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"This is something that could drop out of the sky and give you everything you need to train rodents to sniff out land mines."
-- Kevin Myers, Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pa. (PRWEB) June 07, 2012
Since the invention of land mines some seven centuries ago, activists, researchers and government officials have tried to root out the indiscriminant and deadly weapons with everything from metal detectors and robots to dogs, bees and rats.
The methods have, however, proved dangerous, labor-intensive and time-consuming.
Two Bucknell University professors are working with a U.S. Department of Defense contractor to develop faster and more sophisticated technology and methods to detect land mines. The team has devised a system to train rats to recognize and respond to the explosives, using materials that can be delivered anywhere with instructions that anyone can use.
"This is something that could drop out of the sky and give you everything you need to train rodents to sniff out land mines, even if the people who are using it can't read or write," said Kevin Myers, an associate professor of psychology who studies learning, memory and motivation as it relates to appetite and food preferences in rats.
Myers and Joe Tranquillo, associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, are working with Coherent Technical Services Inc. (CTSI). The U.S. Army Research Office has awarded the company and Bucknell $100,000 for Phase I of the project. Such contracts are designated for small businesses and academic research partnerships that address real problems with marketable technology.
Land mines are especially dangerous because they are often buried then lay concealed for years. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines describes land mines as indiscriminate weapons that kill and injure thousands of people each year, instilling fear and serving as a barrier to development.
The project is an "innovative yet low-tech solution" to address a problem in developing areas of the world, Myers said. The big advantage to training rats rather than larger animals is that the rats are small and light and do not trip the land mines, which can remain dangerous for years after they are installed.
"Some people think we are sending off rats to blow up mines, and that's absolutely not the case," Myers said.
In his lab at Bucknell, Myers is training rats to respond to the scent of land mines by doing a simple task: turning in circles.
"The process is similar to how bomb-sniffing dogs are trained," he said. "There is a distinctive odor from the explosive in land mines, which diffuses in the soil. We have to train rats to recognize that. Rats' olfactory sensitivity is orders of magnitude higher than that of humans. We need to train the rats to regard that odor as significant by associating it with a food reward."
The project is a combination of psychology, animal behavior and engineering, Myers said.
"I think about how animal perception, memory and behavior fit into the problem, but the task is to design apparatus and a procedure to do this more efficiently," he said. "How do you design a Skinner box so it can be used by someone who doesn't speak English, or doesn't have academic training in behavioral psychology? How do you make it rugged so you can drop it out of a plane?"
To answer those questions, Myers asked Tranquillo to collaborate with him on the project.
Tranquillo is working with student Matt Young Jr. in the University's new Richard J. Mooney Innovative Design Laboratory to develop the electrical, mechanical and thermal technology and software for the project. Graphic illustrations will provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to train and work with the rats in areas where land mines are present.
"It's a complicated problem," Tranquillo said. "The project involved devising a way to monitor and track how the rat is performing as well as developing an icon-based laptop to guide people who have little experience with technology or animal training," Tranquillo said.
The rats will be outfitted with miniature backpacks and wireless transmitters that track their positions and movements. During the first part of their training, the rats learn to associate a mild buzz in the backpack – much like the "vibrate" setting in a cell phone – with getting a food reward. Eventually, the buzz itself acts as a reward that may be triggered when the rats complete certain tasks.
In the next phase of training, the rats are prompted to sniff various odors and are rewarded for doing something specific in response, such as turning to the left rather than the right, when the land mine odor is present. Eventually, the rats learn to behave more distinctively when they detect that odor.
"Because the rat associates the buzzer with food, you can use it to reward the rat for initiating some kind of action," Myers said. "We chose to teach them to turn in circles because that is not something they would do spontaneously. And it's easy to detect when they're doing it with a couple of motion sensors in the backpack."
The wireless transmitter also enables the trainers to communicate with the rats in the field,
Tranquillo said. "We'll be able to constantly track the rat's location as it sniffs around a field and take note where the rat starts circling to tell us it smells a mine."
If the project is successful, the contract could be extended for two years with an award of up to $750,000. In Phase II, the Army would provide support for recruiting private investors for the final phase, product development.


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On Sunday, President Barack Obama contended that the nation is "poised to improve economic growth in 2013, but what's been holding us back is the dysfunction here in Washington." Obama is certainly correct about the dysfunction in our nation's capital, but whether America's economy will be heading in the right direction next year is beginning to resemble the "recovery summer" talk from a couple of years ago that turned out to be just that: talk. Furthermore, based on recent economic data, some economists believe the U.S. is already in another recession.
"The evidence is starting to mount a recession is already underway, and we're a few months into it," contends Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI). Despite economic growth of 2.7 percent in the third quarter, he believes July was the month when the new recession began. Achuthan bases that call on data released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), noting that three of the four indicators NBER uses to forecast downturns–production, incomes and sales–all peaked in mid-summer. He characterizes the improving employment number as the "odd man out," but insists that "jobs are going to turn down and join the other indicators in their downturns," further noting that the slight increase in jobs and GDP is "not inconsistent" with historical patterns that show both indicators have often improved at the start of recessions.
Achuthan's take on the jobs number is technically correct, but it omits one of the inconvenient realities that was glossed over during the presidential election campaign. Much of the media were more than willing to trumpet the drop in the official unemployment rate to 7.7 percent in November, down from 7.9 percent in October. Less trumpeted was the drop in the labor force participation rate, which declined from 63.8 percent in October, to 63.6 percent in November. Since 2009, the labor force participation rate has declined by 3.5 million Americans, who have simply given up looking for jobs. As a result, they are no longer included as part of the unemployment rate. If they were counted, the unemployment rate would be 10.7 percent.
Furthermore, for those Americans who believe government is growing at an uncontrollable rate, there is more disheartening news. CNSNews.com reports that "621,000 new government jobs created in the last five months equal 73.3 percent of the 847,000 new jobs created overall," citing numbers made available by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS also reports that "total nonfarm payroll employment for September was revised from +148,000 to +132,000, and the change for October was revised from +171,000 to +138,000. In other words, employment totals that figured prominently in the presidential election campaign during September and October were revised downward by 16,000 and 33,000 jobs respectively.
Then there's manufacturing, which has outpaced every other part of the economy since the recession officially ended in 2009, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the nation's domestic growth in the form of capital expenditures and exports. Once again, the data that this upsurge created 500,000 new jobs in the last two years was promoted by the president during the election campaign, even as two facts were obscured in the process. First, a total of 1.8 million manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2007, meaning there are still 1.3 million fewer people employed in manufacturing since the recession began.
Second, as Bloomberg News characterizes it, manufacturing has "essentially flat-lined since the end of the first quarter of 2012." Several indicators are cited for this, including a decline in manufacturing activity for the fourth time in six months, the loss of 24,000 jobs since July, including 7,000 in November, an "unexpected" drop in exports, and a decline in new defense and transportation equipment orders in October. Moreover, the Federal Reserve reports that industrial production is an anemic 63 percent of what it was in 2007.
Another indicator that portends a recession is inventory. The U.S. Census Bureau's Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders for July 2012 revealed that inventory stockpiles rose in July to $59.8 billion. That number represents the second-highest total on record, topped only by the $60.2 billion in stockpiles accumulated during the housing bust that led to the Great Recession. High inventories reflect one of two realities: either companies are expecting a sales boom–or current demand is lacking.
Bet on the latter, as reflected by the reality that holiday spending was up only 0.7% over last year, according to a report released by MasterCard. Other credit card spending totals are likely to be just as anemic, once again reflecting another erroneous prediction, courtesy of the National Retail Federation that expected a 4.1 percent increase in sales. Since consumer consumption still accounts for 70 percent of our economy, such numbers are alarming.
Yet there are far more alarming numbers. Food stamp usage continues to reach new highs, with 47,102,780 Americans getting assistance in the month of August 2012, another statistic released three days after the election. That's an increase of 15 million Americans since Obama took office in 2009, and it further reveals the stark reality that 1 in 6.7 Americans are now on the program. Another record-breaking number includes Americans collecting Social Security disability payments, which has soared to 8.8 million, resulting in a $47.8 billion deficit for the Social Security program in fiscal 2012. This number reveals another staggering statistic: for every 1.67 Americans working full-time in the private sector in 2011, there is now 1 person collecting benefits from the Social Security administration.
Unfortunately, during the election season and now, Americans have remain blissfully unaware–or willfully oblivious–to such trends. Part of the reason stems from the fact that the data used by economists to determine the course of the economy must be collected and analyzed over the course of several months, leading to a time-lag between the actual beginning of a recession and when it gets reported to the public. Another part is due to the president's highly successful class-warfare demagoguery: he has convinced a majority of Americans that taxing "the rich" is all that is necessary to get the economy humming again, and that we can "redistribute" our way to economic health and happiness.
Americans should note that all the statistics compiled here were amassed long before even the parameters of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations were outlined. Nothing agreed to earlier this week is likely to seriously alter the trajectory of our economy. We are either in a new recession, or we are in the "new normal," of economic stagnation. That is the reality we are currently facing for the simplest of reasons: far too many Americans want big government, as long as "someone else" is paying for it. As long as that attitude persists, we'll all be paying for it, one way or another.
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Sparrow's chief executive Dom Leca announced the news on the company's site and Twitter account this morning, as well as in an e-mail to existing Sparrow users.
Leca says that the company will continue to make Sparrow available, and keep it up and running with support, however the two versions of the product will not gain any new features.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Citing sources, The Verge suggests the deal came in at "under" $25 million.
Sparrow came onto the scene last February for Apple's Mac OS, and arrived on iOS a month later. The software worked with POP and IMAP accounts, including Google's Gmail. The software was noteworthy for how it displayed messages, with the capability to go from a Twitter-like single pane viewer all the way to a three-column view akin to Microsoft's Outlook.
Leca's full message to users below:
We're excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!
We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.
Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision -- one that we think we can better achieve with Google.
We'd like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better mail application. While we'll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.
We had an amazing ride and can't thank you enough.
Full speed ahead!
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We also want to thank our advisors and investors -- Loren Brichter, Dave Morin, John Maeda, Xavier Niel, Jérémie Berrebi -- as well as our friends and family: Simon Istolainen, Jérémie Kanza, Sacha Cayre, Cedric Gepner, Laurent Merlinot, Didier Kuhn, Christophe Baillon, Laurent Cerveau, Christophe Giaume, Sebastien Maury, Manuel Colom, Bertrand Guiheneuf and all of you who have helped us along the way.
This is Google's latest Gmail-related acquisition. The company acquired e-mail security and spam filtering startup Postini in mid-2007, as well as reMail for its e-mail search technology in early 2010.
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Reading a recent Building Design article on the introduction of wind turbines on Elephant & Castle in London, I sense a tenuous link between that and last month's note on modeling the behaviour of sound in urban spaces, not just within buildings.
Repeating my hasty sketch, intended to indicate sounds bouncing through a space ('wavetracing') after Arup's SoundLab, it's easy to mentally reconfigure that to indicate wind – although of course the engineering actually being carried out here is far more precise, and wind has quite different characteristics to sound.
The engineering on the Southwark project is by Brian Dunlop Associates and Gas Dynamics. Dunlop says:
"There's plenty of data for photovoltaic performance in urban locations but very little regarding urban wind power. From a planning point of view, we want to put to bed fears over noise and vibration, and so far the results have proved positive." Dunlop does add, though, that there is an enormous amount of data to be analysed. "The equipment used collects information every second using sophisticated software created by Gas Dynamics," he says. "At the moment South Bank University is analysing data gathered from the first three months."
Arup's engineers are also modelling the way wind moves through open urban spaces, which sounds impossibly complex. Arup's Rupert Blackstone:
"Modelling urban wind movement is a real challenge. It's almost impossible to be predictive because every environment has local characteristics that affect air flow. The surface roughness — meaning the variation in height of a neighbourhood's buildings — has a huge influence on the wind resource available. There's really no point in extrapolating from meteorological data — you have to be location-specific in your analysis."
Wind turbines, as with other renewable energy sources, are only likely to increase in number throughout urban space, and personally I'm all for them. I've never quite understood arguments against their introduction – a few messy bird-kills here and there aside – and have personally almost always found them aesthetically appealing. I recall Justin Good's piece for Design Observer, when he almost systematically 'proved', in that way philosophy doctorates do, that "wind farms are objectively beautiful."
However, the article was predicated on the most likely current siting for wind farms – rural environments – and so hinged on the suggestion that people found wind farms unappealing as they resembled modernist sculptures, and so "don't want the ideology of high modernism disrupting the very different order of the natural world."
In urban environments, smaller vertical axis wind turbines can look like modernist sculptures and all the better for it, perhaps more universally at ease in this setting. With some of the newer wind turbines on the market, they're not a million miles away from the Alexander Calder or Barbara Hepworth sculptures that we see at the Fundaçion Joan Miro or pinned to the side of John Lewis in Oxford Street.
Still, the portrayed settings for these turbines are often the ex-urban 'object in the landscape'-style houses familiar to photogenic regions of Australia, California, Scandinavia etc.
This is perhaps due to their unwieldy size thus far but also, I think, a cultural association between renewable energy and 'the great outdoors', which is entirely false and actually problematic. As with water tanks there's an irony that most renewable energy products appear to be designed for properties in rural settings or at best on the fringes of urban sprawl. Whereas, of course, most people live in cities, in areas that are the highest contributors to greenhouse pollution. I'd like to see small elegant turbines intended for domestic use in tighter urban context.
That's why it's so interesting to see the experiments at Elephant & Castle. As Monocle reported last month, on some days Denmark achieves all its electricity demands via wind power – with an average of 20 percent. The blades developed by leading Danish company LM Glasfiber are 61.5m long, travel at around 300km/h and pull 9Gs. Not exactly what you want atop your house. But the Windspire, Helix, and particularly the Quiet Revolution, designed for small scale wind generation in cities, are developments that just might. Indeed, Quiet Revolution is almost designed to take advantage of the turbulence found in urban settings – or at least not be impaired by it.
Their current QR5 is 5-metres tall, but appears to need a 9-metre base – again, outside of what most urban residents have space for. But just as water tanks are now being designed with apartment dwellers and renters in mind, we'll surely see smaller-scale generators extrapolated from the QR5 – such as their 'in development' QR2.5 for instance.
Their projects include a QR5 to be mounted on top of a listed building on Southwark Bridge Road; planning permission granted, installation in "late 2007".
See also these seven turbines planned for the top of a development in Croydon. (Has all of south London been turned over to a giant test-bed for wind power or what? Wouldn't be a bad thing.)
Quiet Revolution's display turbines are also interesting, comprising LEDs embedded in the blades, combining renewable energy with informational possibilities – hopefully carried a little further than simple branding (an obvious display would be amount of energy contributed, in the spirit of the presentation I gave last week at Interesting South). I'd also love to know what they sound like. I suspect, in the spirit of positive soundscapes, that they would sound fantastic, actually. Should it necessarily be a quiet revolution?
We look forward to hearing more about these projects, and their impact on surrounding neighbourhoods, and also to a further refinement of their design, derived both from the sculptural lineage noted above and the huge variety in urban conditions found worldwide (wind may be the same force everywhere, but the spatial characteristics, cultural capital and related environmental conditions certainly aren't. Will we see cities such as Chicago and Wellington increasingly talking up their windiness?)
Do add a comment if you know of similar projects (perhaps even, dare I suggest it, outside of south London).
Finally, returning to the first point, modelling wind through these spaces is just one of the numerous fascinating developments around urban modelling – extending increasingly sensor-based models of buildings, generated and maintained throughout the lifecycle of a building and known in the trade as building information modelling (BIM), up to the scale of cities, aka city information modelling (CIM). So as well as developmental tools, speculating as to potential environmental behaviour of buildings and spaces, some of these systems could be built as real-time feedback loops, indicating the behaviour of urban spaces in real-time. It's a burgeoning loosely-defined field at the moment, running from indices of air pollution, water pollution or informational behaviour through to these live 'field recordings' of wind or sound. As the Building Design article suggests, "an enormous amount of data" can emerge from recording the dynamics of urban wind power, but our ability to now process this data – and then make sense of it through information design – has given us new possibilities for assessing the behaviour of urban environments.
It's also not without problems, as models are just models and not reality, and as such are limited in their expression of territory and have various patterns of power or ideology coded within them – a great editorial by Flavio Albanese in Domus #908 made a similar point about maps, recently – but when used imaginatively and with well-informed civic value in mind, we begin to have ever-more useful tools that may enable us to sculpt wind, sound and other elemental forces for the benefit of cities and citizens.


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Boredom is the enemy of healthy eating, right? It's easy to be enthusiastic five days into low-carb dieting, but 20 days later? Not so much.
I suffer from this myself. Sometimes, you long to nose-dive into a gigantic bowl of crisps. Or scarf down eight slices of bread, covered in butter. Here are some ideas for keeping boredom at bay.
Do try out lots of different recipes. Most of us rotate the same meals week in/week out. When you're restricting what you're eating, that's a double whammy. We've lots of suggestions here, but the Grand Daddy of diabetes-friendly recipes is The Diet Doctor. There, you'll find various carb counts, vegetarian choices, fish, meat and eggs ideas in abundance.
Look for different texture. Low-carb foods can lack crunch. (Think crisps, crackers and more.) Pork rinds are crunch-tastic. Make them yourself by cutting pork skin into strips and tossing with a little sea salt and hot smoked paprika. Place them on a rack over a tray and whack in a very hot oven for 25-30 minutes. You can buy them too.
De-carb your favourite recipes. Missing bread? Try our easy, low-carb version here. Use cauliflower for rice or those zero noodles to make Chinese and Asian-inspired dishes. Cauliflower also makes fabulous mash.
Eat enough. Boredom might be hunger in disguise. Work out your calorie allowance for your levels of activity and ensure you're meeting it. Adding cheese, cream and mayonnaise to dishes is an easy way to bump those numbers up.
Try new foods. Yes, branch out and eat something you thought you hated. Liver, cabbage and sprouts (not all together) might turn out to be delicious.
Have at least two or three go-to sweet recipes. Humans love a sweet taste. While you might want a low-carb diet to get rid of yours, the wise woman (or man) has low-carb options on hand just in case. Try our peanut chocolate fudge for a sweet hit. Or this recipe for ice-cream.
Eat high-carb occasionally. Make it worth it, though. I ate a slice of chocolate cake recently which was…average. I muttered to myself afterwards, "Well, that was a total waste of carbs." Choose the very best you can and eat in the evening, rather than at lunchtime or breakfast as the resultant tiredness won't matter so much.
Happy days!
For a book stuffed to the gunnels with low-carb recipes, The Diabetes Diet (now available in print and e-book format) is your number one choice.


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1) read a few of the blog posts about how #BBC11 changed people's perspectives on being a part of craft beer. Just go to twitter, and search for #BBC11. You'll see the energy.
- I wrote one about finding my tribe
- Doug of Fledgling Brewer wrote a particularly stunning one on the call to action
- Brian of Seacoast Beverage Lab wrote one about seeing hops for the first time
- Carla, The Beer Babe, talked about Fred Eckhardt, and his integral role in craft beer history
2) take the time to weigh in on where you'd like the next conference to be. The venue for 2012 isn't set yet! The guidelines for the proposals can be found here. Let's get it over to the East Coast, or even more centrally located so that more people can join up! Have an idea for a great place to host it? Speak up! As someone excited about craft beer, I can't wait to go explore different communities, all around the United States. I'm also going to try and go to the one in Europe! I want to know what people are doing all over!
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3) I was so excited about this that I popped awake one night, and the next morning I asked Allan & Elle of Zephyr Adventures to please make a new "badge" for us to post on our blogs. I was so nervous that they would say no... But they said yes - and now we have a new badge that we can use as a visible flag for other bloggers, brewers, and people interested in supporting the craft beer industry. Please join the community in support of craft beer - we can make it better and bigger in 2012.If you click on the badge, it will take you to the image you can download and save. Please place this on your blog, and retweet this post so others can find the information to keep passing along.
|Link up! Show your support!
I'm passionate about craft beer.
I know you are too.
I hope to see you at the 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference.


text: JulyDiaz 2797 Posted January 28, 2014 If you loved the game, you might hate this movie. Put Your Hands Together/Wham Bam Pow host Cameron Esposito joins Paul, June, and Jason to talk all about MORTAL KOMBAT. They discuss the mortals being unfazed by the supernatural, Christopher Lambert's wig, and the anticlimactic fight with Goro aka four arms. Plus, we learn about June's relationship with video games, find out Jason's thoughts on the movie's soundtrack, and hear one of the most amazing reviews during Second Opinions. People of Los Angeles, make sure to get tickets for a LIVE How Did This Get Made? on Friday, March 14th at Largo! Get tickets at www.largo-la.com 1 Share this post Link to post


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Michael Patterson-Carver's Waiting for ObamaPosted: February 28th, 2011 | Author: Aubree Penney '13 | Filed under: | No Comments »
Michael Rushmore is a sophomore with no definite major. Outside of class, he spends an inordinate amount of his free time looking at photographs of murals and graffiti. His favorite museum is the American Folk Art Museum.
Aubree Penneyis a junior Religion and English double major who dabbles in Classics. She happily divides her time between ancient texts and contemporary art and Co-Manages the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. Her favorite day of the week is Tuesday.
Rachel Lim is a senior double-majoring in Political Science and Linguistics. Art, music, and Pepperidge Farm Bordeaux Cookies are a few of her favorite things.
David Richardson is a senior English major at Haverford College. He worked under Exhibits Coordinator Matthew Callinan during curator Harrell Fletcher's site visit to Haverford in the summer 2010.
People's Biennial is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by ICI (Independent Curators International), New York. Guest curators for the exhibition are Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann. The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; ICI Benefactors Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, Jo Carole Lauder, and Barbara and John Robinson; and the ICI Partners.


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If Canadian has anything it is the determined women who built the community. Discover some of the fascinating women who nurtured, educated, served and built the communities of the Texas Panhandle. From the first educator to the entrepreneurial women who settled and built a lasting community nestled in the corner of the Texas Panhandle, you will discover the strength and foresight that has helped keep the city of Canadian and the county of Hemphill a vibrant and treasured place in which to work, live and raise families.
Women of Canadian Texas HistoryThe Springer Ranch Company hired Mose Wesley Hays, an experienced cowman who, with his brother-in-law Joseph Morgan had driven cattle to Hemphill County from Padre Island in 1878. His wife, Lou Turner Hays, became legendary among area cowboys for her hospitality. Mrs. Hays mothered the whole countryside, besides serving as postmistress.
Jewel Madeline (Crim) McMeans BarkerAlthough Jewel McMeans Barker was blind for many years she did not allow it to be a handicap. Her blindness was caused by secondary glaucoma, and she raised four children, two of whom she never saw. She taught music for many years, she memorized over 300 hymns when she knew that she was going to be blind and was pianist for the Assembly of God Church, and she was also a composer.
Mary B. IsaacsMary Brainard Isaacs was Canadian's pioneer educator. She was born in Massachusetts on February 16, 1854. At the age of 34, her family moved to Canadian to join her brother, Ed Brainard who had already established John's Creek Ranch in Roberts County. At this time, there were 20 families and a number of children, but no school in Canadian. Mary, who had left a good teaching position in New York State, took care of the town's educational problem.
Women of CanadianTexas HistoryWhen Mrs. Elizabeth Winsett Johnson came from Tennessee with her husband in 1885 she brought her household goods, her family, and her way of life. She was a pioneer woman and a very gifted artist who found time to work at an easel. These paintings did not include scenes from the southwest. Instead, her paintings captured current events such as the discovery of King Tut's tomb, told stories of Egyptian slave markets and Joan of Arc.
Women of Canadian Texas HistoryThe Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. commissioned The Rev. C.W. Alexander to establish a church and Sunday school in Mobeetie in 1885. While on the trip to bring his wife and family to the Panhandle, he took a cold from being wet and never completely recovered, dying within the year. Mary Jane Alexander was encouraged to purchase land and begin a livelihood for her family of five children.
Josephine HoefleMrs. Paul Hoefle was a native of New York, and she came to Texas with her husband who was in the mercantile business. She was the first Home Economics teacher in the Canadian Schools. She was em¬ployed in 1918 and was an instructor for three years.
She helped to secure the domestic science units and establish an accredited Home Economics department in the local school.
Women's Christian Temperance UnionThrough the efforts of Mrs. J.P. (Elizabeth) Johnson and Mrs. L.N. White, the W.C.T.U. was organized on Nov. 26, 1902, by Mrs. Nannie Webb Curtis, who was organizing unions throughout the state. The ladies felt a union was necessary to fight against the many saloons that existed at that time in Canadian.


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has released the second report on the Swine 2006 study from the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS).
The report is part of the fourth national study of the U.S. swine industry and provides a base of information for education and research programs.
The report provides statistics on 17 states that represent 94% of U.S. swine operations with 100 or more pigs.
Some highlights:
-- More than 20% of sites with breeding females reported sickness or death in sows due to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) (27.3%), swine influenza virus (22.3%) or roundworms (26.8%) during the last 12 months.
-- Leading disease problems in preweaned pigs by percentage of sites were colibacillosis, 47.4%; navel infections, 43.1%; and Streptococcus suis, 38.5%.
-- Nearly half of sites with nursery-age pigs (49.9%) reported pigs sick with Strep suis in the last year. The percentage of nursery sites reporting sick pigs due to PRRS ranged from 18.6% of small sites to 61.6% of large sites.
-- Vaccinating pigs for Mycoplasmal pneumonia was less common during the grow-finish phase than the nursery phase.
-- The most common antibiotics given by injection to nursery-age pigs were ceftiofur and procaine penicillin G, given on 43.0 and 43.9% of sites, respectively.
-- The two most common reasons that sites with grow-finish pigs used water medications were to treat respiratory disease (42.4%) and to treat enteric disease (15.8% of sites).
Part II: Reference of Swine Health and Health Management Practices in the United States 2006 is posted on the NAHMS Web site.


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Looks like the hubby may not have been the only Tsarnaev interested in radical Islamist reading material after all. A search of Katherine Russell Tsarnaev's computer turned up data from Inspire, the recruitment magazine published by al-Qaeda online, as well as other material that makes her more interesting than an average witness:
Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings after finding al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials.
The probe of the computer belonging to Katherine Russell, 24, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is part of the effort by investigators to determine whether Russell knew anything about the April 15 bombing plot or helped the Tsarnaev brothers hide from authorities, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. …
According to officials, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also told investigators that he and his brother built the bombs in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Cambridge apartment, where the elder brother lived with Russell and their daughter. Officials said that Russell called her husband when she saw his photograph on television — following the FBI's release of the pictures of the suspects — but did not notify authorities.
One of the key questions for investigators is whether the radical Islamist materials on Russell's computer belonged to her or were downloaded by her husband or someone else.
Earlier, we discovered that Russell Tsarnaev's DNA and fingerprints didn't match those found on bomb fragments. However, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that the bombs were made in the apartment where Tamerlan and Katherine live, and Newsday reports that investigators have found residue in the apartment as well:
A bathtub and kitchen sink in the Cambridge apartment of deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev tested positive for residue from explosives, corroborating his surviving brother Dzhokhar's claims that the duo built bombs at the home, a federal law enforcement source said Friday.
The testing was performed by federal explosives experts and the results suggest bombs were either built in the bathroom and kitchen or stored there at some point, the source said.
In other words, the brothers didn't build the bombs in the carport. If they used the bathtub or kitchen sink, it's a little difficult for the wife to claim ignorance of that effort, although with her work schedule, it's very possible that she wasn't around for the assembly itself. Presumably, though, she would have been suspicious to find the two men scrubbing the sink and bathtub in her absence.
The same could also be said about the computer, too — that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar used it without her knowledge, and that she's as surprised as anyone to find al-Qaeda propaganda on it. Dzhokhar got rid of his own laptop, though, and and if Tamerlan was looking to evade suspicion, he probably would have done the same with his own computer. Perhaps the FBI will be able to determine who used the computer at the time the material was accessed, perhaps not, but their sudden "focus" is hardly surprising. Many wondered how a young wife with a small child could have her husband go on walkabout for six months and take it in stride, too.
Police and the FBI spent the day scouring the woods, apparently looking for the Tsarnaev's testing grounds for their bomb designs:
Information about the residue came to light as federal, state and local authorities launched a massive search effort in a wooded area and other locations near the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth campus for evidence related to the Boston Marathon bombings case, according to the source.
Authorities were scouring the woods after receiving information that evidence linked to the case may have been left there, the source said.
The searches were confirmed by the Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office.
Federal agents have received information that students heard explosions in the wooded area about a month ago, sparking concerns among investigators that the area may have been used as a testing grounds for the pressure cooker bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 at the Boston Marathon.
This is another nagging question, one related to Tamerlan's travels. Budding bombmakers require lots of practice, and if he wasn't getting that in Boston, then the assumption could be made that he got it in Dagestan.


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Pack, rush, stand, wait, take off shoes. Flying, so much fun.
Do you notice the airports you travel through? Here's a recent list of the world's top 10, which includes Paris Charles de Gaulle (which, built in 1974, looks like a cartoon idea of the future with all its tubes) and Rio's domestic airport and Dulles, in D.C.
Here's my top 10:
1) Santa Barbara, California. Tiny, red-tile-roofed. There are pool houses larger. Charming, cute, feels like vacation.
2) Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The only sound you hear is that of temple bells from the Buddhist temple across the street. The only airport I've ever flown into where you can walk right into town.
3) Vancouver. The architecture is spectacular — lots of glass, waterfalls, totem poles inside and out. One of the very few airports that actually makes specific reference to where you've just landed. The approach is also fantastic — the Rockies, the ocean, not to mention all the huge log booms on the water. I also love their use of YVR as its name — every Canadian airport code starts with Y. (YUL is Montreal, YYZ is Toronto. Go figure.)
4) Seattle. Think about it — when do you ever notice, in a good way, what's at your feet? I've flown through this airport a few times and marveled at what lovely materials they chose for the flooring. Not to mention the inlaid bronze salmon inserted randomly. One of whom carries a briefcase.
5) Toronto Island Airport. You can wing into this one if you fly Porter Air from Newark. It's set on a small island from which you take a ferry for about 1 minute, then a ten-minute taxi ride to downtown. The best way to see Toronto's dramatic skyline.
6) Cuzco, Peru. OK. I admit it. I remember nothing of the airport but my immense, weeping gratitude that I saw it at all, after a hairy, scary descent on Faucett Air. (now defunct.) Think of a sewing machine needle threading up and down through cloth. That was us, trying to find a clear bit of air between many large mountains.
7) Shannon, Ireland. I love any airport that immediately gives me a strong sense of place. Landing in the west of Ireland, you look down over an impossibly beautiful patchwork of green, hundreds of small fields ringed by low stone walls.
8) Bastia, Corsica. Like Galway and Mae Hong Son, the landscape is at the edge of the airport. I remember seeing sheep within a few hundred yards of the runways.
9) Charles de Gaulle, Paris. Although many hate it, it is saturated with happy memories for me from my year living in Paris on a fellowship. From there, I flew out, or back, from Montserrat, England, Istanbul. I loved that CDG became "my" airport. Easy access to central Paris on the RER.
10) Westchester, New York. My home airport. It's impossibly crowded but small and easy to get in and out of. I love that we walk across tarmac into the planes. You can sit in the restaurant and watch planes taking off and landing. I love being able to get to an airport in 20 minutes.
What are your favorites and why?


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text: The House this week gave final congressional approval to legislation that links student loan interest rates to the financial markets. The bill would offer lower rates for most students now but higher rates down the line if the economy improves as expected. What does this bill mean for students and parents? Join us at 2 p.m. today for a chat with Adrienne Lu who covers state education policy for Stateline. She will take questions from readers on how students and parents will be affected by the latest federal moves on student loans if President Barack Obama signs the approved bill.


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Frequently Asked Financial Aid Questions
Can I afford a Roanoke College Education?
We understand that financing a college education is one of the most significant life investments families can make. Roanoke College is committed to offering high-quality education at a reasonable cost. We will do everything possible to ensure that you and your family can afford Roanoke College. Every year, more than 85 percent of our student-body benefit from some type of assistance thanks to Roanoke College, the Federal Government, the Commonwealth of Virginia and private outside sources.
What type of aid does Roanoke offer to help me finance my education?
Roanoke College not only awards institutional grants and scholarship to our students but, we also participate with a variety of outside agencies to offer a wide array of assistance to our students. Currently Roanoke students are receiving funds from the following sources: federal and state agencies, foundations, corporations, private organizations, and the College. For more information, check out the financial aid website's "How Do I Pay for College" section
What type of aid does Roanoke offer for Intensive Learning and/or Summer School?
Students may choose from a variety of alternative loan programs for both the IL term and Summer School. Alternative Loans generally require a co-signer and credit approval. Applications for these loans are available online. Additionally, students applying for an IL travel course may be eligible to apply for either the Helen Cobbs International Intensive Learning Scholarship or the Fortnightly Club Intensive Learning Scholarship. Interested students should explore more information about these financial aid opportunities on the financial aid website for IL and Summer School.
How will moving off campus affect my financial aid package?
If you are thinking about changing your residency status as an upperclassman, it is important that you check with the Financial Aid Office to make sure your award package will not change. Adjustments to both your grants and loans may be made. Of course, one of the biggest difference that you will notice, however, is the amount you owe the college. Instead of having to pay the Business Office for tuition, room & board, and fees (activities, technology and telecommunication) you will only have to pay Roanoke College tuition and the appropriate fees (activities and technology).
I plan to study abroad. How can I find out about financial aid?
Prior to being able to determine what type of financial aid you will be eligible for, the Financial Aid Office will need to know what program you intend to participate in. If you have that information, contact the Financial Aid Office and we will be glad to discuss your options.
I need more free money. Is there a particular site I should access online to help in my search for outside scholarships?
There are numerous scholarship search engines online that can help in your search for outside funding. In particular students should check out www.finaid.org and www.fastweb.com. Roanoke College also has a scholarship bulletin board that is maintained by the Financial Aid Office for Roanoke College students. Any scholarships that we are directly made aware of are posted here for RC students to view.
I got an outside scholarship. Should I report it to the financial aid office?
Yes. If you are receiving any kind of financial aid from any source, you must report the scholarship to the Financial Aid Office.
What happens to my file after I graduate or withdraw from Roanoke?
Federal regulations require Roanoke College to retain a copy of your file for a minimum of 3 years from the award year in which you utilized the funds. To fulfill this requirement, Roanoke College has chosen to maintain all financial aid files and records for 5 years from the last date of your attendance. Once these 5 years have lapsed, the Financial Aid Office will destroy your file using a secure document disposal procedure. If you are interested in finding out more about this procedure, please contact our office at (540) 375-2235.
Will the outside scholarship affect my package?
In most cases it will not. In those cases where we are required to reduce part of our previous award, Roanoke first reduces student loans and/or work. Only where absolutely necessary will we reduce a scholarship or grant. Any time an award or change to an award is made, we will provide a revised financial aid award letter that will include a breakdown of the award and, if available, a comparison of charges to aid (i.e., you will know bottom line figures).


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Because onions are small and their tissues leave little or no trace, there is no conclusive opinion about the exact location and time of their birth. Many archaeologists, botanists and food historians believe onions originated in central Asia. Other research suggests that onions were first grown in Iran and West Pakistan.
It is presumed that our predecessors discovered and started eating wild onions very early long before farming or even writing was invented. Very likely, this humble vegetable was a staple in the prehistoric diet.
Most researchers agree that the onion has been cultivated for 5000 years or more. Since onions grew wild in various regions, they were probably consumed for thousands of years and domesticated simultaneously all over the world. Onions may be one of the earliest cultivated crops because they were less perishable than other foods of the time, were transportable, were easy to grow and could be grown in a variety of soils and climates. In addition, the onion was useful for sustaining human life. Onions prevented thirst and could be dried and preserved for later consumption when food might be scarce.
While the place and time of the onion's origin are still a mystery, there are many documents, from very early times, which describe its importance as a food and its use in art, medicine and mummification.
Onions grew in Chinese gardens as early as 5000 years ago and they are referenced in some of the oldest Vedic writings from India. In Egypt, onions can be traced back to 3500 B.C. There is evidence that the Sumerians were growing onions as early as 2500 B.C. One Sumerian text dated to about 2500 B.C. tells of someone plowing over the city governor's onion patch.
In Egypt, onions were actually an object of worship. The onion symbolized eternity to the Egyptians who buried onions along with their Pharaohs. The Egyptians saw eternal life in the anatomy of the onion because of its circle-within-a-circle structure. Paintings of onions appear on the inner walls of the pyramids and in the tombs of both the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom. The onion is mentioned as a funeral offering and onions are depicted on the banquet tables of the great feasts both large, peeled onions and slender, immature ones. They were shown upon the altars of the gods.
Frequently, a priest is pictured holding onions in his hand or covering an altar with a bundle of their leaves or roots.
In mummies, onions have frequently been found in the pelvic regions of the body, in the thorax, flattened against the ears and in front of the collapsed eyes. Flowering onions have been found on the chest, and onions have been found attached to the soles of the feet and along the legs. King Ramses IV, who died in 1160 B.C., was entombed with onions in his eye sockets. Some Egyptologists theorize that onions may have been used because their strong scent and/or magical powers would prompt the dead to breathe again. Other Egyptologists believe it was because onions were known for their strong antiseptic qualities, which construed as magical, would be handy in the afterlife.
Onions are mentioned to have been eaten by the Israelites in the Bible. In Numbers 11:5, the children of Israel lament the meager desert diet enforced by the Exodus: "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic."
In India as early as the sixth century B.C., the famous medical treatise Charaka Sanhita celebrates the onion as medicine a diuretic, good for digestion, the heart, the eyes and the joints.
Likewise, Dioscorides, a Greek physician in first century A.D., noted several medicinal uses of onions. The Greeks used onions to fortify athletes for the Olympic Games. Before competition, athletes would consume pounds of onions, drink onion juice and rub onions on their bodies.
The Romans ate onions regularly and carried them on journeys to their provinces in England and Germany. Pliny the Elder, Roman's keen-eyed observer, wrote of Pompeii's onions and cabbages. Before he was overcome and killed by the volcano's heat and fumes, Pliny the Elder catalogued the Roman beliefs about the efficacy of the onion to cure vision, induce sleep, heal mouth sores, dog bites, toothaches, dysentery and lumbago. Excavators of the doomed city would later find gardens where, just as Pliny had said, onions had grown. The bulbs had left behind telltale cavities in the ground.
The Roman gourmet Apicius, credited with writing one of the first cookbooks (which dates to the eighth and ninth centuries), included many references to onions.
By the Middle Ages, the three main vegetables of European cuisine were beans, cabbage and onions. In addition to serving as a food for both the poor and the wealthy, onions were prescribed to alleviate headaches, snakebites and hair loss. They were also used as rent payments and wedding gifts.
Later, the first Pilgrims brought onions with them on the Mayflower. However, they found that strains of wild onions already grew throughout North America. Native American Indians used wild onions in a variety of ways, eating them raw or cooked, as a seasoning or as a vegetable. Such onions were also used in syrups, as poultices, as an ingredient in dyes and even as toys. According to diaries of colonists, bulb onions were planted as soon as the Pilgrim fathers could clear the land in 1648.


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Thousands of dollars in cigarettes taken from Pelham business
Police say burglars appeared to know what they were doing
Thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes were stolen from a store in Pelham in less than two minutes, police said.
Pelham police said surveillance video shows three people breaking into Ray's State Line Market on Mammoth Road. The burglars were hooded and facing away from the camera.
"They were in and out of the store in 1 minute, 37 seconds," said Sgt. Anne Perriello.
Perriello said the speed with which the burglars worked makes it likely that they had been in the store before and knew exactly what they wanted and where to go.
"One went straight to the office, the other to the petty cash and then together, they carried out cases of cigarettes," she said.
Perriello said the stolen cigarettes are worth more than $14,000. Police said cigarettes have become a more common target for several reasons.
"That's something that can be sold on the streets, so people can make quick money, and they are hard to track," Perriello said. "It's not like a pawned item."
Along with the cigarettes, $1,000 in cash was also taken. Police said the burglars showed up in a van, and the three worked together to pry open the door.
Investigators said burglaries in the area have been on the rise recently.
"I know Nashua had a series of commercial breaks the other night, the night before this took place, actually," Perriello said. "One way or another, they are all connected. They are paying attention to what the pricey items are."
Anyone with information is asked to call Pelham police.


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Sweet Tea
Can one of the world's oldest drinks help solve one of this country's newest problems—the sugar epidemic? Two idealistic entrepreneurs think so
Even someone who ingests indecent quantities of sugar on a daily basis, as I do, understands that certain things can be too sweet. Specifically, sodas and other bottled drinks, which the nutrition realist Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and the new What to Eat, calls "liquid candy." Candy is one thing—especially good candy, which even Nestle, a founding member of what resentful hedonists and industry apologists call the "food police," endearingly admits to eating more often than she would like her readers to know. And I could hardly survive without my peculiar daily ration of leftover chocolate-spice frosting, which Maria's Pastry in the North End, Boston's Italian neighborhood, saves for me. Yet there's something intolerable about commercial sweetened drinks.
That something is the kind of sugar most of them use. High-fructose corn syrup has been blamed for any number of ills, primarily its role in the 74 percent increase in obesity that this country has seen since 1991, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The New York Times recently documented a concurrent epidemic of diabetes, especially among minority urban populations, that has renewed alarm about the high-sugar, high-fat diet of children. My loyalty to a line of bottled drinks that contain the right kind of sugar, and not too much of it, led me to wonder what made them better, and whether they might be a plausible substitute for the drinks many children find in school vending machines.
Apparently the kind of sugar added to a food or drink has a strong effect not only on flavor but also on health. The dramatic rise in obesity parallels the takeover, in the 1980s, of high-fructose corn syrup from cane and beet sugars. Only in the 1970s did researchers succeed in converting cornstarch to syrup, at a time when the federal government was increasing its already heavy subsidies for corn farmers. The result was that conglomerates could sell truckloads of the new sweetener for less than they cost to produce. The food industry took high-fructose corn syrup as a margin-increasing godsend, and used it to put the sweet into sweet-and-sour ketchup, make nonfat yogurt palatable, and give semi-eternal shelf life to oddly soft, plastic-packaged bread. Greg Critser, the author of Fat Land, and Michael Pollan, the author of the new The Omnivore's Dilemma, have helped make this history familiar, and almost every consumer watchdog group in the land has attacked the advertising that coerces children to pump colas and seemingly innocuous fruit drinks, which are practically straight corn syrup, into their innocent bodies.
Less familiar are studies positing a mechanism for the still-disputed link between high-fructose corn syrup and obesity. These center on the different hormonal effects of fructose versus glucose. Fructose doesn't stimulate the production of insulin or trigger the production of leptin, a hormone that controls appetite. It doesn't suppress ghrelin, a hunger stimulus. Table sugar does send signals of satiety and curb appetite, however temporarily. And the liver converts fructose to fat more efficiently than it converts glucose. To add (canned) icing to the cake, the fats the liver produces from fructose are triglycerides, which are bad for the heart.
The studies on hormones and fat production—mostly conducted by Peter Havel, of the University of California, Davis, and John Bantle, of the University of Minnesota—are still controversial, and naturally the corn industry refutes them. (It won't be happy, either, about a forthcoming book by Gary Taubes on high-protein diets, which further explores the connection between high-fructose corn syrup and weight gain.) The industry points out that obesity levels have risen in many countries that don't subsidize corn and that sweeten most commonly with beet and cane sugars. Besides, high-fructose corn syrup isn't all fructose: 45percent of it is glucose. Many researchers, including Havel, spread the blame beyond high-fructose corn syrup. Levelheaded nutritionists like Nestle and Walter Willett, the author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, agree that more important than the rise of fructose is the invasion of cheap sugars into the American diet.
My own case against high-fructose corn syrup is that what little flavor it has is strangely violent: drinks sweetened with corn syrup taste like only their usually artificial flavorings, and the effect is a clobbering sweetness, as if someone had come up behind you, held your nose, and poured syrup down your throat. Artificial sweeteners—distinctively bitter saccharin (pink packets) or the milder, ethanol-like aspartame (blue)—are founts of flavor by comparison. (Rich Cohen's new Sweet and Low makes the family history of a sweetener more dramatic and entertaining than you'd ever imagine it.) Cane syrup, which artisan soda makers have revived, seems by comparison complex and nuanced—as I believe almost all forms of cane sugar, especially true brown sugar, to be.
In drinks, less sugar is the key, and what sugar there is should be good. Hence my interest in Honest Tea.
Iced tea is the most refreshing of summer drinks. In the South, of course, it is a commodity, served from upright metal tanks with spigots. Usually it is very sweet and laced with lemon, and the tea flavor practically vanishes; or it is harsh and bitter, like Nestea's powdered mix and most bottled iced teas. Small wonder that in many bottled versions tea is a nearly forgotten background to blaring fruit flavors. Anyone whose summers meant powerful, not overly sweet homemade iced tea knows that tea should be the primary flavor, and that a glass of iced tea is as refreshing and pure as a swim in a cool stream.
Honest Tea has many virtues, all of them implied by its punning name. But the primary ones are that it tastes like tea, isn't too sweet, and doesn't use high-fructose corn syrup. Among commercial iced teas it is the closest to the homemade tea of my childhood—and in some ways better. That tea—carefully steeped for what my grandmother called "tea essence," sweetened while hot, and chilled so as not to cloud it—started with bags of indifferent tea. Honest Tea starts with very good Indian and Chinese loose-leaf tea, steeped exactly as tea experts dictate: loose, in just-boiled water.
The stories of Honest Tea's trial and error—sediment at the bottom of early bottles; big, laundry bag–like tea balls bursting and spraying hot, wet tea leaves all over the factory floor and ceiling—have appealed to journalists and the tea's many fans. So have the doughty attempts of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, two idealistic men with a business plan, modest start-up funding, and no experience, to establish a new bottled beverage with a do-good image in a fiercely competitive industry not known for its charitable deeds.
Goldman, the son of the Russia scholar Marshall Goldman and the China scholar Merle Goldman, went to Yale's School of Management, known for the use in its curriculum of the nonprofit sector, where he heard Nalebuff, one of his professors, pose a question during a discussion of cola marketing: Why were soft drinks either way too sweet or artificially sweetened, with nothing in between? Nalebuff later looked into the tea industry in India and found that very good tea cost almost nothing more to brew than bad tea. Several business plans, rounds of family and personal fundraising, and many kitchen tea tastings later, Honest Tea rolled up to supermarkets and convenience stores. (Often it rolled around downtown Bethesda, Maryland, where Honest Tea has its offices and modest test kitchen, in Goldman's U-Haul, or in the trunk of his wife's car to and from the homeless shelter where she then worked.)
Now in its ninth year, Honest Tea comes in eighteen flavors (two new ones, Just Black and Just Green, are unsweetened) and is on the shelves of stores across the country, including the entire Whole Foods chain and some Target stores. (Starbucks owns its own tea company, Tazo, which makes a lightly sweetened, organic iced tea that tastes fine but is not as pure-flavored as Honest Tea.) Goldman says the company will break even for the first time next month.
Fundraising has gotten easier. The cartoonist Berkeley Breathed (who later drew the label for Honest Tea's Peach Oo-La-Long) and the writer Andrew Tobias wrote fan letters and then checks to invest in the small, privately held company; one woman who simply liked the product eventually wrote a check for $250,000. (The company asks fans who send only good wishes to spread the word—it spends no money on advertising except in a few trade journals.) In the most recent round of fundraising, Goldman and Nalebuff had to turn away investors—and also companies that wanted to invest a little too much. If they decide to sell, Goldman says, it will be on their own terms, after the company has become profitable.
All very colorful, and admirable too. Royalties from sales of its herbal peppermint First Nation tea go to Native American groups in Montana. Some of its tea is "Fair Trade," meaning guaranteed to put part of the profits into the hands of the people who raised and picked it. (Why not all the tea? Supplies of Fair Tradecertified tea are sometimes limited in the varieties Goldman needs. And sometimes the company can't afford the surplus cost of certification.)
Goldman takes as a hero and model Gary Hirshberg, the founder and CEO of Stonyfield Farms, which has built a national organic brand of yogurt and marketed to parents concerned about their children's health. Hirshberg sits on the Honest Tea board, and Goldman, as a friend and colleague, recently ob-served his attempts to get Stonyfield products into school vending machines. Could Honest Tea, he wondered, do the same thing?
The question took on some urgency at the beginning of this school year, when Goldman learned to his shock that the public elementary school where all three of his sons had gone—and for which, as head of the school's foundation, he had helped raise more than $200,000—had put a soda machine right next to the new gym's exit. Although it would be in service only after school hours, the machine stood just where children would be thirstiest. Similarly horrified parents insisted that it be removed. (Many cities and states have outlawed such machines; others place restrictions on hours of operation and on drinks that contain high-fructose corn syrup. A recently introduced amendment to the National School Lunch Act, which has bipartisan support, would regulate all food and drink sold in school vending machines with an eye to whether they promote obesity or chronic illness.) Here, far too close to home, was a point on the carbohydrate continuum that Goldman once heard described at a convenience-store convention: "Wewant 'em to go from apple juice to soda to beer."
If a school in Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the country's richest per capita, feels compelled to raise a few hundred dollars a month from a vending machine selling syrup-laced sodas, Goldman says, imagine trying to change schools all over the country. The challenges to Honest Tea in schools start with distribution and profit margins schools earn from big-business beverages. They go on to include caffeine, which some schools ban and many others are concerned about, and extend to glass bottles, which schools usually don't allow. Beverage companies generally supply the machines, which need maintenance; Goldman doesn't want to spend the money or to send his team around to make repairs. And big beverage companies have sales forces just for schools, which Honest Tea can't afford.
But if parents and schools band together, they can put better snacks and drinks into vending machines. The parents at Goldman's local school managed to get the sodas and the picture of a brand-name soda removed, but Goldman calls it "a Pyrrhic victory"—the machine is still there, selling sugar-laced fruit drinks. A school system in Minnesota has put Honest Tea in its vending machines. The local success story is the Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, D.C., which subsidizes Honest Tea there by charging the same for it as for Coke even though it gets less per bottle. And Goldman admits that Coke still outsells Honest Tea.
But that may change, and Honest Tea will be ready. Two years ago it began bottling in plastic, partly to get into more vending machines, especially in schools. Four of its teas are decaf or herbal. Last year the company launched two flavors of Honest Ade (limeade and cranberry lemonade), and it just launched one with pomegranate, grape, and blueberry juices. I tasted the pomegranate ade when I visited the Honest Tea offices recently. It was pleasant, with a slight tartness and a strong fruit flavor. It contains half as much sugar as most other fruit drinks (Goldman claims that all Honest Ades use less than half as much sugar as similar drinks from Snapple, his closest competitor).
This is what should refresh students coming out of the gym. Of course, there's always tap water. But however good it may be for health, it doesn't have that small amount of real sugar—and I know what it takes to get through a day.


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Ever wonder about the consequences of your penis not being retractable? Wonder no more. Fortunately, a team of Australian researchers are willing to lay it out for us: "Before clothing, the nonretractable human penis would have been conspicuous to potential mates." Since clothing is a relatively recent development, there's a chance that its conspicuousness made a mark on human evolution, either in terms of male anatomy or in terms of female tastes. The authors grabbed a database from a study of the Italian male population and used it to make computer-generated male bodies. They showed them to a mixture of university students, campus staff, and random volunteers they recruited.
And, at least on some level, the results indicate that women do like a larger penis. But the effect tails off quickly once the penis passes a given length, with the critical measurement being influenced by body height (the taller the person, the bigger the penis had to be). Complicating matters, women liked tall men, as well—it had just as strong an effect as penis size. So, that helped drag the preferred penis size to even greater lengths than it would have been otherwise.
If you're emotionally attached to a Web service, using pot may be one of the least of your problems. A survey was used to check which of four factors was associated with college students growing emotionally attached to using Facebook. It came up with a simple answer: all of them. Loneliness, anxiousness, alcohol, and marijuana use were all associated with getting attached to using the service, while loneliness and anxiousness were associated with establishing a lot of connections on it. Elsewhere in the same journal, we have a demonstration that Facebook users are narcissistic. But they're also more extroverted and less lonely than non-users.
Spring, when a young person's thoughts turn to thinking that their OCD was just a case of Internet hypochondria. You've probably heard of Google's Flu Trends, where the company attempts to track the spread of the seasonal flu based on the number of searches involving typical symptoms. Now, some researchers have gone and checked for seasonal trends in mental illness, and boy, did they find some. That's not to say that mental illness spreads like a virus. Instead, we're all apparently just a lot happier in the summer than we are in winter. Anxiety shows the smallest inter-seasonal difference while the largest is eating disorders, which change by a hefty 37 percent as the winter fades into summer.
Giant women, but proportional. There are lots of species where females are larger, on average, than males. But there was no case as apparently extreme as the giant moa, a flightless bird native to New Zealand that was hunted to extinction after the arrival of humans. The males of the species were pretty large, weighing up to 85kg. But the females were positively monstrous, topping out at 240kg. The size difference was so large that the two were originally classified as different species. What caused this huge disparity? Nothing more than the huge size.
Looking at existing ratites (the group of flightless that included moas), larger females are the norm and the ratio of male to female body size varies within a typical range. It's just that when you blow things up to enormous scales that the normal difference between the sexes starts working out to be hundreds of kilograms.
Beer as an indicator of scientific progress. Letters to the editor are usually chances for readers of journals to, well, editorialize a bit. And, somewhat surprisingly, given its title ("A global comment on scientific publications, productivity, people, and beer"), this letter does have some serious points. Still, they're made within the context indicated by this graph, which shows that scientific achievement and beer consumption go hand-in-hand. The author says that beer is just an indicator, not a cause, of scientific achievement. However, he suggests that healthy funding of science might eventually decouple the two as, with enough research funding, "perhaps scientists would then drink less."


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- An Arizona man who used the identities of more than 50 prison inmates to fraudulently obtain about $313,000 in federal student loans and grants, Social Security benefits, credit cards, a home and a vehicle pled guilty to student aid fraud and identity theft. He faces a potential 20-year prison sentence and $270,000 fine. Phoenix, AZ, 1/2004
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- An individual was sentenced to 30 days in jail, five years probation, and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service after he pled guilty to student aid fraud. This person used someone else's identity to obtain student aid.
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