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Nobody ever had any faith in Lynch whatsoever. I was on campus at the time and everyone knew exactly how that was going to play out.
I agree that Dunham has almost no shot at Mr. Basketball, and that is not an indictment on him. The state is loaded with talented players, and argue it all you want, but usually guys get a spike in the voting when they are committed to IU. Not a huge spike, but it certainly helps.
I'm with you--I think Yogi and Gary Harris are the two frontrunners for Mr. Basketball. I don't think Yogi and Park Tudor will roll to a state title though. Remember, Broad Ripple is now a 2A school and in Park Tudor's sectional. They are nothing to sneeze at.
With Yogi and Blueitt PT will roll 2A. Book it.
I'm not saying they won't and they are certainly the heavy favorites to do so, but I wouldn't be surprised if Broad Ripple tripped them up in sectionals.
If he couldn't keep a MAC program afloat, there was no way he could be expected to keep a Big10 program going.
I remember the discussions that were going on at the Ball State forum I frequent,
If no one had faith in Coach Lynch, then why did he get a contract? They gave him 3 years. It's not like they put him in for a replacement until they found someone better. They thought he could do the job, which is why they gave him the job.
And as far as Bama and them wanting Gunner. Kelly Page, a BSU QB, was also an Oregon Duck at one time. He lost his spot to a true freshman, when he was a Jr. Recruiting is a gamble. Big programs make mistakes too.
That Finch kid a couple years ago was recruited, and played for, Florida. That didn't work out for him very well either.
EDIT: And I'm not saying he's bad. I'm saying you should atleast wait to crown him.
They won the 1A state finals two years ago, and were probably the best team in the state. Certainly one of the best.
I think you're being a little unfair saying we're crowning him. Just my opinion though. I think he's a great sign of Wilson's early influence, and that is hugely important.
No doubt there.
And I really don't doubt Wilson as a coach or even as a recruiter. Although I do doubt him as a coach/recruiter for IU. I just don't see IU moving up in the conference. Not until Indiana's high school football programs start taking off.
That's not an anti-IU or anti-Wilson thought either. I think Ball St. and Purdue are behind the same 8ball.
Any kid that's any good around here is going to have all kinds of pressure from OSU/Mich/ND. With a wider talent base in the state, you can afford giving up a few kids to the established programs, or the ones with the rich history. But when your talent pool is already thin, you can't really afford to let them slip away. Not the kids growing up IU/Purdue/Ball St fans.
We live in a time where coaches get two or three years tops to turn around a program before he's shown the door. And if he does he's got two or three years before another program swoops in and takes him away.
It was only three years ago when Ball St was undefeated and ranked. Coach Hoke didn't get the commitment level, so he went to SDSU for two years and now he's at Michigan. That's a pretty fast climb to the top.
All BSU has done in the meantime is win a measely 6 games total.
As hard as it is to build, it's 10x as easy to be torn down.
The Big East keeps trying, but that whole conference is in the same boat. All just my uneducated opinion though.
The bottom line is even becoming a yearly 7-5 time and getting to bowls is a massive imporvement for me as an IU fan.
They probably dropped him down the second he picked lowly IU.
...No respect. But who cares, hes a beast and we got em!
Gary Harris visiting October 15th, it's the second of his 3 scheduled visits
Do you guys think Hoosier Hysteria should be moved to Saturday night in order to accommodate Gary Harris? It seems a rather ingenious idea to me. One, Harris can then attend (he plays football so Friday is out); and two, IU will have obviously moved a major annual event for him, so that's something.
Nothing's confirmed, of course. Still, moving Hoosier Hysteria for one player? Yes, no, maybe?
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
Pretty sure HH is already on Saturday, think I read so on InsideTheHall.com anyway.
It was scheduled to be on Friday, but they moved it to Saturday, presumably for GH.
All of our 2012 class will be on campus that weekend, as well as GH and RJ Curington. That will be a hell of an atmosphere.
I have no problem with it. At all. Don't know why anyone would.
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Yeah I read that. It's neat that there is some buzz around IU football for the first time that I can really remember. I don't expect much out of this year's team. 4-5 wins and avoid any embarrassments would be a success as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know how much buzz there actually is though. I saw on twitter that IU only sold 6,000 tickets to the IU/Ball St game at Lucas tomorrow.
I don't know how accurate those numbers are, but Ball St sold 25,000 for comparison.
That link says IU sold 6,100 (as of tuesday 8/30) but also says that they're included in the 25,000. So maybe BSU has sold 19,000 to IU's 6,000.
Either way, it has to be pretty disappointing.
Kravitz is the one who tweeted the 6,000 number earlier today. If you don't want to believe it, then that's fine.
I've been around IU enough to know that the actual football game takes a backseat to tailgating. And that's not just an IU problem, but a problem for Ball St. as well, considering we were last in attendance last season.
But if you would like to take everything personal, then that's your right I guess.
EDIT: And maybe IU sold a bunch the last 3 days, or maybe people are waiting for gameday to buy them.
But with the numbers being reported, that I have NO control over, I don't think IU has all that much buzz around their team.
The low ticket sales took me by surprise. I've been hearing nothing but positives from Bloomington. I figured they would sell more tickets with a new coach, playing in Lucas Oil, and the fact that IU will probably win.
I didn't think I said anything opinion based. It was more a statement about what is being reported.
And I said it during the entire "blue chip" argument. I'm an IU fan. Ball St. is #1 for me, but I will always root for an in state school over an out of state school. And I am a huge fan of Coach Knight.
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My buddy tried getting tix today and couldn't. Maybe he's an idiot (strong possibility), but seems like someone bought a bunch of tix in the last day o rso.
A couple things:
First, Indiana High School football talent has been on the rise, especially in the Indy area. A LOT more division one level talent this year than it was five years ago. No, it's not Ohio, but its a solid base to recruit from. Of course you have to compete with Cincy, who has been recruiting Indianapolis hard the last several years, Louisville, Notre Dame and the other Big 10 schools.
Coach Wilson currently has a class ranked 34 (6 in Big 10) by Rivals and 29 (5) by Scout. With probably at least 5 more scholarships available, they are in good shape with rivals/scout 4 star Dalvin Tomlinson, a DL, and are in the top few for Ron Thompson, a scout 4 star receiver/TE. They could finish even higher.
Second, IU sold all the tickets they were given. And I've seen reports of that being 10k. Expect, though, a fairly large walk-in crowd.
Go Hoosiers
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As of Thursday evening IU had sold 7000 tickets to the game, surpassing their allotment of 6500.
Coach Wilson termed the number 'disappointing' but AD Fred Glass was very happy with it.
And, unfortunately, IU will continue to struggle until they are able to win the line of scrimmage, on both sides. The defensive line in particular was manhandled all game.
Coach Wilson made a coaching mistake, not settling for the FG. But it was an understandable risk, he wanted to put it on his offense to step up and make a play. It should have worked.
Defensive line manhandled = broken record for IU football since 1993.
I hope Wilson can solve this, but it won't be this year. He'll have to do what nobody's done in years at IU, recruit defenders with the actual size to play B10-level football. Actually, even MAC - level football for that matter.
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Autologous Conditioned Plasma (ACP) for Patients With Plantar Fasciitis
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Plantar fasciitis presents clinically as pain in the inner heal, which is the result of degeneration of the plantar fascia, an arch supporting ligament of the foot. It manifests predominantly in those subjected to sustained weight bearing or repetitive pounding activities. Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of inferior foot pain. Although most cases resolving within 6 months, traditional treatment regiments such as orthotics and physiotherapy are occasionally unsuccessful in treating this limitation leading to chronic symptoms (Neufeld & Cerrato, 2008; Rompe, 2009; Roxas, 2005).
Platelets are central players in clotting, inflammation and the wound healing response. Research has shown the potential of platelet rich plasma to accelerate wound healing in a variety of conditions including maxillo-fascial and plastic surgery, chronic wound healing and orthopaedics. Autologous Conditioned Plasma (ACP) is a novel treatment that may accelerate the healing of injured tissue. Treatment with ACP involves taking a blood sample from the patient, isolating the platelets and injecting them back into that patient at the injury site
|Chronic Plantar Fasciitis
|Procedure: ACP Drug: Corticosteroid (celestone) injection
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Double-Blind Clinical Trial to Investigate the Use of Autologous Conditioned Plasma (ACP) for Patients With Plantar Fasciitis
- American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Midfoot Scale (AOFAS) [ Time Frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months ]Inlcudes subjective and objective assessments and has demonstrated test retest reliability, validity, sensitivity to change and responsiveness for conditions of the foot and ankle. A minimally important change is considered to be at least a 5 point change with an effect size of 0.59.
- Plantar Fasciitis Pain/Disability Scale (PFPD [ Time Frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months ]
- SF-12 [ Time Frame: 6 weeks, 3,6,12 months ]
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|Study Start Date:
|September 2010
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|September 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Active Comparator: ACP treatment
Procedure: ACP
Within two weeks of the initial visit, the RN, will retrieve a 10-12 mL blood sample from all patients. After the sample is retrieved, the patient will be asked to lie prone on the plinth to assist with blinding. The blood sample will be retained in the Arthrex ABS-10010S Double Syringe with Syringe Cap and then separated using a soft spin centrifuge for 5 min at 1500 rpm/rcf. Three to four mL of platelet rich plasma will be pulled into a smaller syringe that is wrapped in opaque tape to conceal the contents of the syringe. The ACP is injected into the torn region of the tendon.
|Active Comparator: Corticosteroid treatment
Drug: Corticosteroid (celestone) injection
Preparation of the blood sample is identical for patients in this group except that the blood sample will ultimately be discarded instead of injected. The syringe is blinded with opaque tape making it identical to the ACP group syringe and injected into the torn area of the tendon.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Painful inner heel pain for longer than three months
- at least six weeks since last corticosteroid injection
- four weeks since the last anaesthetic injection, iontophoresis, ultrasound and electromyostimulation
- one week since the last NSAIDs taken
- two days since the last analgesic, heat, ice, message, stretching, or modification of night splints and orthosis.
- scores greater or equal to 5 on the VAS PFPD scale
- scores greater or equal 30 on the AOFAS scale
- scores of greater or equal to 5 on the VAS PFPD scale and 30 on the AOFAS scale
Exclusion Criteria:
- tendon rupture
- neurological or vascular insufficiencies in the painful heel
- bilateral heel pain
- Paget's disease or calcaneal fat pad atrophy
- osteomyelitis, fracture of the calcaneus, ankle inflammation
- recent infection in the treatment area, history of rheumatic diseases
- collagenosis or metabolic disorders
- immunosuppressive therapy or coagulation disturbance and/or therapy, long-term treatment with corticosteroids
- previous heel surgery
- malignant disease, diabetes mellitus, severe cardiac or respiratory disease, significant abnormalities in hepatic function
- participation in another clinical study at the same time.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01614223
|Contact: Dianne Bryant, PhD
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|Principal Investigator: Kevin Willits, Md, FRCSC
|Sub-Investigator: Dianne Bryant, PhD
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Keywords provided by Dianne Bryant, University of Western Ontario, Canada:
Plantar fasciitis
Autologous Conditioned Plasma
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Fasciitis, Plantar
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Foot Diseases
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Asthmatic Agents
Respiratory System Agents
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The team initially had hoped that Ross would begin weight-bearing activity March 18 or 19, but Gibson said that is not going to happen.
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The 10th anniversary of TFcon will take place July 27th to 29th, 2012. Canada's Annual Transformers Collectors Convention will return to the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre, 6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario.
We are honored to welcome Transformers creator Bob Budiansky to TFcon 2012 for his first ever Canadian appearance. Mr. Budiansky is responsible for much of the writing of the original Marvel Transformers comic, and conceived the names of most of the original Transformers including Megatron. He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive tech spec biographies printed on the Transformers toy packages that Hasbro produced in the 1980s, giving each character it's own unique personality.
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Due to the sale of 3rd party figures at TFcon the Hasbro New Product Preview and Q/A has been pulled from our programming. Hasbro Canada is still scheduled to attend TFcon 2012 and will have a product display and interact with the fans. We at TFcon apologize for any inconvenience and thank Hasbro Canada for all their help over the years. You can find below the official statement from Hasbro's Corporate Communications team:
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The two cases before the United States Supreme Court challenge both Congress' traditional definition of marriage in DOMA and California's traditional definition in its Proposition 8. The central question before the court in each case is: Does the government commit irrational discrimination by adhering to the traditional definition of marriage that has always (until very recently) prevailed in society?
The arguments presented to the court reflect a wide range of viewpoints within the legal community and our society as a whole. Indiana, represented by my office and joined by many other states, filed "friend of the court" briefs in the DOMA and Proposition 8 cases defending our state's authority and the constitutionality of our current laws.
There are many who vehemently disagree with this position. I appreciate that there are strongly held views on both sides of this societal debate and understand that opinion polls have shown a dramatic change in public attitude in recent years toward same-sex marriage. But my duty as Indiana attorney general is to represent our state and to uphold and defend our state statutes when challenged, not to represent my personal views or what polls might suggest is popular opinion.
The obligation of attorneys general to defend existing statutes has been brought into question in these two Supreme Court cases, in that the U.S. attorney general and the California state attorney general are not defending their own federal and state laws that are being directly challenged.
To make things more confusing to the public, the president, who has stated that his personal views have evolved over the past few years, has decided to have the Justice Department's U.S. solicitor general argue against upholding DOMA at the Supreme Court. He has expressed through his Justice Department's legal filings his own opinion that DOMA is unconstitutional.
I view my duty differently. As Indiana attorney general, I don't get to define marriage or vote on legislation. Instead, as state government's lawyer I am obligated to defend our state's laws passed by the people's elected representatives in the Indiana Legislature. Our state's legislative branch has the policy-making authority to license marriage within our state's borders using the traditional marriage definition, and I will continue to defend their legal authority in court as necessary.
Rather than presuming to decide the constitutionality of our laws by leaving them undefended, I will uphold my responsibility to defend them and instead let the judicial branch decide if they are constitutional, as is its role.


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Closed-course stadium truck racing is where Jimmie Johnson got his start and where desert greats like Ivan Stewart and Walker Evans got a chance to display their skills before packed houses a quarter of century ago.
Then founder Mickey Thompson was murdered. Soon after that, the series he built into a one of racing's fastest-expanding series crumbled.
Now the idea returns under the direction of veteran driver Robby Gordon with races Saturday night and again on May 18 at Qualcomm Stadium.
And while the Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks series hasn't yet reached Gordon's projections, the future for the 11-event series is bright according to former Supercross/motocross champion and veteran off-road driver Rick Johnson.
"Stadium racing is back and viable," Rick Johnson said Thursday. "The racing is going to be great. We've had only three events, so there is still room for improvement.
"But these are hot trucks driven by a mix of well-known veterans and talented young drivers on an exciting course. Robby's got the trucks. He has a television contract (day-after telecasts by the NBC Sports Channel). He's got good drivers. I think the future is great."
Racing Saturday night will begin at 6 p.m. in five classes topped by the Super Trucks, Supper Buggies and Monster Trucks.
The cast of drivers will include such recognized names as Indy 500 veterans Robby Gordon and Jeff Ward; off-road stars like Rob MacCachren and Johnson; road racer P.J. Jones and such young talents as Arie Luyendyk Jr., Justin Lofton and Mexico's Lalo Laguna.
Another driver in the field this weekend will be Jesse Johnson, the younger brother of the five-time NASCAR champion.
Gordon won the most recent, 20-lap Super Trucks event two weeks ago at Memorial Coliseum. The two earlier races were won by points leader MacCachren, who was second in Los Angeles and Lofton.
"To win a Stadium truck race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with the history off-road here is truly something special," said Gordon. "I can't give enough thanks to my partners in believing in me to make my dream a reality."
Jerry Whelchel, the only competitor to compete in every single Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group event, made his return to stadium racing a successful by winning the Super Buggy final.
The program includes two heat races plus last-chance qualifiers in each division before the championship heats.
"The schedule is hectic," said Johnson, who comes to Gordon's series as a defending and three-time past champion in the TORC series that once ran under a different name on a closed-course off-road circuit in Chula Vista. "They compress the classes and races into about a 2 ½-hour program."
The course features 11 turns with four jumps plus a sandy area, ruts and whoops.
Tickets are $25 for adults with kids 12-and-under getting a $10 discount with a purchased adult ticket at the stadium box office or through Ticketmaster.
Checkered Flag
Ryan Villopoto: Becomes only the fourth rider in the 40-year history of Supercross to win a third straight season championship with his ninth win of the season.
Elliott Skeer:18-year-old Carlsbad driver wins two Spec Mazda races at Buttonwillow Speedway giving him four straight wins this season on the Western Conference Majors Tour.
Red Flags
NASCAR: Denies the appeal by Penske South, upholding the stiff penalties assessed the team, including suspensions of key personnel, for using illegal rear end parts at Texas Motor Speedway.
Panther DRR:Veteran team announces it will drop off IndyCar tour for rest of 2013 following Indy 500. Team might look to enter other series.


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Below is the script written by Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg for the presentation Post Carbon Institute would like to create for all the hundreds of concerned citizens out there who have asked us over the years for help in educating their neighbors, family, and friends about the end of the oil age. I've adapted the script a bit to include mention of my family, just as presenters will be able to adapt the content and images to reflect personal and community histories.
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Nearly everyone would agree that we live in uncertain, challenging times. It seems that so much is happening so fast that it's almost impossible to make sense of it all. We're clearly on some kind of trajectory, but a trajectory toward what?
Even if we set aside religious beliefs and political ideologies, we all still tend to have several fundamentally different ways of evaluating and interpreting the simple facts about our recent past and where we're headed.
It's evident, for example, that over the past century the economy has grown, and many of us pay particular attention to that.
Per capita incomes have increased. We've seen the introduction of all kinds of new technologies, from telephones and typewriters to lasers, cell phones, and iPads. Our mobility has dramatically expanded with automobiles and airplanes. Modern medicine has discovered cures or treatments for a host of ailments. And all of this has helped support population growth— we now enjoy the company of 7 billion other humans.
Let's represent the trajectory of all these developments related one way or another to the growth of the economy with this single blue line.
Others of us, however, when looking back at the last century, would emphasize our social achievements. Today more nations are democracies than was the case a century ago. The average person has vastly greater access to information and higher levels of education.
A century ago, women didn't have the right to vote, and in large areas of the United States, African Americans were forced to attend different schools and were prohibited from using the same washrooms or sitting at the same lunch counters as European Americans.
All of that has changed. These are substantial achievements that have come about as a result of considerable effort and struggle.
It would be hard to objectively measure these accomplishments the way we measure, say, GDP, but we definitely see a kind of momentum here, so let's represent that trajectory with this green line.
Still others of us think of the modern era in terms of what the environment has suffered.
It's estimated that species are going extinct at more than a thousand times the normal rate. Oceans are acidifying. Topsoil is disappearing. Many nations are seeing water scarcity. Chemicals in the air and water are altering reproductive patterns in many animals as well as sperm counts in humans.
The global climate is changing, and extreme weather events including droughts and floods are threatening our food supply. Our oceans now feature huge "dead zones" and great "gyres" of plastic fragments that are inevitably ingested by marine organisms and make their way up the food chain.
Again, it's hard to compress all of those developments into a single metric, but we're not assigning numbers to the x and y axes here—we're just looking at basic directional trends. So we can represent the increase in environmental damage in the last century with this red line.
These are three great trends of our time, and people who pay attention primarily to one or another of them are—well, they're right; they're all right. All of this has been going on concurrently. It's the best of times and the worst of times. But these three trends are at least partly explained by a fourth—energy use.
It takes energy to do things, and throughout the human past, the amount of energy available to us was limited.
Until very recent times, we got most of our energy directly or indirectly from food crops and trees, and exerted energy by way of muscle power.
When we began using fossil fuels, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we found that we had at our disposal history's biggest energy prize. Cheap, abundant fossil energy enabled us to grow the size of our economy many times over. Having all this energy also led to rising social aspirations, and fuel-fed machines gave us the free time to pursue those aspirations.
Oil was arguably the most important of these fuels, as it was perfect for use in transportation. We developed trains, automobiles, airplanes, and oil-burning ships, and these in turn enabled global trade to grow exponentially. We became more mobile, which gave us a tangible, geographic freedom that called forth a yearning for other kinds of freedoms.
But at the same time, the burning of fossil fuels, our dramatically increased consumption of resources, and massive population growth led to unprecedented environmental destruction.
In this case, it is easy to be quantitative. We could show our expanding energy use with graphs of BTUs or megajoules expended by humanity annually, or barrels of oil or tons of coal consumed. But for our purposes here, once again, all that's really needed is the general trend of energy production and consumption. This black line will do the trick.
If energy is a key to understanding the past, it is also, as we will see, a key to interpreting the future course of economic, social, and environmental trends.
Okay, let's shift gears a bit. Drawing graphs is an abstract way of portraying what's been happening in our lives. Abstraction can be helpful, but it can also distance us emotionally from what we're talking about.
So let's make this personal. I'd like to share with you a little about my family, and how these developments shaped the lives of some of the people closest to me.
My great grandmother Della was born in San Jose, California about six months after the great earthquake leveled her family's home in San Francisco. She was two years old in 1908, the year when Henry Ford introduced the Model T—the first affordable, mass-produced automobile.
The entire United States federal budget amounted to just a little over 9 billion dollars. The U.S. had a population of 89 million, and most of those people were farmers. About half of the horsepower in the economy was still being supplied by, well, horses —by muscles, that is, as opposed to engines. Firewood was still an important fuel, but coal and oil were coming along fast.
The world's biggest corporation at that time was Standard Oil, and American petroleum from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California was fueling the beginnings of the auto and aircraft industries.
My grandfather Clarence was born in 1923 and grew up through the roaring 20s in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, which at the time was a bustling center of Jewish American life. He was seven years old in 1930, when America was still in the early stages of the Great Depression. The U.S. federal budget amounted to about 46 billion dollars, and America's population stood at 123 million.
By this time, automobiles were commonplace, and oil had become the most important source of energy in the national economy. At this time, the United States was the center of the global oil industry, producing half or more of the world total and exporting large amounts to other countries. But something happened that year that nobody would recognize until much later: the annual amounts of oil discovered in the U.S. peaked.
Every year since 1930, we've found less oil within our borders than we did then, and the downward trend is undeniable when you look at data from the last eight decades.
My father was eleven years old in 1956, the year that Bill Russell led the San Francisco Dons to the national championship in college basketball. The U.S. population was close to 169 million and the federal budget topped 559 billion dollars.
By this time, industrial agriculture at a lower per-unit cost; had made it possible to dramatically increase food production in the process, millions of small farms could no longer compete, and so by 1956 only 5% percent of Americans were still farming. The Cold War was full swing, and the military budget had grown to 60 percent of all government spending.
In this year, a respected geophysicist named Marion King Hubbert noted that U.S. petroleum discoveries had been declining for a quarter of a century, and he forecast that the nation's oil production would peak soon, probably around 1970. He was ridiculed.
I was born in 1972. The following year, in 1973, hourly wages for American workers were at their highest point ever, if you adjust for inflation. The first Earth Day had occurred a couple of years earlier, and the environmental movement was starting to take off. The Vietnam War was still raging, The U.S. population stood at 212 million. U.S. oil production had indeed peaked in 1970, just as M. King Hubbert had forecast, though very few people were as yet aware of this fact.
However, in 1973 everybody forcibly came to understand that America had become economically vulnerable as a result of its increasing dependency on oil imports. In that year, the Arab members of OPEC—the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries—embargoed exports to the West, forcing oil prices to the stratosphere.
The American economy took a major hit, and after the 1970s, economic growth in the wealthy industrial nations would never be quite the same.
In 1986, I was fourteen and living in Portland, Oregon. That year, America's federal budget amounted to 1.6 trillion. By this time, America's population had just topped 240 million, and, though few people realized it at the time, the Soviet empire was on the verge of collapse.
The Soviets were major oil producers, and depended on income from petroleum export revenues. When oil prices plummeted in the late 1980s—partly as a result of new discoveries in the North Sea and Alaska—that put enormous pressure on the Soviet economy.
The fall of the Berlin Wall also occurred in this decade, which just about everyone today agrees was a good thing. But low oil prices during this era dramatically slowed efforts to develop solar and wind energy, efforts that had started in the 1970s when oil prices were so high.
With oil now cheap again, Americans went back to easy motoring and started buying bigger cars. We also saw globalization really start to take off. The U.S. economy began to depend more on outsourcing, offshoring, and finance rather than manufacturing with the advent of computers, container ships, and satellite communication.
Okay, let's talk about the present. My time and your time.
Farmers are just 2 percent of the population and the average age of our remaining farmers is pushing 60. The federal budget is over 3 trillion dollars and has accumulated $14 trillion of national debt, and counting. The U.S. population stands at more than 300 million.
Even though concerns have been raised for the past 40 years about our increasing dependence on foreign oil, the U.S. has done very little to reduce that dependency, and the nation now imports most of its petroleum. But world oil production has essentially flat-lined since 2005.
In 2008, the oil price spiked to $147 a barrel, and the global economy descended into turmoil. In 2011, political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa again drove oil prices upward. And an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear nightmare in Japan left massive devastation in its wake and tore at the world economy, making us realize that still another of our main energy sources has big problems.
Given that energy has been so crucial to so many of our human achievements during the past century or two looming energy limits would seem to pose a serious problem for us. Yet most people don't seem overly concerned.
This is partly because the information we're getting from various authorities is unclear at best. Fossil fuel companies rightly point out that there are enormous amounts of lower-grade hydrocarbon resources waiting to be extracted.
What they often don't mention is that both the dollar cost and the energy cost of producing them will be much higher than was the case historically with oil, coal, and gas. And the environmental risks will be far greater. The low-hanging fruit is gone.
Also, many people assume that society will easily and quickly transition to alternative energy sources as needed. We at Post Carbon Institute looked at this assumption very carefully in a study we did a couple of years ago. We examined 18 energy sources according to 10 criteria, including cost of development, energy returned on energy invested, size of the resource, environmental impacts, infrastructure needed, and so on.
We concluded that, if all of these important criteria are considered, there is no credible scenario in which world energy supplies are likely to continue growing once world fossil fuel production starts declining. And that moment could come quite soon.
The alternative energy sources just aren't up to the challenge at this point, and the amount of investment capital that would be needed to get them up to capacity simply isn't there. Many renewable energy sources (including wind and solar) are viable and should be prioritized and subsidized. The problem is that what they are replacing are energy sources that are concentrated and portable and were created by nature over tens of millions of years without any need for human effort.
We can have a renewable energy economy—in fact, it's inevitable—but it simply won't look like the economy we're used to. It may be smaller, slower, and more localized.
Where do we go from here? What does this mean for our children, our grandchildren? In a sense, we've been borrowing from them—or stealing.
Our continued burning of non‐renewable resources like oil or coal means there will be less available to future generations. They might have thought of something more interesting to do with these amazing substances than just burn them up, but they won't have the chance to do so.
Most of the high‐quality, easily accessed oil, coal, and gas is already gone. Meanwhile, by mid‐century, most nations will be suffering from water scarcity, and many thousands of animals and plants will have gone extinct.
The folks who mostly pay attention to that first blue curve—the economic curve—typically argue that a fast‐paced growing global economy is our most valuable legacy to future generations, since only innovation and investment can solve our environmental problems.
But that argument assumes that we will always find another energy source to keep the economy growing. Things don't appear to be working out that way. And if growth stops, a lot of bills will come due at once.
Even some of the economy watchers are concerned that we're stealing from our kids by way of unsustainable levels of debt. But isn't that debt just a symbol for real resources?
We're continuing to pile on vast sums in debt, securities, and derivatives. The numbers just keep getting bigger and bigger—billions, trillions, tens of trillions. But those numbers ultimately stand for the real things that money will buy—food, minerals, and energy. And many of those things aren't growing, they are essentially finite; in fact we're depleting nature's storehouse of natural resources at an accelerating pace.
If you look at it that way, economic growth looks an awful lot like a ponzi scheme. And in pyramid schemes, a few people get rich early on, but most people lose out in the end.
It's true that our economic progress has been associated with real social benefits. Most of us want it all—the cars, air conditioners, and smart phones as well as political freedoms and access to information. But all of it may be at risk if we can't keep the economy growing with more cheap energy.
So here's a crucial question: Can we disengage energy consumption from the benefits we want? Up to a point, yes—we can make our energy consumption more efficient. But if our population keeps growing, that cancels out much of the payoff from improved efficiency.
Another problem is that efforts aimed at increasing efficiency suffer from the law of diminishing returns: each new increment of energy efficiency tends to be more costly than the previous one. To be sure, energy efficiency is a very good thing. As energy becomes more scarce and expensive, efficiency will be one of the most important strategies we will need to adopt in order to get along. But it would be unwise to expect efficiency to drive the same level of economic growth that cheap, abundant energy yielded in decades past.
It may be easier to keep all of our social achievements than all of our economic benefits. But that may not be such a terrible trade‐off. It can be argued that, in the economic sphere, we've actually overdone it. Over the last few decades we have become so obsessed with growth and returns on investments, with consumption and convenience, that we in the wealthiest countries have created lifestyles that are wasteful and materialistic.
In the early 20th century, one of the greatest challenges to our economy was overproduction—factories could make more stuff than people were interested in buying. So we created the advertising industry—a $250 billion propaganda machine whose sole purpose is to talk us into buying things we may not need or even want.
We've come to think of overconsumption as normal, as a source of status and identity. We could scale back a bit on material consumption without much real distress, if everyone could count on some basic level of support, and if we replaced consumerism with other more enduring values.
I think we'd all agree that we don't want to give up our political freedoms, our access to information, civil rights, and so on. And we shouldn't have to—none of those things really requires enormous amounts of energy or other natural resources. However, overconsumption does, and if we don't plan for scaling back, the energy transition might be messy and painful.
We've created financial structures that only function properly under conditions of constant economic growth. And we have few provisions in place to keep people from falling under the wheels of the bus if the financial system really goes out of control, as it started to do in 2008.
A lot of people have been working, some of them for decades, on strategies to disconnect energy consumption from social and essential economic benefits. Low‐input agriculture. Renewable energy. Alternative forms of transportation. None of these is a silver bullet, but all deserve support and attention.
Maybe we can still aspire to improve the human condition, and the lives of our children if we focus less on quantity and more on quality, less on whatever is bigger and faster, and more on what is sustainable and equitable.
As we make our way through the closing years and decades of the fossil fuel era, I believe we can enjoy benefits as we face these challenges. By focusing more on quality of life rather than consumption, we could regain more of a sense of community, and also of self‐reliance. Recent studies have shown that there is little correlation between levels of happiness in a society and the scale of energy consumption in that society.
We still face enormous challenges in moving beyond fossil fuels. We're talking about a redesign of most of the basic systems that support modern civilization.
The details are going to take a lot of work.
What does finance look like in a post‐fossil fuel, post‐growth world? What about global trade? What political stresses and strains will emerge when rising material expectations have to be abandoned—like the expectation of a gas‐guzzling SUV in the driveway of every suburban McMansion?
What kinds of social messages will help people adapt? In order to make this ship, we will need to focus on a few central priorities…
Relocalize: Without cheap transport fuel, the trend toward globalization of production and distribution that we have seen in recent decades will reverse itself. Nations and communities that are dependent on long‐distance supply chains will face problems, while those that produce much of what is needed close by will gain the advantage.
Re‐Skill: As the trend toward mechanization slows and reverses due to rising costs of energy and materials, we will need to know how to do more for ourselves—including growing more of our own food and taking better care of our health through nutrition and exercise, depending less on expensive pharmaceuticals. We'll need to know how to mend clothes, rather than just buying new ones shipped from China.
Conserve: Making the most of available energy and materials will become an art. Solar cookers, solar food dryers, solar water heaters, and clotheslines are examples of the kinds of simple and inexpensive technologies that will help us stretch our budgets and do more with less.
Share: Is it really necessary for each of us to have a complete set of tools, gadgets, and machines for every imaginable contingency? By pooling resources among neighbors and families, we can reduce consumption levels while enriching our social lives.
Build resilience: Even if we do everything right, we're going to hit some economic and environmental bumps, or should I say, boulders along the way.
We need to make sure we can bounce back. Food and energy systems are more resilient if they have built‐in redundancies and are distributed rather than centralized.
As we do these things, we should aim for progress and growth in all the areas where it can be achieved—most of which are in the social sphere.
If we demand higher levels of consumption, we will reap only frustration while condemning our grandchildren to conditions we would never want for them. Yet if we strive to improve culture, human relations, and environmental integrity, we could realistically aspire to build a more content, more engaged society in the long run.
We at Post Carbon Institute certainly don't pretend to have all the answers. But we think it's important to frame the right questions. We're inviting you to join the conversation. It's going to take a lot of us approaching this problem from different angles to figure it out. A lot is at stake. And the solutions will come down to more than graphs and numbers. In the end, this is about people, the people we care most about. This is the challenge of our lifetime. Let's embrace it and see what we can do together. Thank you.


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Editor's note: Every NFL team is preparing to attack its offseason to-do list, with free agency set to open March 12 and the draft April 25-27. This is the ninth of 32 reports in 32 days by Sporting News NFL correspondents, who will analyze the offseason game plan for each team. Saturday: Detroit Lions. Sunday: Green Bay Packers. Monday: Minnesota Vikings.
Talent overview
Hiring Marc Trestman as coach left the Chicago Bears looking at talent in free agency and the draft in a different way on each side of the football.
On the offensive side, the need is to immediately bring in players who fit the new west coast attack and make contributions opening day this season. An inability to protect Jay Cutler and move the ball ultimately cost Lovie Smith and most of his coaching staff their jobs. So multiple offensive line spots, tight end, wide receiver, and fullback all need to be upgraded to give Trestman a fighting chance at improving the Bears.
While it won't fit the category of massive overhaul because Matt Forte, Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall will still be the offensive mainstays, there should be more additions than in recent years because the Bears simply lack the type of skills at many offensive positions to fit Trestman's style after they used an entirely different approach for three years under Mike Martz and Mike Tice.
On the other side, the defense is aging, but new defensive coordinator Mel Tucker will maintain status quo for now with the scheme. The Tampa-2 style remains intact, although the overall approach may be diversified. So additions made defensively can be done with longer-range development in mind.
Key departures
The big question is not whether unrestricted free agent linebacker Brian Urlacher will leave, but whether another team would seriously throw money at a 34-year-old linebacker with a knee problem. He'll give the Bears every chance to bring him back at a cut rate because he has to do that.
Defensive tackle Henry Melton is the team's key re-signing need because he made a major breakthrough last year playing three-technique and it's difficult to find players for that position. Melton may get tagged while the team works on a new deal. His retention could make it difficult for the Bears to add much in free agency due to cap considerations.
The quarterback position may begin to take on a totally different look under Trestman, who has a reputation as a QB guru. With Jay Cutler's contract expiring after 2013, and backups Jason Campbell and Josh McCown unrestricted free agents in March, expect potential quarterbacks of the future to be targeted for backup. It's likely at least one backup—if not both—will be allowed to leave. The perfect time to bring in young QBs for grooming is the first year of a new coach, especially one known as a QB guru.
Although tight ends Kellen Davis and Matt Spaeth are not free agents, it would be surprising if both made the roster by next regular season. They'll likely be examined closely in minicamps, but Davis ranked near the top in drops per times targeted all last season and Spaeth is a classic blocking tight end better suited to the last system.
Return man Devin Hester wants out or expects to be out after only four total offensive reps the final two games. Because of his speed and a cap-friendly final year to his contract, the new coaching staff will likely take a stab at squeezing use out of him before abandoning hope. Based on past repeated failures at this, it would seem likely he'll be elsewhere by opening day.
A few other extra parts could leave, like free agent nickel back D.J. Moore. But his replacement is Kelvin Hayden, who also is a free agent. It may come down to who plays for cheapest there. Veteran sometimes-starting guard Chris Spencer is also a free agent, and the need to overhaul the offensive line may lead to his departure. Guard Chilo Rachal and the team is unlikely to bring back a player who quit on them last year when he was needed.
1. Offensive tackle. The Bears drafted Gabe Carimi two years ago in Round 1, but he flopped last year. And although J'Marcus Webb improved over the course of his second year at starting left tackle, he remains marginal by starting standards. General manager Phil Emery called Jonathan Scott the best free agent tackle available to him last year, and if this was the case it has to be more an indictment of a free agent class than a vote of confidence. The need for improvement is so urgent it wouldn't be surprising to see the Bears take a run at Miami free agent left tackle Jake Long despite his injury past. They likely can accomplish this only by freeing up cap space, which might mean not bringing back Urlacher and/or Melton. Otherwise, expect this to be addressed immediately in the draft at pick No. 20—especially if Oklahoma's Lane Johnson falls this far. Because of his long reach and past production, Alabama's D.J. Fluker may be worth the risk despite his weight (355).
2. Guard. Lance Louis, easily the team's best guard, is coming off anterior cruciate ligament surgery. The injury happened later last season so Louis can't be counted on with any certainty for an opening-day return. With Chris Spencer a free agent, the need at guard is actually greater in terms of merely adding bodies than it is at tackle. North Carolina's Jonathan Cooper would be an ideal fit in Round 1 if available. Tennessee's Justin Pugh is a second-round type. Because many centers also can play guard, the Bears may take a long look at Alabama center Barrett Jones after Round 1. Starter Roberto Garza will be 34 this season, older than the age when the team dumped Olin Kreutz.
3. Tight end. Trestman likes using tight ends as receivers in keeping with the league trend. He might be able to make use of third-stringer Kyle Adams, but one or even two tight ends is a necessity. The Bears haven't had a legitimate receiver at the spot since trading away Greg Olsen. If the money is available, Jets free agent Dustin Keller would fit in well. He had between 45 and 65 catches each of his first four years before being neglected last year. The need at this position is so great that it wouldn't be shocking for them to ignore offensive line until the second or third round and reach for Notre Dame's tight end Tyler Eifert in Round 1, while hoping new offensive coordinator/line coach Aaron Kromer can apply his expertise to upgrade the talent-deficient line.
4. Linebacker. With Urlacher, Nick Roach, and backup Geno Hayes free agents, and the Urlacher-Briggs dynamic duo aging—or "vintage" as Briggs often says—the Bears have to address this position in the middle of the draft at the very least. Manti Te'o in Round 1 fits their play-making need in the middle, but his 6-1 height is a concern in their zone. If they decide to let Urlacher go, expect Roach to move inside. The need then adjusts to outside. More middle-round talent is available in the draft there, like Florida State's Brandon Jenkins or South Carolina's DeVonte Holloman.
5. Wide receiver. After adding Marshall and second-round 2012 pick Alshon Jeffery, there is still a need because of Hester's failures. Earl Bennett can fill a possession receiver role, but the real need is for someone to "take the top off" defenses with great speed. Johnny Knox used to do that but retired due to his back injury. They'll closely monitor combine and workout 40 times. It wouldn't be out of the question for them to look at an inexpensive veteran like Lee Evans, who has great speed but was out of the league a year due to injury.
Chamberlain's take
With so many immediate offensive needs and longer-range defensive needs, it would be difficult for the Bears to step up in one year from a non-playoff team to the playoffs. Salary cap restrictions will make it tough to fill all the holes. It will take a strong coaching effort from Trestman and his staff to make up for deficiencies likely to remain after free agency and the draft. Even if Emery finds adequate offensive line, tight end, and receiver help, getting them all into a new system under a first-time NFL head coach and expecting immediate success looks like a daunting task. A slide back from 10-6 appears inevitable, and then while it happens they'll have to assess whether Cutler at 30 years old really is worth retaining with a contract extension.
Up next
Saturday: Detroit Lions
Sunday: Green Bay Packers
Monday: Minnesota Vikings
Tuesday: Baltimore Ravens
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The Fairfax County Courthouse will receive an award for its architectural design from the City of Fairfax Community Appearance Committee on Feb. 24, at 7 p.m., City Council Room, City Hall Annex, 10455 Armstrong Street, Fairfax. The county courthouse is one of only six award recipients. The building was lauded for its use of a brick façade, entrance arcade, brick landscape columns and pergola.
The 316,000-square-foot courthouse facility, which opened in February 2008, is part of the Courthouse Expansion and Renovation Project. When the project is completed, the Circuit, General District and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District courts will be collocated.
The new building design allows for enhanced public and occupant services. Benefits include: additional courtrooms and public spaces to serve the county's population growth and the corresponding increase in court cases; expanded space to expeditiously accommodate court functions, such as mediation and conciliation programs; advanced courtroom technology tomeet current and future needs; building and site security enhancements; electronic "wayfinder" signs listing cases and courtrooms; and consolidation of court functions for ease of public use.
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All of these treatments are designed to decrease inflammation by inhibiting tumor necrosis factor (TNF), an inflammatory protein known to be increased in people with IBD. For a lot of us, our immune system runs amok and produces large amounts of TNF, which can snowball into a massive inflammatory response otherwise known to us as… Misery. All of these drugs are anti-TNF antibodies that bind to the extra TNF your body is producing. By decreasing the TNF level, the idea is that the vicious inflammatory cycle will end, or at least be more manageable.
So they are all antibodies, what's the difference? Remicade (infliximab) is a chimeric antibody, (half human, half mouse) that can bind to TNF anywhere in the body. Humira (adalimumab) is a completely human antibody with similar effects as Remicade. A new drug, certolizumab pegol, soon to be branded Cimzia, is just a piece of a human antibody. New studies show that Cimzia is effective in the treatment of Crohn's disease without some of the side effects of the Remicade or Humira.
When you take out the science and think about the actual treatment, Remicade is given as an infusion usually every 4-8 weeks depending on the severity of disease. Humira and Cimzia are designed to be self-administered every other week or so (again depending on severity), which is more convenient, if you don't mind a shot in the thigh every now and again. Most of the time, your doctor will suggest which treatment might be best for you.
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The award-winning Broken Song is now showing in the Irish Film Institute. Harry Guerin samples beats, rhymes and life.
Winner of the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award and the Audience Award at this year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Broken Song is a great reminder that when it comes to cinema it's always best to leave your preconceptions in the foyer. You don't have to know about, or indeed even like, Irish hip-hop to enjoy this film. In fact, you'll probably get more out of Claire Dix's documentary if you're a complete novice.
Filmed in Ballymun and Finglas, Broken Song takes us into the worlds of three performers: Costello, GI and Willa Lee. Seen encouraging and teaching the younger freestylers in their area, Costello and GI focus on life's positives and articulate the need for personal responsibility for one's actions.
Teenager Willa Lee's life, however, is more chaotic. At the time of filming he's facing a prison sentence, with self-sabotage in danger of turning his huge raw talent into another hard luck story of what might have been. Plenty of people are on his side, but, as the saying goes, if you're looking for a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Initial fears that Dix's gorgeous quayside opening sequence would be followed by a blizzard of bravado and machismo prove unfounded: Broken Song turns out to be a surprisingly moving and uplifting snapshot of life on the fringes of a city, an economy and an industry. The director has chosen her subjects well, lets them do all the talking and avoids preaching or patronising - for a first-time documentary maker many pitfalls are avoided.
In Costello and GI the message of empowerment shines through, with the flipside being Willa's apparent compulsion to be his own worst enemy. For all the frustration he provokes in the viewer (and his own long-suffering on-screen champion Dean Scurry), you still want the best for Willa and are convinced he could go very far as an artist. The challenge is for him to believe the same.
Shot superbly in black and white with odd splashes of colour heightening the experience, Broken Song and its very different kind of troika rank among the finds of the year. Now to get those tunes...
Broken Song is at the IFI from November 15 and screens at axis Ballymun on November 27.
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Cisco Chief John Chambers has complained to President Obama about the National Security Agency, following reports that it intercepts U.S.-made networking hardware on the way to foreign customers to install modifications to allow NSA snooping.
"We simply can't operate this way," Chambers wrote in a letter to the president, which was reported earlier by the Financial Times and obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
The letter is dated May 15. Chambers is scheduled to speak in San Francisco today at the networking equipment giant's annual gathering for customers.
NSA documents describing the interceptions were published in excerpts of a book by Glenn Greenwald, a Guardian newspaper reporter who has written extensively based on documents provided by former NSA contract Edward Snowden.
One document distributed along with the book shows a photograph of Cisco equipment at an undisclosed NSA facility being opened to install the modifications, which are typically called backdoors.
"We ship our products from locations inside, as well as outside the United States, and if these allegations are true, these actions will undermine confidence in our industry and in the ability of technology companies to deliver products globally," Chambers wrote.
Chambers called for "a new set of 'rules of the road,' to ensure that appropriate safeguards and limits exist that serve national security objectives, while at the same time meet the needs of global commerce."
Cisco's general counsel, Mark Chandler, also write a blog post last week in the wake of the revelations. "As a matter of policy and practice, Cisco does not work with any government, including the United States government, to weaken our products," Chandler wrote, in language echoed by Chambers. "When we learn of a security vulnerability, we respond by validating it, informing our customers and fixing it."
Juniper Networks, another major supplier of networking equipment, issued its own statement in the wake of the revelations last week.
"As we've stated previously, Juniper Networks takes allegations of this nature very seriously. To be clear, we do not work with governments to purposely introduce weaknesses or vulnerabilities into our products," a company spokeswoman said.
"As a company that consistently operates with the highest of ethical standards, we are committed to maintaining the integrity and security of our products."
The latest disclosures follow longtime warnings from the U.S. government about buying Chinese-made networking equipment from China's Huawei Technologies because of the possibility of backdoor features that could be exploited by Chinese agencies. Greenwald noted that the NSA, all the while, is doing the same thing.
An NSA spokeswoman issued this statement at the time of the reports about interception of hardware exports.
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The days of hiring farm kids with college degrees are numbered. Not only are there not enough to go around, but also today's graduates are more likely to be from a suburb, a city or perhaps a rural community. Ethnicity and gender of agricultural students are also in transition.
"We know anecdotally that more and more students are coming from urban or suburban backgrounds, which is natural given our overall population," said Wendy Fink, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). "The base simply isn't there like it used to be. We have to look at urban kids for the next generation filling the employment pipeline."
Fink cited outreach efforts to urban areas at many agricultural schools as well as to "under represented" populations, students that traditionally haven't attended land-grant universities or pursued agricultural career training. APLU supports those efforts, working with its members on policy, student recruitment and stakeholder issues.
Changes in the Student Body
Those efforts appear to be working. Bill Richardson directs the Food, Agriculture and Education Information System (FAEIS), a USDA-funded research effort that tracks the supply side of agriculture and natural resource graduates. Richardson reported that degrees in agriculture increased by 16.1 percent, going from 51,728 in 2004 to 60,379 in 2011. Over the same period, enrollment demographics changed significantly. Hispanic student undergraduate enrollment in colleges of agriculture and natural resources increased by 107.2 percent. African American student enrollment increased by 41.8 percent, and Asian student enrollment increased by 57.3 percent.
Gender is also changing. While male students in agricultural programs traditionally outnumbered females, that changed in 2008. From 2009 on, more undergraduate females enrolled than males, with female enrollment increasing by 19.9 percent and males by 9.1 percent from 2009 to 2011.
Richardson noted that even with higher rates of female and minority enrollment, the overall undergraduate numbers need substantial improvement. "The ag economy is great," said Richardson. "The jobs are there, and that works its way down to the undergraduate level. In 10 years time, there are going to be so very many jobs out there as baby boomers age."
Fink mirrored Richardson's concerns. "Our efforts in the past five years include laying out a roadmap to grow interest from prospective students, as well as identify employment opportunities," she said. "We see that we are not producing enough graduates to fill the roles that are out there at the undergraduate level and certainly not at the graduate level. Students are taken into the workforce as soon as they graduate and often with multiple job offers."
Schools Adapt to Attract Ag Students
Kansas State University (KSU) is doing what it can to keep the pipeline filled. From 2007 to 2012, enrollment in the College of Agriculture grew by 34 percent, and it is projected to be higher yet this coming year, said Don Boggs, associate dean, College of Ag, Academic Programs. Most of the growth has been in the animal science and food and grain science areas. Ag economics has also grown to 400 students. While the agronomy program has doubled in size in the past five to six years, there are still tremendous employment opportunities for students in that area, assured Boggs.
KSU College of Agriculture also has seen changes in its student body in recent years. Boggs credited much of the growth in non-traditional (no farm and ranch background) students to a marketing effort that began in 2007. It emphasized that you didn't have to be from a farm or ranch to be an agricultural student. Career path possibilities were presented, which then led prospective students to the major needed to attain the career. KSU works closely with community colleges across the state, as well as with employers such as the milling industry.
"The milling industry was struggling to find new employees," said Boggs. "We pointed out that the average 15 year-old didn't even know what milling job opportunities were. We asked the industry to reach out to sons and daughters of employees and those of clients to help them understand the great opportunities that exist."
The opportunity for good paying jobs is attractive to prospective students. However, what increasingly makes it stick, according to Boggs, is the fact that these jobs can make a difference in the world, whether feeding people or protecting the environment. Marcos Fernandez, associate dean and director, Office of Academic Programs, College of Agriculture, Purdue University, seconded Boggs view. He, too, cited a change in attitude among students in recent years.
"They want to make a difference, do right and change the world. They believe they can do it in agriculture and related sciences," said Fernandez. "Although we believe the 'better times' in agriculture have had a positive impact on students' outlook as to what the future may hold, the attitude change started before the ag economy improved."
Increasing Awareness of Ag Careers
Fernandez credited a wide arrange of influences on students, ranging from articles in Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal to Michelle Obama's White House garden, for raising awareness among non-farm background students. He suspects TV channels such as Animal Planet help attract students, especially female, to animal science, citing the 80/80/80 rule.
"In animal science, 80 percent of our students are female, 80 percent are interested in being veterinarians and 80 percent have no farm animal type experience, being from urban backgrounds," said Fernandez. " Animal science is easy to sell to people who love animals. We need consistent messages about the opportunities in plant and soil sciences. The opportunities are incredible and can be just as rewarding."
At Purdue and Pennsylvania State, where Fernandez spent half a dozen years prior to coming to Purdue, students in agricultural majors have taken matters into their own hands. Their goals are to reach out to non-ag students, telling them about opportunities in agriculture and opening communications on agricultural issues. At Purdue, that includes the student-run "See What Ag Gives (SWAG) Purdue Ag Week."
"At both universities, agriculture students are reaching out with a desire to share their perspectives with fellow students," said Fernandez. "You would think that at a major land-grant university, there would be a common understanding about agriculture. These student efforts get communications flowing in both directions."
Students Want to Make A Difference
One of the students who has reached out is Michael Baird. The recent Purdue graduate with a double major in horticulture production and marketing and agribusiness management is a field sales representative for Beck's Hybrids. His family has a small row-crop and livestock operation with a strong agri-tourism bent. Baird and a brother operated a fruit and vegetable business to help finance their college careers. He put his hands-on farming experience to work as an agriculture ambassador for the College of Agriculture.
"I get questions all the time about jobs in agriculture and respond that there are tons of potential jobs and that you don't have to be from a farm," said Baird. "People want to know about agriculture because they are so removed from it. It's cool to be able to share information with them or clear up a misconception. They get excited about your personal story of agriculture."
Baird emphasized, as Boggs and Fernandez had suggested, it is more than jobs that are driving this crop of students. "We know we can make a difference, change lives and the future of the world," said Baird. "In my new position, I will be helping farmers in Kentucky be more successful at raising corn, soybeans and wheat so they can grow their business and provide for their families. Eventually I hope to again be involved in the family business. I think it is important to introduce more students to agriculture because it is essential to our future. It is our responsibility to share our story with them."


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2 containers (6 oz each) nonfat vanilla Greek yogurt, divided among ice cube tray sections and frozen (My tip: I used a vanilla bean flavor and it was delish!)
2 small ripe bananas, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and frozen (My tip: Make sure to cut the bananas before freezing them.)
4 tsp natural peanut butter (My tip: You can also use almond butter for a twist! Either way, if you store yours in the fridge, set it out for at least 30 minutes prior to making the recipe so it will be soft and easier to blend.)
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