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Time to continue the Spirit of 77 slam-bang action with the first Double Feature adventure available from Monkeyfun Studios! If you've been looking for the perfect kick-off for your own high-octane adventure or looking to shake things up with your established group, this is the best place to start off!

This Double Feature includes:

New Adventure: Women’s Prison of the Apes! - In order to escape jail time, you’ve been tasked with breaking out a rich party girl from one of the strangest prisons in the country. Load up your bananas and hide your shivs, it’s time to break out!

New Role: Introducing the Escape Artist - Big time illusions, death-defying escapes, and the grand spotlight awaits you (provided you can hold your breath while you get out of these handcuffs).

New Adventure: Disco Ambulance - Hit the siren and the rotating disco ball as you make your way through the crowded city streets as members of the B&D Ambulance Company. Put on your scrubs and dancing shoes, it’s all about stayin’ alive.

Come inside, the show’s about to start! And as always, keep on truckin’!

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Becoming John Ford
Fox // Unrated // $14.98 // December 4, 2007
Review by Jamie S. Rich | posted December 9, 2007
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Becoming John Ford is a new documentary made by director Nick Redman to go along with the massive Ford at Fox collection that was just released. It's available as part of the full 21-DVD collection, on the pared down 6-DVD The Essential John Ford, or all on its own as a single-disc release.

Reverential in tone, Becoming John Ford chronicles the arc of the great filmmaker's early career. He began by shadowing his brother Francis Ford on the set of the silent movies the older sibling directed, which eventually allowed John to transition into directing his own silent features. When Darryl F. Zanuck's nascent 20th Century Studios merged with Fox, Ford became a contract director at the company, beginning a fruitful relationship between the studio head and his artist that was often contentious but also one built on mutual respect. Under Zanuck, Ford made many of his most famous pictures and won two Oscars. When World War II broke out, both men joined the war effort, with Ford helming a film unit that chronicled the efforts of the U.S. troops.

After the war, both men resumed their previous positions, though the movies they made had a new gravity. Unfortunately, disagreements over the film My Darling Clementine would prove too much, and John Ford ended his relationship with Zanuck and largely moved on from Fox. There was no changing the storyteller within him, he just chose to apply his skills elsewhere.

Becoming John Ford is an entertaining documentary, though a little staid. Clips of Ford's movies are used sparingly, giving more camera time to the biographers and historians that tell the stories of what went on behind the scenes. It's not that I wanted what they said cut, as the theories and anecdotes they share are very interesting, it's just that we could have seen more from the archives rather than the person speaking. In addition to relating biographical information, they also try to get at what makes a John Ford production tick, discussing the manner in which the master conducted himself and his primary themes, such as tradition, family, and Americana.

The stand-out participant is probably Peter Fonda, the son of Henry Fonda, one of Ford's most notable collaborators. (Probably only John Wayne is more associated with the director.) Fonda has a unique perspective, having witnessed both his father and Ford at work when he was just a young boy.

Redman's documentary is tightly constructed and well-paced, covering a lot of ground in a short amount of time. Ford enthusiasts will enjoy the deconstruction of many of his more famous releases, and initiates to the Ford aesthetic will walk away with a long list of DVDs to add to their viewing queue. Though I ultimately recommend Becoming John Ford, if you're interested enough in the director's work to want this documentary in your DVD collection, you're probably going to want to get it as part of one of the bigger sets rather than purchasing it on its own. For those unsure or unfamiliar, Becoming John Ford is a safer rental than it is a buy, only because when you're done watching it, you're likely going to be joining the fan club alongside the rest of us.

Becoming John Ford is a full frame documentary. Freshly made, its newness shows. The picture is crisp, with nice colors and no resolution issues. The copy I watched was an advance screener, and though the early discs made for press often look worse than the final copy, if such is the case here, then the actual retail product must be exceptional indeed.

The main program has a 2.0 English soundtrack, along with English, Spanish, and French subtitles.

There are several extras on Becoming John Ford. The most substantial are four of Ford's WWII documentary shorts, as discussed in the film. They are:
* The Battle of Midway (18 minutes)
* The Battle of Midway - Additional Footage (7 minutes, no audio)
* December 7th (34 minutes)
* Torpedo Squadron (8 minutes)

Together, these four showcase Ford's innovation in shooting war footage, which would not only influence how future newsmen would film battle, but also the look of fictional war films. Despite their rah-rah propaganda tone, Ford also displays his usual eye for detail and a surprising sense of humor at times (the seagulls in Midway immediately come to mind). They can also be appropriately somber, especially Torpedo Squadron, which honors men who were lost in battle.

There are five interactive reproductions of vintage pressbooks for the movies:
* Four Men and a Prayer
* The Prisoner of Shark Island
* The Grapes of Wrath/Tobacco Road
* My Darling Clementine
* When Willie Came Marching Home

These are very short galleries of ads and press clippings, considered interactive because you can choose which pieces you want to highlight and enlarge.

You can also scroll through the original printed programs for the movies The Iron Horse and Four Sons.

Finally, the Ford at Fox archives has 30 advertising galleries, presumably for films in the big boxed set, spanning from 1920's Just Pals to 1952's What Price Glory, and including the 2007 Venice Film Festival presentation of The Iron Horse and the poster image for Becoming John Ford. These galleries range from one image to several, including posters, newspaper ads, and lobby cards. There are also 28 stills galleries, showing on-set photos from the same 1920-1952 selection of movies. These also have as little as one photo to show, though usually more.

Recommended on the face of it, because Becoming John Ford is a well done critical and biographical study of one of American cinema's most legendary directors. Covering the first half of his career, from the silent years through World War II and on into his final collaborations with Darryl F. Zanuck at Fox, this documentary serves as an excellent overview of the development of an artist. As noted in the main review, however, this was created to go with a much bigger push to release Ford's Fox-era films. In addition to being available on its own, this documentary is part of two different sets collecting new DVD releases of John Ford's films. One of those sets would be the better purchase, and thus the better way to acquire Becoming John Ford.

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MGM // Unrated // $26.98 // July 29, 2008
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The 1994 film Stargate was the beginning of the Sci-Fi Channel's longest running science fiction television show Stargate SG-1. The series aired for ten seasons from 1997 to 2007. Following the news that the series would not be renewed for an eleventh season, it was announced that there would be two direct-to-DVD feature films made, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. "The Ark of Truth" concluded an open-ended story arc from the series. "Continuum" is the second film and focuses on the villain Ba'al. For a quick and dirty, "Continuum" is fun, but it does not offer anything new. It feels like a double-length episode. Nevertheless, fans will enjoy it. If you are new to the Stargate universe, then refer to DVD Talk's reviews of Stargate SG-1: season 1, season 2, season 3, season 4, season 5, season 6, season 7, season 8, season 9, and season 10. This review assumes you have background with the show's main characters and general premise.

Stargate: Continuum's story is based on time travel and a sinister plot enacted by Ba'al (Cliff Simon). Ba'al was one of several self-proclaimed gods. Most notably, he cloned himself and gave SG-1 a run for their money. Continuum" begins with last of the Ba'al clones in captivity. The Jaffa and the Tok'ra are holding a sacred ceremony to remove the Gou'ald parasite from the host. SG-1 goes to Dakara to witness the ceremony. As the ceremony comes to a close, Ba'al announces that he is not the last. The real Ba'al is still out there and his fail plan is about to be enacted.

When Ba'al's sinister plan goes into effect, things get dicey. Almost randomly, people disappear into thin air, Teal'c (Christopher Judge) and Vala (Claudia Black) included. Carter (Amanda Tapping), Mitchell (Ben Browder), and Daniel (Michael Shanks) have no clue what is going on and rush to the gate to get back to Earth before they disappear into nothingness. After gating to Earth, they do not arrive at Stargate Command, but a freezing cold desolate area. As it turns out, Ba'al traveled back to 1939 to stop the freighter ship Achilles.

After Ba'al stoped the Achilles, the United States military never took possession of a stargate and the Stargate program never launched. Carter, Mitchell, and Daniel enter an alternate version of the world they know. Unfortunately, they are stuck underground in a partially sunken ship in the Arctic. After barely surviving, they are found by a special operations team. Leading the team is Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson). Their meeting is awkward, because he does not know them. In the aftermath, Carter, Mitchell, and Daniel are interrogated. They try to convince President Hayes (William Devane), General Hammond (Don Davis), and General Landry (Beau Bridges) about the Gou'ald threat. Despite their warning, they are separated and put into civilian lives with restrictions.

As the story continues, they have difficulty adjusting to their new lives and being separated from each other. However, everything changes when Ba'al makes an appearance. SG-1 is called back into action to stop him. It is at this point that Vala and Teal'c reenter the story as villains. They are at Ba'al's side. Vala is the Gou'ald Qetesh and suspicious of Ba'al's true intentions. Teal'c serves as Ba'al's first prime in hope of freeing the Jaffa. SG-1 has to fight their friends and overcome the odds to fix the past and save the present/future.

Overall, "Continuum" is a pretty fun story. Part of what gives its edge is how it draws elements/aspects from different TV seasons. There is a lot of action, old and new characters, historical Stargate SG-1 plotlines clashing with new ones, and other tidbits that give it a feeling that fans can appreciate. However, at the same time it is nothing new. The general premise of time travel and alternate realities is nothing new to the show. In this respect, the movie comes off as an almost generic double-length episode. There is also some disappointment from the under use of characters like Vala and Teal'C. However, it was great to see old faces like Jack O'Neill back in action. In the end, "Continuum" is an enjoyable movie that works for what it is. It was a huge improvement over "Ark of Truth". However, it is not Stargate at its best.

The video is given in an anamorphic 1.78:1 ratio widescreen color format. The picture quality is hard to gauge. The copy I have in possession is not the retail version. It is a special screener copy for review purposes only. For this reason, it is impossible to judge the actual picture quality.

The audio track in this release is in English 5.1 Dolby digital surround and dubbed tracks in French and Spanish 2.0 Dolby stereo sound. In general, the sound quality is good and it provides an audible and clean track. The dialogue is usually a little flat while music and sound effects come off rich and vibrant. Additionally the 5.1 track is dynamic and makes good use of the surround sound capability. There are subtitles included for English, Spanish, and French.

  • Audio Commentary: is included for the feature with Brad Wright and Martin Wood.
  • The Making of Stargate Continuum (22:34): is a behind the scenes featurette. As the title states, it is about the making of the movie. It stars individuals like Martin Wood, Brad Wright, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Richard Dean Anderson, Christopher Judge, and others. It begins with discussion about how the movie addressed so many different aspects of the series. There are some interesting comments made during the reminiscing and retrospective. The remainder of the feature focuses on the making of "Continuum".
  • Stargate Goes to the Arctic (21:52): is a featurette with Brad Wright, Martin Wood, Barry Campbell (ALPIS Officer), Robert K. Anderson (Commander, U.S. Navy, Director), and some others. It opens with a dialogue about getting setup to do the shooting in the Arctic, including how the idea came about. The rest of the featurette provides behind the scenes footage of filming in the Arctic. Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, and others appear.
  • The Layman's Guide to Time Travel (9:19): stars Jaymie Matthews. He has a PhD in astrophysics and talks about time travel. He begins by using an analogy of a car and how time as we know it works.
  • Trailers: are included for Stargate The Ark of Truth, Fantastic Four: Season 1, Stargate Worlds, and X-Files.

Final Thoughts:
Stargate: Continuum is the second direct-to-video from following the cancellation of Stargate SG-1. "Continuum" is a time travel episode with an alternate reality, the sinister Ba'al, and a few of the SG-1 team members faced with a difficult task: to repair the past to save the present/future. Overall, the film is enjoyable for what it is. It does not offer new content and feels like a double-length episode. Fans of the show will definitely want to check it out and newcomers will want to start with season one. This movie makes many references to the TV series that viewers will want to be familiar with.

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Edited by Marika Lüders, University of Oslo and SINTEF, Tor W. Andreassen, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Simon Clatworthy, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Tore Hillestad, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to innovation, and argues that because innovation is always risky business, trust is an essential premise and outcome of successfully designing, developing and finally launching innovations. Each part of the book encompasses a different aspect of innovating for trust. It begins with the notion of trust, before covering the importance of trust in future thinking, business model innovation, service design, co-creation, the innovative organization and self-service technologies. It concludes with the importance of trust in commercializing innovations.
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  • Business and Management
  • Business Ethics and Trust
  • Organisational Innovation
  • Innovation and Technology
  • Organisational Innovation
Innovation is a high-risk endeavor and success is dependent upon a firm’s understanding of customer needs. A company's initial resistance to adopting innovation is mitigated with a solid foundation of customer trust in the firm. This book uniquely combines the work of scholars and practitioners to examine how trust and customer-centricity impacts every phase of the innovation journey.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions in this collection consider different aspects of innovating for trust. Beginning with the notion of trust itself, authors examine the importance of trust in futures thinking, business model innovation, service design, co-creation, the innovative organization and self-service technologies. The book also contains a valuable collection of case studies based upon innovation with major service providers, which supports the final emphasis on the importance of trust in commercializing innovations.

Practical and engaging, Innovating for Trust will appeal to enlightened business managers aiming to build and maintain customer trust, as well as students and researchers of innovation, trust and strategy.

‘Innovating for Trust addresses exceptionally important aspects of innovation and adoption that are all too often ignored: the riskiness of both. They are risks that can only be ameliorated by trust – shared, relational and institutionalized understandings. The authors and editors address and adroitly stitch together considerations of the diverse aspects of interactions that are simultaneously influenced by and influence trust in a manner that is accessible and usable by researchers and practitioners alike. I highly recommend it for both.’
– Stephen L. Vargo, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, US

‘Innovating for Trust is an extensive collection of reflections on the important role of innovation for competitive advantage. The turbulent business environment requires constant change, with creative ideas emerging from multiple sources. The book provides essential guidance for managers about how to ensure future business success through customer- and experience-centric innovation. It tackles innovation from the perspectives of service design, business models, co-creation and commercialization. For scholars, the book provides a comprehensive overview of multidisciplinary approaches to innovation written by some of the leading experts in the field.’
– Kristina Heinonen, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

Contributors: T.W. Andreassen, K. Bentsen, J. Blomkvist, W. Brochs-Haukedal, D. Chasanidou, S. Clatworthy, A. Fjuk, A. Følstad, J. Gloppen, D.N. Grönquist, R. Halvorsrud, T. Hillestad, M.T. Hossain, S. Jørgensen, A. Karahasanovic, T. Kobbeltvedt, P. Kristensson, S. Kurtmollaiev, K. Kvale, L. Lervik-Olsen, M. Lüders, M. Motta-Filho, H. Nysveen, P.E. Pedersen, T. Saebi, S.E.R. Skard, B.A. Solem, C. Tepfers, H. Thorbjørnsen, L.J. Tynes Pedersen, B. Yttri

1. Innovating for trust
Marika Lüders, Tor W. Andreassen, Simon Clatworthy and Tore Hillestad

Part I Trust and service innovation
2. Trust and service innovation
Siv E. Rosendahl Skard

3. Trust, risk and self-service technologies: Suggestions for future research
Herbjørn Nysveen and Siv E. Rosendahl Skard

4. Digital risk and customers’ acceptance of self-service innovations: The role of online benefits and corporate trustworthiness
Siv E. Rosendahl Skard and Herbjørn Nysveen

Part II Futures thinking
5. Trust in the future; futures thinking as a capability for service innovation
Daniel Nordstad Grönquist

6. Transforming towards innovative culture by using customer-centric scenarios and service concepts
Birgitte Yttri, Annita Fjuk, Daniel Grönquist and Tore Hillestad

7. Creating actionable future narratives
Camilla A.C. Tepfers

Part III Building trust through business model innovation
8. Designing experience-centric business models: What do they look like and how do they influence trust?
Tina Saebi, Herbjørn Nysveen, Mohammad Touhid Hossain and Annita Fjuk

9. Business model innovation in the retail industry: a service system perspective
Per Egil Pedersen, Birgit Apenes Solem, Kristin Bentsen

10. Designing Sustainable Business Models
Sveinung Jørgensen and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen

Part IV Service design
11. Service design thinking
Simon Clatworthy

12. Strengthening customer relationships through customer journey analysis
Ragnhild Halvorsrud and Knut Kvale

13. Building brand trust through customers’ experience
Mauricy Motta-Filho

14. Prototyping for trust
Johan Blomkvist

15. The role of service design leadership in creating added customer value
Judith Gloppen, Annita Fjuk and Simon Clatworthy

Part V Co-creating services
16. From participatory design to co-creation
Asbjørn Følstad

17. Crowdsourcing for innovation: companies as trustees
Marika Lüders

18. Co-creation for innovation: why do customers get involved?
Dimitra Chasanidou and Amela Karahasanovi?

Part VI The innovative organization
19. Developing innovative organizational culture
Tore Hillestad

20. Transformational leadership in customer centric organizations and the need for strategic foresight
William Brochs-Haukedal

21. Leadership, trust and UX design: A regulatory focus perspective
Therese Kobbeltvedt

Part VII Commercializing innovations
22. Overcoming resistance to adopt innovations: softening innovation resistance through trusting beliefs
Herbjørn Nysveen and Per Kristensson

23. Why customers do and do not switch
Per Kristensson, Herbjørn Nysveen and Helge Thorbjørnsen

24. Launching innovations
Helge Thorbjørnsen

25. Innovation economics
Tor W. Andreassen, Line Lervik-Olsen and Seidali Kurtmollaiev

26. Concluding remarks
Tor W. Andreassen, Simon Clatworthy, Tore Hillestad and Marika Lüders


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(Dr. Mercola) The featured documentary, "Back to Eden," reveals a simple organic gardening method that not only can transform your personal garden, but may even be part of the food solution needed on a global scale.

Far from being life sustaining, our modern, large-scale, chemical-dependent farming methods strip soil of nutrients, destroy critical soil microbes, contribute to the creation of deserts where nothing will grow, and saturate farmlands with toxic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that then migrate into ground water, rivers, lakes and oceans.

This video really inspired me and, after watching it, I called my local tree cutting service and was able to get three truckloads of wood chips dropped on my driveway for free. I then wheelbarreled them onto my landscape.

The great thing about the wood chips is that they are waste and most companies will give you all you want. I plan on adding more every few months.

One important aspect I learned, though, is that the wood chip pile will tend to decompose rather rapidly if you don't spread it on your landscape right away. So, it's best to spread the chips over a few days and not leave it in a pile.

Otherwise you will wind up needing to wear a mask to avoid inhaling the dust when you use a pitchfork to move the chips into your wheelbarrel.

I am convinced that "Back to Eden's" gardener, Paul Gautschi, makes loads of sense and that this is a crucial part of the equation for creating healthy soil to produce healthy plants. Wood chips not only seem to eliminate the need for any fertilizer or mineral supplements, but also to help reduce watering and make weeding a snap.

If the religious overtones of this film don't appeal to you, I hope you will overlook them because regardless of your religious beliefs, the information shared still has tremendous value, and is sure to be of interest to anyone concerned with sustainable agriculture. As presented by Documentary Storm:1

"Dana & Sarah Films, a nomadic grassroots film production company, travel to Washington where Paul Gautschi has developed a revolutionary gardening technique that is estimated to cut back on the need for irrigation by up to 95 percent.

Paul is known locally as a master arborist and is now inspiring people across the nation to experiment with his gardening methods by starting their own 'Back to Eden' gardens."

Back To Eden OFFICIAL FILM from Dana & Sarah Films on Vimeo.

'Back to Eden' — Nature is self-sustaining

What many fail to realize is that your health ultimately depends on the health of the soil — this is what allows your food, the vegetables and fruits, to grow nutrient-dense. When soils are depleted of nutrients, the foods grown in it will be deficient in critical minerals and phytonutrients as well.

Unfortunately, that's the state of a large portion of the Earth's soils today. Clearly, the answer to correcting soils depleted of nutrients is NOT to add even more chemical fertilizers.

The "magical" ingredient that maintains and maximizes soil health is actually the microorganisms living in the soil. This includes bacteria, fungi, protozoa and microscopic roundworms called nematodes.

Far from being scourges to be avoided, microorganisms are an essential necessity for optimized plant growth.

We now understand that it is the cooperation between these microorganisms, the soil's biome and the plants' roots — called rhizosphere — that is ultimately responsible for allowing the plant to absorb nutrients from the soil in which it's grown.

As discussed in the featured film, nature is self-sustaining. When left alone, the ground becomes covered with leaves and organic materials that then turn into lush compost that adds nutrients back to the soil. This top layer of organic material also shields the soil and helps retain moisture.

By imitating nature and simply covering his garden with wood chips, Gautschi doesn't need to water any of his plants, even in the summer. And his garden yields plenty of large, well-formed, juicy fruits, berries and vegetables.

While you certainly can purchase wood chips, Paul suggests contacting your local tree service to get large amounts. These are basically tree branches that have gone through a wood chipper.

They usually have to get rid of all these wood chips anyway so, like me, you may be able to get it for next to nothing, opposed to buying bags of mulch from a gardening center. As stated by Documentary Storm:

"In these days of genetically modified organisms, leafy greens replete with pesticides, drought, fruits and vegetables that are deficient of nutrients, soil that is depleted of minerals, and a myriad of problems and side effects that have risen because of the aforementioned, Paul Gautschi seems to have an answer that almost seems too simple to believe."

Others have duplicated his efforts, reaping the same fantastic results. For example, the film also features Ronald and Sylvia Richardson, who were inspired to follow in Gautschi's footsteps after a visit to his garden in 2010, and the McOmber family, who have also successfully implemented his methods in their garden.

A nearly magical soil amendment, the results of which will shock you

One of the keys to a truly successful garden is to improve the microbiology of the soil. Many people don't appreciate that it's NOT commercial products like Miracle-Gro® you put in your garden that give you disease-resistant and nutrient-dense food, but the diverse collection of bacteria, fungi and parasites that actually transfer the nutrients from the soil into the plant.

Miracle-Gro® will supply some nutrients, but these salts actually kill the soil microbes. Although the film does not discuss this, I believe that one of the primary reasons why Gautschi's experiment is so successful is due to the beneficial effect on microorganism growth.

When the article initially ran, I experimented in my own garden by spreading 15 gallons of vortexed compost tea (basically compost tea that has been stirred, creating a vortex in the bucket) nearly every day for six months.

Each ounce of the tea had hundreds of trillions of beneficial microbes. Since I was applying 2,000 ounces to my garden, that's a lot of microbes! While that provided some benefit, I was still disappointed with the results.

What I learned from that experience is that these microbes need a home to hang out in, live and multiply. Without a proper home they simply die, soon after being applied. As it turns out, Biochar fits the bill perfectly.

Shortly after this interview initially ran I applied biochar to my property and I now have a deep, rich topsoil with wonderful edible landscape. Biochar is created by slowly burning biomass like wood chips, corn stalks, coconut shells or any similar organic material in a low-oxygen environment, such as a kiln.

When burned this way, the carbon in the organic material is not released into the atmosphere as CO2; rather, it traps the carbon and forms a type of charcoal that has a reef-like structure, which serves as a magnificent microbial home. Besides providing excellent living quarters for soil microorganisms, Biochar also has a number of other benefits, including:

  1. Returning much of the depleted carbon to the soil (carbon sequestration), where it can remain for hundreds or even thousands of years
  2. Improving overall soil quality and fertility
  3. Raising the soil's water retention ability
  4. Potentially helping to "filter" toxic chemicals in the soil, much like carbon-based water filtration systems can filter toxins out of your water

Biochar strongly supports plant growth

The introduction of Biochar into soil is not like applying fertilizer; rather, it's the beginning of a process — most of the benefit is achieved through the activity of the microbes and fungi that take up residence in the treated soil. They colonize its massive surface area and integrate into the char and the surrounding soil, dramatically increasing the soil's ability to nurture plant growth.

One of the major benefits of Biochar is that it is highly stable and typically lasts for many centuries, if not longer, so it is one soil amendment that does not need to be regularly applied. In this respect, it is far superior to wood chips. As explained in a recent Ecologist2 article, research shows Biochar can more than double a plant's yield! The researchers also discovered the "how" behind this remarkable result. As reported in the article:

"They also tracked for the first time the changes in genetic expression that followed from applying biochar. The response of more than 10,000 genes was followed simultaneously, and two growth promoting plant hormones — brassinosteroids and auxins, together with their signaling molecules — were stimulated by the biochar.

Professor Taylor said: 'Our findings provide the very first insight into how biochar stimulates plant growth — we now know that cell expansion is stimulated in roots and leaves alike and this appears to be the consequence of a complex signaling network that is focused around two plant growth hormones.'"

Urban gardening is the answer to many of our problems

There's no doubt that urban gardening is an important step toward building a more sustainable food system. In fact, I've been encouraging everyone to plant a "Victory Garden" as a proactive step toward fixing our broken food system and improving your health. Victory Gardens are named after the gardens that people were encouraged to plant in their back yards and in parks and other public places during World Wars I and II.

As a result, in 1944, 40 percent of the produce grown in the U.S. was in people's backyards. I really think it's possible to catalyze a similar movement for a different purpose. The new reality is that for most people, it is very difficult to obtain high-quality, nutrient-dense foods unless you grow them yourself.

Food grown in your own garden is overall fresher, more nutritious and tastes better than store-bought food — and you can't beat the price. Urban gardens are also key to saving energy, protecting water quality and topsoil, and promoting biodiversity and beautifying densely populated communities. It may even be the U-turn we need to rein in out-of-control rates of depression, much of which may be rooted in the feeling of being disconnected from nature, and hence disconnected from our own selves.

According to a survey by Gardeners' World Magazine, 80 percent of gardeners reported being "happy" and satisfied with their lives, compared to 67 percent of non-gardeners. Monty Don, a British TV presenter and garden writer, attributes the wellbeing of gardeners to the "recharging" you get from sticking your hands in the soil and spending time outdoors in nature.

This seems more than reasonable when you consider the health benefits associated with grounding, also known as earthing. As detailed in the documentary film "Grounded," the surface of the Earth holds subtle health-boosting energy, and all you have to do is touch it.

Walking barefoot on the Earth transfers free electrons from the Earth's surface into your body that spread throughout your tissues. Grounding has been shown to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, improve sleep and enhance your wellbeing. Many a gardener will attest to the sense of wellbeing obtained from sticking your hands in the dirt as well, and this is separate from the pleasure of accomplishment that comes from eating your own home-grown food.

Basic Biochar guidelines

If you're planning on starting a garden, I heartily endorse Biochar. You just need to make sure it is activated by either combining it with compost, rock dust powder or my favorite, human urine. Urine is a phenomenal source of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and will bind strongly to the carbon in the Biochar rather than draining away.

The nitrogen balances the carbon in the Biochar and serves as food for the microbes, which in turn feed the plant for the long term. A friend of mine did this last year in his garden and his plants produced so many vegetables they almost seemed like mutants.

Wetting the Biochar is also important to promote beneficial earthworms. One 2011 study3 found that earthworms tend to avoid dry Biochar, but that wetting the char resulted in "statistically undetectable avoidance." According to the authors:

"[I]nsufficient moisture could be a key factor affecting earthworm behavior in soil amended with dry biochar. To avoid desiccation of invertebrates and enable their beneficial ecosystem services, we recommend wetting biochar either before or immediately after soil application."

You can certainly add Biochar to existing plants, shrubs and trees but, ideally, it's best if it's in the soil prior to planting, so the plants have an ideal form of nutrition early on. If you have a small garden, you might need only a few hundred pounds. Larger landscapes will require more.

Gardeners beware: Pesticides also kill off beneficial earthworms

Getting back to earthworms for a brief moment, these creepy crawlers also play an important role in maintaining the health of the soil. Pesticides, which are commonly sprayed on crops to protect them against being ravaged by pests, also have a devastating effect on earthworms living beneath the soil, which is yet another reason to avoid chemical gardening.

Research shows that earthworms exposed to pesticides grow to only half their normal weight. Since pesticide exposure also has a detrimental impact on their ability to reproduce, untreated soils can contain as much as two to three times as many earthworms as treated soils. As reported by the Cornucopia Institute:4

"Pesticides have a direct impact on the physiology and behavior of earthworms, a Danish/French research team reports after having studied earthworms that were exposed to pesticides over generations. 'We see that the worms have developed methods to detoxify themselves, so that they can live in soil sprayed with fungicide.

They spend a lot of energy on detoxifying, and that comes with a cost: The worms do not reach the same size as other worms, and we see that there are fewer of them in sprayed soil. An explanation could be that they are less successful at reproducing, because they spend their energy on ridding themselves of the pesticide,' the researchers, Ph.D. student Nicolas Givaudan and associate professor, Claudia Wiegand, say."

Working WITH nature rather than against it: That's the future of farming

Researchers are increasingly starting to recognize gut microbiota as one of your most unappreciated "organs."5 It may even be more appropriate to view your body as a "super organism" composed of symbiotic microorganisms. Probiotics are even becoming widely accepted and adopted in the conventional medical community to support health.

In soil, we have a very similar process. The health of the plants and those who eat those plants all stand to benefit from the optimization of soil microbiology. Optimizing soil biology also strengthens plants against pest infestations without having to resort to chemical warfare that kills far more than the insects they're designed to destroy.

Research shows that there's constant communication going on between plants via the rhizosphere (root ball). Plants "talk" to one another through aerial emissions — the volatile gasses they emit — and also through the mycelial networks in the soil. This is a major insight that deepens our understanding of the importance of nurturing and maintaining healthy soil microbiomes.

It also explains why you don't really need synthetic chemicals to grow large amounts of food. On the contrary, the chemicals used in modern agriculture are killing the very foundation of health — the microbiomes in the soil. In short, if you support and nurture the microbiome in soil, it in turn will provide you with good nutrition and optimal health through the food grown in it. As noted by Documentary Storm:

"A sustainable permaculture revolution is at hand as a solution to earth's mistreatment and the unwillingness of the U.S. government to protect its citizens from agribusiness giants ...

When the burden of proof is in the hands of the affected to prove the food-like products are negatively affecting their health, the safest thing to do is grow the most nutritious food we can at the smallest expense in order to push these food-like products out of market. Paul's garden is an example of sustainable permaculture at its best."

About the directors

I believe in bringing quality to my readers, which is why I wanted to share some information about Dana Richardson and Sarah Zentz, producers and directors of "Back to Eden." We sat down with Dana and Sarah to learn a little more about what goes in to making these films. Thank you to Dana and Sarah for sharing with us.

What was your inspiration for making this film?

In 2010 we heard a story about Paul Gautschi, a gardener who practiced a no-till, non-GMO, organic gardening method that was capable of being implemented in diverse climates and soil conditions around the world. At that time, awareness was increasing about GMOs and the impacts of conventional farming practices on the health and wellness of our bodies and the environment.

We knew that Paul's organic gardening method was a simple, sustainable solution to the global food crisis that needed to be documented and shared with the world.

Our goal was to create a visually engaging and educational documentary that taught people around the world how to grow a "Back to Eden Garden" and thus reap the abundant harvest and numerous health benefits of Paul Gautschi's organic gardening method.

What was your favorite part of making this film?

Meeting Paul Gautschi was a life-changing experience. On a daily basis we walked with Paul in his gardens and orchards, experienced eating the sweetest tasting fruits and vegetables, learned how to grow our own organic food, and were immeasurably blessed by his incredible knowledge and generous spirit.

Where do the proceeds to your film go?

If you buy the film through our website, the proceeds go directly toward spreading the message of Back to Eden gardening around the world

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I walked around a bit and it looks like all the concession stands are preparing to open. Not sure who will run the concession stands — looks like management, mostly — but plenty are still working.

The strikers are on both sides of the park, so it’ll be a bit crowded out there.

Here’s what the Giants had to say in a statement:

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Financial Regulation – How Screwed Are We?
-Ed Dolan (Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog)

This past week brought a spate of articles on the woes of financial regulation. John Kay writes that the regulation we are getting “is at once extensive and intrusive, yet ineffective and largely captured by financial sector interests.” James Kwak thinks that crude capture at the level of Congress is exacerbated by intellectual capture at the level of regulatory staff. John Gapper sees a slightly different form of intellectual capture in which “any oversight that is biased towards preserving stability will often shy away from making life too difficult for banks.”  Randal Wray sees outright fraud—a system in which top corporate managers run their institutions as weapons to loot shareholders and customers for their own benefit. Although some of these writers use more measured language than others, all of them seem to agree with Wray on one point: We’re screwed.

So, can financial regulation be fixed, or not? Each writer points out reasons why effective financial regulation may be impossible, and I would add one more. As I see it, one of the biggest problems is that too many regulations, even those that are not tainted by capture, are prohibitions of specific risky activities, such as ownership of hedge funds or proprietary trading. This approach has two kinds of unintended consequences.

One is that prohibiting specific kinds of risks increases the incentives for fraudulently hiding them from investors, shareholders, and regulators. The other stems from the fact that financial institutions have an infinite menu of risky activities to choose from. If regulations prohibit some of them without curbing their inherent appetite for risk, they just move on to the next activity on their menu. Unfortunately, that activity may have a risk-return profile that is inferior both from financial managers’ own point of view and from that of the public interest.

It is like a parent who tries to get an obese child to take some weight off by saying, “No more chocolate ice cream, no more Big Macs.” The child just switches to mint chip ice cream and pizza.

In an earlier post, I used this diagram to illustrate the point. Regulators and bankers have different preferences so they seek different optimal points along the risk-return frontier. Ideally, regulators would like to find a way to induce banks to slide down and to the left along the frontier to a less risky point. Instead, by outlawing the specific strategies banks have used in the past, all they do is to drive them inward, away from the frontier and toward some new set of still risky but less efficient strategies. Both sides end up worse off.

The implication is that only two kinds of regulations could ever do any real good. One would be those that curb the risk appetite directly, for example, by changing compensation practices, by exposing financial executives to personal legal risks, or by other reforms of corporate governance. The other would be to break up institutions into small enough units that their failure can be tolerated. Of course, crude capture might make that kind of reform exactly the hardest to achieve. If so, then we really are screwed.

What’s Up Doc?
-Edward Hugh (Don’t Shoot the Messenger)

According to Wikipedia, Kabuki is a classical Japanese dance-drama known for the stylization of its plot and for the elaborate make-up worn by the key performers. This definition seems to fit the drama in an interminable number of acts currently being acted out on the European stage by some of the continent’s leading central bank players.

It all started last Thursday when, as surely everyone but my blind and deaf uncle must know by now, Mario Draghi made what is widely thought to have been an important speech. We will do whatever it takes, as long as it is in the mandate, he is reported as saying.  And since stopping anything which is life threatening to the Euro dead in its tracks forms part of the mandate under any conceivable interpretation, the ECB now have the widest possible brief within which to circumscribe their actions. The only limitation is that it should be enough, just enough, and no more. As Mario Draghi said, “believe me, it will be enough”.

But then on Friday dark clouds started to loom on the horizon, as the Bundesbank waded into the fray, making a statement which seems to have been intended to say “now just hold on a minute there!” As the Irish Independent put it in a headline “The Bundesbank Pushes Against ECB’s Draghi Attempt To Save The Eurozone.

Yikes! That sounds dangerous. Someone wants to save the Euro, and with it the entire planet, and someone else wants to stop him from doing so. Assuming we are not in James Bond territory here, how can that be?

Well, that’s why I say “seem”, since digging into the situation a bit, I found it very hard to identify an original source for the statements that were being attributed to that most venerable of German institutions. Certainly there was no trace of anything on the central bank website.

Well, as Ludwig Wittgenstein used to say, when you seem to hit bedrock, and even if the blade is a bit bent, don’t let your spade be turned. Just keep on digging. So I did.

What I found was a Reuters correspondent who claimed to have been told by a bank spokesman that “The Bundesbank regards central bank purchases of sovereign debt as monetary financing of governments, from which the ECB is prohibited by European law”.

“The mechanism of bond purchases is problematic”, the spokesman apparently added, “because it sets the wrong incentives.” On the other hand the possibility of the EFSF bailout buying government bonds was reportedly viewed as “less problematic”.

But then I moved on to Dow Jones News Wires, where I got the weird feeling their journalist had had exactly the same conversation with just the very same Bundesbank spokesman. “Germany’s central bank remains opposed to further government bond purchases by the European Central Bank, but isn’t against using the euro-zone’s temporary rescue fund doing so to drive down soaring sovereign borrowing costs”, the writer claimed to have been told by a Bundesbank spokesman. Odd, I thought that two separate journalists had rung up the bank independently only to have had the exact same conversation.

In order to try and clarify matters – remember markets next week have to decide what the next chapter in the Euro Debt Crisis is going to be, so it isn’t simply pedantic to want to get this one right – I did what every well trained economist does in cases of an emergency – I went back to the original story that caught my eye in the Financial Times, where to my horror I found there was no mention of any presumed conversation with any bank spokesman whatsoever. The FT simply informed the world majestically that “The Bundesbank says…..” which was followed by a wording not that different to the ones to be found in Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires. Then I went to the Daily Telegraph, and found they followed the FT in simply asserting that the Bundesbank says blah blah blah. But where, I am asking myself, do they say it?

Why does this matter? Well, maybe this IS being pedantic, but I don’t think we should start accepting that the Bundesbank (or anyone else) thinks “something or other” simply because the FT says they do, much as I love the paper and its charming corps of staff. Even if we are told “an anonymous source from the Bundesbank who under no circumstances wanted to be identified publically” said x, this can help us evaluate the significance of x. If we are told nothing, then frankly I for one don’t know where to start.

Thankfully, Bloomberg finally came to my rescue. They owned up to what had actually happened:

“A spokesman for the Frankfurt-based central bank said in a statement read over the phone earlier today that there haven’t been any changes in its position on bond purchases”.

So there we have it, a case of sex (or rather policymaking) over the phone. What journalists were presenting us with was an official pre-prepared Bundesbank statement, which was read out to any journalist who was sufficiently interested to ring them up. So this is something the German central bank wanted to go out. It was a way of influencing the situation by applying the law of least effort.

Having understood that (which was the hard part) I have then spent the rest of the weekend wondering what it might mean. But to find out what my conclusions were you’ll need to read the full blog post.

Spanish Unemployment: Mondays in the Sun
-Emre Deliveli (The Kapalı Çarşı: Emre Deliveli’s blog on the Turkish economy)

As loyal readers know, I usually summarize my weekly Hürriyet Daily News columns here, but this week’s topic, the low women’s labor force participation rate in Turkey, may not appeal to EconoMonitor’s usual crowd. You are more than welcome to read the column, or the fresh-out-of-the-oven policy note and research reports by Istanbul think-tank BETAM, on which it is based, but I will focus here on the more Economonitor-friendly topic of Spanish unemployment.

As you can see in the Bloomberg article on the data release, the emphasis was on the fact that this was the highest unemployment rate ever in democratic Spain. However, I am more interested in the relationship between growth and employment: See, the average quarterly contraction in GDP over the past year has been 0.1 percent, whereas employment has decreased by 0.9 percent, on average, over the same period.

This is where I get confused: This seems like the sensitivity of employment to output has actually decreased after the recent labor market reforms, which were, by the way, rather applauded in the IMF’s most recent assessment of the Spanish economy.

Of course, four quarters is hardly an appropriate time period to judge elasticity. On the other hand, the Bloomberg article mentions that fashion retailer Adolfo Dominguez SA and cement-maker Cementos Portland SA have been able to shed off their workforce after the new laws kicked in. A friend who is a hedge fund manager was recently in Spain and talked to the CEO of one of the largest banks, who said they had been able to lay off many workers after the approval of the new law.

I take all this to mean that firms have only recently started to make use of the new labor laws. Given that Spain is undergoing austerity and many experts, including Roubini Global Economics, are expecting the country to stay in recession this year and the next, I don’t think the unemployment rate has maxed yet…

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  1. Al Levin   July 31, 2012 at 7:35 am

    I have lots of respect for professional economists. But I think you guys over-complicate everything.

    In my amateur opinion, return of Glass Stiegel (in an updated form perhaps) will virtually eliminate "too big to fail". More importantly, separation of depository institutions and "non banks" will get the big banks to lend some of that capital that the Fed government bestows upon them when their solvency is threatened.

    Give the big banks a narrow window to invest in hedging vehicles, but prevent them from speculating.

    Sounds like Volcker Rule. Doesn't it?

    Isn't it time to follow his advice?

  2. Chuck Carlson   July 31, 2012 at 8:32 am

    I'm encouraged by your take on the challenges we face. When I read your words, one lone cause floats to the top of the pool — campaign financing. Due to inadequate laws to keep private money out of political campaigns, we are suffering under a government of the dollar, by the dollar, for the dollar. We claim to have a democracy yet we function as a plutocracy.

    Glass–Steagall would be a good first step but only a first step.


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