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Military veterans possess a unique set of skills, character traits and experience which can benefit almost any organization, according to a recent paper from Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families.
"The Business Case for Hiring a Veteran" goes beyond the leadership abilities and mission focus commonly associated with service members, and relies on a comprehensive review of academic literature to demonstrate the value in hiring individuals with a military background. One of the papers most significant findings is that veterans are entrepreneurial and are twice as likely as non-veterans to pursue business ownership after leaving service, according to a post in the White House's Joining Forces blog.
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- veterans assume high levels of trust;
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As the players and coaches in the Cumberland American camp discovered this week, there's nothing little about the Little League World Series.
On the surface, competing in this grand spectacle – how else would you describe an event that includes participants hailing from around the country and the world? – can seem overwhelming. ESPN cameras are practically everywhere, which CALL manager Dave Belisle hinted at earlier this week upon stating, "All of the eyes of the world are on Williamsport."
PAWTUCKET – Alex Wilson is the latest starting pitching prospect to join the Pawtucket Red Sox. Time will tell if the parent club decides to curb his starting duties and relocate him to the bullpen.
For the past several seasons the Red Sox have openly explored the practice of turning starting pitchers into relievers, the switch in mound assignments more often than not taking place at the Triple-A level. In most instances, the reclassification of guys like Michael Bowden reflects the situation in Boston and whether the hole in the bullpen can be fixed by promoting from within.
PAWTUCKET – On a day in which Ryan Lavarnway was likely inundated with congratulatory messages, his college coach had no problem reaching his former pupil.
"He sounded very matter-of-fact," Yale head coach baseball John Stuper said via cell phone Thursday, the same day Lavarnway made his major-league debut with the Boston Red Sox. "He's a pro now and I don't think this was a surprise to him. If anybody's earned it he certainly has – not just through hard work but through actual production."
PAWTUCKET – For a team that has been almost flawless this season, the Columbus Clippers were anything but on Wednesday night.
The Clippers, the top team record-wise in the International League, committed three costly errors that resulted in four unearned runs. Such gift-wrapping tendencies proved to be difference as the Pawtucket Red Sox remain in first place in the I.L. North for another day after posting a 5-2 win before 7,010 at McCoy Stadium.
Pawtucket stands a game up on second-place Lehigh Valley, which defeated Rochester, 3-1.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Dave Belisle has long been a standout hockey coach at Mount St. Charles.
But for the next few days, he's just a kid again.
The 14 members of the Cumberland American Little League team have carried Belisle on the ride of his life this summer. This week the ride has reached its final destination, the ultimate destination for every Little Leaguer – the Little League World Series. The Series does not only exist on television to these players and coaches anymore. They are here, they are experiencing it and they are enjoying every moment.
Mike Hazen's role with the Boston Red Sox may have expanded, but make no mistake: he's still very much in touch with what's moving and shaking down on the farm.
Promoted to vice president of player development prior to the season, a position that involves overseeing the minor-league operation and amateur scouting, Hazen spoke Wednesday about some of the storylines that have crept up over the past 4 ½ months as they relate to the Pawtucket Red Sox.
PAWTUCKET — McCoy Stadium is always a pretty upbeat place. It's a standing rule that Pawtucket Red Sox employees greet customers with smiles on their faces. Club President Mike Tamburro's optimism and good nature extend all the way down to the most part-time of team employees.
When the PawSox are in first place, a position they have maintained for the past week, then baseball really becomes fun around the local ball park.
PAWTUCKET — The Columbus Clippers showed Pawtucket last night why they are heavy favorites to successfully defend their Governors' Cup championship trophy next month.
In a meeting of the International League's two best teams, Columbus got a grand slam home run from Luis Valbuena in the second inning off PawSox starter Felix Doubront and seemed headed for an easy win until Pawtucket broke through for two runs in the bottom of the ninth and brought the tying run to the plate. Reliever Josh Judy got Jose Iglesias to ground into a close force play at second base to preserve a 5-2 victory.
Lawrenceville, Ga.- If there has been any cause to put the Sharpie-strong stamp on the notion that the 2011 Pawtucket Red Sox are peaking at the right time, it was out in full prominence after Monday night's 7-3 victory over the Gwinnett Braves at Coolray Field.
With the win, decided after the bat rack and bullpen both got the better of their Gwinnett counterparts in the eighth and ninth innings, the PawSox completed their best of seven eight-game road trips at 6-2. They are also 10-3 in August at the halfway mark of the month.
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I can tell ya whos hiring right now for heating and ac if it would help ..and they are swamped
yes that can be a problem i always like the i brought in the wrong tool bag line leave and dont come back
This is a discussion on Lost some business due to Carrying within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; The wife lost her job a couple months ago and my 2nd job is winter only, so needless to say we've been a bit strapped ...
The wife lost her job a couple months ago and my 2nd job is winter only, so needless to say we've been a bit strapped for cash. Thank goodness for my 3rd job, which is actually my part time heating and cooling business. That too has been a bit slow but just when I really needed it, I get a call from the friend of a friend of an old customer. He has no A/C. So after work I drive 45 minutes from Downtown Detroit, ready to do a good job and score a few bucks.
In short order I've got the furnace open and I'm leaning and reaching and apparantly printing pretty good while I'm this contorted. "Are you wearing a gun?" He asks. "Oh, yes" I reply matter of factly, "I didn't realize it was showing."
This is where he asks: "why would you bring a gun into my home?" Oh boy, I'm thinking. I try to be non-chalant and just mention that I carry it everywhere it's legal to, and that I have a license to. Doesn't matter. He gets pretty worked up pretty quick, and doesn't seem to care anymore that it's 90-something degrees in his house. Here is the odd reaction: for someone that must've felt threatened by the mere presence of a gun, he sure was beliggerant to the guy carrying it. I asked if it was important enough to him that he would rather I leave than fix his air conditioner. He didn't really answer that, just mumbling about the number of people killed every year by guns, how even an ATF agent shot himself, and if this "pro" could screw up, it was very likely that my gun would jump out of its holster and take out his whole family.
I didn't really need an answer, but when I started packing my tools, he stopped talking and looked at me funny, as if to ask where I thought I was going. I just said: "I think you'd be more comfortable with someone else here." Then I left. I really wanted to get mouthy back. Rub in that he'd be waiting for some time and paying much more for a regular full time company to come out. But I wasn't going to show him anything other than a cool headed, rational guy. I even squeezed out a cheerful "take it easy" on my way out.
Kind of a bummer that my quick cash turned into a loss of an hour and half of driving and the $?? fuel. Anyone need their Furnace or A/C looked at?
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I can tell ya whos hiring right now for heating and ac if it would help ..and they are swamped
yes that can be a problem i always like the i brought in the wrong tool bag line leave and dont come back
I am glad you took the high road. No amount of fact telling will convert an anti. I hope you get some more work soon. Good luck.
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those that don't.
Whadya do with those folks? - and a pity you had to be in his house.
Trouble is they are the ones with the blanket ''guns bad'' syndrome and do not or cannot view the whole picture. Sorry you had a useless trip and time ..... even more sad to hear of yet another closed-minded anti.
Can't help wondering, tho I too might have quit and gone in that situation - if a sit down and chat just might have softened his attitude a tad, even if not straightening him out.
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If my A/C was out I wouldn't care if you carried a "nuke" as long as you got it fixed..... Hope you find some more work quick.
Nothing like a little heat, to help him "stew in his own juices". Hopefully, it took a day or so to find another service option. If he had to pay twice the price, even better.
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Sorry to hear about the tuff times. But I must say I do admire your commitment to carrying and your sticking to your beliefs.
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You took the high road, and he's still sweating. So be it! Sorry about your lost service call, but I bet things will have a way of working out for you on something else.
Gain a 2A vote, take a fence-sitter shooting.
Kudos to you!
Rather than go to his level or worst argue facts and what he figures with a man as a guest/employee in his own home, a no no where I come from, you went for the high road and choose to do the professional thing in leaving.
Golf claps for you from my corner of the internet.
See fellow member Fed_Wif_A_SIG's thread toward the UCC holster shirt for future home owner problem avoidance.
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that's a tough one.
on one hand, folks have the right to make the rules in their own house.
on the other, he invited you in as-is, with no signs posted (kinda silly to expect a sign though).
i guess the best solution is to practice common moves that you make while repairing, and making sure you don't print in the future. or, have a different carry configuration while doing that particular job (ankle or thunderwear).
either way, sorry to hear you lost out on cash and time. showing them a level head was the right thing to do...thanks for that, you made a good example for us.
Sorry for ya, but good luck with your business!
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1950-09-13 : Jake LaMotta 159¾ lbs beat Laurent Dauthuille 160 lbs by KO at 2:47 in round 15 of 15
- Location: Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Referee: Lou Handler
- Judges' scores at the time of the knockout: 72-68, 74-66, 71-69 (all for Dauthuille)
- World Middleweight Title
- Named The Ring Fight of the Year for 1950
"All Dauthuille required when the bell sounded for the final round was to play safe, and had he boxed he would have come through triumphantly." It was a good fight for the first eleven rounds, but full of drama and excitement in the last four. The full account of the fight is in The Ring, November 1950, page 8-9, 50.


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I love football season. One thing that I keep noticing are all of the amazing women in those movies.
They may span a few decades, but no matter what era you're in, hot is hot. Here are the 10 Hottest Women in Football Movie History.
I love football season. One thing that I keep noticing are all of the amazing women in those movies.
They may span a few decades, but no matter what era you're in, hot is hot. Here are the 10 Hottest Women in Football Movie History.
Sure, Ali Larter gets all the credit in this movie for her famous whipped cream bikini, but Amy Smart is the one who really does it for me.
As Mox's girlfriend, she shows that she can do the sweet and innocent act to a T, but as you can see from the picture, she can also move seamlessly into smoldering.
Before Courtney Cox and her boobs took on the role of Paul Crewe's bitchy girlfriend in the vastly inferior remake of The Longest Yard, Anitra Ford had already made it her own in the original.
She was smoking hot, but apparently was mean enough that when Burt Reynolds slaps her at the beginning of the movie, we can still root for him in the end. That's the mark of a good bad girl.
Brooke Langton plays one of the greatest sports movie characters ever. She's super hot, sassy, a cheerleader, and she just so happens to know all about football.
Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever.
You may scoff at Keanu Reeves' inspirational speech, but he got Brooke, so he must know something about what chicks dig.
It's a testament to Cameron Diaz's hotness that I still want to see her at the end of Any Given Sunday. She is the cutthroat team owner who meddles too much with the team and is constantly a pain in the ass.
She's like a really, really hot Jerry Jones.
Banks plays the girlfriend of the legendary Vince Papal in the film Invincible. Papal is a bartender who ends up making the Philadelphia Eagles after an open tryout.
Honestly, if I could get Elizabeth Banks, I'd feel like I could do pretty much anything as well. Make the Eagles, cure cancer, whatever.
Again, I'm going with the underdog here. Halle Berry gets all the attention for her role in the movie because she's Halle Berry, but Kristy Swanson as the tennis player who wins the heart of the quarterback was much hotter to me when I first saw this movie.
She definitely looks like she could fit in with Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova, doesn't she? Hell, Swanson could fit in with just about any group of hot women.
Normally all of the hot women in sports movies are cheerleaders or girlfriends or femme fatales, but Kathy Ireland broke barriers when she became the sexiest member of the actual football team.
In Necessary Roughness, Ireland played the kicker. While it may not have been a hard-hitting role, I'm confident that I would let her tackle me any day.
In Heaven Can Wait, Julie Christie plays the woman that Warren Beatty falls in love with. In the film, her character is an environmental justice activist (read: hippie).
You know she was hot because at the end of the movie she managed to catch the eye of the Super Bowl-winning quarterback. I don't know if you've paid any attention to my other slideshows, but those guys don't necessarily go for uggos.
Kelly Preston plays Tom Cruise's fiancee in Jerry Maguire and is a complete and utter biotch the entire time, but I can't muster up the hate for her because she is so fine.
Tom may have had Renee Zellweger at hello, but Kelly Preston had me at her sex scene with Cruise.
Man, there is just something about women and sex scenes in Tom Cruise movies about football. It's hard to imagine that there would be more than one, but Lea Thompson went ahead and got naked for us in All The Right Moves.
She can definitely play the girl next door and had plenty of young men going nuts over her when she was in her prime. You know, before she played Caroline in the City and had a bunch of gay men going nuts over her.


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Projected cost to bring animal control to Hart County is rising
HARTWELL - It will cost Hart County and Hartwell considerably more to hire an animal control officer than previously thought, officials said this week.
Animal Shelter Inc. representatives suggested earlier this month that a part-time animal control officer would cost the county and the city combined about $8,500 a year.
Representatives from Hart County, Hartwell, Animal Shelter Inc., the Hart County Humane Society and the Northeast Georgia Animal Shelter met Tuesday evening to discuss the issue.
At that meeting, Hart County Commissioner Dan Reyen said the numbers Royston Police Chief Donnie Boleman suggested for the cost of a part-time officer were higher than those put forth earlier this month.
"$8,500? No. He's saying about $75,000 (combined for the city and county)," Reyen said. "We're looking at anywheres from $35,000 to $45,000 (each) from the city and county."
The group at the meeting Tuesday heard from Boleman about how animal control is run in Royston.
Boleman said the police department there responds to situations as they are called in. He also reviewed the startup costs to fund an animal control officer.
Hart County is working on its fiscal year 2012-13 budget, which is expected to include some deep cuts.
Convincing the county commission to spend additional money on animal control will be an uphill battle, Reyen said.
"That's the problem right there, trying to sell it to the county," he said. "Plus, the animal shelter folks are saying if we get animal control and increase the animal load over at the shelter, then they're going to need full funding, which according to them should be $57,000, and we're only putting in $30,000. So that's another $25,000."
County administrator Jon Caime has said he was also concerned about the startup costs for an animal control officer, which would include more than $1,000 for a series of preventive vaccinations for the officer.
The group that met Tuesday plans to meet again next week to continue talks.
Neither Hartwell nor the county has any animal control operations, and the county has no leash laws. The number of stray animals roaming both Hart County and Hartwell has prompted numerous complaints from people who live in the area.
Animal Shelter Inc. board member Judy Partain said she's hopeful an animal control policy will be in place soon.
"We're making great progress," Partain said. "The city and the county are trying to work together, and we should know something in the next few weeks. So, it's looking positive at this point; if we can get the shelter funding that's needed."
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for the last couple months Ive been working on a series of 4 ft sq kaleidoscope quilts , all completely hand worked, all close to the same size all with the same number of slices and the same oval quilting which shows up real nice in the corners of these quilts, I started quilting almost 20 yrs ago when all I heard in my antique shop was that 'No one hand quilts anymore' like a red flag to a bored bull . I know in a High Tech world handquilting seems like a old fashioned ideal but to me it has been the most liberating thing I have ever found to do, It is not tedious or take any longer than fooling with a sewing machine and my fondest wish is that more quilters would just try it
I love the idea of a kaleidoscope and think your quilts are amazing!
I also think your quilts are amazing! Thanks for sharing yet another stunning example of your beautiful work!
Your kaleidoscope quilts are stunning - I'm reminded of my trip to Italy when I view them. I also love handquilting - but after 20 years - I have arthritis is my hands and am no longer able to do it. I begrudgingly learned to machine quilt (poorly) and although I like the finished product, I don't like the activity - hand quilting was serene and machine quilting is stressful.
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This November I will be competing in the ING New York City Marathon with Team Boomer. Team Boomer is a group of athletes dedicated to increasing the quality of life of those impacted by cystic fibrosis (CF). As we help financially support research aimed at finding a cure, I would ask that you consider supporting us in this mission. A donation, no matter the size, makes a difference in the lives of those impacted by this terrible disease. Undoubtedly, with your help, our pursuit for a cure becomes even stronger.
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. As respiratory and digestive infections developed as a result of CF can be quite serious, and often life threatening, the predicted median age of survival for a person with CF is in the mid-30s. When I participated in a recent 10-K to benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation, I ran with many CF patients and was inspired by their courage and amazed at their enthusiasm. Fundraising with Team Boomer is my small way of helping to make sure more and more people living with CF experience all of what life has to offer far beyond their mid-30s.
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When it comes to matters of health, physical fitness and supplements, people look up to Dr. Mehmet Oz for guidance. Dr. Oz is a US educated cardiothoracic surgeon. He is also an author and TV personality. When Dr. Oz speaks, people listen. Companies use his name to promote their products because his endorsement carries a lot of weight.
Garcinia Cambogia extract is one such weight loss remedy that is often promoted using Dr. Oz's name.
But, Did Dr. Oz Really Endorse Garcinia Cambogia?
A three part video is available on Dr. Oz's website where he talks in detail about Garcinia Cambogia and what he thinks about it as a weight loss supplement. It is actually a discussion between him and another doctor, Dr. Julie Chen. Here are the highlights of the video, which will help you answer the question.
Part 1: What Dr. Oz Thinks About Garcinia Cambogia:
According to Dr. Oz, research results indicate that Garcinia Cambogia Extract (GCE) could be a revolutionary weight loss solution. He also quotes a few doctors who say that GCE prevents the body from making fat.
Dr. Chen believes that Garcinia besides being effective is also one of the cheapest weight loss solutions in the market that gets rid of body fat for good. It doubles or triples the weight loss benefits when compared to just diet and exercise.
After about a month of use, a person leading a healthy lifestyle could expect to lose about four pounds with Garcinia. It also suppresses appetite and helps prevent emotional eating.
Dr. Oz clarifies that he neither sells GCE supplements himself nor endorses any particular brand of Garcinia Cambogia. Garcinia works by preventing conversion of carbohydrates into fat. The body converts it into glycogen instead, which can be easily used by the muscles as an energy source.
Part 2: Dr. Oz Explains How Garcinia Works:
In the second part, the doctor with the help of Dr. Chen uses a plastic model to demonstrate how Garcinia works.
The liver converts carbohydrates into fat or glycogen, so naturally that is the center of action of GCE. Normally, liver converts carbohydrates into fats and stores them in fat cells. Most people who are putting on weight are in this mode.
Garcinia blocks the enzyme that helps the liver process carbohydrates. As a result, it is converted to glycogen, which is easily used by our muscles. Ultimately, the food we take is converted to energy rather than being stored in fat cells.
The effects may not appear as weight loss initially, but the body composition does change as it makes a shift in the way it handles the carbohydrates that a person eats. Instead of continuing in a fat storing mode, it shifts to a fat burning mode.
Dr. Oz says that the benefits are felt after a few days on the supplement as lean muscles begin to develop and the body becomes leaner and less bulky. The development of muscles helps burn up more fat and eventually the stored fat is also converted into energy. With Garcinia, one can focus on other things in life rather than worrying about losing weight.
Dr. Chen explains in the video how Garcinia helps prevent emotional eating and suppresses appetite. Dr. Oz also explains how GCE changes the way our stomach deals with food. HCA, the active substance in GCE, also signals the brain to feel satiated quickly, thus preventing overeating. The brain produces more serotonin, the neurotransmitter that influences mood. As a result, people taking Garcinia feel better.
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- James Pittman Wood, 40, and Russell Jacobs, 36, were found dead Tuesday afternoon.
- An autopsy shows the two died from gunshot wounds. The Sheriff says robbery is the likely motive.
- The sheriff's office hasn't said what led to the killings butWood and Jacobs were reportedly at Billy's Clubhouse Monday night.
Thursday, the Monroe County Sheriff's office announced an autopsy had been completed in Tuesday's double homicide.
The autopsy found that 40-year old James Pittman Wood and his brother-in-law 36-year old Russell Jacobs died from gunshot wounds.
Wood's elderly father found the two men Tuesday afternoon at the home they sharedoff of Pea Ridge Road near Juliette.
Some in the community say they were surprised by the case, since most neighborhoods are rural and quiet.
"Very uncommon, I've never heard anything like that before," says Twila Faye from Smarr.
RELATED | Sheriff: Robbery May Be Motive in Double Killing
The motive for the homicides could be robbery, the sheriff's office says, but no suspects have been named.
A bartender at Billy's Clubhouse in Macon said Wood and Jacobs were there Monday night, though the sheriff's office hasn't commented onwhat led up to the killings.
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CHARLIE Closa de Castro, 29, went out of the country to work as merchandiser at a Turkish restaurant in Doha, Qatar to support his family in the Philippines. But on Wednesday afternoon he returned home dead.
The body of De Castro, who died in a gas explosion in Doha, Qatar last month, arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 via Qatar Airways flight QR-926.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) desk at NAIA Terminal 1 said
a relative of De Castro identified as one Rico de Castro escorted the victim's body all the way from Doha.
On instructions of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, the OWWA in NAIA extended full assistance to the family of De Castro upon arrival at the airport.
Welfare Administrator Carmelita Dimzon also instructed OWWA Region IV-A officials to visit the family of the victim to extend condolences and provide counseling.
Dimzon assured the victim's family of assistance from OWWA that included Death Benefits and Education and Livelihood Assistance Program.
A native of Batangas, De Castro is survived by his mother, sister, and brother.
The overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was one of the 12 fatalities in the accidental gas explosion in in Doha, Qatar last Feb. 27. Another Filipino and two children were also among those who perished in the incident.
More than 30 others were injured in the blast.
Reports said a fire occurred after the blast. A part of the building collapsed.
The explosion was so strong that it blew cars parked outside the restaurant. Witnesses said shrapnel were also scattered some 50 to 100 meters from the blast site.
Qatari officials said the Feb. 27 incident was the deadliest next to the May 2012 shopping mall fire wherein 19 foreign nationals, including 13 children, were killed.
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A story of astonishing bigotry and thuggish homophobia was beamed around the world last month when it was reported that two young women —Yunka Mihura, 21, and Joana Palhares, 18, — were manhandled, beaten, arrested, and thrown in a jail cell for engaging in a same-sex kiss at a public gospel concert in a park in Brazil.
The event was hosted by pastor and Congressman Marco Feliciano. No stranger to controversy, Feliciano's racist, antigay beliefs are well-known in Brazil and around the world. His election to congress — along with his seat as the head of Brazil's Human Rights and Minorities Commission — raises many eyebrows, considering his vociferous distaste for gays, people of color and, ironically, human rights in general.
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Yunka Mihura: I was born in Florianopolis in Brazil, and I have lived in France and also Argentina. Currently I live in Ilhabela, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Are you actually gay? Some press reports have suggested you are straight.
Four years ago I kissed a girl for the first time – she was my best friend and neither of us had kissed someone of the same sex before. A teenage prank? Maybe. But I liked it. I like girls and boys, and I don't like labels, but labels exist, I suppose, so I guess I identify as bisexual because it is what I feel — it is not a choice. I choose not to eat meat, I choose to recycle. I choose my hair color and I choose to have tattoos. I choose the clothes I am wearing, but I did not choose my orientation. I find it is very simple: I can love a man or a woman. I feel like I don't fall in love with a gender but with a person's heart.
You went to an evangelical rally and pop concert in Brazil with about 20 friends. Are you religious?
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I am reviewing the ebook edition, and it has a snazzy cover showing a mix of historic events. This is as stated volume 1 of an intended series, and all the histories are from England.
Those of you that read this blog regularly will be aware that anything history is likely to be of interest to me, so I jumped at the chance to read it. Please note that it is not what I might call 'pure' history – and I don't mean this in any way as a bad thing. What I'm trying to say is that it is history presented with the experiences and interests of the author woven in between the history that is presented in the book. It might also be a piece of history that there is not necessarily a huge amount of factual information on – almost legend-like.
The 15 histories contained within range from that of Boudicca (yes, I caved and spelt it the 'new' way), one of my favourite people, the Princes in the Tower (Richard!), Jack the Ripper and Elizabethan Witches. All the histories are bite-sized so to speak, so you can read one or three and then come back and read the rest later if you so desire. Also, the author's relationship and interest with each of them is interwoven, so it is not at all disjointed and all the more personal for it.
What I really like about this book is the passion for his subject that the author has, its readability and variety of subjects, the dialogue being laced with humour. It's a great little book for those wanting to dip their toes into history, or reminisce about some of the history stories you may have heard as a child.
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on 3/27/2012 4:57:00 PM
Age: 36-43
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Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
I have these in three colors: Berry Smoothie, Sweet Tart, and Raspberry Pie. I bought Berry Smoothie first and I love the color, but it actually made my lips dry, which isn't normally an issue for me at all. I thought maybe it was something about that particular pigment and picked up the other 2 during a BOGO. Unfortunately, they all dry my lips out after having them on for about an hour. It's a shame too, because I do love the way they go on less opaque than a typical lipstick. I'll use them up, but I definitely have to layer something moisturizing on top. I won't buy them again though.
on 3/27/2012 10:51:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Black
Got myself the first lip butter after the long waiting after seeing beauty raves about this! I'm never a constant/devoted lover for lipstick/lipgloss, because none made me really stayed on applying everyday and i would say this is the first!
The color i'm using is Peach Parfait, which is gorgeous hint of peachy color that suits me perfectly. I'm actually applying everyday without feeling sick or looking weird w it! One thing i would dislike about this is the shimmers, i find it too much; i'd rather it to be more pigmented than more shimmers. And a good tip is blotting the first application and re-apply, the color look much better than initial try.
My mum was so skeptical about this because i loved it so much, she tried it at Guardian (just get alot of tissues to wipe them before you see/try the testers okay!) and she loves the look after the blotting of Cherry Tart! She's a medium skintone, so she loves brown-reddish lipstick, and she was sold! Cherry Tart has lesser shimmers as compared to Peach Parfait actually. I use cherry tart lightly for slight color visibility because i'm kinda new to reds!
on 3/26/2012 8:42:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I was so excited to try Cotton Candy after purchasing it because beauty gurus rave about this product and it is posted on everyone's blog. Cotton Candy is not as pigmented as expected and it must be applied in several layers to appear at all. The color itself is mediocre--definitely not my favorite but not awful. The texture is indeed creamy so this product glides nicely over your lips. I didn't want to completely give up on the product so I gave it another shot when I purchased Berry Smoothie. Berry Smoothie is more pigmented but still needs to be applied in more than one layer. I guess they ARE lip butters, so they are VERY, VERY sheer. The color of Berry Smoothie is not attractive on me. as far as moisture goes, I would say it's OK but my lips seem to feel dry as it comes off or is taken off by me. the product is mediocre; it does not live up to my expectations.
on 3/26/2012 3:49:00 PM
Age: 19-24
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Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I am not a fan of these at all. The colors look like cheap play makeup. The packaging looks cheap & I felt like I was going to break it every time I applied some or twisted one up. Some of them have way too much glitter in them & as a previous reviewer had stated, I also broke out around my mouth after using them.
on 3/25/2012 11:15:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I got this in Berry Smoothie and Pink Truffle. I decided to try this after I'd already bought the L'Oreal Balm. I liked both shades, berry is more pink but both are pretty natural, which is exactly what I was looking for. They are certainly NOT as moisturizing as the L'Oreal variety, and the color isn't exactly buildable- at first it looks good but if I'm not careful it seems to really look like the color is floating on top of my lips- not a sexy look at all! Overall, I'm happy with them, but the L'Oreal one is definitely better, (I even sometimes put that one on top of these...)
on 3/25/2012 11:06:00 PM
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Skin: Very Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I have berry smoothie and pink truffle. i absolutely love the texture, coloring, and even the cute pinkish square tubes. pink truffle shows up like a light-mid pinky brown on my lips. berry smoothie is mid tone pink on my lips. both look totally natural and fresh on my lips. they are both sheer lipsticks so it has a glossy finish to them. i definitely will be grabbing more when they go on sale cuz no sense in paying regular price when these seem to go on sale quite often in different stores. however, i would caution to putting it in your purse on a hot summer day cuz the texture is so soft that i'm sure that it will just melt.
on 3/25/2012 6:02:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool
Hair: Red, Straight, Other
Eyes: Brown
How many times do we get it into our heads that we want a certain product and are convinced it will be perfect, and it looks good but in the end you can't keep it because of something else-for me and this product it's how dry, chapped, and swollen my lips are after wearing them. I want to love them. I want to go buy all the colors because they are soft, easy, sheer colors to wear, and initially look great. But after just one night my lips looked swollen (like if I was using a plumper) and are raw in the center. I just can't keep a product like that no matter how much I try to convince myself that they work. It seems not everyone has this problem, just be aware that if it happens to you, it's not your imagination so return it! Maybe I'll try the L'Oreal version now. I really wanted these to work!
on 3/25/2012 1:48:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I'm going to rate these lip butters based on their formulation. I give it a 4/5 because I'm giving this score to the entire line overall, but for some colors I'd definitely give them a 5.
Overall, I own 6 of the colors in the line and they are generally well pigmented and very moisturizing, which I find is a plus. Given that I have super dry lips, and that these lip butters are enough to moisturize it well, I would give these a 6 for its moisturizing properties. In addition to its fabulous pigmentation, which ranges from a sheer wash to a full coverage, these to me are not really lip butters, but more like very moisturizing lipsticks. I really love the formulation of these lip butters.
I am NC25-30 in MAC, and my skin undertone really affects the lip butter shades that work for me. From my most favorite to least favorite colors, I have Berry Smoothie, Peach Parfait, Cherry Tart, Candy Apple, Raspberry Pie, and Red Velvet. I'll go over these individually.
Berry Smoothie - A neutral mid tone pink. This is my MLBB color, and I think a great color that works for all skin tones. I reach for this color everyday because it's an everyday nude for me. It has a creamy consistency and a moisturizing, matte clean finish. It has medium coverage.
Peach Parfait - A very shimmery light peach color. While I didn't like this color at first because it was so shimmery, I find that it works well in the spring, and gives a glossy affect from farther away. The pigment in here is light coverage, and is mostly shimmery and works for my warm undertones.
Cherry Tart - A sheer, neutral to warm red color that will add a light reddish tint or wash on your lips. I wear this for a "just bitten" lips look. Light glossy finish.
Candy Apple - A bright, red-orange color that is buildable. It's not a very subtle color, but it's definitely a fun one for going out, and a fun spring/summer color. Light glossy finish.
Raspberry Pie - A bright, medium purpley pink with a matte glossy finish. It adds a pop of color to my lips. It's a little cool toned, and may work better for lighter or cooler skintones.
Red Velvet - A deep, brownish red with a matte glossy finish. It's definitely a very classy color, but too dark to wear on an everyday basis.
on 3/23/2012 8:15:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
I love these!
I had read that they were sheer but they really aren't too sheer at all to me. I like that they are smooth and shiny without being sticky. They seem to give me a medium amount of color, not as heavy as a lipstick, but not as sheer as a tinted balm. They last a few hours on me but I usually have to re-apply most lip products so this doesn't really bother me.
I've bought a total of 4 of these now, and most recently got another today. For me, these are a great lip product!
on 3/23/2012 10:20:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I agree 100% with the review Aishteru85 gave below.
WAY over hyped product. I purchased 3 colours:
Peach Parfait: swatches online of this colour look so pretty but it has a ton of huge chunks of gold glitter that looks tacky when light hits it and also feels gritty. Also, when the colour fades, the gold glitters stays....its just a bad look.
Creme Brulee: Could be okay on the right person...on me its nothing special, and washes me out.
Sweet Tart: my favourite of the 3, BRIGHT pink with no shimmer
These are not very moisturizing at all. They won't dry out your lips, but if your lips are dry to begin with, they are not going to add any moisture back. With a name like "lip butter" and from all the raving about these, you'd think they could replace your lip balm.
On top of this, I KNOW that these dont claim to be long-wearing, but I find that the brighter colours slip and migrate very quickly (within 15-20 mins) towards the outer-edges of my lips....and I HATE that look...its a good indication that someone is wearing a cheap lipstick.
I'm all for a bargain lip product (love Revlon super lustrous glosses and lipsticks) but these are just not very good at all. I'm glad I got them on sale for $3.99
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With the recent dramatic collapse of the ice bridge to the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica, climate change is back in the headlines.
But Malcolm Turnbull and Coalition environment spokesman Greg Hunt think they have an answer: biochar. Many of the world's top climate scientists, including James Hansen, agree with them.
So what exactly is biochar? Will it work, and can it save us?
Essentially, biochar is charcoal — the burnt remains of organic material. The CSIRO has published a handy fact-sheet which explains that biochar is "a type of charcoal which results from the thermal treatment (heating) of natural organic materials (eg crop waste, wood chip, municipal waste, or manure) in an oxygen-limited environment. This process is referred to as pyrolysis."
The pyrolysis is the important part. Merely burning organic matter on a big bonfire won't give you biochar; limited oxygen and very high temperatures are required.
What biochar can do is sequester carbon. By turning typical organic molecules into carbon-containing aromatic rings, pyrolysis has the potential to be "carbon negative". This means the process can actually take up more carbon than it gives out, potentially reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. It's the holy grail of climate change mitigation. No wonder Tim Flannery is into it.
But will it work? Proponents point to native Amazonian slash-and-burn farming practices, which appear to have produced the dark soils called terra preta that remain rich in soil carbon for thousands of years. Biochar can be produced quite easily using current technologies, and small-scale pyrolysis systems for use on farms are commercially available: the NSW Department of Primary Industries is researching a pilot biochar reactor in Gosford. Indeed, one of the biggest benefits of biochar might be to help subsistence agriculture in developing nations, for example in Central America.
But much research remains to be done. Dr Evelyn Krull, the author of the CSIRO's biochar fact sheet, told the ABC's Anna Salleh that it will take three to five years before CSIRO can recommend it to farmers. "What we don't know is what the safe upper limits of biochar applications are for different soil types," she told Salleh.
And, as with nearly all renewable energy technologies, there is the problem of scale. There is a vast difference between small-scale research plants and the kind of large-scale, industry-wide solutions that can make a difference to climate change. One of biochar's chief proponents, Cornell University's Johannes Lehmann, admits that the big question about biochar is "whether this approach can be scaled up to national and regional, or even global, scales."
The CSIRO's Evelyn Krull appears to agree, telling the ABC that estimates on how much carbon can actually be trapped using biochar are rubbery, at best. "I don't know where these numbers come from," she said.
One source of these optimistic figures is a 2009 paper by UK meteorologist Tim Lenton (based on work by Lehmann), which estimated that biochar technology might be able to sequester as much as 0.56 gigatonnes of carbon a year, globally. This really would make a big impact. At the moment, though, it's only a figure in a scientific paper.
So can biochar save us? Probably not. As George Monbiot has pointed out in The Guardian, the biggest problem with the biochar campaign may well be its allure as a miracle solution to global warming.
This has been a common human response to gigantic problems that threaten to overwhelm us. Ever since the Reverend Thomas Malthus wrote his gloomy tome An Essay on the Principle of Population, the standard retort of pragmatic conservatives and Panglossian optimists has been that humanity's ingenuity will enable us to innovate our way out of ecological disasters. The "game-changing" ability of technological innovation has indeed been a key factor in saving the world from starvation since Malthus' time — but at the cost of significant environmental degradation in many parts of the globe.
In the 1970s, we saw a re-run of the Malthusian debate with the publication of the Club of Rome's groundbreaking report, The Limits to Growth. Authored by a group of analysts from MIT, The Limits to Growth famously predicted that global ecosystems would eventually be overwhelmed by a "business-as-usual" approach to economic growth. It foreshadowed the depletion and exhaustion of crucial energy resources, and the "overshoot and collapse" of global population. Enjoying blockbuster sales at the time, the survey soon attracted strong criticism from economists such as Julian Simon, and has often been dismissed by skeptical optimists like Bjorn Lomborg as a case-study in the perils of doom-laden prediction.
Unfortunately, the Cassandras are looking more prescient than the Panglossians just now. A recent research paper by the CSIRO's Graham Turner looked at the projections of The Limits to Growth 30 years on, in the light of three decades of accumulated data. He found that the Club of Rome's business-as-usual (or "standard run") model was surprisingly accurate, giving essentially correct figures for things like global population, non-renewable resource depletion and global pollution.
One of the key criticisms of the Club of Rome's models was that technological innovation would solve many of the resource constraints it predicted. So far, this hasn't happened with fossil fuels like oil. Likewise, a series of renewable energy technologies have been mooted as the saviour of the global economy and environment. First it was solar energy. Then wind. Then more exotic renewables like geothermal and tidal power. And finally the mirage of "clean coal", or Carbon Capture and Sequestration, motivated governments and politicians (including in Australia) to invest billions in the hope of allowing humanity to burn dead trees forever. Time and again, commercial realities, political complacency and vested interests have defeated the promise of renewable energy industries. Biochar is, in this sense, simply the latest in the long line of such false dawns.
None of this is to say we shouldn't pursue biochar technology. As Chris Goodall wrote in The Guardian in response to Monbiot, "yes, we don't yet understand fully why biochar works but this is not an argument to ignore it or rule it out."
Clearly, if we are to seriously address the global crisis of anthropogenic global warming, we need every shot in the technological armoury. But biochar will never be enough. If we are to stave off ecological catastrophe this century, we are going to have to stop burning carbon.
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Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 23:48
I agree with Ben Eltham's conclusion that biochar is PART of the "technological armoury" required to reduce the atmospheric concentration of 387 ppm CO2 (corresponding to a current CO2-equivalent concentration of about 450 ppm) to a safe sustainable circa 300 ppm. A recent study by UK scientists of bioengineering options to reduce CO2 had a similar conclusion (see: T.M. Lenton & N.E. Vaughan, The radiative forcing potential of various climate geoengineering options, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 9, 2559-2608, 2009: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/2559/2009/acpd-9-2559-2009-prin... )
However George Monbiot (so correct on other key humanitarian and environmental matters) has got it wrong in condemning biochar as a threat to human food supplies (for a detailed rebuttal see see "Forest biomass-derived Biochar can profitably reduce global warming and bushfire risk ": http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/forest-biomas... ).
In short, the key argument of Monbiot is that virtually ALL the arable land of the world would have to be used. However he has used a "straw man" argument in ignoring the circa 2 GtC/yr straw biomass from crops on arable land – he ignores a potential total of circa 12 GtC (billions of tonnes of C) of biomass for biochar annually from forestry, grassland and agricultural waste (notably straw biomass from 1.34 billion ha of arable land).
Of course Monbiot would be dead right (with dead being the operative word) if arable land were used not for growing food (with straw nbiomass as a useful biochar precursor side product) but for dedicated growing of biomass for biochar i.e. "food for biochar" as in the obscene and criminal "food for biofuel" that is currently legislated in the UK, US, EU and part of Australia.
On p224, Progress in Thermochemical Biomass Conversion, volume 1, IAE Bioenergy, ed. A,V, Bridgewater (Blackwell Science) (see: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rdqGX0LEg7sC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=G... ) informs us that we could obtain 1.7 GtC/yr (straw from agriculture) + 4.2 GtC/yr (total grass upgrowth from grasslands upgrowth) + 6 GtC/yr (possible sustainable woodharvest) = 11.9 GtC/yr.
From this one can see why biochar expert Professor Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University is correct calculating that it is realistically possible to fix 9.5bn tonnes of carbon per year using biochar, noting that global annual production of carbon from fossil fuels is 8.5bn tonnes C (see: Alok Jha, ""Biochar' goes industrial with giant microwaves to lock carbon in charcoal", Guardian (13 March 2009): http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/13/charcoal-carbon and Johannes Lehmann, Biochar for mitigating climate change: carbon sequestration in the black": http://www.geooekologie.de/download_forum/forum_2007_2_spfo072b.pdf ).
Top UK climate scientist Professor Lovelock FRS has the same position in his assessment: "This [biochar] is the one thing we can do that will make a difference, but I bet they won't do it" (see Gaia Vince (2009), "One last chance to save mankind", New Scientist, 23 January 2009: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-sa... and http://biocharfund.com/images/hansen%2C%20target%20atmospheric%20c02.pdf ).
Peace is the only way but Silence kills and Silence is complicity.
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 07:09
This is an interesting idea. I've been discussing it for a year or so with some other people, but wasn't convinced on either
a) Its use as a nutrient 'locker' for farming/gardening or
b) Just how effective it would be to burn vegetative matter in order to lock up C to prevent CO2/CH4 dissipating into the atmosphere.
However, a few links here show that real work, at least, is being done to ascertain exactly what those figures might be. I'd be interested to know exactly where/how this process might work. Until now, I'd been told only of how to create it by wood/forest management (ie, coppicing, etc), but had never heard of straw (for example) and other biomass being able to be used.
It could be encouraging, as a significant tool in the box (provided it isn't compromised in ways such as biofuels have been - *replacing* food crops, and becoming a commercial commodity in itself). I don't have a great deal of hope that this won't happen. I can see it first becoming a valuable commodity, particularly for soil enrichment - if that actually works - and then being latched onto by countries/people looking to make a quick dollar by burning forests. If it does work as the advocates suggest, it *should* be supplied to seed soil for growing food, and not burying in old mines. But unless well thought out policies can be enforced (for example, the creation of biochar from approved sources paid for by govts, but the biochar distributed - as a govt service - for free), it might have as many problems as any of the more technological approaches.
Dr David Horton
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 15:02
Another suggestion I have seen is, instead of using terrestrial plants, to produce algae commercially and turn that into biochar. But this would mean putting a price on the biochar, only realistic if it does actually contribute to soil fertility, and if this contribution can be continued indefinitely (my guess would be that there would be a limit to the uptake by soils, particularly the thin soils of much of Australia, and that in addition it will certainly change the composition of the soil microflora and microfauna in unpredictable ways). The search for a magic bullet for climate change, enabling us to continue business as usual, has much in common with the search for a "god".
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 15:31
One aspect of Biochar systems are Cheap, clean biomass stoves that produce biochar and no respiratory disease. At scale, the health benefits are greater than ending Malaria.
A great example;
Also , I would like the BioFuelWatch folks to read the petition of 1500 Cameroon Farmers;
The Biochar Fund
The USDA-ARS have dozens of studies happening now to ferret out the reasons for char affinity with MYC fungi and microbes, but this synergy is solidly shown by the Japanese work, literally showing 1+1=4
This is what I try to get across to Farmers, as to how I feel about the act of returning carbon to the soil. An act of pertinence and thankfulness for the civilization we have created. Farmers are the Soil Sink Bankers, once carbon has a price, they will be laughing all the way to it.
Biotic Carbon, the carbon transformed by life, should never be combusted, oxidized and destroyed. It deserves more respect, reverence even, and understanding to use it back to the soil where 2/3 of excess atmospheric carbon originally came from. We all know we are carbon-centered life, we seldom think about the complex web of recycled bio-carbon which is the true center of life. A cradle to cradle, mutually co-evolved biosphere reaching into every crack and crevice on Earth.
It's hard for most to revere microbes and fungus, but from our toes to our gums (onward), their balanced ecology is our health. The greater earth and soils are just as dependent, at much longer time scales. Our farming for over 10,000 years has been responsible for 2/3rds of our excess greenhouse gases. This soil carbon, converted to carbon dioxide, Methane & Nitrous oxide began a slow stable warming that now accelerates with burning of fossil fuel.
Biochar viewed as soil Infrastructure; The old saw; "Feed the Soil Not the Plants" becomes; "Feed, Cloth and House the Soil, utilities included !". Free Carbon Condominiums with carboxyl group fats in the pantry and hydroxyl alcohol in the mini bar., build it and the Wee-Beasties will come. As one microbiologist said on the Biochar list; "Microbes like to sit down when they eat". By setting this table we expand husbandry to whole new orders of life.
Thanks for your attentions,
Erich J. Knight
Shenandoah Gardens
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 16:11
Gideon, thanks for your contribution. I too have read Lenton's paper and it's a fascinating one. However it's important to note that scaling up technologies to mass-scale has been the big problem for nearly all other techs in the sector.
let's hope that biochar can make a difference.
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douglas jones
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 - 16:16
douglas jones
Why must we continue to seek a silver bullet that will solve our problem of climate change, a one stop cure?
Assuming we have done enough talking to decide climate change is real and at least in part caused by combustion of carbon containing materials in the main. Oh yes Nitrous oxides and all the rest the e of CO2-e.
If not we can always use the profitable ideas relating to energy use given by Lovins work and the work of others. Lovins is at Rocky Mountain Institute and a lot of the work has been published as a book Factor Four. This will provide industry with the incentive of increased profit whilst lowering energy use.
Or of course we could continue with the idea of sequestering Coal emissions allowing financiers to make merry and industries given too generous allowances to make fortunes as they have done in Europe.
Of course we could continue talking waiting for the Club of Rome predictions to come to fruition.
The many millionaires from the latest scam can attempt their own salvation with site choice and local engineering.
Biochar is one of a number of possible partial solutions,the faithful see it as the solution Epidra even has figures showing it could be done. However even adding a solar water heater to every house would make some difference, but achievement will only come from the application of the many possible partial solutions already on offer.
Yes Biochar can improve the soil and hence crop yields particularly on poorer soils and yes it can retain nasties like pesticide residues nitrous oxides methane carbon itself in addition to its own carbon. Yes it can act as fertilizer, soil tilth improver improver of water holding capacity increase of pH. Most of all return the depleted Carbon to the soil reducing, as by product, atmospheric Carbon compounds.
It is being trailed in W A on field scale wheat crop and is produced in NSW at Best Energies in an experimental plant, proposed as means of removing biological waste otherwise going to land fill, investigated in many sites in Aust and the world. A small plant costs around 7 million a larger with through put of 39 tonnes per hour around 13 million. that is 136 tonnes C fixed per hour. Work continues on determining a biomass source which does not impinge on crop needs or clearing of yet more forest.
Clean coal has just been given 100 million for work leading, hopefully to fruition saving our export trade, very much down played by Guy Pearse in the latest Monthly essay in x years time where x is time which not only exceeds doing something now but passes 2020. That is near 8 biochar plants or many small using local biomass and providing the fuel for the transport plus char to increase yields of local farms.
International Biochar Institute has had a recent meet in the UK bringing together much of the findings see
Epidra a group who have done a lot of work have put a power point presentation at www.epidra.com/present.php4 go to the August 2008 site at the right. A picture of a biochar plant is given.
So no I do not expect biochar to be a solution on its own. I do think we will need cooperation of all citizens even those whose credo is profit and if we do not start soon we might as well give up and continue with our wars our financial scams consume till, we bust pretending we have found happiness and as time elapses and things get worse turn to way out religion and the blame game as to who did not or did what. naturally the whole idea of climate change might be wrong or might be a natiural even about which we can do very little.
I conclude we should keep talking some one will feel good if only temporarily.
Posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 02:37
What an unbelievable piece of stupidity. We have the good fortune to discover the perfect method of carbon sequestration so we burn it to liberate the carbon and then decide to put it back into the ground in a less stable form by burning something else to pack it into!
Who is fooling whom.
Is it really that we just don't get it. If coal can be regarded as Capital then why burn it if not to put it to use to create the next generation of Capital, the sustainable technology such as solar panels and wind machines? To simply burn coal for daily use as lighting, heating etc is to burn a Capital item which we presume to own at the expense of future generations. Where is our sense of custodianship. Are we all stupidly obsessed with the destruction of capital for the temporary short fix.
We destroy other forms of capital also, fertile land that we build houses upon.
What a wonderful way to sequestrate arable soil, lock it up for years as unproductive real estate.
The premature utilization of an idea is not the same as the utilization of technology, in which I believe the latter to mean a great understanding of the process.
The premature utilization of the idea of the Cane Toad in the Queensland Sugar Cane Industry was so reprehensible as we now see so regrettably but it is the perfect example to the oft used phrase " well if we make a botch of it the next group can either clean it up or improve upon it"
That is sloppy science and the next generation doesn't deserve it nor should they be presumed upon.
In medicine one of the earlier teachings was "Physician first do no harm". it is an enormous regret that other professions do not acknowledge or embrace that philosophy.
it is an offense to litter in the street yet it is not an offense to to pour effluent into the air, rivers and oceans or on land.
Also do the "economists" have carte blanche to do what is simple and easy if only to placate those whom they advise in the short term in preparation for the next election?
The most alarming distortion is to pretend that we don't need Capital we only need credit so we can live in a virtual reality in an ever expanding world that does not exist.
We will have to hope that some crazy aliens will land here and make offers for our debts that will exonerate our excesses.
The easy and present use of coal as a "cheap" resource as if it were just everlasting dirt forces upon us the need to have this deception that the solution is the continuous and uninterrupted use because the answer is only a short gap into the future.
Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 00:02
so very high temperatures and limited oxygen are required, plus organic stuff to burn.
sounds like the engineers have been wooping up the cool aid to me. Take a bike...get real.
Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 04:01
Hi Boxhead,
Actually, this one (compared to most) has been led, as I understand it, by the land workers, not engineers. Firstly, farmers in Brazil noticed the growing power of biochar, and started bagging and selling it. Secondly, people in various places got hold of this idea, had a poke about and decided it was biochar that had made certain Brazilian soil so productive. Thirdly, people started experimenting with it.
After positive feedback (on the soil health after biochar application - essentially charcoal soaked in urine/comfrey/manure stews), people figured out (scientifically or not, I don't know) that biochar might work as a way of fixing carbon/potential CO2, CH4, into the soil permanently, since the original in Brazil had been there for at least a couple of millenia.
Only very recently have (as far as I am aware) any real scientific studies been conducted in the potential of biochar for carbon sequestration. In Europe, at least, pro-active forest management has been going on for a very long time, so it is possible to harvest wood more proactively without being detrimental to the forests. In fact, in many parts, many native species actually *rely* on some such management (since the natural forest managers - beavers - were wiped out a hundred years or two ago).
So its not really an engineer's approach (or indeed, a scientific approach) - more the opposite way around. Not necessarily wrong, because a great deal of good common sense in forest/land management has been figured out over the millenia by people who never called themselves scientists, but, all the same, are being proved right in various ways even now. But not necessarily the cure-all many of these people are hoping for, either, if not for any other reasons bar political ones.
I've never tried biochar for my allotment - I will, one season, maybe soon. I'd like to speak with more authority on whether it works or doesn't, and the tests I've seen online by gardeners don't seem all that rigorous.
But, if it does work, and I can lug a pile of timber to the allotment, charcoal it, 'seed' it and plant it, and then nothing past composting for several years, I'll be happy with that - particularly when I can't just get a truck in to dump some manure.
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 12:47
Thankyou Derek, that does make it clearer. I live in Phuket where the old habit is simply to burn all clippings wet or dry. Perhaps I can convince my neighbor to give Biochar a try and my lungs a break.
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 01:04
"What an unbelievable piece of stupidity. We have the good fortune to discover the perfect method of carbon sequestration so we burn it to liberate the carbon and then decide to put it back into the ground in a less stable form by burning something else to pack it into!
Who is fooling whom."
In closed-loop Pyrolysis systems very little of the biomass is burnt. Pyrolysis is an exothermic reaction, once started it feeds itself. 1 ton of biomass typically becomes 1/3 ton char, 15- 20% each Bio-oil or bio-gas and the balance in process heat,
The Bio-oil or bio-gas, when used as fuel is the only release of CO2, but this is Carbon Neutral since it came from biomass not fossil fuel.
Erich J. Knight
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 23:09
Sorry -erich- I should have more specifically stated that it was fossil fuel I was referring to when I wrote "perfect method of carbon sequestration".
For example has all fossil "fuel" reserves been estimated and calculated on the basis of how much should be rationed to the current population and how much has be quarantined for future generations or do they just get what's left because we could not use it fast enough?
It was simply to consider that the casual use of fossil fuel for immediate comfort and recreational use and not as an energy form to be used to develope the next level of energy producing technology fails to appreciate that it is a one time opportunity on such a large scale. To waste this cache for quick and simple profit and dissipation of a one off resource fails to comprehend it's true significance.
I suppose it could be seen in the context of throwing pearls before swine!
Fossil fuel to a an energy company is like farm land to a commercial land developer, the profound "self" interest is really an abomination to the true interpretation of Capitalism. In this instance both perpetrators have simply converted a capital item into an income to be dissipated.
This also impacts on the artificiality of the ability to support such a large population in this short term of abuse.
Battery hens ,now battery humans employed in factories to prove the theory of economists that growth is forever sustainable.
Homeostasis is sustainability.
Therefore one region after another has to set the level of long term sustainability and once achieved hope to assist other regions to reach their level.
This is a terribly boring prospect as it tries to eliminate the excitement of wars, recurrent boom and bust cycles of financial markets and of course the desire to get richer than our neighbour.
The current preoccupation with C02 and debt show how we collectively have absolutely no idea of the process of evolution and extinction.
We delude ourselves with the belief that creation theory will allow us to develope an endlessly expanding reality with unlimited resources.?
It is somewhat possible if one only considers one's own lifetime as the only timeline..


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Epiphany Diner To Close After This Year's State Fair
August 17, 2011 6:40 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Each year, the Great Minnesota Get-Together offers a number of must-try new foods. But you may want to taste an oldie-but-goodie this summer.
The Epiphany Diner is going to close after this year's State Fair.
A church from Coon Rapids has been serving up hot meals there for the last 45 years.
Church leaders say the diner just isn't bringing in the money like it used to.