One variation on Lloyd's theme

One random spin-1/2 XY chain that after Jordan-Wigner fermionization reduces to the extended Lloyd's model is considered. The random-averaged one-fermion Green functions have been calculated exactly that yields thermodynamics of the spin model.Comment: 15 pages, Latex, 5 figures (in TeX format

Results of the EISfOM project investigation into the current situation of data collection and processing

Conclusion - Currently few public data collection and processing systems on an international level exist with regard to the organic agriculture and food sector (however FAO, EUROSTAT, IFOAM have startes activities). - Less activities aree run to harmonise national organic data collection systems on an international level. - Investment decisions of market actors and support decisions of policy makers are taken under conditions of great uncertainty. - Organic data know-how in most countries concentrated on less and private minds. - Public demand for organic data presently often are just statements and action plan points to support organic farming in theory. - Partly the link is missing between political objectives (on national and international level) and realisation by statistic authorities. - The EU-project European Inforamtion Systems for Organic Markets will assist all national and international efforts to improve organic data collecting in next two years

Carving Out an Identity: The Monument aux Morts in Republican Strasbourg

War memorials serve as powerful sites of memory, symbols around which collective identity isdeveloped. Strasbourg’s monument aux morts is no exception, yet in content it is unique amongFrench monuments to the First World War. The monument aux morts depicts a mother mourningover her two dying sons, who fought on opposing sides of the conflict. My project addressesthemes of commemoration, borderland identity, and public spectacle. It seeks to show howStrasbourg’s unique geopolitical position, caught between the German Empire and the ThirdRepublic, contributed to its public representation of its wartime experience. Moreover, drawingon the concept of invented tradition, I posit that the monument’s 1936 inaugurationceremony served the ritual function of symbolically integrating the citizens of Strasbourg intothe French Republic – a process which was negotiated between national center and periphery