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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said.
Ariel Castro, 53, was found hanging in his cell around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, located south of Columbus in central Ohio, JoEllen Smith, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman, said early Wednesday.
Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
He was in protective custody because of the notoriety of his case, meaning he was checked every 30 minutes, but was not on suicide watch, Smith said.
Castro's attorneys tried unsuccessfully to have a psychological examination of Castro done at the Cuyahoga County Jail, where Castro was housed before he was turned over to state authorities following his conviction, his attorney, Jaye Schlachet, told The Associated Press early Wednesday. Schlachet said he could not immediately comment further.
In an interview last month after Castro's conviction, Schlachet and attorney Craig Weintraub said their client clearly fit the profile of sociopathic disorder and that they hoped researchers would study him for clues that could be used to stop other predators.
The three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. They escaped from Castro's Cleveland home May 6, when Amanda Berry, one of the women, broke part of a door and yelled to neighbors for help.
"Help me," she said in a 911 call. "I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."
The two other women were so scared of Castro that they held back initially even as police officers began to swarm the house. But quickly they realized they were free.
"You saved us! You saved us!" another of the captives, Michelle Knight, told an officer as she leaped into his arms.
Castro was arrested that evening.
Messages left for the women's lawyers were not immediately returned early Wednesday.
Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years on his guilty plea to 937 counts including kidnapping and rape.
In a rambling statement, he told the judge he was not a monster but a man suffering from a pornography addiction.
Knight was the only one of the three who appeared in court at his sentencing.
"You took 11 years of my life away, and I have got it back," she said in the hushed courtroom. "I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning."
This is the second high-profile suicide in an Ohio prison in a month.
On Aug. 4, death row inmate Billy Slagle was found hanged in his cell just days before his scheduled execution. He was condemned to death for fatally stabbing a neighbor.

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Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling.
Phylogenetic models for Semitic vocabulary.
Geoff K Nicholls and Robin J. Ryder
Abstract: Kitchen et al. (2009) analyze a data set of lexical trait data for twenty five Semitic languages, including ancient languages Hebrew, Aramaic and Akkadian, modern South Arabian and Arabic languages and fifteen ethiosemitic languages. They estimate a phylogenetic tree for the diversification of lexical traits using tree and trait models and methods set up for genetic sequence data. We reanalyze the data in a homplasy-free model for lexical trait data. We use a prior on phylogenies which is non-informative with respect to some of the key scientific hypotheses (concerning topology and root time). Our results are in broad agreement with those of Kitchen et al. (2009), though our 95% HPD for the root of the Semitic tree (the branching of Akkadian) is [4400, 5100]BP and we place Moroccan and Ogaden Arabic in the Modern South Arabian Group.


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We turn, now, to a country that's become a big focus of America's war on terror. The U.S. now considers the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen one of that terrorist network's most dangerous. And this is happening in a context of change in Yemen. Just a few months ago, a new and democratically elected president took office. That followed a year of protests that saw the ouster of Yemen's longtime, autocratic ruler. It's been a difficult transition. Al-Qaida militants took advantage of the turmoil and this past year, have managed to take over towns and villages in the south of Yemen.
Wth U.S. help, Yemen's new government has been fighting back. NPR's Kelly McEvers just arrived in South Yemen this morning, and we reached her on her cellphone. Good morning.
KELLY MCEVERS, BYLINE: Good morning, Renee.
MONTAGNE: Tell us where you are, exactly, and what's happening there.
MCEVERS: We've just come into Abyan province. This is the part of Yemen that for basically, the last part of a year, al-Qaida-linked militants have held. So up until basically two days ago, this was no-man's land. I mean, you just could not get to where we're going. Yesterday, Yemeni troops and Yemeni minister of defense sort of took a victory lap around the province, claiming that they had, you know, routed the al-Qaida militants from these key villages and towns down here. What's more likely is that the al-Qaida militants actually beat a retreat once they realized that they were outnumbered and outgunned.
MCEVERS: It's not as if the Yemeni military actually, you know, took prisoners or put people in jail, or killed that many militants. It seems more like the militants basically fled - fled into the mountains here nearby, fled into other places. But what this does signal is that it's, you know, a change of tactics for the organization. For the last part a year, they were able to actually hold territory for the first time. And now, they might be going back to the old way - which is hiding out in the mountains, putting together supercells that can launch attacks - in Yemen, and against the United States.
MONTAGNE: What is the U.S. role in all of this?
MCEVERS: Well, the U.S. actually has advisers down here, working side by side with Yemeni troops and the southern tribes who they've enlisted to fight alongside Yemeni government troops. Their role is a bit secretive, for obvious reasons. They know that if it seemed that there was a U.S. role in this, that will only recruit more fighters for the al-Qaida cause. As we know, the U.S. is also engaged in a drone program, which has picked up considerably over the last year. Both CIA drones and other drones have landed in this region and in other parts of Yemen - again, targeting militants, but also there's quite a bit of civilian casualties as well.
MONTAGNE: OK. And Kelly, just again, you're on a cellphone and it's a little hard to hear you, but you are in southern Yemen. So let's proceed. The Yemeni government has claimed victories against al-Qaida in the past. Is there any indication that this particular one will stick?
MCEVERS: Well, that's what we're about to go find out. We're going to go ask people in the town if this will stick. I mean, al-Qaida did, you know, spraypaint signs saying, look, we've left, we're sorry, we had (technical difficulties). You know, but we were talking to some folks yesterday from the region and they said look, it's easy to, you know, force militants to retreat with your big guns, and your tanks. It's another thing to administer a region. And this is what the Yemeni government hasn't been able to do so far, and al-Qaida was able to do in these towns and villages - provide electricity, provide a sense of security.
That's why they were able to win over the locals. So that's the big question that we're going to ask - is the government going to be able to step in and do that?
MONTAGNE: That's NPR's Kelly McEvers, speaking to us from the Abyan province in southern Yemen. Thanks very much.
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SEOUL, Korea – World leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit have emphasized the need to prevent non-state actors, especially terrorists, from acquiring nuclear and radioactive material and pledged to strengthen cooperation and encourage greater information-sharing with INTERPOL to combat illicit trafficking in nuclear material.
Attended by more than 53 heads of states and international organizations, the two-day summit (26-27 March) in Korea also identified areas for enhanced cooperation by member states to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism and the protection of radioactive materials and associated facilities.
Addressing the meeting, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said the risk of nuclear and radiological materials of being smuggled was very clear, pointing to the intelligence gathered on more than 2,700 cases as part of INTERPOL's Project Geiger within the framework of the organization's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) programme.
"Our common goal is to ensure that the single case which we have yet to face will never materialize," said Mr Noble.
"Preventing the scenario of nuclear material being successfully smuggled and used in an improvised device will require rapid and secure law enforcement communication across borders, the capacity to identify and track individuals involved in trafficking in the field, and fast, coordinated multinational action," stated the INTERPOL chief.
"This is exactly what INTERPOL can provide through its network and Operation Fail Safe. This is the huge potential behind the Summit's call to states to share information via INTERPOL," concluded Secretary General Noble.
Operation Fail Safe provides a new capability to police around the world to track individuals involved in the trafficking of radioactive or nuclear material, primarily using INTERPOL's system of notices. Green Notices are issued in order to warn member countries about a person's criminal activities if that person is considered to be a possible threat to public safety.
Under Fail Safe, law enforcement officers at border crossings or other key locations will be able to instantly query INTERPOL's databases to verify if an individual is the subject of a Green Notice. A match will trigger an alert containing details of the country location and identity of the individual at INTERPOL's 24-hour Command and Coordination Centre (CCC) at INTERPOL's General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France which will then notify the CBRNE Programme.
This alert and notification process, coordinated by the INTERPOL CBRNE Programme, will allow law enforcement agencies to detect the movements of known individuals and better cooperate and coordinate their actions for combating nuclear smuggling worldwide.


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Many false churches will be built up in the last days—They will teach false, vain, and foolish doctrines—Apostasy will abound because of false teachers—The devil will rage in the hearts of men—He will teach all manner of false doctrines. About 559–545 B.C.
1 And now, behold, my brethren, I have spoken unto you, according as the Spirit hath constrained me; wherefore, I know that they must surely come to pass.
2 And the things which shall be written out of the abook shall be of great bworth unto the children of men, and especially unto our seed, which is a cremnant of the house of Israel.
3 For it shall come to pass in that day that the achurches which are built up, and not unto the Lord, when the one shall say unto the other: Behold, I, I am the Lord's; and the others shall say: I, I am the Lord's; and thus shall every one say that hath built up bchurches, and not unto the Lord—
4 And they shall contend one with another; and their priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with their alearning, and deny the bHoly Ghost, which giveth utterance.
5 And they adeny the bpower of God, the Holy One of Israel; and they say unto the people: Hearken unto us, and hear ye our precept; for behold there is cno God today, for the Lord and the Redeemer hath done his work, and he hath given his power unto men;
6 Behold, hearken ye unto my precept; if they shall say there is a miracle wrought by the hand of the Lord, believe it not; for this day he is not a God of amiracles; he hath done his work.
7 Yea, and there shall be many which shall say: aEat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die; and it shall be well with us.
8 And there shall also be many which shall say: aEat, drink, and be bmerry; nevertheless, fear God—he will cjustify in committing a little dsin; yea, elie a little, take the advantage of one because of his words, dig a fpit for thy neighbor; there is gno harm in this; and do all these things, for tomorrow we die; and if it so be that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few stripes, and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God.
9 Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after this manner, afalse and vain and bfoolish cdoctrines, and shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark.
10 And the ablood of the saints shall cry from the ground against them.
11 Yea, they have all gone out of the away; they have become bcorrupted.
12 Because of apride, and because of bfalse teachers, and cfalse doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, and their churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed up.
13 They arob the bpoor because of their fine sanctuaries; they rob the poor because of their fine clothing; and they persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in their cpride they are puffed up.
14 They wear astiff necks and high heads; yea, and because of pride, and wickedness, and abominations, and bwhoredoms, they have all cgone astray save it be a dfew, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are eled, that in many instances they do ferr because they are taught by the precepts of men.
15 O the awise, and the learned, and the rich, that are puffed up in the bpride of their chearts, and all those who preach dfalse doctrines, and all those who commit ewhoredoms, and pervert the right way of the Lord, fwo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!
16 Wo unto them that aturn aside the just for a thing of naught and brevile against that which is good, and say that it is of no worth! For the day shall come that the Lord God will speedily visit the inhabitants of the earth; and in that day that they are cfully ripe in iniquity they shall perish.
17 But behold, if the inhabitants of the earth shall repent of their wickedness and abominations they shall not be destroyed, saith the Lord of Hosts.
18 But behold, that great and aabominable church, the bwhore of all the earth, must ctumble to the earth, and great must be the fall thereof.
19 For the kingdom of the devil must ashake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the bdevil will grasp them with his everlasting cchains, and they be stirred up to anger, and perish;
20 For behold, at that day shall he arage in the bhearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good.
21 And others will he apacify, and lull them away into carnal bsecurity, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the cdevil dcheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.
22 And behold, others he aflattereth away, and telleth them there is no bhell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful cchains, from whence there is no deliverance.
23 Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be ajudged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a blake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment.
24 Therefore, wo be unto him that is at aease in Zion!
25 Wo be unto him that crieth: All is well!
26 Yea, wo be unto him that ahearkeneth unto the precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost!
27 Yea, wo be unto him that saith: We have received, and we aneed no more!
28 And in fine, wo unto all those who tremble, and are aangry because of bthe truth of God! For behold, he that is built upon the crock dreceiveth it with gladness; and he that is built upon a sandy foundation trembleth lest he shall fall.
29 Wo be unto him that shall say: We have received the word of God, and we aneed bno more of the word of God, for we have enough!
30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, aprecept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn bwisdom; for unto him that creceiveth I will give dmore; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.
31 Cursed is he that putteth his atrust in man, or maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the bprecepts of men, save their precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost.
32 aWo be unto the Gentiles, saith the Lord God of Hosts! For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them from day to day, they will deny me; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto them, saith the Lord God, if they will repent and bcome unto me; for mine carm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God of Hosts.


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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Swords & Wizardry: Pulp Fantasy Edition
In thinking about it, I realized that Pulp Fantasy D&D would be built on the foundation of three primary character classes: the Fighter, the Thief, and the Magic-User. Where is the Cleric, you might rightly ask, especially given that it's one of D&D's original classes? Well, my feeling is that the Cleric just isn't a pulp fantasy archetype. The class itself owes its existence to a combination of Peter Cushing's Van Helsing and the Knights Templar. It's really a "Vampire Hunter" class and, as such, has no place in Pulp Fantasy D&D. Now, the Priest is a pulp fantasy archetype, but the Priest is in fact just a kind of Magic-User, which is why my version of the M-U comes in two varieties (or maybe three): the Wizard and the Priest, each of which taps into the same flows of magical energy but whose effects are quite different owing to means by which they channel that magical energy.
You can view these three classes (including the sub-sets of the Magic-User) as three slices of a big circle. At the places where two classes meet, you find other archetypes, such as the Warrior-Wizard (where Fighter and Magic-User meet) or the Rogue Wizard (where Thief and Magic-User meet). It's my belief that multiclassing in either the traditional Gygaxian form or the 3e version thereof is an abomination, both mechanically and thematically. The desire to play a character whose archetype exists at the boundaries between two primary classes is a valid one and should be accommodated. D&D -- Pulp Fantasy D&D even moreso -- is a game of archetypes and the rules need to support them. In my opinion, a new character class is the simplest and fairest way to handle "mixed" archetypes. This approach also nicely puts a cap on the number of possible classes, since there are only so many combinations, even if one allows for numerous Magic-User variants, which is why I like it.
The one difficulty I'm finding is this: what's the archetype that exists on the boundary between the Fighter and the Thief? I suppose a lot depends on how I define the Thief, something I'm still mulling over. I've always been a little unhappy with D&D's portrayal of the Thief, which alternates between being reductionist (the Thief as "Special Skills Man") or being the Ninja class in all but name, neither of which quite captures the Thief as a pulp fantasy archetype. Likewise, since the Fighter is intended to cover all warriors, regardless of favored weapons or armor or fighting style, I don't think it's appropriate for the "hybrid" Fighter-Thief to be the Swashbuckler or some other nonsense like that. The Fighter is a broad enough class to accommodate the quick, dexterous warrior concept and, if you think otherwise, odds are you won't be happy with the direction I wish to take Pulp Fantasy D&D anyway.
So, there's still some thinking that needs to be done on this score, but the ideas are flowing again and I'm happy for that. Particularly in this post-4e age in which we live, there's need of a game that pays appropriate homage to the literary inspirations and origins of OD&D. It's a pity that D&D itself isn't the game to do so, but so be it.
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An idea:
Just Fighting-Man & Magic-User
But allow options/specialties:
F-M: Knight
F-M: Thief
F-M: Gladiator
F-M: Ranger
F-M: Soldier
M-U: White Magic
M-U: Gray Magic
M-U: Black Magic
M-U: Green Magic
M-U: Mind Magic
Allow basic abilities by class but then allow little tweaks for specialties. Allow new specialties every few levels.
It reeks of prestige classes [or advanced classes], but the idea I saw first in Warhammer.
I think it might be a good way to create something pulp-y without reinventing the wheel.I'm with The Myth – don't introduce thieves or rogues. The pulp thieves are in fact just fighting men that wear light armor and have a high enough Dex to make it worth their while. To recreate this mechanically you could add max Dex bonux per armor type, and add maybe something akin to Weapon Finesse – use Dex instead of Str to fight. Or you could abolish the reliance on stat bonuses and just say that heavy armor is expensive, loud, and slows you down. All good reasons why Conan wouldn't have it.
ReplyDeleteI will, in a future post, clarify "Why Thieves?" but the short of it is this: this is Pulp Fantasy D&D, not Pulp Fantasy simpliciter. That means I have to stick, as close as possible, to the D&D conception of fantasy and tweak it rather than wholesale eliminate it. Granted, I have already tweaked the Cleric out of existence and, if the Cleric can go, why not the Thief? It's a good question and one I'll talk about in a future post. For now, I'm keeping the Thief as an archetype and thus class.
ReplyDeleteFighter/Thief = Conan is a very fair point, but hard to game balance: we know he's the strongest person in the world, and he seems not to need armour, not because he's so fast but because he's so rawk. In fact I think the ever-rising hit points mechanic is supposed to be a direct effort to map his fighting style.
I see an underlying attitude in fantasy games that fighter archetypes are not very resourceful, leaving thieves as the men of resource (what you might call the Thrud factor): I don't know if it's intrinsic to D&D or not; in any event, I think it does a disservice to fighters, perhaps with the intention of making room for thieves. So I ask - what does a thief do? He's surely not just a chest-haxxor.* What special thing is it that thiefly characters do in the pulp fantasy sources - is there something other than opening the city gates for the fighters and using underhanded tricks while fighting? Something other than a Dex skill?
* execrable spelling required by default meaning of "hack" in genre.In this scheme (i.e. Fighter, Mage, Thief), the Fighter would be more rank-and-file soldier, knight, bravo, thug, etc.
The Thief avoids and retreats from a fight. He'll take advantage of surprise to back-stab, he'll snipe from a distance, but then he's out.
The Fighter/Thief would be special-ops, scout, ranger, Conan, Fafrd & the Mouser, etc. He has the better stealth and intrusion capabilities of the Thief, but can step up and fight when required.
Among pulp fantasy, Fighter/Thief is the most common protagonist archetype. (While the antagonists are typically Fighters and Mages.)
In fact, if not using multiclassing, I'd be tempted to put more than one class between Fighter and Thief. e.g. Having both a FIGHTER/thief class and a fighter/THIEF class.
And always remember: Conan always wore the best armor he had available.Is there room for a tri-class character (fighter/MU/thief) on your colour wheel? I'm guessing probably not. I ask the question because I'm trying to think of good fighter/MU archetypes in fiction and the only thing I can come up with is priest-of-a-dark-god, who is usually dispatched by the heroic fighter in the final confrontation.
...I'm guessing Belgarion is not of interest because he's a postD&Dification genre character.I know you say you'll address it later, but I frankly don't see why you'd retain a thief archetype if you're willing to throw away the cleric.
From my reading there seem to be precious few pure thieves in the pulp literature...they all (from the Mouser & Fafhrd to Conan) seem to be fighters who also happen to steal things and rely on whatever skills they can to get them ahead, whether it's busting heads or hiding in the shadows or scaling walls to get to what they want/need. A thief who is not also a fighter (or an MU) is likely to get killed real quick in the pulp-verse.
I liked an idea I believe you had earlier where the 'Rogue' class stepped in for the thief and was a sort of MU-fighter hybrid (as the Mouser and perhaps Cugel seemed to be in the stories). Why not have the 'thief' slot thus exist in the intersection between MU/fighter instead of being a 'pure' class on it's own. It really seems in the literature (if you want to take it as your startiing point) that everyone in the stories is a thief in some point in his career, but all that really means is he steals stuff in whatever way he's able until he can make money in better ways.
The only reason to retain the thief as part of the 'trinity' of classes is to hew closely to the OD&D rule set/archetype, but you've already ditched the cleric from this paradigm, so why not go even closer to the pulp roots? everyone who is an adventurer seems to be a thief as far as those go...why would it be a special class?I'm so sorry to be jumping all over this thread, but you've tickled my design nerve. Is it possible that the problem is not the division into fighter and thief (which works just fine for Lieber) but the invention of plate mail? That is, the debate seems to be between agility/ability and armour: the fighter gets the latter and it cripples him for the former, turning him from a rogueish adventurer into a knight. Is there any virtue in considering a "dark ages" D&D, with chainmail being the height of the armourer's art and "fine" or "magic" mail allowing for agile fighters (without invoking the anathema term "mithril")? Is it no longer D&D, without plate armour?
I'll shut up now, really.I'm certainly no Luminary, nor a scholar of old school, like many of you, but I've been reading Grognardia for quite some time now and this topic piques my interest.
It seems to me that it's mostly about "framing". You say "thief" and you think of a rogue-like character that exemplifies certain character traits: self-serving, sly, conniving, quick-witted, etc.
Now, this is not to say that a fighter can't also take on some (or all) of these traits. But it's not commonly envisioned when the term "fighter" is initially mentioned.
IMHO I think that these three archetypes are a framework that attempt to convey the pulp fantasy character. You say "thief", as it relates to Leiber or Howard, and you get a definite mind's eye picture. Maybe not the hero of the story...but you can certainly fit that archetype to the pastiche.
It's sorta like the "Erol Otus rule" eh? ;-)The idea that Conan never wore heavy armor is false. He wore what was:
A) available to him at the time
B) fitting for whatever he was doing at the time
So as a young thief sneaking into a wizard's tower, no, he does not wear armor. Yet, as a king leading his army into battle against his enemies, he's decked out head to toe in heavy mail.I'm actually quite interested by the idea you have going for you hear, and if you put it out I entirely mean to play it. Can I make one request, though? If you include demihumans, please no level caps just for the sake of hewing to tradition. I've never personally understood why they should exist, and it's something that I've always taken the time to houserule out in my regrettably few attempts at playing older editions of D&D.
Again, just a request, if you find it suitable. No need to take issue.The idea that Conan never wore heavy armor is false
I'm sorry, I never intended to suggest that; it's just that, as the hero, Conan pretty much triumphs no matter how little he has to work with.
fitting for whatever he was doing at the time
that's the point of divergence between novel and game, though: once you've got your PC fighter into plate mail it's really hard to pop him back out of it: players are paranoid sorts (often with good reason) and will eat, sleep and go to the bathroom in their plate. Rolston had the idea of putting bits into dungeons you couldn't enter while wearing armour (the "squeeze") in a computer game. Players didn't enter those parts."That is, the debate seems to be between agility/ability and armour: the fighter gets the latter and it cripples him for the former, turning him from a rogueish adventurer into a knight."
I don't think armor needs to cripple any other abilities. I don't think armor is more than a minor point in this discussion.It seems this topic has me thinking too much too. Apologies in advance for the length.
I think there's definitely a place for a thief as an archetype. The name "thief" is unfortunate. The defining attribute of a thief isn't that they steal stuff from people, it's that greed (esp. for money) is one of the few things -- or the only thing -- that can make them take any risk at all.
The Fighter should be the guy who goes toe-to-toe with the big nasty. He may be quick, cunning, stealthy, but his bread and butter is feats of physical bravery and prowess which includes combat. He likes an enemy he can sink his sword into. And if he must hack and slash his way past a horde of minions to get to where he needs to be, well, he will do that. He is not incapable of a ruse or a clever ploy, but he probably sees it as a way to maximize his application of force. A pure Fighter is not afraid to die, whether from honor or fatalism.
From the Conan books I have read, I think he was a pure Fighter. The guy is all about the derring-do. And I think he was more about impressing himself with his own awesomeness than screwing up his courage to go after what he coveted.
The Thief is someone who certainly would like to avoid physical combat. His go-to strategy is hiding, running away, bluffing, fast-talking, dissimulating, betrayal. If he needs something tough slain, he hires a Fighter. Though if cornered, or absolutely necessary, he may be practiced in some sneaky, deadly techniques.
Above self-preservation, a PC Thief might barely value some noble sentiment more, sometimes. But probably, when greed or honor might force him to take a risk, even a horrendous risk, he is much more likely to complain, drag his feat, and pause at the highest point of risk to reflect on how stupid this plan was.
A pure Thief is not the skirmisher/specialist of later D&D. In a way he is a less integral character to the group, sort of an X-factor, someone who tries to shake up the formula. Said another way, there is a fair degree of combat-uselessness in the pure Thief.
I would call Cugel a pure Thief, torn between greed and self-preservation, willing to adopt any scheme no matter how circuitous to avoid a dangerous (or even tedious) obligation, schemes both craven and gob-smackingly ballsy at the same time. Maybe this is way off-genre, but I'd also call Han Solo a pure Thief (I even like the class name "scoundrel" from SW D20 RPG better than "Thief"). I would say Fafhrd is pure Fighter, while the Mouser is Fighter-Thief, if not actually just another Fighter. Finally, I think Bilbo in the Hobbit as a "burglar" fits my definition comfortably, but not the D&D class at all.
As for the Cleric, removing the class entirely seems like a good idea, and I like the idea of replacing it with some kind of Priest that deals more with "received" magic than the Wizard's "forced" magic, though I don't see quite how it would work in terms of the circle of mixed classes.
In game terms I think there is still a Healer type role that needs to be filled, and in metagame terms the Healer is a good complement to the Thief; a character not in a central role, good for inexperienced players, but positive and helpful vs. the Thief's chaos and selfishness.why would it be a special class?
It isn't. There is a "cleric" class in Pulp Fantasy D&D, but it's been recast as more a "divine wizard" than the vampire hunter/crusader class we all know. The Thief class too is being recast somewhat, to emphasize his cunning and trickery rather than his skills at lockpicking or climbing walls.
I'll be explaining it all a bit more soon.I know this is a bit old, but I just stumbled on it and I quite, quite like the idea being batted around here.
Richard asked if there were any Fighter-Wizards in the lit. He must just have had an off-day to forget both Elric and Kane the Killer, among others (although I tend to find the Mouser isn't really in this class). It's a definite archetype anyway.
As to "cleric" issue, Pulp Fantasy is chock full of priests who learn ancient, eldritch secrets. My preference would be no mechanical difference between Clerics and Wizards, or wizards with different power-sources, or anything like that. Your class is Wizard. Whether your day-job is Initiate of the Mysteries of Zarxun or one of the High Philosophers of Dumdj (which is the verification word I was asked ot put in) or the weird old man who reads fortunes or the shaman of the Wolf Tribe. That's colour in the same way that one Fighter is a brawling barbarian from the Northern Wastes while another is a refined duelist from the City-Sate of Karsch.As to "cleric" issue, Pulp Fantasy is chock full of priests who learn ancient, eldritch secrets. My preference would be no mechanical difference between Clerics and Wizards, or wizards with different power-sources, or anything like that. Your class is Wizard. Whether your day-job is Initiate of the Mysteries of Zarxun or one of the High Philosophers of Dumdj (which is the verification word I was asked ot put in) or the weird old man who reads fortunes or the shaman of the Wolf Tribe.
I absolutely agree.I thought more about this over the week-end; it's really rather caught my mind. This is a thought about the "archetype circle". What if the circle was more of a continuum with Fighter and Wizard as the two poles. That is: Sword and Sorcery. Anything else falls somewhere on that.
The Vampire Hunter as a scholar with a stake falls closer to Wizard, but has some Fighter characteristics. The Vampire Hunter who is a stern soldier for God falls closer to Fighter, with some Wizard characteristic (maybe a special power or something).
This would mean dumping Thief as a core archetype, but not dumping the idea of the Thief. You just decide whether he hews more towards Fighter (physical skill) or more toward Wizard (knowledge). I think you could map any S&S figure onto the continuum.A number of games have had a fighter/wizard split or continuum.
The Fantasy Trip Wizard or not-a-Wizard
Dinky Dungeons Fighters and Wizards (with the Bard serving the fighter/wizard role—I assume)
Arneson's game, the name of which escapes me at the moment.
Tunnels & Trolls Warrior, Wizard, Warrior-Wizard, and Rogue Wizard
And I've mentioned before how I kind of see the oD&D cleric as a fighter/magic-user.
Also salient, I believe, were the rules from the Lankhmar AD&D book.I thought more about this over the week-end; it's really rather caught my mind. This is a thought about the "archetype circle". What if the circle was more of a continuum with Fighter and Wizard as the two poles. That is: Sword and Sorcery. Anything else falls somewhere on that.
That's a very intriguing idea ...


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BOSTON (AP) — An NHL-record unbeaten streak to start the lockout-shortened season.
Three straight victories to clinch the title.
From beginning to end, the Chicago Blackhawks skated away from the rest of the league.
Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland scored 17 seconds apart in the 1:16 and the Blackhawks staged a stunning rally to win Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final 3-2 on Monday night for their second NHL championship in four seasons.
Jonathan Toews returned from injury to add a goal, and Corey Crawford made 23 saves for Chicago in the first final round between Original Six since 1979.
"I still can't believe that finish," Crawford said. "Oh my God, we never quit."
Patrick Kane, whose overtime goal in Game 6 beat Philadelphia to win the 2010 championship, was voted the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as playoffs MVP.
Toews scored his third goal of the playoffs to tie it for the Blackawks at 4:24 of the second of Game 6 — exactly two minutes after teammate Andrew Shaw was penalized for roughing.
Boston, needing a win to extend the series to a deciding Game 7, came out aggressively and led 1-0 after one period on Chris Kelly's second goal of the playoffs. The Bruins outshot the Blackhawks 12-6 in the first period but the margin dropped to 18-15 through 40 minutes.
Each team got one of its best players back when Toews and Boston alternate captain Patrice Bergeron returned to the lineup after leaving the Blackhawks' 3-1 win with injuries on Saturday.
Toews scored when he got past Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara along the boards in the neutral zone. Chicago's captain skated up the right side and fired a hard shot from the right faceoff dot that beat goalie Tuukka Rask between his pads.
It was Toews' second goal in three games. Of Chicago's last 10 goals, Chara was on the ice for nine.
Boston right wing Jaromir Jagr was shaken up in the first period. He returned for the second but left the bench, and Tyler Seguin replaced him on the second line with left wing Brad Marchand and center Bergeron.
The play that led to Kelly's goal began after a faceoff that rookie defenseman Torey Krug rushed in to tip toward a teammate. The puck went to Daniel Paille, standing about 40 feet on the left. He passed to Seguin, who caught the puck with his right glove in the slot and dropped it.
Seguin then passed to Kelly, who scored his second goal of the playoffs 7:19 into the game.
It came just seven seconds after a whistle stopped a scrum in front of the net that followed an extended period of pressure by the Bruins.
Just two minutes after the goal, Chicago had one of its best chances of the period when Michal Frolik skated in with the puck behind the defense and fired a 15-foot drive from the left, but Rask made the save.
Boston had another solid chance at 12:24 when Milan Lucic took a 15-foot shot from the slot that Crawford stopped.
After having no power plays in Game 5, the Bruins had four failed advantages in the first two periods.
With 4:01 left in the first, Shaw was struck in the face by a puck when it deflected off the shaft of his stick after Boston's Shawn Thornton shot it. He lay on the ice before getting up and skating off slowly.
Toews was on Chicago's first shift of the game. Bergeron had left Game 5 with an undisclosed injury after playing just 49 seconds in the second period.
Five of the last nine Cup finals have gone seven games, including in 2011 when the Bruins overcame a 3-2 series deficit and won their first championship since 1972 by winning Game 6 in Boston and Game 7 in Vancouver.
In 2010, Chicago won its first NHL title since 1961 on Patrick Kane's overtime goal in Game 6 against the Philadelphia Flyers. As they did this year, the Blackhawks won Game 5 to take a 3-2 series lead.
This year's finals have been extremely tight, with three of the first five games going to overtime. Chicago won the opener in three overtimes, then Boston won 2-1 in one extra period and 2-0. The Blackhawks regained home-ice advantage with a 6-5 overtime win in a wild Game 4 in Boston before returning home for Saturday night's win.
Teams that have won Game 5 after splitting the first four have won the Cup 15 of 22 times since the best-of-seven format began in 1939. But the loser of Game 5 the past six times has won four championships, including the Bruins against the Canucks.
Last season, the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils in six games. This season, the Blackhawks beat the Kings in five games to reach the Cup finals, clinching the series on Kane's goal in overtime.


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Chapter 4
All the prophets worshiped the Father in the name of Christ—Abraham's offering of Isaac was in similitude of God and His Only Begotten—Men should reconcile themselves to God through the Atonement—The Jews will reject the foundation stone. About 544–421 B.C.
1 Now behold, it came to pass that I, Jacob, having ministered much unto my people in word, (and I cannot write but a alittle of my words, because of the bdifficulty of engraving our words upon plates) and we know that the things which we write upon plates must remain;
2 But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon aplates must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon plates, which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers—
3 Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first aparents.
4 For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we aknew of Christ, and we had a hope of his bglory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy cprophets which were before us.
5 Behold, they believed in Christ and aworshiped the Father in his name, and also we worship the Father in his bname. And for this intent we ckeep the dlaw of Moses, it epointing our souls to him; and for this cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness, even as it was accounted unto Abraham in the wilderness to be obedient unto the commands of God in offering up his son Isaac, which is a fsimilitude of God and his gOnly Begotten Son.
6 Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of aprophecy; and having all these bwitnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can ccommand in the dname of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.
7 Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our aweakness that we may know that it is by his bgrace, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.
8 Behold, great and marvelous are the aworks of the Lord. How bunsearchable are the depths of the cmysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man dknoweth of his eways save it be revealed unto him; wherefore, brethren, despise not the frevelations of God.
9 For behold, by the power of his aword bman came upon the face of the earth, which earth was ccreated by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the dearth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?
10 Wherefore, brethren, seek not to acounsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in bwisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.
11 Wherefore, beloved brethren, be areconciled unto him through the batonement of Christ, his cOnly Begotten Son, and ye may obtain a dresurrection, according to the epower of the resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the ffirst-fruits of Christ unto God, having faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him before he manifesteth himself in the flesh.
12 And now, beloved, marvel not that I tell you these things; for why not aspeak of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a resurrection and the world to come?
13 Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him prophesy to the understanding of men; for the aSpirit speaketh the btruth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really care, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us dplainly, for the salvation of our souls. But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these things; for God also espake them unto prophets of old.
14 But behold, the Jews were a astiffnecked people; and they bdespised the words of cplainness, and dkilled the prophets, and sought for things that they could not understand. Wherefore, because of their eblindness, which fblindness came by looking beyond the gmark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they hcannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may istumble.
15 And now I, Jacob, am led on by the Spirit unto prophesying; for I perceive by the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that by the astumbling of the bJews they will creject the dstone upon which they might build and have safe foundation.
16 But behold, according to the scriptures, this astone shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure bfoundation, upon which the Jews can build.
17 And now, my beloved, how is it possible that these, after having rejected the sure foundation, can aever build upon it, that it may become the head of their corner?
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Held in November and December 2012, Operation Enigma saw the participation of police, customs, port authorities and environmental and maritime law enforcement agencies in seven European and African countries. The operation aimed to identify and disrupt the illegal collection, recycling, export, import and shipping of discarded electronic products such as computers, televisions and other electronic devices, before they are dumped in landfills or other sites where they can cause severe environmental harm.
Checks were conducted at major ports in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in Europe, a region considered to be a common source of electronic waste being shipped internationally, and in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria in Africa, a region considered to be a destination for this waste. Almost one-third of the checks resulted in the discovery of illegal electronic waste.
The operation saw many coordinated actions between the participating countries. For example, Belgian authorities seized and returned to the Netherlands some 100 tonnes of illegal e-waste. This information was shared with the Intelligence and Investigation Service of the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate, the Dutch Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Operation Enigma also uncovered evidence of new concealment methods used by individuals and companies implicated in the illegal trade of electronic waste. This information will help the international law enforcement community work towards the elimination of these illegal activities.
"Following INTERPOL's Operation Haz in 2009 and 2010, which targeted the illegal transportation of hazardous material, Operation Enigma is a new example of INTERPOL's continued efforts to fight all types of transnational pollution crime," said David Higgins, Manager of the INTERPOL Environmental Crime Programme. "When it comes to electronic waste, the destination countries bear a disproportionate burden, and we aim to support them as they develop the necessary means to deal with it."
"Addressing the illegal trade of electronic waste calls for substantial cooperation between exporting and destination countries. Operation Enigma showed the international community that there is substantial will among the member countries to cooperate in order to keep ahead of this modern threat to our environment and global security," added Marco Araújo de Lima, Operations Manager of the Environmental Crime Programme.
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Dear All,
I am very content to make this announcement, on behalf of Taigu and myself, and ask everyone sitting with our Sangha to join in its celebration. In the coming months, OUR SANGHA WILL WELCOME THROUGH 'Home Leaving' ORDINATION TWO NEW NOVICE-PRIEST TRAINEES, well known faces around here ... Kyonin Barros and Yugen Kemos. They will join our present Novice-Priest Trainees, Shohei, Fugen, Mongen, Dosho and Myozan. Kyonin and Yugen will be Ordained by Jundo as Novice Priest-Trainees sometime in the late Spring.
From time to time, after undertaking Zen practice for many years, a person may feel in their heart a certain calling. They may wish to train in our traditions and embody them in order to keep this way alive into the next generation as clergy. They may feel a calling within themselves to live as a servant and minister to the community, to the Sangha and to all living beings.
Traditionally, in India, China, Japan and the other Buddhist countries of Asia, one was expected to leave one's home and family behind in order to begin the necessary training and practice of an "apprentice". Thus, the ancient ceremony of ordination in Buddhism became known as Shukke Tokudo, "Leaving Home to Take the Way". Now, in modern Japan and in the West, one of the great changes in the nature of Buddhist clergy has been that most of us function more as "ministers" than "monks", with family and children, often with outside jobs as "Right Livelihood" supporting us, while ministering to a community of parishioners. This, in keeping with changes in cultures and society, has done much to bring Buddhism out from behind monastery walls. While, now, we may be living in a monastic setting for periods of weeks or months (and thus can be called "monks" during such times), we then return to the world beyond monastery walls, where these teachings have such relevance for helping people in this ordinary life. We are not bound by monastery walls, dropping all barriers separating "inside" from "out". Thus, the term "leaving home" has come to have a wider meaning, of "leaving behind" greed, anger, ignorance, the harmful emotions and attachments that fuel so much of this world, in order to find the "True Home" we all share. In such way, we find that Home that can never be left, take to the Way that cannot be taken.
Someone's undertaking "Shukke Tokudo" is not a "raising up" of their position in the Sangha, it is not an honor or "promotion" into some exalted status, not by any meaning. Far from it, it is a lowering of oneself in offering to the community, much as all of us sometimes deeply bow upon the ground in humility, raising up others and the whole world above our humbled heads.
It is to volunteer and offer oneself as the lowest 'sailor on the ship' at the beck and call of the passengers' well-being and needs, a nurse to help clean soiled linens, a brother or sister to sacrifice oneself for a family, a friend offering to help carry a burden. One must be committed sincerely to serve and benefit others, and one must not undertake such a road for one's own benefit, praise or reward.
What is more, the undertaking of "Shukke Tokudo" is not the end of the road of training, not by any meaning. Far from it, it is but the first baby steps. Perhaps, years down the road, the person will find that that they still have the inner calling to continue this path … and, perhaps, years down the road, they may have embodied this Tradition sufficiently to continue it and be certified as full "priest" and a teacher … but there is no guaranty of any of that. For this reason, one undertaking "Home Leaving" is not yet recognized in the Zen world as truly a fully ordained "priest" for many years, and is called an "Unsui", meaning "clouds and water". The best translation in English is "apprentice priest" or "novice priest" or "priest trainee". Perhaps, years down the road, some trainees will be felt to have embodied these traditions sufficiently in order to function independently as teachers … but not necessarily. For now, they are just school children expected to learn … with the future not assured, and no promises about future promise. (Of course, we are all beginners, all children … all learning from each other … teachers learning from students too).
We hope that, in the coming years, other people will feel this same calling. It must be by mutual decision. It is not something that should be rushed into, nor rushed through. Although people are all different, maybe a good time to first consider such a thing would be only after practicing for 5 years or longer, and then it should be deeply thought about (and non-thought about) for longer still before first taking on the responsibilities of being an apprentice student-priest.
For now, I am pleased to announce that Yugen and Kyonin will be our next "class", joining Mongen, Shohei, Fugen, Myozan and Dosho in a great experiment here. The reason is that, given the nature of our Sangha, the coming years of training will have to be done in some traditional ways and some very new, innovative ways. If anyone wishes to download and read a very long and detailed statement of the 'goalless goals' of training that these people are expected to follow and come to embody … here it is (33 pages, PDF).
These "Treeleaf Sangha Guidelines for Training Soto Zen Buddhist Clergy" are based, as closely as we can, upon guidelines for priest training established by the Soto Zen Buddhist Association (SZBA) of North America. The process of training, with no guaranty that it can ever come to flower, will take several years. As our Guidelines state:
These Guideline seek to address four main topics for individuals wishing to train as clergy and teachers of Soto Zen Buddhism within the Treeleaf Sangha:
1. Purpose – What are we training priests for? How should a priest trainee gain necessary skills to function when out on their own, and how are they expected to function and conduct themselves both during and after training?
2. Standards – How do we train priests? What do we expect from a priest after ordination? What areas of work are essential?
3. Elements – What are the specific activities, events, and processes that make up priest training?
4. Stages – What do we expect of a person before ordination (shukke tokudo)? What, if any stages should priests pass through after ordination?
However, these Guidelines, and our Sangha's program of training, are necessarily works in progress, and an ongoing endeavour, and thus subject to great experimentation, constant adjustment, flexibility and change throughout their unfolding.
The purpose of priest training is to prepare individuals for a life dedicated to exemplifying the Dharma with integrity via empowering them to extend Buddhist teachings and Soto Zen practice out in the world, all in keeping with the traditional teachings of Soto Zen Buddhism and the philosophy of our Lineage.
Priest training encourages the continuing unfolding of the Bodhisattva ideal characterized by the Six Paramitas of giving, ethical conduct, patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom. Yet the heart and flowering of our way is always Shikantaza, sitting and moving in stillness without grasping or rejecting any of the constantly arising and changing phenomena of life as-they-are, the life practice of the Buddhas and Ancestors manifesting and realizing the Genjô-kôan, the fundamental point actualized through this life-practice
Although much of the training and experience-gathering to be acquired, by necessity in our Lineage, must occur at a distance, with some ingenuity and in small steps and pieces, all must be part of an unbroken whole. It is the quality of the results which matter most, and the maintenance of integrity throughout, more than the traditional road followed to arrive at the destination. In this training, both teacher and student must use care, employ great effort and creativity, overcome any hurdles and pay constant attention to detail such that no aspect of training is neglected.
Training, sometimes in a residential setting and sometimes not, sometimes in a group with others and sometimes by the student's own endeavors, will be based on the following perspectives …
The period of formation that follows upon novice ordination (shukke tokudo) may continue for any number of years prior to possible (although never inevitable) Dharma Transmission, but truly continues as a lifelong endeavor that will sustain individuals dedicated to exemplifying the Dharma and the the Bodhisattva ideal. Completing formal priest training will mean that an individual has internalized the tradition, is capable of transmitting it, and vows to devote her or himself to a life of continuous practice and service.The individual's dedication to the elements of priest training must enable him or her to maintain a regular, disciplined zazen practice, to instruct and guide others in their practice, to present and discuss the history and teachings of Buddhism and Soto Zen, to perform services and ceremonies in the Soto style as appropriate and required in the circumstance, and to actively nurture and serve both Sangha and the larger community and society.
In addition, priest training must make the individual aware of the highest ethical standards which must always be maintained by a member of the clergy, thereby assisting him or her in maintaining such standards in his or her personal life at all times. Training will also enable the individual to demonstrate personal qualities that inspire trust and confidence and encourage others to practice. Finally, training will enable the individual to clearly understand – and communicate to others – the relationship of Zen teaching and practice to everyday life.
We hope that you will join us in wishing Kyonin and Yugen well in their start on this long undertaking. Most of you will know them very well from their almost daily participation here over several years, and the energy, wisdom and compassion they always bring to our community. They will be Ordained by me, Jundo, sometime in the late Spring. That ceremony is planned to occur much as our prior Ordination Ceremonies, across oceans using all means of modern media, dropping all thought of place and time.
As in all we undertake in our Sangha, the ceremony will not be limited to a specific location, much as our annual Jukai here at Treeleaf … and we hope that you will all join us for the ceremonies when the time comes.
Gassho, Jundo (and Taigu)


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copyright the Chronicle July 25, 2012
by Joseph Gresser
GREENSBORO — On Sunday morning Peter Gebbie had finished milking. The truck from the St. Albans co-op was loading and his hands were moving out to get the second cut of hay in.
But there was more for him to do. He and his wife, Sandra, headed toward a new building behind one of his barns. A sign on the door wisely warned against entering without hearing protection. Inside an engine roared.
Mr. Gebbie grabbed a clipboard and walked around the room checking readouts at various points along a complicated series of pipes.
He looked pleased at the results. "Eighty kilowatts," he said. When they first started the generator about two weeks ago, it produced only 20 kilowatts.
When it is running at full speed the methane generator will produce 150 kilowatts of power.
Switching the generator on was the culmination of a process that began in Newport a little more than five years ago at a meeting sponsored by the state Agency of Agriculture. That meeting at the East Side Restaurant brought together dairy farmers who were interested in the process of turning manure and other organic matter into methane and eventually electricity.
At the time the Gebbies were milking 200 cows at Maplehurst Farm. The farmers who were getting into the electricity business had herds ten times the size of his.
On Sunday, Mr. Gebbie recalled that when he first started calling firms that design and install methane digesters he was turned away.
"The guys who sold digesters laughed at you," he said, "unless you were at least a 1,000-cow farm."
Mr. Gebbie persisted and eventually his calls started getting returned. He said that it seemed to him that the digester builders had worked their way through the big farmers and were ready to deal with someone his size.
While they were investigating the possibility of building a methane digester, the Gebbies doubled the size of their herd to 400 cows.
They were fortunate in having long before set up their barns with slatted floors through which the cows tread their manure and bedding. Gravity was enough to move this fuel into the digester, a round tank with a flexible cover.
Manure will produce methane with or without special equipment, but left to nature the volatile hydrocarbon will go into the atmosphere where it is a potent greenhouse gas.
Mr. Gebbie said he has heard it has a 24 to 25 times greater effect than carbon dioxide.
The Gebbies knew that things were going well when they saw the cover on the digester begin to balloon upwards. That indicated that gas was beginning to build up a head of pressure.
From the digester the gas goes into a scrubber which removes impurities to protect the engine of the generator. Mr. Gebbie said he is lucky because the gas produced by his manure is low in sulfur.
From the scrubber the gas goes to the generator or, if for some reason the generator is down for a while, through an upright pipe which is set up to burn extra gas to keep it from going into the atmosphere.
Once the manure is run through the digester, it could be spread on fields. The Gebbies have chosen to separate the liquids from the solids, spread the former and use the latter as bedding.
Sawmills used to give away sawdust, Mr. Gebbie noted. Today they use everything, and the price of bedding is a major cost of doing business. By producing his own bedding, Mr. Gebbie said, he can save as much as $20,000 a year.
Studies show the bedding produced by digesters reduces the incidence of mastitis and results in a lower somatic cell count, an indicator of a healthy cow, Mr. Gebbie said.
Of course, electricity is the main product of the system. The Gebbies have a contract to supply 150 kilowatts of power to the Hardwick Electric Company through the state's Sustainably Priced Energy Enterprise Development (SPEED) program.
They are guaranteed a price of 14 cents a kilowatt-hour, well above the current market price of four cents. In addition they can sell Renewable Energy Credits (REC) through the Cow Power program started by Central Vermont Public Service and now under the auspices of Green Mountain Power.
Mr. Gebbie said the REC credits bring in an additional three to four cents a kilowatt-hour, less a small brokerage fee.
The system cannot operate at full capacity with only the manure produced on his farm, Mr. Gebbie said. To get to the full 150 kilowatts, he will need to find an outside source of carbon.
Typically that means a liquid such as whey, he said.
The 150-kilowatt limit is convenient in one regard. Power from the system can be moved on a simple single-phase line, the sort that typically serves a home.
Large scale generators on the farms in Franklin and Addison counties may generate more than a megawatt of power and require a very expensive three-phase service to move electricity off the farm.
In addition to power and bedding, the generator can also provide heat for the Gebbies' home and milking parlor, and hot water, Mr. Gebbie said. The potential savings could be as great as those from the bedding, but they will require substantial investment in underground pipes, he added.
The digester cost "$1.5-million and climbing," Mr. Gebbie said. Grants from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Energy and the state Department of Public Service's Clean Energy Development Fund helped pay between half and three-quarters of the cost, he added.
"Most people would like to see things paid in five years," Mr. Gebbie said.
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One of my favorite go to breakfasts, lunches and/or snacks are nutella and banana sandwiches. I almost always have all of the ingredients on hand and if you combine that with how yummy they are and how quick and easy they are to make, I tend to have them fairly often. Nutella goes really well with a lot of fruits, though banana seems to be the one that I keep coming back to. I normally eat them in sandwich fashion with two slices of bread but an open faced sandwich, or toast, also works really well. I sometimes even butter them up and grill them so that they are nice and golden brown on the outside and the nutella is warm and melted on the inside. You could also easily turn it into french toast for something a bit different.
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As President Barack Obama prepares to announce tougher new air quality standards, lawmakers in several states already are trying to blunt the impact on aging coal-fired power plants that feed electricity to millions of consumers.
The Obama administration on Monday will roll out a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, further diminishing coal's role in U.S. electricity production in the process. The Environmental Protection Agency refused to confirm the details of the proposal Sunday. People familiar with the proposal shared the details on condition of anonymity, since they had not been officially released.
The opposition to Obama's new carbon emission standards has been strongest in some states that have large coal-mining industries or rely heavily on coal to fuel their electricity. State officials say the new federal regulations could jeopardize the jobs of thousands of workers and drive up the monthly electric bills of residents and businesses.
It remains to be seen whether new measures passed by the states will amount to mere political symbolism or actually temper what's expected to be an aggressive federal effort to reduce the country's reliance on coal. But either way, states likely will play a pivotal role, because federal clean air laws leave it up to each state to come up its own plan for complying with the emission guidelines.
The proposed EPA rules to be announced Monday could be the first to apply to carbon dioxide emissions at existing power plants. Coal is the most common fuel source for the nation's electricity and, when it's burned, is a leading source of the greenhouse gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to climate change.
Without waiting to see Obama's proposal, the governors of Kansas, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia signed laws directing their environmental agencies to develop their own carbon emission plans that consider the costs of compliance at individual power plants. Similar measures recently passed in Missouri and are pending in the Louisiana and Ohio legislatures.
Missouri lawmakers went even further in their defense of the coal industry. When activists proposed a ballot initiative barring local tax breaks for St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, state lawmakers quickly passed a measure banning such moves.
Some states have specifically empowered local regulators to develop emission plans that are less stringent than federal guidelines. According to measures passed recently, the state policies are to take into account the "unreasonable cost" of reducing emissions based on a plant's age and design and the "economic impacts" of shutting down particular power plants.
"The concern is that the federal standards — if they come out the way that most people expect them to — are going to drive the cost of electricity up for every single consumer in the state," said Missouri state Rep. Todd Richardson, a Republican.
Eighty-three percent of Missouri's electricity comes from coal-fired power plants, the fifth highest percentage nationally behind West Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming and Indiana.
Federal emission regulations already allow flexibility for states if they can demonstrate costs would be unreasonable for particular facilities. But a spokesman for the EPA's Midwestern region, which oversees several states that rely predominantly on coal for their electricity, said he's unaware of that provision ever being used.
It's unlikely that the Obama administration would essentially undercut its new carbon emission standards by granting widespread exceptions, said Bill Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, which represents air pollution control agencies in 42 states and 116 metropolitan areas.
If a state doesn't comply with EPA guidelines, the federal agency can create its own plan for the state.
"This is not a standard that a state then can willy-nilly ignore," Becker said. "It's going to have to achieve at least that standard or more. Period."
In many Midwestern states, the drive to constrain the new federal emission standards has been supported by an electricity industry that has a large financial stake in coal.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback held a ceremonial signing in April for legislation allowing the state to set "flexible" standards for carbon dioxide emissions. He held the event in Holcomb at the proposed site of a new $2.8 billion, coal-fired power plant being pursued by Sunflower Electric Power Corp.
The legislation "is an effort by us to be able to handle issues at the state level, instead of being dictated, one size fits all, nationally," Brownback said. He added: "We will see how effective it is."
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