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industry.

Kim Buckley While the industry produces Daily nebraskan a small amount of greenhouse Animals used in agriculture play gas emissions compared to other an important role in Nebraska industries, Stowell said one of the industry. Climate change affects goals is to try and refine managing feed programs and reduce these animals in different ways.

The University of Nebraska- emissions.

“We’d like to see if there are Lincoln Extension received a a d di t i o n a l $4.1 million practices that from the Naminimize tional InstiThere’s a lot of greenhouse tute of Food research going on gases,” he and Agriculsaid. ture to study in this, so the next The other these effects. goal is to help The five-year five to 10 years, we’re ease the stress grant will of animals allow the going to get a lot of in weather university to caused by cliinformation coming work with mate change. producers in out. “ We ’ v e agriculture to had a lot of start an onanimal stress Rick Stowell going effort because of unl associate professor and deliver hot weather,” information to farmers about how agriculture Stowell said. “This hot, humid affects their animals and practices weather we’ve had all across the to reduce greenhouse gas emis- country has been hard on animals.” sions.

In other states, poultry have UNL will work with five universities in the United States, said died, and in South Dakota, beef Rick Stowell, the associate pro- cattle have died.

“And with the flooding and fessor and extension specialist at drought, there’s the issues of havUNL in charge of the grant.

“The needs for producers is dif- ing too much water or not enough (in Nebraska),” Stowell said. ferent in other regions,” he said.

UNL would be working with The first goal of the project is corporations like the Nebraska to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by the livestock Cattlemen.

Chemistry Colloquium WHEN: Aug. 17 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Hamilton Hall, room 112 WHAT: Lecture by Special Alumnus speaker Kevin R. Woller from Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park, Ill., on High-Throughput Organic Synthesis.

COST: Free and open to the public CONTACT: DeNeice Steinmeyer 402-472-3523 Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Cafe: Stem Cell Research WHEN: Aug. 18, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: red9 at 322 S. 9th St. WHAT: Lecture by Srivatsan Kidamib, a UNL as-

Kristen Koch, director of natural resources and environmental affairs for Nebraska Cattlemen, said the research would also help corporations like the Nebraska Cattlemen better adapt business practices.

“I think there’s no better place than UNL to study how climate change affects agriculture,” she said. “I’m excited for the interaction with UNL and the producers.”

Koch said the grant showed that UNL was engaging stockholders in the process, as she had attended stockholder meetings where she gave her thoughts on a livestock producer perspective.

She said asking producers what they wanted UNL to focus on in terms of agricultural research was a key part of the grant.

“This grant isn’t what a professor thought of,” she said.

Stowell said that the researchers hope to have a consistent message and to have producers well informed.

This message would be shared with producers via the Internet, he said.

“There’s a lot of research going on in this, so in the next five to 10 years, we’re going to get a lot of information coming out,” he said.

“And we want to get that out as quickly and efficiently as possible to the producers.”

The buildings at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln continue to expand.

By the end of the 2011, several construction projects will be completed, said Ted Weidner, assistant vice chancellor for facilities management and planning.

“With the new buildings come new excitement for student life,” he said.

With construction finishing up, researchers at the university will be able to conduct more studies and make new discoveries, Weidner said.

This includes the $13.8 million Nanoscience Metrology Facility at the north end of Jorgensen Hall.

Mike Zeleny, assistant vice chancellor for research, said the university was very excited for the completion of the Nanoscience Technology Center.

“I think it will provide more and better research and testing facilities,” he said, “and will let them do what they do best and make new discoveries.”

Zeleny said the university has done a lot of planning on how to use the facilities.

“I think (the researchers are) very eager and excited to be working in these facilities,” he said.

Other building construction finishing up includes the $18.7 million Hendricks Training Complex on the south side of the

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Bob Devaney Sports Center and a $4.75 million indoor practice facility for baseball and softball north of Haymarket Park.

The buildings would not have been possible without support from other sources.

Weidner said a lot of the construction has been funded by grants or donors.

This is promising as a research institution or as an investment, he said.

The university is currently expanding the East Stadium of Memorial Stadium to add new seating, skyboxes, façade and space for the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, a new research facility that will explore how the brain and human behavior are connected.

In addition, there will be construction because of the installation of two roundabouts northwest of the stadium, limiting

soybean field days From August 16th to 19th, four locations across the state of Nebraska will be hosting Soybean Field Days, an educational event from the soybean board to farmers and producers. According to the Consumer Relations Drew Guiney at the Nebraska Soybean Board, “It’s an educational update for the farmers in that area. Things change yearly and the goal from UNL is to teach the farmers annually about new things that are coming, new nutrients, new pest problems, and how the market is changing.”

These Soybean Field Days promise to be a crucial part of agricultural growth in Nebraska because of the importance of soybeans. “Agriculture is the number one industry here in Nebraska,” Guiney said. “Soybeans are important to that. It plays a very big role in this states economy.”

Soybean Field Days will be held in the Clay Center on August 16th, in Elba on the 17th, Bancroft on the 18th, and Cortland on the 19th. For more information, visit the Nebraska Soybean Board website. kimbuckley@dailynebraskan.com

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Community desk sistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering about the area of stem cell research and the role nanotechnology is playing in that research.

CONTACT: Terese Janovec at 402-472-2716

cessing Center for people interested in starting a food manufacturing business.

Registration deadline is Aug. 10.

CONTACT: Jill Gifford at 402-472-2819

the Cornhusker Marching Band COST: Free and open to the public CONTACT: Rose Johnson at 402-472-2505

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WHEN: Aug. 19 from 5 Movies on the p.m. to 8 p.m.

Green: Cactus WHERE: Yia-Yia’s Pizza Flower and Beer at 14th and O WHEN: Aug. 18 at 9 p.m. streets.

WHERE: Kimball Recital WHAT: Event to start off Hall, greenspace the new school year for WHAT: Showing of the graduate students 1969 film starring Walter CONTACT: the GraduMatthau, Ingrid Berman ate Student Association at and Goldie Hawn. gsa@unl.edu COST: Free Cornhusker From Recipe to ReMarching Band ality Exhibition WHEN: Aug. 19, all day WHEN: Aug. 19 from 7 WHERE: Nebraska East p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Union WHERE: Memorial StaWHAT: All-day workshop dium hosted by the Food ProWHAT: Exhibition Show by

WHEN: Aug. 20 from 9:30 p.m. to midnight WHERE: City Union WHAT: Different activities at the union, including salsa lessons, cookie decorating and a performance by the Bathtub Dogs. The evening will end with a pancake feed from midnight to 1:30 a.m.

CONTACT: Student Involvement at 402-4726797 Sunday with a Scientist: Climate Change WHEN: Aug. 21 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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CD WHERE: Morrill Hall WHAT: Presentation by David Harwood and Frank Rack from the ANDRILL Program and the UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences about climate change COST: CONTACT: Kathy French at 402-472-6647

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access to Stadium Drive and Salt Creek Roadway. The construction will be stopped during football season and will resume after Thanksgiving.

The Lied Center is also expanding to include the Lied Commons, which will provide small event space.

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Student balances modeling, school

VOLUNTEER STUDENT DOCENTS The Sheldon Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln allows students to see a variety of artwork. Students, faculty and staff can learn more about the artwork with the help of student volunteer docents. These students guide visitors in the museum and about the art on display, said Greg Nosan, curator of education and publications. Students don’t need to major in art or be an artist to volunteer as a docent. “What they need to be is curious about art,” Nosan said.

The student volunteer docent program has been around for at least 10 years.

“We find that a lot of the time that students kind of like being guided by one of their peers,” Nosan said.

The student docents get to meet a lot of people, he added.

“There’s a feeling of fellowship in the program,” Nosan said. They also get a behind-the-scenes look at a university art museum.

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As a student at UNL, a secondtime model in Omaha Fashion Week and someone who genuinely enjoys everything from going to Renaissance Festivals to going to photoshoots, Gwyneth Talley has pretty much done it all. She’s spent time studying abroad and will get the chance to visit Germany again this coming year. She currently holds five different majors, ranging from language studies, a program that she created and got approval for from UNL, to anthropology. Talley has become involved both on her campus community and outside her college world.

Modeling is one of her biggest time commitments outside of school. This year will be her second time appearing in Omaha Fashion Week.

“I’m going to be a model for five out of the six shows,” she said. “But I also model at the UNL art department. Omaha Fashion Week is completely unpaid. The designers have to pay for their own creations.

True democracy proves impossible during crisis RYAN DUGGAN

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emocracy is among the most vociferous and equalizing governments produced by men, but it is sometimes trumped by a dictatorial style of governing.

Obtaining complete and unalterable balance of power among our nation’s three branches of government may only be worsening our chances to solve future problems.

With news involving the debt crisis, the United States has exposed the major weaknesses of a democratic society — when important decisions need to be made quickly, a democratic method is inefficient.

Keep in mind, though, that the United States is not a pure democracy, but a republic — at least on a federal level.

But popular usage of the word “democracy” has come to encompass even the role of a republic.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines democracy as: “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.”

There are instances of pure democracy within the United States, but these are only seen on a more local, state level with the usage of ballot initiatives or referendums.

But, as a whole, I hope we can agree with the modern usage of the word that the United States practices a democratic style of government, as well as symbolizes one.

With this established, it can be said that a democracy fails to serve its purpose in moments of crisis. In the span of four months, the United States has twice been moments away from economic disaster.

On April 8, quarrelling politicians brought the country within an hour of a government shutdown. This shutdown would have harmed many Americans financially, but done nothing to the politicians making the decisions. On August 1, the government was again uncomfortably close to economic ruin with debates on raising the debt ceiling.

So if our government officials cannot appropriately deal with key issues that they were aware of far before a decision needed to be made, how could

they possibly solve an unseen crisis that requires immediate action?

In the past, presidents have declared national states of emergency which have given them power to make national decisions that bypass the usual congressional procedures.

In 1861, when Jefferson Davis was elected as the Confederate president, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national emergency and took action. Lincoln sent blockades to southern ports and increased the size of the military — actions that were strictly forbidden without the consent of Congress and an official declaration of war.

Lincoln later wrote, “These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular and a public necessity.”

Forty-eight hours after assuming office, Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a national emergency. Soon after this, he used this power to declare a “bank holiday” in attempts to revive the economy during the Great Depression.

Both of these actions go against the usual democratic style of decision making and can be disputed as unconstitutional in their unbalancing of power in favor of the executive branch.

What’s more important is the brief style in governing that they represent. In moments of crisis, a democratic system is not efficient and a temporary dictatorship-like authority is required.

But this imbalance of power has naturally alarmed many politicians. A similar circumstance that shows its misuse was seen in Germany with Adolf Hitler. Article 48 of the Weimer Constitution is a law that grants power to the president to curtail certain rights and take action without consent of the parliament. With the use of fearful propaganda, Hitler legally obtained power by making the president of Germany sign a decree that initiated a state of emergency, marking a substantial step in his rise to power.

To prevent occurrences like this, as well as prevent presidents from declaring states of emergency as a political tactic, the National Emergencies Act was passed in 1976. Though there were already certain procedures established over the years to declare a national emergency, this act made it into law and began to tame the power that presidents were

given in emergency situations.

Shortly after this act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was passed in 1977, which once again limited the president’s power. It ended undefined grants of power to the executive branch, as well as made congress more involved with states of emergency.

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The money that you pay for the show gets put back into the show for the next year. We do it because it’s fun.”

Modeling, she explained, isn’t always what everyone thinks it is. While she loves it, she admits it’s not all fun and games.

“It’s the waiting and then getting up and doing exactly what you need to do,” Talley said. “It’s hard work. It wears on you!”

Sabrina Jones, the finale designer for Omaha Fashion Week, agreed.

“A fashion show involves doing fittings and finding the best style for my model,” she said.

“Day of the show, I work with the salon and (Gwenyth will) get styled and she has practice in the morning. I’m the finale, so she won’t go on until 10:30 at night — it’ll be a very long day.”

Yet, despite the modeling that plays such a crucial role in Talley’s life, her coursework has always come first. With five majors and three minors, studying and modeling becomes a balancing act.

“I don’t even know how I do that!” she laughed. “I take 20 credit hours pretty much every semester. I model on the weekends and at nights.”

Talley, though she wants to pursue commercial and runway modeling in the future, knows the importance of her studies and pursues the same

college experience that every student hopes for. Her favorite memory?

“There’s so many!” Talley said. “I think just getting to know some of my friends through a class … We didn’t really talk much until we decided to do a project together.

We all just ended up being a great group to work with. We got a really great group of friends together, and then we all ended up going to the Renaissance Festival together.”

Talley is someone who has actively pursued both the lifestyle of a student and the lifestyle of a model, and sometimes having one has had an impact on the other. When asked about the stereotypes surrounding models and if she worries about being taken seriously in the academic world, Talley became serious.

“I don’t like the thoughts that go with it, like they’re dumb and they don’t eat.”

It’s difficult to believe that people can see one side of Talley and believe the model stereotypes, particularly because she has worked so hard at UNL. “I have that problem a lot.

So when I first meet people, that’s never something I never tell someone right off the bat.

“When I meet people in the academic world, that’s what I want to be known for.”

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Quotes of the summer

“I joined because first, it was a good opportunity to help pay for school; second, I wanted to serve my country; and third, it would secure me a job in the Navy when I graduate.”

Midshipman Elizabeth Gamero unl junior forensic science major

“But I have become more interested in how economic and racial inequality get under the skin and makes people sick, especially for African Americans.”

Bridget Goosby

assistant professor of sociology at unl

“The LGBT community has no chance of ever achieving equal rights ... without the help of others.”

Royal D. Bush

heartland pride president

“‘Batman & Robin’ is a lot like genocide: It’s drawn-out, horrifying and, for some reason, George Clooney is involved.”

Columnist Bob Al-Greene

discussing best and worst comic books-turned-movies

“The Farmer’s Market is part of who Lincoln is. We want to be part of the community as well.”

Kevin Home

owner of great harvest bread co.

“It’s like a whole different life. It’s crazy — the derby monster eats your life. It takes over everything.”

Emily Epperson

member of the no coast derby girls

“I’ve been to events where the open mic is like an afterthought, and you get the feeling no one’s really listening to you. That’s so frustrating for someone who is pouring out their innermost thoughts or sharing the work they’ve so painstakingly created and then feeling ignored.”

Amy Keller

host and facilitator of indigo bridge’s open mic night

“Style really doesn’t have to cost a thing. It just takes a re-examination of what’s already in your closet/piles on your floor. Wear things in different ways, in different combinations. If you’re a DIY type, make things yourself on the cheap. Just give something new a try; the results are more than worth it.”

Columnist Blair Englund on how to develop style

“When the two athletic directors called it a rivalry, I had to roll my eyes. This rivalry is the worst kind: a forced one. Good rivalries don’t start in press conferences, they start on the gridiron.”

Columnist Kevin Moser on in-conference sports rivalries

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he only garage sale I’d ever seen was the one in the “Desperate Housewives,” when Gabby was getting rid of her things to piss someone off. But there I was, on 17th Street, by our little apartment house with my friends, selling my things for the first time in my life.

And it wasn’t even Sunday.

I was dreading that day. It was too hot for the weather, there were too many things and too little time left before leaving the United States with my fresh master’s degree. Who wants to do a garage sale in such conditions and in such a spirit?

But at the end of the day, tired but with some cash, my roommate Leyla and I had a different feeling about it all. International students — any students, really — should do a garage sale at least once in their lives, because IT’S FUN! So what can you do to make a garage sale not a burden but a joy?

Smile.

Our first customer was an American of German descent coming back from night shift on his bike. Tired, sleepy and not in need of anything, he passed by on the bike, but turned around to buy a boom box player “just because he likes music.”

But he stopped initially because we smiled at him and his bike. In a while, he came back because we forgot to take out the CD with Russian cartoon songs from

meal right there on the street.

Bring a friend to share the experience.

Marina Marshenkulova the boom box, which was very nice of him. Later he came back again, this time with a friend, to buy something else just because he was nice. Smile, people!

Ask a friend to cook for you.

At one point, we were very hungry.

There was no time to cook and there was no food at home to cook with. But if you have friends, those things can be easily fixed. You take one onion from one friend, tuna from another, add tomatoes and mayonnaise, and the best salad in the world is ready in a couple minutes. Or if your boyfriend happens to be your neighbor, your friend and a great cook, then you might even get fried zucchini with yogurt and garlic, Turkish style. Whatever it is, it tastes a hundred times better outside than inside of the house. I think we attracted more customers enjoying our

Our friends, also international students, helped us to go through the garage sale together. The more, the merrier — that’s our motto. People attract more people, at least when it comes to a garage sale. The time flies by while talking, laughing, helping the customers to choose the needed item from the pile of tangled cords.

One of our helpers even got a date. A young man bought a book and afterwards, without hesitation, came up to her, introduced himself and invited her for a cup of coffee. We were struck by his forwardness, but later found out that he was from New York. That explained everything. He didn’t even think for a split second that it might be her garage sale as well and she needed to stay with us (it wasn’t her garage sale, but still).

My friend thought for a second and then decided to go for it. It doesn’t matter that nothing came out of this date. The fact is — you’ll get noticed (even if you don’t want to).

Make sure you are selling it cheap.

You can always sell things on Craigslist if you still have time. But if you don’t, people

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Debt deal’s ‘super committee’ hurts both sides

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he so-called “super committee,” part of the new deal to raise the debt ceiling, is bound to fail at its goal of cutting spending — and here’s

why.

In Washington, it always seems like a piece of proposed legislation has the potential to succeed. From the “Gang of Six” grand bargain in the Senate to the “McConnell plan” that would give President Barack Obama unilateral authority to raise the debt ceiling, plans and proposals are never in short supply.

The special committee is yet another one, given authority to propose spending cuts and (gulp) tax increases subject to an up or down vote in Congress.

On paper, it looks like a great proposal: Name three members of each party from each house of Congress to a committee and have them hash out spending cuts from discretionary spending and funds given to Medicare providers (read: doctors and hospitals).

Unlike the president’s deficit committee (the infamous Bowles-Simpson proposal), this group would only require a bare majority to pass its legislation. That means that, in theory, one

Republican could join six Democrats, or vice versa, in passing recommendations on to the Congress.

These recommendations would be subject to an up-or-down vote in Congress: no filibuster, no amendments. President Obama retains veto power, but if a bipartisan committee and both houses pass these, it’s hard to imagine him vetoing the legislation, given his penchant for compromise.

To those who say he didn’t compromise, remember: The president’s first preference was a clean raise of the debt ceiling, then a deal with revenue increases. He got neither of those things.

And here’s the kicker: if the committee is hopelessly deadlocked, a “trigger” built into the recently passed debt ceiling extension forces automatic, massive cuts . These are geared to hurt both parties’ priorities: defense spending for Republicans and domestic spending for Democrats.

This “trigger,” in theory, should force parties to deal with each other in the interest of compromise.

It all sounds so simple and beautiful. Parties either compromise or we cut anyway, equally from both parties’ policy preferences. Bring the smartest people from each party together and

zach smith we’ll get a historic compromise. They can even propose revenue increases by reforming the tax code!

Good luck with all of that.

There are a couple big, gaping holes in the legislation. First, it leaves the so-called “entitlement” programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — free from the touches of either the committee or the trigger.

I’m a Democrat, and a fairly liberal one at that. But I, contrary to some voices in my party, know Medicare is the primary driver of our national debt . Not Social Security, not Medicaid, not defense, not the infamous Bush tax cuts, not the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not the “hostilities” in Libya. It’s Medicare.

The United States spends far more than any industrialized nation on

health care services, due to a number of flaws within our system, defended by a powerful, national health care and insurance lobby. To his credit, President Obama already made significant cuts to Medicare and many reforms that, if even half of them pan out, will slow the growth in Medicare spending and the system overall. But this committee can’t make any further reforms.

Second among the holes is the structure of the committee itself.

Nearly every economist agrees that to fix the deficit, one has to be realistic.

That means revenue increases . It is possible to generate revenue from reforming and simplifying the tax code, but reform hasn’t happened since 1988. Loopholes have piled up and they make our tax code many volumes long.

The “Gang of Six” proposed tax reform to raise revenue while lowering marginal tax rates on all income brackets. That plan won significant bipartisan support in the Senate, from conservatives with impeccable credentials, like Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).

But let’s be realistic with this committee. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are not about to name Republicans to the committee ready

to wheel and deal on tax reform that raises revenue. To House Republicans, at least, any increase in revenue is anathema.

That’s not a partisan point of view.

Standard and Poor’s downgraded the United States’ sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ (Moody’s and Fitch kept our rating at AAA). Reasons given for this involve political gridlock, the last-minute nature of the deal, and, notably, assumptions on revenues.

S&P said “the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues.”

Standard and Poor’s now (rightly) assumes that one party isn’t serious about the debt and deficit, and given that every one of its presidential candidates save Jon Huntsman (R-Utah) denounced the debt deal, saying that defaulting simply didn’t matter that much, that’s unsurprising.

Why does the downgrade matter?

Well, it might not matter much at first.

But Treasury bonds are the base of the entire global financial system. If they’re not safe, what debt is? Moreover, a downgrade will likely make

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POOLS Next semester is barreling toward us like an oncoming train, so it’s time to wring every

last drop of fun out of this summer like a moist towel at the pool. Speaking of pools, the nine municipal Lincoln swimming spots will be closing down after Aug. 14, so move fast if you want to catch some sun and chlorine before trudging back to campus next week. Though not a lot of them are right by campus, you can check out the Trago Park Sprayground at 22nd and U streets.

A full list of pool locations, as well as hours and admission prices, is available at http://lincoln.ne.gov/ city/parks/parksfacilities/pools/.

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Although summer is coming to a close

and everyone is beginning to prepare for the first week back to classes, there is still a week left to have a little fun.

If a quick vacation isn’t in the cards for you, there are other ways to waste away your last days of freedom. The summer Daily Nebraskan staff has compiled a list of TV and movie recommendations for the summer’s final stretch. So grab a spot on the couch and settle in for hours of entertainment. »»Emily

Bliss

TV show: “That ’70s Show” (all seasons available on Netflix Instant Watch) Movie marathon: All or any Quentin Tarantino films ( I highly recommend “Inglorious Basterds,” “Kill Bill” Vol. 1 & 2, “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs”)

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TV show: “Firefly” Movie marathon: “Star Wars” (Originals)

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TV show: “Parks and Recreation” Movie: “Rubber” over and over.

TRAILS If pools aren’t your thing but you need some sort of break

from the mind-numbing boredom of your final week of freedom, head out onto the Great Plains Bicycle Trails and cycle like a gerbil on a wheel. Lincolnites are lucky to have 128 miles of trails within this fair city — with 82 of them classified as commuter trails, meaning 71 paved miles and 11 of crushed limestone, according to the Great Plains Trails Network website. There are both rural and urban trails to try out, and you can find helpful photos, maps and more information at http://www.gptn.org/.

MAHONEY In the stretch between here and Omaha, you can also visit Eugene T.

Mahoney State Park, which has camping accommodations, cabins and a lodge. Mahoney also has a pool complex open daily, with the most glorious waterslide to be found ‘round these here parts. Or you could rent a paddleboat for $5, ride on a horse trail for $15, head to the miniature golf course or practice at the the driving range. Visit http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/Parks/permits/fees.asp#mahoney for more info.

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Chances are, if you start chanting “road trip” among a group of friends some time in the next week, it’ll catch on. It’s just that easy. The Kansas City Royals will be playing the Yankees and the Red Sox all next week, so drive down and laugh at their misfortune. Pick up some awesome barbecue (as featured in last week’s issue) at Arthur Bryant’s and then haul it back to Lincoln before the bars close. Just make sure to take an iPod with you on the road and choose an in-car DJ whose musical tastes won’t make the trip unbearable. Do anything to escape this city for as long as you can before being dragged back.

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OMAHA If you don’t want to stray too far from Lincoln, or if there’s a warrant for

your arrest preventing you from crossing state lines, then you can hide out somewhere in Omaha. Visit the Henry Doorly Zoo, which has been offering discounts on the scorching-est days of summer. Rhinos! Desert Dome!

Skyfari! Then after that, shop your troubles away at Village Pointe or the Old Market. Get a cone of ice cream at Ted & Wally’s or a slice of pizza at Zio’s. Stare blankly at the diverse collection of pieces at Omaha’s Joslyn Art Museum, or hide in a vintage train car at the Durham Western Heritage Museum and contemplate your reluctant return to the Star City.

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If Omaha or Mahoney don’t sound like your thing, or if you’ve already exhausted your interest in these attractions, then head somewhere you haven’t been yet. Visit the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), due west in Kearney, and prove that there’s something else there other than that arch. MONA houses more than 5,000 works and is home to the state’s official art collection. MONA is hosting several current exhibits, including a collection of Native American works, a selection of 14 artistic and historic quilts from Nebraska’s Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer and a “Nebraska Art and History Timeline” tribute to the MONA building’s centennial anniversary. If you’ve gone the Joslyn route too many times before, this is an exciting alternative. Find out lots more at http://monet.unk.edu/mona/home.html. compiled by Bob Al-Greene

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FORMER MS. SENIOR NEBRASKA TREKS ACROSS COUNTRY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION story by Michael Todd

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atricia Starr seems to be having a hard time hearing my every word. It could be the air conditioner on full blast, the fan overhead or the internal fan of my overheated MacBook, which is recording the conversation. That’s a lot of extraneous noise, but it’s also the dog days of summer, and I’m not about to turn anything off.

So the former Ms. Senior Nebraska has to ask again what it is I just said: “What are your biggest roadblocks in trying to bike across the country?”

“I’m sorry, what is the what?”

“What are the biggest difficulties in trying to bike across the country?”

“First of all, finding a place to do it.”

Yes, because the best roads are reserved for, well, driving. That means Starr, 74 years old, pedaled more than 1,000 miles on fairly harsh terrain during the month of July. Maybe the heat for me isn’t quite so unbearable.

Her husband and traveling mate Gabriel Starr said taking care of his wife is a full-time job.

“I’m making sure she stays alive, has food, water, nutritional stuff,” he said. “She’s hypoglycemic, so she drops real fast if she doesn’t get what she needs.”

But Starr says that’s not what holds her up. It’s the law that can keep her from riding.

“Sometimes we find some other roads that look like, ‘Oh, we’ve got this wonderful shoulder’ and you can just take off.

And the patrolman in the state behind said you could ride on that when you get there. So I go zooming off and pretty soon

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there’s a policeman behind me that says, ‘Lady, you can’t ride here,’” she said.

Starr isn’t accidentally flouting state laws just to get in shape, either. She’s biking as a way to give back to music education, which has helped her down the road this far.

She started playing piano as a child and got her first gig teaching and playing organ at 13 in her hometown of Wahoo, Neb. She said a music scholarship allowed her to attend college.

Since then, she’s been singing, directing and teaching — playing piano, organ and trombone whenever she can.

COURSTESY PHOTO “Many musicians have to keep their day jobs in order to be a musician, but because I had training in so many different areas, I have been able to put them all together and just make them work for me for a lifetime,” she said. “Now it’s my turn to do something else and to do something for somebody.”

This is Starr’s third road trip for music education. The first scholarship she traveled across the states for was sponsored by the Santa Barbara (California) City College in 2004. Her second bike ride took her from

Wahoo to Atlantic City, where she competed for Ms. Senior America. It was then in 2008 that she started honoring two $500 scholarships annually to student musicians at Wahoo High School. This year, she continued those trips by going from the International Peace Gardens at the Canadian border in North Dakota to Ohio, where she played at the largest free music festival in the state this past weekend. All in all, she has raised more than $14,000 for Wahoo High School, but recently, her focus has shifted from pioneering her scholarship to inspiring others to start their own.

She has done this by playing with New Horizons bands all across the country, which feature musicians older than 50.

She hopes those members will follow her example. And while she’s now back home in Wahoo — though the temperature may keep rising through August — Patricia Starr will be out on the road again sometime soon, her husband said.

And he’ll be right by her side.

“She rides that bicycle like she plays her music,” he said.

“Once she gets out on it, she just feels like a free little bird.

So the bigger the hill, the more she conquers it. She’s amazing.

So I just feel very blessed that I’m married to her, and I hope that lots of other people get to meet her because all who do will love her. They all do.”

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I can’t say I’ve ever seen a movie and hoped that future directors rip it off. But with Ruben Fleischer’s “30 Minutes or Less,” I hope they’re at least taking notes. It takes an original, jam-packed story that could easily be milked for more, and fires it off in a mere 83 minutes.

For fans of Fleischer’s other movie, “Zombieland,” this pace sounds familiar. I wrongly assumed “Zombieland” only worked because it brought impossibly cool style and irreverence to zombie gore. But “30 Minutes or Less” applies the formula to a more straightforward comedy and ends up just as effective and refreshing.

Jesse Eisenberg plays Nick, a pizza delivery guy with unimpressive prospects watching his few friends grow up around him. Danny McBride and Nick Swardson play a middle-aged duo with even less impressive prospects, who kidnap Nick to carry out a bank heist. To do this, they strap a remote-controlled bomb to Nick’s chest, release him and trail him to make sure the job is done. The plan is actually much more intricate and, once enacted, doesn’t take any of the safe ways out, but there’s no sense in giving away its shock-value charm.

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The real show-stealer, though, is Aziz Ansari. He plays Chet, the spastic, fast-talking goofball sidekick of Eisenberg’s character, and one of few actors that can make absolutely any line or scene funny merely by being himself. They could have given him some cheap lines and I probably still would have laughed.

It is Ansari’s first big movie role, and there are a few moments where it feels he’s trying too desperately to force his extravagant personality into his scenes. I think he has a great chance at finding a better balance with this in the future, though, and for a movie that never requires much beyond fast-paced extravagance, it’s never a big issue. His reaction to Einsenberg’s coming to the school where he works to show

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With summer comes better weather and much more spare time in the lives of young people. Unfortunately for all of us, large corporations have decided we should pay outrageous prices for concerts that, honestly, aren’t worth it.

I have issues with festivals in general. Half of the time, the lineup isn’t great at all, and the times when the lineups are amazing, non-headliner bands get 30 minutes max. And to top it off, the fact that there are multiple stages means you will most likely not be able to see every act you want. It’s a lose-lose in my book.

The Vans Warped Tour is among the biggest offenders. Started in 1995, this monstrosity was founded by a decent shoe company that decided to branch its advertising into the punk rock music industry. Let’s be honest with ourselves, that’s pretty much what happened. The Warped Tour is, and will always remain, a gigantic billboard in the guise of “punk and alternative.”

The absolute worst part about the Warped Tour is that most of my favorite bands have played it, and the only chance I’ve gotten to

see these acts has been the result of these tours. Most every nonlocal or regional band I listen to has played a large festival like this.

Some of the bigger acts don’t even go on tour anymore outside of these shows.

The real kicker is its attempt, if you can even call it that, at integrating local acts. The ensuing act is the Battle of the Bands. Granted, the Omaha date of this year’s tour did feature two very hard-working Lincoln-based bands that won the contest. At the end of the day, the Warped Tour Battle of the Bands is nothing more than a big dick contest of local bands harassing their friends to vote for their crappy band to play a gigantic festival where no one will care they’re playing. For the most part, that much is true.

I can understand a one-day thing with upwards of 20 acts on stage. That sounds like an awesome reason to take off a day at work. But seriously, 60 bands?

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In one scene, Coogan argues with a receptionist about arriving only five minutes past the visitor cutoff. The scuffle only comes to an end when the receptionist recognizes Brydon, who in return does an impression of a character he grew famous for.

Coogan’s expression as this is MEDIUM going on is priceless and quite likely a smidgen honest.

While movies like “Coffee and Cigarettes” were interested in the restrained tension when celebrities’ personas clash, Coogan and Brydon don’t hold anything back.

They grow increasingly more biting and personal as the days go on.

Who is the more serious actor?

Who is the most well-adjusted for their age? Who does the most convincing Michael Caine impression (and best demonstrates the evolution of his nasal timbre)?

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“The Trip” is a mostly improvised quasi-documentary about two British actors touring northern England, reviewing high-scale restaurants and one-upping each other in their impressions. If you doubt the hilarity in that premise, you can be forgiven, but you’d also be missing out. The humor is as wry and dry as British humor gets, which, I’ll admit, normally doesn’t do much for me. But “The Trip,” which will show at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center beginning Friday, surprises with genuinely big laughs, irresistibly arrogant leads and moments of sharp poignancy against beautiful landscapes.

Steve Coogan is assigned by a London newspaper to review restaurants in the countryside of northern England. Every other friend, including his girlfriend, is busy, so Coogan recruits fellow actor Rob Brydon as a last resort. The

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Unfortunately, the movie carries on about 20 minutes too long.

“The Trip” originally aired as a six-episode series on BBC, before being cut down to a feature film.

The television series is probably consistently entertaining in its entirety, but there just isn’t room for so much repetition in the movie #1 format. Every line should add something, and that doesn’t come from just releasing a best-of compilation of scenes.

That said, you get 90 minutes of engaging quality in exchange for that 20 minutes of tedium, so it’s more than worth the trade-off.

Even the seemingly unrelatable is made interesting by the energy of the actors. Much of the movie takes place in high-class restaurants, but I’m not a food-aficionado in the slightest. Nor have I read most of the authors the pair

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Like “Zombieland,” “30 Minutes or Less” plays light and fast with topics that normally demand reflection, even in comedy settings. In “Zombieland,” this meant casually bashing in zombie skulls.

Here, it’s moments like an escalating argument between Ansari and Eisenberg where they reveal how they’ve broken each other’s trust throughout their friendship. It’s less shock2 ing than #zombie guts, to be sure, but it shows that the expectation-breaking rhythm that made “Zombieland” great can be translated to more standard settings as well.

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orians: from 6 These bands sign on in false hopes of making it big, but the fact is, unless you’ve already got groundswell, you’re not going to do well on the Warped Tour. You will see the entire crowd walk past during your set on their way to Coheed and Cambria or Less Than Jake (which, being honest, I would be one of those guys.)

Instead of paying $80 to see maybe five decent sets, go to eight $10 shows, or maybe 10 $8 shows where you know your money is

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(sort of) going to the artists playing.

Go to these shows and support the touring bands who don’t necessarily need a corporate sponsor.

They’re able to make something work with their talent alone. Or maybe I’m just a bitter douche bag hack who couldn’t get onto something like this even if he tried. I like to believe I’m actually right about something for once and that the Warped Tour is a terrible thing. neilorians@ dailynebraskan.com

DUGGAN: from 3 So, it’s safe to say that if any crisis were to arise and the president tried to take action like those in the past, politicians would cry foul and solutions would get jumbled up in a mess of legal actions.

The idea of equalizing power is great for domestic issues like health care, which need to be thought over, digested, regurgitated and worked on again. All of which ensures a fair law is passed. But for cases like our debt crisis, the time is not always there to take such methodical action.

Restricting the ability of the president to obtain complete

control in moments of crisis is a step that only hurts our nation.

Had Cincinnatus not obtained temporary dictatorship of the Roman Republic, Rome might have fallen victim to neighboring tribes in its moment of crisis. If our future leaders are not able to obtain the necessary power to deal with a crisis, our nation may fall as a result of the very democracy that it was built on.

Ryan Duggan is a Junior English and Classical Languages major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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This sign should be vivid for all the customers to see. We were told by experienced garage sale junkies that sometimes people might change their mind and bring the bought stuff back to you. But guess what? You don’t want it back! Of course, make sure that you don’t lie to your customers selling something that is not in proper condition. If it’s not, make sure they know about it. It’s only fair.

SMITH: from 4 the interest rates on everything from credit cards to student loans (sorry, fellow students) rise.

So let’s recap: this committee won’t work because it doesn’t touch the primary driver of our debt growth, and its members aren’t going to consider revenues as part of a solution.

But wait! There’s more.

Remember how this committee has to cut from Democratic

and Republican priorities? Both parties are going to scramble to find as much “fake math” as they can to “cut” from defense and domestic spending while not really cutting. Two think tank analysts (both liberal and conservative) gave this perspective when I interviewed them last Friday for Al-Jazeera.

Lobbyists are going into high gear to defend their projects, and defense in particular has a

tiresome day, my roommate and I were sitting in the living room and counting the cash we’ve made throughout the day and remembering the funny things, we felt joyful and relieved. Our packed-with-things apartment looked less packed.

Some kitchenware was gone, clothes, an iron, a DVD player and many other little things left the house for good. The day was over. But would we do it again?

Hell, yeah!

national constituency.

We needed to raise the debt ceiling. Many economists from left to right agreed it should simply be a clean raise , with no conditions attached; some applauded that it finally made Congress take debt reduction seriously; regardless, it was raised at the last minute with a deal of all spending cuts.

We didn’t default, and that’s a good thing.

We raised it past the election (with this trigger deal) so we don’t have to deal with another crisis before November 2012.

The United States is still standing, and the world hasn’t quite entered financial panic.

Next up: the Bush tax cuts.

Get ready for another fight.

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All sales are final.

Have some cash. Try to do it on Sunday. Wake up early for the garage sale. Go to garage sales yourself to get a feel of what it’s like. Pay attention when people look through your stuff. Pay attention when people give you money. Pay attention in general.

Our garage sale went just fine. The weather was perfect: It wasn’t too hot, it wasn’t too rainy, it was “a garage sale weather.”

Was it a hard work? Yes. You’ll have to place an ad on Facebook, Craigslist and other places about your event. You’ll have to carry out a lot of things and put them nicely for the customers to see and you’ll have to carry the rest back into the house.

Nevertheless, after a long,

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gave the books for free, even though he really wanted to pay for them. It was nice of him to give us fruit, and we wanted to be nice in return. The peaches were delicious, by the way.

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expect good deals on the garage sales. Sometimes it’s alright to bargain. For example, we had a customer who wanted to buy our jewelry for one-tenth of its original price. From our experience, we knew he wanted to buy them not for his wife, a sister or daughter, but to sell them elsewhere for much more expensive price. So we bargained. But there are times when you don’t want to bargain, like with used clothes. Those are the things that go the hardest.

You might also consider giving out some things for free.

For example, we had a customer who offered us a box of peaches, and then decided to buy a couple of books. Of course, we

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