The Eat Local movement is growing throughout Maine, and the UMaine Cooperative Extension will be holding its annual Backyard Locovore Day on Saturday, August 11th to help educate the public about ways to grow and eat more locally produced food. Tom Talk with Kate McCarty, a food preservation program aide about where you can go to learn how to eat healthy. Kate, thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. Your Locovore tour is coming up pretty soon. But before we get into that, do you want to explain just for people who might not know what the Cooperative Extension service is, what it does? It's the Department of the University of Maine, and we seek to connect the research of the university with the public. So we provide a lot of education in horticulture, agriculture, nutrition, youth development. A lot of people know about the 4-H program and the Master Gardener program. And then I work in food preservation, so I teach hands-on canning workshops. That's going to be really helpful this year, because we've had a pretty good growing season this year haven't we? Yeah, it's coming in early. The demand for our classes is filling, so. And the whole idea of the Locovore tour is to visit gardens and people who are creating the food that can allow us to be Locovores, which is what? What's the definition of Locovore? Well, we say that someone who strives to eat locally. So there's different definitions as to what that means as far as a 100-mile radius or a 50-mile radius. But we say just people who focus on main food and main and are aware of where their food is coming from. So what's the Locovore tour all about? What do people can expect, where do they go? So it's a self-guided garden tour of backyard sites all throughout Cumberland County. So it's from their sites from Brunswick to Cape Elizabeth, out in Wyndham, and then a lot around the greater Portland area. So at each site, there's going to be the homeowner who will take you on little guided tours of their yard, highlight all the different things you might see. We have backyard chickens and bees and a lot of edibles, different techniques for growing organic and square foot gardening.  So topics on gardening and food preservation and then, of course, food for you to try at each site.  How many places can you go? There's 13 sites on the tour. And because it is from Brunswick to Cape Elizabeth and out to Wyndham, you won't be able to get to every site. So we'll provide the information ahead of time as to what each site will highlight. So you'll really need to narrow it down and pick the sites that might be the most interesting to you. How do you choose them? Well, it's mostly volunteer because they have to open their gardens for six hours to have people trompe through them. So we draw from the master gardener volunteers and then the planning committee went out and looked at all the sites ahead of time. And, of course, it was a few months ahead of time. So their garden wasn't in full bloom by then. But what they'd had previously and how accessible the site was, unfortunately, had it turned out a few people in the boonies because we know that they might not have the demand that they were expecting. So how many people do you have coming? How many years have you been doing this? This is our fourth year. And we've had three events in four years. And our highest attendance was 350 people. What kind of people come for this? I imagine would be gardeners themselves who want more tips and that sort of thing. Yeah, people looking to not only just read about the technique but to really see it in action and talk to the homeowner about what worked, what didn't, looking to incorporate stuff into their own yards, to really figure out how you can have chickens in downtown Portland or bees on your shed roof and things like that. Yeah, what are some of the important considerations of people who want to grow a lot of vegetables for the year living in Maine that they face? Yeah, there's a lot of season extension techniques. So how to get the most out of the shoulder seasons, we think just between Memorial and Labor Day. But we can really grow on either side for a lot longer than that. So people will be able to get some tips about how to get the most out of your garden in our short growing season. Yeah, it does seem like a short growing season, but you can extend it a lot of ways, right? Yeah. People, are there greenhouses? Are there different homes? Yeah, we've got greenhouses. And then that small intensive gardening, so maybe you don't have a lot of space if you're a downtown area, but how to get the most yield out of what you have. And you're into food preservation. Is there gonna be anything on the tour about that? Oh yeah, every site will have a food preservation topic and then a food sample featuring a preserved food. Oh wow. So there's a lot to look forward to, people should bring their notebooks and that sort of thing. Yes, definitely. And you're able to do. Now if people want more information about the tour and where to go, what can they get? Sure, they could call our office, we're 781-6099 and of course go online at extension.umain.edu. Okay, well great, well thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me.


Det sker på att de här simpla experimente allow oss att öppna den hydrophobiska effekten på molekylskåpet. Jag ska göra det med en illustrering av kåkning. Om du är bollande på lite pasta kan du möjligen lägga lite olja till vatten. Och de små oljedropplätten kommer att ha att interakta med vatten. Jag kommer att lägga in en annan dropp av olja som jag är generellt idag. Det som kommer att hända runt de här droppar av olja är att vatten kan inte bli hög och bond. Vatten som brukar hända de här droppar med andra vatten kommer att ha att reorientera, för de kan inte hända de här droppar mot olja. Så i stället kommer de att ha att orientera i en complicated fashion. Jag drar det här väldigt snäckligt och schematiskt. Så att de här droppar kommer att ha att formera en nätverkstruktur för att fortsätta de här droppar, åtminstone i första approximationen. Det nätverkstning av det är att de här droppar kommer att vara konstant. Men det är inte en fri lunch, även om det är pasta. Det som händer är att vi är kring de här droppar i terms av entrepi. Vi har nu format en väldigt bra ordentlig läge runt de här droppar. Och de här droppar är sometimes called clatterates. Det är även possible to observe them experimentally, although it's not entirely easy, because it's not a crystal. They are still mobile and everything, but they form a very regular structure to maintain those additive bonds. Now imagine if I took those two drops of oil and at some point in time they would merge to form a slightly larger drop of oil. This droplet does not have to be enormously larger because the volume of oil we can solve inside a droplet corresponds to the radius cubed, right? But on the other hand, so sorry, so merging two droplets would corresponds to a radius that is two to the power of one third larger. But the increase in the area is just going to be the square root of two larger because the area is proportional to the square of the radius. So there will still be a clatterate structure network around this drop of oil. But this one will involve fewer waters. And then there are now going to be a handful of waters that are happy that can form hydrogen bonds out in bulk water. That is the pure solvent. Now if there is an exchange between these, which there will be, what's going to happen is that this process is going to be very advantageous because I will gain entropy going in this way. There won't be any change in energy. While if I go in that direction I'm going to be paying in terms of entropy. So this will lead to the effect that it's much more advantageous to separate phases. In this case that's why you get large drops of oil that might be a centimeter larger water rather than dispersing them all around in the water. And that is exactly the hydrophobic effect. There are two cool things here. The first thing is that although the hydrogen bond is electrostatic in nature, there's no question about that. The hydrophobic effect ends up being entropic in nature because the hydrogen bonds are so strong that we never break them. We just reorient them and that's why it shows up in the entropy. What would you do if you try to solve something in water and it just precipitates? You might try to raise the temperature, right? That would make a lot of sense if you're trying to solve it, say a sodium chloride. The solubility will go up with temperature. But what would happen here? Think a little bit about it. Hit pause. I hope you use our old friend the equation X equals E minus TS or G equals H. But the temperature goes there, right? So if you increase the temperature what's going to happen is that you will make this term more dominant and that's where the entropy went. So what we are predicting here is that if the hydrophobic effect is entropic in nature if you increase the temperature not only will the solubility not go up it's actually going to go down. And that's actually the case. Because that oil you threw in the water when boiling pasta it does not dissolve when you hit 100 degrees centigrade, right? If anything the effect is likely worse although you probably haven't been able to observe that. But the hydrophobic effect becomes worse when the temperature goes up. Not better. So it's quite different from normal solubility of salts.


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This week, Untitled Goose Game creators House House attempted to influence voters in the upcoming UK general election. The studio's official Twitter account has urged UK fans to vote for the left-wing Labour Party, going so far as to display everyone's favourite naughty goose with a red rose, the party's official symbol. This should come as no surprise to anyone who's been keeping tabs on House House, as they've stated in an interview that, according to their own In Studio Law, Untitled Goose Game takes place within a socialist utopia. The subject of politics in games is increasingly fraught, with many studios attempting to distance themselves from the political themes within their work. Earlier this year, a spokesperson for EA claimed that, quote, we're not making any political statements. In their latest World War II first-person shooter, Battlefield V. So why then, in a climate where many developers are so squeamish about acknowledging the political themes within their games, are the team at House House willing to endorse a particular political party? As we mentioned in our previous video on this game's development, the four core members of House House make no pretense at being professional. We are, says Jacob Strasser, three years more professional than we were three years ago. This extends to politics. The team at House House wear their allegiance on their sleeves, and have not been shy about discussing their involvement in protests against the ongoing climate crisis. According to Nico Düsseldorf, we stopped work in the middle of our video game's launch day and went to the global climate strike because we want our government and other governments around the world to take urgent action to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Business as usual is destroying all of our futures, and things need to change now. This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the team's consideration of politics. While House House are Australians, they have a deep affinity for stories set within rural England, and take a keen interest in British politics. It's for this reason that they chose the quaint setting for Untitled Goose Game. According to Jacob Strasser, speaking to Kotaku, we have a joke canonical version of the world of the game, in which, I don't think you should publish this, but for the sake of conversation, it's set in a world where a goose chase Margaret Thatcher out of office, leading Tony Ben to take over the UK, and enact social democracy in the UK. All the people are good Marxists, and they're all good people, and the goose is just a goose. It seems that Kotaku ignored Strasser's request to keep this quote out of their finished interview, but now that it's been published, it does give some unique insight to the studio's internal discussions around British politics. In spite of this canonical game law, Strasser doesn't think that fans should be too concerned about the moral implications of this scenario. Said Strasser, all the people on Twitter responded to that saying, oh, I feel bad that the goose is harassing these Marxists. I'm not going to go on Twitter and correct people, because I have better things to do, but the goose is just a goose. This goose is this chaotic neutral character. They're just an animal who's not really aware of what they're doing. According to Strasser, fans of the game are even free to read into the characters within the game and try to guess which way they voted in Brexit. Discussing untitled goose game in relation to modern global politics has the House House seal of approval. Regardless, it seems that, within Britain, untitled goose game really speaks to the supporters of left-wing politics. In October, the campaign for a people's vote on the final outcome of Britain's exodus from the European Union organised a protest in which over a million people marched across the streets of London. One protester, Sarah Hirakai, later shared a collection of untitled goose game-themed signs and placards that she'd seen during the march. Many of these featured the game's titular goose holding aloft the EU flag, or calling for onlookers to honk if you want to remain. Perhaps the most popular of these signs showed the naughty goose chasing current Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson with the caption, It's a beautiful day in the UK and you are a horrible Prime Minister. Even before this protest, the team at House House were receiving reports that their goose was a symbol of resistance and they were loving it. According to Michael McMaster, I'm glad that the goose is a leftist icon. That's very funny. I'd much rather it be a leftist icon than a right icon. Anything the left can take joy in and pride in and have a bit of fun with, we love. And if it upsets some alt-right people, then great. This is the climate that led House House to take an official stance in the UK's general election as they tweeted out, non-goose tweet. If you're in the UK, please, please, please go and vote for a Labour government on December 12th. End non-goose tweet. We'll let you decide the moral of this story for yourself, but we will say that it's refreshing for a game studio to be so comfortable with being upfront and honest about the politics that have influenced their creation. It seems that untitled goose game status as a leftist icon is here to stay.