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Mussman coached six seasons with UND and had an overall record of 31-34, which included the school's transition to Division I.
Former head coach Dale Lennon hired Mussman as the offensive line coach in 1999. He became offensive coordinator in 2001 and took over as the head coach prior to the 2008 season.
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Rating: 5 / 5
The Nalgene Cantene is light weight at 2 oz. (per REI), though not light compared to the small mouth .5 or 1 L Platypus I am used to. Its use in winter, the large mouth does not freeze shut as easily as the smaller mouth units, is described in the BPL Techniques article:Saving Time and Weight: A "Winter Water" Routine Tuned for Lightweight Style by Ryan Jordan; at:http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/winter_water_routine.htmlI bought this for several uses, and it is working for all:1) To shove snow into through the wide mouth, then let the sun, body warmth, or just being carried in my pack melt the snow so I get water (as long as the temperatures or sunlight will permit).2) Get water into the wide mouth when the water is hard to reach with a filter. Then, to slip a filter tube into it. (Then, I wouldn't use it for clean water uses without first cleaning it up with some chemical or UV or other treatment.)3. As a water storage bag after I get into camp or along the way when there is no water in less than than 4 - 6 hours hiking, maybe even 8 if I am pushing it. Otherwise I use my Platypus .5 liter.4. As a mixing bag for soups, or drinks.5. Possibly a sprouting bag, after I learned from Laurie here that I could grow sprouts on the trail for fresh veggies -- out of the lightest of all UL foods I can think of -- seeds.6. For other esoteric purposes, which I believe are there, but which have not come out of the fog of my gear and nature crazed brain yet.The wide mouth Cantene works to stuff snow into. That was the first test.The picture above is of a Cantene which had snow stuffed into it about 4 hours ago and was then left in the sun as it set (in above 32 degree air temperatures). It has already half or more melted. The following picture shows the amount of water after the snow melted while outside on a slightly above freezing night, and the junk at the bottom which can be filtered per the above BPL article: My theory is that all the snow will melt if carried in my UL 45 pack, putting it in the hydro pocket while hiking -- which is directly behind my back -- from the heat of my back and friction from moving. In my Atmos I believe it might melt faster if stuffed in the webbing between my back and the pack while hiking. It does condense moisture on the outside, so it might be best just hung on the outside of the pack or in the garbage bag I carry in case I need it for a pack cover or rain coat. Again, so long as the sunlight and air temperatures will allow the snow to melt.It gets a five for quality and functionality in relation to weight, so far. But the company info on the tag and the website are almost useless in checking out how to use it best, etc. The Nalgene site does point out that you can stuff a hydration tube in the middle of the top where the loopy cap holder fits in, but I don't use one. For example, I am not even sure if it is called a 48 oz. Cantene, it is not labelled that way -- it is not labelled with a volume that I can find. It has a "fill line" labelled 48 oz. and there is a warning on the web site not to fill it more than the fill line if it is to be frozen. Thus, I do not know if it is a 48 oz or more model. So I'll just call it a 48 oz., even though it must hold more:http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/technical/cleaning/cantene.htmlI may even spray paint it black. Hook it through the cap loop to the outside of my pack if there is sunlight and any warmth. Hope the black will absorb more heat from the sun (as long as it hits the cantene) and air temperatures will permit the snow to thaw.My ultimate theory is it will save fuel to have the snow melt in the Cantene while hiking or sitting it in the sun painted black or in a black garbage bad, then filter the water for gross objects left behind when the snow melts before heating, boil or use a water treatment if I am worried about bacteria, etc. Again, the above BPL article is a good source of information on managing water in a snow and below freezing environment.
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I use this as part of my main hydration system, combined with an MSR drinking tube and bite valve. I have removed the top cap, screwed on MSR's and this is now my reservoir. I own 2, and keep one rolled up in my pack in case 48oz isn't enough between water supplies. I agree that it carries more than 48oz, maybe 55 or so. It is very durable as well, as the one I've used primarily has taken a beating, and has kept on keeping on. Great, lightweight thang.
Rating: 4 / 5
I had two of these, 48oz that I used to carry additional water in my daypack for long hikes or peak-bagging.And a 96oz for use in camp (never carried this one full).Loved the weight and collapsibility.Also got dual use by inflating the 48oz for use as a pillow (sometimes with spare sock(s) pulled over it).3 weekends ago, I had to refill my pillow twice during the night as the cantene had developed a slow leak. Obviously wouldn't hold water anymore, either.Then last weekend, I woke up to find my 96oz empty. It had a leak in the bottom. I had to refill and store upside down.I've had these for years so I feel I got my money's worth. And I'm buying more (compared to alternatives and it's still the lightest and cheapest for my needs). But I might check them before each trip to make sure they're still holding water.So I marked them down 1 star.
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Carnival of Mathematics #21: Bar-hopping at last December 1, 2007Posted by Ben Webster in carnivals.
Well, the Carnival of Mathematics (by my count) is turning 21. I know it's quite a party here, but I'm not allowed to put images of the blog's secret lair on the internet, so you'll have to imagine an appropriate level of debauchery.
To start things off, we'll have a selection from everyone's favorite math-flavored webcomic, xkcd:
Odd fact of the day: not only does Randall Munroe write an awesome webcomic, he also has a ballpit in his living room.
Lieven LeBruyn posts some preliminary but interesting looking stuff about a series of finite simple groups which calls Inguanodon series of simple groups (to see the guts of his construction, see the inguanodon dissected). The idea that the sporadic simple groups should fit into infinite series of something has been kicked around by various authors of this blog, but from a somewhat different perspective. LeBruyn seems to be working on the idea that there should be lots of different series of finite simple groups, which start overlapping with the classical series for large values, but include the sporadic groups in their small values.
Math for Mortals uses A problem courtesy of Shakespeare (which doesn't match too well with my recollection of the Merchant of Venice, but let's not quibble) as a jumping off point for a discussion of basic logic. However, I think the lesson that using logic can help you avoid execution is a good one.
In case you haven't been keeping up with the latest on the arXivotubes, the curiously-named 11011110 obligingly catches us up on Six recent arXiv papers. I'll let him do the summarizing, but will mention that a lot of wacky combinatorics was involved. I think if everyone would write a little summary of the arXiv papers they had read and understood for the benefit of humanity, the internet (and the arXiv) would be a better place. Too bad I'm too lazy to do so.
Math Less Travelled does a 4-part post on Perfect numbers, part I (and part II and part III, with a challenge in between). It's a pretty elementary subject, but one that people have been unable unlock all the mysteries of centuries later. Funnily enough, one his suggested challenges isn't finding the first odd perfect number.
JD2718 has another challenge, entitled McRib. I think it might be a bit easier than that odd perfect number bit.
Vlorbik pretends to be confused about why this post was his most popular in months. I think it might have something to do with the fact that it's entirely about Legos. Of particular interest (though I bet a lot of you have seen it before) is Andrew Lipson's Mathematical LEGO Sculptures. Yes, it is as awesome as it sounds.
360 gives a couple of more fun posts for the holiday season: one on the ties between Tryptophan and Game Theory (hint: if you were planning on challenging friends and family to a friendly round of Prisoner's Dilemma, you may have missed your chance), and one on The Rubik's Hypercube. As if the original wasn't hard enough.
Blake Stacey complains a bit about Baggage, and the mathematical inconsistencies of airline baggage rules. I wish I could say that that was prime amongst MY travel worries.
Mikael Vejdemo Johansson gives a command (at my command, in fact!) performance at the Infinity Seminar explaining a bit about The Computation of -Structures. It was a helpful post (for me), but I still only like computing -structures when they're trivial. At his own blog, he tells us about Wreath Products (which sort of sounds like it might be Christmas-related, but thankfully, is not).
Jeffrey Shalit has done something that I hope we'll see quite a bit more of in the future: blogging on the work of one of his students. He gives a down to earth description of some of Narad Rampersad's Work on Combinatorics on Words. I'll admit, I don't think I've ever thought much about the combinatorics of infinite words, but it looks pretty cool now.
Gary Laden ruminates for a bit on the question: Is There a Black Box in your Research Methodology? It's not an issue for most of us, but it will probably start to loom as more mathematicians integrate computers into their research. I think it is just one more important reason to lean toward open source software, but on the other hand, I doubt any of us will be giving up Mathematica any time soon (at least until omath is actually functional).
Larry Ferlazzo points us to a website containing clips of math appearing in movies (loosely interpreted) in Math Movies And More. Never again will a group of mathematicians have to rent "It's My Turn" just to watch the proof of the snake lemma in the first 5 minutes. Not that anyone I know has ever done that. The Monty Python clip of the international philosophy game (Greece vs. Germany) come highly recommended.
Reasonable Deviation has a very interesting, though pretty sketchy post on Smooth Sorting. Basically, someone has cooked up a system of ODEs which will sort numbers by just letting time run. If only someone would now write a post explaining why it works. Well, maybe next carnival. Anyways, definitely the winner of the coolest video award for this installment.
Mark Dominus reminds us in Lazy square roots of power series that it's easy to say "just take the square root of this" and another thing entirely to convince a computer to do it for you. I can't comment on the quality of his code, but I applaud the effort.
meeyauw treats us to a voluminous educational post on Boxes Without Topses and Pentominoes. It sounds like good activity to try with Tetris-loving schoolchildren (is there any other kind?).
Of course, what would a blog carnival be without the Fields medalist section? When looking for a good post from Terry Tao, of course, the carnivalist is spoiled for choice. One of the more interesting selections lately was On the property testing of hereditary graph and hypergraph properties. (As you may note, this post also played on my school spirit [institute spirit?] by name-checking by current intellectual home). As many of you know, there are a lot of interesting properties of graphs which is rather hard to check with 100% reliability, but it turns out, there some rather interesting things to say about more probabilistic tests.
For those of you looking for deep discussion of various innocuous seeming bits of linear algebra, look no further than Tim Gowers's post on The exchange lemma and Gaussian elimination. Linear algebra may not sound like the most scintillating topic, but if Tim discovered facts about linear algebra that surprised him, it probably worth a look from the rest of us.
On his blog, Alain Connes gives (the first part of) his view of The heart of non-commutative geometry and explains what he means by "noncommutative spaces generate their own time." Make sure you scroll down to the discussion between Connes and Urs Schreiber in the comment section. Whatever issues comments have, they do let us listen in on a lot of very interesting discussions.
John Armstrong (definitely not a Fields medalist) provides us a discussion of Faulhaber's Famous Formula. Those of you who who haven't encountered its fame, might learn a little something.
The n-Category Café marches on with blogging John Baez and Jim Dolan's Geometric Representation Theory course. (The link is to lecture 12). This particular lecture is somewhat dear to my own heart because it involves the connection between braid groups and flag varieties, the multitudinous variations of which are among my favorite stories in mathematics. There's a lot of exciting connections there they had no time for in this lecture, but I still recommend watching.
If that wasn't enough about the symmetric group for you, have a look at Isabel's post on Pattern Avoidance (and another) in the symmetric group. Any of you who like geometry better than combinatorics might still want to take a look. She doesn't say anything about in the post, but in fact, the pattern avoidance of a permutation is intimately connected with the geometry of the corresponding Schubert varieties (see, for example, this paper and references therein).
Well, I hope you enjoyed the Carnival as much as I did. Start getting ready for the next installment at Wild about Math on December 14th, and keep on bloggin'.
- 1. Mikael Vejdemo Johansson - December 1, 2007
As one of the aforementioned critics of carnival level, let me hereby applaud you for this issue.
Furthermore – I see my caching hasn't been updated on this blog-computer-combination. My name needs an update – since August 25th, it's Mikael Vejdemo Johansson and not Mikael Johansson.
Finally – our interests in A∞ seems to be almost perfectly disjoint. I find, for the application of A∞-algebras, Koszul algebras pretty boring. I like Koszularity in general, but seriously – trivial structure? When you can find So Much More?
- 2. Isabel - December 1, 2007
Here I was thinking "what, did every math blogger except me end up in this carnival?"
and then there I was.
I promised myself that I'd try to figure out what was going on with the smooth sorting, but I haven't done so yet.
- 4. busterkeaton - December 1, 2007
Great carnival! I wish much more mathematicians start blogging (real ones, not students like me).
It doesn't have to be very often or time-consumming, there are just so many interesting areas with no blog input yet: hyperbolic groups, SLE, symplectic topology and so on. For instance it's entirely possible to blog after a paper has been submitted, if that's an issue…
- 5. Mikael Vejdemo Johansson - December 1, 2007
And as I said, I find all things Koszul absolutely awesome. Which in turn makes "The A∞-structure is formal" an equally awesome statement.
I really like your analogy. Mind if I steal it (attributed) for the thesis? Probably won't end up more than an epigraph, but it's cooooool.
- 6. Michi's blog » Blog Archive » It's carnival time! - December 1, 2007
[…] Issue # 21 in the Carnival of Mathematics series is up now over at the (not so) Secret Blogging Seminar. […]
- 8. Suresh - December 1, 2007
Ah, mathematicians !!
11011110 is 0xDE in hexadecimal, which stands for David Eppstein :)
that's why you need us computer scientists around ;)
- 12. randomwalker - December 1, 2007
First you misspell xkcd (!), then you say Russell Munroe when you meant Randall. Sadly, I am forced to conclude that you are not a real xkcd fan :(
- 13. Paul Coelho - December 1, 2007
Well, my blog didn't make it, so here it is: http://sidegeo.blogspot.com/2007/11/sidedness-geometry.html
Is this fair of me to put it in a comment? Also, why was it not posted? It qualifies according to the criterion you gave: "mathematics of all levels from kindergarten to …." Is there some other criterion you did not mention? I know none of the words you learn as PhDs, but my proof is solid. As to the importance of my proof, I have no idea, but it is important enough to me for me to pursue it. As to the originality, I have no idea; I would greatly appreciate any pointers. My best guess is it is the start of a new geometry, similar to incidence geometry, but different. That's important, right?
- 16. Math Carnival: 21 and legal - watch out « JD2718 - December 1, 2007
[…] am31 7:16 am Posted by jd2718 in Math, Math Education, blogging, mathematics. trackback Actually, don't click if you have impressionable young things around… but after the opening profanity, turns out to […]
- 17. randomwalker - December 1, 2007
hey, my comment was meant in jest! sorry to have caused offence.
- 19. The Carnival is in Town! « 360 - December 1, 2007
[…] Carnival is in Town! Check out the 21st Carnival of Mathematics, hosted by Secret Blogging Seminar!!! The Secret Blogging Seminar describes itself as "a […]
- 20. Sol Lederman - December 1, 2007
Nice job with the Carnival. I slept through this Carnival, forgetting to submit a piece but I'll definitely be awake when it's my turn to host next. Please correct the date of the next Carnival. It's DECEMBER 14th, not January.
- 21. Blogger Loser » Carnival of Mathematics #21: Bar-hopping at last - December 1, 2007
[…] out what this blogger Carnival of Mathematics #21: Bar-hopping at last wrote today: Jeffrey Shalit has done something that I hope we'll see quite a bit more of in the […]
- 22. I slept through the Carnival of Mathematics » Fun Math Blog - December 1, 2007
[…] link came my way from the 21st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics. That's when I realized I had forgotten to submit a piece. Well, I'm hosting the next […]
- 23. Absolutely hilarious way to calculate pi » Fun Math Blog - December 1, 2007
[…] Ben Webster's blog (which is a joint venture according the blog's about page) for the current Carnival of Mathematics articles I noticed a link to this absolutely hilarious article titled How to Calculate Pi by […]
- 24. Larry Ferlazzo's Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL » Blog Archive » Two More Carnivals - December 2, 2007
[…] Two more Carnivals have just come online — the History Carnival and the Carnival of Mathematics. […]
- 25. Carnival of Mathematics « Carnival of Mathematics - December 2, 2007
[…] 2007/11/30: Secret Blogging Seminar (posted!) […]
- 28. Carnival of Mathematics XXI « Reasonable Deviations - December 2, 2007
[…] of Mathematics XXI The 21st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics was posted yesterday on the Secret Blogging Seminar blog. I am happy […]
- 29. Another Carnival « The Unapologetic Mathematician - December 2, 2007
[…] The Secret Blogging Seminar is hosting the latest installment of the Carnival of Mathematics. They seem to have done a fair job […]
- 30. Now With Actual Math « Vlorbik on Math Ed - December 3, 2007
[…] Comments Carnival of Mathemat… on WAM!vlorbik on No, *You* Tube!vlorbik on WAM!Rolfe Schmidt on WAM!vlorbik on […]
- 31. Sol Lederman - December 5, 2007
Please correct the date of the next Carnival to be DECEMBER 14, not January.
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Final bands added to Roadburn 2014
Mike is proud to announce the one and only Mr Lenny Kaye, The Vintage Caravan and Ron van Herpen & Oeds Beydals as the last three acts to complete his very own curated day at the Roadburn Festival. For more info please click here (www.roadburn.com)
Maybe you can also add the announcements in Mike's own words?
"They come from the land of the ice and snow" The Vintage Caravan is a fairly new acquaintance to me. And a very pleasant one I have to say. Iceland has produced many fine heavy and progressive bands and I'm all for pushing for a new generation of musicians that cater to that heritage. Very happy to have these guys taking part of my curated event at Roadburn.
Lenny Kaye (with Harsh Toke)
"Lenny is a legend and the nicest guy in rock. Not Dave Grohl. First met him in Greece when him and Patti Smith came up to us. She said: "Is this the band you've been raving about?" Lenny said: "Opeth! Fuck yeah!! Needeless to say, we're now besties and he's a natural choice to be invited to Roadburn. Lenny is some type of psych/rock encyclopedia as well as rock/psych guitarist extraordinaire. Ladies and gentlemen, looks like we have a psychedelic jam on our hands. Can we wait? No we can't!"
Lenny Kaye comments: "I am honoured to be performing at the Roadburn festival, celebrating the legacy of Nuggets and the mind-expansive music that gave me so much inspiration and hallucinogenic direction. Opeth is a band that breaks apart genre definitions while remaining true to their progressive and uncompromising metallic vision, as does the entire festival, which honours the quest for new boundaries in soundscapes and sonic exploration. I look forward to being a part of the audience and then ascending the stage to see where Harsh Toke will lead my sense of improvisation and discovery. It will be a Nugget if you dug it!"
Jam Sessions: Ron van Herpen, Oeds Beydals
The former guitarists of The Devil's Blood will do jam sessions at Roadburn's Stage01. Expect psychedelia, 70's inspired (hard) rock and dark funk (?). I only saw The Devil's Blood once. They looked cool, and sounded even cooler. I'm very psyched to see what these dudes will do up there. Psychedelic freak outs or surf rock? Again, I can't wait to be enlightened.
More bands added to Roadburn 2014
More bands have been added to Roadburn Festival 2014 curated by Mikael Åkerfeldt.
Denmark's Papir will create their own extraordinary type of semi-improvised psychedelic rock by transcending the usual labels. Moody and unexpected twists and turns seems to be their trademark. Psych legends of the future? The band will appear twice at Roadburn but both sets will bear no resemblance to each other. Exciting!
Reine Fiske is in my opinion the best guitar player from Sweden and with that, one of the best in the world. He's got an ethereal quality that I've not heard anywhere else. And teaming up with the lord of dark psych and hellfire, Nicklas Barker just cannot fail. I've no idea what these cats are up to for Roadburn 2014, but I do know it'll be fantastic. I do know there will be a Fender Stratocaster (yes, Reine?) on stage, and a mellotron. I will be there. Watching. Worshipping.
I'm so happy to announce that Änglagård is taking part in my curated day at Roadburn 2014. If you don't know them they are one of the 3 (together with Landberk and Anekdoten) pioneers of the second wave of Swedish prog/psychedelia. Just like the other 2 bands their sounds are heavily focused around the ghostly presence of the mellotron, yet the three bands sound nothing the same. I last saw them "alive" last Summer and I was quite floored. Their show will be a winding musical journey of light and shade. Beauty and…the beast? Never mind my ramblings. They are amazing and you will love them. Just shut up!
Roadburn 2014 Update
Mike sure is loving his curator job for the Roadburn Festival. He personally invited a few more of his favourite bands which can now be added to the bill: Candlemass (who will exclusively play their entire 'Ancient Dreams' album, celebrating its 25th anniversary), Elephant9, Obliteration, Promise and the Monster, Avatarium and Trettioåriga Kriget.
Just a handful of tickets left available here: roadburn.com/roadburn-2014/tickets
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Mikael Åkerfeldt To Curate 2014 Roadburn Festival
Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt To Curate 2014 Roadburn Festival
We're elated to announce that Mikael Åkerfeldt has agreed to curate Roadburn Festival 2014 on Friday, April 11th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. As curator, Mikael will personally select the bands for his special event, and play a headline show with Opeth, too!
Musically, Mikael has consistently pushed the boundaries. Over the last two decades, he guided Opeth's evolution, drawing the band out from under the doom-laden shade of occult-infused Scandinavian death metal and into a place in the sun as revered progressive rock / metal innovators, never once sacrificing the authentic spirit of previous artistic endeavours.
Mikael's steadfast devotion to aesthetic progression and perfection has proven ground-breaking and highly influential for an entire new generation of musicians practicing the art of progressive rock and psychedelica. At the same time, he has steadfastly honoured the mystical pioneers of late 1960s and early 1970s psychedelic folk, rock and prog -- some of Opeth's albums are named after obscure psychedelic prog outfits or song titles -- all of which is in perfect sync with Roadburn Festival.
Opeth's body of work is highly respected by Roadburn audiences, which makes Mikael the ideal choice to carry on the tradition that began in 2008 with David Tibet / Current 93, and continued with Neurosis, Tom G Warrior, Sunn 0))), Voivod and Jus Oborn / Electric Wizard.
"It's with great honour that I accepted the invitation to be the curator for the 2014 Roadburn festival", says Mikael Åkerfeldt, "I'm pretty damn far from being a professional booker / promoter, and I've never been part in choosing bands for an event apart from bands that Opeth has toured with. So this is a first for me, but I have to say I'm very excited."
"I've reached out to a handful of my favourite bands from the past and present. As of now it looks like it will be an amazing musical event. Still brainstorming about possible bands for this glorious festival but I already know that I'm going to be like a kid at Christmas. It will be amazing! Plain and simple. Obviously Opeth will perform as well, but to be quite honest with you, our own performance doesn't get me nearly as excited as the thought of experiencing the bands that have shown interest. It will be remarkable and memorable. A celebration, bitches!"
We are so excited and proud to be working with Mikael and to have Opeth headline his curated Roadburn 2014 event. It will truly be a celebration of progressive rock, psychedelic folk, the heavy 70s and beyond. We look forward to this collaboration and cannot wait to see how he will expand Roadburn Festival's musical horizons as well as explore more familiar territory from new angles. We will definitely be in for some artistic surprises.
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Arthur Schoonderwoerd is one of the leading performers of his generation on historical keyboard instruments and has developed an intense passion for their individual touch and tonal characteristics. His artistic activities focus on research into the works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their interpretation.
Schoonderwoerd has now released a recording of Mozart's complete Piano Sonatas on six albums. He selected three different instruments for the performance of these works: a tangent-action piano based on Spaeth & Schmahl (ca. 1770), a fortepiano with hammerheads not covered in leather based on Johann Andreas Stein (ca. 1780) and an unfretted clavichord (model dating from ca. 1780). This selection guarantees a wide range of tonal variety.
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The size of a specimen is usually governed by the size of the herbarium sheet. Samples about 30 cm long make suitable specimens of most species, as herbarium sheets are about 43 cm long x 28 cm wide. Smaller sheets (e.g. foolscap size, c. 32 cm x 23 cm) may be used if necessary, but they are not recommended since they encourage the collection of inadequate specimens.
For plants with large leaves or massive fruits, do not limit the collection in the name of convenience. It is more important to have a complete, useful specimen than to conform to arbitrary rules (but see below about storage of large specimens).
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Specimens should include fertile (spore-bearing) fronds and sterile fronds, as well as part of the rhizome (if present) or base of the stem (stipe). For tree-ferns, a portion of a fertile frond and the base of the frond stalk bearing scales or hairs should be collected.
In the case of small herbs the whole plant should be collected. Herbs with underground storage organs should be dug up complete with storage organs. However, if the plant is uncommon, make notes on the characteristics of these basal parts and leave them to shoot again in the following year. This is especially important in the case of orchids and rare species.
Grasses and other plants of grass-like habit should be collected whole so as to show the root-stock. Grass clumps may be broken up into small tufts of leaves and flowering stalks, and two or three of these tufts should make a satisfactory specimen. All dirt adhering to the roots should be carefully knocked off or washed away. Grasses are best collected after the flowers have opened, but before fruits are ready to drop. If the grass specimen is longer than the herbarium sheet, it should be bent once, twice or more so as to form a V, N or M (according to its length) and pressed in this position. Attempts to bend it after it is dry will probably cause it to break. In the case of exceptionally tall grasses, the flowering parts and a piece of the basal parts should be collected, and a note made of the height and habit.
Eucalypt specimens should include flower buds as well as fruits, adult and juvenile leaves (the latter often from suckers near the base of the trunk). Notes should describe the type of bark (rough, smooth, stringy or fibrous) and if rough, how far it extends (e.g. over the base of the trunk only, on the main branches, and/or on fine twigs), sometimes it may be appropriate to collect a wood and bark sample as an ancillary collection.
Plants with large inflorescences or other large parts
When collecting plants such as agaves, palms or Xanthorrhoea (grass trees), the lengths of the flowering and non-flowering parts of the inflorescences and trunk heights should be noted. For plants such as large-leaved palms and aroids, the smallest complete leaf is many times larger than the standard sheet. There are two collection and storage methods for such plants. One technique is to cut the leaf into numerous (carefully numbered) portions which are put onto multiple sheets. This has the advantage of not requiring alternative storage areas. Disadvantages include the need for additional documentation, preferably including photographs, and the difficulty of relating the specimen to the living plant. The alternative technique is to collect the leaf whole and to provide special separate storage for such material. The main disadvantages of this technique are that the material is difficult to handle (press and dry) and greater storage space is required.
Field notes and observations
Locality information and details of the appearance of the plant in the field are important for identification purposes. These are also necessary if the specimens are to be usefully incorporated into a herbarium collection.
Observations should be noted down at the time of collection and should include the locality (the distance and direction from a well-known landmark or town should be given and if possible the longitude and latitude of the site), collector's name, date, the shape and size of the plant, and the colour(s) of the flowers or floral parts when fresh. Notes should also indicate whether the plants were cultivated or grew in natural vegetation, disturbed sites, or pasture areas. Except for cultivated plants, it is desirable to note the altitude, rock or soil type if known, and to describe briefly the habitat (e.g. in eucalypt woodland on dry sandstone ridge; moist grassy site near river bank; rooted in gravel, in water 30 cm deep, in fast-flowing stream). The names or specimen numbers of plants surrounding vegetation may be notes.
When collecting more that a few specimens it is necessary to assign a number of each collection and record the corresponding field notes in a notebook. A page of a typical field notebook is shown.
Photographs of whole or part of the plant may be use to supplement the information included in the notes (a note in the field notebook 'photo taken' is then useful).
If additional material (e.g. photos, seeds, wood, spirit collection) is taken, it should also be numbered with the same collection number as the specimen. The collection number may be written directly onto wood samples with a felt-tipped marking pen. Numbers for material preserved in liquid fixative (e.g. alcohol solution) should be written in pencil and placed in the container as many inks are soluble in alcohol; an additional label on the lid or exterior of the container is advantageous.
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Collections must not be made in national or state parks or nature reserves, nor of protected plant species unless a permit has been obtained from the appropriate authority (in NSW it is the Direftor-General, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service). Such permits are generally only given for collections made in the course of scientific studies.
Over-long specimens can be folded to fit the sheet so that the apex points upward or the base downwards.
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The Apache Axiom™ library provides an XML Infoset compliant object model implementation which supports on-demand building of the object tree. It supports a novel "pull-through" model which allows one to turn off the tree building and directly access the underlying pull event stream using the StAX API. It also has built in support for XML Optimized Packaging (XOP) and MTOM, the combination of which allows XML to carry binary data efficiently and in a transparent manner. The combination of these is an easy to use API with a very high performant architecture!
Developed as part of Apache Axis2, Apache Axiom is the core of Apache Axis2. However, it is a pure standalone XML Infoset model with novel features and can be used independently of Apache Axis2.
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10th June 2015 - Apache Axiom Version 1.2.15 Released!
Axiom 1.2.15 ships fixes for over a dozen JIRA issues and contains many other improvements, mainly related to consistency between the LLOM and DOOM implementations and how serialization is performed. In particular the builder is now able to continue building the Axiom tree after an element has been consumed (see AXIOM-288).
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Axiom 1.2.13 contains fixes for over thirty JIRA issues as well as lots of other improvements, mainly related to XOP/MTOM processing, namespace handling, DOM support, documentation and code quality.
The most prominent change in 1.2.13 is that Axiom no longer uses its own MIME parser, but instead relies on Apache James Mime4J for XOP/MTOM processing. This was done in order to support streaming of the content of MIME parts in XOP/MTOM messages: they can now be processed without writing them to memory or disk first. This also applies to the root/SOAP part, which in previous versions was always read into memory before parsing could start.
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Police say at about 2:00 a.m. a woman in her 40's was walking from a restaurant on Roland Avenue near Upland Road to her car when she was approached by two men with a gun. The suspects forced the woman into a sedan and drove her to an ATM machine where they forced her to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money.
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About 10 minutes later, the same suspects are said to have hit a 19-year-old boy while he was riding a bike in the 5500 block of Roland Avenue. The suspects acted as if they were getting out to check on the teen when they forced him into the car.
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Weather still continues to play havoc with this weekend's athletic schedules, including tonight's high school basketball games and the start of area wrestling tournaments.
After two days of snow and ice that pretty much brought Coweta County and all the metro Atlanta area to a standstill, even some thawing Thursday wasn't enough for schools to hold classes today, forcing varsity basketball games for East Coweta, Newnan and Northgate to be cancelled for the second time this week.
Northgate also had the first day of the Area 4-AAAAA wrestling tournament at McIntosh put on hold.
As of Thursday, school officials were working to salvage as much as Saturday's schedule as possible. Most decisions expect to be made by noon today.
Hanging in the balance is Saturday's Area 3-AAAAAA wrestling tournament at East Coweta just as Northgate awaits word of when it can begin the 4-AAAAA event. Both need to be completed by Tuesday at 1 p.m., to get results to the Georgia High School Association for next week's state sectionals.
"Just in case I've got a couple of contingency plans and both contingency plans are within that time frame," said Indians head wrestling coach Josh Herring. "There's no way we're going to have a tournament if it puts the kids at risk. We'll be extra ready to go before they announce everything."
Herring has communicated with 3-AAAAAA coaches and plans to hold an 'electronic' seeding meeting today by e-mail in order to get weight division brackets ready.
"I talked with Douglas County [Thursday] and they're good to go. The ones I've talked to said we're good to go," Herring said. "We're going to figure it out."
Meanwhile, some of tonight's scheduled events among the county's private schools could be played even though Heritage and Trinity students will also be out of school.
Heritage, which is scheduled to host cross-town Region 1-AAA rival Trinity Christian, hopes to play tonight's basketball doubleheader. The Georgia Independent Schools Association, unlike the GHSA, allows its members to play on a missed day of school as long as safety requirements are met.
Today's temperatures are expected to be well over freezing before reaching an expected high in the mid 60s by Sunday.
"We have missed games already this week and would love to play if we can, but we are not going to endanger people just to play a basketball game," Heritage athletic director Ron Rineer said. "We are just going to wait and see."
A similar decision is expected to be made about the games before noon today.
If East Coweta and Northgate basketball teams are allowed to play on Saturday, however, its scheduled non-region game will not go on.
Northgate, which already has a previous make-up with Creekside from Jan. 7 school closings, now has two more games against Region 4B-AAAAA foes Whitewater and Starr's Mill to reschedule before the end of the regular season next Friday.
Lady Vikings head coach Matt Trucks said Thursday that the school was hoping to reschedule the region makeup with Starr's Mill for Saturday, if possible.
Northgate has already rescheduled games with Whitewater for Monday and Creekside for next Friday.
East Coweta and Newnan basketball teams are equally facing a pair of Region 3-AAAAAA makeup games to go along with scheduled games next Tuesday and Friday, the latter against each other to close the regular season.
Each will have to play at least three games next week and a possible fourth if one of the makeups can't be rescheduled for Saturday.
Region basketball tournaments begin the week of Feb. 10.


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(S04E16) "Whuck?!" - Liz's shortened version of "What the F**k?"
This was one of those episodes of '30 Rock' where the Jenna and Tracy plot (yes, they seem to have plots together 97% of the time) really dragged the show down. Every line seemed forced, every scene seemed to be filled with over the top wackiness, and the whole thing just felt like desperation filler, as if even the writers knew they're running out of ideas on how to get Jenna and Tracy and Kenneth into the plot. Even Kenneth recognized it and told Pete that he has problems with Jenna and Tracy so often he should come up with a word that means the same thing, "Trennapro."
That's funny and I'm sure '30 Rock' reviewers will use that word to describe a Jenna/Tracy plot, but the rest of it just made me sigh and cross my arms (except for a couple of lines Kenneth said telling his stories). I mean, I enjoyed the killer clown mask that Chris Parnell wore in the Dr. Pepper commercial at the end of the show. Why couldn't Dr. Spaceman have been one of the plots this week?
But I did like Liz's plot, even if it does bum me out immensely that they bring Floyd back just to have him be with someone else and on the verge of getting married. I'm not quite sure why the character of Floyd had to come all the way back to New York City from Cleveland, though. I know, I know, the whole 'Today Show' wedding contest. But it just seemed like a way to get Floyd into Rockefeller Center and Liz's world again. It was funny, though.
I do feel bad about it, because of all the guys Liz has dated over these four seasons, he's the one she should end up with. I've always liked Jason Sudeikis' work on this show, mixing the serious stuff with the laughs (he can actually act). I was hoping that the episode would end with Liz and Floyd finding out something horrible about his fiancee' Caitlin or maybe we'd find out that Floyd did all of this just to get close to Liz again in some weird way, but the episode actually ended with Floyd and Caitlin soon to be married. So now Liz has to pretty much start all over and find somebody just as good as Floyd. Hopefully, it won't be Dennis (though I wouldn't mind seeing Dean Winters again), but maybe it could be Jon Hamm. Nah, he's too busy on 'Mad Men' and ultimately he and Liz didn't see eye to eye. Maybe Floyd will say Liz's name at the wedding a la Ross on 'Friends' and they can eventually get together in the final season.
But there's plenty of time for all that to happen. I'm still trying to figure out how Jack won the battle of pranks and wits with the writing staff. He and Danny (good to see Cheyenne Jackson get a lot of screen time) are so powerfully handsome that they can seduce the moms of Frank, Lutz, and Toofer any time that they want? That just seems like an easy way to get out of a pretty powerful weapon that the staff had, just having to say "Twig and Plums" to Jack. That could have changed the entire series. Hey, maybe the guys can just tell their moms to say "Twig and Plums" to Jack if they ever find themselves alone with him. (wouldn't work with Danny, though). They should bring back "Twig and Plums" in the future when we least expect it.
More thoughts:
- The opening scene of this episode was funny as hell. The whole thing with Liz meeting her date on the Kraft Foods web site and Liz saying "Seriously?" to Kenneth and having him lower his voice and say the line again. I laughed out loud. If I had been drinking milk it would have been on my keyboard at that moment.
- So how many times has 'Today' been on the show? At least this time they used Kathie Lee and Hoda (after a quick cameo by Meredith). Would have been funnier if Floyd threw up on them, though. It must be good to be a network exec like Jack and have the power to get Lester Holt to do a fake newscast.
- I've been wanting to see the supporting cast a lot more this season, but I never said I wanted to see Frank and Lutz in their underwear.
"I'm not going to win, but it's an honor just to be nominated in the same category as Mr. Dave Coulier." - Danny, on his Juno nomination
"There's going to be a profile of me in The New York Times as filler because of dwindling ad sales. Isn't that awesome?" - Danny
"Why don't we trick him into kissing me? It would be so funny because I'm not gay." - Lutz, about Danny
"Oh, Mr. Hornberger, always saying 'hate' when he means 'love.' - Kenneth
"A female page? Don't worry, they disappear all the time." - Jack
"Typical liberal media. That's why I get all my news from Dick Cheney's web site, DickViews.com." - Jack
"The New York Times doesn't have a reporter named 'Seymour Nips'." - Jack
"My guess is that this was done by Frank, the black one, and Lutz." - Jack
"I wasn't fishing, but thanks." - Jack, after Danny called him "handsome"
"This sucks, Jack. I know that I'm a sour person and I don't like a lot of people, but I liked Floyd." - Liz
"It's like on TV. It used to be you couldn't say 'crap,' then they let that slide and now we can say whatever we want. 'Douchebag,' 'asswipe...' - Liz
"Anal rot." - Jack
"Exactly." - Liz
"I don't care. I'll start my own group. Rejection from society is what created The X-Men!' - Liz
"So much of my life was wasted creating hats!" - Frank
" 'The Early Show?' What am I, in a hospital?' - Liz
"Don't drag my best friend, TV, into this." - Liz, to Floyd
"That would explain why we have so many drunk kids here." - waiter, about the Jack Daniels glaze
"She's alive! Like a deer who runs and sniffs and jumps and stares. Not like the badger, with her glasses and her rules about weekday sex." - Floyd
"How are you single, Liz? There are so many guys out there who want to be poisoned and yelled at." - drunk Floyd
"It's way too early for this. I haven't even had my first cup of wine yet." - Pete


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Ambitious Amphibious: Ben Carlin's round-the-world trek in a Ford GPA
Ford's GPA might have done well in the Detroit River, but when it went into service during World War II, it proved less than capable in the field. Cumbersome and unwieldy on both land and water, the so-called Seep's production run ended early, after just 12,778 of them emerged from River Rouge. Those that didn't sink during the war were sold off as surplus or simply junked. Their land-going Ford GPW and Willys MB cousins received many more accolades than the GPA ever would.
But that didn't stop one Australian from deciding that the GPA would be the perfect vehicle with which he could circumnavigate the globe.
Ben Carlin, born in 1912 in Northam, Western Australia, studied engineering before spending the duration of World War II in service with the Royal Indian Engineers, reaching the rank of major. Though the GPA didn't live up to expectations, the Allied forces – particularly the Americans, the British, the Canadians and the French – still put it to use in far-flung places like India, where Carlin inspected one in 1945, toward the close of the war. He told a counterpart from the Royal Air Force, Group Captain Malcolm "Mac" Bunting, that with some preparation, he believed a GPA could indeed take him around the world. "Nuts," was the reply, which Carlin took as a challenge.


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The attorney representing a fired Huron County Department of Job and Family Services employee said the timing looks suspicious. Toledo attorney Marilyn Widman also believes the county is involved in a "smear campaign" against her client.
Nichole "Nicki" Baker was fired Tuesday based on allegations she threatened an HCDJFS client, used profanity repeatedly with the same woman and accessed pornography using the agency computer, HCDJFS Interim Director Lowell Etzler said earlier. Baker, a screener since March 7, 2005, was hired as a clerical specialist Jan. 12, 2004.
Agency screeners make initial contacts with a complainant, gather information from the person and then turn it over to a case worker.
Widman said "any investigation of the underlying facts will quickly show that the termination is not supported, that the county misused its equipment in setting Ms. Baker up with charges." The attorney explained that HCDJFS officials used printouts of pornography shown on a computer screen during Baker's disciplinary hearing.
The attorney, who wasn't at the meeting, stressed it's difficult to tell if the printouts came from Baker's computer or someone else's.
"Nicki absolutely, positively did not do what she is accused of doing with her computer," Widman said.
Huron County Sheriff's Major Greg Englund said Baker filed a complaint early Wednesday afternoon, accusing someone of tampering with her work computer. Englund had no further information because he hadn't seen the actual report as of this morning.
HCDJFS Assistant Director Bonnie Richards said the chief inspector's office of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services monitored Baker's computer from June 8 through 22. That's the same timeline for the allegations Etzler cited against Baker.
"The printouts came from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services," Richards said.
Widman, Baker's attorney, said her client's deposition in a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed against the county was canceled Monday, the day Baker was to be questioned by attorneys. That is one day before the agency fired her.
"I think the timing of the firing is suspect," Widman said.
In April, Baker filed the lawsuit. She has accused former HCDJFS Director Erich Dumbeck, the agency and county commissioners of passing her over for five promotions because Dumbeck reportedly was infatuated with her. Baker also accused Dumbeck of making "unwelcome physical contact" by reportedly touching her on the hips, shoulders and back and making an "unwelcome advance," all between January and 2004 and January of this year.
Baker and Dumbeck had a personal relationship starting in January 2004, when they were co-workers supervised by different administrators.
Richards said she didn't know why the deposition was canceled, adding: "I have not heard word one about it."
Widman, in an e-mail to the Reflector, said the county is using "the age-old tactic of discrediting an adversary" by firing Baker and three other HCDJFS workers.
"The timing of (Baker's) termination is clearly retaliatory and meant to force Ms. Baker into an economic position where she cannot afford to continue her case against the county," Widman continued. "Shame on them, and how foolish they are to think Ms. Baker will simply fall down in defeat."
Assistant program administrator Marla White, eligibility/referral supervisor Jon Kelley and public information officer Stacia Badovick were told Friday their jobs would be eliminated, effective Aug. 24. Richards has said the positions were cuts were staff cuts done to save about $173,000.
Kelley has decided to take another agency job as an eligibility specialist.
Widman called the three workers hard working, knowledgeable and "loyal to the purpose the agency."
"I think there's definitely an effort by the commissioners and the employees of the department to disempower the employees who are willing to stand up for themselves," the attorney said. "They want sheep and all these women are not sheep. That's why we are proud to represent them.
"The citizens of Huron County should be outraged that their tax money is being spent on this kind of effort," Widman said.
She further cited the Reflector online comments on the recent HCDJFS stories as more evidence of the county's "smear campaign." There were 90 responses to the story about Baker being fired as of this morning.
"I'm not worried about the stories themselves," Widman added.
The attorney said the comments symbolize the "further harm" HCDJFS is trying to inflict on the workers. Richards declined to comment, saying she was unsure of the context.


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- For refreshments, try the many cafés and pubs in the town of Glastonbury
- The Park & Ride bus links the town of Glastonbury with the Tor and other important sites. Glastonbury Abbey is a good place to start.
- There are no National Trust car parks at the Tor. The nearest fee paying car park is at Draper and Co on Chilkwell St. (2 mins walk)
- Admission free. Donations welcome
- Information points at Glastonbury Tor, Burrow Mump and Collard Hill
- National Trust car parks at Burrow Mump, OS ST357305 and Ivythorn, OS ST479350
- Dogs welcome on leads at Burrow Mump and Collard Hill
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Photo and cutline availableNutrition Education in Southwest Kansas Audio Slide StoryMANHATTAN, Kan. - Each spring and early summer in Kansas, fields of golden wheat stretch their friendly wave to passers-by, providing stunning evidence of the state's historical supremacy in wheat production and research.
In the breadbasket of America, it's difficult to sell the notion that people are living hungry in this country.
But recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its annual report on hunger in America, noting that while gains are being made, more than 17.2 million U.S. households -- and 48.8 million people -- are having difficulty providing food due to a lack of resources, which the USDA terms food insecurity.
The problem is far from isolated to the East and West coasts, where media reports on hunger are more common. In 2010, 14.5 percent of Kansans -- nearly 400,000 people, equal to 1 in 7 -- lived in a state of food insecurity.
And, 1 in 20 Kansans -- or 5 percent -- is in a state of very low food security, which means a household is unable to regularly provide food, and eating patterns are disrupted due to a lack of money or other resources.
"Hunger still exists in Kansas, even in 2011…real, debilitating, life-threatening hunger is out there," said Matt Lindsey, executive director of Kansas Campus Compact, a group of state colleges and universities that provide service and volunteer opportunities for students.
In the past year, the 12 colleges and universities that make up the compact joined up to focus on the state's hunger issues as a student-led service project. They're part of several state and university efforts to curb -- and maybe even eliminate -- hunger in this state.
"I hope it goes just beyond canned food drives, that if I donate a couple nonperishable items that we've addressed hunger in our community," Lindsey said. "There's a need for a deeper commitment of time to help people get out of hunger and a need to address the systemic causes of hunger."
Kevin Concannon, the undersecretary for USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, said food assistance programs across the country are part of the big picture solution.
"USDA's report underscores the critical role that federal nutrition assistance programs play in helping struggling American families put food on the table until they can get back on their feet," Concannon said.
"Many families receive assistance not because they want to, but because they need it as a last resort to make ends meet. As the economy continues to recover and jobs are created, we hope to see the number of families in need of nutrition assistance shrink," he said.
Sociologist Mark Nord is one of the co-authors of USDA's report on Household Food Security, which was released in September. He said this year's report can't pinpoint the exact impact of nutrition assistance programs, but USDA did show that 2009 federal stimulus funds targeted to food assistance programs decreased food insecurity by 2.2 percent in low-income households.
That doesn't surprise Sandy Procter, who coordinates the Family Nutrition Program and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in Kansas.
"We are not a gamble," she said. "We have shown the ability to make the changes, make these positive effects on people's lives."
The Family Nutrition Program, known nationally as the SNAP-Ed program, is available in more than 70 Kansas counties, Procter said. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program was established in 1969 to help young families better feed themselves and their children. It's available right now in nine Kansas counties and in 2010 had 5,700 youth who participated in local programs.
Both programs aim to help families with low incomes, focusing on food safety, cooking skills, food resource management, and nutrition education.
"I feel like hunger has gone more mainstream," Procter said. "Communities understand what needs to happen to support funding, and especially support those who are temporarily thrown into a situation where food insecurity is a reality."
In Garden City, Kan., K-State Research and Extension program assistant Bertha Mendoza teaches Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program classes, primarily in Spanish and to many residents whose native language is Spanish. She's been on the job just over a year, but already has graduated 53 program participants.
One of Mendoza's key messages is that eating healthy is just as important as stretching a family's limited dollars.
"For example," she says, "a case of pop costs more than a gallon of milk. We compare the nutrition, a soft drink versus a glass of milk. The calories are about the same, but the nutrition value is higher in milk than a soft drink. It's up to them to make the decision: I can spend $5 for a case of pop, or I can spend $5 for milk.
"Usually by the second class they'll come back and say, 'it really helped me out. We don't have any more pop at home, or we just have it occasionally. The $5 that I was using for pop now I'm putting into milk. And I'm feeling good for my family.'"
The Kansas Campus Compact's Lindsey says his group also will continue to support educational opportunities. The compact will sponsor the second annual Kansas Hunger Dialogue in March 2012; and student groups will continue such local efforts as community gardens, farmers markets and Campus Kitchens.
This month, the 12 compact members are among at least 15 Kansas schools hosting food-packaging events. Together, those schools have a goal of 1 million food packages for hungry people in northern Africa.
"Worldwide, more people die every day from hunger than die from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined," Lindsey said. "If hunger is not addressed, those other things can not be addressed.
"Hunger is both a global and a local issue. We can't separate the two. That shouldn't surprise people from Kansas because our agricultural economy is the same way," he said.
Kansas State University's food-packaging events are planned for Oct. 23 at K-State-Olathe, and Oct. 30 at the main campus in Manhattan. Together, the university hopes to prepare 90,000 packages. For more information on the statewide effort, visit Swipe Out Hunger.
Sidebar: Nutrition Is Key to Helping Low Income Families Beat Hunger
MANHATTAN, Kan. - For Thanksgiving this year, Guillermina Flores plans to forego turkey in favor of tamales, a favorite food in her native Mexico. In the Hispanic culture, tamales are hard to beat for flavor and tradition.
And this year, Bertha Mendoza will help Flores make tamales that are healthier, and cost less.
Lard has traditionally been used to make tamales, said Mendoza, who teaches classes in K-State Research and Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
"We try to educate people now that it's not good for them. We've switched to oil and one of the things we do is we prepare those recipes in classes so they can see it. They can take it home and make it," Mendoza said.
Tamales are a corn-based dough in a leaf wrapper and filled with meat, chili, cheese or vegetables. Pork is typically the meat of choice, but on Mendoza's recommendation, Flores is going to try the less-expensive chicken this year.
"If you watch the sales, you can buy chicken ahead of time and save a lot of money," Mendoza said.
Mendoza, a native of Chihuaha, Mexico, has worked at the K-State Research-Extension Center in Garden City since 2010. In about 12 months, she's graduated 53 residents – all Spanish-speaking – from the 12-course Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
One of those is Veronica Castro, who has become something of an advocate for the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program to the local Hispanic community.
"People come to her house and taste the food that she's making…they like it and she says here's the program if you want to participate," Mendoza said. "I'm really impressed at how the Hispanic community has been affected in a positive way and how they like to recommend us."
It's an easy sell for Castro and her family: "Eating healthy meals is expensive, but throughout these classes, we have learned that we can eat healthy despite having a low budget. Mendoza understands what we like to eat. She can help us eat more healthy, while continuing to eat what we want to eat."
By the end of 2011, Mendoza says she will have graduated 80 residents from Expanded Food and Nutrition Education classes. She has a waiting list of people for the classes, and is working to find more funding to expand K-State's offerings in Garden City. For instance, Mendoza knows she can help residents with diabetes or heart disease.
Based on what they learned in the classes, some students changed their eating habits and started exercising.
"So their second visit to the doctor was very nice. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, you won't have to be on medication. It's really exciting to know that; it is a success story," Mendoza said.
Hospital staff in Garden City have begun recommending the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program to patients, particularly those with diabetes or heart disease.
"I'm already worried, how am I going to be able to address all these people?" Mendoza said. "Somehow I have to serve them, especially the ones in higher need, because diabetes is increasing, the number of people with heart problems is increasing."


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The Computer Programming curriculum prepares individuals for employment as computer programmers and related positions through study and applications in computer concepts, logic, programming procedures, languages, generators, operating systems, networking, data management, and business operations.
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