 the economy on eating habits since The Omnivore’s Dilemma came out in 2007, right before the Great Recession?
One of the surprises of the last four years is that the market for alternative, more expensive foods has thrived. It should have collapsed. Organic should have collapsed. People felt squeezed.
It [the organic, local food movement] could have gone away. The fact that it didn’t, is telling. Last year, the organic food category was up 10 percent.
What do you think about the recent marketing efforts by lobbyists to call HFCS “Corn Sugar”?
I don’t think they’ll succeed. The problem is, high-fructose corn syrup isn’t that accurate, either. Both names put lipstick on a pig. If I had to pick a name, it’d be enzymatically-altered corn gluten. Now that’s accurate.
Have you spent any time looking into China’s food system?
The Chinese have a crisis of trust. We read about melamine in the papers, but there are a slew of issues we never hear about. They have a similar problem to the US: a food chain that is very long and full of uncertainty. A nascent food movement is growing, led by the affluent who can afford to reconnect with local producers. There are even CSAs cropping up in Beijing!
Food, politics, news, what’s up with the rumors of “Michael Pollan vs. Mark Bittman” tremors? I would think you guys should get along?
You know, people ask me this question and I think it’s funny. It’s great to have someone on the East Coast paying attention to these issues, and especially at the Times. There’s less solidarity. We talk from time to time, he’ll ask me for farms to visit out in Iowa, I’m so glad the momentum for food and politics is growing!
Glad to hear it. Back to your writing. Botany of Desire is one of my all-time favorite books but it doesn’t get the same kind of press that Omnivore received. Why don’t people want to read about marijuana and the history of Johnny Appleseed?
I think it might be my best book. But it’s less pointed. It doesn’t address how to live, it’s an argument for how nature works. It didn’t plug into social, political, cultural issues. But it got me into all this. I guess we owe it something.
When I published The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I thought I was really late. Eric Schlosser had published Fast Food Nation already, and I didn’t know if there was still an appetite for these issues.
You never know if your book is going to meet what the culture needs. But you might get lucky.
All this talk about food makes me hungry. What was your most unforgettable meal?
There’s a restaurant called Etxebarri in Spain, in the Basque region. Every course is grilled. The chef, Victor Arguinzoniz, and no I can't pronounce his name, has dedicated his career to finding the right wood, the right temperature, for the right ingredient.
I had the best steak I’ve ever eaten there, and it was from a 14-year old dairy cow. The chef grilled a single oyster under a single ember – the perfect ember, wood and temperature and all – and it was the best oyster I’d ever had.
It was so unexpectedly good!
And if you have to choose, what would be your last meal?
People ask me the death row question a lot. My favorite meal is a good roast chicken. With roasted root vegetables, cooked in the same pan with all the drippings.
The daughter of sharecroppers in rural Georgia, Reatha Clark King began to consider herself a citizen of the world 50 years ago, when she developed close friendships with a number of international students while doing research at the University of Chicago for her doctorate in chemistry. “That’s when I began to develop myself in a multicultural way,” recalls King.
After a five-year stint as a research chemist at what is now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, King moved into higher education, first as associate dean at York College in New York City. In 1977 she became president of Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities and held that position for more than a decade.
King’s international activities began in earnest in 1970 with a trip to the Netherlands sponsored by the NATO Advanced Study Institute. When she was 45, her colleague and friend, Donna Shalala, nominated her to lecture internationally on behalf of the United States Information Agency.
In 1988, after 20 years in academia, King entered the corporate world as vice president of General Mills and president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation. A sought-after director in both the corporate and nonprofit realms, King has served on the boards of ExxonMobil, Wells Fargo, H. B. Fuller Company, Minnesota Mutual Companies, and the Lenox Group, as well as dozens of philanthropic, civic, and educational organizations.
King, 75, retired from General Mills in 2002 and has since visited more than a dozen other countries including China, Singapore, South Korea, Scotland, Costa Rica, South Africa, Morocco, and Thailand.
<filename>test/contracts/issue134.sol
pragma solidity ^0.5.1;

contract FIX134 {
    bytes public data;
    uint256 public number;
    
    event Say(
        uint256 indexed _number
    );
    
    event Say(
        uint256 indexed _number,
        bytes indexed _data
    );

    function say(uint256 _number) public {
        number = _number;
        emit Say(_number);
    }
    
    function say(uint256 _number, bytes memory _data) public {
        data = _data;
        number = _number;
        emit Say(_number, _data);
    }
}Went to studio on the square once about a year ago. Someone had a medical emergency in the middle of the theater and they cut the lights on asked everyone to exit.

Some teenagers were bitching as they were walking out, "Man, what about my money?" A lady said, "Someone is hurt and you're worried about a few bucks? They'll take care of it, I'm sure."  I was enraged.   Aww damn." And a few more words were spoken, but I just had to walk away.

On the way out, that group stopped to film the person who was having the issue laying on the ground with paramedics around them trying to help. Like literally, stopped the line of people trying to leave to film and they were laughing at that person laying on the ground while filming it. The paramedics had to yell at them and tell them to "have some class," and stop filming and leave.

I was seriously very disappointed in humanity that night. Water, glycerin, methylpropanediol, caprylic/capric triglyceride, cetearyl alcohol, macadamia ternifolia seed oil, hydrogenated polydecene, niacinamide, butyrospermum parkii (shea) butter, glyceryl stearate, beeswax, saccharomyces/xylinum/black tea ferment, arachidyl alcohol, behenyl alcohol, arachidyl glucoside, phenyl trimethicone, cetearyl glucoside, sorbitan stearate, cellulose gum, sodium hyaluronate, hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid, sodium acetylated hyaluronate, hydroxyethylcellulose, broussonetia kazinoki root extract, punica granatum fruit extract, coptis japonica extract, centella asiatica extract, adenosine, ceramide np, yeast beta-glucan, copper tripeptide-1 acetyl hexapeptide-8, hydrogenated lecithin, carbomer, butylene glycol, hydroxyacetophenone, myrtus communis extract, tropaeolum majus extract, tromethamine, disodium edta, octyldodecanol, caprylyl glycol, ethylhexylglycerin, 1,2-hexanediol.
Oh an op-ed from someone who has no experience in risk assessment and has to refer to a 3 decade old spill involving a single hulled vessel. Newsflash, there has been significant technological advancements and regulations over the past 3 decades to reduce the risk of an oil spill, which is why you have to go back so far to find an example. I found this part to be particularly laughable:

&gt;what if two of these super tankers collide in the middle of the night

There is a higher risk of two ferries colliding with one another. Whenever an oil tanker enters or exits Canadian waters, two Canadian pilots board the vessel, take control of it, and are followed out by three tethered tugboats. Furthermore, tankers aren’t allowed to get into the inlet at night, which just goes to show how fake the news your consuming is.

Here is a better explanation of the process regarding the transportation of crude oil in the Burrard Inlet: http://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2016/12/why-oil-tankers-dont-keep-bcs-marine-response-night/We have run distance and duration contests in school. also run different design contests to encourage