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Beyonce is back!
- being all sexist and that/in pog form.
What do we think? I mean she's clearly more entitled to go all 'H-Town' than most, but it seems a bit bandwagon-y really as it's clearly a massive trend at the moment, and the second half of this isn't particularly inspiring so just ends up sounding like some A$AP off cut.
Can't be bothered to have a little cry about all the sexism stuff, it's definitely a bit jarring hearing her being all aggressive though.
Also quite funny to hear her go on about not wanting to be known just as Jay Z's wife when she's gone to the producer of his biggest hit in years for her comeback single.
I'm sorry but in what world was Beyonce ever away?
Is there any point in the past 5 years where she's not had a single out?
between calling her comeback track Bow Down, the O2 ad for the Mrs Carter Tour and Jay's risible guest spot on Suit & Tie, I'm inclined to believe that household is beginning to believe its own hype far, far too muchstalecloud and amyblue this'd this
what's H-Town?
Is that were all the chillwavers have gone to die?
Houston, Texas
Where the whole 'chopped and screwed' sound originated, and also where Beyonce was born.
I might have guessed that
if I'd listened to it. Can't get soundcloud at work anymore - which is disastrous.
Her voice is irritating at that point.
Sounds like she needs to clear her throat. :-/
The is no other way to put it
this is shit
Really disappointing.
Particularly as she usually eschewed trends and does her own thing. Why start shamefully biting another style now?
Has she ever sworn in her music before?
Seems pretty desperate.
- juicegermer this'd this
- Yesiamaduck, Severed799, and svlad this'd this
An eccentric former colleague of mine just posted this on Facebook:
For all of you who don't think Beyonce is involved in some illuminati/devil worshiping crap, would a Christian woman sing "Bow Down Bitches"?!
Oh look..
it's this year's 'Stupid Ho'. Goody.
first, this isn't as good as stupid ho
second, the fuck you say about stupid hoPuds and JaguarPirate this'd this
I think I'm probably alone in thinking this
But Beyonce isn't really that good as a solo artist.
Sure, Crazy in Love & Single Ladies rule, but much of the rest has been substandard ballads.badmanreturns, cliquester, and sadpunk this'd this
Crazy in Love, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Video Phone. Are all you need from Solo Beyonce really. Baby Boy at a push maybe.
I refer you to:
Deja Vu
Love on Top
Green Light
as a startpichaelmarker this'd this
I know loads of people who love it
And whose taste I usually 100% agree with, but I hate Countdownbadmanreturns this'd this
- CrispinAlexander, theShipment, Blackjack_Bauer, stalecloud, Severed799, and Thought_Dreams this'd this
2nd best faggy kid on the internet
Best faggy kid on the internet: http://youtu.be/kO4hL8BBX44
Upgrade U
Ring the Alarm
Get Me Bodied
Freakum Dress
Sweet Dreams
Beautiful Liar
Baby Boy
End of Time
And those are just the bangers, she has plenty of amazing mid-tempo tunes and ballads too.
Ctrl-F "halo"
WTF guys?! GUYS! Also, this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qR1mPvW8Q
Love On Top is diabolical
Couldn't believe it when I first heard that song, it's like aural torture.
- Matt_was_taken this'd this
Having watched her Glasto set
and Rihanna's recent Hackney headline set I'd say Beyoncé's was infinitely more entertaining and had songs you'd actually recall after.
I highly doubt this will be a single or even be on the next album.
The beginning up through the opera bit is good but then it gets stagnant.
Listening again they're not as bad as I thought.
I like the beat for I Been On and I think it could work well as an album opener but i'll reserve judgement till i've heard the bits with her actually singing.
Late to the party...
...just sounds like something she was dicking around with, that someone suggested they just put out. Can't imagine it'll be a characteristic-marker for whatever comes next. Pretty terrible given the girl's pedigree.
yeah, it just sounds like she was messing about
in her bedroom/the studio and knocked this up in an afternoon. I like the Ennio Morricone type wailing bits, but the rest of it is a mess.
more artists should put stuff in that vein
up on Soundcloud. Demos, work-in-progress stuff, bits of ideas.
If Thom Yorke started doing that the internet would implode.pichaelmarker this'd this
- kilgore-trout and japes this'd this
the Bow Down part is pretty great
but the second half is just so ... I read someone say sub-A$SAP Rocky, and it really is that poor. Really hope it's two different songs, like Pitchfork suggests
It's a bit ropey.
And just to be a pissy middle-class liberal for a second - I've got a 6-year-old daughter who loves Single Ladies and Run The World, and I'm not ecstatic about the prospect of her going round singing 'Bow down bitches'. A mis-step in so many ways.
Shouldn't a pissy middle class liberal
be just as concerned about a six year old girl singing songs about being objectified and defined by marriage?
(That's meant to be more of a sly side swipe at Beyonce's muddled gender attitudes...
... but it's come out as a snarky attack on you. For that I apologise)CousinCalledKevin this'd this
not only this
but it doesn't make much sense, Bey's whole thing is about resisting being objectified and defined by marriage, they're a line in this song where she says 'Calm down, I'm not just his little wife', so are you saying said 6-year old girl SHOULD be thinking about being objectified and defined by marriage?
I think they were referring to Single Ladies
and about how the song's most memorable hook basically promotes marriage.
Also as said above 'The Mrs. Carter Tour' isn't exactly resisting being defined by marriage is it?
Good point well made
But at least it's quite easy to divorce 'Single Ladies' from an actual message, and I'm not one to blame supposed 'role models' for imposing some sort of moral code on my daughter. At the moment she's too young to take any sort of message from a song on board, but if she was to grow up being objectified and identified by marriage then that would be our failing and not Beyonce's.
The prospect of her singing 'Bow down, bitches!' is a lot more immediate though! And don't worry I didn't really take it as a snarky attack. I'm also assuming that being a pissy middle-class liberal doesn't put me in a minority on this site?
Yeah, I meant 'Single Ladies'
And it goes beyond promoting marriage. It can only stem from the presumption that women passively await a proposal, completely absent from the decision of when or whether or not to get married, and that women are all yearning for the day that their relationships are made meaningful by a proposal.
"If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it" can essentially have been paraphrased as "you did not take the initiative as the man in the relationship, and had you bothered to propose, I would probably have stuck around, ignored the fact that an engagement ring makes no fundamental difference to our relationship, and we would both be happy".
I can see that "bow down bitches" is more likely to crop up at parents evening, however.
And for my second concession: I still think Single Ladies is a monster jam.CousinCalledKevin this'd this
Agree with all that
But I do admit the parents' evening issue is weighing heavier on my mind. Her class was recently banned from singing the 'Hey sexy lady' bit of 'Gangnam Style' around the school!
Oh Single Ladies is a magnificent pop record, no doubt about it. She has a few in her armoury, both solo and with Destiny's Child. This new one is not to be added to that list, unfortunately.
- kilgore-trout and mute-branches this'd this
shouts out to Pimp C :D
this was horrible by the way.
For all you Beyonce fans out there...
New concert just announced (among other acts)
June 1st
Twickenham Stadium
Tickets £55
Beyonce is back... again!
This time channeling Aziz Ansari channeling R Kelly:
Ah well, worked at the time
No great loss.
Just heard Bow Down for the first time
Sounds like a shoddy Crystal Castles 8-bit remix of MIA with a bit of Salem. :-(
it's not 8-bit at all, sean
oh i forgot about the intro
carry on
still: why are you all pretending to care about beyonce
...when all the lot of you ever do is either label her singles 'brilliant pop' or 'disappointing' in comparison with the 'brilliant pop' ones anyway
:'( for female solo artists
Come on gb, be fair
You can be needlessly condescending in either here or the Kanye thread - not both.


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If you're baffled by a wind turbine's power curve, here's how to interpret wind generator manufacturers' data to choose a turbine that will give you the best performance at your site.
Power curves are frequently presented by turbine manufacturers in their marketing literature, and interpreting these curves is at best a complicated exercise even for the mathematically inclined. Few wind turbine buyers know how to use this information to determine what they really need to know—how much energy a wind generator will produce at a given site. Let's look at why power curves are not a useful tool for most of us, and what to use instead.
Any alternator or generator produces electricity at varying levels, depending on its rotational speed (rpm). When we plot the output against the speed, we get a curve. If the original motive force is wind, we can plot the generator output against wind speed, which gives us what is typically called a "power curve" for the wind generator (see the "Power Curves" graph). It shows wind speed in miles per hour (mph) or meters per second (m/s), and power in kilowatts (KW).
It's important to remember that power in its technical sense means "watts." This is an instantaneous measure of the rate of electricity generation (or transfer or use), and not a measure of energy (watt-hours), a quantity.
Misinterpreting wind generator power curves is common and can happen in a variety of ways. First, the untrained eye is naturally drawn to the top of the curve—the peak power. If we were looking at a gasoline-powered generator, this would be useful information. As long as it's supplied with gasoline and a load, it continues to produce at or near its rated output.
Peak power for a wind generator is very different—at most sites, the wind speed at which a turbine generates its peak power occurs only a very small percentage of the time. So focusing on the peak may lead you to wildly exaggerated energy expectations.
Trying to compare one wind generator to another using power curves is another common mistake. While there is some useful comparative information in the curves, it's not a simple comparison, and people too often scrutinize turbines poorly, looking primarily at the peak. For example, I've lived with two turbines that shared about the same peak on their power curves—yet one produced 2.3 times more energy than the other in similar conditions.
If (and that's a big "if") power curves accurately predicted energy production, it might make sense to compare turbines by looking at the low end of the curve. Good performance at low wind speeds is most important in a wind turbine, since that is where it will spend most of its time (see "Wind Speed Distribution" graph).
Next, applying an average wind speed to a power curve can be an impossible and illogical task. A power curve demonstrates instantaneous production (watts), while a focus on average wind speed points toward overall energy potential (watt-hours).
All these misconceptions or misunderstandings of power curves become clearer as we look at the physics of wind and the reality of how wind works at a typical site.
Wind is variable. This we know intuitively. We feel it blow lightly on our face one moment, not at all the next moment, and maybe a few minutes later it'll be blowing us down the street. Wind is rarely constant, and it's a myth that there are sites where "it always blows at 15 mph." When you start looking at measured wind data, it's hard to find groups of consecutive data points that are the same in one minute, let alone for hours.
The most crucial fact to understand about wind energy is that the power available in the wind is related to the cube of the wind speed. Humans are fairly comfortable with linear functions: Spend twice as much money and you'll get twice as much coal; double the rainfall will result in doubling the catchment water into your tank.
Cubic functions are not as intuitive. You might think that when you double the wind speed (velocity, or V), you double the power. But in fact, doubling the wind speed gives eight times the power (2V x 2V x 2V = 8V). A 20 mph wind has eight times the energy (20 x 20 x 20 = 8,000) of a 10 mph wind (10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000). It doesn't always play out precisely this way with wind energy capture, since different turbines have different efficiencies. But the principle remains vital to understanding wind electricity.
The V3 law can be worked both ways—up and down the power curve. If a "perfect" turbine produces 100 watts at 10 mph, it has the potential to produce 800 watts at 20 mph. If the machine produces 1,000 watts at 24 mph, it will produce 125 watts or less in a 12 mph wind. Understanding the V3 law helps you look at power curves—and wind energy—differently.
The other major factor that comes into play is wind distribution. When we start to study the way the wind varies, we find out that every site has a different wind distribution profile. A wind "distribution" plots the frequency of each wind speed. Typically, it's shown in a wind distribution curve (see "Distribution" graph). For example, one site may experience 15 mph winds 4% of the time, and another site may see winds of 15 mph only 3% of the time. The distribution curve shows what percentage a given site experiences at each wind speed.
Because of the V3 law, the specific wind distribution can theoretically have a pronounced effect on energy capture at a particular site. To cite an extreme and theoretical example, let's examine two sites: one that experienced 10 mph winds for four weeks straight, and another site that had 40 mph winds for one week and no winds (0 mph) for three weeks.
Both of these fictional sites have a 10 mph average, but the wind distribution is very different indeed. If we apply the V3 law, the first site has 10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000 units x 4 weeks, or 4,000 units. The second site has 40 x 40 x 40 = 64,000 x 1 week plus 0 x 0 x 0 = 0 units x 3 weeks, for a grand total of 64,000 units. What a difference! What good is an average wind speed on its own, if the distribution makes the available energy vary that much?
In the real world, wind distributions don't vary as widely as this extreme example, and in fact tend to be quite similar in most locations where we site wind turbines. In North America and Europe, there's a fairly predictable wind distribution. Standardized distributions (such as the Rayleigh in the Weibull family of distributions; see graph) correspond fairly well with the reality on these continents. Utility-scale wind farm developers rely on very detailed distribution profiles for each site. For home-scale wind-electric systems in most places, it's safe to use the standard distributions that turbine manufacturers assume in their energy predictions. Energy availability doesn't typically vary more than about 25% from site to site.
Power curves do have a couple of concrete applications. First and foremost is that they show you at what wind speed a turbine will govern. "Governing" is the means of controlling the machine in high winds. According to the cube law, the forces on a wind generator in storm winds are enormous and potentially destructive, and the last thing you want your wind turbine to do is to try to capture them! For instance, an 80 mph wind would equal 512,000 units (80 x 80 x 80). You'll want to keep your turbine out of that kind of wind's way (perhaps while still generating a bit of energy) so it can stay intact for the next reasonable wind.
By looking at a power curve, you can see what a turbine does (or supposedly does) in high winds. If the curve keeps increasing above about 30 to 35 mph, don't buy it! Few turbines can withstand the forces of storms if their rotor has to take the full brunt of storm winds. Long-time wind-turbine tester Mike Klemen of Harwood, North Dakota, says, "Any turbine that doesn't protect itself well dies here. I will never buy a turbine without seeing a power curve that proves that the turbine protects itself." Perhaps we should rename power curves "governing curves," so wind turbine shoppers understand the main value of the curve.
The other value in power curves is to electrical designers who create the other components needed in wind-electric systems. Knowing the cut-in point, peak voltage and current, and what's in between is necessary to specify appropriate components, and design robust controllers and inverters to match the generating characteristics of a wind turbine.
The bottom line is that power curves are primarily an esoteric measure for wind geeks, with the unfortunate consequence of creating much confusion about wind generator performance. When we buy a car, most of us don't look at the horsepower of the engine or the cold cranking amps of the battery. We turn to more important overall measures like fuel economy. So we should leave power curves to the number nerds, and stop distracting ourselves from the prize—energy output. But what's an average wind system shopper to do?
Veteran wind-energy expert Hugh Piggott says, "The power curve on its own doesn't tell you anything about energy, nor is there any simple way to determine that from a given power curve." We don't buy watts from the utility, and we don't put watts into our battery bank or into the grid. We buy, produce, and sell watt-hours—energy. So we should evaluate wind machines based on their energy performance, not peak power, or any other single point on the power curve.
Instead of using power curves, look on the manufacturers' Web sites or in their literature for energy curves or graphs (see the ARE 442 example). With an estimate or measurement of the average wind speed at your site, these curves can help you project the energy yield from a particular turbine. Then you can determine how that projection matches up with your energy needs, and get on with the job of designing and installing your wind-electric system.
Understanding power curves and energy curves can help you sort fact from hype, and real products from scams. See the "Perfect Turbine or Pipe Dream?" sidebar for how to do a reality check on the manufacturers' or promoters' claims. In addition, search the Internet for real-world users of the turbine you're considering, and compare the manufacturers' claims to reports of actual system performance.
Whether you are sizing a system or evaluating a product, you'll be working with an estimated average wind speed and an estimated energy production curve. That means that your numbers will be rough guesses at best. Get used to it—with small-scale wind systems, it is rarely practical or affordable to do much better than this. So be conservative when you design, and with luck, you'll be pleasantly surprised at your turbine's actual energy performance.
Ian Woofenden devotes time to debunking wind myths at his wind- and solar-powered home in Washington's San Juan Islands.
Thanks to Mike Klemen (www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/klemen) and Hugh Piggot (www.scoraigwind.com).

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Lady Gaga has thanked fans for their understanding of the "meaning of beauty and compassion" after supporting her during her 25 pound weight gain.
The star was quick to send to her fans, also known as the "little monsters", a tweet of gratitude.
She said: "Thank to my fans who love me no matter what, and know the meaning of real beauty and compassion. I really love you."
The Poker Face star then went on to post a picture of the curvaceous beauty Marilyn Monroe on her account, which was captioned: "To all the girls that think you're ugly because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly."
The star also told radio host Elvis Duran: "I'm dieting right now, because I gained, like, 25 pounds."
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At my 17th birthday dinner at a place that played live music, the host sat me and my family behind a wall. We couldn't see the band; we could barely hear the muffled tones and applause. I was not 18, and in Northern Virginia, this made it difficult to see any interesting music live. I could visit stadiums, arenas and concert halls, and I did. There, the bands were NFL football teams, licensed jerseys and "Number One" hands sold on the sidelines. But I wanted to see bands that were like a gang of teenagers — their big, inevitable dreams sheathed like pocket knives, roaming and ruling the streets just cause they weren't old enough to drive yet.
There were plenty of venues to fulfill that need in Boston where I went to college: Avalon near Fenway Park, The Paradise Rock Club nearly on campus. I remember in 2004 one enchanting night at The Middle East in Cambridge listening to a band called The Helms. I was deep in the dark and purple-lit basement, its exposed pipes draping down from the encroaching ceiling. The Helms was a tight-knit trio: a guy, his girlfriend, and his brother, named after the girlfriend's family name. What bellowed out of the instruments was anything but quaint, though.
I remember a smile sliding over my friend's face as he turned to me and said, "This is really good!" It was, and it was like nothing I'd heard before. An endlessly monotonous and searing guitar riff that looped over and over, the repetition gently making it a soothing lullaby, albeit decibel levels and distortion that guaranteed pain. I could get into this, I thought. I could really get into this. It had the added magic of something that I was not quite at the level of, like a book I liked with words or concepts I wouldn't understand until I got older, until I worked on it. It was a sound I could aspire to. It was a sound that allowed me to think, this is it. This is the future of music.
Of course, have you heard of The Helms? It did not end up being the future of music.
Part of the allure of going to see indie rock bands before they're huge is the potential of them getting huge — or perhaps the potential of the music itself. This pleasure isn't there with an established band; it may be fun, but it's just fun in itself. The band has reached a bar. The music has matured and merged with mainstream culture. There's nothing being applied to it.
In our everyday lives, I'd say most of the time we are seeing an unestablished band. We are listening to new music, and we tend to think ahead of that music. We lose our jobs one day and the future is void of hope or opportunity. We have a long, smiling conversation with someone attractive while the sun is shining and the future is all fulfillment and promise. Sign a lease, and the drive home is an adrenaline rush. Part of the problem with putting these feelings on the future is that most of the time, our bands just don't make it. Bad music usually makes the money, and the good might not ever catch on. Part of Buddhist practice is being mindful of the present moment, to not be worrying or thinking about the past or the future since these things cannot be altered or predicted. Buddhism is the practice of simply being where you are. And I think this is just the best way to listen to live indie music — the way least likely to cause embarrassment down the line. You're out of the hype machine; you're just there for the sound.
I saw a band last week at The Satellite that was so good, I had that same feeling: "This is the future of music." When I had that flash of déjà vu and remembered The Helms, wondered where they went, thought about how young I must've been and how I felt so old now in comparison, I told myself to shut up. I closed my eyes and tried to just listen. I was enjoying the music. Now I was thinking.


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Callie Byrd, MD earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio and completed her Pediatric residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Before coming to Valley Medical Center, she worked in a private pediatric clinic in TX.
Dr.Byrd enjoys taking care of children of all ages, from birth to young adulthood,and establishing strong relationships with her patients and their families in order to provide the best care possible. Her interests include preventative medicine, parent education, promoting healthy lifestyles and adolescent medicine.
When not caring for patients, Dr. Byrd enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with her friends and family.
Dr. Chu was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She graduated with a B.S. from the University of California Davis and an M.D. from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago. She did her internship and residency training at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. She has practiced pediatrics since 1996, initially in Illinois and then California before joining Valley Children's Clinic. She has three children and enjoys reading, knitting and baking and would like to be a foodie. In her years of practice, she has found it most fulfilling to encourage and support patients and their families to thrive in a healthy manner and make wise choices.
Education – Undergraduate, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Graduate, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Languages: Spanish – Hablo español
Professional Association – King County Medical Society, North Pacific Pediatric Society, Washington State Medical Association
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Personal Statement - As a pediatrician, I believe that in addition to helping children recover from acute illnesses, I should help guide the parents and children on how to stay healthy. I also attempt to help parents maintain an environment that is optimal for a child's development and health. Being a parent myself, I would like my children's doctor to be caring, sensitive and practical.
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Following residency, Dr. Fisher and his wife, Alexa, moved back to the Seattle area. They have one son, born in 2013. In Dr. Fisher's spare time, he enjoys traveling, running, college athletics, and spending time with his family.
Dr. Fisher is excited to be working at Renton Pediatrics and share his enthusiasm about pediatrics! He is accepting new patients and works at our Renton and Kent offices.
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Dr. Lauinger is board certified in Pediatrics. She is on staff at Valley Medical Center and is a member of the Academy of Pediatrics and the Washington State Medical Association. Her special interests include: adolescent health, asthma, newborn health and development, and sports medicine.Dr. Lauinger and her husband, Michael, who is also a physician, moved back to the Pacific Northwest in 2003 to be closer to her family. They have three children and a fourth is due in February 2010.
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(Honolulu - March 9, 2006) The United States government and its partners announced today that James Pflueger will pay more than $7.5 million for Clean Water Act violations associated with construction activities on Pflueger's property at Pila'a on Kaua'i.
The Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Hawai'i Department of Health, Kauai County, Earthjustice, Limu Coalition and Kilauea Neighborhood Association are all part of the largest storm water settlement for violations at a single site, by a single landowner, in the United States.
The settlement calls for the payment of $2 million in penalties to the state of Hawai'i and the United States, and Pflueger will spend approximately $5.3 million to prevent erosion and restore streams at areas damaged by the construction activity. The settlement also requires Pflueger to spend $200,000 to replace cesspools with improved wastewater systems at residences in a nearby coastal community.
"The unauthorized construction work at Pila'a did not incorporate stormwater erosion control measures required by permits issued under the Clean Water Act. These measures would have prevented the extensive damage caused by Pflueger's construction," said Wayne Nastri, the EPA's administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "This settlement will reduce erosion, restore stream systems and native plant habitats, resulting in healthier stream, ocean and reef ecosystems."
"We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution problems," said Laurence Lau, Deputy Director for Environmental Health, Hawaii Department of Health.
The construction site at Pila'a encompasses approximately 378 acres of coastal property on Kaua'i. Pflueger conducted grading and other land-disturbing construction at the site beginning in 1997 without obtaining permits. The activities included cutting away a hillside to create a 40 foot vertical road cut, grading a coastal plateau, creating new access roads to the coast, and placing dirt and rock fill into three perennial streams.
"Storm water requirements have been in place for a long time. Developers must be responsible for their actions to ensure compliance with the law. Runoff from construction sites is a primary contributor to the impairment of water quality and EPA is vigorously enforcing federal regulations to help reduce this problem," said Granta Y. Nakayama, EPA's Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "This settlement is a strong signal of this Administration's commitment to increased enforcement of our nation's environmental laws and regulations."
"Protecting the environment has been a top priority of the Department of the Attorney General. Those who violate our environmental laws must know that when they are caught, they will pay a very heavy price," said Mark Bennett, Hawaii Attorney General. "That is the only way to deter the type of conduct that took place here. This case is an example of the exceptional cooperation between the State of Hawaii and the EPA, which continues."
As a result of this unpermitted construction activity, discharges of sediment-laden stormwater have flowed to the Pacific Ocean at Pila'a Bay, damaging a beachfront home, the beach and coral reefs.
"Today's joint settlement represents one of the largest ever civil penalties for storm water violations," said Sue Ellen Wooldridge Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division. "The defendant's violations were serious and this settlement will ensure that the necessary storm water run-off controls will be installed, strengthening compliance with environmental laws and ensuring that valuable natural resources will be protected in the future."
Based on plans approved by the EPA and other parties to this settlement, Pflueger began corrective work in September 2004 and continues to stabilize vulnerable areas of the Pila'a property and nearby Kaloko.
This work includes completion of a wall to stabilize the 40-foot vertical road cut adjacent to the Pila'a Bay shoreline. Pflueger will maintain erosion controls on roadways and trails that are used on the property. The plan calls for terracing of slopes, using native plants to control erosion at vulnerable sites, and control of invasive plant species for all vegetation work.
Soil and rock used to fill portions of the streams to build a road and several dams will be removed. The remaining dams will be lowered and stabilized. Workers will reconstruct streambeds to a more natural state by growing native plants along the banks.
The EPA and the Hawai'i Department of Health issued parallel enforcement orders in June 2002 to Pflueger for stormwater violations associated with construction activities at his Pila'a property. Also in 2002, Earthjustice, a national non-profit public interest law firm, filed a lawsuit against Pflueger under provisions of the federal Clean Water Act on behalf of two community groups, the Limu Coalition and the Kilauea Neighborhood Association.
There are related state enforcement actions against Pflueger for his activities at Pila'a. In May 2005 Pflueger pleaded guilty to 10 felony counts in Hawaii state criminal court and was ordered to pay a $500,000 penalty. In July 2005 the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources fined Pflueger $4 million for natural resource damages associated with sediment runoff and damage to the beach and coral reef at Pila'a.
For more information visit https://www.epa.gov/region09/water/npdes/pflueger/
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Frazier wasn't willing to say that Simpson would remain a member of the starting lineup, however. Frazier said that the team is considering its options, but that they already were planning to give rookie Cordarrelle Patterson more playing time and that this might be an opportunity to do that.
"We intended to continue to get him more reps, and you saw it in the Washington game and the prior one, trying to get him more reps," Frazier said, via Mark Craig of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "That was a part of the plan anyway, and it definitely will be a part of the plan now, with some of the concerns that we have."
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Scunthorpe paid the price for their defensive deficiencies as they crashed 4-0 at home to a supremely confident Preston side.
It was Scunthorpe's first home defeat since manager Russ Wilcox was appointed at the end of November and it leaves them still looking for their first point at League One level.
The Iron, promoted last season, started well enough and were unlucky when Paddy Madden rattled the bar in the fourth minute with a fierce right-foot shot from the edge of the box after being put clear by Lyle Taylor
It was Preston though who eased in front after 17 minutes when Joe Garner was allowed all the time in the world to pull down a right-wing cross from Chris Humphrey and lash a close-range shot past rookie keeper Jamie Severn, making only his second appearance for the home side.
It was Humphrey the provider again as Preston made it 2-0 in the 39th minute when his low cross from the right was turned into his own net by Scunthorpe centre-back Miguel Llera.
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Scunthorpe's disappointment later deepened when a header from winger Jennison Myrie-Williams brushed against a post to deny them even a consolation goal.
It was Preston who completed the scoring in the 82nd minute when Garner notched his second goal of the game with a sweet far-post header.
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When it comes to choosing a motherboard I must admit, I am really picky on the features and accessories I want. I used to think that one motherboard is no better or worse than the next, but boy was I wrong. Not only do features make a motherboard, but also the build quality. If you are an overclocking enthusiast, the quality of the components and the way the board is manufactured makes a difference in the amount of performance increase you can push out of it. That, and the accessories included with the board are what allow you to take full advantage of what it is that makes them different. NVIDIA has given the AMD crowd a major update in the motherboard chipset with the 780a. The 780a brings the new Hybrid SLi technology to the market, which allows graphics boosting and power saving features for the mainstream user and enthusiast alike. This new chipset gives the AMD processor using crowd another powerful platform to use instead of being limited to the 790FX chipset and brings them SLi capabilities, including the new Triple SLi design.
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I am considering purchasing a set of weed fins for my raceboard.
Is it correct, that to a first approximation a fin configuration can be characterized by the following two numbers(?, Question A).
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When changing to weed fins, this means that one should choose front fins larger than the current ones and a rear fin smaller than the current one(Question B)?
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I am so annoyed for selling water bottles with BPA in them. A couple years ago I purchased these for my family (and they weren't cheap) so we could avoid toxins and now this. Aimee's blog first alerted me to this issue with SIGG bottles (thanks Aimee) and I am amazed how angry this makes me to learn this news about SIGG.
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Eric dreams about sex with Kristen from his hospital bed. Outside, Nicole tells Brady about Eric's delirium and sobs that Daniel thinks he was poisoned. She still wants to go on their trip once his brother recovers but Brady can see she's in too deep with her feelings for Eric, so they agree to stop being 'friends with benefits' and just be friends. He's been thinking of Kristen and knows he needs zero contact with her. Daniel goes into Eric's room and Eric becomes agitated when the doctor tries to get him to remember what brought this on. Eric says something went wrong. He walks him through the evening. He didn't eat or drink. He recalls registering and Miss Taylor checking in, he had a shower, and that's it. Daniel leaves him alone and Eric pauses as he finds his collar in his things. Brady heads in. Eric is surprised to hear Nicole was there the entire night. He can't remember why she showed up in his hotel room.
Zero Contact.
Brady and Nicole make a pact, Eric tries to figure out what happened to him, and Chad and Cameron discuss Abigail.
Chad calls Abigail from work. She apologizes for running out on him. Cameron and Theo arrive and overhear Chad confessing the timing was off when he told her how he feels about her. He spots Cameron and hangs up. Theo goes off to play and Chad admits he told Abigail he has feelings for her. Cam is glad Chad's finally being honest. Chad says he and Abby have grown closer as friends. He doesn't want to see her hurt and lets Cam know nothing happened between them once he left last night. He doesn't want to be enemies but wants to be with her. Theo interrupts. He wants Chad to go to the park with them but Chad has to work.
Adrienne rants to Jenn at the Horton house about Justin taking Sami's case. Abigail eavesdrops as Adrienne trashes Will and accuses Sami of shooting Bernardi in cold blood. Jenn attempts to defend them and Abby flashes to agreeing to keep the evidence of Sami jumping Bernardi a secret. Abby interrupts and greets both ladies before going off to eat. Adrienne's glad to hear she's dating a doctor.
At their apartment, Sonny and Will discuss Arianna's sleeping habits until Grandpa Lucas arrives and takes the baby. Gabi's off doing a remake exam, so Lucas offers to babysit while they take a break. The guys rush out and Lucas visits with Ari, who has Sami's nose. He hopes she doesn't have Sami's flair for finding trouble.
At the DiMera mansion, Kristen accuses Dr. Chykra of sniveling and grovelling. He promised her a guarantee that 'the patient' wouldn't remember a thing. The doctor tries to reassure her. Having slept on it, he admits he was simply being hyper-cautious. It's likely 'the patient' won't recall the seduction. Kristen threatens Cykra before he leaves. She finds the key chain Brady gave her and thinks of him before shooting it in the bin and leaving.
Sonny and Will have a bite to eat at the square. When Adrienne walks by, things get tense. Sonny realizes Will was keeping something from him. Will admits he was and Adrienne accuses Will of taking the high road and not admitting that she tried to get Will to drop her son. Sonny tells her not to make him choose. If she does, she'll be sorry with the results. Adrienne cries. The guys leave and she immediately leaves him a message with an apology and a vow to be more supportive. The guys sit at the park and Will points out that Adrienne made a good point about him and his family. Sonny thinks they belong together. Will kisses him and makes a promise not to get into Arianna's romantic life this way.
Abby returns to the cafe. She gave Chad mixed signals last night but he doesn't seem to mind. Chad will back down if it's what she wants.
Nicole finds Kristen at the hospital hub, dropping off papers for the board and sneaking a peek at the patient list. Nicole confronts her but Kristen plays it cool. Daniel pulls Nicole aside and says the tests results came back negative for poison. They're back to square one. Brady leaves Eric's room and hears Daniel tell Nicole Eric could get his memory back at any time but for now, he's releasing him. Meanwhile, Kristen pokes her head into Eric's room. He frowns.
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I think I need a "what to do now that you've purchased a whole lotus root" tutorial. Sure, I could google it, but why not go to the master? ^_^
I've never had lotus root, so I've certainly never cooked with it or prepared it. I just bought one at the market (it was two sections, one fat one and one that tapers at the end).
To put this into context, I want to make Maki's recent root veg & tofu stew.
I have not had lotus root myself yet - but for some reason I REALLY want to try it!!
I am looking forward to following this thread!
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I have eaten lotus root (like pretty shaped water chestnut, I thought), but I've never seen it for sale fresh. I have some dried, but cannot imagine that it could ever become crunchy again, and have never tried to do anything with it. So, Maki, maybe you could tell us about fresh AND dried lotus root?
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I'm excited that other people are interested! I thought I was alone.
With lots of photos! (It's the first result on Google btw, when you type in... How to cook lotus root :P)
I am not sure about dried lotus root. I guess you would soak it to reconstitute it before using. For convenience, if you can find it, canned, frozen or vacuum-sealed precooked lotus root slices are available. mosaica has a pic of a packet of pre-cooked lotus root here.
Bonus! How to cook taro root (satoimo). (Both articles are linked to from the root vegetables recipe btw)
Incidentally, the site search on these pages searches both Just Bento and Just Hungry. Just Hungry is where you will find more sort of basic how-to type of things for many foods used in Japanese cooking.
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Standish prison named in Governor's proposal to house California inmates
LANSING — Governor Jennifer Granholm is negotiating with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to house inmates from the Golden State, which is suffering from overcrowding, in Michigan and the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility is one prison she proposed as a possible detention center.
"She cited the Standish facility as one of the suggestions," said the Governor's Deputy Press Secretary Megan Brown, adding the other facility suggested was the Muskegon Correctional Facility. "Obviously this is all about jobs for Michigan
"We want to keep our workers employed."
An excerpt from Granholm's letter says, "At the end of July, we will be closing Standish Maximum Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison which houses 604 prisoners. It is located just off Interstate 75 north of Saginaw in Standish, Michigan, in proximity to airports. The facility was opened in 1990 and is in excellent condition. While this is a single cell facility, it could easily be reconfigured to a lower security level and be double bunked."
According to Brown, if the California Department of Corrections is willing to make a deal with Michigan, there could be 550 jobs saved for Michigan Corrections Officers, at the expense of the state of California.
"There will be conditions," Brown said. "The price must be right. … The prisoners would have to be returned to California eventually.
"The details are still being discussed."
"Some details of the discussion, are things like volume and custody level of prisoners, programming and treatment requirements, health and mental health care needs, etc. And of course – prices," said Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) Public Information Officer Russell Marlan in an e-mail received by the Independent last week.
Some face-to-face visits are already in the works to try to help seal the deal, as a group of MDOC representatives are heading west this week.
"They (Michigan prison delegation) are heading out [Tuesday, July 7] and will return Thursday," Marlan added in an e-mail to the Independent on July 6. "The delegation includes our Deputy Director over correctional facilities, our Chief Financial Officer, our Physical Plant Manager and someone from our health care section.
"They (California Corrections representatives) will be sending a delegation here to look at Standish and Muskegon in two weeks."
Brown says while Michigan has had a declining prison population, mostly due to the controversial Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative, that's not the case out west.
"It's been widely publicized that they (California) have severe overcrowding," Brown said.
An article on the Sacramento Bee's Web site, sacbee.com specifies how California would save by housing inmates in Michigan, as the cost per inmate per year in California is about $46,000 per year and the cost is roughly $30,000 per year per inmate in Michigan.
The savings could be beneficial to California's goal to balance its budget for fiscal year 2010, since during a press conference that was simultaneously web cast on Gov. Schwarzenegger's Web site on Wednesday, the Governor said he was serious about fixing the state's $26.3 billion deficit, threatening to veto any legislation on his desk that doesn't work towards amending the budget crisis. During the press conference, Schwarzenegger was clear that he didn't want the budget crisis addressed "piecemeal."
"Let's address the entire problem at one time," he said.
Michigan would be the fifth state to house outsourced prisoners from California if Schwarzenegger accepts Granholm's proposal, joining Tennessee, Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma, where 7,600 California prisoners are being housed.
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California doesn't even begin to have the money to do this.
It won't happen.
Isn't Cali's "governator" already starting to issue IOU's because the state can't get a budget passed?
The above comments are right, I think Michigan's Governor it just making it look like she is doing something..
dont let our governor fool us she is only making it look like she is doing something but in fact she is making a bigger mess for our next governor to clean up. i really hope some day she has to figure out how she is going to make her house payment or put food on the table, she has no clue what the average michigan family is going thru. she has her health insureace, car insurance, house insurance, car, phone....., paid for by us the tax payers what does she care. i would love to see the elected live like we do pay check to pay check they would never be able to do it. they would end up having a nervous break down. we need her gone, any where but here in michigan.
I don't see this as hi-jinx. California ALREADY outsources prisoners to states like Tennessee, so why wouldn't they send some to Michigan? Their prison population is double what their capacity is. They need to either release about 200,000 prisoners or send them elsewhere. I think you conspiracy theorists need to take a break for awhile. While I don't like Granholm and think she's an awful Governor, I don't think she's sitting behind a desk twirling a glued-on mustache, hatching a plan to deceive Arenac County and Muskegon residents. So let's just wait and see what happens.
I am from california and I wonder if there is a constitutional question here. Judges did NOT sentance a person to a prison out of the state. This Could be a federal issue. Saving lots of money NOT. transportation for the inmates when realeased, guards on the airplanes for every siongle inmate to bring back to California and also i would think there would have to be an incentive for the inmate and not just make somebody go to michigan.Our state is bankrupt. If they had any brains they would early realease the non violent offenders and not pay anything.Iou;s 9.75% sales tax here in Southern california.What happens if an inmate gets hurt or a plane crashes going to or from Michigan and inmates get killed. gee Millions for a wrongfull death lawsuit for every single inmate.We do not live in california We live in Mexico as caucasians are minorites and we spend millions housing these people in prisons and with there phony ids and welfare and food stamps, i wobnder why we are bankrupt.


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Pirates surprise Savages on 2011 Senior Night
Perhaps the only people who gave the Poteau Pirates a chance against the No. 9-ranked Broken Bow Savages were the players and the coaches who were wearing red on the field. When it was all said and done, the Pirates upset the Savages 31-23 Thursday night at Costner Stadium on Senior Night.


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Marching Panthers excel
The Montezuma-Cortez High School Marching Panthers traveled to St. George, Utah recently for a competition and did extremely well. The marching band brought home a first place and Outstanding Visual in class 2A at the Red Rocks Marching Invitational. The band also took first place and Outstanding Visual, GE and Music in class 1A in the two-day competition.
Charter school application discussion
The Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 Board of Education will be discussing the Mesa Verde STEAM Academy charter school application at todays (Nov. 13) work session from 6-6:30 p.m. Residents interested in the charter school application are welcome to attend, ask questions and give input at the meeting. The meeting will be held in the boardroom at the administration building at 400 North Elm St.


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Saturday, 10 November 2007
Is a lack of evidence enough reason to ban GM crops?
"Ministers should not give any go-ahead for commercial planting until they can state confidently that GM varieties would not contaminate non-GM foods and that they are safe."
This seems a strange inversion of liberal philosophy. The first principle of a free society should surely be that everything is permitted unless it is explicitly banned: we may later debate what is forbidden (e.g. murder) and what is inviolable (e.g. expression), but if we err towards the Napoleonic model whereby everything is forbidden unless it is explicitly sanctioned our society is not free, it is permitted.
So it is mistaken to argue that something should be banned until it is proved to be safe. On the contrary, it is those who wish to ban something upon whom the burden of proof should rest; the reactionaries and conservatives should be able to demonstrate that harm will result from the planting or consumption of GM crops before we even consider a ban.
The alternative is based on the 'precautionary principle', which in its 1992 formulation states that "'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation". But the precautionary principle was supposed to address issues where there was broad agreement though debate still continued; it was formulated to justify ignoring the objections of a small number of dissenting scientists.
Now, however, it has been corrupted to suggest that "'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall be used as a reason for postponing measures that are aimed at achieving non-environmental goods." In other words, whereas it once overcame fringe objections, it now elevates them to such a status that they are given a veto.
So a "crack-pot global warming skeptic" can be ignored, but a "crack-pot GM food skeptic" must be obeyed.
This is of course rank hypocrisy and demonstrates one of the more malign effects of the rise of Green thinking. "The environment" (in this case, a rather idealised view of the environment) becomes a higher goal, the service of which overrides other goods such as freedom, progress or prosperity. It does not need to be this way, however. It is entirely possible to protect our environment without resorting to double standards or demonising human activity.
There are two other arguments that are used to oppose GM crops: that they will cross-pollinate and so contaminate other, more "organic" crops; and that the majority oppose GM and in a democracy a majority should prevail. These at least deserve a second look, but under careful scrutiny they, too, fail.
Cross-pollination raises the classic debate about externalities: to what extent should Farmer A put up with the unintended by-products of Farmer B's operations. In this case it is a zero-sum game: one cannot set a price on the organic nature of Farmer A's operation, so one cannot price Farmer B's externalities. However, it does not follow that Farmer B should be banned from planting GM crops. After all, one way or another, the freedom of one farmer is limited. Which farmer's freedom is curtailed is a philosophical and moral question. To my mind, it is Farmer B who should be free to plant her GM crops, for two reasons.
Firstly, while there is a chance that Farmer A will see his organic crop contaminated, the probability is lower than the certainty that Farmer B will be prevented from planting GM crops if the government intervenes; the latter definitely results in curtailed freedom whereas the former may not (it is up to Farmer A to then assess his risk). In addition, it is possible that Farmer A could separate and destroy any contaminated crops and retain the GM-free crop for sale (though in practice this probably, at least currently, presents difficulties).
Secondly, the externalities of Farmer B's operation are an unintended by-product; she is not actively seeking to inconvenience her neighbour. By comparison, Farmer A is actively seeking to prevent Farmer B from planting GM crops by using the power of the state. Deontologically, Farmer A's deliberate assault on Farmer B's freedom is less justifiable than Farmer B's accidential affect on Farmer A's.
As for democracy, Friends of the Earth claim that 95 per cent of the 11, 676 respondents to the consultation opposed the growing of GM crops in the UK. This may seem an overwhelming number, but it represents just a tiny fraction of the citizen in the country. This highlights one of the misunderstandings about government consultations: they are a means to better inform decision makers, not a straw poll of opinion. In a consultation, the views of ten ignorant people should count for less than one informed person. In a representative democracy, we choose decision-makers whose instincts and integrity we trust, but we delegate to them because they have the time to look into and understand a subject. If we do not like the decisions they make we can sack them. The alternative, direct democracy, leads go decisions being made by the most motivated, the most organised and the best resourced. Rather than the government of the people, by the people, for the people, it becomes government of the busy, by the bossy, for the pushy.
Here it is worth noting that Friends of the Earth may have had a hand in the imbalanced results: The BBC reports that "80% [of the responses ] were in the form of stock letters or petitions, which conveyed a 'basic disagreement' with Defra's proposals…" It is of course very easy for a membership organisation such as Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace (or the British Legion or Amnesty International) to mobilise its supporters, especially if they include a pre-written letter on their website or a card in their next mailing, to which members need merely attach a signature and a stamp. There is no Friends of the Farmer, Friends of the Scientist or Friends of the Consumer to run a counter campaign; even where such organisations exist (for example, the National Union of Farmers or Which?) their interests are broader and so their members will not automatically coalesce around an environmental question.
The fact that the consultation is not democratic is only half the story, however, and here I would remind Mr. Huhne that he is a Liberal Democrat. The fact that a majority objects to something is not in itself reason to ban it. Fifty years ago a majority were probably (and a hundred and fifty years ago certainly) repelled by homosexuality, but that did not justify a ban, which liberals led a noble campaign to repeal. Today we can find majorities in favour of banning all sorts of things that minorities might wish to do. A liberal democracy is not a majoritocracy – and there is a reason why nobody has ever bothered to find a more euphonious word for such a dangerous idea – and it is democracy that should serve freedom rather than the other way round.
To prohibit the planting of GM crops because of an overly cautious approach to scientific advances, pushed by special interest groups, would not even be justified if the ban were supported by the majority, which has in no way been proven.
It is therefore wrong to impose such a ban in general – and that's even before one begins to consider the science and polices around this specific issue!
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- Left Lib said...
The burden of proof must be on companies to prove that GM is safe.
We do not want a repeat of DDT poisoning all over again, when the regulations were laxer.
In a competitive market, testing for safety is a cost that most companies would like to ignore in order to get their products on the market and make profits asap. Governments have the wider interests of society to consider, and should make sure no one short cuts this process.
- 10 November 2007 at 21:04:00 GMT
- Peter Mc said...
DDT and GM are not comparable.
More gene shuffling goes on in the average male's bollocks than Monsanto could countenance, and GM goes on freely between species and genus' in the natural world.
GM (like nuclear) we should get over: we may be needing it soon.
- 11 November 2007 at 01:38:00 GMT
- Joe Otten said...
I'm not so sure there is any evidence that we do need GM. The industry has not produced any products that are so fantastically good - much better yields for example - that this question is critical yet.
However, Tom is right that this is not about the "environment". Rather is it a rejection of anything with an ethical yuck factor - which GM has to many with a religious view of nature.
There's no logical reason that no GM product should be permitted organic status. Organics was supposed to be about what chemicals are added to the soil, but it has become a broader quality/ethical mark. Perhaps it will add fair trade to its requirements soon. (Whether its interpretation of quality and ethical is correct is a whole other issue.)
So while pollen spread might affect the rules of the organic industry, I don't see how it affects the chemical, quality, and ethical nature of the organic farmer's product in any way. In which case the rules are unreasonably written to make trouble.
- 11 November 2007 at 10:23:00 GMT
- Left Lib said...
As far as the organic movement is concerned, I do not see what right any government has to dictate to a movement that historically they opposed in the first place.
It was Schumaker who argued that nature is hugely complex in a way that is beyond the understanding of science. The process of evolution takes place also in a complex fashion, usually over long time scales. Finding short cuts to evolution, such as using chemicals on farms is problematic, as Rachel Carson pointed out in Silent Spring - a title she chose for her book to reflect the lack of birds singing in springtime. Chemicals that kill pests such as insects also kill their preditors. Once the insects build up a resistance, then their numbers increase once again and the preditors are no longer around to control them. Add to that of course that chemicals are being introduced into the human food chain in which our immune systems have not had time to evolve any form of resistance to the harmful effects of those chemicals.
Non-organic food is meant to be cheaper, but becomes very expensive when events like BSE happen. We appear to be fortunate enough to have largely got away with BSE. What was alarming at the time the disease was first identified was the unknowns. Scientists had not anticipated this would happen, and it was only by luck that the outcome was not sigificantly worse.
Now why should the taxpayer fork out for disasters like BSE?
It is the companies that want to bypass the process of evolution and make a quick profit, they should pay if they want to play around with nature and end up killing people dreadfully as BSE did.
You notice by the way that there is nothing "religious" in my arguments, they are perfectly logical. It is those who have faith in market forces, but believe that persuing profit can only lead to benign outcomes, they are the ones who are religious.
I do not have faith in market forces or necessarly in state intervention. I believe in pragmatically muddling along, trying to get the right balance between markets and regulation and treating each case on it's merits.
There should be nothing religious about politics.
- 12 November 2007 at 18:18:00 GMT
- Joe Otten said...
Left lib, indeed your arguments weren't religious. But then you weren't talking about GM, which is what I was referring to.
It seems to me that each GM product should be judged on its merits. And who is buying GM products that offer no advantages? While slight cost savings are perhaps not sufficient to justify the technology, that wouldn't be the case if it could deliver, say, significantly bigger yields, or smaller chemical inputs.
And what exactly is the problem with GM? Compared to conventional breeding, or evolution? It is easy to exaggerate the "leap into the darkness" angle. Sure, some products might be out on a limb, as are some products in other fields, but this does not damn the whole technology.
- 12 November 2007 at 20:48:00 GMT
- Tom Papworth said...
At last, I get around to responding.
(One day I'm going to develop the courage not to intervene in the debates I spark off :o)
I disagree about your point that companies will not bear the cost of testing. As they will be ruined by litigation if they poison their consumers, and even if not their businesses will be destroyed by any mistakes, they have a powerful incentive to get it right.
I think that there is already some cross-over between Organic and Fair Trade, though I can't remember where I saw it. Conversely, it can also be argued that campaigns for Organic and Low Mile food are producer-led campaigns to protect local farmers from international competition.
However, there are clearly benefits to GM crops. There is a "Golden Rice" being developed in Asia that will boost the beta carotene intake of poor Asians and so is expected to alleviate half a million cases of blindness in children every year. Chinese farmers have seen profits rise by $500 an acre. I have heard that there is also a GM seed that is resilient enough to grow on untilled soil, which has so far enabled farming at a reduced carbon output equivalent to taking 17,000 cars off the road.
But even if the benefits were not yet proved, it would remain the right of every farmer to experiment to see if s/he could establish a benefit. Without that experimentation we may as well declare progress over and just settle down to living like this forever.
Geoff again,
There appears to be some confusion in your argument between GM crops, organic farming and BSE. As Joe pointed out, GM crops are more organic because they require less chemical assistance (as they can be hardier and more insect resistant). There is no link between either GM crops or advanced agricultural farming on the one hand and BSE on the other; BSE resulted from feeding cows the spines of their relatives, not from chemical fertilisers and GM crops.
I also dispute the suggestion that nature is beyond the understanding of science. It is of course a journey rather than a destination, but successes such as the genome project prove that we are well capable of understanding nature. There is too much anti-scientific romanticism in the anti-GM (and related) arguments.
I do agree that government should not dictate to the organic movement. Government should protect everybody's freedom: let the organic farmers be organic, the GM farmers farm GM, the fertilisers spray chemicals, create a system for regulating disputes and legislate against harm. Therefore I also agree that government should not pay for clearing up the (unrelated) BSE problem: this should be paid for by suing those responsible for causing the health crisis.
As regards to how religious the arguments are, while I think some people do revere nature in a very mystical way, I would prefer to describe it as "romantic", by which I refer specifically to the anti-enlightenment movement that felt uncomfortable with scientific advances in the C18th and C19th.
Joe again,
I basically agree, except where you say "slight cost savings are perhaps not sufficient to justify the technology". Let the people decide – their real views being best expressed through markets.
- 13 November 2007 at 13:22:00 GMT
- Laurence Boyce said...
Superb analysis Tom. I take my hat off to you.
- 16 November 2007 at 04:41:00 GMT
- Richard Gadsden said...
This posting has been nominated for posting of the year in the Lib Dem Blog awards.
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I heard a wee item on BBC Scotland the other day about the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and there was reference to that theatre's policy in the 70s of offering all seats for 50p.
This brought to mind a production of Dracula from 1977 which included some nude scenes. The photo below was taken during that run:
Lord Provost, Peter McCann, in a world free from the constraints of political correctness,called for the sacking of theatre bosses. He described the Dracula production as "kinky claptrap appealing only to mentally ill weirdos" (Sunday Express, 13 March 1977). The Provost's calls were not supported by his councillors and his attempts to gain city council control of programming at the Citizens failed.
Of course in times when the lingerie section of the Kays catalogue was considered a bit risqué Provost McCann's outburst all but guaranteed that mentally ill weirdos filled every seat in the theatre for the entire run of the said kinky claptrap.
Anyway, as I sought the photo above at Urban Glasgow I also found this cracker from the seventies of St Enoch Square.
Something that caught my eye was the rather odd sign below that of the one for the St Enoch Hotel.
They came as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl and the Waverley Pen.
On checking I found that this piece of doggerel was the advertising slogan of Edinburgh pen manufacturers MacNiven and Cameron:
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