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Argument preview: Scope of protections for retirement funds in bankruptcy squarely at issue
Clark v. Rameker is the kind of case every judge should love. ┬ĀIt presents a clean and straightforward question of statutory interpretation, with no looming shadow of oppressive media scrutiny.┬Ā The briefs on both sides are lucid and persuasive. And the parties even agree on what the question is.┬Ā How often can the Justices sit down to something as well laid out as that!
The issue is a simple one, at the intersection of bankruptcy law and retirement policy.┬Ā Among the assets exempt from the estate of a debtor in bankruptcy (a topic familiar to the Justices from the CourtŌĆÖs decision earlier this month in Law v. Siegel), Congress has with steadily increasing generosity included a wide variety of retirement funds.┬Ā [These are the provisions Justice Scalia described in Law as ŌĆ£mind-numbingly detailed.ŌĆØ] The specific question in this case is whether those provisions exempt the $450,000 IRA that petitioner Heidi Clark inherited upon the death of her mother.┬Ā If the IRA is exempt, she can keep the IRA and use it for support after her bankruptcy; if it is not exempt, the bankruptcy court will take it and use it to pay creditors.
The relevant statute is Bankruptcy Code ┬¦ 522(b)(3)(C), which exempts ŌĆ£retirement funds to the extent that those funds are in a fund or account that is exempt from taxation under [seven listed sections] of the Internal Revenue Code.ŌĆØ The parties agree that the inherited IRA is exempt from taxation under one of those sections.┬Ā The sole issue in dispute is whether the inherited IRA constitutes ŌĆ£retirement fundsŌĆØ for purposes of paragraph (C). ┬ĀBoth sides shelter in the mantle of the plain language.┬Ā Arguing for Clark, Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connelly contends that the inherited IRA remains retirement funds because they were set aside for retirement into the identified account and remain in that account. That argument is textually plausible, straightforward, and produces an objective and easily administrable regime.
For respondent William Rameker (the trustee in ClarkŌĆÖs bankruptcy), WilmerHaleŌĆÖs Danielle Spinelli wisely shifts ground from the rather loose policy-based analysis of the court below and presents a much cleaner textual argument.┬Ā Specifically, Rameker argues that funds held in an inherited IRA are not ŌĆ£retirement fundsŌĆØ because an inherited IRA does not have the attributes of other tax-exempt retirement funds. As Rameker points out, there is no tax penalty if Ms. Clark withdraws all of the funds from the IRA immediately; all of the other funds would be subject to penalties if they were immediately liquidated. ┬ĀSimilarly, under applicable rules of the Tax Code, Ms. Clark cannot leave the funds in the IRA until her retirement.┬Ā Rather, she must choose either to liquidate the entire account within five years or start an immediate schedule of annual withdrawals designed to steadily dissipate the fund.
Like ClarkŌĆÖs argument, RamekerŌĆÖs argument is textually plausible, straightforward, and produces an objective and easily administrable regime. To RamekerŌĆÖs advantage, however, ClarkŌĆÖs argument does seem to give the words ŌĆ£retirement fundsŌĆØ little or no substantial content. So on my reading, Rameker probably has a slight advantage based on textual arguments alone.
More or less in equipoise on the text, Clark and Rameker also join issue on the purposes of the exemption.┬Ā Clark persuasively shows a steady congressional pattern of broadening exemptions for retirement funds, with a view to ensuring that the bankruptcy process leaves untouched funds set aside for retirement.┬Ā Given that history, there is every reason to read the exemption broadly, as including, in substance, everything in the list of tax-exempting sections. On his side, Rameker can counter that the statute evidences a plain intent to have bankruptcy outcomes depend on the lines of demarcation established by the tax code.┬Ā Because the tax code treats the inherited IRA so differently from traditional retirement funds, it produces a more coherent regime reading across the entire United States Code to use that as the line of demarcation defining ŌĆ£retirement fundsŌĆØ in the Bankruptcy Code.
If there is a point on which either party seems to get the upper hand, it is RamekerŌĆÖs discussion of the CourtŌĆÖs 2005 decision in Rousey v. Jacoway.┬Ā In that case (decided while Congress was in the process of adopting the exemption at issue here), the Court held that a traditional IRA was exempt under an exemption for payments received ŌĆ£on account of ŌĆ" age.ŌĆØ The CourtŌĆÖs interpretation of that provision looked to attributes of the IRA much like the provisions on which Rameker relies in his argument here to explain the parallel term ŌĆ£retirementŌĆØ ŌĆō for example, tax penalties for withdrawal before age fifty-nine and a half, and the ability to hold funds to retirement. ┬ĀClark deftly points out the ambiguity in RamekerŌĆÖs argument, which cannot specify what would happen if a fund had more than one, but not all, of those attributes.
As I suggested at the beginning of this post, the arguments in this case are skillfully presented and closely balanced.┬Ā The Justices easily could write an opinion favoring either party.┬Ā So this well might be one of those cases in which the argument could tip the balance either way.┬Ā Having said that, it is my experience that in cases about the bankruptcy discharge, a tie generally goes to the creditors. ┬ĀRecalling Justice AlitoŌĆÖs outraged reaction at oral argument to the $75,000 exemption at issue in Law v. Siegel, it is reasonable to think that the $450,000 fund at issue here will render some of the Justices inclined to look for a reason to deny an exemption, and Rameker has made it pretty easy for them to find one.
Recommended Citation: Ronald Mann, Argument preview: Scope of protections for retirement funds in bankruptcy squarely at issue, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 19, 2014, 10:42 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/03/argument-preview-scope-of-protections-for-retirement-funds-in-bankruptcy-squarely-at-issue/


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West Linn's Sports
November 06, 2014
WL boys take second at state meet
Roman and Grayson Ollar finish in the top-five as the Lions earn a state trophy The West Linn boys cross-country team put the finishing touches on one of its best seasons in school history last…
November 06, 2014
Boys soccer team rolls in playoff opener
The No. 3 Lions pound Century 4-1 to advance Last year, West Linn's boys soccer team squared off against Century in the quarterfinals, grinding out a 1-0 victory over the Jaguars in what would…
November 06, 2014
Lions dump Canby in regular season finale
Tim Tawa throws five touchdown passes and the Lions move to No. 8 in the state West Linn's football team showed it may already be in playoff form in its season finale against Canby last week.…
November 06, 2014
Late rally not enough for girls soccer team
The Lions cut into a 2-0 deficit but fall to strong Westview team The West Linn girls soccer team has been in the midst of an impressive comeback for the past three weeks, entering the playoffs…
November 06, 2014
Volleyball team bows out in second round
The Lions top Wilson but come up short against No. 6 Cavs The West Linn volleyball team came up just short or earning another trip to the state tournament at Liberty High School this year. The…
October 30, 2014
WL boys dominate district cross-country meet
The Lions finish 1-2-3 individually, Johanna Briscoe qualifies for girls After one of the driest and balmiest cross-country seasons in recent memory, fall showed up just in time for last week's…
October 30, 2014
Girls soccer passes Newberg for playoff berth
The Lions win their fourth straight to crack the top-four The West Linn girls soccer team capped its impressive late-season rebound with an exciting 1-0 win over Newberg, its fourth victory in a…
October 30, 2014
Football team clinches playoff berth in rout
The Lions snap a two-game skid with a lopsided victory over Tualatin The West Linn football team got back in the win column on Friday, easily handling winless Tualatin on the road 41-13. In the…
October 30, 2014
Volleyball team wins outright league title
West Linn gets some help from LO before opening playoff run The West Linn volleyball team completed its regular season last week with a relatively easy three-set sweep against Sherwood. The…
October 30, 2014
Boys soccer wraps up prefect regular season
The Lions move up to No. 3 in the state and open playoffs home vs. Century West Linn's boys soccer team put the finishing touches on another perfect regular season last week, downing Newberg 4-0…
Oct 24, 2014
Lions start strong, but fall to Tigard
West Linn leads early, but the Tigers rally for 45-35 win Just a few plays. That might have been it. That might have been all that separated the West Linn High School football team and…
Oct 24, 2014
Boys soccer team clinches league title
The No. 4 Lions outscore Canby and Sherwood by a combined score of 12-0 The West Linn boys soccer team ate its vegetables first in the Three Rivers League, grinding out difficult wins against…
Oct 16, 2014
Lions tipped in Three Rivers thriller
West Linn suffers first loss, falling to 34-32 at Sherwood For the 2014 West Linn High School football team, it was a new experience. It's safe to assume that the Lions didn't really enjoy that…
Oct 16, 2014
Girls soccer picks up big win over Pacers
The Lions get over the hump in league, rallying to top Lakeridge 2-1 It's been a while since something has gone the West Linn girls soccer team's way this season but the Lions picked up a huge…
Oct 16, 2014
Cross-country teams finish regular season on a high note
The majority of the team PRs in meet at Sandelie The West Linn cross-country teams may be peaking at the right time. In its final race before districts next week, the Lions were impressive in a…
Oct 16, 2014
Boys soccer team rallies twice to stay unbeaten
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Oct 09, 2014
Lions ground Pacers to stay undefeated
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Oct 09, 2014
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Oct 09, 2014
Volleyball team keeps the pressure on with two more wins
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Oct 02, 2014
Lions extend their lead in TRL
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Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is a world-renowned facility and part of the UPMC Health system. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is dedicated to pediatric care and research. The main site moved from the Oakland section of Pittsburgh to the Lawrenceville area in May, 2009. In addition to the main campus, Children's offer ambulatory care, primary care, and specialty care centers in other locations throughout the region.
According to hospital sources, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh began in the 19th century as one bed dedicated to infants and children. The son of a local pediatrician raised the funds for this endowment. By the 1920s, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh had grown into six buildings and 100 beds.
In the decades since, Children's Hospital has been the source of many firsts, from the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s by Dr Jonas Salk to performing the first pediatric heart-ling and heart-liver transplants in the world.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh became part of the UPMC Health system as part of a controversial merger in 2001.
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The New Children's Hospital campus is located at the site of the former St Francis Medical Center in the Lawrenceville section of the city. The new Children's Hospital main campus is situated on 10 acres and was designed to be environmentally friendly. The campus includes nearly 300 beds, private rooms with overnight accommodations for parents, a 10 story research center, libraries, an atrium and three parking garages. For more information on the new campus, visit http://www.chp.edu/CHP/new_campus
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A free care fund has been in existence at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh since its inception. Operating under the principle that no child should be refused health care because their parents could not afford it, Children's has provided free care to children for more than a century. Over the years many organizations have supported the Free Care Fund with telethons and other fund raisers.
The most well known of these programs is likely the 'Old Newsboys'. This fund raiser was instituted in the 1930s by an editor of the Pittsburgh Press. The tradition continued even after the Pittsburgh Press was purchased by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1993.
According to hospital sources, more than $29 million in free and uncompensated care was provided in 2008.
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London, Apr 9 : Stars including Victoria Beckham and Coleen Rooney took to Twitter to show off their lavish family Easter celebrations, with Posh claiming that she and husband David created an array of chocolate treats themselves.
In the Rooney household, Kai appeared to be having a day fit for a king as he went on an egg hunt wearing a gold paper crown.
The two-year-old son of Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney and his wife was pictured afterwards among piles of chocolate eggs and cakes.
When told her little boy looked adorable, Coleen tweeted back.
"Not so cute when there's chocolate everywhere haha," The Daily Mail quoted her as tweeting.
Meanwhile, Posh, who seems to be aiming for the Domestic Goddess market lately, showed off cakes and chocolate animals she said she had made.
Alongside a photograph of a selection of chocolate figurines, the 37-year-old wrote on Twitter "Fun good Friday making chocolate!! Happy Easter fashion bunnies."
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Compared to so many other purchasing decisions -- like which humane meat label to trust, for instance -- the "Certified Fair Trade" logo has made buying ethically produced coffee a relatively simple choice. Most of us either buy fair trade or we don't.
But that's all about to change. As The New York Times reported earlier this month, Fair Trade USA (FTUSA) is breaking away from Fair Trade International, its global parent, and creating new, less stringent standards. For American coffee drinkers, this will soon mean two fair trade labels -- one that will stick with the movement's original intention to work only with small coffee-growing cooperatives, and FTUSA's new label, which will most likely include coffee grown on larger, plantation-sized farms, and products with as little as 10 percent fair trade ingredients. (See the draft of the new standards.)
This split over the definition of fair trade doesn't only risk confusing conscientious U.S. coffee buyers. It also exposes a rift at the heart of this movement over the best strategy for making coffee farming a more sustainable and humane enterprise.
Paul Rice, the chief executive of FTUSA, is positioning the shift as a question of growth and accessibility for the movement. In the Times article above he asks: "Do we want it to be small and pure or do we want it to be fair trade for all?"
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NYT: "Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat and Produce"
- ipsedixit Sep 3, 2012 09:50 PM
From the NYT article:
They [the Stanford scientists] concluded that fruits and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts, which tend to be far less expensive. Nor were they any less likely to be contaminated by dangerous bacteria like E. coli.
The researchers also found no obvious health advantages to organic meats.
Conventional fruits and vegetables did have more pesticide residue, but the levels were almost always under the allowed safety limits, the scientists said. The Environmental Protection Agency sets the limits at levels that it says do not harm humans.
Read it all here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/sci...
re: ennuisans
I'm with you...I'm not sure anybody still really believes in their heart of hearts that organic is nutritionally superior.
We all have to figure the balance in our own minds...
re: ennuisans
Eaxctly--it's the strawman argument, and the article cherry picked what it wanted for its title. At the same time, the study did find the following, which are the reasons many people eat organics:
"Conventional fruits and vegetables did have more pesticide residue"
"Organic chicken and pork were less likely to be contaminated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria."
"The study also found that organic milk contained more omega-3 fatty acids, which are considered beneficial for the heart."
"The organic produce also contained more compounds known as phenols, believed to help prevent cancer, than conventional produce. "
"Over all, the Stanford researchers concluded that 38 percent of conventional produce tested in the studies contained detectable residues, compared with 7 percent for the organic produce. (Even produce grown organically can be tainted by pesticides wafting over from a neighboring field or during processing and transport.) They also noted a couple of studies that showed that children who ate organic produce had fewer pesticide traces in their urine."
Finally, the conclusion:
"Dr. Bravata agreed that people bought organic food for a variety of reasons — concerns about the effects of pesticides on young children, the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens. "Those are perfectly valid," she said."
In other news, disposable plastic bags work just as well as my reusable bag. Yet I stubbornly continue to carry the reusable bag.
People make choices based on factors other than utility, don't you think? And the article offers plenty of reasons why organic food might be preferable - more omega-3 in the milk, etc. Plus, there's this:
"Organic chicken and pork were less likely to be contaminated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria."
I see that as a health advantage, and not just for the person consuming the organic meat. I don't buy all that much organic, myself (I get most of my produce from the non-organic vendors at the green market), but there seem to be plenty of good reasons to do so for those who choose to.
re: small h
"Organic milk" is not a uniform product and to make sweeping statements like 'more omega-3 in organic milk" overlooks the fact that it's based on either the feed used or something added to the end product. There's nothing inherent in "organic" milk that spontaneously creates high levels of omega-3.
re: ferret
Perhaps an enormous quantity of milk was evaluated, and organic milk was found, on balance, to be higher in omega-3. I really don't know, but the article mentions this, so I did, too.
re: small h
Again, it's feed-based so it may well be that some organic producers use feeds that are higher in omega-3 but it's not a function of "organic."
re: ferret
Be that as it may, if some organic producers use those feeds, and no non-organic producers use those feeds, then organic milk will be higher in omega-3. The cause is irrelevant; the result is the same.
re: small h
Horizon brand organic milk has a specific category marked "Omega-3" on the shelf, so either they add the stuff afterwards or they segregate milk from cows eating specific feed, or ? In which case, a mention of Omega-3 in this piece might not even result from study results but from someone reading the words on a package.
re: ennuisans
The Horizon milk is DHA-fortified, added to the product after the fact, like Vitamin D.
I heard a discussion about this article this morning on NPS's Morning Edition.
My reasoning for buying organic is that it usually just tastes better. If I buy organic Granny Smith Apples and organic Bananas, they taste 10000x better than conventional. Conventional are bland tasting.
Same with organic chicken. Until I made a pot of chicken soup with an organic chicken, I couldn't have told you the difference. The broth it makes is beautifully clean and clear and lean. The taste is also so much better.
I am lucky that Wegmans prices their organic produce similar and sometimes even lower than conventional. Organic meat is another matter. But Wegmans carries their Food You Feel Good About Line which is organic without the certification, which makes it more cost friendly.
re: Manassas64
Absolutely agree! Some organic things - chicken, carrots, cabbage - just taste SO much better to me. And I'd just as soon not eat a bunch of chemicals if I don't have to. But as a committed omnivore, I'm aware that many things I eat have been exposed to one kind of badness or another. Life is exciting and hazardous!
re: elenacampana
Yes, life IS exciting and hazardous! I like that. LOL
The Stanford study – and especially the majority of the media coverage of it - suffers from a # of short-comings, not least that people are missing the point that the organic farming offers a host of environmental benefits and lowers the serious health risks otherwise experienced by millions of farmers and farm workers around the world, due to the high toxicity of the 5 BILLION pounds of pesticides that are applied annually to the world's cropland.
On Equal Exchange's blog I've described some of these benefits, & provide further information resources:
See http://smallfarmersbigchange.coop/201...
Additionally – yesterday Tom Philpott wrote a very good piece that helped illuminate some of the critical methodological shortcomings in the Stanford study, and how they seemed to have misrepresented (or poorly described) the actual findings. The gist is that even this study actually _confirms_ that eating organic is healthier in many important ways.
See "5 Ways the Stanford Study Sells Organics Short" http://tinyurl.com/8vq9vhv
(& just for fun, here is a photo I took of a thriving, jungle-like organic coffee farm in southern Peru. Excellent bird habitat as well as a successful little farm.)
When I was 29, I developed a rash over 50% of my body, and several dermatologists gave me advice and ointments that did no good at all. Finally, when I was 39 (yes, I had that rash for 10 years) I had acupuncture + Chinese medicine that cured most of it overnight. My husband said that if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes he wouldn't have believed it. My acupuncturist told me that she had cleansed me of toxins, and to eat only organic food to prevent another buildup of toxins, So organic it has been, and will continue to be, for our whole family!
re: Claudette
I'd be careful reaching the conclusion that Chinese acupuncturists can clean toxins for anyone.
Yes, it's proven/accepted that acupunture can be used as a form of anesthesia for certain types of surgeries (e.g. C-sections, well publicized). But the claim of cleansing is highly suspect. Furthermore, the ointments might contain powerful "western" anti-inflammatory components which work to reduce symptoms. Recently a person who smeared gel all over his body in an attempt to treat his stuburn generalized pruritic macular rash died in Taiwan (reported by World Journal earlier this year) and authoraties found that his Chinese "doctor" gave him fortified gel.
Not trying to scare anybody. But I put my money on FDA-approved stuff. Only.
I'm tired of this whole organic v. inorganic discussion. I think that we need to focus on locally grown v. imported. People need to think of pesticide use and environmental impact as a local issue and not just global. I think that people who don't think/care about the pesticides now would think/care more if it's their water source being polluted. Or care about their air smelling because of the chicken/pork/etc. factories. There are people so focused on their food being organic that they might not consider the costs of transporting their food. I am a member of an organic CSA not because it's organic, but because I want to support a local (1.5 hr away) farm. But I'm sure that the non organic local produce is just as good.
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re: viperlush
Too late to edi but I meant to write non-organic not inorganic.
re: viperlush
How "local" is the labor on that farm?
re: fame da lupo
where do they pay their rent?
where do they shop for food?
where do their kids go to school (because a lot of them DO go to school, even if they're migrants)
re: cowboyardee
But fuel efficient cars correlate to whiter teeth. :)
re: Chemicalkinetics
I always thought it was that white teeth helped to power your car more efficiently with their brightness.
re: chowser
<to power your car more efficiently with their brightness.>
I think that is only true if your fuel efficient car is solar powered.
re: Chemicalkinetics
I keep seeing that stupid gum commercial...
re: sunshine842
Which one are you thinking?
I do remember there was an episode on Friends that Ross over-whitened his teeth.
re: Chemicalkinetics
I had to look it up -- Orbit -- but it had a perky little blond British chick talking about dirty mouth? Clean it up! . Cue big toothy grin (the wall of teeth type) with the photoshopped sparkle.
re: Chemicalkinetics
The Osmonds probably fund that study.
re: BDMTHRFKR
So while you're at it, print something for the workers that grow pesticide covered food and work in the factory farms with antibiotic resistant diseased animals.
And print something for people who (used to be able to) make their living fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. That's where the Dead Zone is growing all the time, where the mississippi river dumps out, full of the agricultural runoff of 40% of the continental U.S., and the boats have to go out further and further all the time to find anything alive, hurting their already tough business.
Why not print something for our grand kids to tell them why we couldn't figure out how to make our food in a way that didn't strip their land and pollute their only planet.
To me, it's about what animals have always known... "Dont s$%t where you eat."
re: chowaholic
Will do, chowaholic! Is Comic Sans font ok?
re: BDMTHRFKR
Well, if that's all you've got. I'd go with a quality log or ice cube font myself.
re: chowaholic
'... it's about what animals have always known... "Dont s$%t where you eat" ...'
The coprophages (e.g. rabbits) have a rather different slogan: "DO eat where you s$%t"
re: chowaholic
>>>To me, it's about what animals have always known... "Don't s$%t where you eat."<<<
You've just given the best reason to *not* buy organics, because animals do exactly that. Ever walked through a pasture? Just look at the scorecard of people who've gotten e.coli from improperly processed cow manure fertilizer dumped all over their organic spinach & sprouts and other greens vs. those who eat conventional produce. It's not even close.
There's a reason the heads of the CDC and vitually every other scientific agency have gone on record to say they'd never give their kids raw organic veg.
I find it really funny how pro-organic folks swear up and down how much better for you and tastier organics are, until some real evidence comes out that they are neither, and then these folks say they never made these claims.
And what would you suggest we print for the farmworkers? "Gainfully employed"? "Feeding America & Most of the Rest of the World Too"? Those would be good. How about the fishers? If you think synthesized fertilizers are any more damaging than massive amounts of manure flowing into our waterways, then you don't understand math or science. Excessive amounts of nitrogen, whether from a factory or from a cow's intestines, are equally bad.
re: acgold7
"I find it really funny how pro-organic folks swear up and down how much better for you and tastier organics are, until some real evidence comes out that they are neither, and then these folks say they never made these claims."
Maybe pro-organic folks don't all think the same so some might claim organic food is better for you and some don't? Broad brushing a big group of people will always turn up hypocrisy because they don't all have the same mind set.
re: acgold7
fyi organic producers must use fully composted (heat or age--240 day-- sterilized) animal manure... or else lose their certification.
however conventional growers can, and frequently do, use animal wastes piped directly out of the refuse lagoons outside of cafos onto crops.
the idea that organic growers use animal manure and conventional farmers do not is an error. the main difference is that for organic growers, the use of manure is heavily regulated... while for conventional farms, it is not.
eta-- see higher levels of food-borne pathogens in conventional crops, cited in the study
re: acgold7
Obviously, it was a figure of speech. Not "s&*&^ng where you ea"t means not screwing up the land that you depend on. When wild animals crap in a field, it's not screwing up their ecosystem. When we dump pesticides and practice monoculture farming in a way that strips the soil and pollutes the water, we are crapping the planet.
As for your arguments, they just don't hold up.
About manure and e coli outbreaks: both conventional agriculture and organic use manure. But organic use of it is far more regulated - has to be composted. Conventional farmers can use raw waste and sewage sludge. YUM! Walk through that pasture!
And most e coli outbreaks happen because of problems in the handling process later in the distribution chain, which is a problem with the massive scale of factory farming in both big conventional ag and big organic (which I'm not a fan of).
As for the dead zone, it's true that badly managed compost pollutes waterways as well, but organic doesn't have to use as much added nitrogen as conventional, because of soil fertility coming from nitrogen-fixing legumes in crop rotation and cover crops.
"And what would you suggest we print for the farmworkers? "Gainfully employed"? "Feeding America & Most of the Rest of the World Too"?"
How about "higher rates of leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, soft tissue sarcoma, lip, stomach and prostate cancer"?
Organic farming provides jobs too. Studies show it creates MORE jobs, up to 30% more.
And there's plenty of recent science showing true organic farming is capable of high yields that can feed the planet. In fact, it can perform better in periods of drought because the richer soil retains water.
In non-industrialized countries where labor is cheaper than pesticides and fertilizers, organic has been shown to INCREASE YIELDS 20-90%. Chemical companies have a lot of reason to not want people to know that, and to have us think pesticides/fertilizers are the only way to feed the world.
There has been no reference here yet to the synopsis published by Stanford School of Medicine itself. Perhaps it might be useful to read it and consider the wording and nuances of the statements there. Several posts here have seized on some "statements" (in the NYT article, for example) as absolutely true statements while disregarding the nuances expressed by the authors of the paper.
"...evidence from a limited number of studies suggested that organic milk may contain significantly higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids" does *not* equal "The study also found that organic milk contained more omega-3 fatty acids...".
Just as a statement like "There is some indication that product XYZ contains higher levels of compound ABC which has been observed to be higher in the blood of people from area XXX where the incidence of throat cancer is higher than normal..." does *not* equal "Product XYZ causes cancer!!!".
By all means continue to buy organic milk if one wishes, where there might be a chance that it might contain more omega-3 fatty acids depending on what you bought and where it came from, *maybe*; but to do so "because ALL organic milk WILL have higher content of these fatty acids" in every case would be a false decision.
re: huiray
Review of this study from the 'Science based medicine' blog
one of the comments there points to a meta study from Oxford on whether the environmental impact of organics is less (the conclusion: - not necessarily)
and a Pollan interview on this Stanford study
A follow-up article from the NYT:
Key quote:
Like many people who are seeking better-tasting, healthier food, Ms. Todd had heard about a recent study on organic food from Stanford University's Center for Health Policy.
Based on data from 237 previously conducted studies, the Stanford report concluded that when it comes to certain nutrients, there is not much difference between organic and conventionally grown food.
But it also found that organic foods have 31 percent lower levels of pesticides, fewer food-borne pathogens and more phenols, a substance believed to help fight cancer.
For Ms. Todd and countless other shoppers, the study just added to the stress of figuring out what to eat. And it underscored the deep divisions at the nation's dinner table, along with concerns among even food purists about the importance of federal organic standards.
Read it in full here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/us/...
This is a review of existing published research, some of it 40 years old. No new research has been done. The complete article isn't available, but the abstract says:
"17 studies in humans and 223 studies of nutrient and contaminant levels in foods met inclusion criteria. Only 3 of the human studies examined clinical outcomes, finding no significant differences between populations by food type for allergic outcomes (eczema, wheeze, atopic sensitization) or symptomatic Campylobacter infection. Two studies reported significantly lower urinary pesticide levels among children consuming organic versus conventional diets, but studies of biomarker and nutrient levels in serum, urine, breast milk, and semen in adults did not identify clinically meaningful differences. All estimates of differences in nutrient and contaminant levels in foods were highly heterogeneous except for the estimate for phosphorus; phosphorus levels were significantly higher than in conventional produce, although this difference is not clinically significant. The risk for contamination with detectable pesticide residues was lower among organic than conventional produce (risk difference, 30% [CI, −37% to −23%]), but differences in risk for exceeding maximum allowed limits were small. Escherichia coli contamination risk did not differ between organic and conventional produce. Bacterial contamination of retail chicken and pork was common but unrelated to farming method. However, the risk for isolating bacteria resistant to 3 or more antibiotics was higher in conventional than in organic chicken and pork (risk difference, 33% [CI, 21% to 45%])."
Frankly, I'm not impressed with the scope of the study or of existing research, though it might be different if I could read the whole article. And while I'm no True Believer in organic, I don't think this abstract gives me substantial reasons to disbelieve.
re: ElsieB
What's the funding source(s)? Why the assumption that the conclusion is forgone (which conclusion do you have in mind??
re: ElsieB
According to the credits in the Annals of Internal Medicine, "Ms. Pearson was supported by a Stanford Undergraduate Research Grant." No other source of funding is named. "Potential Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed." What's the story?
re: ElsieB
Did you take a look at the Stanford School of Medicine release/synopsis/interview I linked to in my post?
You don't even need access to Ann Intern Med to see the declaration regarding "no external funding". Even the NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/sci...) the OP links to in the original post right at the top states in the body of the article that the group received no external funding. It might be an idea to read the articles.
re: huiray
According to comments on other discussions, some 'naturalistic' source tried to cast doubts on the study by linking one of the profs to 'big tobacco', " Ingram Olkin, PhD, professor emeritus of statistics and of education". Dr Olkin probably just gave advise on how conduct some of the statistical analysis.
Probably just more proof to my point. For every study saying one thing you can find a study saying to complete opposite.
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According to Brittney Jones, she had sex with Ashton Kutcher on a couch in the living room he shares with wife Demi Moore.
An insider familiar with this 21-year old claims her story is true because Jones is "totally the type" to go after a famous, rich man.
Whether or not you believe the allegation, one thing is now for certain: readers can get an up-close view of just what Kutcher supposedly tapped while his family was out of the house.
Photos of Brittney Jones nude have leaked online, as a source tells Radar Online this self-proclaimed mistress is "a hard partier [who] always drank a lot."
That might explain these images, as Jones looks dead to the world. On her back. In her birthday suit. Is this a sight with which Ashton Kutcher is familiar? That's up to you to decide.
Does this look familiar, Ashton?
Its amazing because this video has been out for some time now and look..
Cant believe how good the video actually was. This Brittney Tape was well produced.
well i definitely see why Ashton took Brittney Jones number - the girl is cute - but she is definitely dirty - one night stand with a celebrity and she is becoming a pROnstar - wow this is fast and really self-sacrificing - watched her tape at celebrity pirates
..well u cant tell she is stupid until u meet her - but she act stupid that's for sure


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Ludum Dare 29
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About Mlle Eole (twitter: @ebezolli)
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on September 3, 2013
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on January 2, 2013
The Most ExtraPackant Game
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on January 2, 2013
programmer's personal phone number
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on December 18, 2012
We loved GoldKeeper graphism
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on December 18, 2012
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I'm in // food // concept "Under sea, see stars…"
Hello world !
Well, i'm in since the beginning but as usual i waited to have some pics and at least a basic concept for my first post here.
And as usual, i'm in Jam mode, using Javascript/Canvas on notepad++/firefox/firebug and old' Paint shop pro 5 for the graphisms. And Filezilla. And La Boite à Couleurs. And perhaps PixiTracker if i find the time to make the sounds, but i doubt that.
Here is my future food, some lentils and chickpeas soaking in water before cooking. I found it's fitted a lot with the "Beneath the Surface" theme. :3 I often let them sprout a little bit like that, it's fun to see and tasty.
About the concept : everywhere is sea. Our civilisation has been entirely engulfed, only sparing sea life, birds, and some rare tribes gathered on rafts.
And one day, someone very special came back to earth. That's you. You were sent in space a long time ago, to find some habitable new home. Indeed everybody already knew that earth was doomed : first, by men, and second, by our aging sun. Many have been sent, but you seems to have been the only one to return. And you know for sure where to find our new home in the big, deep space. But what to do with that, no spacial facility exist anymore. …No, wait… There still are. Beneath the surface.
Now you're the only one to possess the special ability to fly, thanks to your shuttle, and gather all the tribes. You will have to rally them, to find all the needed underwater stuff to build a new spacial factory platform. Desperate project.
Here come the gameplay : Try to convince people to follow you; send your tribes on special locations where underwater usable stuff may be founds, or to protect them from hostile beings; manage the few mountain's or skyscraper's peak's cities to reintroduce at least some basic engineering sciences amongst people, trade things on the market, foresee the political alliances …and build a new world for a future.
Five gameplay ideas, with the third one which i selected and explained above.
Now, for me too, there is a lot of things to do ! :3
LD28 Post Compo – Goblyrinth V2
I've just finished my little LD28 entry post compo ! \o/
You can play it here (english/french : green button on the top bar).
For the comparison, the old LD entry is here.
Core game remains the same : It's a mini labyrinth exploration game, where you only have one matchstick. But you're no longer a team of goblins lost in the maze who try to find the exit. For this new version the background is a bit darker : you play the shaman's goblins, sending your fellows in dungeons to fetch the treasures for you.
You're following 'em with your astral vision, giving your orders. They explore alone, in the dark.. But if you use their matchstick, only once and for a limited time, their path will be revealed on the map. If they die, the next goblin will pursue the quest. Of course, you will have to find the treasure before running out of goblins.
Where there were an unique maze, now you've got 15 levels with generated corridors and rooms, still the bunch of traps but also a monster, and 10 special abilities for your goblins : each one have one and you can choose the next of them to send. I remade all the graphics, refined looooots of details in the gameplay, added a tutoriel, some medals to earn, an endgame, and well – it took me two months. Not plain time, but still, that was quite a long project for me.
Now i think the game is correct. It's not a brilliant and shiny game, but people seems to enjoy it. I've began to learn programming (JS/canvas) in january last year and that's my 5th game, so i'm happy with it. For the next time, i want to learn about particles effects and.. the main objective is to make multiplayers games, so i will have to learn a lot.
Hope you enjoy the little game (all feedbacks would be very welcomed),
and thanks for all LudumDare & LD people ! ♥
Time to submit !
Yay, i've made it ! You can play Goblyrinth on the web and view the sources here. \o/
The version has more or less been completed in time, i'm happy with it. It lack a better labyrinth, i think i will make it later in another non-ludum version.
Oh, and sorry for the english, i know it's awfull. I've wrote the thing really late. :3
The game have been made in the Nesblog nest with these cool guys :
– Angry Nelson by Gollunk, Shoaz & Bandouch
– Duel of cowboys by Dcandle, Shoaz, Bandouch & Psykedelius
I'm in ! :)
Okay so here in the Nesblog nest we are four little teams for this new LD28 ! I've got the seat right next to the firecamp, it probably inspired my little idea.
I will try to make a mini labyrinth exploration game, where you only get one matchstick. You play as a team of goblins lost here and the shaman has a brilliant idea : send one goblin at a time. Using his astral vision, the shaman will follow his scout's progression.
You play the scout. If you play in the dark, you will only hear your path – "i'm going left. Right. Forward. BLONK-outch! Groooarrrr… aaaaah!!". If you use the matchstick, only once and for a limited time, your path will be traced by the shaman on the map.
If you die, the next goblin will know the map and will have his own matchstick in order to pursue the escape. You will have to find the exit before running out of goblins. =)
I'm in Jam mode, using Javascript/Canvas on notepad++/firefox/firebug and old' Paint shop pro 5 for the graphisms. And Filezilla. And La Boite à Couleurs.
Time to submit ! :)
The game is playable and it has some minimal graphisms, it would be better with the two last features – creatures saying fun things when they meet and "The Great Absurd Fun and Nice Book Of Life" – but i won't make them before the deadline so i save that for the week, with the graphisms of the cute creatures! Can't wait.
So, I submit now!
This is my third Ludum Dare game, but it's my first submission! Do do di da dooo! \o/
It's alive !
The gameplay works. It's nice to see the little creatures born and live and create nests and make childrens and follow my clics. There is no graphisms yet and i don't know if it will be finished for tomorrow, but i'm happy happy. \o/
You can try it here online, but you will need the explanations below to understand the feedbacks, for i have to implement tutoriels and all the stuff.
We will play with little creatures who only have ten seconds lifespan (the green aura let you see the time left). You have to help them fulfil the great wish and goal of their life (like meet another one (the blue ones), reproduce themselve (the pinks), or construct a nest (the greens)) by guiding them in the right place to achieve it.
The nests (black and white spots) are necessary for reproduction; to construct one the nest-goal creatures have to go to a random specific point (their green areas), that moves away the creatures and thus you will have to move them for the encounters. The nests and creatures have to grow before being usable.
One can make born a maximum of 15 creatures, when all of them have been born or if you forgot to make reproduce them and there is no new generations, you get a total of creatures having been happy or unhappy (not done yet).
Bonus : when they meet, creatures says something cute or fun or poetical, and it is wrote in The Great Book Of Life. Perhaps.
Well, i'm in !
And in fact i was since the begining. I've choose my game idea within the hour and started to code it yesterday midday. But i've been super-reluctant to announce it because i soon realised that i have forgotten all the damn things i knew about code in just a month !!§*ù, and it is so fraking slow and painfull to do something in this state thus i wasn't sure to be able to make anything at all.
Now my head is still full of hatred for my absolute non-skill, for my 10second-memory, for frrrr-shhhh-javascript, for the injustice of all the evil things in the world, but i haven't killed anybody yet and the project seems to slowly take shape. I'm not sure to be able to submit it for monday, but for i'm trying anyway – and hell, since i poor little thing am suffering a lot in that goal !! – here am i.
• Tools : So, i'm a non coder thrown in the hard and cruel world of javascript & canvas. I also use flashdevelop, the old old old Paint shop pro 7, and my own previous code from my two early projects. I use no libs, however i pick some pieces of code in tutorials and advices from programmers friends. And i speak english bad. Sorry!
• About the game idea :
We will play with little creatures who only have ten seconds lifespan. You have to help them fulfil the great wish and goal of their life (like meet anotherone, reproduce themselve, or construct a nest) by guiding them in the right place to achieve it.
The nests are necessary for reproduction; to construct one the nest-goal creatures have to go to a random specific point, that moves away the creatures and thus you will have to move them for the encounters. One can make born a maximum of X creatures, when all of them have been born or if you forgot to make reproduce them and there is no new generations, you get a total of creatures having been happy or unhappy.
Bonus : when they meet, creatures says something cute or fun or poetical, and it is wrote in The Great Book Of Life. Perhaps.
• Inspiration : I realised the similarity with a game i adored from the last Ludum Dare where you had to help people meet their significant ones. It was really simple and poetic. Felt a little bit odd when i noticed it, but well, it's okay. It also seems to be a remembrance of "flOw" from Thatgamecompagny, that i loved a lot.
Here is my post-LD non-game. :p
Well, it may be a bit late (again? Yup.). But since this isn't really a game, more a kind of linear history, I didn't intend to submit it so I took my time. I think you 've got to test enough games right now to not add something that doesn't fit the rules. :p
♦ English version of Evocation – web
♦ French version of Evocation – web
But I wanted to show it here because :
- It's my first program, and my first javascript/canvas program, something moves on the screen, and I'm happy so I wanted to share that 'cause it's for some part thanks to Ludum Dare.
- I have been sustained a lot by kind people to DO SOMETHING for this LD, so I did. They are the others (great and moving) part of my motivation. I felt I have to finish here what I have been encouraged for.
- I'ts not a game, but I tried to do something elegant that fits the Minimalist Theme, It contain potato, some references I was pleased to use, and it have been nicely received in it's first french version. So maybe you could like it.
- Since my english is still awfull, I've been helped for the translation. Seems better to honour this work by publishing it here. ^^
♦ Post mortem – Premices :
Well… Honnestly I wasn't really inspired by the theme. I searched on saturday morning about Minimalism in it primary meaning, in it's artistic current, about it's context and consequences, about artists themselves.. I've learned a lot. But I wasn't inspired. And a little bit ill too.
I like Mies van der Rohe -which is a minimalist architect- since many years, when i visited his Spanish pavillon in Barcelona. I love the elegance, simplicity, lightness of this construction. The use of water and space. I thought I could perhaps not make a game, but try to reveal that.
It would only use some moving rectangles, I didn't knew if i could only do that but it would be the occasion to try. I didn't saw this like an animation, but like a path the user should take moving forward with the up button. It would have a little story with a potato (…well…) talking along the path (hum…), that could react if the user choose to go back instead of move.
That wasn't the only idea, but I didn't enjoyed the others. This one had at least a nostalgic touch. But I couldn't figure how to make it funny. That was not a gameplay. I spent the day and the night thinking about it without give it a try. I thought about not submit anything for this LD and go back to work.
But I had announced my participation here and there and people had been very supportive. So I told them that I didn't know what to do for this LD. I felt bad. I felt sorry that they had wasted their time and encouragements because of me. And their responses were so cool.. "Come on, you can do it !". Okay, I couldn't NOT do nothing.
♦ Newbie discovers about powers of code :
That was on sunday evening. So. Lets try. Up Button, moving rectangles. I had a tuto about games on canvas made by a friend. Took the game loop and the up button parts. Well, this works. Never tried to programm anything in JS before, only theorical exercices with boucles and operators. In the console. This was the first day in my life where i had something on the screen !
I don't clearly remember how and why, but I switched from the Mies van der rohe evocation idea to moving rectangular islands. More or less like in the SNES "mode 7″. For Mies van der rohe I needed perspective illusion when the player goes back or forth. So make a rectangle grow in the screen when button up is pushed was the first move.
Well, I had got some problems. To figure how to use the coordinates – at begining my islands often flipped themselves, and expanded seemingly randomly. I had to remove the down button, cause if false-perspective eventually became good forward, backward was still pretty messy. Fortunately, I've been helped. I did my code myself, but I had the chance to have people reviewing my code and explaining me where or why it couldn't work.
Added and removed an inertia system – It worked, but messed again with my island generation. Don't know why. Often forgot how exactly functionned pieces of code i had writed myself. Even only two hours before. Even commented. Had hard times with the animation of the "signal" announcing new messages – and I'm still not proud of it. But I was pretty impressed by the things which worked quite easily when I tried to make them.
♦ Choices and challenges :
I had no libraries. Nor jQuery. I wished to work from scratch if possible, and with no graphisms too (the up button representation is the only picture). Just with code. I usually do the graphics, so it was my personnal challenge. When I decided to not submit the "thing", I took some code I have made for the last LD, for the footer part of the website.
I didn't worked on monday and wednesday days. So I'm pretty happy with the time spent in the project, I've lost some hours on the issues mentionned before, but I'm surprised that it were finished so soon. I used two days on the story and timing, reviewed all of it hundreds of time. One day again for translation – to realize that it was awfull and be helped. I'm fond of Ray Bradbury for his english mastery, and his language's massacre by myself was really a shame to me.
I had to make a choice for the history. I had an idea more contemplative in mind – You're a bird, a voice asks you to rescue her. You finds and takes it, it's a potato (humhum), she share her thoughts with you during the flight. You let her go on the continent, she thanks you. ("You were so kind to rescue and let me speak, you know, you're a good guy !"). And this story about Chell and Keats (from Portal, Hyperion, Mush, and others refs too :3). I asked people to choose what they would enjoy better.
I was not sure about the linearity. I could easily make alternative choices in the dialogs but it wouldn't have a real impact on the island below (not a significative and visible one, island remains islands..). And I also have already made a novel game with real and efficient choices on my last LD entry. I don't wanted to seems to be 'the girl which make novel games', since that's not even my cup of tea…
♦ That's freaking cool !
I wish it will be as smooth for the next projects. Which will hopely be real games ! The story of Evocation will continue in it, this story is a prequel of a project I have in mind since long time. I'm currently learning to program to be able to make it some day. For my formation, I plan several mini projects in this perspective.
Thanks again, Ludum dare and Ludum dare people !!
I got some ideas but not a single I would find pleasant to make. So I'm still trying to find something more appealing (Mies van der Rohe ? Flatland ? Game of life ?). Meanwhile, I ate my ♥-potato in revenge. NAHAHAHAHAH.
PS: I forgot to put the link to the post mortem of our last submission, by Mokona. It's here.
I'm in ! :)
Well …probably.
I'm currently learning about Javascript/Canvas but I have only few basics. So I will try to do something, or at least just a little concept and graphs that I would be able to finish later. And, oh, my english is as approximative as always, sorry about that. :p
PS : I saw this munificent "heart-potato" while doing my food shopping yesterday. It's destiny ! yum yum yum miss potato you will be a delicious dish HA HA HA !
By the way, this is my desk. For the tools, I will use HTML/CSS/JS and perhaps jQuery on Flashdevelop; and Paint shop pro for the graphics, with MyPaint and Krita if I have to paint. The two later are great cool free and open source tools.
Take care and have fun everybody !
Finally.. We made it !!! :)
Finally ! I can show you the little 'novel game' we made for Ludum Dare 25 !
The english translation had been made collaboratively by folks who followed the project -and it was really really cool to see that. But we made a lot of modifications later in the french version that couldn't have been accounted. So, sorry, please consider the content as a demo.
Well, I know we have a month late. :3 But we had some little problems and first of all : we lost the programer, late of LD's weekend. So we had to find somebody who would be eager to retake the project, and it took some time.
And at last : Mokona undertook to make it, but due to his job he only could work on it late on the day, some days. Mokona says that he tracked the time he passed on the project and happily, that could have fit on a Jam.
I cannot say as much : the graphics could have been made in time but I exploded the schedule with the css-html integration part. I'm not experimented on that, so it took me longer than it should had.
But well, thanks to the LD, we have our first own game for 2013 ! That's really cool. We showed it to french players yesterday and despite the fact that it's a text-based game, they seems to mostly have liked it (on a sondage, 138 people said they liked it or would have like a next chapter and 33 only didn't liked it). Or perhaps they are too gentle with us. :p
This is pretty encouraging. 2013 is the year where I will try to learn programming, do games, and …hopefully : in 2014 perhaps, live with video game's revenues. And I will do looooots of mini-jams by myself to fulfill this goal.
I wish all of you a really wonderfull new year, with lots of cool projects !
GoldKeeper – some items
So the game won't be finished tonight, but we are still standing to fight for a release – hopefully this week.
Here is the shop, where you can see the result of your selling with the adventurers.
Currently I'm drawing some objects – rusted sword, devilish goat, Perfume of Deadly Cheese…
Congrats to all the fine people who submitted their game, and some love for the ones who tried ! :p


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