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How Congress Can Aid Nuclear Talks With Iran

by Kelsey Davenport

In two months Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb, according to Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 8. In isolation, this number sounds alarming, but in context, Iran is years, not months, away from a deliverable nuclear weapon and the United States is negotiating to extend that timeline even further.

Highly enriched uranium alone does not give Tehran a practical weapon. Iran would need to be able to build the explosive package and fit the bomb onto a missile. The US intelligence community has consistently testified since 2007 that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program years ago and that there is no hard evidence that Iran has restarted these activities.

Compared to the alternative, two months demonstrates a rollback in Iran’s capabilities. If Iran, the United States and its negotiating partners had not reached the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) in November 2013, that time window would be weeks, not months. That two-month window will also grow longer as Iran continues to follow through on its commitment under the JPA to eliminate its stockpile of uranium that could be more easily enriched to weapons-grade.

While Washington negotiates with Iran on a comprehensive deal that will put even more time back on the clock, it is important to consider how long it would take Iran to “break out” from its commitments and produce enough highly-enriched uranium for weapon. But this is only one factor of the final deal, which should be considered in its entirety.

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said in the April 8 hearing that limiting Iran’s nuclear program to a 6-12 month breakout timeline under the final deal is not enough and that a deal must “dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program.” However, Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. It is also naïve to regard these conditions as feasible. Eliminating Iran’s centrifuges and enriched uranium stockpiles would be an ideal nonproliferation goal, but Iran is highly unlikely to agree to such terms and the United States already agreed in November that Tehran would be allowed to enrich uranium based on its practical needs. Those needs are small and the comprehensive deal should scale back Iran’s uranium enrichment accordingly.

Menendez and his colleagues in Congress must remember that negotiations require compromise, and policymakers must not jeopardize prospects of reaching a good agreement with Iran. They must also remember that a deal will include stringent monitoring and verification in addition to what is already in place that will quickly alert the international community if Tehran deviates from its commitments.

This does not, of course, mean that the United States should accept unlimited uranium enrichment. Menendez said that a deal must prevent Iran from having a path to a nuclear bomb. This is a reasonable demand. Iran should be restricted to only producing uranium enriched to civilian power reactor grade, and the amount produced should be tied to its civilian power needs. In exchange for significant sanctions relief Tehran should also allow international inspectors more extensive access to its nuclear facilities, visits on short notice, and provide more-timely information about future nuclear facilities.

Including these measures in a deal would ensure that Iran could not — if it decided to — dash to build a nuclear weapon before the international community would detect such activities and be able to block them. Evidence suggests that Washington’s team is already placing significant emphasis on achieving comprehensive monitoring and verification measures on Iran’s nuclear program beyond the standard International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) monitoring that Iran is already subject to as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Setting limits on Iran’s ballistic missiles would also increase international confidence that Tehran cannot deliver nuclear weapons, but requiring it to dismantle all missiles large enough to deliver them would be akin to the severe missile limits imposed on Saddam Hussein’s vanquished Iraq in 1991. A 150-kilometer range limit on Iran’s ballistic missiles would remove its most effective deterrent against its regional adversaries. Like any other state existing in such circumstances, Iran would likely view this as an unacceptable compromise to its national security.

While Iran may be willing to commit to some confidence building measures in these areas that will give the international community more information about flight tests, missile deployments, and even warhead loadings, Tehran will not agree to dismantle its short and medium-range ballistic missiles, which it sees as vital to its security in a hostile region.

Moreover, capping Iran’s ballistic missile development to small, very short-range systems is not essential for a comprehensive final deal. Strict monitoring and verification of Iran’s nuclear program would provide enough transparency and the confidence that Tehran is not pursing nuclear weapons, as well as the ability to detect a change in its behavior.

Of course, to get Iran to agree to any of these limitations, Congress must be prepared to pass legislation to lift proliferation-related sanctions and accept a civil Iranian nuclear program, which includes uranium enrichment. If Iran is not convinced that Washington is ready to take this step, a deal is highly unlikely.

Reaching a final deal with Iran will not be easy. Members of Congress should give our diplomats the best chance to negotiate a verifiable nuclear agreement with Iran by avoiding sabotage through unreasonable demands on centrifuge numbers and breakout timelines, which compromise only part of the issues at hand. A comprehensive deal remains the best chance to guard against an unrestrained and unmonitored Iranian nuclear program, but it must include enough reasons for Iran to agree to it.

— Kelsey Davenport is the Nonproliferation Analyst for the Arms Control Association. She focuses primarily on developments related to the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea and nuclear security issues.

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  1. The Zionists are sitting on more than 400 nuclear tipped missiles including the hydrogen bomb and they got the nerve to tell the nations who signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty what to do? What kind of crap is that?

  2. Senator Menendez demands Iran “dismantle its nuclear weapons programme”. When there isn;’t one, at this time. What a surprise.

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WASHINGTON– Chevrolet has confirmed that its diesel version of the Cruze will be for sale in the U.S. in 2013. According to Allen Schaeffer, the Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum, bringing out a diesel version of the popular car will be “a huge step forward” in increased clean diesel use in the United States.

“In just its first year, the Cruze has proven to be extremely popular with American drivers,” Schaeffer said. “In June, it was the best-selling car in the U.S. and has exceeded sales of more than 20,000 per month since February.

“…This announcement clearly signifies the increasing importance of clean diesel technology as a key and viable strategy for meeting fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions goals.”

The Cruze isn’t the only diesel making its way to these shores. Volkswagen is already in production with the Passat TDI diesel, and there are reports that Mazda, Nissan, and others are unveiling new models. That’s good news, as diesels are 20 to 40 percent more efficient that regular gasoline autos. Analysts are currently expecting diesel auto sales to be between seven and 15 percent of total auto sales by 2015.

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Okay, No One Cares About Ethanol, the Local Economy, or the Environment

plantmap.gifI still don’t know how last week’s presentation by Advanced Bioenergy et al was received by anyone who attended, but thanks to comments by Carol Overland, Sean Hayford O’Leary and a few others I received verbally, I found some resources to help consider the pros and cons of locating a bizillion-gallon ethanol plant in the greater Northfield area.

First, I’d like to quote extensively from the Slate.com article referenced by O’Leary in his comment on my previous blog post:

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

The two scientists calculated all the fuel inputs for ethanol productionâ€”from the diesel fuel for the tractor planting the corn, to the fertilizer put in the field, to the energy needed at the processing plantâ€”and found that ethanol is a net energy-loser. According to their calculations, ethanol contains about 76,000 BTUs per gallon, but producing that ethanol from corn takes about 98,000 BTUs. For comparison, a gallon of gasoline contains about 116,000 BTUs per gallon. But making that gallon of gasâ€”from drilling the well, to transportation, through refiningâ€”requires around 22,000 BTUs.

In addition to their findings on corn, they determined that making ethanol from switch grass requires 50 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol yields, wood biomass 57 percent more, and sunflowers 118 percent more. The best yield comes from soybeans, but they, too, are a net loser, requiring 27 percent more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced. In other words, more ethanol production will increase America’s total energy consumption, not decrease it.

But (SURPRISE!) the National Corn Growers Association disputes these findings and hints that the researchers were in the back pockets of petroleum industry interests.

An article from one of my favorite environmental news sites, Grist.com (“Doom and gloom with a sense of humor”), looks at Ethanomics 101 and also comes to the conclusion that ethanol is a net loss, though for reason of economics rather than physics.

At the risk of sounding like a NIMBY, I’m inclined to view this whole proposal with a jaundiced eye. If it can clearly be demonstrated that Rice County and/or Bridgewater Township and/or the City of Northfield and/or the Northfield Public Schools will get a huge infusion of property tax dollars as a result of building this proposed mega-plant, I will have to take that into consideration. But I suspect that will not be the case. And even if it is, the positive benefit to the local economy needs to be weighed against the detrimental environmental effects, both immediate and long-term.

I’ll conclude with a quote from another Grist.com article:

The real beneficiaries of this twisted system aren’t most corn growers; it’s the buyers, processing giants like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill. That one-billion-bushel surplus of corn in 2004 exerted enormous downward pressure on corn prices. In 2004, a bushel — 56 pounds — of corn brought in $1.95 to the farmer. That’s about 3 cents a pound. At that rate, the only way a farm can make any money at all is to scale up as much as possible and then hope for a government check.

Is this really what we want for our community? I suspect not. But it’s not easy getting the straight story. If I come up with new stuff, I’ll post it here.

6 thoughts on “Okay, No One Cares About Ethanol, the Local Economy, or the Environment”

  1. I received a link to this op-ed piece from Agri-News (published by the Rochester Post-Bulletin folks). The says that most politicians have their fingers in their ears when it comes to hearing anything about ethanol that isn’t God and motherhood and apple pie. There are some interesting claims in the piece, such as:

    â€¢ Inflating car tires to their proper pressure today will have more impact on U.S. energy independence now than using 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol in 2012.

    â€¢ If Congress raised car and SUV per gallon mileage (something it hasn’t done since the 1970s) by 3 to 5 miles, total gasoline savings would dwarf “all possible biofuel production from all sources of biomass available in the U.S.”

    â€¢ If the average wholesale price of ethanol is $2.94, as it was in late May, current federal, state and local subsidies when combined with farm program payments, raises its true cost to $3.84.

    I’ve asked a couple of farmer friends of mine, whose families are involved in corn-growing and ethanol coops, to comment here and give us the benefit of their perspective as well.

  2. I cannot find Kiffi Summa’s recap of the ethanol info meeting at Little Prairie Church. HELP! I need it for inspiration, facing the Wed. Dec. 6 public meeting at Bridgewater Township Hall on Railway Street in Dundas, 7 pm. Not a word on ethanol will be uttered that night, I am told, but the larger question of whether or not the township proceeds to do planning and zoning is the issue for the night.

    Up to now, only Leif Knecht has committed to voting “yes” to township zoning. Supervisors Gary Ebling and Kathleen Doran Norton may vote “no” for reasons of their own. Since both campaigned in support of taking up township planning and zoning, it may be hard for residents to accept if they choose to drop the ball.

    We know what Advanced BioEnergy wants–a “no” vote on Dec. 11, at which time they will activate an application at the county, an EAW (environmental assessment worksheet) at MPCA, and a DNR water permit which will all move forward at a record rate, in the current political climate. Check out their two ads in Wednesday paper.

    S. Henriksen

  3. No conversation for three months on ethanol? Griff, where are my most recent posts ending up?

    Advanced BioEnergy has their consulting firm proceeding with an acquifer pump test to establish that there is sufficient groundwater for their plant operations despite the likelihood that ethanol will not be a permitted use in our township ordinance.

    This then, is a lot of DNR staff time and waste of water, plus stress on neighboring wells. All for nothing.

  4. It seems the “more on ethanol” thread is not accepting any more comments.

    For those who might be new to the discussion, or for those who are watching recent news coverage about corn ethanol in general, I wanted to post URL’s and brief comments about a few old and new sources to check out:

    Old (June 2006): The New York Times article at the URL below talks about how corn is among the most expensive crops from which to make ethanol, and one of the most heavily subsidised. Companies that blend ethanol with gas get tax credits of 51 cents per gallon, and after two years it’s possible for a new ethanol plant to make 100% profit. The corn ethanol industry is floating high, for now, on a tide of corporate welfare. Democrats and Republicans both tend to love ethanol because they think it helps them get votes, and it helps the economy. It helps some corporations get rich too. But it’s probably not good for the planet, the soil, or the taxpayer.

    Somewhat new (this month): The article and comments at the URL below represents a great deal of the debate over alternative fuels. It includes comments about (the discrediting of?) David Pimental of Cornell.

    New: At the URL below, an article about expectations for next fall’s corn harvest, expected to be the biggest since 1944.

    Old (May 2006): The article at the URL below is an interview with Vinod Khosla, a venture capitalist who is now pushing for ethanol and biofuel solutions.

    Somewhat new (January 2007): Below, another NYTimes URL, this time to a more recent article about the even stronger drive toward ethanol since Bush unveiled his initiative to increase ethanol and biofuels to substitute for more foreign oil.

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Chamber, EDA and NDDC to Open Bait Shop

NMCVB.jpgBart DeMalignon sent me another e-mail. This one featured the Chamber Office and Information Center in Chama, New Mexico.

He pointed out that this Visitor Center offers free coffee, much like Wall Drug’s free water. It reminded me of a bait shop in Two Harbors, Minnesota.

One of the suggestions coming out of the recent Retail Support Strategies Forum for a “gap” in Northfield’s retail mix was a bait shop. So, I figured if the Chamber, EDA and the NDDC are supposed to be working together to help fill the gaps in our retail mix…

5 thoughts on “Chamber, EDA and NDDC to Open Bait Shop”

  1. I’ll take credit for this one. I put it on the list. I think Victor or Bart might have mentioned it though. What about roller rink? How is that coming along. Isn’t Griff a roller coach when the blogging biz is slow?

  2. Hey Jerry:

    Griff’s Roller Rink until 9 pm then Ross’ Night Club ’til closing…

    …Yo Braucher, we’re gonna need a really creative engineer for that floor.

  3. There is live bait and other fish-related stuff at the back of Corner Mart gas station by Fire House Liquors down Hwy 3. Do folks think we need another outlet?

    If this bait shop suggestion was just another faux news item, I’ve taken the bait.

  4. Well Stephanie,

    let’s call it Half Faux, perhaps as in Half Full of Beans.

    Bart was really attracted to the idea of Free Coffee catching the attention of those potential tourists (people going down Highway 3 from Farmington to Faribault?)…

    …and I had this vision of this one Bait Shop that I visited with an Uncle back in about ’67.

    It must of been Opening Day, ’cause there were maybe two customers and six “conversationalists” hanging around the wood stove.

    I envisioned free coffee…and, from the conversationalists warming their bellies, free tourist suggestions like “if it’s raining too hard to fish, check out the Historical Society’s new exhibit on Anne North’s piano, or one of our many art galleries, or stop in and use the Public Restroom at our Carnegie Library, and if you’re around tonight (get a room at the Archer House), there’s a number of places featuring fine food and live music”.

    Just an idea, you understand, maybe half full of beans and half full of potential.

    Thanks much,

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Linden Lab announced their aquasition of Avatars Untied, a social networking service for 'avatars'. I was at first really excited about this. For a long time i have wished that my profile in the SL viewer & SL website profile dashboard, acted more like a social network. To have a shoutbox for announcments and random happenings from my friends and groups in SL. Events Calander that collects events from friends and groups. Just a small expansion on what SL groups currently offer would improve the flow of ideas and community communications.

In order to reach more people within second life i've had to promote my avatar on external sites like youtube and twitter. My home in New Babbage had a BOOM of activity because it created a group on NING. It allowed information, ideas and organisation to flow quicker. So to hear that Linden Lab had aquired the tools to build an intargrated social network within the Second Life experience was exciting.

I am definitly a sceptic when it comes to anything that Linden Lab does, and i admit that it can lead me to be unfair on the Lab at times. So what actually has happend with the aquasistion of Avatars Online? Have Linden Lab bought 'AU' and plan to have it run as a separate service with its multiple avatars with the same names and it's own currancey to pay for pro options? or do they plan to intergrate the service into the second life experience?

Thousands of people have signed up to Avatars United crashing the service a few times and lots of groups have been formed. It is fast becoming a thriving community on its own connecting thousands. All of this is fantastic, the ability for Second Life residents to connect and socialise.... but separate from the Second Life experience. Surely Linden Lab will want to intergrate all this with the Second Life experience yes?......

The AU profiles would be a great alternative to the dashboard...and of course having everything in one spot will make things much easier. And we will get to a point where you don't repeatedly have to log-in to our various properties. - M Linden

All of what im rambling inanely about is from what ive pieced together from what i have seen and read from the Linden Lab. They are either very secretive about what they have planned, or don't really have a clue what to do next. What i am worried about now is how (if they are going to) will Linden Lab integrate the quickly growing 'AU' community with Second Life without destroying the now HUGE 'AU' community.

My friend Marrianne showed me the wonderful Second Childhood group on 'Avatars United', it was awesome. But we already have a group by that name in SL. What will happen to those two groups if integration happens. Also you can sign up to any amount of same names in 'AU', in SL you have your own unique name, whats going to happen there?

Linden Lab could have this all planned out in a way i dont understand and the transition between a separate social network and one integrated with the Second Life experience will happen so smooth that we wont hardly notice. But the raging screaming sceptic in me tends to believe that they did not expect thousands would sign up to 'Avatar United' after their announcement, and we are now heading towards total social chaos at the hands of Linden Lab.

As always , ill be delighted to be proved wrong Mr M.

Myrtil Igaly said...

Here's a comment from M Linden on the Second Life blog "Avatars, Unite!" :
M Linden
Jan 31, 2010 5:22 PM M Linden says in response to Medhue Simoni:

Medhue, imagine a great group functionality on the web...similar to what you find on Ning or other social networks...imagine you could have an unlimited amount of members...imagine that you could communicate with them by posting on a wall...or in forum...imagine there would be a feed from people participating in group activities...imagine that while this is resident on the web it is very easily accessible in a comfortable way from the viewer.

Could go a long way towards fixing group communications in the viewer, right?

If I understand it right, they really are planning to link AU to the SL viewer. Just dunno exactly how or when. But then, it's all new so I guess we should just wait and see :)

Loki Eliot said...

So what happens to all the profiles and groups now on AU? it could be that Linden lab will just use the same tech and apply it within the viewer leaving AU as a stand alone Avatar community. In which case everyone just stops using AU and goes back to the viewer and start uniting everyone again.

Or they will try moving the current AU community inside SL which will be fun (sarcasm)

Myrtil Igaly said...

What I think they could do eventually is giving a way to link your avatar identity in SL with your account on AU (after they fix the identification issue) and then add a function/button to open the AU website in a window in the SL viewer or something like that.

Loki Eliot said...

We have an SL group called 'Second Childhood' and an AU group 'Second childhood' it'll be interesting to see what happens there

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Travel Recap: France - Lollipop & Laptops

A few months ago, we went on a family vacation for the first time in three years. And since then, we have had the opportunity to go on a kid-free trip to New York. So when my husband’s best friend gave us two months’ notice for his wedding in France, I figured due to time and cost, we’d be sending my husband alone. My parents had already agreed to watch the kids for our trip to New York only three weeks earlier, so I was confident that even if I could take the time off work, we wouldn’t have a plan for the kids. But my incredible parents agreed and we were able to buy my flight with frequent flyer miles, so off we went for a very quick trip to France.

Getting There

Our preferred airline is American Airlines, and we used my husband’s miles to buy my ticket, since I didn’t have enough. The day before we left, my husband, who has priority from all his work travel, got bumped to first class for the domestic part of our flight. Since my ticket was booked on miles, I wasn’t eligible. But my husband insisted I take the spot and let me enjoy the first class seat on the way to Dallas. I’ve only flown first or business a handful of times, but it was a nice treat to have a meal and a glass of champagne.

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Wife get husband’s upgrade. Happy wife, happy life.

We sat in our regular economy plus seats for the longer haul from Dallas to Paris, and although I can never sleep well on planes, I was only able to get 30 minutes of shut eye the entire trip. We then had to take four(!!) trains to get from Paris to Évian-les-bains and by the time we arrived, we had been traveling for 24 hours, and I hadn’t slept in about 30. I felt hungover without any of the fun that caused the hangover.

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Perks of no sleep on planes: gorgeous sunrises.

Night One

In an attempt to curb jet lag, we opted to spend the evening out. We had a drink at a harbor-side bar before having dinner at Villa Borghese. The wine was great and the food impeccable. By the middle of dinner, I was working overtime just to stay awake at the table, so we hightailed it back to the house and I slept a glorious 10 hours.

Full Day One

We stayed in the bride’s grandfather’s house. There were seven adults and one baby in a 3 bed, 1 bath house. It was certainly a tight squeeze, but it was nice to be able to spend so much of our short trip with the bride and groom. We had fresh croissants and tea for breakfast at the house, then went out in the rain to walk around the town. Évian-les-bains is a nice little lakeside town on Lake Geneva.

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French Alps but it feels like another time.

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A cheery addition to the wet weather.

Most of the people we hung out with spoke little to no English, and although it was difficult to work so hard to try to understand anything (which I didn’t) it was nice to eat and drink with locals. We stopped for drinks at Le Carafon. At the bride’s recommendation, I chose a Kir, which was white wine with crème de cassis. It was very sweet, but a nice warm up before lunch.

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Coffee and Kir to get through the afternoon.

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You can’t even tell how jetlagged we are.

When our table was ready, we had crepes at a local creperie. I chose a sausage and cheese entree, and it was delicious. We had to head back to the house, so we all ordered dessert crepes to go, and I had a Nutella and salted caramel crepe. It was so good I forgot to stop and take a photo before devouring it.

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Simple but delicious.

For dinner, many guests had begun arriving, so we ordered a variety of pizzas and about 15 people squeezed into the living room for wine and pizza. It felt exactly as I had imagined to be with a bunch of locals, speaking a language I don’t know–a little out of the loop but a totally warm, welcoming environment.

Day Two

Unfortunately, jet lag got the best of us and both my husband and I were awake at 4:30 am despite going to bed after midnight. After some tea and croissants, we got to work to help set up for the wedding reception. The bride and groom had gotten married in Bali one week earlier, so the Indonesian theme carried through the event. The groom is Tunisian and the bride is Indian, so the home-cooked food for the reception was absolutely amazing.

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Bringing the Indonesian feel to the French Alps.

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A little Bali in France.

The party began at 12:30 pm and lasted well into the night. A group of us went into town and some opted to gamble at the casino while the rest of us hit a pub for drinks and then a late night (11:00 pm!) dinner like true locals. Thanks to the jet lag, we were wrecked by the end of the night. Having been the main event we came for, it was a wonderful day and totally worth the exhaustion.

Half Day in Paris

My husband grew up in Paris, and I have been there a couple of times, but I loved the idea of being there together without the kids, and I begged him to let us spend Saturday there. We hopped back on a train early Saturday morning and arrived in Paris by 1:00 pm.

For the first time, it didn’t rain on my Parisian exploration. It was chilly, but I was just happy for no rain. Since I have been to Paris two times before and had done all the touristy things, this trip was more about exploring the neighborhoods.

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Happy that for once it’s not raining while I’m in Paris.

We had about 90 minutes before our lunch reservation, so after checking into our room at Hotel Saint Dominique, we walked over to Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. It was a beautiful day and it felt good to walk around and enjoy getting to know the city a little better.

We had lunch at Louis Phillipe in the Marais district at the suggestion of my husband’s friend. It was a lovely spot with a covered outdoor patio, and the food was good (not great). I had entrecôte with a mushroom sauce, but surprisingly, it was overcoooked (who knew the French could overcook a piece of meat?!) and didn’t have a lot of flavor. It was disappointing given we were only having two meals in Paris.

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American-sized cut of meat in France.

City Tour

After lunch, we were full and tired, but we didn’t want to waste what little time we had, so we went for a walk. We walked through Place Vendôme near the Ritz Carlton and enjoyed walking through small cobblestone streets and simultaneously admiring the architecture, people watching, and reminiscing about my husband’s childhood in Paris. We windowshopped on Rue St. Honoré and indulged in fantasies of extraordinary wealth while passing rows of luxury cars and trying on obscenely expensive watches.

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Hello, Paris.

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A perfect day in the city.

Our dinner reservations were at 9:00 pm, so we grabbed a drink at Bistrot Alexandre III, a barge on the Seine that is fixed in place. It was fun people watching and getting chic Parisian outfit inspiration from all the impeccably dressed French women.

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Drinks and people watching along the Seine.

We hopped an Uber to our dinner reservation at L’Ogre in the 16th district. We sat on the window with a view of the Eiffel Tower, which was just as romantic as it sounds. The menu is on a chalkboard on the wall, and after exchanging pleasantries with our unusually cheery waitress, who we later found out was from Corsica, explaining her friendlier-than-Parisian demeanor, we opted to let her choose what we should order. The menu is built for sharing, and we ended up with an absolutely incredible piece of meat accompanied by fries, salad, and a bottle of delicious French red wine. This was exactly the meal I hoped to have in Paris and totally made up for the mediocre lunch.

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I spy the Eiffel Tower.

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Prototypical French food: simple but incredible.

Eiffel Tower

After dinner, we were exhausted, but we decided to walk the roughly 30 minutes to get an up-close view of the Eiffel Tower lit up. We topped it off with street crepes for our walk back to the hotel. It was a perfect, beautiful, romantic end to our jam-packed day.

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Paris is for lovers.

My previous trips to Paris were fine but nothing spectacular. I have much preferred other European destinations (Florence being my absolute favorite). But this trip was different, and although it was [insanely] short, it was truly a wonderful trip. I’m excited to come back in the future and explore it with more time, but between both our trips this month, we sure have proven we can pack a lot of city exploring in a short amount of time.

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Until next time, Paris.


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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Norwegian Dinosaurs

A Swedish guy working on a Norwegian ad agency approached me a couple of months ago about buying masks from me. He had seen my work on the web (another testament to the practicality of marketing your creativity for free on the Internet) and wanted to use an old monster mask for an ad about the perils of having real "monsters" in your workplace. This is the mask he wanted to use:

The mask had to be modified to fit a woman of average build. In the ad she represented the kind of co-worker that could suddenly become nasty, and spread bad will through out the company. I cast a new, fresh version of the mask in latex and gave it an, shall we say, unexpected paint job.

I had to build up a new, slender neck, so the mask could be fitted inside the neckline of a blouse. Here's how it looked in the finished ad with a wig and modified eyes:

The customer who had ordered the ad is a recruitment firm, who also wanted to address the problem of old thinking dominating and overshadowing new talent; "dinosaurs" in the workplace, as it were. The ad people wanted me to build 7-8 full-head dinosaur masks, but I strongly objected since it would've taken me forever to sculpt and finish the masks in latex. It would also have been very expensive. Originally the ad people had approached a CGI company, with the intention of rendering the dinos digitally. But that company wanted an ungodly amount of money, which the recruitment firm wasn't at all very keen to put up, so a practical approach was considered instead.

I put forward another solution; that I could build miniature dino heads with slim necks, which the ad guys could then photograph and Photoshop in on top of the heads of the models/extras in the ad image. I made a couple of sculptures to underline my suggestion, and the ad people went for it.

I made a total of 7 dino puppet heads. The faces were fixed in dour expressions, but the necks could be adjusted.

Not all of the heads were used in the end, but I think the result turned out quite well. Here's the finished ad:

I only had a week to build all the dino heads, plus the new monster mask. I've probably never worked so fast before, but I'm happy with the result. Most importantly, the ad agency and the recruitment firm were happy, and while this was a real low-budget project I was still paid a quite handsome sum.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Shadow Out of Time: My Effects Contributions

The weird visions of unearthly creatures of H P Lovecraft and stop-motion animation would seem to be  a marriage made in heaven, but the fact is that very few Lovecraftian films choose to show his famous monsters at all. There are a few rare exceptions, such as Stuart Gordon's "From Beyond", which features both incredible make-up effects, practical monster effects, and a few quick glimpses of stop-mo, and the Lovecraft Historical Society's "The Call of Cthulhu", which proudly displays a stop-mo Cthulhu emerging from his crypt at the end of the film.

It seems that my main contribution to pop culture will most likely be my animated Lovecraft monsters! I've done a few, and I'm planning to do more. Probably lots more. Among Lovecraft's many weird monsters there are few weirder than his Yith; "The Great Race", which I planned to bring to life in a project of my own. When my friend Daniel Lenneer approached me with the idea of a collaboration, making as faithful an adaptation of Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Out of Time"as we could muster, it seemed like a fun project. And I was right.

The Great Race of Yith was represented by one puppet, then duplicated many times in After Effects. But I'm pretty sure you've already worked that out if you've seen the film. Like my other puppets, the Yith creature is a simple construction, using simple materials. The round head, the cluster of red tubes and the cone-shaped body was sculpted in Chavant clay and cast as latex skins in plaster moulds. The head has three glass eyes, which I think are recreations of a wolf's eye. All the limbs, including tendrils and antenna are pieces of aluminum wire wrapped in soft string, and then covered with latex. The claws were sculpted in Chavant and cast in hard plastic from silicone moulds.

The flying polyps (enemies of the Yith) were much easier to make. I bundled together bits of aluminum wire, and covered it all with soft string and pieces of foam rubber. I cast latex skins from plaster moulds, taken from bubbly lichen, and covered the three puppets with them. The flying polyps are very vaguely described by Lovecraft, but illustrators usually add gnashing mouths and bulging eyes. I just stuck with one of Lovecraft's remarks, which (if memory serves me) likens the polyps to cancerous growths. The polyp puppets were held aloft by aluminum wires painted blue. I finally spent the necessary money on some proper chroma key paint, blue and green, and I'm glad I did. Keying out both support rods and the background is now incredibly easy.

Besides the two opposing extraterrestrial forces there are other creatures mentioned briefly in the story. Among them are "the arachnid denizens of Earth's last age" -a kind of bugs that the Yith take possession of when they loose the war with the polyps, and flee with their minds into the future.
I wanted something that wasn't exactly a spider or a crab or a beetle. I hope I came up with something that was a mix of all of these, and also that the creatures had a certain creepiness, with their eye stalks and spindly legs. I actually got caught up in imagining the biology and social structure of these creatures; how they would move about and communicate by caressing each other with their long antenna. But almost nothing of this made it into the final film.

The puppet had a cast latex shell, with all other parts of the body built up over aluminum wire using latex, cotton and string. I attached a jointed blue support rod to the creature's belly. This rod ended in a modified wing nut, which worked as a tie down to fix the puppet to the animation stage. As with most of my animations, the arachnid was animated in front of a blue screen, and the support rod disappeared in post production. The legs also ended in tie downs, namely some sort of thin threaded metal rods I found in a hardware store. The thin legs couldn't have supported the body on their own, but the tie downs in the feet helped keep the legs in position while animating.

Another puppet built specifically for this project was the prehistoric amphibian Eryops, which represented the early life forms the Yith encountered when they built their civilization on Earth. The Eryops was quickly built with foam padding over a plastic and aluminum wire armature, and lastly covered with latex skin. The head was sculpted separately and cast in latex from a plaster mould.

The teeth of the Eryops were just saw-shaped paper cut-outs dipped in latex. It's actually a fairly good way of creating small, sharp teeth quickly and cheaply.

The creature was never intended to do very much, just lie on a Photoshopped log and catch a giant dragonfly with a totally incorrect chameleon-like tongue, but I think it helped add some atmosphere. The background image is a Photoshop collage based on a photo (taken a long time ago by a friend) from an exhibition at, I think, Michigan University.

Two older dinosaur puppets were pressed back into service in a short clip that eventually ended up being shown on a monitor screen in a Yith laboratory. The skin on the meat-eating Megalosaur was actually falling off as I animated it, so this was probably his last hurrah! I also did a scene with pterodactyls sitting on a rock and swooping down over the heads of some Yith botanists, but we eventually scrapped that shot because of time constraints. Daniel wanted to enter the film in an international film contest, and the running time for our project went over the accepted time limit. So the pterodactyls had to go, but they will most likely emerge in another film.

The Valusian serpent people, very briefly mentioned, were represented by another old dinosaur puppet; a sauropod who's tail and head were inserted into a still image of a guy in a monk's robe. This is terrible cheating, I know, but it got the job done without having to build an entirely new puppet for the few seconds the character is on the screen. And thank goodness for Google image search and the Wikipedia image bank! There is an abundance of public domain photos of exotic locations, that can be adjusted in Photoshop. And if there is a copyright notice attached to a photo you'd really like to use, just email the copyright holder. In my experience they're more than happy to let you use their photos in a non-profit film project.
On another note; for some reason the serpent man has provoked uniformly negative reactions from people, but in a good way. Everyone seems to think it's really creepy. Christopher Johansson, who wrote the music for the film, even dreamt about the damn thing after having scored this sequence, if you can believe that.

Another example of cheapskate dirty amateur film tricks is the shot of a barbarian, a Cimmerian actually, standing atop a cliff with violent storm clouds rising behind him. The cliff is a still image and the man is a composition of two still images of local fantasy role-players. The only things actually moving in this shot are the clouds, which is a stock footage clip downloaded for free during a marketing campaign offer, and the camera, which does a slow zoom-in created in After Effects. However, this shot is quickly followed by more stock footage of Viking reenactors beating the crap out of each other. Combined, the two shots hopefully sum up what Lovecraft refers to as "the Dark Ages" in his text.

More Photoshop magic includes all shots of the Yith moving about in their surroundings. The Yith city backgrounds are modified images of a Canadian art museum, and the interiors of the city are photos of various tile works and synthetic carpet patterns.
In many shots, the Yith are simply still images of the puppet, moving via 2D animation in After Effects. On some occasions I've added animated tendrils to the underside of the head in these still images. I know; more scandalous cheating.

Some years ago I made my very own idol of the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos deity Tsathoggua, created by Lovecraft's friend and fellow fantasist Clark Ashton Smith. You can find an account of the making of this plastic effigy among the oldest posts on this blog. I always wanted to include it in a film project, and I got my chance here, since the time-travelling hero at one point sees a vision of "prehuman Hyperboreans worshipping the vile god Tsathoggua". I simply took a photo of the statue with a low light source and propped it up against a granite wall in Photoshop. The "prehuman Hyperboreans" were me, dressed in a cheap long wig dancing madly in front of a green screen, and then duplicated many times in AE.

Strange star-shaped sentinels guard the dungeons where the flying polyps are imprisoned, according to Lovecraft. These mysterious devices, dubbed "starfish willies" by Daniel, may be plants, may be animals or may be some sort of biological machines. I designed them to be of ambiguous origin. I built only one, but three of them are visible in the film. Silicone moulds were created over a two-part Chavant sculpture, and plastic castings produced from the moulds. The actual starfish willies were rigid, but I animated a snaking tongue and inserted it into the middle of each star-shaped head. My idea was that the tongue was a hyper-sensitive sensory organ able to detect any unwanted movement from the polyps.

Lastly, I added softening filters and colour grading to Daniel's shots of our hero, Åke Rosén, gradually going nuts. We decided to go with what we imagined was some sort of standard for how silent films were colorized, with a green tint for jungle scenes, blue for night and Arctic scenes, and so on. I think it worked out pretty well.

I'd like to say that more than anything, we wanted to show that even a complicated and epic story such as Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" can be managed as an amateur film project. That many tell us that it's impossible is just like waving a red flag in front of my eyes -Of course it can be done! You can adapt "The Illiad" if you wish; you just have to figure out how. There is a way to retell every story as a film no matter how many actors you have or how much money you can spend.


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Green Christmas Present Idea #2: Target Gifts

Many of my faithful readers know that I am a HUGE fan of Target.  I do a lot of my shopping there because Target has phenomenal deals that put every other store to shame.   Most of my Christmas shopping and grocery shopping for the holidays have been done at Target and I am in fact headed there today.

When I found out that Target has some unique gifts for the Christmas holidays, I was thrilled to share them with my readers.  Target has been working on going green as much as possible this year. Here are two great gift ideas that you can find that encourage your family in their "going green" efforts:

Apple Tree-to-be Kit: This kit includes everything a budding gardener needs to grow her very own oxygen generator. The seedling grows in a pot through the winter until it’s read to be planted in the yard.

What a fun gift a child to watch their tree grow all winter and then plant in outside to continue to watch it grow.  You can purchase this fun gift for $19.99.

  Kid’s Kit for a Greener World: Children learn how to keep the Earth healthy with this kit featuring a field guide and storybook. Introducing Waverly, an adorable water drop.
Kids are always full of questions that begin with the word "why?"  Why not give them a gift that shows them why and how our Earth takes care of itself and why it needs their help.  You can find this unique gift at Target for $29.99.

If you are interested in more green gifts, just take a walk through Target the next time you are there and you should find many.

Disclosure: I did not receive compensation of any kind for this post. No one from Target was involved in the writing of this post.

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The House by the River

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  • Publisher:AmazonCrossing
  • Publication date:2017-11-01
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The first novel by acclaimed Greek writer Lena Manta to appear in English translation, The House by the River is an intimate, emotionally powerful saga following five young women as they realize that no matter the men they choose, the careers they pursue, or the children they raise, the only constant is home.

Theodora knows she can’t keep her five beautiful daughters at home forever—they’re too curious, too free spirited, too like their late father. And so, before each girl leaves the small house on the riverside at the foot of Mount Olympus, Theodora makes sure they know they are always welcome to return.

A devoted and resilient mother, Theodora has lived through World War II, through the Nazi occupation of Greece, and through her husband’s death, and now she endures the twenty-year-long silence of her daughters’ absence. Her children have their own lives—they’ve married, traveled the world, and courted romance, fame, and even tragedy. But as they become modern, independent women in pursuit of their dreams, Theodora knows they need her—and each other—more than ever. Have they grown so far apart that they’ve forgotten their childhood house in its tiny village, or will their broken hearts finally lead them home?


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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Current MTA Improvements

To be fair, a few areas have improved lately with respect to public transportation in Los Angeles. On MTA's side of it.

It appears that subway connections have been symmetrized between the Purple Line and the Red Line at Wilshire/Vermont, at least since a while back, according to one fellow who confirmed that the Metro Red Line train now defers departure until transferees from the Purple Line from the upper level (or, was it lower?) have had time to board that train. That was also the case when I last tried it. Finally some common sense is seen in such basic area.
(edited on 5/24) Not. Those must have been exceptions. Too bad. Sometimes dreaming is necessary though. The second train still arrogantly departs right in front of your face as you descend down the escalator from the upper level. In other words, no, the connections don't appear to be synchronized. Oh well. It must be that they sometimes, depending on, uh, the second train waits for transferring passengers before taking off, depending on... who's operating the train frankly. However, to expect the practice to be a new policy would be foolish. This is MTA after all. The worst of them all among major cities. It's the bloody worst. (end edit)

Moreover, Metro Rapid buses appear to run on more and more major arteries, and not only Wilshire blvd anymore. They now run on many main routes, and at the same time hold about twice as many passengers as before. It clearly shows that action has been taken and at least partly replaced the blatant neglect of the past.

Another major confusion that lasted for years was that of the Metro Red Line and Purple Lines on which passengers frequently got confused as to whether the train was the North Hollywood train or not. The train operators now seem to alert passengers upon boarding them which train they're on. That's also a very basic area, as riders frequently boarded the wrong train and had to go back to catch the right one, which never was really obvious.

Well, those are a few improvements, and there are probably others. Whether they're sufficient or warrant a tripling in fare hike is another question though. Is MTA's budget gap's partial, and presumed remedy, let alone not guaranteed, worth hundreds, if not thousands, of riders not being able to afford it at all? Aren't there better ways to fix it. A partial hike would be very understandable, but not this brutal doubling; tripling in a short period of time, and as if the services were that good.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Kuala Lumpur Dreaming

A group exhibition presented by The Annexe Gallery
Thu 4 - Sun 21 Feb, 2010

Hours: Sun-Thu: 11am-8pm | Fri & Sat: 11am-9.30pm
Admission free

We came to KL to dream big. To find and create opportunities. To start anew and to call it home.
Kuala Lumpur is now home to 1.6 million dreamers and counting. Is it big enough for all our dreams?
Representing the visions of 30 artists, photographers, sculptors, as well as communities of Burmese refugees, orang asli and children affected by HIV, this exhibition shows how we imagine our little space in the city, find boldness in our expression, and appreciate each other's dreams.

Amir Muhammad
Bright Lights At Midnight
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Friday, February 6, 2009

Catch, Mr Wintergarten!

Rose Meets Mr.Wintergarten
I’m a parent of young children. As any parent would know, young children like to read the same story over and over and over and over and over and over again. So it’s important for parents to decide exactly what books they are happy to read aloud approximately fifteen thousand times and then get them into the house. Conversely, they have a responsibility to their children and to themselves to divest themselves of the books they hate. There’s no shame in getting rid of a horrible kids book (even if it was a gift) because you loathe and detest the very sight of it. If you are troubled by the thought of chucking out (even ripping up) a book, let me reassure you. Some children's books are so truly awful that you are only doing the world a kindness by eliminating every last copy that you come across. They can be patronising, inept, humourless and utterly soul-destroying. Passing such books on, or even keeping them contained within your own four walls, is quite probably a sin.

What I want for my daughters are books which are funny, joyful, witty, thought-provoking and interesting. I want books with intelligent pictures, in which more is going on than is spelled out in the text. I want books which respect the reader, even if the reader is pre-verbal. With a bit of luck, a picture book will even include some precise terminology or archaic word - maybe capstan, vestibule, or cully - which will intrigue the reader, and help inculcate a love of language.

With these demands in mind, let us turn to the very first book to be reviewed here. In Rose Meets Mr.Wintergarten, a picture story book by Bob Graham, a young girl moves into a new neighbourhood. When she loses her ball over the fence, her openness and fairy cakes disarm the neighbour who has terrified the area’s children for decades.

The book is, of course, quite simply an illustration of Love thy neighbour. A most valuable moral, common to most world religions and ethical systems, and something I want my daughters to pick up. But unlike a 'Christian' storybook (most of which should be put through the shredder for their blatant moralising, patronising tones, paucity of imagination and sterility of language), this story is told for its own sake. It is genuine, authentic, and subtle. No moral is spelled out; the reader is not told the long-term outcome of Rose's actions. Instead, we have to work it out from the tone of the last page, and the illustrations on the end papers.

The illustrations are hallmark Bob Graham. Very simple, clean colours, and joyful subjects. A chicken pokes round a kitchen; a sheep sits on the roof; the girls have stripey stockings. Even these simple drawings, however, reward an attentive audience - my daughters were thrilled when they found a hidden crocodile in Mr Wintergarten's garden.

This is a book I have read out loud hundreds of times, and will always be happy to read again. I suggest you find yourself a three year old, and read it!

> Bob Graham Rose Meets Mr.Wintergarten (London: Walker Books, 1992).

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Monday, 23 January 2012

Five-door up! joins Volkswagen’s new family of ultra-compact city cars

Volkswagen has exposed the newest addition to its "New Small Family" series of ultra-compact city vehicles based on the first Volkswagen up! Concept car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show.

Since then we've seen plentiful up! Concept cars such as the up! Lite, the E-up! And the Space up!, and even before the production launch of the three-door up!, which hit showrooms last December, Volkswagen had already hinted a five-door model was in the works.

Now the company has revealed that this new addition will be available in Germany from May and the rest of Europe by mid-year.

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Monday, April 24, 2006

I feel dirty...

I'm not giving you the URL, it's just too painful.

But I've spent an afternoon merrily levelling a new toon in a new game and.. it was 'fun'.

Why the angst? It was Disney's ToonTime!!!

Oh the shame...

OK OK, melodrama aside. This is a CUTE game with cuteness in megasized letters all over. Character creation is, as you'd expect in a 'kids' game pretty simple and straightforward. A couple of minutes clickage and my toon, a tall blue monkey thing called something like Dippy Crazy Merrypoof was ready to lock and load, or stock up on pies and go squirt on the bank managers.

Chat, for non members, is limited to picking phrases from a drop down menu. Iconic characters, such as Mickey himself, make regular appearances and are full to the brim with lots and lots of positive reinforcement.

So... what makes it so cool? Well, from a gamers PoV it's just a fun sideshow, but if you're vaguely interested in game mechanics etc, you have GOT to take a look at this. Kill ten rats is there, lots of pacman, loads of 'collect a token'. Every system you've seen with a fancy schmantzy skin is in there. I laughed as my toon ran around thinking 'hey, if he was wearing a stromy uniform this'd be as much fun as the NGE'... give him an axe and shield instead of pies and a squirt gun and we're off to D&D land...

Seriously, find the demo, give yourself over to the power of The Mouse for three days and see how much you can learn about game mechanics.

Right... now I need Animal Crossing to run on a PC.... ;)

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Steve Jobs Lesson on Marketing: Values and Belief

Steve Jobs Lesson on Marketing: Values and Belief

I recently discovered this video of Steve Jobs circa 1997. The main message of the video is that of marketing is based upon values. His first detailed point is that it’s not about “megahertz” or “megabytes” it’s about values. Marketing is about who you are and what you stand for.

Apple’s Core Value:

“We believe that people with passion, can change the world.” “Those people that are crazy enough to believe they can change the world, are the ones that do.” - Steve Jobs

Absolutely brilliant and inspirational.

Here’s the video:

I’m also reminded of Simon Sinek’s TED talk. It’s quite possible that Simon even based his whole book upon this thesis - which is “Start with the Why.” You need to watch this too:

What is your purpose? What is your belief? Communicate that.

If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy this:

  1. Loyalty
  2. Software as a Vision
  3. Steve Jobs is this Century’s Henry Ford

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