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Riva Freifeld, a film and TV editor based in New York, was a raging handgun-hater when she began doing research two years ago for an antigun documentary. A child in her family had been injured by a friend playing with his father's gun. "I had never touched a gun," she recalls. "I was horrified by them." But when a friend persuaded her to try shooting, "I found I loved it," the 52-year-old Freifeld now confesses.
Freifeld is one of an estimated 7 1/2 million American women who regularly participate in shooting sports such as targets, clays, and skeet, up 80% from 1988. And 2 1/2 million more hunt--double the number in l988--according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a trade organization for the firearms industry.
A decade ago, the NSSF was projecting growth of no more than 1% a year, concedes Vice-President Douglas Painter. Now, with the industry aggressively attempting to attract women, growth could increase as much as 15% to 20% per year, he says. The influx of women has given business a boost, greatly expanded demand for training and shooting ranges, and inspired new lines of shooting wear.
At the Blue Trails Range in Wallingford, Conn., owner David Lyman estimates that women now account for 40% of his clientele. "It used to be maybe 5% to 10%," he says. Smith & Wesson Corp. offers "women only" courses at its new $3 million firearms training center in Springfield, Mass. And women's shooting competitions around the country, many of them for charity, are booked solid.
Gun manufacturers recognize a hot target when they see one. Some have tailored firearms to female proportions and tastes. Smith & Wesson's LadySmith offers several models--.357 magnums, .38 specials, and 9mms--all in rose-decorated cases. Vice-President Jonathan E. Mossberg of O.F. Mossberg & Sons Inc. in North Haven, Conn., calls weapons for women the fastest-growing segment of the business.
Browning, a Utah-based subsidiary of France's Giat Industries, enlisted the aid of Sue King, executive director of the Women's Shooting Sports Foundation in Houston, to design its lightweight turquoise shotgun. And Beretta USA Corp. reports its small-caliber pistols with tip-up barrels (for easier loading) and adjustable-stock shotguns are particularly popular with women. Both Browning and Beretta also offer lines of women's shooting wear.
"MACHO" BAGGAGE. Other clothing and equipment makers have women in their sights, too. Orvis Co. in Manchester, Vt., long a leading supplier of sporting gear, operates several shooting schools. It runs 1,000 students a year through its two- and three-day programs at $900 to $1,100 each. "About 35% of our students are women," says an Orvis spokesman. "Ten years ago it was 5%."
It's so chic to shoot that Chanel Inc. last year acquired Britain's tony Holland & Holland Ltd. and opened a shop on Manhattan's West 57th Street. "With clothing, it can cost you almost $7,000 to get equipped for serious competitive shooting," says Deborah Lyman of the Blue Trails Range. So many women shooters tend to be corporate executives or professionals like Lilly Sieu, 34, an independent computer consultant who won first place last month in the World English Shooting Clays Championship in San Antonio. "Every contract that I get I negotiate for time off to go shoot," says Lyman. Boulder (Colo.) Physician Barbara A. Phillips, 42, who learned how to use a gun for protection, calls shooting "a good family sport."
Why are all these women going gunning? In many cases, it's husbands or boyfriends who get the women interested. Then they realize they can compete at the same level as the men--or higher. Freifeld believes that women make better shooters than men because they don't bring "macho" baggage to the sport. But the WSSF's King, a former instructor, dismisses the female superiority thesis as "mostly nonsense." Who's right? Only the bull's-eye knows for sure. But women have definitely found a home on the range.


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After the engine in his Red Bull burst into flames on the final lap, cctv footage showed Webber hailing down Alonso in his Ferrari before hitching a ride on the sidepod of the car back to the pits.
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Given Alonso stopped in the middle of turn seven at the Marina Bay Street Circuit to collect Webber, and then the Mercedes duo of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton flashed past in quick succession, it was felt the incident compromised safety.
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This report is an attempt to malign Ms. Oliver.
SUBMITTED: Sunday, August 23, 2015POSTED: Sunday, August 23, 2015
As part of a well-structured smear campaign against a circle of connected professionals in Dallas (including Ms. Oliver), this report was filed by an individual duped into believing the tripe pitched by some hateful people hired to propagate a long-term wrongful targeting program. Thankfully, Ms. Oliver, received almost no abuse in the periodic attacks that occurred. It affected several hundred people in various degrees as so many received similar critism and abusive attacks, online, in person, and even a few people were the recipients of slander in mainstream publications. I have worked with Ms. Oliver several times throughout the years and have never experienced anything but the rewards of pleasant professional relationship of the highest merit. Her skills, knowledge of the industry in which she works, strong and fair work ethics, and unyielding and often brutal honesty are her most notable qualities. There is more to this story. The purposes behind this limp attempt to damage her reputation and bring harm to any potential professional prospects in her future is only to be regarded as just that - a limp attempt. The true reason for this nasty bit of slander is part of a long-running unlawfully conducted operation that was launched to discredit, isolate, and create a false impression of there being numerous undesirable elements about multiple honest, hard working, and talented individuals in Dallas. It was set in place for reasons that have nothing to do with Ms. Oliver or anyone else it aimed to humiliate and destroy personally, professionally, financially, or socially. This publicly desecrate Diana Oliver merely stems from much falsified information about her which was imposed upon the person reporting it here. Ms. Oliver has never been anything less than highly professional in any of the film or television projects we worked on with each other. This is mean and nasty and should not be dealt with in such a manner. It is in poor taste.
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Diana Oliver has earned her respected reputation
SUBMITTED: Monday, June 23, 2014POSTED: Monday, June 23, 2014
Diana Oliver is well respected film Producer, with a reputation of constant hard work, effective business skills, and most importantly, she is truly a unique people person. She is a strong asset in the DFW filming industry, along with many other cities and states in the country.
Her production resume speaks for itself, and her relationships with past crew and employees remain strong. I have had the privilege of learning this first hand by working closely with her.
She has owned up to her reputation, and has become an excellent mentor. Unfortunately, Incompetent video production UNspecialists will be the only ones to say different.
Keep up the hard work, Diana! You would not have made it this far in your accomplishments if such negative reports were true!
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Diana Oliver is a well-known and respected figure in the film industry
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 22, 2013POSTED: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
I have had the pleasure of working with her on several projects.She had an excellent skilled crew each time and both her directing and producer skills made each project a great success. She was reliable, personable and very professional.
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I am the Producer/Director Diana Oliver
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 10, 2013POSTED: Thursday, October 10, 2013
First of all, I find it extremely disheartening that anyone, arbitrarily and anonymously report online slanderous comments.
My rebuttal is as follows: Number one, I owe ONE Crew member in Dallas, Texas payment, Editor Jeffry Chaffin of Backyard Films Presents. If this post is by him, shame on you. The final balance owed was not paid due to the INVESTOR pulling out, whose monies paid for the reshoot, NOT ME. Secondly, I am an Independant Filmmaker and doing my very best and always pay in CASH and absorb all TAXES so my Crew is well paid, absorbing the tax fees, myself.
Both Pilots are being shopped and when they sell or if I book another job, your Invoice balace will be paid, and not before. I am in constant contact over it , as you are well aware.
If this is Camerman Joe Rodriquez, who barely credits as a C Camera, then the $75.00 owed to you was not paid because your ENTIRE B roll of footage was UNUSABLE for the Pilot or Sizzle. And double shame on you for incompetant work.
Finally, my credentials are listed on IMDB and LINKEDIN and i am not a Producer or Director wannabe...I have delivered an award winning film, and have three Pilots up for sale as Producer and Director ,your just jealous! LOL
Shame on this site, which is under investigation, shame on whomever anonymously posted this about me and I will pray for you all, as well as my Attorney will be contacting you.
kindest regards,
Diana Oliver
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It will take at least two months for the new government to take over the Raisina Hill, but the defence ministry has already pulled down the shutter on major capital acquisitions, brushing aside suggestions by major defence contractors to commit on either the $20 billion Dassualt Rafale fighter deal or the purchase of six more C-17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft from Boeing.
South Block sources said defence minister AK Antony had left it to the next government to take a call on hardware acquisitions and was unwilling to give any future commitment to any country or defence contractor. Last month, Antony publicly stated that his ministry had no money left to buy the 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) from Dassualt, as it had exhausted 92% of its capital outlay.
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"When the offer was conveyed to defence ministry, the minister let it be known that he was opposed to giving any commitment and wanted the new government to take the call on future acquisitions," said a senior official.
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STEVEN GERRARD has pleaded for calm ahead of tomorrow's FA Cup showdown between Liverpool and Manchester United.
Liverpool and Manchester United is a massive rivalry and, of course, there is going to be stuff in the papers and banter between fans
The bitter rivals clash for the first time since the Luis Suarez race row erupted in October. Suarez was found guilty of racially abusing United defender Patrice Evra and hit with an eight-game ban and £40,000 fine from the FA.
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Gerrard appreciates how volatile the clash could be, but the England star said: "We all have a responsibility to ensure this game is remembered for the football.
"Liverpool and Manchester United is a massive rivalry and, of course, there is going to be stuff in the papers and banter between fans.
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WARM SPRINGS, Ore. - Crews have completed a month-long effort to clean up a 5,000-gallon fuel tanker spill following a rollover tanker crash on Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, ODOT officials said Wednesday.
Workers will be paving the highway on Thursday, ahead of the return to two-lane traffic in the vicinity of milepost 81, the agency said.
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The crash occurred the night of Tuesday, Sept. 23 when a fuel tanker truck collided with an elk and crashed onto the westbound lane shoulder.
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British ministers had identified Dr Kelly as the probable source of a BBC report that alleged that government officials had "sexed up" evidence of Iraq's lethal weapons to justify the war. Dr Kelly denied he was to blame.
His death marked a dramatic twist in a political crisis over Britain's pre-Iraq war intelligence. The opposition has called for Mr Blair's resignation, saying he exaggerated the case for war.
Dr Kelly's death puts a question mark over the future of a top Blair aide, communications chief Alastair Campbell, and a number of government ministers who named Dr Kelly as the likely source.
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Lori Andrews, "Privacy and Data Collection in the Gameful World," in The Gameful World (Steffen Walz and Sebastian Deterding, eds.)(MIT Press, 2015).
Lori Andrews, "Social Networks: Impact on Biotechnology Research, Health Care, and Human Rights," in Biennial Review of Law, Science and Technology: Biotechnology, Health Inequality, and Distributive Justice (Institutum Jurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica: Taiwan forthcoming 2015).
Lori Andrews, "'The Progress Clause': An Empirical Analysis Based on the Constitutional Foundation of Patent Law," 15 North Carolina Journal of Technology 4 (June 2014).
Sarah Blenner and Melanie Koellmer, "Diabetes on the Go: A Study of 275 Diabetes Apps," Center for Diabetes Research and Policy, conference report for Health on the Go: Medical Apps, Privacy and Liability, (April 4, 2014). (pdf)
Michael Holloway, "Federal Agency Regulation of Mobile Medical Apps," Institute of Science, Law and Technology, conference report for Health on the Go: Medical Apps, Privacy and Liability, (April 4, 2014). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Where's Waldo?: Geolocation, Mobile Apps and Privacy," The SciTech Lawyer (Summer 2013). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Privacy and Technology: A 125-Year Review," in Then & Now: Stories of Law and Progress (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law 2013)(co-edited with Sarah Harding). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Jalissa Bauman Horne, "Sculpting Public Policy through Bioart," in Art et Biotechnologies 37-60 (Ernestine Daubner and Louise Poissant eds., University of Quebec, 2011). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Julie Burger Chronis, "A Pound of Flesh: Patient Legal Action for Human Research Protections in the Biotech Age," in Patients as Policy Actors 83-108 (Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy Tomes, Rachael Grob and Mark Schlesinger eds., Rutgers University Press, 2011).
Lori Andrews and Jordan Paradise, "Genetic Sequence Patents: Historical Justification and Current Impacts," in Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology (Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Daniel J. Kevles and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger eds., Monograph, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2010). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Assessing Values to Set Policies for Consent, Storage, and Use of Tissue and Information in Biobanks" in New Challenges for Biobanks: Ethics, Law and Governance (Kris Dierickx and Pascal Barry eds., Intersentia, 2009). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, ed., "Symposium: Who Owns Your Body?," 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1-342 (November 2009).
Lori Andrews, "In Memoriam," 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1 (November 2009). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Who Owns Your Body? A Study in Literature and Law," 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 3 (November 2009). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "How Art and Literature Can Contribute to Genetic Policy," 22 GeneWatch 4 (December 2009). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Joan Abrahamson, "Making Art, Making Policy," in Imagining Science: Art, Science, and Social Change 1-2 (Sean Caulfield and Timothy Caulfield eds., The University of Alberta Press, 2008).
Lori Andrews, "DNA Inside," The Journal of Life Sciences 46-51 (June/July 2008). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Jordan Paradise, "Genetic Sequence Patents: Historical Justification and Current Impacts," Living Properties: Making Knowledge and Controlling Ownership in the History of Biology, Berlin, Germany (May 2008). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and L.A. Shackleton, "Influenza Genetic Sequence Patents: Where Intellectual Property Clashes With Public Health Needs," 3 Future Virology 235-241 (May 2008). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Is There a Right to Clone? Constitutional Challenges to Bans on Human Cloning," in The Reproductive Rights Reader (Nancy Ehrenreich ed., New York University Press, 2008). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Julie Burger, "Thinking Small," The Journal of Life Sciences 48-53 (February/March 2008). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Jordan Paradise, "Tales from the Crypt: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Considerations for Biohistorical Analysis of Deceased Historical Figures," 26 Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law 223-299 (January 2008) (pdf).
Jessica K. Fender, "The FDA and The Nano: Tiny Products Create Big Problems," 83 Chicago-Kent College of Law Review 1063 (2008).
Julie Burger and Justin Brunner, "A Court's Dilemma: When Patents Conflict with Public Health," 12 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology 7, 1-41 (Fall 2007). (pdf)
Julie Burger, "Stem Cells without Embryos: Solving Dilemmas for Human Rights?" 34 ABA Human Rights 14 (Fall 2007). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Jordan Paradise, "Banning Gene Patents Can Bring Benefits," 1 BioWorld Perspectives 1 (September 20, 2007). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Tissue Culture," The Journal of Life Sciences 68-73 (September 2007). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Art as a Public Policy Medium," in Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond (Eduardo Kac ed., MIT Press, 2007).
Lori Andrews, "Patenting Life," The Journal of Life Sciences 38-48 (May 2007). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, Julie Burger and Marianne Timm, "Nanotechnology and the Intellectual Property Landscape," in Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century 239-257 (Nigel Cameron and Ellen Mitchell eds., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007). (pdf)
Jessica K. Fender, "Patenting Trends in Nanotechnology," in Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century 239-257 (Nigel Cameron and Ellen Mitchell eds., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, Jordan Paradise, Timothy Holbrook, and Danielle Bochneak, "When Patents Threaten Science," 314 Science 1395 (December 2006). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "The Battle Over the Body," Trial 22-29 (October 2006). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Who Owns Your Body? A Patient's Perspective on Washington University v. Catalona," 34 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 398-407 (2006). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "The Patent Office as Thought Police," Chronicle of Higher Education B20 (February 17, 2006). (pdf)
Marianne R. Timm, "Nanotechnology: U.S. State Government Promotion Through Legislation," 3 Nanologues 3-6 (2006). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Donors, Deadbeats, and Ghost Dads: Social Values and the Role Of Genetics In Determining Parental Rights and Responsibilities," in Genetic Ties and the Future of the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children 100-135 (Mark Rothstein, Thomas Murray, Mary Anderlik and Greg Kaebnik eds., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Lori Andrews, "Studying Medical Error in Situ: Implications for Malpractice Law and Policy," 54 DePaul Law Review 357 (2005).
Lori Andrews, Jordan Paradise and Timothy Holbrook, "Patents on Human Genes: An Analysis of Scope and Claims," 307 Science 1566-1567 (2005). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Harnessing the Benefits of Biobanks," 33 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 1-10 (2005). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Bioethics: The Beginning and End of Life," Illinois Issues 16-21 (March 2005). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Jordan Paradise, "Gene Patents: The Need for Bioethics Scrutiny and Legal Change," 5 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics 403-412 (2005).
Lori Andrews, "The Body as Property in the Biotech Era," in Identity in a Digital Age (Bundesdruckerei, 2004).
Lori Andrews, "Havasupai Tribe Sues Genetic Researchers," 4 Law and Bioethics Report 10-11 (2004), reprinted in 31 Privacy Journal 5-6 (April 2005). (pdf)
Lori Andrews and Jordan Paradise, "Gene Patents and Bioethics," contribution to UNESCO's Extraordinary Session of the International Bioethics Committee, Paris (April 27-29, 2004).
Lori Andrews, Nancy Buenger, Jennifer Bridge, Laurie Rosenow, David Stoney, R.E. Gaensslen, Theodore Karamanski, Russell Lewis, Jordan Paradise, Amy Inlander, and David Gonen, "Constructing Ethical Guidelines for Biohistory," 304 Science 215-216 (April 9, 2004). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Legislators as Lobbyists: Proposed State Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Therapeutic Cloning and Reproductive Cloning," Appendix E in Monitoring Stem Cell Research: A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics 199-224 (The President's Council on Bioethics, Government Printing Office, 2004).
Lori Andrews, "Mom, Dad, Clone: Implications for Reproductive Privacy," in Reproductive Technologies: Readings in Bioethics (Thomas A. Shannon ed., Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004).
Lori Andrews, "Changing Conceptions," in Living With the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, and Christiana Desser eds., Island Press, 2003).
Lori Andrews and Erin Shaughnessy Zuiker, "Ethical, Legal And Social Issues In Genetic Testing For Complex Genetic Disease," 37 Valparaiso University Law Review 793 (2003).
Lori Andrews, "Breast Cancer Genetics and the Law," 6 National Lawyers Association Review 4 (2003).
Lori Andrews, "People as Products: The Conflict Between Technology and Social Values," 4 The Hedgehog Review 45 (Fall 2002). (Read about this issue of The Hedgehog Review)
Lori Andrews and Jessica Weiner, "The Donor Egg: Emerging Issues in Liability and Paternity," 25 Family Advocate 14 (Fall 2002).
Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, "Propriety and Property: The Tissue Market Meets the Courts," in Who Owns Life? (David Magnus, Arthur Caplan and Glenn McGee eds., Prometheus Books, 2002).
Lori Andrews, "The Ethical and Legal Issues Pertaining to the Patenting of Life Forms," in Engineering the Farm (Britt Bailey and Marc Lappé eds., Island Press, 2002).
Lori Andrews, George Annas and Rosario Isasi, "Protecting The Endangered Human: Toward An International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations," 28 American Journal of Law & Medicine 151-178 (2002).
Lori Andrews, "Genes and Patent Policy: Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights," 3 Nature Reviews Genetics 803-808 (October 2002).
Lori Andrews, "The Gene Patent Dilemma: Balancing Commercial Incentives With Health Needs," 2 Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy 65-106 (2002).
Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, "Surveillance Creep in the Genetic Age," in Surveillance as Social Sorting (David Lyon, ed., Routledge, 2002).
"DNA: Handle with Care, a Conversation with Lori B. Andrews," Harvard Business Review (April 2001).
Lori Andrews, "A Conceptual Framework for Genetic Policy: Comparing the Medical, Public Health, and Fundamental Rights Models," 79 Washington University Law Quarterly 222 (2001).
Lori Andrews, "Embryonic Confusion," 14 GeneWatch 5 (2001).
Lori Andrews, "Mom, Dad, Clone: Implications for Reproductive Privacy," 7(2) Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 176 (1998). Revised for The Cloning Source Book (Arlene Judith Klotzko ed., Oxford University Press, 2001). Reprinted in Reproductive Technologies (Thomas Shannon ed., Sneed and Ward, 2003).
Lori Andrews, "La Législation Américaine et Les Évolutions Prévisibles en Matière de Clonage et de Recherche sur les Cellules Embryonnaires," in Le Clonage, La Thérapie Cellulaire et L'Utilisation Thérapeutique des Cellules Embryonnaires 168 (M. Deputé, M. Alain Claeys, and M. Claude Hariet eds., Office Parlementaire d'Evaluation des Choix Scientifiques et Technologiques, 2000).
Lori Andrews and Michelle Hibbert, "Courts and Wrongful Birth: Can Disability Itself be Viewed as a Legal Wrong?" in Americans with Disabilities: Exploring Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions 318-330 (Leslie Pickering Francis and Anita Silvers eds., Routledge, Inc., 2000).
Lori Andrews and Nanette Elster, "Regulating Reproductive Technologies," 21 Journal of Legal Medicine 35 (2000).
Lori Andrews, "Banning the Clone," 11 ORGYN 16 (2000). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Money is Putting People at Risk in Biomedical Research," The Chronicle of Higher Education B4 (March 10, 2000). (pdf)
Selected Popular Press Articles
Lori Andrews, "Is Facebook Exploiting Our Info?," Cosmopolitan 30 (November 2012). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Can Your Social Networking Kill Your Job Prospects?," Tips on Life & Love, July 16, 2012, available at http://www.tipsonlifeandlove.com/your-money-and-career/your-career/can-your-social-networking-kill-your-job-prospects.
Lori Andrews, "His Profit, Your Problem," New York Daily News Op-Ed (May 20, 2012). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Facebook is Using You," The New York Times Op-Ed (February 4, 2012). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Privacy, Please: How Facebook Jeopardizes Your Private Life," Playboy 167-168 (January 2011). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Who's Your Daddy?: A Sperm Donor's Life Has Become Awfully Complicated," Playboy 111-113 (May 2009). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Stop Baby Doctors from Going Wild: Risky Multiple In-Vitro Births Are a Growing Menace," New York Daily News Op-Ed 39 (February 15, 2009). (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "Challenging Sperm Donor Privacy," Parade 14 (August 17, 2008).
Lori Andrews, "Paying Extra for Being Fat," Parade 6 (June 29, 2008).
Lori Andrews, "Lori Andrews Reads The Journalist and the Murderer in New Orleans, Louisiana," in Field Tested Books 74-75 (Coudal Partners, 2008).
Lori Andrews, "Fight for Your Health Care," Parade 14-15 (January 20, 2008).
Lori Andrews, "Secrets of the Grave," Parade 10-13 (October 7, 2007) (pdf)
Lori Andrews, "The Bones We Carried," The New York Times Op-Ed (June 22, 2007).
Lori Andrews, "Breaking the Law," Playboy 49-50 (April 2007).
Lori Andrews, "Michael Crichton Is Right about Gene Patents," TCSDaily.com (Jan. 23, 2007).
Lori Andrews, "Hands Off My Genes: Who's Looking at your DNA?" 53 Playboy 41-42 (March 2006).
Lori Andrews, "The Biotech Revolution: Gen-Etiquette," Christianity Today (October 1, 2001).
Lori Andrews and Nigel Cameron, "Cloning and the Debate on Abortion," Chicago Tribune Commentary (August 8, 2001).
Lori Andrews, "Embryos Under the Knife," Salon.com, August 21, 2000, available at http://www.salon.com/2000/08/21/stem_cell_3/singleton/.
Lori Andrews, "Embryonic Confusion," The Washington Post B1 (May 2, 1999).
Lori Andrews, "The Sperminator," The New York Times Magazine 60-65 (March 28, 1999).
Lori Andrews, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy (Simon & Schuster, 2013).
Lori Andrews, Maxwell Mehlman and Mark Rothstein, Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (West Publishing, 3rd edition, 2010) (law school casebook).
Lori Andrews, Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics (Columbia University Press, 2001).
Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age (Crown Publishers, 2001).
Lori Andrews, The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology (Henry Holt, 2000).


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I have finally finished my 10 day teaching spree. I am so happy and excited!
Now that i have finished, i can gladly have a sigh of relief. This week is called "golden week", this is a very import holiday in the Chinese calendar because it is the celebration of 2 festivals. The first and probably the most important is the 60th anniversary of the socialist state (1949-2009). The other festival is called 'Moon day', which is an ancient festival that has gone on for many generations in China. From what i can make out it is the celebration of the annual full moon in China, which doesn't sound right as they must have full moons every month, right? Anyways, it is a festival for families to meet up and i was told that if someone is not with his family during moon day they will be very upset.
But, these things mean nothing to me. My nationality isn't Chinese, and i hadn't even heard of moon day until a few days ago, so i probably wont be celebrating the holiday in the same way that the Chinese will. The way i look at it is i have a free 8 day holiday during school time. Ideal.
So i have decided to take advantage of the time off and do something different. Go to Inner Mongolia (please note, not actually the country Mongolia, but the province that boarders Mongolia in China).
I will leave on the 1st of October and enjoy a 30 hour + train ride all the way from down south to the very north of China. Its going to take a while (and if I'm honest, I'm not overly pleased its going to take so long!) but it should be OK.
We arrive on the 3rd of October early in the morning sometime. Below i will give you the itinerary for the trip as it is quite exciting.
Itinerary for Inner Mongolia:
3rd October -
Arrive in Hohhot (Inner Mongolias capital city)
Transfer to Xilamuren Grasland (another 2 hours of travelling, great)
Welcome ceremony
Lunch - "Mongolian roast sheep" boiled meat which is eaten using a knife and your hand (great for vegetarians!)
Presented with a "hada"
(a piece of silk used as a greeting gift)
and a cup of local wine by Mongolian girls :)
Horseback riding
Enjoying hand-made dairy food (cant wait, very little dairy out here in China)
Visiting Mongolian Tents
Mongolian traditional performances
Horse racing, wrestling archery and other activities
Transfer back to Hohhot
4th October -
Visit Yinken ring sand gulf:
Transfere to Yining ring sand gulf (3 hours bus)
Visit the Yellow river
The desert (sand dunes, probably no different to Braunton burrows)
Ordos wedding ceremony show
Camel riding
Transfer to Hohhot
5th October
Tibetan Buddhism temple-Jokhang temple
Visit Inner Mongolian Museum to see the biggest dinosaur fossil in China (Yes, i cannot wait for this. Cant be anywhere near as good as the Natural History Museum though)
Depart for Hohhot for Beijing after dinner.
As you may have guessed this is a package deal, but i think that it is quite a good one. It has been arranged with TTC (teach and travel china) the company that is responsible for me, so there are going to be many other people there that i have not seen in a while. Infact there is going to be 91 of us going in total, so its going to be a massive re-group. Hopefully see some of my old mates from Beijing again.
Going to have to make my lesson plan on the train on the way back, its going to be a dream!


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Gene Hoyord
- Funeral Date: 4/10/14
- Funeral Time: 3:00 PM
- Date of Birth: 5/29/32
- Date of Death: 4/02/14
- Funeral Location: Chapel of the Northfield Retirement Community
Gene R. Hoyord, age 81 of Northfield, passed away Wednesday morning, April 2, 2014, at the Care Center of the Northfield Retirement Community.
Gene was born May 29, 1932, in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, to Allard and Violet (Clemensen) Hoyord. He graduated from Rhinelander High School in 1950.
Survivors include 2 sisters Jeanette Dobberstein of Wisconsin, Judy (Paul) Otten of Marine on St. Croix. He was preceded in death by his parents.
A memorial service will be held at 3:00P.M. Thursday, April 10, 2014, at the Chapel of the Northfield Retirement Community.
Arrangements are with the Benson & Langehough Funeral Home. www.northfieldfuneral.com


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is drinking for groundhog day legit?
well you blacked out on MLK day and we pregamed arbor day, so yes
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Didn't drink, go ahead grammar Nazis take your shots.
You drink on Lee/Jackson day? Rookies
Ironic that you blacked out on MLK day...at least u die after that would have been commitment
Shutup 2:39.
Dude that's fuckin awesome
In Soviet Russia, Leonardo DiCaprio and Wolverine fly kites
drinking is legit, regardless of the day. and i appreciate the pun too :)
Shut up stupid black person... Unless you want to get raped
- Soviet Russian
MLK... Marin Luther King maybe?.. God dumbasses...
Blacked out on mlk.... Good one
In soviet Russia, fuck you
Fuck the USSR and all the commie pinko fags in the country
Drinking on Feb 2nd is legit, but drinking because it's groundhog day is just crazy.
I blacked out on January 7th. And the ninth. Tenth. Twelfth. Of course groundhog day is legit! Just like the other 364 days of the year.
Bad grammar isn't the problem here. I get tired of dumb fucks using "legit" when they don't know what the word "legitimate" means. "Legitimate" or "legit" isn't even applicable to the situation. Op is the dumbest of retards; more retarded than actual retards.
YES!!! It's huge in western PA you have to go it's a ton of fun!
Okay really tfln needs to filter the comments because that's just not right.
What about the day of the chode?
We prefer African-American out nowadays.


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Mathematics and Mechanics of Granular Materials
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August 2005
BeschreibungGranular or particulate materials arise in almost every aspect of our lives, including many familiar materials such as tea, coffee, sugar, sand, cement and powders. At some stage almost every industrial process involves a particulate material, and it is usually the cause of the disruption to the smooth running of the process. In the natural environment, understanding the behaviour of particulate materials is vital in many geophysical processes such as earthquakes, landslides and avalanches. This book is a collection of current research from some of the major contributors in the topic of modelling the behaviour of granular materials. Papers from every area of current activity are included, such as theoretical, numerical, engineering and computational approaches. This book illustrates the numerous diverse approaches to one of the outstanding problems of modern continuum mechanics.
InhaltsverzeichnisMathematics and mechanics of granular materials.
The incremental response of soils. An investigation using a discrete-element model.
Initial response of a micro-polar hypoplastic material under plane shearing.
Some theoretical results about second-order work, uniqueness, existence and controllability independent of the constitutive equation.
Perturbation solutions for flow through symmetrical hoppers with inserts and asymmetrical wedge hoppers.
Micromechanical constitutive modelling of granular media: Evolution and loss of contact in particle clusters.
A hyperbolic well-posed model for the flow of granular materials.
Towards a theory of granular plasticity.
Formulation of non-standard dissipative behavior of geomaterials.
Bifurcation analysis for shear localization in non-polar and micro-polar hypoplastic continua.
Large-strain dynamic cavity expansion in a granular material.
Generalised homogenisation procedures for granular materials.
Some fundamental aspects of the continuumization problem in granular Media.
Compression and shear of a layer of granular material.
An assessment of plasticity theories for modeling the incrementally nonlinear behavior of granular soils.
Incompressible granular flow from wedge-shaped hoppers.
Micromechanic modeling and analysis of unsteady-state granular flow in a cylindrical hopper.
Untertitel: 2005. Auflage. HC runder Rücken kaschiert. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungsdatum: August 2005
Seitenanzahl: 328 Seiten
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Hopkins says he'll shut down DKP
By Karl Freitag
Former two-division world champion Bernard Hopkins said today on a conference call that when he dethrones IBF light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud on March 9 in Brooklyn, Hall of Fame promoter Don King will have no more notable fighters in his stable and King will have to shut down his famed promotional company. "Who ever thought that Bernard Hopkins, out of anybody, not the mob, not the street people, not the fighters who have threatened him over the years, not the other promoters, all the other people Don King faced, he can tell you better than I can, whoever thought that it would be ME that would shut him down?" asked Hopkins. He advised longtime DKP employees to start looking for another job.
King responded, "Listen, my company has been here for 45 years. I'm helping Tavoris, and Tavoris is dedicated and committed to helping himself. You do not have to run out and find anyone to go out and give me whatever they do at other companies. When I get where I can tell my side of the story indicatively with backup, everyone will want to emulate and imitate. You've got to be able to understand that I'm working because America gave me the opportunity to work. I love this country, I love what it stands for and we're going to make what it stands for come back. My company will not be out of business if Tavoris does anything…"
Cloud indicated King has nothing to worry about from the 48-year-old Hopkins. "I don't think any fighter can stay young forever no matter how hard they try and it's evident that he's slowed down in the last couple years, he's definitely slowing down."


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Huawei is one of the few Windows Phone OEMs that have not been discouraged by the dominance of Nokia. Recently the Chinese phone maker just released its Ascend W2 to the Chinese market. We have heard quite a bit about the successor to the W1 in the past. But today we finally get to see it in full function.
Let's go over the specs of W2 first. It's not a superstar device by any definition: 4.3" touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480, dual core processor clocked at 1.4GHz, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage, a 5 megapixel rear camera that does not come with a LED flashlight like most other smartphones do these days, and no front-facing camera at all. That's right. It's not a high end phone, and never intended to be sold as one. Ascend W2 is currently sold on Chinese e-commerce website 360Buy for CNY 999 (US$ 163), or even cheaper if you are of higher-tiered membership at 360Buy.


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Salt Water Tears
Short Story by: Nathan Hawke
Status: Finished
Genre: Memoir
Salt-water Tears
Although it was late in the evening, the sun continued to beam down on me. The sun was sinking into the water like ink seeping into paper. I felt a warm southern breeze sweep past my body as I faced the sea. My light blue kayak bobbed up and down as it floated over the gentle waves. I continued paddling lightly on my kayak whilst admiring the peaceful serenity of the water. Little did I know that this once soothing atmosphere, would take such a dramatic change.
As I looked further to the sea, I saw a motionless figure. It seemed unusual to me that anyone would be swimming that far out. Intrigue drew me in. I needed to investigate. The bright rays of the sun made my vision of the figure inconsistent. To my horror, I discovered a motionless body floating on the water. She was an over-weight woman wearing a black and white swimsuit with her head facing down in the water. For a moment I was in utter denial until my senses screamed the obvious truth to me. From my small kayak, I leaped into the deep water and begun to swim determinedly towards the drowned women. I had no idea whether or not she had been dead for days or months as her face only represented death to me. The world around me had slowed down to a standstill as I looked on the face. The thick foam coming from her mouth ran beside her pale, wrinkly cheeks. I guessed she would have been a grandma. I grabbed her lifeless arms. Despite the urgency from the shock, the moment my arm grasped the arm of her empty body, everything had slowed to a halt. I had never experienced anything like it before.
My body suddenly went into auto-pilot mode. My numb legs began to powerfully push through the water as I began to pull her towards the kayak. I used the adrenaline to lift the woman over kayak with a single explosive push. I circled around and hoisted myself into the seat whilst being careful not to overturn it due to the excess weight. My hands clenched onto the paddle and with full-force, I stabbed it into the face of the water as quick as a lightning bolt. I used every ounce of strength to bring the kayak in to the beach.
It didn't take long for everything to sink in. My wet feet dug into the dry sand. It felt as though my heartbeat could have been heard miles away. Flashbacks were engulfing my thoughts, embedding the raw images into my mind. With a deep feeling of hopelessness in my efforts, my eyes began to bleed with tears. My throat was strained from all the yelling for help. My weak body was slumped over because I lacked energy and focus, but not emotion. No, I had plenty of emotion.
My feelings exploded as I embraced my sister, clinging onto her for stability. We both held onto each other tight. My mind was exhausted, but my heart ached because of the uncertainty of the situation. Tears followed the same course as they fell from my eyes. Suddenly, I couldn't feel my heart pounding against my chest, nor did I feel my trembling legs. Instead I felt the heavy tears of my sister fall upon my shoulder. That's when my mind began to focus. Focus on the image of the floating body on the warm sea water.
Had I really just pulled in a corpse in from the local beach? Questions filled my mind. Did she die in pain? Of course she would have, stupid - no one drowns peacefully. Was she murdered? I began to feel sick in the gut. I should have seen her earlier. I could have brought her in faster. Dreaming wasn't possible, the weight of my sister's tears were very real. We remained there in that position clenching onto each other tightly. I tried focusing my eyes on the sand in-front of me to block out the vision of the still body lying there with several men shouting as they desperately attempted CPR. The enthusiasm of the procedure began to tire. Suddenly, the echo of a familiar noise flooded the beach. The sound usually brought a sense of hope and control, but not today. The ambulance took forever to get here. I was naive to have believed there was hope from the beginning. I took back my weak arms that were around my sister. I then turned my body around to see the ambulance doors close shut by medical officers who then continued to the front of the van. I watched on as the ambulance drove up and over the sandbanks.
I looked back to the ocean. My eyes were strained from the tears and the sunset's glare. My heart felt heavy, my mind was filled with endless emotional turmoil. Never could I have imagined that a simple trip to the beach would have turned out to be such a traumatic event.Words could explain what I saw, but I would never be able to explain what I felt. The realisation of mortality had never been so cruel.
Later that evening, I sat in my bedroom by myself reflecting on the whole experience. I began to visualize her weeping grandchildren who discovered their loved one gone. I knew what they were about to feel. In the background I heard the phone starting to ring as it echoed down the hallway. I then heard my mum's voice as she picked up the phone. It was the police. They called from the hospital to inform us that the lady I found was not dead after all! It changed everything. A wave of relief engulfed me. I was overwhelmed with a deep sense of gratitude. Now for a very different reason, I will never forget my salt water tears.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
In The Dark With Both Hands
There's good reason for this unexpected shift of attention. A sequence of jarring upward leaps in the commodity markets have brought wheat prices up to levels never before seen in modern times, with no visible end in sight. Other grains and, for that matter, a wide range of other agricultural commodities, have posted vertiginous price hikes of their own. Unlike so many of the booms and busts that have enlivened recent economic history, the current surge in grain prices isn't insulated from the real economy of goods and services, and has already begun to play out in rising food costs worldwide.
The boom in grain prices is the product of many factors. At the top of the list belongs the simple if awkward fact that the world's capacity to produce grain in recent years has failed to keep up with increasing demand. Despite all the handwaving of cornucopian economists, it turns out, the world really is finite, and rising demand for grain-fed livestock in newly prosperous India and China turned out to be the proverbial one straw too many for the world's agricultural system. Add to that the impact of climate instability on grain harvests, the activities of speculators, and the bizarre spectacle of the current biofuel boom, in which large portions of the industrial world are attempting to cope with rising petroleum prices by pouring their food supply into their gas tanks, and you have a fine recipe for chaos in the grain market.
Still, there's another factor at work, one that will likely play a major role in the agricultural history of the next century or so. The fertilizers that make modern industrial agriculture work derive almost entirely from nonrenewable sources. Nitrate and ammonia fertilizers are manufactured from natural gas; phosphates come from rock phosphate, and potassium from mineral potash deposits – and global supplies of the first two of these, at least, are beginning to run short.
It's been argued that this isn't a problem, because improvements in technology make it possible to extract economically useful amounts of minerals from ever more dilute source materials. In theory, this is quite true. In practice, though, a crucial ingredient usually gets left out of the mix: the more dilute the source material, the more energy needs to be invested per unit of refined product. During the last two decades of the 20th century, when energy prices reached their lowest levels in human history, nobody needed to pay attention to the energy side of the equation, and this fostered a climate of thought in which futurists could picture future industrial societies that met all their material needs by extracting dissolved minerals from seawater.
As the age of cheap abundant energy comes to an end, though, this sort of thinking makes bad science fiction and worse propaganda. As energy supplies dwindle, using ever increasing among energy to extract ever smaller fractions of minerals from the ground quickly becomes a losing bet. At the same time, without significant inputs of nitrogen, phosphorus, and other minerals, it becomes impossible to maintain soil fertility at levels high enough to matter. Unless the world can find some other abundant, concentrated source of plant nutrients in time to matter, it may not be much of an exaggeration to suggest that large parts of the world may face a Hobson's choice between starving to death and freezing in the dark.
This is where the perspectives of the last few Archdruid Report posts become relevant, because such an abundant, concentrated source of plant nutrients already exists. The methods needed to obtain the raw material and process it into high-grade fertilizer are mature technologies, readily available and thoroughly tested. The only reason the source in question is not already being exploited on a large scale in the industrial world is that most people nowadays don't seem to be able to distinguish it from a hole in the ground.
We are talking, of course, about human feces – or, as one book on the subject has usefully labeled it, "humanure." The average human being in the industrial world produces between 2.5 and 3 pounds of fecal matter a day, along with about a third of a gallon of urine. Over one year, that works out to approximately half a ton of feces and a hundred gallons of urine per person; multiply this by the 300 million residents of the United States, and then factor in the equally massive waste streams generated by domestic animals and livestock, and you may get some sense of the scale of the resource that we are, quite literally, flushing down the toilet.
The technology that converts this resource into fertilizer happens to be the one we've been examining in the last few posts. Composting uses natural biological processes to break down fecal material and other wastes, converting them into a concentrated, odorless source of plant nutrients. In the process, composting kills pathogenic bacteria by sheer biological competition – a compost pile is a fiercely Darwinian environment in which organisms bred in the sheltered setting of a human body's insides don't last long. Study after study has shown that fecal matter, after it has been competently composted, contains no more human pathogens than ordinary soil.
So why haven't we been able to get our fertilizer together on this issue? What keeps composted humanure from being an obvious resource to help replace dwindling inorganic sources of plant nutrients? Part of the reason reaches deep into the crawlspaces of the industrial world's collective imagination. People who object to composting humanure quite often cite concerns about pathogens or odors, but it rarely takes more than a short discussion to get down to the level of a five-year-old clenching his eyes shut and squealing "Ewww, ick!"
This invites satire, but beneath it lies a set of very widespread attitudes far less appealing than simple human waste. C.S. Lewis pointed out quite a while ago in The Abolition of Man, and with far more power in his fantasy novel That Hideous Strength, that a great many modern attitudes have their source in what might as well be called biophobia – a pathological fear and hatred of the realities of biological life, coupled with an obsessive fascination with the sterile, the mechanical and the lifeless.
Biophobia guides the creation of human environments so biologically sterile that, according to recent research, many currently widespread illnesses may be caused by understimulated immune systems; it also inspires the absurd fantasies of so-called "transhumanists" who look forward to the day when they can put their personalities into robots and do away with biological existence altogether. (Back in the Sixties, Ira Levin crafted a smart horror novel, The Stepford Wives, about the replacement of human beings by robots programmed with imitations of their personalities, but not even he seems to have imagined that people might set out to do that to themselves.) The same attitude, I'm convinced, drives the horror many people feel when faced with the prospect of eating food fertilized with composted humanure.
The same aversion to biological realities, it may be, has shaped another factor that makes the commonsense use of human waste as plant food difficult for many people to contemplate. The economic thinking that guides the industrial world has long been stuck in a linear rut, imposing patterns of one-way flow on a universe that consistently moves in circles. Our economists sort out the tangled exchanges, multiple roles, and mixed motives of real market economies into neat flowcharts that move matter from suppliers to producers, to distributors, and then to consumers, before vanishing into thin air.
Food systems built on the same pattern take nutrients from natural deposits, put them into soil, haul the resulting crops into a baroque system of manufacturing and distribution before they get to people, and then dump the resulting waste into the world's fresh water supply. That sort of straight-line pattern is the way most people in the industrial world think; it's a measure of how pervasive such thinking is that following nature's patterns, and cycling "waste" back around to become a resource, seems so unthinkable to most people.
Now it deserves to be said that there are valid reasons why composting, with or without humanure, would be difficult to apply to the kind of industrial farming that produces most bulk agricultural commodities in the western world these days. The infrastructure necessary to collect 150 million tons of humanure a year, plus an amount of compostable animal manure that may well be larger still, and convert it en masse into fertilizer for Iowa corn and North Dakota winter wheat simply doesn't exist; it would be extremely expensive to construct, and resources put into that project would have to be diverted from many other pressing needs.
Still, the kind of industrial farming we have nowadays is a creation of the age of cheap abundant energy. As fossil fuels deplete, that kind of farming will become less and less economically viable, until it finally ceases altogether. It's quite true, as some writers on peak oil have argued recently, that the current agricultural economy won't simply revert to the agriculture of an earlier time; that's not how change happens in the real world of economics – or ecology. What will happen instead, of course, is that new patterns will evolve in the interstices of the old.
In ecological terms, these new patterns will fill available niches the old system no longer occupies; in economic terms, they will use resources and fill marketable needs outside the scope of existing economic activity. Arguably, these patterns have already started taking shape, in the form of the thriving economy of small organic farms and truck gardens that sprang up around most cities in the western half of North America beginning in the 1970s. As I hope to show in next week's post, this new farming economy offers a glimpse at the agriculture of the future – if, that is, we can get our heads out of our fertilizer supply long enough to notice.
28 comments:
- FARfetched said...
Butt do you think the readers give a squat about crappy puns? Scat! I say, Scat!
Milorganite is the only large-scale humanure processing operation I'm aware of, at least in the US. Milwaukee had a long series of Socialist city governments from 1900-1960, so chances are it was during that period that they started selling their treated sewage. Dang sight smarter than dumping it in the river, IMO.
One issue with manure composting, human or otherwise, we touched on in last week's comments: it produces methane. OTOH, large-scale processing plants could capture enough methane to supply its own energy needs (heat helps speed up the process, to a point). I think in your ecotechnic age, that communities of any size will find the methane by-product of their composting operation nearly as valuable as the fertilizer itself, able to generate heat or even electricity.
- yooper said...
Hello John, another excellent article. My wife and I, are going to try the compost pile. We'll still have to haul the plastics to the dump, but at a savings of $250 a year at present garbage pick-up prices, it's worth it for the black dirt alone.
We will have a problem with bears, but we do anyway, suppose they can help me with the turning. Oh, btw, a bar of Irish Spring or other deodorant soap, placed near the pile could keep some critters away.
It would be easy for me to do the humanure thing, as I do live quite a distance from my nearest neighbor. However, how do you suggest the eight million in New York, go about this? Think the goverment would give the people a tax break for a composit toliet?
Gee, maybe I'll put the garden over the septic field, the grass is always greener there! I realize, the time may be coming soon where it would be economically feasible to grow your own. In the meantime I'll be learning how to do it. It would be a shame to have what I have and not put it to use...
I'm not sure if I agree with thoughts presented over at the drum, about the future of industrail farming. Like you, I don't think this would last long, as it wouldn't be worth the energy put into it. Of course, this would eventually become a sink, when populace cannot afford the product. Naturally, we both know what that means. There is a tremendous amount of "assumption" going on over there. Best to do what we can on our own. What do I have to loose?
Thanks, yooper
- Jens said...
I'm all for a humanure system...
But - and please correct me if I'm misinformed - I understand that much of modern industrial-world fecal matter is unusable for composting due to hormones and other substances in medication (such as birth control pills), that pass through the digestive tract and can persist through composting. Is this so? If it's so, how could humanure be employed on a large- or even middle-scale?
- bryant said...
"many modern attitudes have their source in what might as well be called biophobia – a pathological fear and hatred of the realities of biological life"
As someone who gardens with humanure and encounters the alarm some guests feel when they realize that their dinner grew in soil nourished by my composted excrement, I wonder if biophobia really explains their reaction.
Cows are careful to avoid eating grass close to fresh manure. I think this is instinctive behavior which evolved in response to exposure to parasites and disease-causing organisms in feces. It does not seem impossible that similar instincts evolved in humans. I know that correctly composted humanure is safe, but intentional composting is a learned behavior and I think many people respond to it subconsciously.
That said, I think that you correctly surmise that the return to biologically-derived fertilizers will require agriculture to change significantly.
- Loveandlight said...
Another argument for recycling our own waste is that our current system of sewage processing is very complex and energy-intensive and probably won't survive deindustrialization. And fresh water could very well become a resource we dare not waste by pooping in it.
- Bernd Ohm said...
@bryant: Many wild animals, e.g. lynx or badgers, actually bury their feces and try to "keep the lair clean", so a certain revulsion regarding your own excrements is certainly quite natural. They're waste and may contain harmful stuff, after all. On the other hand, there is just a small number of badgers and lynx in the woods, so that's no problem, and the feces quickly become new ressources. The real problem is the "unnaturally" high human population density.
@Jens: quite correct, human feces are full of chemicals these days, so it's now illegal to use them as fertilizers e.g. in Switzerland or, partly, in Germany. Much of the stuff is simply burned.
- Robin said...
I grew up in a part of the world where cow manure was burned by many as a fuel and also used as fertilizer. It was not considered a waste.
A few posts ago some commentators mentioned the the problems with large ranches raising beef cattle in California, and when they were booted out of CA they created the same problem elsewhere. I saw it as a mismanagement of resources.
And ofcourse as you know, night soil has an extensive history:
And with regard to the opinions that industrial agriculture will continue for substantially long periods because a return to former ways is not possible, it is true that there cannot be an exact regression to those ways. However, in an ecotechnic society the ways will be different and sustainable.
- RAS said...
People don't just have a 'biopathic' reaction to humanure; I know several people (at least half a dozen) who absolutely refuse to eat anything grown organically because manure is often used as a fertilizer!
And here's an interesting anecdote: Last fall several farmers northwest of here started using composted humanure from some plant up north as a fertilizer. They did it for some time with no one noticing, but when word got out about what they were using, people starting complaining about the smell!
- Panidaho said...
And fresh water could very well become a resource we dare not waste by pooping in it.
Exactly. We're going to experiment with using some fresh urine for fertilizer this year. Urine is the easiest human waste to deal with - it's sterile and if you dilute it well, pretty much odorless when fresh. Since more water is used in a typical house flushing away urine than poop (as people urinate much more often during a typical day than they defecate) it's actually the biggest water waster of the two. Even cutting that water waste down a little would probably help.
I'm planning to set up bucket stations next to our larger plants (tomatoes for instance) and use those for "fertigation" stations by filling the buckets (drilled with small holes in the bottom so the water leaks out over a long period of time) with water each morning and then adding some fresh urine. With our planned 15-20 caged tomato plants and our many fruit trees and shrubs, I should be able to rotate the fertigation buckets each day so each plant or group of plants won't end up with too much nitrogen over the course of the season. Since I've never done this before, it'll be an interesting experiment to find out just how effective it is and how much the system can handle without creating some kind of mess or reducing the fruiting on the plants from excess nitrogen. I may also try using some of the same dilution on the compost pile now and then. I plan to watch things closely and take a lot of notes.
Very good article, JMG, btw. Thanks for bringing this up.
- Mauricio Babilonia said...
An article entitled Wasteland: A journey through the American cloaca by Frederick Kaufman appeared in the February 2008 issue of Harper's magazine. (Available online only to subscribers, unfortunately.)
In it, Kaufman touches on how the current effluent system is straining (another pun—sorry) under the current amount of waste and explores the industrial processes for producing fertilizer from it. It's a very interesting read.
- riverbird said...
JMG, do you practice humanure composting at your own home?
- Panidaho said...
Thought this was topical...
Urine is "a good natural nitrogen containing substance and probably could be easily utilized" as a fertilizer, agreed Dr. Philip Tierno, director of clinical microbiology and immunology at New York University Medical Center, New York City. "There's nothing wrong with using it," Tierno said. He added that there is little risk of contamination by urine-borne pathogens, because they would be in competition with microorganisms found in the soil and would "probably lose the battle."
As a result of the findings, the team concluded that urine produced by one person over a year would be enough to grow 160 cabbages -- that's 64 kilograms (141 pounds) more cabbage than could be grown in a similar plot fertilized with commercial fertilizer.
LInk: Human Urine Safe, Productive Fertilizer from the Washington Post, no less.
- gigglingwizard said...
I was happy to discover recently that my own city, Columbus, Ohio, composts biosolids from the municipal sewage and makes the resultant product available for sale. Not only is it available, but several companies in the area, including one large dealer in topsoil and mulch, have become distributors, even repackaging it as their own products.
About half my income this year will be coming from selling produce, chicken, and eggs at local farmers markets. I'm thrilled at discovering this resource (at $16 per cubic yard, $12 per yard if mixed with sand and ash that our clayey soils desperately need), but I'm reluctant to advertise it precisely because of the phobic reaction you mention.
The other half of my income is coming largely from landscaping/lawn maintenance, and I've been bringing grass clippings, weeds, and leaves home to compost--but not until first drying it out and using it as chicken bedding. The compost bin is built out of old pallets.
One small perk of the financial woes that Peak Oil is brining is that, as people are forced to become more frugal, they'll start using the resources at hand more wisely, re-using anything they can get their hands on.
- fernwise said...
If you think that folks have issues with humanure, think of the mental obsticles to the next necessary step - Soylent Green Fertilizer!
- John Michael Greer said...
Farfetched, well, crap. ;-) My guess is that methane from manure will be a useful product of the composting process down the road -- but we'll see.
Yooper, I'll be wading into the debate about postindustrial farming next week -- stay tuned.
Jens, this is one of the reasons why humanure composting on the home scale is probably the best bet -- those people likely to take it up sooner rather than later are also those people less likely to be filling their bodies (and their waste products) with hormones and toxic medicines.
Bryant, you may be right, but then people have been using manure as fertilizer for thousands of years, so fecal avoidance is obviously a reaction that can be worked around.
Loveandlight, very true.
Bernd, thanks for the details.
Robin, I was thinking of those vast heaps of cow manure when I wrote -- what a huge resource going to waste! As for reversibility, stay tuned for next week's post.
Ras, very funny!
Teresa, New Society has quite a decent book out -- Liquid Gold -- on the use of urine as a fertilizer. It's excellent stuff -- very high in nitrogen and phosphorus.
Mauricio, thanks for the heads up -- I'll find a copy.
Riverbird, I don't own my own home, and have never had a landlord who would tolerate a composting toilet. One of the first things I plan on doing once housing prices finish crashing, and my wife and I get a place of our own, is to get rid of the flush toilet and put in a composting model. (The solar hot water heater comes right after that.)
Galen, good to hear.
Fernwise, we all become fertilizer sooner or later. It's common Druid practice to be cremated and have the ashes buried under the roots of a newly planted tree.
- The Naked Mechanic said...
Spotted this link after reading your post and figure that an enterprising Druid could build one of these out of natural materials :-)
"...A one-cubic-meter digester, primed with cow dung to provide bacteria, can convert the waste generated by a four-person family into enough gas to cook all its meals and provide sludge for fertilizer...
- Panidaho said...
People don't just have a 'biopathic' reaction to humanure; I know several people (at least half a dozen) who absolutely refuse to eat anything grown organically because manure is often used as a fertilizer!
Oh, I've had that happen before. We had some friends who would never eat anything at our house because we tilled composted rabbit manure into our garden soil. They wouldn't even eat any tomatoes or beans or cucumbers, despite the fact that these items were grown on trellises and such and never even *touched* the soil - they just couldn't deal with the whole composted manure thing at all. They were apparently fine with consuming food grown in and covered with toxic pesticides and corrosive chemicals, though. Oh, well. :-(
- Panidaho said...
JMG said:
Teresa, New Society has quite a decent book out -- Liquid Gold -- on the use of urine as a fertilizer. It's excellent stuff -- very high in nitrogen and phosphorus.
Thanks for the heads up on that! I'm going to go look for it now.
Yes, I've been doing some reading on it tonight, and apparently urine is pretty close to the ideal fertilizer - and it's sterile and free for the using. Makes me wonder why it took me so long to figure this out!
- bryant said...
gigglingwizard: Have a care with municipal sewege products. Because the city waste stream includes waste water from business and industry, heavy metals and potentially dangerous organic compounds are often present. We stopped using Milorganite for landscape clients when some third-party analyses showed elevated mercury, zinc and chromium. MMSD (Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District) puts out some numbers and they look ok...but remember that metals tend to accumulate. MMSD's numbers are in mg/kg and EPA's limits are usually listed in ppm or ppb; 1 mg/kg = 1 ppm.
The lesson here seems to be that trying to "do compost" on an industrial scale generates industrial-type problems...exactly what I think JMG is suggesting we avoid
- John Michael Greer said...
Mechanic, many thanks! I hadn't seen this sort of very small-scale digester before; good to know that the technology is so scalable.
Teresa, glad the info's of use!
Bryant, exactly -- you get today's gold star. One of the great advantages to scalable technologies is that they can be operated on a scale small enough to avoid disasters.
- Mauricio Babilonia said...
Regarding human urine as a fertilizer, see Sharon Astyk's humorous (but accurate) post on that very topic from last June.
And speaking from experience, it works—especially with a compost pile that's nitrogen-deficient. If you're going to put it on a garden, just remember to dilute it 9 to 1 with water. Preferably rainwater.
- Bytesmiths said...
My favourite tome on the subject is The Humanure Handbook, by Joseph Jenkins.
Jenkins is generous to make his entire book available for reading on-line, but I'm hoping people will support his work by buying a hardcopy if they find the on-line version interesting. His style is very humorous, and yet the information is comprehensive. So get this book, some sawdust, and a 20 litre bucket, and start closing the nutrient cycle!
Some prejudices come from unexpected sources: organic certification precludes the use of humanure! Outrageous! That's one reason we have not applied for certification, and I've told IOPA that.
- Rhisiart Gwilym said...
- marielar said...
Maine has quite a few sewage sludge composting facilities. As mentionned in another post, the big issue with sewage sludge is the buildup of heavy metals over time in soils. Th good thing with composting toilet, is by-passing the whole sewage business and energy consuming transportation. The rule of thumb is that it is not economically and energetically efficient to transport organic wet manure over more than 10 km. That is why, even on many farms, the fields nearby the farm buildings are typically much higher in nutrients than the remote ones. An interesting variant on this theme was the British flock folding sheep system: the sheep were pastured in far away pastures during the day and brought back on arable land during the night, enriching it with their manure.
All fresh fecal substances present the same problem of potential pathogens, that is why composting is so useful. But if the fresh manure is ploughed in followed six months before harvesting, then there is no problem.
Unfortunately, the nitrogen will be gone but not the other nutrients. At a farm scale, I am not sure how practical it would be to separate feces from the urine. Typically, both end up in the animal bedding.
It seems to me that we are back where we started at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Way back, Marx had concerns on how much phosphorus was lost through sewage of London and the European countries were fighting over guano.
IMO, if we could plug the phosphorus, potassium and micros huge leaks in the agroecosystems, the small uvavoidable losses could be filled with occasional additions of seaweeds. As it stands, the demand is too high to meet with seaweeds.
For folks with an interest in history, here is a very good article on soil fertility and how it was tackled.
On biodigesters, the best, cheapest, small scale design I saw was in "Permaculture Activist" last year. I dont think the article is published online but here another link to the project:
The biggest problem right now for producing grain locally at the farm scale is that there is no affordable intermediary technology between large scale machinery and "all by hand". In North America, in the 60s, all manufactures stopped producing small self-propelled and pull type combines. There is still some equipments available, mostly hidden and rusting behind farms, but its hard to find. Same with grain processing, as so many mills closed their doors. But, this being said, it should not stop adventurous gardeners to get their hands at growing their own grains and cereals. There is quite a bunch of heritage seed catalogs which now offer a good selection and quite a few companies which sell manual mills for household. That being said, I tend to believe that some specialization at the local scale is highly desirable over complete self-sufficiency. The most limiting resource is time. Nobody can do it all.
- Betsy aka 'the goat yoda' said...
Preach it brother! You are the first person of your persuasion that I have actually seen actively addressing these issues. The pagans around our area are still caught up in city life and don't really have a clue about what to do if it all comes down- one can read all the metaphysical books in the universe and still not find the honest discussion you are making. And I am having almost the very same discussion with another friend of mine who lives in my region.
A couple of friends are attempting to put this sort of info out to the community and getting met with blank stares- folks just tune it out and hide their heads in the sand. These are the ones who will want to be fed and not work for it.
The folks of all persuasions who do get it have 'biggest compost pile' and 'largest weed in the garden' contests while living simply and fully, and having fun doing it. I'd rather be with my goats anyway....
- John Michael Greer said...
Mauricio, thanks for the link and the info.
Bytesmiths, I'm a fan of Jenkins' book also -- and am embarrassed by the prissy attitude of the organics industry. They'll grow out of it.
Rhisiart, siw mae! Your post came through fragmented -- I'll see if I can get the raw data, fix it, and repost it; if not, please repost once you've got a keyboard that works.
Marie, all good points. Yes, it's a matter of time -- how much we can do in the very limited time we have left before the next round of crises lands on us.
Betsy, thanks for the encouragement! There are other Druids busy with the same work I'm doing, but we're a very small denomination just now, and a tolerably quiet one as well.
- Kris said...
Mike Ruppert posted this link for an online handbook, "Humanure" by Joseph Jenkins, informative and humorous, of course!
- RudolfC said...
Excellent article (and comments)! One thing that bothers me is this "one pound of meat requires eight pounds of grain" statement I read everywhere. One pound of meat requires NO grain - pasture animals, unsurprisingly, much prefer to live on grass, and were traditionally raised on land that was marginal or uselees for raising plants.


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RE: st: Using Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC)
"Lorena Barberia" <email@example.com>
RE: st: Using Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:30:56 -0300
Thanks to Rodrigo and Stas for your helpful comments.
I was trying to implement the BIC per the recommendation of an article by
Beck and Katz titled "Time-Series-Cross-Section Issues: Dynamics, 2004" that
advocates and calculates the BIC for different specifications of a pooled
OLS regression with panel corrected standard errors (e.g. AR1 model vs.
lagged dependent variable model with standard errors estimated with XTPCSE).
In the article, the authors argue that the BIC performs better than the
F-test for testing if fixed effects are necessary. The paper can be
downloaded from Nathaniel Beck's website at NYU. It should be noted that the
authors do not advocate or apply the BIC to GMM. I had also read the BIC
note in Stata.
I will look into this further. Your comments have been very helpful.
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[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Stas Kolenikov
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Rodrigo Alfaro A. <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> You are right, there is not e(ll) in the output of -xtpcse- I am not sure
about the model
> behind that command, but it seems to me that you need the matrix e(Sigma)
> with the degree of freedom (in this case e(df) is the scalar), and the
sample size: e(N).
BIC is not applicable to neither panel models nor GMM, at least in
direct way. It is derived as an approximation of the Bayes factor for
model selection, in a number of situations it gives a poor
approximation, and at any rate it needs a concept of the likelihood to
work with, and those models do not provide for likelihood.
Entertain a very simple question: even if you want to construct an
analogue of BIC for panel data, should your n be the number of panels
or the number of observations?
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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