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SILC Faculty Member and member of our Spatial Network.
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Kenneth D. Forbus
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education, Northwestern University
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Ph.D., 1984
Positions held: Professor of Computer Science and Education, Northwestern University, 1992-present; Associate Professor of Computer Science and Education, Northwestern University, 1990-1992; Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-1990; Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984-1989.
Honors: Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, Cognitive Science Society, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1987.
Five most relevant recent publications:
- 1.Jee, B., Gentner, D., Forbus, K., Sageman, B., and Uttal, D. (CogSci09). Drawing on Experience: Use of sketching to evaluate knowledge of spatial scientific concepts.
- 2.Wetzel, J. and Forbus, K. (July 2009) Automated Critique of Sketched Mechanisms. Proceedings of IAAI09.
- 3.Lovett, A., Tomai, E., Forbus, K. & Usher, J. (2009) Solving Geometric Analogy Problems through Two-Stage Analogical Mapping. Cognitive Science.
- 4.Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., and Forbus, K. (2008). Automatic Classification of Containment and Support Spatial Relations in English and Dutch. In Proceedings of Spatial Cognition. Freiberg, Germany.
- 5.Forbus, K., Klenk, M., and Hinrichs, T. , 2009. Companion Cognitive Systems: Design Goals and Lessons Learned So Far. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 36-46, July/August.
Other significant publications
- 1.Forbus, K., Carney, K., Sherin, B. and Ureel, L.VModel: A visual qualitative modeling environment for middle-school students. Proceedings of the 16th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, San Jose, July 2004.
- 2.Forbus, K.D., Whalley, P., Everett, J., Ureel, L., Brokowski, M., Baher, J. and Kuehne, S. (1999) CyclePad: An articulate virtual laboratory for engineering thermodynamics. Artificial Intelligence. 114, 297-347.
- 3.Forbus, K., Gentner, D. and Law, K. 1995. MAC/FAC: A model of Similarity-based Retrieval. Cognitive Science, 19(2), April-June, pp 141-205.
- 4.Forbus, K. and de Kleer, J., Building Problem Solvers, MIT Press, 1993.
- 5.Falkenhainer, B. and Forbus, K. Compositional Modeling: Finding the Right Model for the Job, Artificial Intelligence, 51, (1-3), October, 1991.
Synergistic Activities
- As part of DARPA-sponsored research, developed the nuSketch architecture for sketch understanding, which focus on visual and conceptual understanding rather than which-of-N recognition. This led to the first open-domain sketch understanding system (sKEA) and a military sketching system that officers can actually use. This has been the basis for the CogSketch system developed in SILC.
- With NSF REPP support, explored how middle-school children could learn modeling by starting with qualitative, instead of numerical, models. Resulted in the VModel concept map system, designed in a work circle with Chicago Public School instructors and was successfully used in experiments there. Now available as open-source software (http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/NSF/Vmodel/index.htm)
- Led the development of CyclePad, an articulate virtual laboratory for design-oriented education in engineering thermodynamics sponsored by NSF. CyclePad is now used in thermodynamics instruction in a number of universities in the US and around the world. See http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/NSF/avl.htm for details.
- The textbook Building Problem Solvers, with freely available source code, remains in wide use for both classes and as a reference work for researchers.
- Selected professional service: Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence; Associate Editor, Cognitive Science; Editorial Board, AAAI Press.
- Selected honors & Awards: Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Fellow, Cognitive Science Society.
Collaborators in the last four years: Dave Baxter (Cycorp), Bert Bredeweg (U Amsterdam), Janellen Huttenlocher (U. Chicago), Peter Huttenlocher (U. Chicago), Sven Kuehne (NATO), Nora Newcomb (Temple University), Ben Rode (Cycorp), Michael Witbrock (Cycorp).
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: Gerald J. Sussman, MIT.
Total Graduate students: 39; Total Postdoctoral students: 3
Current Northwestern Ph.D Students: Computer Science: James Baker, Greg Dunham, Patricia Dyke, Dan Halstead, Matthew Klenk, Kate Lockwood, Andrew Lovett, Praveen Paritosh, Emmett Tomai, Leo Ureel, Jin Yan. Education: Karen Carney
Completed Students: Andy Bachmann, M.S. (NASA Ames), Bruce Martin, M.C.S.; Barry Smith, M.S.; John Hogge, M.S., Doug White, M.S., Rob Kracik, M.S., Boi Faltings, Ph.D.; Paul Nielsen, Ph.D. (Soar Technologies); Brian Falkenhainer, Ph.D.; John Collins, Ph.D. (U Miami), Hyeonkyeong Kim, Ph.D (Hanshin University).; Nikitas Sgouros, Ph.D. (National Technical University of Athens), Dennis DeCoste, Ph.D., Katarina Obradovic, M.S., John Everett, Ph.D. (AlphaTech), Maj Jim Donlon (US Army), M.S., Yusuf Pisan, Ph.D., Maj. Rob Rasch (US Army), M.S., Maj. Bill Trumel (US Army), M.S., Julie Baher, Ph.D. (SRI), Kevin Dill, M.S., (Quicksilver Studios), Ron Ferguson, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech), Joyce Ma, Ph.D (Exploratorium), Sven Kuehne, Ph.D. (NATO), Greg Dunham, M.S. (Microsoft), James Baker, M.S. (Startup), Praveen Paritosh, Ph.D. (Metaweb), Matthew Klenk, Ph.D. (NRL), Emmett Tomai (U Texas Pan American), Ph.D., Kate Lockwood, Ph.D. (Cal State Monterey Bay), Morteza Dehghani, Ph.D. (NU)
Previous Postdoctoral students: Thomas Bittner, Kees deKoning, Wolf Dobson


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Prime Minister Julia Gillard will reportedly spend a week living in western Sydney in a bid to halt the plummet of Labor's vote in the area.
Ms Gillard will spend next week on a mini-campaign in the outer suburban region, including sleeping in a Rooty Hill hotel, Fairfax reports on Tuesday.
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has a clear lead as preferred prime minister for the first time since July last year.
Labor's primary vote also languishes at a seven-month low, at 31 per cent compared to the coalition's 47 per cent, according to the poll published in The Australian on Tuesday.
Many of Labor's western Sydney seats are marginals that would be lost if these results were replicated at an election.
In January Mr Abbott kicked off his own mini-campaign with a rally in western Sydney.
However his campaign was interrupted when Ms Gillard announced the real election campaign would start on August 12 with the polling day on September 14.
Ms Gillard's office has been asked for comment on her mini-campaign plan.
Senior minister Craig Emerson confirmed the prime minister's western Sydney plans but said it was nothing unusual.
"Any prime minister and any leader of the opposition will go to particular parts of Australia at particular points in time," he told ABC radio.
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Australians expected and deserved to have their leaders engage directly with them and Labor was happy to do so, Dr Emerson said.
Western Sydney had specific problems including the fact people spent a lot of time stuck in traffic commuting to work.
"What we're working on is making sure there are jobs in western Sydney so that those travel times are dramatically reduced," he said.
"The prime minister will be engaging with the people of western Sydney, explaining what we're doing, getting feedback."
Independent senator Nick Xenophon said the move by Ms Gillard to stay in the western suburbs of Sydney next week would be eagerly watched.
"It will be interesting to see what response the prime minister gets in Rooty Hill in the next few days," he told reporters in Canberra.
Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce said Ms Gillard's move to Sydney's western suburbs for a week was a gimmick and desperate.
He would have preferred the prime minister to stay in Canberra where she could work on the budget and repay the government's debt.
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Unfortunately your prediction has a high chance of actually being right considering how clichéd Suzuka was...
Newsflash, manga/anime girls: your childhood crush in your elementary school memories didn't grow up to become Brad Pitt, they became wimpy losers/ronin/otaku nine times out of ten!
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Actually, in interpersonal skills, Yuzuki is _way_ more grown up compared to the rest. She's the one who very quickly figured everything out between Haruto and Nanami, and I tend to believe that she consciously taunted Haruto out of his reserve in 6. She has got her own issues and edges, but she's open and reasonable smart. Haruto himself needs to get a handle on his temper, and stat. He's certainly no bad guy by nature, but reacting to all kinds of confusion and disappointment with anger and aggression ain't healthy.
And yes. Yuzuki has him wrapped around her finger already. Still, will be interesting where they will go from here.
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Considering that this story is only 7 chapters in, I won't be as critical about it just yet. I personally liked Suzuka (though the ending seemed too abrupt) so I have an expectation that the story would keep me hooked. So far, not too bad. But right now, I still get the feeling that we're still getting to know each character.
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Well so far the main reason to read seems to be for Yuzuki. She's cute and actually seems like an interesting character, although her mood swings got a little annoying.
Kanazki is far less annoying than Suzuka was (god I hated Suzuka for most of the series), but she doesn't really seem to have much personality either.
Haruto is annoying, while I didn't really have any problem with Yamamoto (mostly because his annoying traits paled in comparison to Suzuka's).
I'll keep up with this for awhile longer I guess.
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The perfect day for a photo shoot featuring my newest design - the Walk in the Woods skirt.
The book-sized pockets are truly icing on the cake, adding both practicability and a really unique design detail. Plus, it's so fun to walk along with your hands cozily ensconced in their roomy depths!
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Payment Card Industry (PCI) scans are something I get to deal with every day where I am responsible for a data center with a high concentration of e-commerce webservers. For those who have yet to experience this phenomena allow me to explain a little about PCI scans. For an online retailer using, for example, Visa services it is a requirement to submit your website to periodic PCI evaluations or else risk falling out of favor with, in this example, Visa. So you sign up with a service, there are many available, and your website is analyzed on many different levels to determine potential security vulnerabilities. These range from known weaknesses in different versions of apache, mysql, php, openSSH, openSSL, Java, etc. Some of these scans return relatively simple information - your apache version has a known vulnerability, solution: upgrade to version X.
Other scans are so generalized as to be useless - better to send me an email telling me I might as well just spin a wheel and guess.
From a practical administration perspective I appreciate that card companies are attempting, through the mechanism of the PCI scan, to reduce fraud and ultimately improve the name of online credit card processing. And, as an admin, I am well aware that one means of ensuring a high level of compliance is periodically scanning these servers to ensure they are secure. On the other hand, when I get these useless vague scan reports I wonder if it's not also kind of a scam, especially when I call and they are either unwilling to discuss how the scan result came to be determined or if it's something they can't repeat.
Any thoughts?
Collegues of me are working in the PCI area as well. The bad thing about these checks is that anyone can run a 'tool' and present it's report. Taking such a report apart to tell the real problems requires in-depth knowledge and time. Both is expensive and therefore omitted in many cases.
But as a collegue said: 'Compliance check are not intended to make you happy, but to make the auditors happy.'
I find myself in the exact same role as the OP (I'm network and security admin for an e-commerce webhosting company), but the scans themselves aren't what I have a problem with. The scans (especially on shared servers we directly admin) reveal weaknesses our support personnel have tacked on (in the form of applications running with open sockets that clearly shouldn't be running on said machine) or firewall ports that were open and shouldn't have been (both of which I quickly pounce on.)
The Hackersafe scans to me aren't the problem (and before responding that we have cleaned up the mess, I scan from outside with a free copy of Nessus just to be sure)... the real problem are the questionnaires that they submit to us that we have to fill out on behalf of a customer. The questions are obvious and thus suggest the correct response to be had (like, "do you have a wireless router that is not secured?" or something similar), and they can be easliy lied about. Why even submit these to be filled out? It's like asking "Are you in compliance before we suggest that you are in compliance?" Who's going to say "No, we are wide open and ready for a massive exploit, now please give us your approval"?
If these silly questionnaires pass for some security check, then PCI compliance as I see it is a joke, at least at that level.
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Like a lot of people these days, the actress Kathleen Turner is very concerned about polarization in Washington. She has a special reason to be concerned: She's coming to Washington's Arena Stage to do a one-woman show, "Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins,' based on the life and writings of the sharp-tongued liberal columnist. She tells the Washington Examiner:
"One of these challenges may be getting a wide enough breadth of people to come, you know, because people are so closed-minded now, that if they think it doesn't represent their point of view, they're not interested," she said. "I'm afraid it will be like – if you're a Republican, don't go to the show – it's a real shame both artistically and as a reflection of our nation's mentality."
Fortunately, liberals from Hollywood don't have that sort of us-against-them mentality:
But while Ivins became famous for mocking former President George W. Bush, nicknaming him "Shrub" and "Dubya," Turner told us that her approach to dealing with the Bush years was a bit more subtle.
"I had to do some real dodging there once in a while, but I pretty much managed it," she said, explaining that she "purposely" never met Bush. "I used to be on the Kennedy Center artistic, you know, selection board and those events are always held at the White House, and so then I had to bow out for a few years, didn't I?"
It's a real shame when Republicans are closed-minded.


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The oil giant that can not stop its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico asked anyone with a solution to come forward. Hollywood answered the call.
Kevin Costner, the star of "Bull Durham" and "Waterworld" stood together with this BP chief Doug Suttles this weekend and watched three water-cleaning machines developed by his company, Ocean Therapy Solutions,sail out to sea aboard an oil-skimming barge.
"At its core, my dream, this machine, was designed to give us a fighting chance to figh back the oil thats got us by the throat," Costner told reporters in the Gulf, Reuters reported.
The device, called a V20, separates oil from water using a centrifuge. Costner said one centrifuge could clean 600,000 gallons of water a day. BP has ordered 32 of the machines.
BP created a hot line for the public to suggest solutions to the leak, which latest studies estimate is spewing 35,000 barrels of oil into open water south of Louisiana. BP complained that the phone line and a web application form were deluged with tens of thousands of suggestions world wide, the Times-Picayune reported.
The "Dances With Wolves" star managed to skip the line by taking his idea straight to Congress earlier this month. Appearing before the House Energy and Environment Subcomittee, he explained the science of his machines. "I'm not here because I heard a voice in the cornfield," he told legislators.


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MLive.com reports that a jury in Saginaw County Circuit Court deliberated for less than 15 minutes Wednesday before convicting 21-year-old Lashon Hollman. He faces a mandatory term of life in prison without the chance of parole when sentenced May 9.
Hollman was charged in the slaying of 27-year-old Cassandra Nelson, whose body was found Feb. 2, 2012, in a Saginaw home.
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- Graphic Design (Adjunct Professor)
- MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University
- BFA Philadelphia College of Art
Recent Exhibitions
- Faculty Show, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, 2011
Recent Activities
- Currently art directing books and emedia at Barrows publishing in New York, NY (2010 - present) and the author and illustrator of children's books (Ted's Fabulous Head, and Where's Teddy).
- Illustrated "Where's Teddy," a children's book by Collen Fisher, Paneno Press, Boston, MA, 2011
- Completed the art direction and design for "Sagebrush Dancing - The Gordon Barrows Memoir - Vol. 1," The Barrlows Co. Inc., NY, 2011
Awards & Fellowships
- 2000 Ozzie Award for Editorialand Design Excellence,Folio Magazine, New York, NY
- 1994, 96 Neograhics Awards, Philadelphia, PA


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It's not surprising that one segment of the housing market -- foreclosed properties -- is stirring interest.
"We are in a foreclosure frenzy," says Michael Olszewski, broker-owner of Area Wide Realty in Chicago.
But that leaves buyers looking for a home competing against professionals who know how to find, finance and fix foreclosed properties -- for a profit.
Still, while investors probably make up the majority, there are the foreclosure purchasers who intend to live in the home.
They can get a price significantly less than comparable properties -- if they are willing to expend effort, and be savvy.
For starters, not everything that appears to be a bargain is, notes Olszewski. Many homes falling into foreclosure sold for a price that's inflated compared with similar properties.
A home sold in the height of the boom for $205,000 might still fetch $190,000 today -- so even if a buyer gets the foreclosed $205,000 property for $187,000, it's only at a slight discount.
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At its Web site, www.NRBA .com, the National REO Brokers Association lists agents who specialize in these properties.
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Over the years, Chicagoan Knitasha Washington has lived in several foreclosed homes she bought. Renovating a home won't result in an uptick in value if the surrounding properties are in disrepair, she notes.
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Park Ave with an attitude. Love it!
Love the jacket!
this is pure nice, look at all those layers, and that swagger!
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He's beautiful. That turned out jacket is sublime.
i love that glases
a little bit of 80's androgyny
very nice
OMG... I WANT that coat!! What brand is it?
very handsome, love the look. OT, but why does it seem half if not more of the persons photographed are smoking?
great picture!
don't like the cigarette though.
Hook The Look
I wish I was on Park ave!
Yeah, what brand is that coat!?
Only youth can make a cigarette look so good.
the collar and the lining of that coat are just wonderful
I have those very shades. I'm digging the militant-inspired coat.
I second the denunciation re: people smoking in too many photos.
Great coat - and nice almost John Mayer pre-fall-off-deep-end look.
It's perfect in every way. Like the hair style, the bag and the jeans...
The coat is phenomenal.
love the layers.
One question...does he have a sweater tied around his waist? Can't quite understand the black portion between the pant legs...
woooooow, i just adore the coat.
Tres chic
He looks dashing:D
Great Coat and what a great Quiff! Nice to see you around in London Scott!
Too cool.
Love the sunglasses..
But.. too much pose, no?
Great looking young man. Wow, can he really put it all together. Once again, I have to tell you how much I love mixing separates to come up with a fantastic look. A suit, although great and sometimes necessary, can sometimes be so boring! Separates are where it's at!
wow, this is amazing. the jacket, sunglasses, the layering, the sweater tied around the waist, the leather strap from his bag...and the beautiful hair. he is sooo beautiful, i want him to make love to me. he can smoke afterwards.
Love this photo, very 60s... yes, people are smoking, it's a street shot, not a retouched, artificial, censored propaganda.
Possibly one of your best shots
Good look, except that cigarettes are for losers (and it wrecks the complexion).
Metrosex, cool energy, more style than fashion...I just love it.
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Looks so Cruel Intentions to me... Love it!
So sleek - and still warm. Love how the white shirt shows.
Loves your pics, love your book...
ahh I am swooning for such tousled perfection
Awesome coat.
Re: smoking. People smoke. You can't get secondhand smoke through the internets, so relax.
When you're that great-looking you can wear ANYTHING.
How calm cool and collective with half his lapel up.
I love his look! It's perfect
That's Luigi Tadini, right?
love the look but not the hair...
Great photo. Love the attitude!
Ah, so chic!
Love the jacket and the 80's vibe!
I find it strange how people in the comments dislike the fact that he smokes. I think it's realy cultural. I mean, it's realy his problem if he smokes or not, I don't see how it can be judged. And in his case, it doesn't make him look like an old hooker, but gives him a nice countenance. The jaket is beautifull. Bravo, nice portait again. Like the one below (red haired girl), I love it.
It was warmer in Paris today, I see that it seems to be the same in NY. Enfin, le printemps qui arrive !
the look is andrew mccarthy circa 1985- a very st elmo's fire, less than zero vibe....
What a beautiful sensual guy. That coat is perfect, so is the man bag, the peek of his white shirt below the gray pullover, the jeans, the sunglasses. He would be practically antiseptic with perfection, therefor only in this case *fortunately* he smokes. Ha!
I like him. He sure has got an attitude. Underneath the coat the white shirt and grey combination is really really elegant.
He seems so at ease , like it natural to look that amazing aha i started my own blog recently ! check it out !
Wayfarer are a basic.
such a hottie!!!
by the look of the pockets, the coat is rag & bone
When I saw this picture I thought about sweet & cute song The Fratelis - Whistle for the choir :)
"You're so sweet to try, oh my, you caught my eye
A girl (boy) like you's just irresistible"
...and coat is excellent, especially a colour, my favourite.
Yes, the hair, yes, the jacket, yes! Thank You.
Ah the way the light hits this photograph is beautiful.
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..Love this outfit!!<3
love the coat.
Oooh I really like this look. He's also very attractive XD I like his beauty mark.
natural coolness. sometimes styling feels forced, but with him it feels like no effort at all.
Liiindo, com atitude!!
Great guy, great pic...
The jacket is beautiful, i love the inner fur and all the layering. Great style. The beauty spot on his lip makes it!
Love everything! =)
love the sunglasses and coat....very nice photo.
I love the effortless elegance of the outfit. This guy is not trying too hard and manages to be pure hotness!
great picture. i would love to see his bag.
looks really great! does anybody know what brand the jacket is?
That´s the style I love! My favourite sunclass is way fair! Love it!
what a stylish man, the jacket is a winner, I want one.
Reminds me of an early-mid 80s Woody Allen character that got away. Le sigh.
Love the look. Too bad it all smells of cigarette smoke.
I would like to know why so many of your wonderful, stupendous, beautiful photos are of young people holding a lit ciggaret? Where I live in Colorado, one never, I mean never sees a person lighting up. Is it that different elsewhere? Just wondering. As an ex-smoker, of course.
He's one sexy young man. He's got it all put together, I love his look. New Yorkers are so cool in the way that they brave the cold weather. Just because you're cold doesn't mean you can't look great!
Perfect green for spring!!!!
Very handsome!
i know it won't make sense, cos i love the glasses but i wish i could see his eyes. LOLS
Fantastic!!! I have left that look for denim & tees in Arizona.
nice guy.
Enough of the judgment about smoking. Let's just enjoy the fabulous photographs we can see of people who are able to dress with style, originality, humor and confidence.
It's Holden Caulfied if you dropped him in the 80's. I bet he thinks we're all a bunch of phoney morons.
"In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."
This kid kills me!
Please keep photographing on Park!
The photos always come out beautiful; and more often than not, there are so many people who really know how to dress.
Loved the last photo of Marina Rust.
And, if you really hang around Park, and around Madison and 5th, you'll get all the teenagers coming home from school.
And, really, those are the most stylish New Yorkers I've ever met :)
Long live the heartthrob! This is such a good look.
Re: Mountain Thyme- yes, Colorado is a rare pocket of non-smokers, compared to the rest of the country.
The way he presents himself in this picture makes me want to know him. His birthmark below his lip also gives him a natural beauty. Love it.
Quite a breeze from the look of it. Fella is sharp.
Liked this gentleman's look. The glasses with the haircut give him a sense of Mad Men Hollywood style. Diggin' it!
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what a babe. and that COAT.
This is a great look. Love the glasses and the collar of the jacket. http://www.twitter.com/84e
this is an ATTRACTIVE man.
I always thought denouncing smoking was lame, then last week my father is diagnosed with cancer. This is 100% the result of smoking, and its terrible. horrible. He is full of regret now. Obviously, this gentleman is super cool, but the Perez Hilton inside of me wants to scribble on this photo: "Death stick. Lame. Gross."
It Luigi!
"I mean, it's realy his problem if he smokes or not, I don't see how it can be judged."
For goodness' sake, we're judging how people knot their scarf, or match their socks to their pocket handkerchiefs. Of course, we can judge his smoking.
Me: thumbs down on the cigarette. Not a good accessory. And all that smoke smell in the fur. Yuck.
this boy looks just like a jonas brother. he's still adorable though and i love that jacket.
love his iconic raybans
Nonchalant chic,I love the jacket~~
Mark Ronson?
Lovely image.
Love this one!!!
Yeah, what's with the menthol cigarette? Youth these days...
Personally I feel that a cigar would have captured a far more sophisticated moment. A pipe... now, a pipe would have been perfection.
The hell with cancer and rusting away to old age. Live fast, die young and make a beautiful corpse rather than a shriveled one rotting away in a home.
He's beautiful/handsome. Androgynous in the tradition of young Wayne Newton and k.d. lang. As mesmerized as I am by his face, I am more so by that beautiful hand of his and the elegant way he's holding the cigarette. Very alluring. You really know how to make the light work for you. The backlight through his hair and glancing off his shoulders bring him forward nicely from the soft focus background. Love that the pops of color don't have to come from the subject but can come from the background. Another photograph for the ages. I'm getting your book today. This is food for my head.
classic meets rock´n roll ...
great mix. I wonder if he is also a bit classic and a bit rock´n roll?
He looks so charming.
I could marry a guy like this.
I'm thinking this is Mark Ronson?...
definately has his look - love the glasses and just all the perfectly in keeping green/brown tones
the cigarette just adds to the decadent style!
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I loved all about him including his cigarette...
Yes, it's cultural.
I grow up around smokers and it never bothered me and I don't smoke. Let people eat oreos, let people smoke, let people drink soda...adults should act like adults. Freedom of being is in need in this country!
like in movie "Breacfast at Tiffany's"
Rayban wayfarers- they add a touch of mystery and cool to this photo.
wow... that's a MAN!
Very, very nice.
Plenty of people smoke. It is cultural, it is part of a look. I don't mind that people smoke; I don't mind that he smokes. What I am saying is that, in general, I would like to see fewer photos of people smoking. Not none. Just fewer. (And I don't mean just on the sartorialist - I do mean generally.)
Last but not least, it's ongoing - I don't always get what I want (that is, unless this guy has my number?)
*sigh* I think I'm in love! :D awesome style!
Awesome frames.
We're here to analyze his clothes, not what he chooses to incorporate in his lifestyle, such as smoking. I can't stand it when people jump on smokers, CANCER STICK CANCER STICK! Eesh.
With that being said he looks like Mark Ronson's twin, love the coat and hair, really chic.
He looks good, and he knows it, good for him I say....................................................ivestiti.blogspot.com
Perfection. Je l'aime.
How attractive he is. Seems so Holden Caulfield to me with that devil-may-care air and naturally preppy look.
Layers are my fetish :) I love the wya he uses them together with color's palette and his noble beauty
Looks like Luigi Tadini. If not, you should really try to catch him on the street. I've never seen a picture of him looking anything other than fabulous. Great style. And he's got a beautiful face.
Very Holden Caulfield.
My first thought when i saw this photo too!
wahouuuuu! gorgeous
mon dieu..... c beau non ? j'adore ses lunettes
Socialites, socialites, ehh...
Shit, I want to smoke now, he makes it look so good. (talk about buy a lifestyle where smoking is included, not good, not goood at all, but the pic is lovely)
Nice outfit, congrat'!
Great Look!
Beautiful boy!!
like like like
that's luigi tadini!
Does anyone know where I could find that coat?
Reminds me of Mad Men. Love it!
indeed the look its fantastic, but i resent one of the comments above which describes smoking as "cultural".such an ignorant comment. there is nothing sexy, stylish or devil-may-care about lungs that have been distorted and blackened. and most likely, smoking will eventually lead to his death. i hate to be morbid, but my gos is smoking stupid.
Are my eyes or his legs messed up? Looks like he`s wearing the jeans outside his legs... especially the left one. now I wont be able to sleep. ghah! BUT apart from that he is smashing
It' s Luigi Tadini. I've seen this dude in Tommy Ton's Street Style photos, on GQ.com.


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Taking into account the recent heatwave, The Missoula County Fire Protection Association is announcing the end of open burning in Missoula County.
The open burning season will end right after midnight July 2, this pertains to permit-only burning such as slash, vegetation disposal and agricultural burning. Those who wish to build campfire pits of two feet in diameter or build cooking fires are still permitted to do so.
Another major change is the increase in fire danger from low to moderate, which takes place immediately, July 1.
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Fire danger levels play a big role in determining how many firefighting personnel remain in Montana.
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Referencia de Zend Framework
When upgrading from a previous release to Zend Framework 1.5 or higher you should note the following migration notes.
Though most basic functionality remains the same, and all documented functionality remains the same, there is one particular undocumented "feature" that has changed.
When writing URLs, the documented way to write camelCased action names is to use a word separator; these are '.' or '-' by default, but may be configured in the dispatcher. The dispatcher internally lowercases the action name, and uses these word separators to re-assemble the action method using camelCasing. However, because PHP functions are not case sensitive, you could still write URLs using camelCasing, and the dispatcher would resolve these to the same location. For example, 'camel-cased' would become 'camelCasedAction' by the dispatcher, whereas 'camelCased' would become 'camelcasedAction'; however, due to the case insensitivity of PHP, both will execute the same method.
This causes issues with the ViewRenderer when resolving view
scripts. The canonical, documented way is that all word separators
are converted to dashes, and the words lowercased. This creates
a semantic tie between the actions and view scripts, and the
normalization ensures that the scripts can be found. However, if the
action 'camelCased' is called and actually resolves, the word
separator is no longer present, and the ViewRenderer attempts to
resolve to a different location --
camelcased.phtml instead of
Some developers relied on this "feature", which was never intended. Several changes in the 1.5.0 tree, however, made it so that the ViewRenderer no longer resolves these paths; the semantic tie is now enforced. First among these, the dispatcher now enforces case sensitivity in action names. What this means is that referring to your actions on the url using camelCasing will no longer resolve to the same method as using word separators (i.e., 'camel-casing'). This leads to the ViewRenderer now only honoring the word-separated actions when resolving view scripts.
If you find that you were relying on this "feature", you have several options:
Best option: rename your view scripts. Pros: forward compatibility. Cons: if you have many view scripts that relied on the former, unintended behavior, you will have a lot of renaming to do.
Second best option: The ViewRenderer now delegates view
script resolution to
Zend_Filter_Inflector; you
can modify the rules of the inflector to no longer separate
the words of an action with a dash:
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The above code will modify the inflector to no longer separate the words with dash; you may also want to remove the 'StringToLower' filter if you do want the actual view script names camelCased as well.
If renaming your view scripts would be too tedious or time consuming, this is your best option until you can find the time to do so.
Least desirable option: You can force the dispatcher to dispatch camelCased action names with a new front controller flag, useCaseSensitiveActions:
$front->setParam('useCaseSensitiveActions', true);
This will allow you to use camelCasing on the url and still have it resolve to the same action as when you use word separators. However, this will mean that the original issues will cascade on through; you will likely need to use the second option above in addition to this for things to work at all reliably.
Note, also, that usage of this flag will raise a notice that this usage is deprecated.


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Fifth season kiting, and there's still new stuff happening. The fun never stops!
Launched at Alameda around 2 pm. It didn't seem incredibly windy on shore, and folks were pumping 12m's so I went with the 12--I like to be a little overpowered for jumps. Be careful what you wish for--I was overpowered right from the start, but it seemed manageable and I did, in fact, get some big jumps. The wind picked up even more, and I finally had to admit defeat and head back to the beach. I'm downwind because of all the jumping---it was a slog, fighting the kite all the way which was at or close to 12 o'clock.
Finally reach the shack area, and the tiny launch zone is packed--at least seven or eight kites being set up. A few more kites across the path. There's no easy place to land. I'm tired and still super-powered up.
This was a new one for me.
I signal for a landing, and I'm trying to "thread the needle" and land in an empty patch between people and kites, but the wind is really whipping and I can't get a good angle or get the kite closer than about 20 feet to the ground. Suddenly, the kite dives head-first into the grass and then hot launches. I get jerked forward, dragged across the path (or maybe flew over it), smashed through somebody's bagged gear (which was probably a good thing for me), and then I roll and bounce a bit before stopping. I FINALLY pulled my quick release. The kite ended up in the tree next to the road. Some very nice fellows helped with my kite and showed the appropriate concern for my health.
This, in case you're wondering, was not fun. Thankfully, no injuries save a tiny cut on my pinkie which didn't even bleed. I was lucky.
So lessons learned:
1. It was low, low tide. The wind on the beach is not always indicative of the wind out in the (distant) water.
2. I should've been more conservative and gone back for my 9m as soon as I saw how strong the wind was. I was swayed by the siren song of big lofty jumps.
3. You do not tell the wind how you will land your kite, the wind tells you. I should've found an alternative to landing in the middle of a packed kite zone. The beach would've been a better option, though I also worry about getting dragged into the berm if there's a mishap. But I need space, even if I have to go out and land in some mud and shallow pools.
4. I got cocky and said "I can land this thing." I should've ramped up disaster preparation and been mentally rehearsing pulling my quick release *immediately.*
5. Probably not a good idea in such conditions to land close to the path, or anything hard, pointy, or abrasive.
6. Being overdressed is a good thing. I think I'll keep wearing the helmet.


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Cycling in Sydney Australia
Canada Bay Council has released its plan for the last bit of the Bay Run from Thompson St to the Iron Cove Bridge. Can make submissions. They have extended the path around all the way on the water side of the road and made the roadway a 40 K limit from Thompson to Formosa. Parking is retained on the north side of the road. Top car park entry is closed, so they can take down the Dismount sign now on the ramp, with a new In/Out next to the club, which may be the main conflict zone, as vehicles will be crossing the path. Also, the path goes right past the front door to the club. I think I will ask they continue the 40 K right the way along HM Drive, as not much between cyclists and traffic except a kerb.
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I agree about extending the 40.
Not just the hazard you mentioned, but with so many people using it a collision and spill off the paths on to the road is likely. Additionally a lower limit, 30 really, would make it attractive for experienced cyclists to use the road, leaving the path for the gumby punters and children on balance bikes.
Thanks Bob! I'll try to make the meeting (it'll depend on the kids).
My biggest gripe with the Bay run is actually the shared paths, too many walkers plugged into iPods oblivious to their surroundings. This looks okay to me.


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Before it's too late, turn some Cortlands into a crisp
I am a fan of the Cortland apple.
You can have your Macoun and your Honeycrisp, your Gala and your Winesap. I'll take a Cortland over them all. It's the perfect combination of sweet and tart and, when fresh, so juicy and crispy.
When I was a kid, we'd would go apple-picking every fall and always come home with a bushel of Cortlands. My mom would make apple dumplings, or apple slump, as she used to call it. She would stew the apples with a bit of sugar and when they were tender and bubbling, she'd drop dumpling dough on top, put the lid on the pan and let them steam to billowy perfection.
Sometimes she'd make them for a Sunday supper. She'd serve up a bowl of the hot apples, set a dumpling on top, then split it open and slip a pat of butter inside. So good.
When she'd run through her collection of apple recipes, she'd peel and slice what was left of the bushel and pop them into the freezer, only to pull them out later, to help us through the winter.
But of all my mom's apple recipes, the one I make the most these days is her Apple Crisp. This recipe is quick and easy, and the result is buttery and crunchy with none of the doughiness of so many other crisp recipes.
Cortlands are excellent for baking because they hold their shape rather than turn to mush. Truthfully, in this recipe you can use whatever apple is your favorite, but whatever you do, don't omit the lemon juice. You don't end up tasting the lemon at all, but it adds a wonderful tartness that helps balance the sweetness of the apples and brown sugar, and it's just not the same without it.
Over the years, I've made it a habit to add nuts or seeds — pecans and/or sunflower, if I have them — to the crumble topping. This amps up the crunch factor and the rich nuttiness goes so well with the oats and the apples. You can serve it hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream melting on top, or you can eat it at room temperature all by itself. I love it for breakfast.
So while the fruit is fresh, make some of my mom's crisp. It'll become one of your favorites, too. Enjoy!
Apple Crisp
4 cups peeled and sliced apples (Cortlands, please)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/3 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal
½ cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt (I use less - not more than half a teaspoon)
¾ cup nuts or seeds (I prefer pecans but walnuts and sunflower seeds are also good)
1/3 cup melted butter (I use unsalted butter)
Place apples into a greased (generously buttered), shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice. In a bowl, combine dry ingredients and nuts. Add melted butter and mix until crumbly. Sprinkle crumb mixture over apples. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until apples are tender.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: lpr has a format string security bug, LPRng compat issues, and a race cond. Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:066-03 Issue date: 2000-09-25 Updated on: 2000-10-04 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: lpr security lpd LPRng Cross references: N/A --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: lpr has a format string security bug. It also mishandles any extension to the lpd communication protocol, and assumes that the instructions contained in the extension are a file it should try to print. It also has a race condition in the handling of queue interactions that can cause the queue to wedge. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 5.0 - i386, alpha Red Hat Linux 5.1 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc 3. Problem description: The old BSD-based lpr which we shipped with Red Hat Linux 5.x and 6.x has a recently discovered format string bug in its calls to the syslog facility. While we are not aware of any exploits for this issue, it might be possible for a user to gain local root access. For this reason, upgrading to the new lpr is strongly encouraged. Additionally, lpr did not properly handle extensions to the lpd protocol. LPRng, an advanced replacement for lpr included in Red Hat Linux 7, makes use of extensions. The lpr included in Red Hat Linux 6.2 and earlier will not recognize these extensions, and attempt to handle the instructions as if they were a file to be printed. As a result, the lpr system sends out three of the following email messages per print job: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:36:32 -0400 From: bin


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U.S. Bank National Association significantly exceeds all Regulation F guidelines set forth by the Federal Reserve Board for a bank that is "well capitalized." These guidelines are used to evaluate the amount of credit exposure a bank has with each of its correspondent banks.
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Readers may remember back in November when I announced the first installment of a two-part post on produce safety. It's taken me a few months to get around to it, but here we are: part 2!
Photo of a "sterile farm" courtesy of the Wild Farm Alliance.
Part 1 of this post found me sitting awkwardly at an FDA meeting on produce safety. Agency reps wanted to know how they could streamline their process for dealing with outbreaks of illness linked to produce like the one in 2006, when nearly 300 poor souls got body-rocked by E. coli 0157:H7 from bagged spinach. By far the most popular proposal at the meeting (the opinion of yours truly notwithstanding): Create a state-of-the-art system that can trace our nation's produce from field to plate and back. Preferably one that involves lots of bar-code scanners.
A common criticism of this type of system (besides the fact that it's absurdly expensive) is that it doesn't actually fix the contamination problem. It merely ensures that if hundreds of people get horribly ill, we can figure out more quickly where the offending product came from. The produce industry likes this approach, because it would help avoid disasters like the Great Tomato Mistake last summer, when the CDC and FDA wrongly publicized tomatoes as the cause of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak. (It ended up being traced to jalapeno and serrano chilies, but only after consumers had stopped buying tomatoes. The tomato sector has still not recovered.)
But the industry also claims to realize the limitations of traceability systems. In California, the leafy greens industry — a category that includes growers and buyers of spinach, lettuce, mixed greens, kale, chard, etc. — has moved forward with an on-farm food safety program that claims to reduce the chance that those crops will become contaminated in the first place. These types of industry-led programs are becoming more and more popular across the country. And while they may sound good, I'm here to report that if they continue to proliferate, things are going to start looking quite dire for small, organic, and diversified farmers, for farm-to-institution arrangements, and for the rural environment.
Down on the farm
Here's a quick backgrounder: After the E. coli/spinach episode in 2006, big leafy greens producers in California (where the toxic spinach was grown) got together and drafted guidelines to reduce the risk of contamination on farms. These guidelines had some issues: they were based on the assumption that the E. coli had gotten on the spinach via wildlife in the fields, so they recommended that producers keep animals out with fencing, traps, or by removing vegetation on the farms where wildlife could hide. I don't need to tell you that in the sustainable ag world, removing vegetation is not a popular approach. Less vegetation means less biodiversity, poorer water quality, fewer beneficial insects, and less happy native pollinators, as Marc reported. But the guidelines were fairly broad, allowing for some flexibility. They were also voluntary: Producers didn't have to comply with them, although there was some pressure to.
Groups representing the interests of small and sustainable farms fought hard to make some reforms and to keep the guidelines voluntary, and they succeeded. But the thing is, buyers — companies like Dole or Chiquita's Fresh Express, or even food service companies like Sysco that contract directly with producers — don't want voluntary. From their point of view, if they "recommend" that their producers do certain things and they don't do them, and then an outbreak happens, the company gets the blame…and the economic hit. It all comes down to liability, kids.
Going rogue
So it was that the big leafy-greens buyers in California created their own sets of food safety "super metrics," practices that farmers must follow if they want to sell to these companies. The super metrics are based on the freakish idea that the more sterile the farm, the safer it is. Farmers have been required to mow down all non-crop vegetation on their farms, maintain huge swaths of bare earth around their fields, and/or set out poison bait and traps for any and all wildlife. Fresh Express says that if a wild pig enters a field, that field must be taken out of production for two years before they'll buy from it again. (The Associated Press has a good article on the super metrics here.)
Many farmers can't even talk to the press about what they're being asked to do — the metrics are proprietary to the companies and therefore confidential — but those that have, do not seem happy about it. So why don't the farmers just choose to sell to companies that don't require these super metrics? Because 86% of the leafy greens grown in California are bought by just four companies. In other words, most farmers, especially those too big for farmers' markets, have no choice.
We have to wonder why these companies thought the super metrics were going to bring them to the food-safety promised land, Moses-style. Many of the super metrics aren't based on science and could even make things worse, according to critics (some of whom are quoted in that AP article). Case in point: vegetation around waterways has been shown to filter 99% of pathogens moving between the field and the water, but growers are being asked to mow it down.
We also have to wonder what these companies were thinking when they decided to focus so much attention on farmers, given that the biggest contamination risk for leafy greens is the processing stage. According to a study by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers [PDF], since the FDA started tracking them 10 years ago, 98.5% of leafy greens outbreaks has involved bagged products — those cellophane sacks of "ready to eat" salad mixes and baby spinach from the grocery store. Yeah, it's important for farmers to take reasonable steps to prevent contamination in their fields, but the real problems arise when processors wash thousands of truckloads of greens in the same wash water, bag them in what one critic calls "a pathogen incubator," ship them across the country, and let them sit on the shelf for 15 days.
A national no-no
The leafy greens super metrics are limited to California right now, but since the tomato/chili debacle, produce buyers around the country are beginning to move in the same direction with other crops. Many have taken a voluntary guidance document created by the FDA for fresh produce safety, added their own bells and whistles (often unreasonable ones, from what we can tell), and required any farmer who wants to sell to them to certify that they are complying with the requirements. Oh, and the farmer has to cover the costs of the certification. Can't afford it? Can't or don't want to comply with the requirements, which are most often designed for large farms growing only a few crops, not smaller, diversified farms? Go find another market.
This spells trouble for the local food community. I recently spoke with a man working in the dining hall of a large university who was trying to design a farm-to-university program, but the produce distributor he worked with was requiring all farms that sold to it to comply with its food safety program. The small farmers he'd recruited for the F2U program couldn't do it. "I can't go around the distributor and work directly with the farmers," he said. "We serve too many meals a day, and the logistics would be a nightmare." He's trying to work something out with the distributor; keep your fingers crossed. He predicts that within a year, most food service companies in the country will be requiring something of this sort of its producers.
I want to be able to end this downer of a post with some sort of "take action" message, but the truth is, I'm not sure what to do. We can, as consumers, tell the companies selling fresh produce that we don't want to buy products from "sterile" farms. We can pressure the FDA to force companies to disclose the food safety requirements they impose on farmers, so at least we'll be able to critique them more accurately. And we can call on companies to show some leadership (and common sense) and work with small farmers to design more flexible, reasonable food-safety guidance. 'Cause I don't know about you, but when I think about the kind of farm I want to support with my food dollars, the last word I would use to describe it is sterile.
Thanks for writing part 2 of this series, Elanor. I remember the first part last fall and was looking forward to the follow up.
I'm frankly quite dumbfounded by what you've reported, even though I feel like I should be used to the stupidity. It really does seem like many things in the food system are getting worse instead of better…but I have a scant shred of hope that perhaps these crazy, illogical, baseless and completely nonscientific and anti-ecological efforts (not that Big Ag has ever cared much about ecology) are really the death rattles of an industry trying to prop itself up before the final messy collapse. Maybe.
I know the FDA is in cahoots with Big Ag, but what I don't get is that if the agency knows that what industry is doing does not address the problem or makes it worse, why they aren't doing anything to redirect the ship…again, maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
Stephanie, thanks for that comment – I wondered exactly the same thing. Although I'm obviously not inside FDA's brain, my sense is that they're treading water right now – they don't know what to do. They've put out some voluntary guidelines for farmers (I linked to the fresh produce guide towards the bottom of the post), and while they're not perfect, they're written to be pretty flexible/adaptable to different kinds of farms. But the big produce companies want strict standards that they can hold people liable for complying with, so they're creating their own – and they're unreasonable. Some parties are calling on the FDA to issue mandatory national guidelines so that companies won't have to develop their own, but others are pointing out that one-size-fits-all guidelines don't work, whether they come from industry or government. And honestly, the latter group has yet to come up with a good alternative policy solution to propose to the FDA.
There have been some proposals for the FDA to set mandatory "basic level" food safety guidelines that all farms should be able to meet and then ramp up the requirements depending on the size of farm and kind of crops. There are also some state-level efforts going on to develop alternative guidelines for small farms. I think there's clearly a role for government here in putting a stop to all these industry programs, but the FDA will have to move very cautiously to avoid creating a monster of its own. We'll see where things go – they're getting a lot of pressure from all sides to act on this soon.
This new movie gives specifics about the importance of soil health. Soil sterility is the Death Knell of food production.
Death Knell sound dire? It is a dire situation for our farmers and consumers. The time has past to discuss quietly the slow and steady destruction of the world' s farmers and agricultural lands.
This is all mind bending. They've got their bass ackward. The solution is simple and obvious, stop buying products from Big Ag.