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Hi everyone. Hope all is well. My new post is up: Pascal's Wager: It's Always a Bad Bet Today's post deals with Pascal's Wager and a column written by Dan Delzell over at The Christian Post. I hope you enjoy it!
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That is a great point about the wager...which god would the theist pick? There are a lot of vengeful gods out there....better pick the right one...
Pascal never convinced me for a moment, because of the sneaky arbitrary choice of Jesus. I happen to believe in Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. If I'm right and she blesses me, I get rich. But I can't waste my life on her when there are so many other gods, so next I'll bet on Thor and hope he strikes down my enemies. See how arbitrary it all is?
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Federal judge rules against DeKalb school board
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Callaway Chair Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson was quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding U.S. District Judge Richard Story's decision to allow the governor to name replacements for the DeKalb school board while the lawsuit for control over the school system continues. The article was written by Greg Bluestein and Ty Tagami and appeared on 3/5/13.
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Film Forum showed this trailer before the restored print of METROPOLIS. When it was done, the nine year old young man next to me turned to me and said "That was a good trailer". He knows of what he speaks. And thus how little we have traveled. Fifty years is the age of Godard's BREATHLESS and it still feels fresh even to an innocent's eyes. And for that matter, METROPOLIS totally stood up and got the approved stamp of "exciting" from both my son and his friend.


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Following in the footsteps of a comedy giant like James Corden would be a daunting prospect for any performer. Starting out as the star's understudy when One Man, Two Guvnors first opened at the Lyttelton, on London's South Bank in 2011, Owain Arthur was elevated to the lead role when the English National Theatre's latest hit production transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket last year.
However, he brings so much infectious enthusiasm to the part that it is easy to conclude he was born to play hapless glutton Francis Henshall, who bites off more than he can chew after ill-advisedly committing himself to two demanding bosses.
"It was a lot of pressure and looking back now I can't believe I did it," he admits. "They are big shoes to fill, but you have to stay true to the play and respect the writing. The play itself is strong enough to carry it through and when I took over it was with a completely different cast. We'd been rehearsing for weeks beforehand so we had our own rhythm and we'd already forgotten what it was like doing it with the other guys."
Born and raised in North Wales, Arthur can identify with his fellow countryman Francis, who finds himself a fish out of water on the English south coast. "There's no denying I'm Welsh," he says.
"It's the way I speak on stage and I'm not shying away from the fact that I have a strong Welsh accent. But there's something quite musical about it."
Conceived as a vehicle for Corden's bombastic talents by National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner, the play has been adapted by Richard Bean from Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni's 1743 comedy The Servant and Two Masters. A staple of the Commedia Dell'arte tradition, the story is relocated to Brighton in 1963, just before the advent of rock'n'roll.
"It's just after the Beatles are starting to take off so skiffle is still the main working-class music," says Bean. "People think of the 60s as being the Swinging 60s all the way through, but 1961 and 1962 were basically the 50s, as nothing had really happened yet."
Designed by Hytner to "appeal to both Sun and Guardian readers", One Man, Two Guvnors enjoyed a sell-out season on Broadway last year and has scooped numerous awards including Best Play at the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards and a Best Actor gong for Corden at last year's Tonys in New York.
"Our brief was to write something that was very populist and accessible to people who don't normally like theatre," says Bean.
"There are a lot of people who think of theatre as being three and a half hours of Chekhov, who can be a bit boring if you don't know the rules of the game."
More a variety show than a straightforward drama, the experience of One Man, Two Guvnors begins before the curtain even rises - theatregoers are serenaded by skiffle band The Craze as they take their seats.
"The show is meant to be 100 per cent entertainment so you end up with a play where the scene changes are more entertaining than the play," says Bean.
"Normally that would be a criticism of the play but it isn't in this case. I didn't write any of it but the scene changes are fantastic, as you either get a great song or some stupid old-fashioned English musical hall act, like the guy who does spoon percussion."
Most controversially, the show also breaks through the so-called fourth wall when Francis frequently addresses and engages with the audience.
"Anybody seeing it doesn't need to know that this is a Dell'arte classic, but when the Commedia performed it in the markets of Italy, Spain and southern Europe, it would have involved an enormous amount of improvisation," explains Bean.
"They'd rock up to the market, send the horse out to grass and they'd open up the back of the cart and start playing. If someone heckled them, they'd take them on and deal with them.
"Once it moved into the theatres there was even more improvisation. We wanted to keep the spirit of that and we play with that form."
Arthur also welcomes the opportunity to interact with those before him. "It's such a big part of the play because the audience gets to follow Francis' story," he adds.
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"It's basically the international language of laughter if you like," he says. "I don't want to shoot myself in the foot but I'm quietly confident it will appeal to New Zealand's taste as well. It's a comedy, which is something that you could find all over the world long before any of us were born.
"There's also a lot of physical comedy, which is great for me. And it's something you can understand no matter what language you speak."
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday put climate change at the center of the heated national debate over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline by insisting in a major policy speech that the project's fate hinges on how much carbon dioxide it contributes to the atmosphere.
"The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical in determining whether this project will be allowed to go forward," Obama said, during a speech unveiling a broad plan for combating global warming at Georgetown University.
Obama vowed that his administration will only approve the multibillion-dollar pipeline "if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."
But for environmentalists, oil industry leaders and landowners in the proposed pipeline's path, Obama's remarks don't make a final outcome clear. Some analysts suggested the president was paving the way for approval, based on previous government reports concluding Keystone's carbon cost isn't as high as its critics suggest.
The most important finding came from the State Department, which in March concluded that the Keystone XL pipeline was unlikely to cause major changes in the amount of carbon emissions tied to the development of Canada's oil sands crude. According to State's environmental analysis, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions tied to oil sands production would drop just 0.83 million metric tons annually if Keystone XL were not built, in contrast to some environmentalists' warnings that new oil sands development fostered by the project could send 27 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the air each year.
Spill detection: Keystone XL pipeline shuns high-tech oil spill detectors
But that carbon conclusion was pegged to the State Department's finding that companies would keep extracting dense bitumen from Canada with or without Keystone XL because other pipelines and trains could transport the hydrocarbon to market. The Environmental Protection Agency, which has its own role evaluating the pipeline, took issue with the State Department's conclusion and suggested more analysis was needed.
Environmentalists praised Obama for making climate change a decisive factor on Keystone XL but some fretted that unless the State Department changes its conclusion about carbon emissions tied to the pipeline, Obama's benchmark could mean the project wins approval.
Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, said Obama appeared to be setting "an appropriate standard" for reviewing Keystone XL.
"The president is saying what the science has always demanded," McKibben said. "It's encouraging news."
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., noted the tension on the issue. While "the president's commitment today to only approve the tar sands pipeline if there is no net increase in carbon pollution is promising," she said, "tar sands are one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet and the devil is in the details."
Bill Snape, with the Center for Biological Diversity, said basing a Keystone XL decision "on the project's climate dangers" should mean it will be rejected. "Allowing Keystone to move forward would result in more carbon pollution each year than building 50 new coal-fired power plants," he said. "It's a no-brainer for the White House to shut down this massive threat to the climate."
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Similarly, Sierra Club director Michael Brune said Obama's "strong commitment to using climate pollution as the standard by which Keystone XL will be decided means his decision to reject it should now be easy" since "any fair and unbiased analysis of the tar sands pipeline shows that the climate effects of this disastrous project would be significant."
(Environmentalists have raised concerns — and the threat of litigation — over whether the State Department's pipeline review qualifies as "fair and unbiased.")
Some Republicans and analysts cast Obama's comments as opening the door to eventual approval.
According to their calculus, if the State Department's draft environmental assessment is unchanged on carbon impacts, there's plenty of room to approve the pipeline by citing that as evidence that Keystone XL will not measurably increase carbon emissions.
"The standard the president set today should lead to speedy approval of the Keystone pipeline," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "Based on the lengthy review by the State Department, construction of the pipeline would not have a significant environmental impact."
In a research note to clients, ClearView Energy Partners noted that the State Department's State Department's estimate of incremental greenhouse gas emissions from Keystone XL is lower than those by both the EPA and environmentalists.
"In our view, the president has left the door open to a final approval, and has preserved multiple avenues through it," ClearView Energy Partners said. "The State Department could determine on its own that the greenhouse gas impacts do not 'significantly' exacerbate the nation's GHG emissions levels or are sufficiently modest relative to other reductions."
Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, Obama's "questions about the Keystone XL pipeline have been answered by four comprehensive State Department reviews that have concluded the project will have no significant impact on the environment."
And Charles Drevna, head of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, said Obama "seems to be finally acknowledging the value of the Keystone XL pipeline."
"We hope his statement means the State Department will immediately approve the pipeline, since several environmental reviews have concluded that building Keystone XL will lead to fewer greenhouse gas emissions than if we did not build it," Drevna added.
Analysts: Keystone XL delays won't stop Canadian crude exports
Under a nine-year-old executive order, the State Department is tasked with determining whether the project is in the "national interest." If any one of eight separate federal agencies — including the EPA — disagrees with State's decision, that would launch a process that would put the final verdict in President Barack Obama's hands.
The State Department now is working its way through about 1.2 million public comments submitted on its draft environmental study.
TransCanada Corp. first sought approval to build the border-crossing pipeline in 2005. While the northern, border-crossing section of the project is under review, the Calgary company has gone forward with construction of the southern leg of the pipeline.
Environmentalists say that Keystone XL could contribute to climate change by expanding the marketplace for Canada's oil sands crude. Because the bitumen in Canada's oil sands is harvested through mining and energy-intensive steam-assisted techniques, it may have a higher carbon footprint than conventional crude.
But pipeline advocates reject opponents' assertions that diluted bitumen from Canada is significantly dirtier than the crudes from Venezuela and other nations that it would likely displace in Gulf Coast refineries.


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MURRAY, Ky. -- The Golden Eagle volleyball team opened Ohio Valley Conference play Friday night at Murray State. Tech took the first set to extra points, but ultimately fell to the Racers 3-0.
Set scores for Murray State were 29-27, 25-15 and 25-13.
Outside hitter Ellen Conti led the Golden Eagles with 10 kills, but Kelsey Gray led the team with a .529 attack percentage, tallying nine kills on 17 swings in an error-free perfomance. Freshman Cody Dodd chipped in with five kills, a career high for the newcomer.
Ashleigh Hancock dished out 16 assists, leading an offense that hit .155, well above Tech's season average. Madi Comperry recorded nine assists.
Courtney Smith led the Golden Eagle defense with 15 digs. Gray anchored the net knocking down two solo blocks and assisting with five. Conti and senior Katrina Dvorken each assisted in three blocks, with Madison Keyes chipping in with one block assist.
Tech lost the first set 29-27 despite out-hitting and out-blocking the Racers. Tech recorded 13 kills at a .323 clip while Murray State only muscled a .216 attack percentage. The Golden Eagle block recorded five blocks to the Racers zero. The first set came down to who was going to commit an error first. The score was 24-24 and Tech was the first to strike as a kill by Conti kept the Golden Eagles serving. A kill by Murray State tied the match again at 25, but another Conti kill gave Tech a second advantage. Two more Murray State kills, and an attack error by Tech sent Murray State to set two with all the momentum.
Set two opened with a 12-0 run and the Golden Eagles could never regain the deficit. Attack errors forced by Gray's blocks kept Tech in the set, but the Murray State raced to a 25-15 victory.
The third set placed Tech into a similar situation as the Golden Eagles chased down the Racers, but ran out of time. Murray State went on to win the match 25-13.
The Golden Eagles return to OVC action Saturday at Austin Peay. The afternoon match will be held at 2:00. Tech finally returns to the Hooper-Eblen Center September 25 for the first home match of the season against Jacksonville State.


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by kozman18 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:26 pm
Hotoven wrote:Sounds good. I'm guessing running belays are whats best for the steeper sections? And will a genral Mountannering axe work or will I have to get more agressive tecnical ice climbing tools?
by Hotoven » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:38 pm
by kozman18 » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:14 pm
Hotoven wrote:Yale Gully, and Damnation Gully, look alot harder than Central. I would do them but my group is not as experienced as I. Would Yale be do able is everyone looked really good on Central? Just want your thoughts....
And there's no camping at all? That totally takes away from the fun of it. Do you think there are still spots left to reserve the cabin for Jan.? I'll have a group of 5 or 6. Or do you have to reserve really far in advance?
Thanks by the way for all the great information.
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Meghdoot wrote:Hi All,
Has anyone climbed up central gully recently? We are beginner climbers and want to go for Central.
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divnamite wrote:To be honest, no matter how sustained the climb is, Central is still WI2 at the hardest condition. Other than avalanches and climbing below another party, I don't see there is any problem. In terms of climbing skills, WI2 doesn't require much front pointing unless the ice is bullet proof.
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After a successful inaugural three-play season at its Eastport Shopping Center location, Compass Rose Studio Theater opens its second season with Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."
The play's strong script and powerful message make it an ideal vehicle for the Annapolis acting academy-theater.
"Since opening its doors to students in 2010, Compass Rose has reached over 400 from age 3 to senior citizens in 10 Anne Arundel venues," founding artistic director Lucinda Merry-Browne said. "Passion for live theater grows through dramatic arts education. Students can audition to perform on stage with professional actors, and vehicles are chosen with casting students in mind."
Opening Compass Rose's first season last fall, a cast of students and professional actors brought a fresh glow to Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lost in Yonkers." This second season starts with another Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, staged in a reconfigured, centrally located performance area, with audience members facing one another across the stage.
Modest space fosters creativity in Thanh Van Lam's minimal set design, with a single tree defining Maycomb, Ala., in 1935. The Finch family home is suggested by a single doorway, and another doorway defines the neighboring Radley home. An opposite doorway stands for the city jail that lawyer Atticus Finch stands before, guarding his imprisoned client, Tom Robinson, from an approaching mob. Between Acts 1 and 2, a simple courtroom is created for the climactic trial scene.
JoAnn Gidos provides props and set decoration. Lighting designer Eric Bowers creates atmospheric shadows and light, while sound designer Sarah Wade's skills enhance drama and suspense. Costume designer Julie Bays brings charming authenticity to her creations.
Director Brandon McCoy, who brought distinction to "Lost in Yonkers," opens Compass Rose's second season by drawing nuanced performances from the student and seasoned actors who form his "Mockingbird" cast.
Compass Rose audiences will discover young actors who give life to the characters. Young characters are central, with tomboy Scout as the protagonist. Young Jean Louise, or "Scout," becomes the adult narrator. Scout's older brother, Jem, is widower Finch's only other child.
Respected small-town attorney Finch courageously defends Robinson, the black field hand accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Mayella is the abused daughter of racist Bob Ewell, who claims to have witnessed Robinson's crime and stirs hatred among the townsfolk.
In this production, Scout is capably portrayed by Key School fourth-grader Maggie Baum, who at age 9 is a veteran of several Compass Rose classes and productions. Maggie beautifully conveys Scout's belief in people's essential goodness and displays Scout's innate courtesy, which restores adult decency.
Jem is played by Key School seventh-grader Casey Baum, 12, a three-year Compass Rose student who appeared in several camp productions. He conveys Jem's stable influence, reflecting his father's ethical values.
As summer neighbor Dill, Jones Elementary fourth-grader Timothy DeSimone, 9, makes a strong debut in his first professional production after completing two Compass Rose camps.
As the adult Scout, Elizabeth Jernigan brings insight while managing not to intrude on the stage action.
Baltimore actor Gary Goodson's portrayal of Atticus Finch combines the attorney's innate decency with Southern gentility. Propelled by steely resolve, Goodson's Atticus establishes the implausibility of Robinson's having committed the crime he's accused of, and demolishes accuser Mayella Ewell's lies. Goodson unleashes Atticus' righteous anger on witness Bob Ewell, a miscreant convincingly played by Ric Andersen in his Compass Rose debut.
Lonnie Simmons' portrayal of falsely accused Tom Robinson conveys the character's hope for justice despite his resignation to the likely outcome to be delivered by an all-white Southern jury.
Rounding out this impressive ensemble of actors are Kristala Pouncy, as Finch family disciplinarian and housekeeper Calpurnia, and Faith Potts, who expertly plays justice advocate and the Atticus children's adult friend Maude Atkinson, in addition to ill-tempered, racist neighbor Mrs. Dubose. Local actor Michael Dunlop plays Sheriff Heck Tate, who supports Atticus and works to protect the innocent.
Another local actor, Sue Struve, plays cranky, gossipy neighbor Miss Stephanie. Chris Shea plays Mr. Gilmer and poor farmer Mr. Cunningham, who creates a pivotal scene when, after encountering Scout outside the jail, he persuades the lynch mob to disperse. As Mayella Ewell, Olivia Ercolano poignantly portrays an abused, ignorant, lonely woman.
Tim Wolf impresses in three roles: as Robinson's employer and defender Link Deas and as brothers Nathan and Boo Radley. Tim German plays kindly Reverend Sykes, and Robert Mitchell is Judge Taylor, who presides over the trial.
As another professional theater becoming firmly established in the Annapolis area, Compass Rose deserves the support of all live theater fans.
Weekend performances continue through Nov. 18. Tickets may be ordered at compassrosetheater.org or by calling 410-980-6662.


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BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- A member of the Cleveland Browns' grounds crew killed himself at their practice facility, the team said in a statement Sunday.
The man's body was found Saturday morning at the facility in suburban Cleveland, the same day Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager after earlier killing his girlfriend.
Browns spokesman Neal Gulkis released a statement calling the man a good friend and an outstanding employee and saying the team's heartfelt condolences go out to his family.
"This is a terrible tragedy," the statement said. "He will be missed by everyone in the Cleveland Browns organization."
The Browns play in Oakland against the Raiders on Sunday.
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Recently, when I was attending my local community seed swop in rural Lewes in East Sussex, in England, I came across an allegedly environmentally friendly version of charcoal called biochar, which the industry mouthpieces are promoting as an alleged way of keeping carbon in the soil reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time improving soil fertility and thus the productivity of crops. Really?
It is fairly well known that you can use charcoal to heat your house or to cook your food. Biochar, however, is a type of coal that is created when you burn biomass and the biochar industry is promoting biochar as an alleged way of keeping carbon in the soil and thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the soil, while at the same time improving soil fertility and thus the productivity of crops. This concept is currently being sold to unsuspecting farming communities around the world, but it could be a complete waste of money as the actual benefit of biochar is yet to be proven.
In Lewes, the biochar industry lobby was a the seed swap, where it was trying to bring on board unsuspecting but keen allotment holders to the biochar cause, by telling them how biochar can be used to make the local soil more fertile, though the degree to which results offer long term carbon sequestration in practice has been challenged.
The industry wants to launch biochar commercially in rural communities around the world; the seed swap in Lewes provides the industry with the right test audience. The seed swap features among other things practical advice on saving seed, good fruit tree health, willow weaving, and this year also biochar stoves for tea-making.
In principle, adding a stable form of organic carbon to farm soils is a good old idea; it could sequester carbon and at the same time increase soil fertility and farm productivity. This is the principle of proven ecological farming practices. Current biochar projects are however mainly small scale and still in development. Despite this, the biochar lobby is already touting this potentially false unproven climate solution, which could prove to waste money that could be better spent on developing more certain ecological practices, like avoiding bare soil, growing legumes and cover crops. So, biochar may not be the right way to go for small farming communities in England or elsewhere in the world. Uncertainties surrounding biochar include how long the carbon would actually be locked in the soil, and how biochar improves soil fertility in the first place as simple chicken manure has been shown to produce higher crop yields than fertilizing with biochar.
The biochar lobby may well be using local community-based events, like the seed swap in Lewes, to build grassroots support for their business, but their optimistic claims need to be balanced with information about the uncertainty of their solution and the corporate interests in getting biochar and soil carbon included into carbon markets.
Testing biochar in my own allotment may tell me something about its use in improving soil fertility and yields, but testing for soil organic carbon is not something that can be done in the back garden and will probably not prove to be any allotment owner's cup up tea!
In the context of chemical fertilisers, biochar may be seen as a 'false' solution to climate change mitigation in agriculture and an obstacle for a real move towards ecological soil fertility without chemical fertilisers and without green washing.
See Cool farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential
Iza Kruszewska is a sustainable agriculture campaigner for Greenpeace International. Iza lives and works in Lewes, where she is active in the local allotment community.
Clarification added on 20 February 2012: There were two talks on biochar at Seedy Saturday: one by James Greyson on making biochar cookers; and one by Craig Sams from Carbon Gold on the use of biochar in developing countries. Iza did not go to the talk by James Greyson on biochar cookers and the blog refers to the talk by Craig Sams, not the talk by James Greyson.
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Iza makes some interesting points, but the overuse of 'false' and 'alleged' and 'unsuspecting' shows her bias. I was that ...
Iza makes some interesting points, but the overuse of 'false' and 'alleged' and 'unsuspecting' shows her bias. I was that 'industry mouthpiece' and one man 'biochar industry lobby' at the Lewes Seedy Saturday - urged to come and speak there by the Transition Towns people who organised it. As a Greenpeace supporter since the 1970s, a Soil Association trustee for 18 years and a pioneer of organic food I think I deserve better, but that's not my point. Nobody is forcing biochar on anyone. Unlike biofuels or GM crops, there are no subsidies for biochar. Yet farmers who have tried it are increasing their usage. In Belize organic cacao farmers have installed 10 kilns to make their own biochar because it shortens the wait by 3 years for a cacao tree to start fruiting. They wouldn't waste their time making it if they hadn't been to the 5 separate trial locations where trees with biochar flourish alongside those without. Delfland Plants, the main propagator of organic vegetable plugs for commercial organic growers are on record, after trials in 2011, as saying that biochar seed compost is the first peat-free compost that performs as well as their usual peat-based seed compost.
I gave Iza a sample pack of biochar. I hope her allotment trials reflect its benefits, assuming no experimental bias, of course!
Biochar works best with organic farming, so it fits with cover crops, green manures and growing legumes. It has Soil Association certification as an approved input. Some commercial growers have already switched over 100% to GroChar (our microbiologically enhanced form of biochar) because they want to stop using peat and have finally found an alternative.
In Australia this July there will be a carbon tax - farmers who use biochar will get credits for putting it in the ground, more credits to reflect the 2 tonnes per hectare increase in soil microbe population it generates and ongoing credits for the halving of nitrous oxide emissions yearly thereafter. Call it greed if you like, but it's high time that carbon was priced on a scientific basis instead of being used as a figleaf for biofuel subsidies and payments for Roundup Ready 'no till' farming.
If you're reading this and want to see what this particular 'industry mouthpiece' has to say about biochar, check out our website at www.carbongold.com. Biochar is a story that is up and coming and everyone who cares about climate change and soil degradation should seek to make an informed judgement.
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The intellectual, financial, chemical and physical positives of biochar, as seen through the effects of Terra Preta soils of Amazonia, are incredible....
The intellectual, financial, chemical and physical positives of biochar, as seen through the effects of Terra Preta soils of Amazonia, are incredible. There is, however, an elephant in the room when you discuss biochar. This is bulk density. The bulk density of biochar - it is really just charcoal - is much less than that of the soil which you might want to ameliorate. So when you try to add it/mix it (with the corresponding SOC loss) into soil it stays there until the first good drenching rain. Whereupon it floats to the top of the soil and runs-off.
There are industry interests involved in funding the research into biochar (sponsored PhDs) - as I found when I was doing research in Australia - and they never like to discuss the practicalities of their soil ameliorate as it floats off downstream.
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For those who are interested in learning what the scientific community actually is learning about biochar, I recommend the Australian Government Depar...
For those who are interested in learning what the scientific community actually is learning about biochar, I recommend the Australian Government Department of Agriculture's publication "Biochar: implications for agricultural productivity."
Unlike the author of this article who only offers unsubstantiated opinions and invectives, this report does a good job of reviewing current scientific research and provides a balanced view of the potential and challenges of biochar use.
I personally have read over 200 peer reviewed studies related to biochar and have come to the conclusion that this is a promising pathway to heal depleted soils while beginning to reverse the effects of excess CO2 in our atmosphere. It is not a magic bullet, but it is a sensible addition to organic farming and nutrient cycle management.
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I think I'm with Craig. Here is a link with an example of biochar use which is does not seel to sequester carbon directly but saves tree destructi...
I think I'm with Craig. Here is a link with an example of biochar use which is does not seel to sequester carbon directly but saves tree destruction by creating fuel from farm waste:
15 February, 2012 at 1:28
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Beyond Rectifying the Carbon Cycle;
Biochar systems Integrate nutrient management, serving the same healing function for the Nitrogen and Phosph...
Beyond Rectifying the Carbon Cycle;
Biochar systems Integrate nutrient management, serving the same healing function for the Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles. A 50% reduction of NH3 loss when composting. Ag manure char absorbs phosphorus for nutrient credit income, CHP, Biomass Crop & energy grants and when carbon comes to account, another big credit.
Ray' O'Grady's ( http://www.smartbugs.com.au/ ) very interesting work with PandA (liquid Wood smoke) for anthrocnose & phytopthora root rot. Given the current controls, this sounds like a cost & environmental godsend.
Also in OZ, they are showing that composting with Char & liquid wood smoke result in a 74% savings of NH3 that in normal composting is lost to the air.
I urge you all to support the philanthropic clean cook stove efforts of Dr. "TLUD" Paul Anderson. A leader among a group of engineers without borders spreading the cascade of health benefits from the gasification of biomass.
Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) website http://biomassenergyfndn.org/bef/
The Major Biochar Endorsements include:
Dr. Jim Hansen,(NASA) Dr. James Lovelock,(Gaia)
Nobel laureates; Al Gore and Dr. Mario Molina,(Ozone Savior )
Politicians; Tony Blair, Tony Abbott, Secretaries Salazar & Vilsack,
Environmentalist; Tim Flannery, Bill McKibben, Richard Branson & his Carbon War Room.
15 February, 2012 at 5:12
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Thank you Craig and everyone else for your comments.
It is easy to mix up soil fertility and soil carbon sequestration. Biochar may well ...
Thank you Craig and everyone else for your comments.
It is easy to mix up soil fertility and soil carbon sequestration. Biochar may well improve productivity by increasing soil fertility in some soils; but its ability to store carbon in soils in the long-term and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions has still to be proved. Giving credits for something yet to be proven is effectively slowing down real solutions such as many ecological farming practices.
On the uncertainty surrounding soil organic carbon persistence in soils in general, and biochar in particular, we suggest the following peer-review articles, plus the ones reviewed in the recent report by Misereor (http://m.misereor.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Report1_Biochar_111122.pdf):
Schmidt, M. W. I., Torn, M. S., Abiven, S., Dittmar, T., Guggenberger, G., Janssens, I. A., Kleber, M., Kogel-Knabner, I., Lehmann, J., Manning, D. A. C., Nannipieri, P., Rasse, D. P., Weiner, S. & Trumbore, S. E. 2011. Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property. Nature, 478: 49-56.
McHenry, M. P. 2009. Agricultural bio-char production, renewable energy generation and farm carbon sequestration in Western Australia: Certainty, uncertainty and risk. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 129: 1-7.
Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C. & Zackrisson, O. 2008. Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus. Science, 320: 629-.
Steiner, C., Teixeira, W., Lehmann, J., Nehls, T., de Macêdo, J., Blum, W. & Zech, W. 2007. Long term effects of manure, charcoal and mineral fertilization on crop production and fertility on a highly weathered Central Amazonian upland soil. Plant and Soil, 291: 275-290.
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1. Hans-Peter Schmidt - Delinat - Institut für Ökologie und Klimafarming www.delinat-institut.org/seminars-events.html
26. September ...
1. Hans-Peter Schmidt - Delinat - Institut für Ökologie und Klimafarming www.delinat-institut.org/seminars-events.html
26. September 2011, Universität Halle Biochar as carrier for plant nutrients and microorganisms – a first approach to activation techniques. ...
2. IBI Board and Advisory Committee | International Biochar Initiative www.biochar-international.org/board/advisorycommittee
Perses Bilimoria, The Society of Biochar Initiatives, India ... New Zealand; Thomas Harttung, BlackCarbon A/S and GreenCarbon A/S, Denmark ... the biogeochemistry of black carbon and the development of biochar and bioenergy systems. ...
3. Humus Formation in the Ecoregion Kaindorf, http://portal.organicedunet.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22124&catid=1&Itemid=103
24 Oct 2011 – Humus Formation in the Ecoregion Kaindorf, Production of Biochar. A lecture by Gerald Dunst, Ecoregion Kaindorf, in the seminar "Humus, ...
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" but testing for soil organic carbon is not something that can be done in the back garden "
Iza makes this testing sound like ...
" but testing for soil organic carbon is not something that can be done in the back garden "
Iza makes this testing sound like rocket science, there are many easy tests to determine the effects of biochar. Some are quite simple, the worm avoidance test takes a box 12x24x2 inches approximatly, enough top soil to fill it 75% and enough biochar for the other 25%. Add charged biochar to the soil in 1/2 of the box leave the remainder unconditioned. Put 10 worms on the line between the 2 halves keep moist and let them do their thing.
Wait 2 - 7 days flip the box over and see where the worms are. If they prefer the biochar side that is a good indication it is a beneficial additive.
There are many simple tests like this that can guide the home gardener as to the benefits of biochar. They can be found at the IBI web site http://www.biochar-international.org/
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Hello Iza
Biochar is all about improving soil structure. it is not and I repeat it is not a fertiliser. Well made Biochar has a high cati...
Hello Iza
Biochar is all about improving soil structure. it is not and I repeat it is not a fertiliser. Well made Biochar has a high cation exchange capacity, great moisture holding ability among many other positive qualities. When used with fertilisers, be they organic or not, quality Biochar will hold those nutrients and exchange those with plants or soil fungi. Biochar properly inoculated will improve soil structure and increase soil biota. Biochar will work best in poor and limited soils and this is where you will see the best results. Research into Biochar and Trichoderma will revolutionise the organic food production industry in the next few years.
Biochar is classed as a product developed for the agri/horticultural industries using controlled heat and limited oxygen, processes which reduce carbon loss and ash yields with controlled and/or scrubbed emissions. Many of these systems have been developed to produce excess energy in the form of Bio-oils, syn-gas and heat energy. Charcoal in general is made in pits and used to fuel BBQs and other areas outside of soil improvement. It is also often hydrophobic with high ash content making it unsuitable for soil application.
If you are going to use Biochar make sure you inoculate it with compost and/or soak it in liquid nutrients before application, this removes issues of possible nitrogen draw down effects. Biochar 0.2 to a maximum of 5mm should be speckled through your top soil profile, if it is washing away your Biochar is in the wrong part of your soil profile. Quality Biochar should come with 25-35% moisture content and is hydrophilic and should not float.
Biochar is a strong partner of those who want to improve soils organically with compost, green manures, rock minerals, fungi, nutrient teas, mulching, no-dig, no-till, permaculture and biodynamics. Biochar is part of a great range of powerful tools for those of us who have green thumbs and love our productive soils.
I am a permaculture designer, organic gardener, small Biochar business owner and I have been making and using Biochar for over 7 years in my food forest system. Biochar like most things needs to be applied with knowledge and care.
Kind regards and happy gardening
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Four of HP's board members, including chairman Ray Lane, met with about 20 of its biggest investors yesterday in the hopes of calming an investor revolt, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The meeting seemed to be spurred, at least in part, by a campaign lead by activist shareholder Richard Clayton, research director of CtW Investment Group, which advises union pension funds. He wants HP's shareholders to take action against the board, possibly replacing chairman Ray Lane and one or two other directors at the company's annual shareholder's meeting next month.
Clayton is concerned that auditor Ernst & Young may have a conflict of interest because of the non-audit fees it earns from HP. He's also concerned about the $16.8 billion in write-offs HP has taken on its two largest acquisitions, EDS and Autonomy, and HP's accusations that Autonomy cooked its books.
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(NEW YORK) -- Tira Bland, the Utah mother who gave up her baby for adoption, only to have a judge order the girl returned to her biological father, says that she feels sorry for the couple who adopted her daughter.
A judge ordered Utah couple Jared and Kristi Frei to return the adopted toddler to her biological father, Terry Achane, after it was revealed that Bland gave up the child without the father's knowledge or permission.
"Her well being is all that matters to me," Bland told ABC News referring to her child. "I want to see her successful. I want to see her in a home, a good home."
She is sorry that her ex-husband is challenging the adoption.
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When Achane learned last year that the child, who he calls Teleah, was being raised by the Freis, he asked a court to give him custody. Last month, a judge did just that.
The Freis now have less than 60 days to return the 21-month-old girl, who they call Leah, to her father. But a lawyer for the Freis told ABC News earlier this week that they don't plan to return the toddler, and will appeal the judge's ruling.
Bland says the Freis took her in, and agreed to the adoption after Achane left Texas and moved to South Carolina with the Army. Both sides agree he knew Bland was pregnant, and that he still had to move for work.
Bland says that she and Achane had discussed adoption, but in the end, she says, he abandoned her and that's why she turned to the Freis.
"They cared about me and the well being of Teleah when he wasn't there, when he didn't care," Bland said. "He showed no interest in me being pregnant. When he left me, he didn't leave me with an address. I didn't have a home address on him."
Achane's lawyers deny that, saying he was paying Bland's bills, and wanted to take care of their unborn daughter.
"The judge heard [Bland'] story, and completely ruled against her. He did not find that her story was credible," Wiser said.
Bland now says that she wants what she thinks is best for the baby.
"My heart was comfortable with her being with the Freis," she said. "I'd rather see her with me struggling first before she goes with him."
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Ebinger's Bakery was the bakery in mid-century Brooklyn, and the cake they were most known for was a layered chocolate cake aptly named the Blackout Cake. Ebinger's folded in the seventies, but not before attaining legendary status in the hearts and minds of Brooklynites, the Robicellis included. Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes presents their take on the Ebinger classic: chocolate cupcakes topped with chocolate custard buttercream, dredged in fudge glazed and garnished with chocolate cake crumbs, just like the original. Ebinger's is long gone, but the deeply dark, dense chocolate flavor their cake was known for lives on, in cupcake form.
Tips: Anyone who has ever attempted making their own Blackout Cake can attest to the fact that it's a pain in the butt. There are several components that need to be prepared separately, and the entire thing doesn't keep for very long. Similarly, these cupcakes are made of three main parts: the cake, the buttercream, and the fudge glaze.
The custard buttercream is far and away the most tedious part; it requires preparing a chocolate custard, setting it aside, then a French buttercream, finally incorporating the custard into the buttercream. Nothing about it is rocket science; preparedness is what's needed in order to pull this off. Make sure all your ingredients are set out beforehand, and everything is at the proper temperature (e.g. fridge-cold eggs will make a hot custard seize, creating lumps). Happily, the fudge glaze is almost totally hands-free and comes together in the microwave.
Tweaks: We found no need to detach and reattach the mixer paddle in order to scrape ingredients off the side of the mixer bowl. This may have been due to a larger bowl, a more flexible spatula (silicone, in our case, a definite must-have), or a smaller paddle. Your mileage may vary. Also, the custard may not need to be run through a food processor if it stays smooth once it's cooled. If it isn't smooth, wait before pouring hot, lumpy custard into a food processor.
As always with our Bake the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Robicelli's: A Love Story, with Cupcakes to give away.
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Pulcinella (Poo – Chi – Nella) ~ is a classical character who originated in the Commedia Dell'arte in the 17th Century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry. Pulcinella represents the poor worker, the man who has very little to lose, and thus sheds the politeness borne of fear to the upper class. Philosophical, eternally melancholic, a dreamer as only a representative of the Neapolitan culture could be, Pulcinella has a spirit all of his own. No tensions or despair, his melancholic approach to life makes him coast problems, situations, live adventures and at the end simply get out of everything in the same simple manner as he got involved.
A positive approach to life is his winning strategy. Pulcinella, the most ancient of the characters, is the burlesque representative of the Neapolitan working class. A lover of fine food, wine, and adventure. Pulcinella is always portrayed as a jester. His movements are reminiscent to dance or ballet.
Pulcinella's mask, traditionally black or dark brown, with his big nose like a beak, and his wrinkled forehead combined with his grab of baggy white clothes cinched together at the waist with a black belt, and white sugar loaf hat are the signature traits that identify Pulcinella.
We at Pulcinella's, just like in Italy, strive to use locally grown produce, farm raised meats, and artisan cheeses whenever possible. All specialty ingredients are sourced out for the best quality. We import our dry pastas, vinegars, hard cheeses, & oils from Italy. We hand roll our own gnocchi and hand fill our own ravioli. We stuff our own sausages and cook ALL pastas to order Al dente to ensure you receive the highest quality products. It is our mission to provide you with the most authentic dining experience.
Pulcinella's is our way of paying respect to the people past and present who were born with nothing, but never let their spirit die. The people, who always have a smile, always have a joke, and who love to entertain with fine food and drink. So sit back, relax and enjoy the show from our open kitchen preparing the finest traditional food.


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Beware of keyloggers: digital stalking is stalking
Last week I was asked for advice about a person who thought that their partner was digitally tracking them through the use of keyloggers. The more I heard the more convinced I was that keylogging was occurring.
The partner of this woman would discover her passwords, log into social networks and post as her, grill her about her internet usage, and even take her phone away as "punishment" at will. The level of surveillance being described was abusive, pure and simple.
Keyloggers are hardware devices or computer programs that record keystrokes (some will even track mouse co-ordinates and clicks). The stream of characters are logged somewhere accessible for the program installer to study.
Keylogging software and hardware is not illegal. Like most technology it can be used to help or harm, however keylogging and spyware dwell in a grey ethical and legal area. Most often keylogging is the domain of malware installed without the users' consent with the sole purpose of harvesting usernames and passwords to bank accounts, email and other sensitive information, to commit fraud.
Even the "legitimate" uses when installed on your own hardware are questionable at best. The installer is not doing it to track their own movements, after all. Keylogging software doesn't tend to advertise itself to the other users of the computer - its effectiveness lies in it staying undetected.
By the time keylogging solutions are seen as a valid next step, trust is already gone.
Even at the corporate level, the use of keyloggers is a double-edged technology. Keylogging is generally indiscriminate in its approach. The logs, or proof, that an employee is misusing their workstation or internet access may also contain the login details of their bank account or other private data that can constitute the key components of identity theft. Use of keyloggers with the best intentions may still make data available to you that you have no legal right to store.
Keyloggers always constitute an identity and security risk to someone.
Proponents of keylogging, as a form of protection in corporate environments, often do not disclose that there are better and more constructive ways of preventing misuse of technology. I think their thrill is in catching people after the fact rather than proactively trying to create a reason for people not to behave that way.
When it's all said and done, I don't believe keyloggers are very effective at stopping anything, but they are wonderful at creating environments based on fear and maintaining a power imbalance where the technically capable can spy on those less technically savvy. Even the best justifications that I have had for the use of keyloggers (usually by the private-eye-esque developers) are frankly creepy.
The Australian Institute of Criminology notes that keylogging is dubious legal proof at best, since it only tells you what was entered, not who entered it.
It can be very hard to tell if there is a keylogger installed. Good, up to date virus detectors should be able to scan for the known keyloggers. Hardware keyloggers sit between the keyboard lead and the back of the computer, so you may be able to see it and disconnect it.
I have read suggestions that most keyloggers can be thwarted by using on-screen keyboards - a fairly standard accessibility feature of the modern operating system. But it is not foolproof.
Ultimately if you have to use a computer that you can't trust, you can use a "live" Linux desktop (such as Ubuntu) which boots from a USB stick if you want to make sure that a keylogger is not running.
Finally, if you think that you have a keylogger installed on your machine by a scammer you can get information from Scam Watch. The presence of a keylogger is most commonly caused by your computer being compromised by malware from the internet. Update your software, review your own computer security and browsing behaviour before pointing the finger at the people around you.
If you fear that your partner is using keylogging and other technical forms of surveillance to track and control your behaviour, please seek help. Digital stalking creates anxiety, depression and can completely undermine your relationships.
For those people who deliberately install keyloggers on their partner's computer, please go and read a modern definition of domestic violence and seriously reconsider your behaviour. Do not fool yourself by thinking that it is just harmless "protection".
For more help see www.domesticviolence.nsw.gov.au/internet_safety.
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Disney has provided pop culture with some of its most memorable female heroines, from pretty and placid Cinderella and Snow White to feisty Ariel and Bella. They have also made a ton of money off of marketing these heroines, on backpacks and lunch boxes and every other product you could possibly imagine. In the last decade Disney Princesses have become a brand unto themselves, and last Sunday the group inducted their latest member, Merida, the star of 2012's hit Brave. You can see her in the lineup with her new cohorts above.
Does Merida look a little different to you? She does to a whole lot of people, including blogger A Mighty Girl, who has put a petition on Change.org protesting Merida's new princess-ified makeover. Check out the side-by-side photo included with the petition, with the movie version of Merida on the right.
Yeah, that's a pretty big difference. To put it simply, the Disney Princess version of Merida has been sexed up, given a thinner waist, a narrower face, and big eyes that are much more similar to a Bratz doll than to the usual characters designed by Pixar. The glittery dress that Merida is wearing here is most similar to that dress you see above, which Merida is forced to wear at the archery competition and which she completely hates. The Disney Princess brand has a knack for diluting the most interesting qualities of all its characters and shoving them into a generic princess box, overlooking the fact that Mulan wanted to be a soldier more than a girl in the dress, for example. But Merida's placement in this crowd, especially since the movie ends with her not marrying anyone and continuing to reject all the fancy trappings of princess-dim, seems especially galling. The grown-up makeover is just the firmest proof that the complete bland-ification of Merida has happened.
And it's not just the movie's fans who have noticed. Co-director Brenda Chapman, who accepted the film's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature but was also fired from the project, spoke out against Merida's new look at Women and Hollywood:
I think it is atrocious!!! I'm all the way down in Santiago, Chile at a film festival, and this hits the fan while I am gone! It is outrageous! I've signed the petition and given Bob Iger a piece of my mind. Since I am no longer with the company, I'm sure they could care less what I think on the matter. But they have betrayed the essence of what we were trying to do with Merida - give young girls and women a better stronger role model. She's strong inside and out - she's not just a simpering pretty face waiting around for romance! She was created to turn that whole ideal on it's head! - Oh yeah... that's why I created her... they're just in it for the money... not the integrity. They don't care what message they send about women, as long as it makes them a buck.
The transformation of Merida for the sake of the Disney Princess brand isn't all that different from what's happened to the other characters-- compare the version of Cinderella above to this one. But after Brave was heralded for its feminist sensibilities and its willingness to flip the princess model on its head, seeing Merida get lumped in next to Snow White and Sleeping Beauty-- exactly the retro princesses she was rebelling against-- is particularly depressing.


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The top American commander in Afghanistan said Sunday that he believes the US-led Nato coalition can operate effectively despite the Afghan president's decision to ban Afghan security forces from requesting air strikes in residential areas.
President Hamid Karzai said he decided on the ban after Afghan security services asked the US military for an air strike during a joint Afghan-Nato operation last week. Afghan officials said the air strike killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in north-east Kunar province along with four insurgents.
The death of civilians during military operations, particularly in air strikes, has been among the most divisive issues of the 11-year-old war. The US-led coalition has implemented measures to mitigate them, but the Afghan military also relies heavily on air support to gain an upper hand in the fight against Taliban militants and other insurgents.
Marine General Joseph Dunford told reporters during a briefing that he was working out the details of the ban with Afghanistan's defence minister and military chief.
"This is a sovereign nation and the president is exercising sovereignty," Dunford said, adding that Nato had "made extraordinary progress in mitigating risks to civilians and we will continue to do so".
Dunford said coalition forces believe they can conduct "effective operations within the president's guidance" because it falls within a tactical directive issued last year by his predecessor, Marine General John Allen.
The US-led military coalition said last June that it would limit air strikes to a self-defence weapon of last resort for troops and would avoid hitting structures that could house civilians.
That followed a bombardment that killed 18 civilians celebrating a wedding in eastern Logar province, which drew an apology from the American commander.
The coalition, however, can still carry out air strikes on its own accord.
"I believe the support we will provide to the Afghans is exactly consistent with the coalition's tactical directive," Dunford said.
The UN mission in Afghanistan said 83 civilians were killed and 46 wounded in aerial attacks by international military forces in the first half of 2012.
That figure was down 23% from the same period of 2011 the deadliest year on record for civilians in the Afghan war. It said two-thirds of the casualties last year were women and children and insurgents were responsible for the overwhelming majority of the deaths.
Karzai's decision, however, could hamper the Afghan force's ability to fight the insurgency as it robs them of one of their most potent weapons. It also runs counter to Afghan requests for Nato to supply their security forces with aircraft capable of carrying out airstrikes.
The Afghan military has repeatedly implored the United States for jet fighters, such as F-16's, and heavy weapons including tanks and artillery.
"There are other ways we can support our Afghan partners other than air ordinance," Dunford said without elaborating. He said the Afghan security forces will have to take Karzai's decree into account when they make future operational plans.
Afghans currently lead about 90% of military operations nationwide and will fully take charge in the spring. However, they remain heavily dependent on the coalition for air support and medical evacuations from remote areas.
Karzai announced his decree on air strikes on Saturday and said he would formally issue it in coming days.
He also has issued a decree that orders the prosecution of Afghan security forces involved in torturing prisoners and requires all future interrogations be videotaped.
That decree, issued late Saturday, came after a government delegation agreed with a UN report that found widespread abuse in Afghan prisons more than a year after reforms were promised.
The Afghan government had previously maintained that torture occurred rarely, if at all, but said it would put more oversight in place to make sure prisoners were not being abused.
After a two-week fact-finding mission, an Afghan government delegation said earlier this month that it had found credible evidence that close to half of the prisoners the delegation interviewed were tortured.
Karzai said in a 12-article decree that existing laws needed to be implemented in order to prevent torture, such as access to defence lawyers and limits on how long a suspect can be held without charge. Karzai also said that all interrogations should be videotaped and that district-level detention officials should get higher salaries.
The decree stressed the importance of prosecuting anyone accused of mistreatment. It also calls on the country's chief justice, the interior minister, the head of the intelligence service and the justice minister to produce a report every three months on their progress on these reforms.


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Many PGA Tour pros will tell you in their magazine and TV tips that the bunker shot is the easiest in golf. This is a pretty demoralizing statement when you are having difficulty getting the ball out of the bunker much less near the hole. We find find that it couldn't be any farther from the truth.
Our short game skill testing data has shown us that it is the hardest shot in golf for most amateurs. Now that we know that, what do we do about it. What do these touring professionals know and do that makes them get it out with such ease? You're about to find out.
The sand wedge is designed differently than any other club in your bag. The back of the bottom of the club is lower than the leading edge. This allows the club to skid through the sand and not dig too deep. This is where the secret comes in. The secret to hitting consistent bunker shots is to take long, shallow divots and hit the sand in the same spot each time. I know that sounds simple, but it can make a profound difference in your bunker play.
The first thing I want you to do is find a practice bunker and knock some sand out of the bunker. Notice how far the sand flies, where the divot starts and the sound of the club hitting the sand. Was the divot long and shallow? Are your divots starting back of the center of your stance? Does the contact with the sand sound like a "thump" or a "thud" (thump would be the good one).
Once you are controlling your divots of sand, place a ball slightly forward of the middle of your stance. Stay focused on the divot of sand as if the ball is a large speck of sand. Make the same swing taking the long, shallow divot of sand, which will explode the ball onto the green. Your success will be contingent on your ability to take the same long, shallow divot and start the divot in the same place.
Thinking of it this way, distance control is relatively easy. Hit the sand short, medium and long to hit short, medium and long bunker shots. You can control the distance with the length and speed of your swing. Putting these ideas into practice will change your success in the bunker and maybe you will be able to say it's the easiest shot in golf.


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The Ministry of the Interior's (MOI) announcement on Friday that it plans to decriminalize the sex industry drew a mixed reaction from civic groups yesterday.
The announcement came after the Council of Grand Justices released Constitutional Interpretation No. 666 on Friday declaring Article 80 of the Social Order Maintenance Act (社會秩序維護法), which imposes penalties on prostitutes, but not clients, unconstitutional.
Afterwards, Deputy Interior Minister Chien Tai-lang (簡太郎) said that the MOI would work toward decriminalizing the sex industry.
The interpretation stated that imposing penalties on sex workers but not their clients was in violation of the principle of equality stated in Article 7 of the Constitution.
A sex transaction must be completed with the party who sells the service and the other party who pays for it, hence the two sides should share the same legal burden, the interpretation said.
"Since most people intending to obtain [financial] gains are female, the law seems to mostly target women involved in the trade and impose penalties on them," the interpretation said. "For women forced into the trade because of their economically disadvantaged conditions, such penalties only worsen the situation for them."
Chien responded to the interpretation on Friday evening, saying: "The MOI will follow the conclusions from a meeting of the [Executive Yuan's] Human Rights Protection and Promotion Committee in June to work on laws and measures to decriminalize the sex industry while also gathering input from sex workers."
While completely decriminalizing the sex industry is the MOI's long-term objective, Chien added that the ministry would take certain measures to loosen restrictions on sex workers before the law is revised.
He added it had not been decided whether red light districts should be created, but the ministry was inclined to leave that decision to local governments and councils.
"The ministry will continue to implement the policy to exclude enforcing Article 80 from police officers' performance review; we will urge the judiciary to impose a lesser fine on prostitutes instead of detaining them; we will also put more effort into cracking down on human trafficking," Chien said.
Chien's remarks marked the first time that the MOI has clearly stated its position on decriminalizing the sex industry.
"The MOI has overinterpreted the interpretation," Garden of Hope Foundation executive director Chi Hui-jung (紀惠容) told the Taipei Times via telephone. "The Council of Grand Justices only declared the article unconstitutional because it endorses inequality, but the Grand Justices did not say if penalties should be lifted."
Chi said the sex industry exploits women and whether it should be legalized is still highly controversial.
"A consensus should be reached in society first, and I'd think a referendum on the issue would be valid — the MOI should not be too eager to declare its position," she said.
Awakening Foundation secretary-general Tseng Chao-yuan (曾昭媛) welcomed both the interpretation and the ministry's announcement.
"Of course we welcome the MOI's announcement and support decriminalizing the sex industry because the current law is repression of economically disadvantaged women forced into prostitution when only sex workers, not clients, are punished," Tseng said.


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When Becky left me a comment and said I should take it one item at a time I think she was correct.
Does everyone get frustrated when working on one topic/person and then bounce to someone or someplace else?
Does everyone else go back and re-read their notes/ acquisitions and discover something that was overlooked?
I am finding some answers or clues were hiding in plain site. The answers to the questions that I hadn't even think to ask.
The people at the LDS Church are helpful but their comment was (and I have to agree) most of my trouble with reading the documents are poor handwriting from 150 years ago, and the poor quality of the ancient records.
I suppose I am envious of the people who can trace back their families to the Revolutionary War. My earliest people can here in 1872 and the latest being my mother in 1926. I am finding the records here in the USA but not in Europe. Maybe I am expecting too much too soon?
I must admit I am a person who expects instant gratification. But I have to retrain my brain to the fact that instant gratification doesn't work in genealogy.
My mother Gerda SCHRIDDE Dowd and father Thomas Dowd, circa 1958 by me in one of my first attempts at photography, at least I didn't cut off their heads.


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EditorialObama's longtime supporters becoming deserters
Oh, c'mon. The Prez wasn't THAT bad.
Was he? Mitt Romney was impressive, yes. But it's not like Obama was, say, a Joe Biden or, say, a Dan Quayle.
It's not as if he said he wanted to cut three agencies and then couldn't remember which ones. Or said we ought to colonize the moon. Or said that 47 percent of Americans are freeloaders.
This was just one game in a best of three. Obama'll be back in the fray, Especially when foreign policy comes up. Yes, the Middle East is in ranting, raving flames. But what's Romney gonna do about it? Blow out the flames with bluster? Or maybe fan them? We'll see.
Even among Republicans -- and especially Republicans of a libertarian bent -- there's little enthusiasm for standing firm in the quagmire of Afghanistan or seeking out others to get bogged down in.
Obama's corner people, no doubt, are telling him: "No more Mr. Nice Guy. Let him have it!" If so, we'll see how that works out. Obviously, Romney is not to be underestimated. Perhaps he was because the Obama camp was taken in by its own political hooey.
But the debate was not the debacle Obama's supporters are saying. Yes, his supporters. They've been nastier on their guy than even the Rush Limbaugh crowd.
Even the late-night comics have ceased their fawning. Jay Leno cracked: "The consensus is that Mitt Romney won the debate...The only people who thought Obama won were the replacement refs."
That was a powder puff compared to the after-the-bell punches the Left threw at their own guy.
Said Michael Moore, the multiple-chinned left-wing documentarian propagandist: "Lemme get this straight. You can send in drones that kill civilians, but you can't stop Romney or Lehrer from interrupting you?"
The liberal wit Jon Stewart said maybe it's time Obama familiarized himself with his own presidency. Maybe somebody needs to tell the Prez the preseason's over, he added.
The debate, he said, was reminiscent of Ali's rope-a-dope strategy -- with Romney the rope and Obama the dope.
Even Jimmy Fallon -- Jimmy Fallon! -- took a swipe at his idol. Fallon listed leading figures who didn't show up for the debate: "Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama..."
Bill Maher -- scourge of all things Republican and donor of a million bucks to the Democratic Party -- said Professor Obama sure is smart "but I'm not sure I'm gonna take his class next semester."
Al Gore suggested that maybe Obama's brain was suffering from oxygen-deprivation in the Mile High City. (Gore, being Gore, was serious, though, not joking, not intentionally, anyway.)
Sounds like the biggest challenge Obama may face now is the sunshine soldiers of the Left who were with him when he didn't need them and are fleeing to the hills now that he does.
Editorial courtesy of The Trentonian, www.Trentonian.com