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For the occasion, Greenpeace unveiled a gigantic eco-friendly 3D artwork of an organic farm, an illustration of healthy, ecological farming, at Museum of Siam, Bangkok. The event comes ahead of the National Rice and Farmers Day on June 5th to celebrate the pride of Thai rice tradition and wisdom of Thai farmers who can produce safe food without the need of GE.
"The Thai government's strategy to keep rice production GE-free is an acknowledgement embedded in government policy that genetically-engineered (GE) crops are unnecessary and a risk to a sustainable future for farming. This is a victory for rice farmers and consumers because it affirms the commitment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to keep rice farming sustainable and rice crops free of environmental and health risks associated with GE crops," said Natwipha Ewasakul, Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
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"The Pakistani position and official response to the allegations made not only by Western officials and Taliban fighters but also Pakistani representatives is carried throughout by several different voices."
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Nobel Prize Physicist Needs a Calculator
Posted by Jeff Id on December 28, 2008
Maybe the title should be Stephen Chu scientist or politician? I don't know for sure but here is a man who knows full well that biofuels from corn are impossibly inefficient yet he supports expanding their implementation. He also knows that Nuclear power can solve his perceived CO2 crisis, yet is "concerned" about nuclear waste so there will be none of that.
Here is the article in the news which got me all wound up today. It's from market watch.
Incoming energy chief bullish on solar, wind, biofuel
"He believes that a portfolio approach to alternative energy is necessary to address what he sees as a looming energy crisis," Lazard Capital Markets analyst Sanjay Shrestha said. He "firmly believes that we are in an energy crisis and that the single most important issue is controlling carbon dioxide emissions."
When did we get into an energy crisis? I remember the financial crisis and the global warming crisis but last time I looked the lights were still on. The truth is that there is no energy crisis, the only crisis we have is people telling us we can't make energy.
One of Chu's achievements as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004 was the Helios Project, aimed at using synthetic biology and nanomaterials to make more efficient and low-cost solar panels.
This sounds great to me, really. Why not wait till it's ready? Maybe in 30 years we'll have a good method for storing the energy which is really the primary problem with solar and wind.
"Since Obama has publicly stated his support for increasing the Renewable Fuels Standard to 60 billion gallons by 2030, we believe there will be increased support in the form of Department of Energy loan guarantees for next-generation ethanol technologies," Shrestha said.
Fantastic news, piles of money thrown down the hole on the least efficient process imaginable. Chu knows biofuels don't work well because the efficiency of storage of solar energy is way too low. Anyone with his math background can work the calculations in an afternoon. Why then does he want to support the flushing of money down the hole?
It ain't science folks it's politics.
Chu has also voiced concern about nuclear power because of the issue of waste disposal, but, according to the Lazard analysts, he believes more research should be done on recycling radioactive fuels and on waste reduction, since nuclear energy is carbon neutral.
There are solutions to waste disposal, if he doesn't like them where's the huge investment in development of storage? Why doesn't he like nuclear really? Because it Fn works, that's why. That's the real reason the leftists don't support nuclear. If I'm wrong, which I'm not, they would dump piles of money into a storage solution. Why not permit industry to build new reactors with safety factors an order of magnitude greater than the ancient behemoths we run today?
Instead Chu want's to do research on waste reduction, a worthy goal yet it doesn't address his stated concern. He doesn't address storage of the inevitable waste which is his 'alleged' concern! THERE IS NO POSSIBLE SOLUTION EVEN IF THE RESEARCH SUCCEEDS, BECAUSE THERE IS STILL WASTE. The guy won a nobel prize, HE KNOWS THIS! I for one am not gullible enough to think he doesn't!
Obama is also expected to name Carol Browner, head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton, as White House coordinator of energy and climate policy — or, in the popular shorthand, energy czar.
This is fantastic, Carol Browner, an insider from washington, married to Tomas Downey who is a close personal friend of Al Gore and is working as an (anti)energy lobbyist. Heres a chunk from Wikipedia.
Downey is currently a lobbyist and chair of Downey McGrath Group, Inc., a lobbying firm he founded in 1993. The president is Ray McGrath, also a former US Representative from New York. Downey represented Dubai Ports World and lobbied Congress to approve the controversial ports deal. Downey argues that "they would have made this country more secure" because "DP World is one of the few companies that could have worked with us to truly improve security, both at home and abroad."[3]
Downey married Carol Browner, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, on June 21, 2007. This is Mr. Downey's second marriage and Browner's third. In their spare time together they enjoy visiting wetlands and landfills in order to monitor environmental destruction.
This is the dumbass who was pushing to sell our US ports to dubai of all places. What stupidity is that! And get a load of the last sentence there, they enjoy visiting "landfills" in order to monitor environmental destruction. LIARS, there I said it!
Well Carol deserves her own post, she's cutting into Chu's time. Here is the last paragraph from the article which drove my blood pressure through the roof.
Houston-based energy research firm Tudor Pickering Holt noted Friday that the expected appointment of Browner and Chu would bring to bear on the nation's energy challenges a top scientist and a Washington veteran. "It's a strong duo … a big-brained research guy with a Washington insider," Tudor Pickering Holt said in a note to clients that included this advice: "Buckle up, energy guys … [for] carbon legislation."
A strong duo for sure. One which intends to follow the standard left procedures in the face of all scientific evidence to the contrary.
-Expand corn biofuels, known to produce a maximum of about 50 net gallons per acre and drive up food costs starving the poor nations of the world which rely on cheap US food for survival.
-Expand solar, known to be right at the top of power options for cost. With no hope of energy production at night and big difficulties in the winter.
-Expand wind, without energy storage the starts and stops require us to have enough coal plants to produce all of our needs. Each coal plant needs modified technologies to handle the start/stop loads on the energy grid.
– No coal power plants
– No natural gas plants
– No reasonable oil drilling
The policies all have a few items in common.
For those of you who like the "reasonable" middle ground in politics, ask yourselves this hypothetical. What other motivation besides CO2 would these smart people have to do this?
35 Responses to "Nobel Prize Physicist Needs a Calculator"
December 29, 2008 at 2:13 am
There are a lot of things wrong with your opinion piece.
The first is to confuse the process of making ethanol from corn stalks and corn cobs, or other cellusoci organic materials with making ethanol from corn grains and soybeans. Cellulosic ethanol production does not drive up the price of food, since it uses agricultural by products. The article does not state that Chu is in favor of ethanol produced from grains or soybeans as a fuel. The Lawrence Berkeley lab is doing research on cellulosic ethanol production.
The second mistake is to riducule energy efficiency. It has enormous potential. There is a passive house program in germany that dispenses with the need to heat homes there with furnaces, using novel construction techniques which add only a few percent to the cost of homes. it has the potential for saving an enormous amount of energy.
The third mistake is to knock the idea of nuclear waste reduction. There is research in that area that looks very promising. It does not seem smart to pooh pooh it.
Chu is one of the most imaginative and brilliant minds in the world. He has done astounding interdisciplinary research for which he won a nobel prize. You are just another opinionated blogger, and your post shows that you don't understand the issues well enough to criticize his work intelligently.
December 29, 2008 at 8:38 am
Eric Adler states: "Cellulosic ethanol production does not drive up the price of food, since it uses agricultural by products."
Mr. Adler, You don't state how much corn has to be grown to produce the by-products necessary to produce enough ethanol to provide adequate energy. If countries have to plant more corn just to get the by-products, it will affect food production.
Eric Adler states: "There is a passive house program in germany that dispenses with the need to heat homes there with furnaces, using novel construction techniques which add only a few percent to the cost of homes. it has the potential for saving an enormous amount of energy."
Mr. Adler, you really need to provide links to substantiate this. There are many known ways to build houses to trap heat, but are these German homes so efficient that they literaly need no other heat sources. Why isn't this all over the American news? We all could save money if you would provide us with the answers.
I can't even follow your thoughts on nuclear energy.
Have a nice Holiday,
December 29, 2008 at 6:00 pm
You have to remember one thing in Political views; it's not their money and the Government can print more….
December 29, 2008 at 6:07 pm
At this moment, France is using Nuclear Waste to power it's Reactors! Check this Site out!
December 29, 2008 at 6:20 pm
This is the Article Eric was relating to. My serious concern with any hi-efficiency house is it doesn't breath. Indoor pollutants buildup and cause many Health Issues. This happened in the late 70's and into the 80's. Houses being constructed too tight.
December 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm
For the passive house article, check the original source:
The passive house system in this article has a special ventilation system which heats the incoming air with the outgoing air in a heat exchanger. The article says they have dealt with the mold and stale air problem.
It is well known that there is no way that the earth's land area is sufficient to replace ALL the fossil fuels used today with biofuels. However, Brazil has shown that Ethanol from sugarcane is a viable technology, and is so competitive that it requires a tariff to protect the subsidized price of ethanol from corn grains in the US.
In addition, bio engineering may produce organisms that are more efficient than the biofuel sources we have today.
I don't pay attention to politics and ideology when dealing with technical and scientific issues, and I am glad that we will soon have a president who is a pragmatist, and not ideological, for a change. After 8 years of the Bush administration which ignores science, and bases policy on political ideology and religious beliefs, Obama represents a welcome change, which should benefit the country greatly.
December 29, 2008 at 7:20 pm
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December 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I have an idea. Once we make cold fusion energy production work our problems will disappear. Now, I have in my possession a cardboard box that will one day sustain a cold fusion power generator. If you send me a few million dollars this cardboard box will one day produce vast amounts of electricity. Now, I can understand your reluctance. After all, the energy efficiency of this box is very small right now, some critics (oil company shills and science ignorers) would even say it produces no energy. But if you invest, there is a possibility of huge production in the future. Can you really afford NOT to subsidize my carboard cold fusion reactor?
December 29, 2008 at 9:18 pm
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December 29, 2008 at 4:18 am
I'm sorry I was grumpy about it this morning. I just reread my post and am a little disappointed that this stuff gets me so mad. People just don't get what's happening. It's astounding to me that smart people don't get the simplicity of the political plot but what do I know.
Regarding your post, you have misunderstood me possibly due to my tone and the fact that you don't visit here every day. Thanks for taking it on though. When you say–
"The first is to confuse the process of making ethanol from corn stalks and corn cobs, or other cellusoci organic materials with making ethanol from corn grains and soybeans."
I wasn't confused, if you look at the best case 6% conversion rate for photosynthesis of energy you end up covering more land area than the US has just to power the cars from the stalks. The costs are monsterously out of proportion from other energy sources and it just doesn't make sense.
– See Algae.
In addition, when Chu suppports ethanol 'against scientific evidence' you assume he only supports ethanol from scrap, the truth is he won't recommend de-funding current subsidies which are already starving 'literally' people who used to get cheap corn. If the administration cuts all the funds for the current ethanol corn technology write back and I will admit my error with a big fat apology and post directly to you and Chu. (I've done it before because I'm not always right) Be sure to let me know when this happens though ';)
– so don't subsidize food corn, problem solved. Plenty of human-inedible corn being grown already. The current subsidies are simply a way for republicans to cut other farm subsidies and keep the farm vote, or they would have stipulated this already.
"The second mistake is to ridicule energy efficiency."
I didn't ridicule energy efficiency and never will. I am president and owner of a "green" company. First time I have admitted that on my own blog. I have probably saved the world more CO2 than all the people you know combined including Chu. There's nothing wrong with voluntary efficiency. How's that for a comeback!
– Unverified, I should think.
"The third mistake is to knock the idea of nuclear waste reduction."
It's just a blog but please read more carefully
I wrote —– "Instead Chu want's to do research on waste reduction, a worthy goal yet it doesn't address his stated concern. "
—–"a worthy goal"
The thing you miss is that Chu is dismissing Nuclear with 'concerns about waste'
Funny, the text you quoted says:
"Chu has also voiced concern about nuclear power because of the issue of waste disposal, but, according to the Lazard analysts, he believes more research should be done on recycling radioactive fuels and on waste reduction, since nuclear energy is carbon neutral."
"Dismissing nuclear", you claimed. Why aren't you lying in this one? Just curious.
Also, your list at the bottom. Where's your evidence?
December 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I like post #11 and would like to suggest the following changes before speaking to the ORIGINAL inventor and primary financial supporter, Al Gore.
1. Replace "cardboard box" with, "Biodegradable cellulose containment facility"
2. Not only is the containment facility biodegradable, it can also be considered a CO2 sink. (Plants require CO2 to grow, thus removing this global warming pollutant.)
3. Instead of calling it "cold" fusion I would say it is "Polar Bear friendly fusion".
4. Last but not least, your "Polar Bear friendly fusion biodegradable cellulose containment CO2 sink facility" is approaching 100% efficiency. For every 1W you put into the box, you get 1W of energy out of the box. So you could tell him with a very high degree of confidence (6 Sigma) it uses no energy to operate.
I hope some of these points will get you your millions.
One last note, don't tell Gore about ITER, link here http://www.iter.org/index.htm he just might claim to have invented that also…..
December 29, 2008 at 9:59 pm
PALO ALTO, Calif.–Add Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu's name to the ranks of scientists who advocate turning to nuclear power as an alternative energy source.
"Nuclear has to be a necessary part of the portfolio," Chu, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, said during the annual economic summit organized by Stanford University.
Chu, who also is professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, said nuclear is the preferred choice to coal, pointing out that coal releases 50 percent more radioactivity than nuclear power plants.
"The fear of radiation shouldn't even enter into this, he said. "Coal is very, very bad."
December 29, 2008 at 10:12 pm
What is the basis for you assumption that Stephen Chu is in favor of keeping subsidies for ethanol from corn grains? Has he expressed a personal opinion on this program?
What is the basis for your claim that the Chu bases any of his opinions on anything other than science and his belief in saving the planet from global warming due AGW?
Do you have a link that shows this?
December 29, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Why not look at Chu's views on energy in this power point, rather than accept what you read about his position on blogs, or where ever you may have read it second hand.
He shows clearly how stupid ethanol for corn grains is, and how Brazil has been successful with its sugar cane ethanol program.
He also is committed to a multifaceted research program to remake the way humanity gets its energy.
The history of his work shows the man is a genuinely impressive original interdisciplinary thinker; and hopefully will help to inspire the country to mobilize its resources to do smart things. The politics of the past eight years have lead our country into backwardness.
December 29, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Here's a very good article on your Bio Corn Ethanol fiasco!
Ethanol Bailout? Time To Shuck Corn
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, December 26, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Energy Policy: The heavily subsidized ethanol industry is the latest to seek a federal bailout. If there is any industry that deserves to go bankrupt, it's this one. Time has come to stop putting food in our gas tanks.
The bailout-seeking domestic auto industry has been criticized as being unproductive and inefficient. It hasn't been helped by mandated fuel economy standards that have done little to reduce our dependence on foreign energy or help the environment. Now the fuel we have been mandated to put in our cars, equally unproductive and inefficient, is also seeking a bailout.
Ethanol never made much sense economically or environmentally. It never would have made it to market without congressional mandates and huge subsidies. Having the first presidential contest in the corm state of Iowa didn't hurt either. With oil prices plummeting, it is even less competitive — if it ever was.
The product has benefited from a tax credit paid to gasoline producers to blend gasoline with ethanol; a federal fuel economy standard that sets a minimum amount of ethanol to be blended; and a 54-cents-a-gallon tariff on cheaper imported ethanol made in places like Brazil. Brazilian ethanol is made from sugar, not corn. But corn is grown in Iowa, and Brazilians can't vote.
Recent legislation mandated increased ethanol use as well as a 51-cent-a-gallon tax credit and more corn subsidies. Over the last two decades the ethanol industry has been kept alive with more than $25 billion in federal handouts. Yet it still can't compete.
Five of Iowa's 32 ethanol plants are in bankruptcy. They are operated by Sioux Falls, S.D.-based ethanol giant VeraSun Energy, which itself filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 31. Eleven plants in other states have also fallen into bankruptcy. Nationally the ethanol plant failure rate is at 8.8% and could reach 22% in short order.
The Renewable Fuels Association, the industry's lobbying arm, has talked with Team Obama about further handouts such as $1 billion in short-term credit to keep failing plants in operation and $50 billion in loan guarantees to build more. The association wants to increase the 10% ethanol limit in gasoline for conventional cars and trucks and require that any carmaker getting federal funds produce only vehicles that can run on any blend up to 85% ethanol.
Even the environmentalists are getting wise to this game. The Environmental Working Group and five other groups came out against such a bailout last week, saying subsidies "for corn-based ethanol have produced unintended, yet potentially catastrophic, environmental consequences, with little or no return to taxpayers in energy security (or) protection from global warming."
According to a report from the Hoover Institute's Henry Miller and professor Colin Carter of the University of California, Davis, "ethanol yields about 30% less energy per gallon of gasoline, so miles per gallon in internal combustion engines drop significantly." So the per-mile cost is actually higher at the pump. Meanwhile, it raises the food prices at the supermarket you drive to.
Corn ethanol is less energy efficient and costs more. It generates less than two units of energy for every unit of energy used to produce it. It takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. Each acre of corn requires 130 pounds of nitrogen and 55 pounds of phosphorous.
Increased acreage means increased agricultural runoff, which is creating aquatic "dead zones" in our rivers, bays and coastal areas.
Industries such as poultry and livestock, as well as their customers and workers, suffered when government policies and subsidies drove corn prices to record highs last summer. Demand for corn and the diversion from other crops have sent food prices soaring worldwide.
If we are seriously talking about an economic recovery, we need to remove this albatross from around the neck of businesses, consumers and taxpayers.
December 30, 2008 at 12:38 am
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"Here's one of several.
Back in March, Chu said that "corn is not the right crop for biofuels." But he added: "We should look at corn as a transitional crop."
Does that sound like someone willing to demand an end to this ridiculous corn ethanol debacle."
That is a non commital statement to me. It is pretty clear that he has condemned the current program as an inefficient program on scientific grounds many times. Back in March, Chu had no inkling that he would be Energy Secretary, and wasn't in the position of being responsible for such decisions or recommendations. He was looking to partner with agri-business in a research program to develop cellulosic ethanol, a program which he believes is viable.
I have read a statement in the right wing blogosphere, that Chu is a zealot for the current corn based ethanol program, giving that quote as proof. I think this is clearly a load of crap.
Brazil has shown that ethanol from sugar cane is a viable competitor against gasoline, despite your calculations and opinion to the contrary.
Research on this question could lead to improvements in efficiency. Scientific discovery is not a predictable simple linear process.
December 30, 2008 at 1:33 am
Here is an interesting interview with Chu, which gives you a sample of his forward looking thinking.
http://news.cnet.com/Superweeds%2C-air-caves-and-the-future-of-energy 2008-11395_3-6075116.html?tag=mncol
His lab is going after some big ideas that can make your calculations passe, if some of them work.
December 30, 2008 at 1:37 am
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I think you missed the point I made.
When Chu made that off hand comment, he was not involved in the political decision making about ethanol. He was the director of a research lab working with money from industrial sources on more advanced project. There is no evidence that he expected to become energy secretary last March. You have given no evidence that a political perspective rather than a scientific perspective dominate his thinking.
It seems quite jump to assume that his offhand statement amounted to an endorsement of the current ethanol corn program.
The important figure from the viewpoint of economics is not the efficiency of capture, but rather the number of BTU's/acre captured as usable fuel over the growing season. If this is sufficient to make it economically competitive with gasoline to first order it is a win.
Chu's power point presentation has a bar graph which showed that Brazilian ethanol was a cheaper fuel than gasoline at the time. It requires no subsidies and is an economically viable technology.
It is not the total answer to the world's problems, but it has done fine for Brazil, to the point where they were trying to export some of their production.
December 30, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Sugar cane is fine for Brazil, where it grows well and they don't have on the order of 100,000,000 cars on the road. But it doesn't help us much with energy independence. Sugar is only produced in the US because there are import duties on foreign sugar to keep the price high enough to make growing sugar beets profitable. US corn based ethanol cannot compete on a cost basis with Brazilian sugar cane ethanol either so there's a tariff on that as well.
I think your efficiency of 6% for conversion of solar energy by plants is too high by an order of magnitude or two. The numbers I've seen are closer to 0.1% of the total incident solar energy (on the order of 1 ZJ/year out of ~4,000 ZJ/year). Biofuels could possibly contribute something, but probably never more than about 10% of current energy use.
December 30, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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You are right that it is high (I give the benefit to the biofuel) but I think the standard for normal plants is around 3 or 4 from my previous research on this. I will look deeper though to find out if you are right.
From my calculations, I think even 10% is out of reach for biofuel though. Which is my response again to Eric as to why biofuel isn't really good science.
Some investment in research is ok but it should be very minor because of a lack of practicality.
December 30, 2008 at 4:33 pm
The main issue with biofuels, is that they are being grown on land that could be used to produce more foodstuffs, foodstuffs that either are, or will be, desperately needed to feed an increasingly hungry world.
Biodiesel is a "big thing" in Europe, as we've realised that cars can be run on diesel very well.
A lot of this bodiesel is derived from Palm Nut Oil, leading to huge areas of forest in Indonesia being cleared to grow these plants, much to the detriment of the forest dwellers, both human & animal and the cause of these smogs that have blanketed vast areas of Indonesia over the past few years.
We in the UK have a large Sugarbeet industry, that is also highly subsidised so it can compete with cane sugar.
December 30, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Why shouldn't Chu see corn as a transition feedstock? It already is. He may simply be referring to current use.
With tech just gearing up, there's no need to power very much hardware with corn ethanol yet, and non-edible GM corn won't affect the food futures market – which causes the price-related economic unrest – one iota (haven't seen that mentioned here yet). Once we move to GM algae, land use pressure will also be drastically reduced.
One thing to remember in this situation is that biofuels will only replace part of our portable energy needs, those that aren't readily solved by electrical generation and storage during its development cycle. In addition, petro power will remain the primary E source for warfighting no matter what, it is indispensable there and will remain so for the foreseeable future – one more reason to avoid burning it in peacetime.
Not only is there no need to put everyhing on biofuels, it would be silly to do so.
December 31, 2008 at 1:28 am
Every technology has drawbacks. There is no easy way out of this by exploiting something that is simple to do anymore. That is way an energy portfolio is needed, which is Chu's approach.
It is way too early to rule out biofuels, especially algae, especially if bio engineering can be applied.
Here is a calculation that shows it could be viable, but there are difficulties.
January 3, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Carol Browner is Obama's substitute for Al Gore. Not only is she on the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society, she is on the Board of Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection and on the Board of APX – involved in emissions trading. See: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/Browner.htm


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Annihilation of the Wicked is a very good album. Although the initial euphoria of this release has worn off for me, I can still tell that there is excellent material here. Nile were one of the first death metal bands I got into, and for awhile I thought that they were the only death metal worth listening to. Of course, I soon put aside this foolish idea and began delving deeper into the style. I think the next death metal band I heard which really clicked with me was Dying Fetus, and from that point onwards I began to favor the genre. At the present time, it is my favorite of all the metal categories. Anyhow, I soon forgot about Nile, and I hadn't really listened to them at all since their last opus, In Their Darkened Shrines, was released. I really loved that album, and wondered whether the band would be able to top it. After reading a studio report from Karl Sanders regarding the new album, I decided to revisit Shrines to see whether it still had the same effect. I found it somewhat dull, but whether this was a result of overlistening or of changing tastes I am not sure. Well, Nile have returned with Annihilation of the Wicked, and I can tell that their intention was to combine the epic feel of Shrines with the blunt brutality of their earlier Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka record. That sounds amazing in theory, but is flawed in actuality.
One will notice the drastic difference in playing time between Shrines and Catacombs. It is impossible for most bands to write a one hour album of straight blast, and also impossible for most listeners to stomach such a release. On Annihilation of the Wicked, there are three songs which exceed eight minutes in length, and the approach sometimes becomes tiresome. There are a few tracks which are simply exercises in boredom, or that lose steam and begin to meander in a dull manner. It's as though Karl Sanders wrote some amazing riffs, and then just threw in the death metal equivalent of fluff between these good parts. Furthermore, I swear I've heard some of these riffs before. Maybe that's because of Karl's reliance on Egyptian-style melodic themes, but I'm pretty sure that the descending chromatic run on "The Burning Pits of the Duat" is almost identical to the opening part from "Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra" from their previous release. That new song is also quite similar to "Wind of Horus," another oldie which I believe was written by Dallas. And yes, it is difficult to avoid cracking jokes about these song titles, especially the mammoth "Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns." I must voice a final complaint on another topic: the solos. I used to think of Nile as a band that consistently produced amazing solos, but I don't know whether this was youthful ignorance, or if Sanders' skills have taken a severe turn for the worse. Annihilation is riddled with wanky, unmelodic leads which add absolutely nothing to the record. Sure, there are good parts, but way too many bad ones. I know that Karl Sanders can write, and he has written some mindblowing solos, but many of these ones fall short.
Are you beginning to wonder why there's such a good score at the top of the page? True, I have been very harsh on certain aspects of this album. That's because Nile have consistently been referred to by the music press as the best band in death metal, and if this is indeed the case, they should be held to high standards. However, there's a simple explanation for why this got a much better than average mark in songwriting: the riffs for every boring, repetitive musical phrase, there's something truly tremendous and amazing. When an absolutely massive line hits, like at about 1:32 into "Sacrifice Unto Sebek," which for some reason sounds like a more modern version of the world champion "Ride the Lightening" intro part, it's impossible to dismiss this release. Some other moments which made me gasp were the crushing chantlike choruses, such as the thrilling one on the track "Cast Down the Heretic." Listen to the first riff after the melodic bit on "User-Maat-Re" if you want to get a sense of another of these fantastic parts, or listen at 0:50 seconds into the title track, which is cool to begin with, but soon goes into a stellar Mastodon-style harmonic-laden assault. You may remember my criticism of the solos, but the one on "Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten" is proof that they still have it. I've actually been told that the good solos are the ones which Dallas plays live, so maybe he's the one composing stuff like this. Of course, be aware that I'm not just listing the few good parts; this release is riddled with these spectacular sections, but I'll allow you to discover the rest. "Lashed to the Slave Stick" might give you some sense of this record, and it's a really good song as well, though less complex and more accessible than the other cuts. According to Neil Kernon, the fellow who produced this, that particular song was intended to be a "single" and is not completely representative of the full album. He's right.
On that note, lets talk about the production. It's amazing. Kernon is known to be something of a wunderkind, and this is some of his best work. Especially noticeable are the drums, which hit like a brick to the face. Everything is fantastically clear, and nobody's going to be complaining about muddy Nile production. That's a criticism that Black Seeds frequently draws, and Shrines as well, though I don't hear any problems with the latter. Anyhow, this is top notch work. I'd say that Neil Kernon and Nile have gotten about as close to perfect production as is possible.
You'll also notice the perfect score in musicianship. I'd say that this is a no-brainer, as Dallas and Karl are known to be some of the best guitarists out there. Most axemen will never reach this level of technicality and tightness, even if they do not like what is being performed. And although I have maligned the solos, they are also very complex. George Kollias is Nile's new drummer, and he's one of the best I've heard in the scene. I have no idea how he does it. Of course, Nile have a bad reputation for burning through drummers. Here's hoping this newbie lasts. Also, if you really hated the low vocals from before, be aware that Dallas is now handling most of the vocals, and they are now somewhat clearer, though still low.
The big question is whether or not you, the fan, should pick up this release. If you liked Shrines and the rest of the band's output, the answer is yes. If you're interested in hearing what all the buzz is about, this record is as good a place as any to start. In the event that you haven't liked them since Catacombs, or never at all, there is nothing here which will win you over. You might have a listen to give them a second chance, but don't expect an epiphany. I still haven't decided whether this is a step down from In Their Darkened Shrines, because I personally no longer like that album as much as I used to, and have a hard time comparing the two releases. I suppose all I can say is that this is quality music with epic musicianship and production, but not the strongest songwriting. I recommend this, but keep my caveats in mind.


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Lockdown Love Series: Love Letters of Yolanda and Frankie
De-Bug is proud to launch "Lockdown Love," a series of reflections by those impacted by the walls of incarceration -- our loved ones inside and the families who love them. "Lockdown love" comes from Joe and Benee, a San Jose love story – a couple who have been holding it down for each other during Joe's years of incarceration. "Joe is my heart," writes Benee. Joe and Benee also wanted to let other prison/ jail wives know and feel that they are not alone and things could be done with love. This first piece comes from Yolanda, whose loved one, Frankie, is currently serving a life without parole sentence. He has been incarcerated since he was 18 years old. Together they share love letters.
Twin Mama Love - An Open Letter To Soon-to-be Twin Mama Beyoncé
The internet lost it over Beyonce's announcement that she is carrying twins. Two super mamas of twins Vanessa and Olivia, have tried-and-true tips as vets of the twin-mama-game for Queen Bey.
Dancing in the Realm of Appreciation
This Week in Peace chronicles the exciting adventures of San Jose's own Dancer of Peace, Khalilah Ramirez. Written under divine inspiration, the column contains true stories of peace encounters in your neighborhood. In this edition, Khalilah reminds us that we are in a new year of new opportunities and that we have more chances to catch the dance of peace with five weekly performances!
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San Jose Drum and Prayer Circle for Standing Rock
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Our Beliefs Can Expand Our Lives
This Week in Peace chronicles the exciting adventures of San Jose's own Dancer of Peace, Khalilah Ramirez. Written under divine inspiration, the column contains true stories of peace encounters in your neighborhood. In this edition, Khalilah reminds us that creating peace is a living activity and that activating both sides of our brains can help us live with more peace.
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Exploring Hydrocarbon Depletion
Newfie wrote:Recently there was an article about planting trees to stop climate change. Here is a response....Lewis also dismisses the claim, by Bastin's co-author Thomas Crowther, that "forest restoration is the best climate change solution available today."
"That is emphatically not correct. The best solution for climate change is to keep fossil carbons in the ground," Lewis says. Other experts have also raised concerns that the hype around Bastin's study is creating misconceptions about the problem and primary solution, which could be problematic in the long-run. They fear a focus on tree planting could distract policy-makers from acting on other efforts to reduce carbon emissions and stop climate change.
Bold is mine.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/ ... V_V-CR4FR4
This is not to dismiss the idea of planting trees or better yet retaining forests.
It is within reach of most of us to buy a few acres of forest, individually or collectively, to protect it from "development."
I would like to see some tax relief for protecting wooded land. I spend nearly $2,000/year in taxes to protect my 168 acres.
Realistically, we're NOT going to stop burning a hell of a lot of fossil fuels -- and the weak kneed politicians re the very timid to no efforts to have an effective CO2 tax demonstrate that.
Your basic assumption is that human nature won't allow us to change our habits. I think it's true we won't until we are forced to. But there is a roar chance that if the scientific community talked to folks like adults, told the. The truth, they would react better than they are doing now.
rockdoc123 wrote:The problem with the "scientific community" is that what the average joe thinks the "scientific community" is isn't not even close to it. They get their "science" information from press releases heavily interpreted by creative writers and often issued by researchers who have skin in the game. Unfortunately, the vast majority of folks are either too lazy or don't care enough to read scientific articles and definitely are afraid to voice an opinion that would make them seem to be a "bad person". Gone are the days........
What We Need to Do
As a start, here are twelve things that are urgent: In our classrooms and in our lives as scientists,
1) We must acknowledge that overpopulation is the world's most serious and threatening problem and that this problem requires immediate and urgent attention.
2) We must teach about the arithmetic and consequences of growth as they apply to our present rates of consumption of resources and to our current national and global conditions of overpopulation.
3) We must seek to educate elected officials at all governmental levels about the severe present problems of overpopulation in our own local communities, in the United States and the world. We treasure our democracy but we must remember the words of Isaac Asimov (28): "Democracy cannot survive overpopulation."
4) We must break down the mental and other blocks that keep most of our environmental organizations, large and small, from addressing overpopulation on the local and national levels.
5) We need to get all of our mainline scientific associations and societies to act on the recognition that overpopulation is a threat to the stable societies. Science can thrive only in a stable society. The long-term survival of science is threatened by overpopulation.
6) We should seek to get the U.S. and other governments to support major programs of family planning in the U.S. and throughout the world. These programs should make high quality family
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planning assistance available worldwide at no cost to all individuals who request it. The goal of the family planning program should be that "Every child is a wanted child." Rapid population decrease is essential to achieving sustainability.
7) We must expend great efforts worldwide in the education and emancipation of women, giving women freedom to make their own health, reproductive, economic and political decisions.
We should work to guide production of fossil fuels and mineral resources in accord with the concept of "Sustained Availability," (The Uppsala Protocol) thinking of it as a program of Equal Opportunity for Future Generations.
9) We must continue our efforts to use science and technology to greatly improve the efficiency with which we use energy and mineral resources within the framework of Sustained Availability.
10) We must continue research on the development of alternative fuels, being careful to see that these alternative fuels are not competing with the development of food supplies as is the case in 2012 with production of ethanol in the U.S.
11) We must encourage the transition from our present inefficient mega-agriculture (29) to localized agriculture that operates solely from solar power and from human and animal labor.
12) We must seek to re-orient science, technology and engineering away from their present roles that support population growth and redirect them to work for more modest, less glamorous and less complex roles that can improve the quality of life for human beings. The model might be that which is found in the book Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher. (30)
As one can see, the creation of a sustainable society will be both difficult and challenging.
politicians, journalists, activists, media outlets, corporate lobbyists. All of these just mentioned are the ones who have skin in the game.There is no real rational counterpoint to the influence these entities have. Scientists by their very work are not part of the "public sphere" of information since academic journals are mostly read by fellow scientists and even when they do wander into journalism they have to compete with all those fore mentioned entities with skin in the game
dohboi wrote:I highly recommend just putting rok on ignore and never looking at anything s/he posts. it saves a lot of un-necessary wrangling!
Newfie wrote:So after looking at that list do you disagree that:
We should develop renewables.
Reduce fossils fuel usage.
Reduce fossil water usage.
Reduce plastic wastes?
Conserve natural spaces?
Reduce human population?
We should develop renewables.
Reduce fossils fuel usage.
Reduce fossil water usage.
Reduce plastic wastes?
Conserve natural spaces?
Reduce human population?
Newfie wrote: But I guess for many folks it's more fun to argue, or to place blame, than accomplish something,
Newfie wrote:Thanks,
And that's the point. We spend all our energy trying to convince folks of some particular point when in he grand scheme of things there is much room for agreement. Sure you R's not perfect for anyone but it's a start which is better than standing still arguing.
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Thank you, Shoepixie. I'm having fun coming up with the names of the lists.
Yes, I can see how it would be. It's very dangerous. I do get lost in my lists sometimes... :D
Thanks, resetee. I'm having fun. It's a great distraction.
"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed." - Zoe, "Serenity"
See laconic.
A teenaged witch.
"The test was positive. She's our Sabrina." - Buffy, on learning Amy is a witch, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"I aim to misbehave." - Mal, "Serenity"
"Can't stop the signal!" - the (fan) Browncoat's cry
The fan term for the group around the Slayer in Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Inara Sera: I have to say, this is the first time we've had a preacher on board.
Book: Well, I wasn't expecting to see a state official either. Ambassador. shakes her hand as Mal laughs. I'm missing something funny.
Kaylee: Not so funny.
Inara: Ambassador is Mal's way of—
Mal: She's a whore, Shep.
Kaylee: The term is companion.
- "Serenity," the first episode of Firefly
"I never credited the Alliance with an overabundance of brains..." - Mal, Serenity
"Reavers ain't men — or they forgot how to be." - Mal, Firefly
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer parlance, to have killed a vampire. "He's dusted."
"Sometimes when I'm sitting in class, you know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage." - Oz, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"No power in the 'verse..." - from Joss Whedon's Firefly
Lund: Your coat's kind of a brownish color...
Mal: It was on sale.
- "The Train Job" from the series Firefly
Take me out
To the black
Tell 'em I ain't coming back
Burn the land
And boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
- from "The Ballad of Serenity" by Joss Whedon
The reference to the main "evil" in each season of Buffy the Vampire slayer, always a different evil than what had come before, and a recurring theme throughout that season.
"You know, for someone who's got "Watcher" on his resume', you might want to cast an eye to the front door every now and again." - Spike to Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?" - Mal, Serenity
Zoë: Sir... you paid money for this? On purpose?
Mal: Ship like this, be with you till the day you die.
Zoë: Because it's a death trap.
ANGEL: Hey guys. (He looks up) Oz.
OZ: Hey.
ANGEL: Nice surprise.
OZ: Thanks.
ANGEL: Staying long?
OZ: Few days.
DOYLE: Are they always like this?
OZ: No, we're usually laconic.
Think Joss likes that word or something? :D
Thanks. Mostly because I don't have a science list, and when I think robot, I think of stuff like R2D2 and C3PO and their ilk.
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Thank you, Shoepixie. I'm having fun coming up with the names of the lists.
Hullo! Like your lists, you have some creative and neat groupings here!
Yes, I can see how it would be. It's very dangerous. I do get lost in my lists sometimes... :D
You're lucky it's still only a distraction. For many Wordies, it's developed into a full-fledged obsession. ;-)
Thanks, resetee. I'm having fun. It's a great distraction.
Hi elfflame--am enjoying your lists. Glad to have you with us. :-)


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