Review of \u3ci\u3eFood Justice. \u3c/i\u3eBy Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi.

It is a story about food we have heard before-big is bad; small, local, and organic is better; and if you can link small, local, and organic to students, that is best of all. Part of the problem is that the usual suspects-WalMart, McDonalds, PepsiCo, etc.-have so many more resources than the usual cast of small-is-good heroes eking out a living from the earth and hard work: organic farmers , migrant workers, CSA founders and operators, and similar supporters. Gottlieb and Joshi provide some hope by pointing to a few small victories among the heroes, but it is a fight with ever-moving targets. If the food justice movement fails because a majority of low-income consumers see the members of the movement as privileged-a problem the authors point to- this could be a major setback for other social justice movements. Failure also opens the door for the Wal-Marts and Tescos of the world to gain even more control over our food. The spirit ofthe sentiment is much appreciated and understood to mean that success would lead to losing an unjust food system, but if food justice groups do become a food justice movement, it must be precise in choosing targets and strategies

Dial 911 and Report a Congressional Empty Promise: The Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999

Designed to promote the prompt deployment of a seamless emergency services infrastructure to meet the nation\u27s safety needs, the 911 Act not only instructs the FCC to assign the abbreviated dialing code 911 for use as the universal emergency telephone number, but also directs the Commission to establish appropriate transition periods for compliance in areas without 911 service. Furthermore, the 911 Act supports individual states\u27 efforts to develop comprehensive emergency communications. Although improving the 911 system and saving lives by developing an end-to-end emergency communications network are commendable goals, this Note argues that the anemic 911 Act is an important first step, but accomplishes little beyond merely establishing 911 as the universal emergency telephone number

Oyster Coverage: Chiastic News As a Reflection of Local Expertise and Economic Concerns

The media, it is argued, are agents of legitimation - for themselves as well as others. Issues and social actors become recognized as important when they appear within the limelight of the news, and reporters are relied upon to correctly choose among the myriads of issues and actors vying for their attention. What happens, though, when an economically important cultural icon becomes a health threat? This is the situation facing news organizations in Southern Louisiana where oysters are both loved and loathed as food. We study newspaper presentations of oysters in Southern Louisiana over a ten-year period to investigate the ways in which this issue was approached. In many of the instances when negative articles appeared, positive statements could be found in the same issue of the newspaper, creating what we refer to as chiastic -- defined as two parallel lines moving in opposite directions -- media presentations. The presence of this type of news reporting is discussed in terms of the economic and cultural importance of the oyster, the economics of newspapers, and the stance of news organizations as cultural authorities.Chiastic, Culture, Economics, News, Oyster

Dial 911 and Report a Congressional Empty Promise: The Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999

Designed to promote the prompt deployment of a seamless emergency services infrastructure to meet the nation\u27s safety needs, the 911 Act not only instructs the FCC to assign the abbreviated dialing code 911 for use as the universal emergency telephone number, but also directs the Commission to establish appropriate transition periods for compliance in areas without 911 service. Furthermore, the 911 Act supports individual states\u27 efforts to develop comprehensive emergency communications. Although improving the 911 system and saving lives by developing an end-to-end emergency communications network are commendable goals, this Note argues that the anemic 911 Act is an important first step, but accomplishes little beyond merely establishing 911 as the universal emergency telephone number

Gaining and Controlling Access to the Arena: Stories of Ties in a Technological Dispute.

This is a study of the stories told about distribution of resources and structural constraints which operate within newspaper arenas that were experienced by reporters and sources involved in coverage of food irradiation between 1987 and 1996 at two regional newspapers (Louisiana and Florida). Using an unstructured interview instrument, I conducted interviews with 40 sources and 12 newspaper reporters, which I used to construct a framework in which to show how cultural, economic and social capital are used for getting and blocking action in the newspaper arenas. These interviews show that while cultural capital was the most prominent type of capital used by reporters and sources, the reliance on this type of capital gives reporters a position of power within the relationship, as they are in position not only to decide which issues will become newsworthy, but how that capital will be framed within the newspaper report. When ties between reporters and sources are embedded in economic or social capital, then sources can gain some power over the interaction, though the value given to the topic in the newspaper still rests heavily with the reporter and/or the news organization. In addition, stories of structural components of these arenas--audiences, boundaries between audience members and arena participants, and prior knowledge between arena participants--are used to highlight the fact that newspapers are not entirely public arenas, but are characterized by private components. Finally, I apply an arena approach to other areas of sociological interest, such as food policy and the sociology of knowledge

Mixed Skew Angle Singularity Plotting for Non-Redundant Single Gimbal CMG Array

Control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) are utilized on spacecraft to control torsional movements. This chapter displays how a singularity map of a non-redundant single gimbal CMG array is created, analyzes the maximum singularity free momentums versus skew angle for three symmetric skew angles, and then analyzes for mixed skew angles. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate mixed skew angle values that produce large singularity free regions