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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, December 4, 2013 Is your home raising your lung cancer risk? Mention radon to most people, and you'll get a blank stare. But mention lung cancer, and you've got their attention! Most people don't know that exposure to radon, an invisible odorless gas, is the leading cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers. Indiana is recognized as having a very high risk of radon, so we at the American Lung Association want you to know how to protect your family. A simple test in your home can tell you if you need to take steps to reduce the risk to yourself and your family. November, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, is a perfect time to learn more and test your home. Radon, a radioactive gas from the soil and rock beneath many homes, keeps itself well hidden. You can't see it, smell it or taste it, but according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the U.S. are radon-related. November is National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, but anytime is the right time to find out if radon is a health threat in your home. Radon can build up in any house – old or new – and performing a radon test is the only way to find out if your home has unsafe levels. Homeowners can use do-it- yourself radon testing kits. To find out where to buy a kit, call 1-800-SOS RADON (1-800-767-7236), or visit the EPA website: www.epa.gov/ radon. If you have high levels of radon, mitigation systems can be installed that effectively pull radon out of your home. If you're building a new home, consider installing a simple, inexpensive ventilation system that can protect your family from radon gas. The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced that they will require testing for radon in any multi-family housing Monica's Meals in Minutes that receives HUD financing or refinancing. If high levels of radon are found, HUD will require that the building be repaired to reduce indoor radon levels. This is great news that will protect thousands from deadly radon exposure. But more needs to be done. The Lung Association is working to make sure that all homes get tested, and those that have high levels get fixed. We are working to make sure that new homes are built with these low-cost radon protection systems in place. Because we know all too well the cancer radon causes. BBQ Chicken and Cheese Grits Bake By Monica Sinclair "Some foods are so comforting, so nourishing of body and soul, that to eat them is to be home again after a long journey. To eat such a meal is to remember that, though the world is full of knives and storms, the body is built for kindness." (Eli Brown). BBQ chicken and grits are some of the best comfort foods I have eaten. Now, I have found them all in one easy to make meal. Enjoy! Source: Betty Crocker Pot Pies and Casseroles (October 2013) New hologram technology created 'metasurface' capable nanoantennas Researchers have created tiny holograms using a "metasurface" capable of the ultra-efficient control of light, representing a potential new technology for advanced sensors, high-resolution displays and information processing. The metasurface, thousands of V-shaped nanoantennas formed into an ultrathin gold foil, could make possible "planar photonics" devices and optical switches small enough to be integrated into computer chips for information processing, sensing and telecommunications, said Alexander Kildishev, associate research professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. Laser light shines through the nanoantennas, creating the hologram 10 microns above the metasurface. To demonstrate the technology, researchers created a hologram of the word PURDUE smaller than 100 microns wide, or roughly the width of a human hair. "If we can shape characters, we can shape different types of light beams for sensing or recording, or, for example, pixels for 3D displays. Another poten- tial application is the transmission and processing of data inside chips for information technology," Kildishev said. "The smallest features - the strokes of the letters - displayed in our experiment are only 1 micron wide. This is a quite remarkable spatial resolution." Findings are detailed in a research paper appearing on Friday (Nov. 15) in the journal Nature Communications. Metasurfaces could make it possible to use single photons - the particles that make up light - for switching and routing in future computers. While using photons would dramatically speed up computers and telecommunications, conventional photonic devices cannot be miniaturized because the wavelength of light is too large to fit in tiny components needed for integrated circuits. Nanostructured metamaterials, however, are making it possible to reduce the wavelength of light, allowing the creation of new types of nanophotonic devices, said Vladimir M. Shalaev, scientific director of nanophotonics at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center and a distinguished pro- fessor of electrical and computer engineering. "The most important thing is that we can do this with a very thin layer, only 30 nanometers, and this is unprecedented," Shalaev said. "This means you can start to embed it in electronics, to marry it with electronics." The layer is about 1/23rd the width of the wavelength of light used to create the holograms. The Nature Communications article was co-authored by former Purdue doctoral student Xingjie Ni, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Uni- A-7 Ingredients you'll need: (from 3-lb. chicken) 4 cups water 1 cup barbecue sauce ½ tsp. salt 1 cup shredded Colby1 cup uncooked quickMonterey Jack cheese cooking corn grits blend 2 cups shredded pepper 1 cup pico de gallo salsa jack cheese ½ cup chopped green 3 tbsp. butter onions 5 cups shredded deli rotisserie chicken cooking Directions: 1.Heat oven to 350 detil melted and smooth. grees. Spray 13x9 inch Pour into baking dish. glass baking dish with 4.In medium bowl, mix cooking spray. chicken and bbq sauce. 2.In 3 quart saucepan, heat Spoon chicken mixture over grits. Sprinkle with water and salt to boiling. cheese blend. Slowly stir in grits; reduce heat to medium. 5.Bake uncovered 20 to 25 minutes or until bubCover; cook 5 minutes, bly. Let stand 5 minutes. stirring occasionally. ReSprinkle with onions. move from heat. Top individual servings 3.Add pepper jack cheese with salsa. and butter, stirring un- versity of California, Berkeley; Kildishev; and Shalaev. Under development for about 15 years, metamaterials owe their unusual potential to precision design on the scale of nanometers. Optical nanophotonic circuits might harness clouds of electrons called "surface plasmons" to manipulate and control the routing of light in devices too tiny for conventional lasers. The researchers have shown how to control the intensity and phase, or timing, of laser light as it passes through the nanoantennas. Each antenna has its own "phase delay" - how much light is slowed as it passes through the structure. Controlling the intensity and phase is essential for creating working devices and can be achieved by altering the V-shaped antennas. The work is partially supported by U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army research Office, and the National Science Foundation. 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