers, wholesalers and institutions. A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.
Right now, most of the conservation programs run by the U.S.D.A. are designed on the zero-sum principle: land is either locked up in "conservation" or it is farmed intensively. This either-or approach reflects an outdated belief that modern farming and ranching are inherently destructive, so that the best thing for the environment is to leave land untouched. But we now know how to grow crops and graze animals in systems that will support biodiversity, soil health, clean water and carbon sequestration. The Conservation Stewardship Program, championed by Senator
But that is probably a 50-year project. For today's agriculture to wean itself from fossil fuel and make optimal use of sunlight, crop plants and animals must once again be married on the farm — as in Wendell Berry's elegant "solution." Sunlight nourishes the grasses and grains, the plants nourish the animals, the animals then nourish the soil, which in turn nourishes the next season's grasses and grains. Animals on pasture can also harvest their own feed and dispose of their own waste — all without our help or fossil fuel.
If this system is so sensible, you might ask, why did it succumb to Confined Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs? In fact there is nothing inherently efficient or economical about raising vast cities of animals in confinement. Three struts, each put into place by federal policy, support the modern CAFO, and the most important of these — the ability to buy grain for less than it costs to grow it — has just been kicked away. The second strut is F.D.A. approval for the routine use of
It will be argued that moving animals off feedlots and back onto farms will raise the price of meat. It probably will — as it should. You will need to make the case that paying the real cost of meat, and therefore eating less of it, is a good thing for our health, for the environment, for our dwindling reserves of fresh water and for the welfare of the animals. Meat and milk production represent the food industry's greatest burden on the environment; a recent
It will be argued that sun-food agriculture will generally yield less food than fossil-fuel agriculture. This is debatable. The key question you must be prepared to answer is simply this: Can the sort of sustainable agriculture you're proposing feed the world?
There are a couple of ways to answer this question. The simplest and most honest answer is that we don't know, because we haven't tried. But in the same way we now need to learn how to run an industrial economy without cheap fossil fuel, we have no choice but to find out whether sustainable agriculture can produce enough food. The fact is, during the past century, our agricultural research has been directed toward the goal of maximizing production with the help of fossil fuel. There is no reason to think that bringing the same sort of resources to the development of more complex, sun-based agricultural systems wouldn't produce comparable yields. Today's organic farmers, operating for the most part without benefit of public investment in research, routinely achieve 80 to 100 percent of conventional yields in grain and, in drought years, frequently exceed conventional yields. (This is because organic soils better retain moisture.) Assuming no further improvement, could the world — with a population expected to peak at 10 billion — survive on these yields?
First, bear in mind that the average yield of world agriculture today is substantially lower than that of modern sustainable farming. According to a recent
The second point to bear in mind is that yield isn't everything — and growing high-yield commodities is not quite the same thing as growing food. Much of what we're growing today is not directly eaten as food but processed into low-quality calories of fat and sugar. As the world epidemic of diet-related chronic disease has demonstrated, the sheer quantity of calories that a food system produces improves health only up to a point, but after that, quality and diversity are probably more important. We can expect that a food system that produces somewhat less food but of a higher quality will produce healthier populations.
The final point to consider is that 40 percent of the world's grain output today is fed to animals; 11 percent of the world's corn and soybean crop is fed to cars and trucks, in the form of biofuels. Provided the developed world can cut its consumption of grain-based animal protein and ethanol, there should be plenty of food for everyone — however we choose to grow it.
In fact, well-designed polyculture systems, incorporating not just grains but vegetables and animals, can produce more food per acre than conventional monocultures, and food of a much higher nutritional value. But this kind of farming is complicated and needs many more hands on the land to make it work. Farming without fossil fuels — performing complex rotations of plants and animals and managing pests without petrochemicals — is labor intensive and takes more skill than merely "driving and spraying," which is how corn-belt farmers describe what they do for a living.
To grow sufficient amounts of food using sunlight will require more people growing food — millions more. This suggests that sustainable agriculture will be easier to implement in the developing world, where large rural populations remain, than in the West, where they don't. But what about here in America, where we have only about two million farmers left to feed a population of 300 million? And where farmland is being lost to development at the rate of 2,880 acres a day? Post-oil agriculture will need a lot more people engaged in food production — as farmers and probably also as gardeners.
The sun-food agenda must include programs to train a new generation of farmers and then help put them on the land. The average American farmer today is 55 years old; we shouldn't expect these farmers to embrace the sort of complex ecological approach to agriculture that is called for. Our focus should be on teaching ecological farming systems to students entering land-grant colleges today. For decades now, it has been federal policy to shrink the number of farmers in America by promoting capital-intensive monoculture and consolidation. As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for "better" jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories. To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America — not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.
National security also argues for preserving every acre of farmland we can and then making it available to new farmers. We simply will not be able to depend on distant sources of food, and therefore need to preserve every acre of good farmland within a day's drive of our cities. In the same way that when we came to recognize the supreme ecological value of wetlands we erected high bars to their development, we need to recognize the value of farmland to our national security and require real-estate developers to do "food-system impact statements" before development begins. We should also create tax and zoning incentives for developers to incorporate farmland (as they now do "open space") in their subdivision plans; all those subdivisions now ringing
The revival of farming in America, which of course draws on the abiding cultural power of our agrarian heritage, will pay many political and economic dividends. It will lead to robust economic renewal in the countryside. And it will generate tens of millions of new "green jobs," which is precisely how we need to begin thinking of skilled solar farming: as a vital sector of the 21st-century post-fossil-fuel economy.
II. Reregionalizing the Food System
For your sun-food agenda to succeed, it will have to do a lot more than alter what happens on the farm. The government could help seed a thousand new polyculture farmers in every county in Iowa, but they would promptly fail if the grain elevator remained the only buyer in town and corn and beans were the only crops it would take. Resolarizing the food system means building the infrastructure for a regional food economy — one that can support diversified farming and, by shortening the food chain, reduce the amount of fossil fuel in the American diet.
A decentralized food system offers a great many other benefits as well. Food eaten closer to where it is grown will be fresher and require less processing, making it more nutritious. Whatever may be lost in efficiency by localizing food production is gained in resilience: regional food systems can better withstand all kinds of shocks. When a single factory is grinding 20 million hamburger patties in a week or washing 25 million servings of salad, a single terrorist armed with a canister of toxins can, at a stroke, poison millions. Such a system is equally susceptible to accidental contamination: the bigger and more global the trade in food, the more vulnerable the system is to catastrophe. The best way to protect our food system against such threats is obvious: decentralize it.
Today in America there is soaring demand for local and regional food; farmers' markets, of which the U.S.D.A. estimates there are now 4,700, have become one of the fastest-growing segments of the food market. Community-supported agriculture is booming as well: there are now nearly 1,500 community-supported farms, to which consumers pay an annual fee in exchange for a weekly box of produce through the season. The local-food movement will continue to grow with no help from the government, especially as high fuel prices make distant and out-of-season food, as well as feedlot meat, more expensive. Yet there are several steps the government can take to nurture this market and make local foods more affordable. Here are a few:
Four-Season Farmers' Markets. Provide grants to towns and cities to build year-round indoor farmers' markets, on the model of Pike Place in
Agricultural Enterprise Zones. Today the revival of local food economies is being hobbled by a tangle of regulations originally designed to check abuses by the very largest food producers. Farmers should be able to smoke a ham and sell it to their neighbors without making a huge investment in federally approved facilities. Food-safety regulations must be made sensitive to scale and marketplace, so that a small producer selling direct off the farm or at a farmers' market is not regulated as onerously as a multinational food manufacturer. This is not because local food won't ever have food-safety problems — it will — only that its problems will be less catastrophic and easier to manage because local food is inherently more traceable and accountable.
Local Meat-Inspection Corps. Perhaps the single greatest impediment to the return of livestock to the land and the revival of local, grass-based meat production is the disappearance of regional slaughter facilities. The big meat processors have been buying up local abattoirs only to close them down as they consolidate, and the U.S.D.A. does little to support the ones that remain. From the department's perspective, it is a better use of shrinking resources to dispatch its inspectors to a plant slaughtering 400 head an hour than to a regional abattoir slaughtering a dozen. The U.S.D.A. should establish a Local Meat-Inspectors Corps to serve these processors. Expanding on its successful pilot program on Lopez Island in Puget Sound, the U.S.D.A. should also introduce a fleet of mobile abattoirs that would go from farm to farm, processing animals humanely and inexpensively. Nothing would do more to make regional, grass-fed meat fully competitive in the market with feedlot meat.
Establish a Strategic Grain Reserve. In the same way the shift to alternative energy depends on keeping oil prices relatively stable, the sun-food agenda — as well as the food security of billions of people around the world — will benefit from government action to prevent huge swings in commodity prices. A strategic grain reserve, modeled on the
Regionalize Federal Food Procurement. In the same way that federal procurement is often used to advance important social goals (like promoting minority-owned businesses), we should require that some minimum percentage of government food purchases — whether for school-lunch programs, military bases or federal prisons — go to producers located within 100 miles of institutions buying the food. We should create incentives for
Create a Federal Definition of
A few other ideas: Food-stamp debit cards should double in value whenever swiped at a farmers' markets — all of which, by the way, need to be equipped with the Electronic Benefit Transfer card readers that supermarkets already have. We should expand the WIC program that gives farmers'-market vouchers to low-income women with children; such programs help attract farmers' markets to urban neighborhoods where access to fresh produce is often nonexistent. (We should also offer tax incentives to grocery chains willing to build supermarkets in underserved neighborhoods.) Federal food assistance for the elderly should build on a successful program pioneered by the state of
III. Rebuilding America's Food Culture
In the end, shifting the American diet from a foundation of imported fossil fuel to local sunshine will require changes in our daily lives, which by now are deeply implicated in the economy and culture of fast, cheap and easy food. Making available more healthful and more sustainable food does not guarantee it will be eaten, much less appreciated or enjoyed. We need to use all the tools at our disposal — not just federal policy and public education but the president's bully pulpit and the example of the first family's own dinner table — to promote a new culture of food that can undergird your sun-food agenda.
Changing the food culture must begin with our children, and it must begin in the schools. Nearly a half-century ago,
To change our children's food culture, we'll need to plant
But it is not only our children who stand to benefit from public education about food. Today most federal messages about food, from
There are other kinds of information about food that the government can supply or demand. In general we should push for as much transparency in the food system as possible — the other sense in which "sunlight" should be the watchword of our agenda. The F.D.A. should require that every packaged-food product include a second calorie count, indicating how many calories of fossil fuel went into its production. Oil is one of the most important ingredients in our food, and people ought to know just how much of it they're eating. The government should also throw its support behind putting a second bar code on all food products that, when scanned either in the store or at home (or with a cellphone), brings up on a screen the whole story and pictures of how that product was produced: in the case of crops, images of the farm and lists of agrochemicals used in its production; in the case of meat and dairy, descriptions of the animals' diet and drug regimen, as well as live video feeds of the CAFO where they live and, yes, the slaughterhouse where they die. The very length and complexity of the modern food chain breeds a culture of ignorance and indifference among eaters. Shortening the food chain is one way to create more conscious consumers, but deploying technology to pierce the veil is another.
Finally, there is the power of the example you set in the White House. If what's needed is a change of culture in America's thinking about food, then how America's first household organizes its eating will set the national tone, focusing the light of public attention on the issue and communicating a simple set of values that can guide Americans toward sun-based foods and away from eating oil.
The choice of White House chef is always closely watched, and you would be wise to appoint a figure who is identified with the food movement and committed to cooking simply from fresh local ingredients. Besides feeding you and your family exceptionally well, such a chef would demonstrate how it is possible even in Washington to eat locally for much of the year, and that good food needn't be fussy or complicated but does depend on good farming. You should make a point of the fact that every night you're in town, you join your family for dinner in the Executive Residence — at a table. (Surely you remember the Reagans' TV trays.) And you should also let it be known that the White House observes one meatless day a week — a step that, if all Americans followed suit, would be the equivalent, in carbon saved, of taking 20 million midsize sedans off the road for a year. Let the White House chef post daily menus on the Web, listing the farmers who supplied the food, as well as recipes.
Since enhancing the prestige of farming as an occupation is critical to developing the sun-based regional agriculture we need, the White House should appoint, in addition to a White House chef, a White House farmer. This new post would be charged with implementing what could turn out to be your most symbolically resonant step in building a new American food culture. And that is this: tear out five prime south-facing acres of the White House lawn and plant in their place an organic fruit and vegetable garden.
I don't need to tell you that ripping out even a section of the White House lawn will be controversial: Americans love their lawns, and the South Lawn is one of the most beautiful in the country. But imagine all the energy, water and petrochemicals it takes to make it that way. (Even for the purposes of this memo, the White House would not disclose its lawn-care regimen.) Yet as deeply as Americans feel about their lawns, the agrarian ideal runs deeper still, and making this particular plot of American land productive, especially if the First Family gets out there and pulls weeds now and again, will provide an image even more stirring than that of a pretty lawn: the image of stewardship of the land, of self-reliance and of making the most of local sunlight to feed one's family and community. The fact that surplus produce from the South Lawn Victory Garden (and there will be literally tons of it) will be offered to regional food banks will make its own eloquent statement.
You're probably thinking that growing and eating
Our agenda puts the interests of America's farmers, families and communities ahead of the fast-food industry's. For that industry and its apologists to imply that it is somehow more "populist" or egalitarian to hand our food dollars to Burger King or
Your sun-food agenda promises to win support across the aisle. It builds on America's agrarian past, but turns it toward a more sustainable, sophisticated future. It honors the work of American farmers and enlists them in three of the 21st century's most urgent errands: to move into the post-oil era, to improve the health of the American people and to mitigate climate change. Indeed, it enlists all of us in this great cause by turning food consumers into part-time producers, reconnecting the American people with the American land and demonstrating that we need not choose between the welfare of our families and the health of the environment — that eating less oil and more sunlight will redound to the benefit of both.Continue reading the main story


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Continuing coverage of Transducers 2009 from Paul Werbaneth, VP Marketing & Applications, Tegal Corporation.
Day 4: We've been making jokes this week about the stimulus money being flashed around now in MEMS, but, all joking aside, it does seem like the Research community is in a buying mood. These approved budgets have surely been long in the making, nothing that could really be attributed to the quick-injection dollars handed out over the last six months, but no matter where the money's coming from, it's a positive and reassuring message.
Funded research for Science and Engineering — That's great! We're still investing in the future.
If you go back to the model that it takes twenty-seven years in MEMS from concept to commercialization, then some of the cutting-edge research being launched now will just about make it to the market in my lifetime. (I hope.)
Personally, I'm waiting for a personal attendant robot in my later years. Maybe a really sharp Toyota PizMo, or one of those Honda ReadyMates. (I'm afraid my robot's not going to be coming from GM.) It'll have tactile sensors like I see in some of the Transducers posters today, it'll have a full medical diagnostic kit, made by the BioMEMS folks, to let me know how I'm doing on my diet and with my exercise, it'll have a big flexible display for news and entertainment, and it'll be sitting there when idle harvesting energy from secret harmonies only robots hear, and maybe running on its microfuelcells when it's up and ambling about.
Lease or own? We have some attractive deals.
Walking near the Colorado Capitol last night, street people are out in force enjoying the warm evening (and probably ducking later due to sudden showers). One guy is in preacher mode, holding a thick hardback book with a tattered but intact cover. I look a little closer: this isn't a bible he's holding, it's a copy of The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectation, by Christopher Lasch, first published in 1979 (looks like an original copy).
Wow, heavy, I have to stop to talk. "I'm an Air Force major," says the preacher, a guy about my age. I ask, "Have you read that book by Lasch?" "Yes, it's literature, and every word in it is even more true today than when first published." I agree it must be literature if the book is still being read these thirty years later, but that remark strikes the wrong tone for the major, and I start moving away. "I'm an Air Force major! I'm an Air Force major! And you, you're a journalist!"
He means that to be damning somehow. (Is it?)
I think, "No, not a journalist. Just a first-time blogger"
Now signing-off.
From the floor of Transducers 2009, thanks for reading.


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The enclosed photos were taken of an item removed from a castle in Germany during World War II.
Dear Helaine and Joe: The enclosed photos were taken of an item removed from a castle in Germany during World War II. There are no markings or dates and the antiques dealers in our area could offer no information except they believe it is old jade and of Chinese origin. Can you provide any information, and is there a market for it?Sincerely, B. L. P., Gowen, Mich. Dear B. L. P.: Let us deal with what we believe this is supposed to represent before we discuss the material from which this piece of sculpture was made.
We believe this is probably a representation of the Daoist sage Kinko -- also known as Sennin in Japanese or Sennin Kinko. The Chinese legend holds that Kinko was an artist whose specialty was painting fish, and he would neither kill nor eat his aquatic friends.To reward his virtue, the "Dragon King" invited Kinko to visit him in his palace in the sea world and sent forth a giant carp to carry him across the water. On his way back, Sennin Kinko (a "Sennin," is a person who has realized the way of Dao, and can live to be a thousand years old while retaining the appearance of a youth or child) encounters Kannon, the god or goddess of mercy and gives him/her a scroll that illustrates the Buddhist principle of protecting the lives of all living creatures.
This is said to demonstrate the merits of Kinko as he reaches the divine.In the sculpture in today's question we see Kinko riding the carp among the waves and there may be another figure that represents Kannon -- or we may only be imagining the second figure because of the poor quality of the photos. The quality of the photos is such that if B. L. P. had not told us the piece was stone, we would have been sure it was carved from Chinese rosewood (huanghuali). The reddish brown color suggest to us, however, that this piece may really be a piece of carved agate and not jade.
Jade is really two different minerals. One is called "jadeite," which is about as hard as quartz and can be found in a variety of colors including lavender, pink and emerald green; and the other is called "nephrite," which is a tad softer than quartz and is found in shades of either white or green.Agate is a microcrystalline variety of silica that comes in a variety of different types and colors. A piece of jade this size (approximately one foot long) would be very unusual and the color and striations we see in the photo looks more like agate than jade; but to be sure which of these substances it is, B. L. P. will have to have it tested by a gemologist or mineralogist.
The real problem we have is that the quality of the work does not seem to be all that phenomenal. The piece is certainly very attractive, but we think it is what we would call "tourist" quality -- meaning that it was never intended to be an art object, but was a souvenir of a trip to the Orient or imported into Germany for decorative purposes.Let us say that whether this piece is jade or agate (and we lean heavily toward agate), there is a market for this item. If it is agate we think this piece from the first quarter of the 20th century would sell at auction for between $800 and $1,200 (or perhaps a bit more) and should be insured for twice that amount.
Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson are the authors of "Price It Yourself" (HarperResource, $19.95). Contact them at Treasures in Your Attic, P.O. Box 18350, Knoxville, TN 37928. Email them at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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AS A SENIOR IN 2011-12: SINGLES: Appeared in three singles matches before missing an extended amount of time with a hand injury … played in the No. 3 position in all three singles matches he appeared in. DOUBLES: Appeared in eight doubles matches with senior Nicolas Vinel … compiled a 3-5 record … six of his eight doubles appearances were against team's ranked in the ITA top-60 … picked his second doubles victory of the year against then-No. 48 Boise State to help Santa Clara to its first win over a ranked opponent in the 2011-12 season … defeated Fresno State's No. 3 tandem 9-7 to secure the doubles point for Santa Clara … after missing significant time with injury, played his way back into the No. 3 doubles tandem, playing again with Vinel, for both NCAA
AS A JUNIOR IN 2010-11: Transferred from Indiana University - Bloomington ... Finished the season 16-10 overall with a 4-2 record in WCC dual matches … earned All-WCC Second Team Singles honors… played at No. 2 singles all year … had five-match win streak from Nov. 2-Jan. 26 defeating Sonoma State twice, Stanford, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz players … compiled two four-match win streaks from Feb. 27-Mar. 13 and Apr. 16-22 … played doubles with John Lamble, Thomas Pham and Nicholas Vinel throughout the season … with Lamble, compiled 5-5 overall record and 0-2 in WCC contests at all doubles spots … with Pham, went 1-2 overall at No. 2 doubles … with Vinel, went 6-5 overall record, going 2-3 in WCC play including five-match win streak from Apr. 3 to Apr. 21.
AS A SOPHOMORE AT INDIANA IN 2009-10: Recorded 12 singles wins despite battling injuries over the course of the season ... advanced to the main draw of the D'Novo All-American Championships with doubles partner Jeremy Langer ... won flight three at the UNLV Spring Invitational ... also had 13 doubles vicrtories and posted a five-match doubles winning streak with partner Jeremy Langer ... posted six dual match singles wins on the season.
AS A FRESHMAN AT INDIANA IN 2008-09: Made an immediate impact by recording 18 victories in singles and 16 in doubles ... showed great poise and skill in a three-set thriller against No. 19 Wisconsin which proved to be the winning point in the Hoosier upset ... played great tennis throughout the Hoosier Invitational only to fall in the championship match of the Hoosier flight ... crowned champion of two summer ITA tournaments by first winning the Western Michigan regional leg, then returning to Bloomington to take another regional title on his home court.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2007 graduate of CNED High School in Nice, France ... won three senior tournaments in France ... recorded victories over players ranked in the top 15 in France ... played in several ITF junior tournaments.
PERSONAL: Born in Nice, France … parents are Frederic and Marcelle Armengaud … has two brothers, Loic (25) and Francoi-Xavier (28) … enjoys sports, movies and spending time with friends … biology major.


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