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A round up of the news on REDD from last week, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor's news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.
UN-REDD, no date | It is predicted that financial flows for greenhouse gas emission reductions from REDD+ could reach up to US$30 billion a year. This significant North-South flow of funds could reward a meaningful reduction of carbon emissions and could also support new, pro-poor development, help conserve biodiversity and secure vital ecosystem services. Further, maintaining forest ecosystems can contribute to increased resilience to climate change. To achieve these multiple benefits, REDD will require the full engagement and respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities. To "seal the deal" on climate change, REDD activities in developing countries must complement, not be a substitute for, deep cuts in developed countries' emissions. The decision to include REDD in a post-Kyoto regime must not jeopardize the commitment of Annex I countries to reduce their own emissions. Both will be critical to successfully address climate change.
Forest Carbon Stock Measurement: Guidelines for measuring carbon stocks in community-managed forests
Forestry Nepal, August 2010 | Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has gained major attention in international climate negotiations. Evolving discussions on REDD have brought forests to the forefront of both climate-change mitigation and adaptation. Among others, successful REDD programs require reliable, accurate, and cost-effective methods for measurement and monitoring of forest carbon storage. Despite the involvement of several academic research and development organizations in Nepal, common, reliable, and userfriendly forest carbon measurement methodologies are still lacking. 'Forest Carbon stock Measurement: Guidelines for measuring carbon stocks in communitymanaged forests' was prepared by the technical team of Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB) in consultation with the Project Management Unit- ICIMOD; international and national experts; and key stakeholders. [R-M: Download here: http://bit.ly/aYGroI]
By Juliana Radler de Aquino, Development and Cooperation, July/August 2010 | Brazil is working on a national system to allow international investors to support programmes of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The government wants to be able to present a workable scheme at the next UN climate summit in Cancún in December… Brazil is likely to become the world's prime destination for REDD money. Nearly two thirds of its territory is covered by forest. The most impressive forest, of course, is the Amazonian rainforest. According to Brazil's Ministry of Environment, around 20 REDD-related programmes are already underway or being prepared. Around 75 % are in the Amazon region. Together, all initiatives cover some 46 million hectares of forest on public, private and indigenous land. These initiatives demonstrate the willingness of many groups in society – including indigenous peoples – to use REDD to reconcile nature conservation with socio-economic development.
Side event WRI : Parallel Paths to Cancun: Taking Stock of Progress across the Different REDD+ Negotiations
By Mariana Christovam (IPAM), August 2010 | In general to this point, the Partnership appears to lack clear and defined rules for that Partnership to advance and in part this was intentional. On the one hand, Partners did not want to have to develop so many rules that they would be stuck in lengthy bureaucracy, and on the other hand they miss a minimum level of rules and guidance to solve issues relating to stakeholders participation, for example. I will not go through all the elements we analyzed and discussed that did not reach a consensus in this last formal meeting, or I would not give sufficient time to the other speakers… The governance structure of Brazil's Amazon Fund is another possible model. Its Guiding Committee consists of three membership constituencies: federal government, state governments and civil society, which includes representatives of IPs, NGOs, labour unions, the research community and the private sector.
Indonesia attracts foreign funded REDD pilot projects
Tropical Timber Market Report, ITTO, 1-15 August 2010 | It is hoped that the flow of REDD investments will begin to rectify the negative perceptions of Indonesian timber products across the industry. Some marketing executives added that there is renewed sense of pride and optimism in the marketing of Indonesian timber products. In turn, it is hoped that this will generate greater market share and demand for Indonesian timber products. Analysts likewise, are of the opinion that this would also attract more foreign direct investments in downstream timber industry and thus provide more jobs and much needed replacement of aging machineries. An improvement in the efficiency of downstream processing will eventually reduce wastages and improve raw material supply.
9 August 2010
"Green" energy boom destroys tribes – new report
Survival International, 9 August 2010 | To mark the UN Day of Indigenous People, Survival has released a new report highlighting the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas, Survival's report Serious Damage exposes the untold cost of obtaining 'green' electricity from large hydroelectric dams. A rapid increase in global dam-building is currently under way. The World Bank alone is pouring $11bn into 211 hydropower projects worldwide.
Indonesia may let palm oil growers collect CO2 credits
By Sunanda Creagh, Reuters, 9 August 2010 | Indonesia may propose palm oil plantations be eligible to earn carbon credits under a U.N.-backed scheme aimed at preserving forests, a forestry ministry official said on Monday. Such a move could potentially create a new line of revenue for the palm oil industry and listed firms like Wilmar (WLIL.SI) and PT Astra Agro Lestari (AALI.JK), but is likely to anger green groups who accuse planters of deforestation… "If there is agreement on REDD, we could put palm oil plantations to be eligible for that," said Wandojo Siswanto, a special adviser to the forestry minister and one of Indonesia's lead negotiators at global climate talks… "I think it would be good if we just say that palm oil plantations could also mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration through the nature of the trees," he said, adding that both existing plantations and future plantations developed on degraded land could be eligible.
Dim Prospects for Climate Accord
By Sara Kuepfer Thakkar, ISN Security Watch, 9 August 2010 | Developing and developed nations again clashed in Bonn, this time on the issue of forest offsets – ie, the use of carbon markets to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Last year's Copenhagen Accord endorsed the idea of creating market incentives through REDD and forest carbon trading, and developed nations have remained keen on implementing such a system. If a multilateral cap-and-trade agreement, modeled on the Kyoto Protocol but this time including developing nations, came into place, it would allow wealthy countries like the US to 'cut' their emissions not by actually reducing their own CO2 consumption but by buying carbon credits from other countries. A July visit to South America by US Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern, has raised suspicions that the US is eying its forest-rich southern neighbors to do just that.
Mangroves offer win-win opportunity
By Dr Mark Huxham (Earthwatch), BBC News, 9 August 2010 | Given that the international carbon market is worth in excess of $100bn per year – more than 100 times what is spent on international conservation – Redd holds the potential of injecting large sums into saving tropical forests and of finally reversing the decline. Mangroves, forests that grow in intertidal areas in the tropics and sub-tropics, and the people that depend upon them could really benefit from Redd-related carbon payments. Mangroves account for only around 0.4% of all forests; but the multiple services – such as coastal protection, nursery habitat for fish and filtration of pollution and sediments – that they provide, and the rapid rate of their destruction, make them a conservation priority… We have been working with conservation charities Earthwatch Institute and Plan Vivo, along with the Kenyan government, to develop a demonstration community mangrove conservation project at Gazi Bay in southern Kenya.
There Is Progress But Focus Is The Key For A Successful Cancun Outcome
By Marianne de Nazareth, Countercurrents.org, 9 August 2010 | "Governments can and must make progress on areas such as adaptation, finance and ending deforestation at COP 16 in Cancun," said Gordon Shepherd, Leader of WWF's Global Climate Initiative. "But they will have to increase their efforts now and start seeking areas of convergence in a much more serious way." Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is an example where agreements already achieved in Copenhagen have been opened up again on such basic issues as the definition of what it covers. The chair of the Kyoto Protocol negotiating track, John Ashe, produced a draft proposal text which governments will be able to consider between now and the next UNFCCC negotiating session in October. That text includes a possible set of draft decisions for Cancún, including impacts of agriculture on emissions, carbon markets and mechanisms, greenhouse gases…
Post-Copenhagen quest for global warming accord stuck in reverse
By Pete Spotts, Christian Science Monitor, 9 August 2010 | Two bright spots, however, involve work on deforestation and adaptation aid, observers say. "There's work that a lot of committed countries are doing" in these areas, says Pipa Elias, a climate-policy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington. In Copenhagen, negotiators made significant progress on these issues. And they were key elements in the Copenhagen Accord. Developed and developing countries that account for some 80 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions reportedly have signed on to the non-binding political agreement. Many of these are working to set up the mechanisms to parcel out adaptation money and to govern anti-deforestation, or REDD, efforts without any formal UN agreement.
Ghana: CEPIL, Others Nurture Future Environmentalists
By Frederick Asiamah, Public Agenda, 9 August 2010 | Opportunity is being given to 50 young Ghanaian professionals to be part of a three-nation pool of environmental activists who will be collaborating to ensure sustainable environments for future generations of Ghana, Liberia and the United States of America…. Giving an overview of the project, Mr Niber was optimistic that the project will inform the formulation of strong mining, forestry and climate change policies. For instance, "Project participants with expertise in Climate Change policies will advise Green Advocates, the Center for Public Interest Law, and emerging environmental leaders about the formulation of economically effective, efficient and socially equitable REDD strategies and Institutional frameworks that reward indigenous people, local communities, and other stakeholders for their contributions to REDD."
10 August 2010
UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn 2-6 Aug 2010
By David MIllar, qewnet.ning.com, 10 August 2010 | The Bali Action Plan established twin tracks: AWG-KP and AWG-LCA. Ad Hoc Working Groups on Kyoto Protocol, and Long-Range Cooperative Action. These titles are pious hopes… Forest preservation under REDD+ (the + indicates that "conservation" projects have been folded in) seems to offer bridge funding even if Kyoto is not renewed. But there are serious questions about its impact on women, native people, and locals; lack of consultation with them; control by World Bank; LULUCF loopholes such as HWP (sale of "harvested wood products") and carryover of AAUs (tradable emissions allowances); overlaps with agricultural programs; MRV transparency and accountability, and lack of capacity (poor country expertise).
Int'l donors allot $87m grant for environmental projects
By Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta Post, 10 August 2010 | The world's leading financier for environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has allotted a US$87 million grant to help Indonesia protect its dwindling environmental assets, officials say. Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said that about half of the money would be awarded to projects dealing with mitigation and adaptation to prevent climate change. "The project developers could be from the government, local communities, NGOs or universities," he told reporters Monday. The $87 million grant will be disbursed based on projects approved by the GEF executive board in Washington during the from Aug. 1, 2010, to July 31, 2014. Indonesia received a $40 million grant from the GEF for the previous four-year period…
Konsorsium Pendukung Sistem Hutan Kerakyatan (KpSHK), 10 August 2010 | Since signatory of REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation) plus between Kingdom of Norway with Republic of Indonesia that is low level agreement or Letter of Intent in Oslo's Climate Change Meeting at this year, rumors of REDD 's economic political are being engagement. And no one really tends to bring the REDD for including indigenous forestland rights into REDD preparedness process. The situation could be reviewed at the national process of REDD plus preparation. Department of Forestry is still only established sector on REDD plus preparation. All of forestry policies capture detail of REDD financial scheme and forest management license without including community interest as like at the beginning of REDD proposal in COP 13 of UNFCCC-Bali that REDD is only an incentive model of forestry business actor.
redd what redd? Confusion over the REDD project in Sarawak
funnywhitedog.blogspot.com, 10 August 2010 | On August 6th 2010, a news item titled 'Australia firm signs forest CO2 deal with Malaysia tribes' was released by Reuters. This was largely based on an press release two days ago from the company in question, Shift2Neutral titled: Shift2Neutral signs agreement to certify REDD+ with tribes of Sarawak Malaysia. In response, the Jaringan Orang Asal Se-Malaysia issued a statement stating that we are not involved with the project (statement can be found here). Our concern with the project is based on the lack of transparency surrounding the project. The press release by Shift2Neutral did not state which communities were involved or where the lands were, other than a figure of over 100,000 ha. It did not release any information on the nature of the deal other than an agreement to 'certify carbon credits' of the forest, presumably by mapping the forest and providing biomass figures.
UN-REDD Recounts Recent Activities Related to Governance
Climate-L.org, 10 August 2010 | In its latest media release, the UN-REDD Programme highlights several recent governance-related activities, describing the Programme's engagement of partners on governance issues and REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks) at conferences around the world. During the northern summer, UN-REDD was involved in: a Chatham House Workshop on Monitoring Governance Safeguards in REDD+, in London, UK; the UNFCCC Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany; the organization of a Workshop on Free, Prior and Informed Consent and Recourse Mechanisms in Hanoi, Viet Nam; the Transparency International Workshop on Climate Governance in Berlin, Germany; and the Fifth Dialogue on Rights, Forests and Climate Change in Washington DC, US.
Making progress on Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses
By Peter A. Minange, ASB, 10 August 2010 | In developing countries, agriculture is major driver of deforestation and forest degradation, and therefore a significant contributor to global Carbon emissions, as well as ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss. Agricultural landscapes, particularly mosaic-lands and agroforestry systems, can also be part of the solution; these areas hold significant potential for storing and enhancing land-based carbon, while also creating economic benefits for poor farmers. For over fifteen years, the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins has worked to understand which landscapes produce a balance between healthy ecosystem and livelihood benefits… We have argued that taking into account the value of trees outside forests, such as those found on farms, can greatly increase the effectiveness of any REDD+ strategy.
Govt to set aside 30 million ha for rare species
Jakarta Post, 10 August 2010 | The government plans to set aside 30 million hectares of protected forests for habitats for endangered species in order to prevent their extinction. Forestry Ministry Zulkifli Hasan warned that the shrinking number of rare species, such as the Sumatran tiger, the Javanese rhinoceros and the orangutan was due to habitat infringement by private companies and local communities. The minister said the government would also allocate 43 million hectares of primary forest for the rare species. "Primary forests cannot be converted; they should be declared a buffer area," Zulkifli said as quoted by Antara news network on Monday. He said that in 2005, the government had established 535 forest and marine conservation areas. "But, the management of nine of the conservation areas has been handed over to the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry," he said.
11 August 2010
Palm oil giant gets mixed score in green audit
Daily Times, 11 August 2010 | Indonesian palm oil giant PT SMART Tbk on Tuesday got a mixed score card in an environmental audit, leaving in doubt whether key buyers including Unilever will renew contracts with the firm. Both SMART, which is part of Singapore-listed Golden Agri-Resources, and leading critic Greenpeace claimed victory after the audit said SMART had not destroyed primary forest but had planted in greenhouse gas-rich peat lands. The bitter dispute shows the difficulties for Indonesia of spurring economic growth and slashing emissions as the world's top palm producer eyes hungry Asian consumers and eco-conscious Westerners for an oil used to make biscuits and biodiesel.
Expat Communications, 11 August 2010 | Q3: REDD would most likely involve making forest conservation more profitable for loggers and agri-business for them to be on board. In your opinion, how big of a challenge would this be in the Philippines? Where can long-term funding for this purpose come from? A3: It will take an estimated 280 years for the Philippines to reforest its denuded forest lands if we will depend on the national budget appropriation to DENR as the sole source of funds for this purpose. This is why we are hoping that an international agreement on REDD will be ratified as early as possible so that national forest management funds will be supplemented. Based on current international discussions on REDD, these funds should come from developed countries under the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.
What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis
By Jeff Conant, Toward Freedom, 11 August 2010 | One of the controversial topics in the UN climate negotiations, hotly contested in Cochabamba and denounced outright by many segments of the climate justice movement, is the program called Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). REDD seeks to reward governments, companies, or forest owners in the South for keeping their forests standing, to act as carbon sinks, instead of cutting them down. Liberal NGOs tend to support the essentially corporate REDD program because it provides a mechanism for protecting forests. But this mechanism also provides polluting industries with the right to continue polluting. In addition, REDD's version of "forest protection" may well be one of the largest land grabs in history. Tom Goldtooth, director of the U.S.-based Indigenous Environmental Network, calls REDD "a corruption of the sacred." Forests, especially for those who live in them, are not mere carbon sinks.
REDD market needs regulatory certainty – experts
Carbon Finance, 11 August 2010 | A leading forestry expert says the regulations around reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) must be more certain if the market is to move forward. Speaking on a webinar hosted by Carbon Finance on Friday, Jan Fehse, head of forestry services at project developer EcoSecurities, said the lack of a regulatory framework for REDD is holding the market back. Without a formalised REDD regime, he said, there is limited 'pre-compliance' interest from emitters hoping to use REDD credits to meet future regulatory obligations. Meanwhile the "fickle" voluntary market remains small and at the whims of the "trends and flavours of the day". Fehse said both US legislation and UN processes have important implications for REDD's future. "What we need is a proper bill now. One that has support from both camps," he said of the struggle to introduce federal climate change legislation in the US.
12 August 2010
Hundreds of Brazilian Indians gather for protest
Survival International, 12 August 2010 | Hundreds of Brazilian Indians from across the country are gathering to highlight the killing of their leaders, the theft of their land for industrial projects, and other threats to their survival. Around 800 Indians representing many of Brazil's 233 tribes are expected to attend the protest, from 16- 20 August. The rally is being held in Mato Grosso do Sul state, south of the Amazon, to draw attention to the critical situation faced by the indigenous peoples of that state, especially the Guarani Indians. The Guarani's lands have been stolen to make way for cattle ranches and sugarcane plantations, and the Guarani have one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Terra Global Capital's VCS Mosaic REDD Methodology Completes the First Validation
Terra Global Capital, Press Release, 12 August 2010 | Developed by Terra Global Capital, LLC in partnership with Community Forestry International, the pioneering Mosaic REDD methodology submitted to the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) has completed the first of two required validations. The methodology, designed to support the development of a REDD project in the Oddar Meanchey province of northwestern Cambodia, was supported by the Cambodia Forestry Administration, Pact, and the Children's Development Association, with validation funding provided by the Clinton Climate Initiative. The quantification of carbon credits from mosaic-type REDD projects as developed in the methodology present unique challenges.
Female Paramount Chief to Attend COP16 In Cancun, Mexico
Daily Observer, 12 August 2010 | Mr. Christopher Z. Neyor made the recommendation on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, when he formally launched the one-day National Stakeholders REDD Workshop organized by the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and supported by Fauna and Flora International (FFI) with funding from NORAD. Mr. Neyor also read an excerpt from a letter written by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to Norway on Liberia's plan for REDD R-PP by October, 2010. The conference was held on the theme, "Sharing Lessons Learned/Best Practices on REDD+ Development in Liberia." PC Jelley, who represented the residents of Juarzon District at the National Stakeholders conference also called on the Government of Liberia and the partners of REDD+ initiatives to involve opinion leaders of every community in the country whenever environmental issues concerning land vis-à-vis climate change is being discussed.
Brazil: New Forestry Code = The Right to Deforestation?
By Thiana Biondo, Global Voices, 12 August 2010 | Lou Gold, an American environmentalist based in the state of Acre in Brazil, analyzes how the Brazilian situation resembles that in other countries such as the US, where "development has already destroyed 90% of its original primary forestland". Gold explains how an ad campaign in the US has influenced the effort to dilute Brazil's forestry code: "Unfortunately, an NGO-inspired ad campaign targeting US farm support for REDD payments in the energy ("climate change") bill claimed that an end to tropical deforestation would mean more profits in the US. The ad stupidly said, "Farms Here, Forests There" and this was used in Brazil to mobilize support for WEAKENING the Forest code. Avoided Deforestation Partners scurried to produce a second report claiming that halting deforestation would also benefit Brazilian farmers but the damage was done."
Indonesia forest moratorium to stymie palm oil firms
BY Janeman Latul and Neil Chatterjee, Reuters, 12 August 2010 | Indonesia's plans to halt forest clearing will slow the aggressive expansion of plantation firms in the world's top palm oil producer, leading to higher costs as firms will need acquisitions or improved yields to boost growth. The two-year moratorium on new permits to clear natural forest from 2011 will increase land prices, pushing some to consider following industry leader Wilmar in expanding overseas to Africa or to diversify into food crops… Analysts said firms with a lack of land reserves such as Jakarta's biggest listed planter PT Astra Agro Lestari risk slower profit growth and reduced market share, while smaller players such as Gozco Plantation may be forced to merge or become takeover targets.
13 August 2010
REDD project design method gets boost from auditor
By David Fogarty, Reuters, 13 August 2010 | A carbon accounting technique aimed at saving tropical forests has passed a key hurdle, strengthening chances it could underpin development of a potential multi-billion dollar market for forest carbon offsets. U.S. firm Terra Global Capital said the method had passed the first of two formal audits the benchmark Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) requires. When fully verified, it could be used in a U.N.-backed carbon-cutting scheme known as reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). "The methodology is expected to be broadly applicable where mosaic patterns of deforestation occur throughout Southeast Asia and Africa," Leslie Durschinger, founder and managing director of Terra Global Capital, said in a statement. Her firm offers finance and advisory services for REDD projects.
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Liberia's Readiness
By Saki T. Golafale, Urias's Blog, 13 August 2010 | A one day national stakeholders conference on lessons learned and best practices on REDD development in Liberia was recently held in Monrovia, Liberia on the 10th of August, 2010. The conference, which was organized by the REDD technical working group in Liberia, supported by FFI (Fauna & Flora International) and funded by NORAD, brought together important stakeholders currently engaged in the REDD initiative at the international, national, county, and local community levels. The conference covered various thematic areas including forest management, community consultation and participation, policy development and resource management and planning as well as benefit sharing and governance. Besides REDD, REDD+ was also considered.
Women must benefit from REDD: Experts
Kathmandu Post, 13 August 2010 | There is a need to ensure benefits for the rural women of developing countries including Nepal from Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), a carbon-cutting scheme backed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), experts said… Speaking at a two-day workshop on 'Gender in Climate Change and REDD' on Friday, Jeannette D. Gurung, director of Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, said, this new carbon-financing mechanism should reward the women for their stewardship in natural resource conservation particularly forest management in Nepal.
RI, Norway meet next week to discuss deforestation
By Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta Post, 13 August 2010 | Negotiators from Indonesia and Norway will meet in Jakarta next week to discuss the implementation of a bilateral climate deal to combat deforestation in Indonesia, the highest in the world with more than 1 million hectares destroyed per year. The meeting, to be held from Aug. 18 to Aug. 19, will highlight plans to set up institutions on financing, REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) and MRV (measuring, verifying and reporting) systems, to implement the letter of intent (LoI) signed in May. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's special assistant on climate change, Agus Purnomo, said the talks would translate points of the LoI into a working plan to implement the deal. "It is likely the first disbursement of about US$30 million will be agreed after the UN General Assembly meeting in September [in New York]," he said at his office Thursday.
14 August 2010
Gillard launches carbon credit scheme for farmers
ABC News, 14 August 2010 | Prime Minister Julia Gillard has visited a farm on the New South Wales north coast to launch a new climate change initiative. On the farm near Ballina in the marginal Labor seat of Page, Ms Gillard announced that if re-elected, Labor will spend $46 million setting up a scheme that would allow farmers to sell carbon credits that they earn from progressive farming practices. They could attract credits by planting trees, applying fertiliser more efficiently or by planting crops without tilling the soil. Ms Gillard says farmers could earn $500 million over the next decade by selling their credits on the international market. "The carbon credits can be traded internationally. What does this mean? Less carbon in our atmosphere and more carbon credits for farmers," she said.
GEF Africa sustainable forestry fund
By Tom Minney, African Capital Markets News, 14 August 2010 | British development finance institution, CDC (www.cdcgroup.com) has committed US$50 million to the GEF Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund (GASFF), the first private equity fund to focus solely on sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa. The fund is to be run by the investment team of Global Environment Fund (GEF) which has a long history of investing in sectors that make a positive impact on the environment and quality of life. It is a pioneering investment to help develop and grow businesses in Africa's expanding forestry sector and bring jobs to those communities, as well as broader potential ecological benefits… GASFF is managed by John Earhart, one of the creators of the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC), and Ole Sand, who joined GEF from the forest investment team at the International Finance Corporation.
15 August 2010
Indonesian Logging Moratorium Causes Contention Ahead of Talks
Eliswan Azly, Jakarta Globe, 15 August 2010 | Indonesian and Norwegian negotiators will meet in Jakarta this week to discuss the implementation of a bilateral climate deal to combat deforestation in Indonesia, but the possibility that a moratorium will be agreed upon at the meeting has drawn mixed reactions. Miners in particular have strongly objected to a possible two-year moratorium on forest clearing, while environmentalists have support the idea as a concrete measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Global warming: Aussie group to work with S'wak tribal leaders
Free Malaysia Today, 15 August 2010 | Nine tribal leaders in Sarawak have signed an agreement with an Australian based grouping to certify carbon credits under the avoided deforestation program known as REDD+. The agreement with the Indigenous Customary Land Owners of Sarawak will see Shift2Neutral, a grouping of individuals and companies committed to a sustainable future, work directly with the tribal leaders to achieve realistic change and ensure the protection of their native flora and fauna… "We believe this can be achieved with benefits to the local stakeholders. "We must recognize the rights of indigenous peoples and the local communities involved," the [Shift2Neutral] spokesman said adding that "the total land area involved for the first phase alone more than 100,000 hectares or endangered forest."
U.S. Cancels Some of Brazil's Debt in Exchange For Forest Protection
By Daniel Kessler, TreeHugger, 15 August 2010 | If only Visa treated my debt the way the U.S. is treating debt from developing countries. On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that it will cancel debt from Brazil in exchange for forest protection. The U.S. has done the same for Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and the Philippines. Deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global warming emissions, making zero deforestation a priority in places like Brazil and Indonesia, which rank third and fourth for GHG emissions, respectively. In total, the U.S. will cancel $21 million of Brazil's debt in exchange for protection of the Amazon. This won't cancel all Brazil's debt payments, but it will lesson them over the next five years.


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I can't tell you how many times I've come across writers who say, "I stopped writing poetry because I wasn't good enough." Why is this annoying? Well, not only is it unnecessarily self-deprecating but because it suggests that poetry is a form of writing elevated above all others, and that fiction, essays, scripts, or whatever, are somehow easier to write than poetry—a ridiculous notion, at best. You could say that perhaps what these writers mean when they say this is not that poetry is inherently more difficult to write than fiction, but that it was simply more difficult for them to master than fiction, or whatever, was, that they are not elevating one form over another. This might, in some cases, be true. Nevertheless, these asides often read or feel to me like some kind of surrender to a romantic definition of a poet, that is, that a poet is some kind of fiery pyre of passion, and not just a slob like the rest us slogging our way with words, hacking away at hackneyed phrases, whittling away the waste, worrying over every word. I can't even look at the mainstream magazine Poets and Writers and not laugh at how the title distinguishes poets from writers.
John Madera's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.


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The Packers are stumbling at the wrong time, facing the Vikings on the road on Christmas Eve they will watch the Division slip away as Daunte Culpepper out guns Brett Favre.
The Chiefs offense is firing on all cylinders unfortunately their defense is still getting burnt on every play look for the Chiefs to win but f0or it to be a hard fought shoot out.
Titans QB Bill Volek and WR Drew Bennett are on fire if only their defense can hold a team under 30 they may actually win. This week they actually do as the Broncos collapse continues.
After playing well against the Steelers the Giants go to Cincinnati and struggle as the Bengals keep their hopes of a .500 season alive by handing the Giants their 8th straight loss.
The Lions cant win for losing last week after a great rally that would have tied the game the Lions blew the snap on the extra point. This week look for them to suffer a little hang over as they struggle to beat the injured Bears.
The streaking Chargers run into a brick wall named Manning as the Colts expose weaknesses all over the 11-3 Western Division Champions as Peyton gets 3 TDs to reach 50.
The Jaguars last week went into the frozen tundra and came out a winner, this week at home they have to be weary of a letdown as the Texans will give them a fight, before the Jags pull it out in the final minutes.
The Saints have new life after stunning the Cowboys and Buccaneers in consecutive weeks, look for them to continue to stay alive as they beat the Falcons who will see little or no Michael Vick.
The Steelers looking to avenge their only loss on the season take apart the Ravens slowly but surely as they clinch Home Field throughout the playoffs.
The Buccaneers, who may have let their last hope for the playoffs slip out of their hands last week, complicate the NFC clouded playoff chase further by knocking off the Panthers at home.
Coming off a stunning Monday Night loss to the Dolphins find no easy road back to winning as they suffer their second straight loss to the Jets, who have not allowed any points after halftime in 7 of 14 games this season.
The Bills are red hot the 49ers are dreadful, but face it the Bills are due for a letdown and they suffer it as the 49ers erase any hopes of the Bills slipping into the playoffs, as the injury to Willis McGahee leads to several mistakes from Drew Bledsoe.
The last time the Redskins played well in Dallas was when Joe Gibbs had his first tenure. Look for the Cowboys to stick it to their rivals again.
The Seahawks avoid a second loss to the Cardinals by actually showing up for a change as they look to keep control of the dreadful NFC West.
The Dolphins have been terrible all year but they give an honest effort every week, and it rewarded them with a win over the Patriots on Monday. The Browns might as well already be on vacation because they have not even tried in weeks.
The Eagles looking to prove they can win without TO put up a solid Monday Night effort against the fading Rams as Mike Martz makes St. Louis fans scratch their heads raw.


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Ain't no pregnancy like a Blake Lively pregnancy.
Ever since news spread in April that the actress is expecting her second child with husband Ryan Reynolds, fans of the style sweetheart have been waiting to catch a glimpse of her stunning pregnancy style.
Now, they Cannes. Lively appeared for a photo call at the French film festival Tuesday in a breathtaking red jumpsuit by Juan Carlos Obando with silver Louboutins and the loveliest, daintiest jewelry:
The 28-year-old appeared alongside her "Cafe Society" director Woody Allen and co-star Kristen Stewart, who also looked lovely in a Chanel outfit and blonde locks.
But it was Lively who really stole the show, floating around like a Grecian goddess as if to say, "Yes, I know how good pregnancy looks on me."
Lively documented her trip to the festival on social media, sharing a glimpse of looks to come as well as her very own "Wizard of Oz" moment:
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Media: Is Ebony Magazine Up for Sale?
For 50 years, the Ebony Fashion Fair has been a glamorous social event in dozens of U.S. communities. The traveling fashion show has raised $55 million in college scholarships for African-American students. But this year the company behind the show, Johnson Publishing which publishes Ebony, pulled the plug on the event, citing lack of corporate sponsorship due to the recession. "This is devastating to us," Ann Lee, publicity chairwoman for the Charmettes, a civic group that staged the event in Broward County, Fla., told The Miami Herald.
It's been a year of excruciating decisions for publishing companies—layoffs, pullbacks, closures. Now it appears Johnson Publishing's chairman and CEO, Linda Johnson Rice, has reached what must have been an agonizing decision: Johnson Publishing is seeking a buyer or investor for its flagship publication, Ebony, in an effort aimed at securing the survival of the nation's oldest magazine devoted to African-American life. It's unclear whether the company's other properties, including Jet, would be part of a possible sale.
According to media and investment executives familiar with the developments, Chicago-based Rice, the daughter of Ebony's legendary founder, the late John H. Johnson, has approached, among others, Time Inc., Viacom, and private investors that include buyout firms. Time Inc., the world's largest periodical publisher, already owns Essence, a monthly lifestyle, beauty, and fashion magazine for African-American women. Viacom, meanwhile, owns BET (Black Entertainment Television).
Nothing has yet resulted from any of Johnson Publishing's overtures, however. And it's unclear whether negotiations are underway between the publishing company and any of the identified parties or other potential rescuers.
Time Inc. declined to comment, as did Viacom. "Your facts are incorrect with respect to Time Inc. and Viacom," a spokeswoman for Johnson Publishing said. Johnson Publishing likely made its overtures through the media giants' properties, NEWSWEEK's sources indicate. They also declined to elaborate much beyond acknowledging, on condition of not being named, that they were aware of Johnson's efforts. According to one top magazine executive, Johnson Publishing is requiring potential bidders to sign a confidentiality agreement to access the company's financial information, a standard practice in the dealmaking world.
One publishing executive familiar with the situation said that Rice, given the magazine's historical significance and its deep roots in her family, hopes to remain an integral part of it. This suggests she prefers to woo a partner rather than sell the magazine outright. In any case, a purchase by a mainstream media company or publisher—a move that would end African-American control—might cause a stir in some quarters of the African-American community, as was the case with Viacom's acquisition of BET. And Ebony's woes would appear to dash hopes that African-American-owned or -oriented media would see a big lift in the marketplace with the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president. Ebony landed the first post-election print interview with the president-elect and his wife. Rice is a close member of the Obamas' Chicago social circle.
The economic downturn has killed off scores of magazines, including such prominent titles as Condé Nast Portfolio and Domino, while forcing others onto the auction block, including BusinessWeek. But the historic Ebony has fared worse than average amid the industry's woes. In fact, Ebony's advertising pages and ad revenues have declined in each of the last three years, even during periods when the industry was flat to positive. Among the 243 magazines tracked by the Publishers Information Bureau, ad pages plunged an average of 28 percent, with revenues falling by 21 percent, in the first half of 2009 compared with the same period a year earlier. But Ebony's decline was sharper, as advertising dived almost 35 percent, dragging revenues down almost 32 percent, to $18.8 million from 2008's $27.7 million. And the deterioration of Jet magazine, Ebony's sister publication, was even more severe—about 40 percent in ad pages and revenues.
And according to industry tracker Media Industry Newsletter, things have only turned grimmer for Ebony since the first half. Total ad pages sank by 40 percent this year through the October issue, now on newsstands and featuring Whitney Houston on the cover, compared with 2008's January–October editions. The company is "in big, big trouble," a publishing executive close to the developments told NEWSWEEK. "It's a sad thing, because they are so important to [African-American] communities."
In 1942, with a $500 loan collateralized with his mother's furniture, John Johnson launched what would become the world's largest African-American-owned publishing company. Three years later he began publishing Ebony, which changed the face of publishing and media merely by its existence and mission. "Ebony," Johnson once said, "was founded to project a dimension of the black personality in a world saturated with stereotypes. We wanted to give blacks a new sense of somebodiness, a new sense of self-respect." Covers graced with positive images of African-American celebrities and politicians are a staple of the magazine, as are articles extolling African-American achievement. Johnson, who died in 2005, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.


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Armor Type: Cloth – Uncommon
Level Req.: 37 for Robe (85 with extras)
Source: Crafted/BoE & BoP drops
Availability: Mostly easy to obtain
3D Model: Wowhead Link
How to get the set:
The Black Mageweave Robe is a BoE crafted by tailors with 210+ skill.
There are infact several robes with the same appearance as the Black Mageweave Robe, as listed at the bottom of this article, but the Black Mageweave is probably the easiest of them to obtain.
Two variations of extra items to match the robe are listed below.
Extras (Human):
Head – Wicked Witch's Hat (BoP drop from The Crone after the Wizard of Oz Opera event in Karazhan)
Shoulders – Opulent Mantle (BoE world drop)
Back – Chief Brigadier Cloak (BoE world drop)
Hands – Vicious Fireweave Gloves (BoE crafted by Tailors of 520+ skill)
Waist – Vicious Fireweave Belt (BoE crafted by Tailors of 510+ skill)
Feet – Vicious Fireweave Boots (BoE crafted by Tailors of 515+ skill)
One-Hand Dagger – Curved Dagger (BoE world drop)
Off-Hand – Slavehandler Rod (BoE world drop from Outland zones/instances)
Alternative Extras (Worgen):
Head – Frostwoven Cowl (BoE crafted by Tailors of 380+ skill)
Shoulders – Regal Mantle (BoE world drop)
Waist – Flowing Sash Order (BoP drop from Loken in heroic Halls of Lightning)
One-Hand Dagger – Warp Splinter's Thorn (BoP drop from Warp Splinter in normal and heroic Botanica)
Off-Hand – Duskwoven Branch (BoE world drop)
Alternative Robes:
The Black Mageweave robe has a flared sleeve model, as with the following three robes:
Auchenai Anchorite's Robe
Freezing Lich Robes (No longer available)
Robe of Everlasting Night
The following two robes have the same overall appearance as the above, but with closed sleeve cuffs:
Master's Robe
Netherweave Robe


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Compiled using Code::Blocks 13.12 in Ubuntu 14: Build options -> Linker Settings (Other Linker Options): -lGL -lGLU -lglut Properties -> Build Targets (Type): GUI Application
The following code changes and additions are based off the code posted in Movement using OpenGL/Glut.
New defines, structures, and global variables added.
#define SPACEBAR 32 #define MAX_BULLET_ON_SCREEN 8 #define MAX_VELO_BULLET 5 typedef struct { int active; double x, y, dx, dy, bullet_phi; } Bullet; static int shoot = 0; static Bullet bullets[MAX_BULLET_ON_SCREEN];
Addition to void keyboard()
The keyboard() function needed a way to handle the spacebar key input from the player to fire projectiles. It then sets the shoot variable to true (1 in this case), which will be used in moveBullet() to start the firing bullet process.
case KEY_SPACEBAR: shoot = 1; break;
Addition to void myTimer()
myTimer() only needed one modification to it and that was to call the moveBullet().
void myTimer (int value) { movePlayer(); moveBullet(); checkMapBoundries(); glutPostRedisplay(); glutTimerFunc(33, myTimer, value); /* 30 frames per second */ }
New function added – moveBullet();
This is the core of the new functionality for firing a projectile (bullet). When the player presses the spacebar, shoot is set to 1 (or true). As myTimer() is calling moveBullet() is it checking to see if shoot is enabled. If shoot is enabled the function is allowed to progress further, where we check our bullets[] array. Checking through the bullets[] array we are to see if there are any inactive bullets that can be set as active. Once a bullet is able to become active it is then give some properties.
The properties the bullet receives are the current players rotation. The rotation is used to rotate our triangle looking bullet to look like it firing in the right direction. Furthermore, the bullet is given a velocity with the dx and dy values. player.phi is used to fire the bullet in the players current rotation. bullets[i].bullet_phi could be used instead of player.phi; however, I thought it was better to use the player.phi just in case the ordering ever got changed.
Once the calculations are done shoot is set back to 0 (false).
/** * Bullets */ void moveBullet () { int i = 0; // Give the bullets velocity if shoot is true. if (shoot == 1) { for(i = 0; i < MAX_BULLET_ON_SCREEN; i++) { if(bullets[i].active == 0) { bullets[i].active = 1; bullets[i].x = player.x; bullets[i].y = player.y; bullets[i].bullet_phi = player.phi; bullets[i].dx = -MAX_VELO_BULLET * sin(player.phi); bullets[i].dy = MAX_VELO_BULLET * cos(player.phi); break; } } // Resets shoot key to prevent rapid fire shoot = 0; } /* Advance bullets and eliminating those that have gone past * the window boundaries */ for(i = 0; i < MAX_BULLET_ON_SCREEN; i++) { if(bullets[i].active == 1) { bullets[i].x = bullets[i].x + bullets[i].dx; bullets[i].y = bullets[i].y + bullets[i].dy; } //Bullet Boundries/ Destory bullet outside boundries if(bullets[i].active == 1 && (bullets[i].x > win.width || bullets[i].x < 0 || bullets[i].y > win.height || bullets[i].y < 0)) { bullets[i].active = 0; } } } // end moveBullet()
Changes to void display()
This function checks to see if the maximum number of bullets are on screen, if the maximum number is not met then the player is able to fire more bullets. When shoot is fire it enables an bullet in the array, this function goes through the array checking which bullets are active and draws the active bullets.
/** * The display callback handles exposure events and is called whenever the display must be refreshed. * Values can be passed to the display callback function only by means of global variables. */ void display () { int i = 0; glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); // Clear Screen and Depth Buffer glLoadIdentity(); glTranslatef(0.0f,0.0f,-3.0f); drawPlayer(&player); // Draws the bullets on screen when they are active for (i = 0; i < MAX_BULLET_ON_SCREEN; i++) { if (bullets[i].active) { drawBullet(&bullets[i]); } } glutSwapBuffers(); }
Additional function added – drawBullet()
This function is used in the same way the drawPlayer() function is. It is used for drawing the bullets on the screen and the passed in Bullet pointer is used for determining where the bullet should be fired from and it's angle.
void drawBullet (Bullet *b) { glLineWidth(0.5); glColor3f(myRandom(0.7,1.0), 0.0f, 0.0f); glPushMatrix(); myTranslate2D(b->x, b->y); myRotate2D(b->bullet_phi); myScale2D(1.0f, 1.0f); glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES); glVertex3f( 0.0f , 2.0f , 0.0f); // Top glVertex3f(-1.0f , -1.0f , 0.0f); // Bottom Left glVertex3f( 1.0f , -1.0f , 0.0f); // Bottom Right glEnd(); glPopMatrix(); }


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We have just published the PowerPack which we will be using internally to score each entry submitted to the PowerPack Challenge 2008.
Import the pack, browse to the location of your powerpack file, and it will give you the score as well as the list of elements it counted (the score is basically the number of tree nodes, links and actions in your pack).
This score is the key to your success. Basically if you get the highest scores for the packs you submit you can walk away with the $500 prize in your pocket (well, actually you can get even more because there are 3 prizes in each of the two sprints – see the rules on this page.)
The rules are pretty simple and now with the scoring pack freely available you are totally in control of your destiny! The first packs are already starting to appear in the PowerPack Challenge folder of the PowerGUI library. Time to take the challenge! 😉
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Following the success of last years return to rock, playing two shows in Germany and just one in the UK, it seems that guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore will be back with RAINBOW to play four UK shows in 2017.
Though not officially announced as yet, the venue websites all have dates and booking information displayed. Tickets are due to gon sale on Thursday 8th December. The dates and venues are as follows:
- Saturday 17th June 2017 – Stone Free Festival London O2 Arena
- Thursday 22nd June 2017 Manchester Arena
- Sunday 25th June 2017 Glasgow SSE Hydro
- Wednesday 28th June Birmingham Genting Arena
According to the above websites, the band line-up will be the same as last year, with Bob Nouveau on bass, Blackmore Nights' drummer David Keith, Stratovarius's keyboardist Jens Johansson and LORDS OF BLACK singer, Ronnie Romero. Support will come from MOSTLY AUTUMN again.
RAINBOW formed in 1975, and had a variety of line-ups, with Blackmore as the only consistent member. The band has sold over 28 million albums worldwide, had hit singles, such as 'All Night Long', and 'Since You Been Gone', and were ranked No. 90 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band disbanded in 1984, only to reform again between 1993-1997.


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Since Austin and San Antonio apparently face no real challenges, the elected leaders of both cities have decided that the best use of their time on Thursday morning is to extend the utterly absurd bickering over whose tacos are better into a stunt. At the Austin downtown Hilton, San Antonio's Mayor Ivy Taylor and Austin's Mayor Steve Adler will taste-test each other's tacos in an event they've called the Taco Summit, and the lives of all citizens of both cities will surely be improved by it.
This is—and has been—a weird fight since the jump. It all started after an essay on Eater Austin claimed that Austin was the "home" of the breakfast taco, based on the claim that the term "breakfast taco"—a plain descriptor more than an actual name—came from the city that many tourists are more familiar with than points farther south where the dish actually originated. (Even that claim is dubious, since "breakfast taco" is literally what anybody might call a taco they're eating for breakfast.)
At any rate, the author of the Eater post was dressed down in a hilarious Change.org petition demanding he be reeducated on tacos in San Antonio. The entire matter ought to have been settled there, with the goofiness of ignoring San Antonio and South Texas when discussing breakfast tacos appropriately ridiculed. But for some reason Adler decided to weigh in, delivering a speech laden with purple prose about the "breakfast taco war" he was waging against San Antonio.
"I come to you this morning with some grave news," he told a group of hundreds of University of Texas volunteers during the opening ceremony to the school's largest community service event of the year.
"The city of Austin is currently at war with San Antonio over a subject that I know we all hold dear in our hearts. That, of course, is breakfast tacos."
"Now some may look out at you and see 1,500 shining examples of volunteerism and virtue, but I see something greater," he told the crowd of student volunteers. "I see our army in a war against San Antonio. As your commander in chief for the Breakfast Taco War, it is my solemn duty to inform you that after you have selflessly given of yourselves, I will be drafting you into the Great Breakfast Taco War of 2016."
For her part, Taylor responded simply that "Austin has nothing on San Antonio" when it came to tacos—until news of the summit broke this week, anyway.
Although it's fun to opine that our civic leaders should be working nonstop to solve challenges like affordability, growth, disputes with technology and business leaders, and more, there's nothing actually wrong with the two mayors getting some publicity for eating tacos together on a Thursday morning. (Sounds fun!) But it is weird that Adler is still engaged in this fight. Eater's claims are indisputably wrong—the city is not the "home" of the breakfast taco anymore than it's the "home" of barbecue, sushi, Detroit-style pizza, cupcakes, or any other food with origins that can be traced elsewhere (in the case of the breakfast taco, probably to Corpus Christi). For Adler to continue pitching this fight looks a little bit like an endorsement of the cultural appropriation at work in the original Eater essay.
That said, the tone of the discussion has been weird too. Specifically, much of the discussion has centered around how white, "hipster central" Austin has no legitimate claim on the breakfast taco—and while hipster-bashing has been a fun family activity for well over a decade now, it's also an argument that threatens to erase people who've been serving up breakfast tacos in Austin for generations. Certainly spots run by, say, white chefs who toss out free tacos to anybody who picks up a ukulele wouldn't have a legit claim to the legacy of the breakfast taco (and, it's worth noting, those folks seem to have stayed well clear of this whole farce). But Austin's population is 35 percent Latino, and its dining landscape features countless restaurants that serve up breakfast tacos—and have been doing so since well before SXSW started up or the word "hipster" was coined. There's something gross about reducing those people and their culinary work to "white hipsters" because we're mad at some dude who wrote an essay, or because we don't understand why Adler is still defending the issue.
Hopefully all of this gets squared away at the Taco Summit, and the two mayors can announce a taco truce. Adler can say that he recognizes that people were wrapping eggs and potatoes or bacon or whatever they prefer in tortillas in the morning way before Tacodeli opened its doors, and Taylor can shout out the legacy of Austin breakfast taco institutions like Tamale House—and all taco-related matters will be settled on the lower stretch of I-35.


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Bell bats on for a century to put the hosts in control.
Having saved England from a position of 51-3 with a healthy partnership, Kevin Pietersen's impatience saw the batsman caught off the bowling of Australia's Nathan Lyon just after tea.
Ian Bell was joined by Jonny Bairstow at the crease and the Warwickshire man continued his good form this series by creeping towards a century with skilful shots.
Bell reached his 100 and although Bairstow edged a ball from Lyon to be caught behind, Tim Bresnan acted as nightwatchman to see the hosts finish the day at 234-5, with Bell 105 not-out and the Three Lions taking the advantage into day four.


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Call it rust. Call it a post-ACC Tournament hangover. Whatever the case, the Tar Heels had their issues against #4 seeded Canisius but held on for a 6-3 to open NCAA Tournament play.
Thing started out well enough with the Heels posting a three run first inning on doubles from Brian Holberton and Cody Stubbs. The Heels added another in the 2nd to stake a 4-1 lead. However sophomore starter Benton Moss continued to struggle as his control simply wasn't there. Moss worked just 4.1 innings giving up three earned runs, three walks while also hitting two batters. Moss' only clean inning was the fourth but in the fifth he walked a batter then hit the next one to put a pair on with one out. Chris McCue relieved Moss and promptly gave up a single then threw a wild pitch bring Canisius within a run. Despite the issues in the 6th, McCue settled down to post scoreless frames in the seventh and eighth.
Mike Fox then turned the game over to freshman closer Trent Thornton. After striking out the first batter he faced, Thornton loaded the bases on a pair of singles and yet another hit batter before getting two strike outs to end the threat. The Heels plated a pair of runs in the bottom of the 8th to give Thornton a cushion he really didn't need. Thornton would go on to strike out the side in the 9th to send the Heels into the winner's bracket.
Ideally, UNC would have loved to have gotten more innings out of Moss who has not been sharp since pitching eight scoreless innings at Georgia Tech in mid-May. If the Heels advance to the super regional, Moss will need to find his control. The pitching in general was a little off but sufficient to get out of trouble causing Canisius to strand 14 runners over the course of the game. UNC also made several blunders on the base paths with two runners thrown out at the plate and it very much looked like a team that was maybe a little out of kilter. To what extent UNC's marathon games at the ACC Tournament had an impact is anyone's guess. Ultimately the only thing that matters is North Carolina won the game.
UNC will face the #3 seed Towson on Saturday at 6 PM with Tar Heel ace Kent Emanuel trying to put North Carolina in the proverbial cat-bird seat.


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Siam Benzoin Absolute 50% in Alcohol
Benzoin is great for adding a balsamic background to any oil. Lots of people consider it Sun, and it is wonderful for any sort of purification, but it definitely has a role to play in love oils and it is the scent associated with Netzach (Venus) on the Tree of Life according to the Golden Dawn tradition as well. Benzoin helps build up confidence and restores a sense of calm well-being, as if characteristic for this scent family. This is an absolute extracted from Styrax tonkinensis in Laos and diluted 50% with undenatured perfumers alcohol. Remember that a 50% dilution of an absolute means it is five times as strong as an essential oil, since absolutes are usually diluted to 10%, so use this in small amounts. It tends to acquire a medicinal undertone if used in too large amounts anyhow. Top
Combining With Other Essential Oils
Benzoin's sweet vanilla scent blends well with aloeswood, allspice, amber, ambrette, amyris, angelica root, bay leaf, beeswax absolute, bois de rose, cananga, cardamom, cassia bark, cistus, clove bud, cocoa, costus root, elemi, fir balsam, fir needle, galangal, galbanum, guaiac wood, gurjun balsam, heliotrope, western hemlock, juniper berry, labdanum, mint, muhuhu, myrrh, nutmeg, orris, patchouli, peru balsam, pine needle, raspberry, rose, rosemary, sandalwood, spruce, tobacco, tolu balsam, tonka, valerian root, vanilla, and vetiver.
Siam Benzoin Absolute 50% in alcohol
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The pledge:
1) Set mental health as one of the three key priorities in the Joint Wandsworth Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
2) Have a Sustainability and Transformation Plan champions children and young peoples' mental health and well-being. We also have a Suicide Prevention Strategy which is driven forward by a multi-agency group.
3) Promote Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) Curriculum.
4) Have increased clinical capacity for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) 0-5 Extended Service.
5) Are starting development of a transition service model for children with neurodevelopmental disorders aged 18-25 years old.
6) Have Community Champions who are trained mental health peer educators, focusing on BME communities.
7) Have suicide prevention training for health and social care workers, voluntary sector and residents.
8) Have Mental Health First Aid Training.
9) Run Physical Activity programmes for people experiencing serious mental illness.
10) Have Family Action mental health support in primary care.
11) Run the Your Way community recovery project which includes mental health reablement and community and peer support.
12) Are taking forward programmes to raise awareness within communities which find it challenging to acknowledge mental health issues.
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AP&R: Bubblegum grunge, hardcore high jinks and retro game-esque metal
You're welcome: We've made finding new songs by rising bands easy. Each week, we're gathering the best from the underground and offering it to you in one concise AP&R list. Scroll below and check out our Spotify Discover playlist, featuring these tracks and more!
In return, we want to hear your favorite. Let us know what track you'll be spinning for the rest of the week in the comments, or anything you want on the next AP&R!
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1. Color Chemistry – "The Great Nothing"
Houston metal duo Color Chemistry tinker around with tonal patterns of retro video game-inspired melodies. They prove to be much more than a gimmick with symphonic metal elements in "The Great Nothing." Taken from the duo's latest album, A Light Above, this progressive composition is a breath of fresh air. Not to mention it blends anthemic hard rock with neon-bright synths and heavy guitar riffs.
2. UPSAHL – "Wish You'd Make Me Cry"
Joining forces with Ocean Park Standoff's Pete Nappi, UPSAHL vents about a love that's too good to be true in "Wish You'd Make Me Cry." The latest track is highlighted by an abundance of entrancing hooks and bubbly instrumentation. The latest single is a continuation of her lustrous alt-pop triumphs from her debut EP. UPSAHL embarks on tour this August, and you can see full dates here.
3. Windrunner – "Lotus" (Reimagined)
Hailing from Vietnam, Windrunner reimagine "Lotus" with an ambient backdrop. Abandoning the whimsical guitar shreds and unclean vocals from the original, this rendition beautifully slows things down. The focus is instead set on incorporating more melody and urgent harmonics. Their upcoming EP, SEN, is a collection of reimagined songs taken from their 2018 debut album, MAI. SEN drops Aug. 23 via Famined Records.
4. LURK – "Electro-Shock"
Chicago-based punks LURK officially signed to Pure Noise Records and released a new EP, Electro-Shock. Their titular track of the same name is a short outburst of the band's rousing energy. Starting out with a booming drum beat, the song builds into a shouty verse that veers into a punching chorus. LURK are hitting the road for a small run of tour dates, with more information here.
5. Smooth Moves – "Severed"
Coming on like Slayer speed, Smooth Moves' new single violently thrashes with its metal-inspired guitar riffage and gritty hardcore beatdowns. It's all brought together with raw production that complements the band's nonstop stamina. "Severed" is short and sweet with unrelenting vigor and sonic tension.
Read more: AP&R: Rowdy punks, LGBTQ+ metalcore and a glimmer of pristine alt-pop
6. Girl Wilde – "I Don't Wanna Die"
Girl Wilde continues to push her "bubblegum grunge" aesthetic in her new single, "I Don't Wanna Die." The track employs an approach that incorporates overdriven guitar clamors with electropop. The result is a buoyant alt-pop tune that'll keep listeners excited for her next move.
7. The Chats – "Identity Theft"
Gaining viral buzz from the simple three-chord power play of "Smoko," the Australian punk trio's latest single is a promising follow-up. It expands far past their oddball qualities, though. "Identity Theft" is an interesting step up from their quirky garage-punk sound. The band jam their first-world problems away with catchy chants and a shreddy guitar solo.
8. Madtown – "Lucid Vision"
While Madtown's first single proved the band's capability of adrenaline-pumping hardcore, their follow-up "Lucid Vision" incorporates more hooks and melodies to their heaviness. The song inwardly pulls various musical influences to their core with memorable moments of hard-rock catchiness and nü-metal stylings.
9. DUMP HIM – "Dykes To Watch Out For"
The latest single from DUMP HIM makes it clear that they're not messing around. They've had enough of politics, oppression and discrimination against nonbinary groups. The Massachusetts queercore outfit rebel and express their sentiment in a zestful punk tune that radiates with harmonic strains of vocal trade-offs and uptempo grooves.
10. King Of Heck – "Sup Doc"
With a trippy music video parodying The Shining, King Of Heck's "Sup Doc" is an idiosyncratic crossover between emo and psychedelic rock. The shouty vocals kick-start the song with optimism but meet a tonal shift with effect-driven guitars taking over and whirring it into an airy, shoegaze texture.
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The 'New' Collecting Landscape
From the time immediately following WWII until the last few years, the nature of military collecting has followed a generalized path. Collectors gathered whatever they encountered—if the price was "right." During the last decade, that style of collecting has given way, as a new generation becomes the driving force of the hobby.
"If it's green, I collect it"
Following WWII when military collecting emerged as a popular hobby right alongside stamp, coin and gun collecting, the first wave of militaria enthusiasts practiced the "vacuum" approach. They raced each other to antique fairs, flea markets, estate sales and farm auctions to be the first in line. Once inside, their collecting philosophy followed the line of "If it's military and cheap, I will buy it."
These early pickers were important in establishing the foundation of our hobby. They gathered and gathered. Those who weren't full-blown hoarders, decided to mark up some of the stuff they found and began dealing. By the 1950s, small groups of like-minded individuals broke away from the gun and antique show circuit to begin organizing exclusive military shows.
For decades, pickers continued to scour the flea markets, antique shops and sales, vacuuming up any militaria they could find… and it was cheap. They spent hours upon hours, searching for the next score. From their efforts of discovering pieces "in the wild," other collectors were able to pick and choose to assemble serious collections of Civil War, WWI and WWII relics.
Those people, though, who chose a collecting specialty, were few and far between. And even those who did, gave their collections very broad parameters such as "Third Reich," "Civil War" or "Imperial German." Though they consciously set a border on their collecting efforts, the boundaries were just too far-reaching to ever really focus on a collection that could tell a story (other than, "look at all the stuff I have").
In retrospect, it is understandable why these types of collectors dominated the hobby. The supply of items from the gatherers was very high, and prices were relatively low. The need to limit one's collecting efforts was not real pressing, so vast "general" collections developed.
A Change in the Way We Collect
A trend I have witnessed in our hobby (as well as most other antique or relic-based collectibles) has been that of serious collectors steering away from general collections of random gatherings and focusing their efforts on tight, collections with narrow themes and parameters. This new breed of collector places the emphasis on telling a complete story like "U.S. Army Aluminum Canteens," "Bantam's WWII Jeeps" or "Union Army Cavalry Carbines." They scan many offerings looking for missing elements of the story, rather than just randomly searching antique stores or flea markets for something "military."
Of course, there are still those who re-pan the slag heaps of antique malls, flea markets and estate sales (and a few, quite successfully), but the nuggets they find are fast becoming far and few between. One only has to log onto any major collecting forums to witness the flurry of "how'd I do?" posts that turn out to be illustrated with run-of-the-mill, black-capped canteens, OD-7 web belts or handfuls of merrow-edged patches. Don't be misled by the amount of chatter on Internet forums about this sort of pick-and-show. It is just one aspect of the hobby. These gatherers still perform a valuable service to the hobby. They are the guys "down in the mine" still ferreting out the occasional goodies. But the "gold rush" is over… these gatherers are kind of like the grizzled old miner tugging a mule to work over his claim "one more time." They might strike a vein of serious relics like a case of WWI Pershing shoes or a barnyard full of Stuart tanks, but it isn't likely.
Meanwhile, back in the daylight of commerce, the real action has turned from looking for that "vein of relics" to selling the relics that are already in the market. Other than all those relics that spilled onto the market after WWII, there hasn't been a better time for collecting than right now.
Enter the "Specialists"
During the last 10-15 years, the militaria and historic military vehicle trends have been towards "specialization." Many collectors have concluded their time and efforts are better spent developing a collection rather than pounding the antique store circuit or flea markets in the hope of finding a treasure. In order to develop a collection beyond a random gathering of what they stumbled onto at a flea market or antique shop, these specialists realized they had to employ a different collecting method. Rather than randomly hunting, the new path to focused is based on three things: networking, networking and networking.
It so happens, now is a perfect time for this switch in methodology. Those huge hoards of material the first generation assembled are now coming to market as people retire or pass away. The material appears like a tsunami—it might be quiet for weeks or months and then wham! A new collection emerges for sale on a dealer's list or show table. Prices have reached near retail or higher levels, so the collector is forced to pick and choose. This has forced the collector to specialize.
And from this specialization, serious new leaps and bounds have occurred in the understanding of military relics. Whereas a collection in the past might have a couple of Iron Crosses, specialized collectors now have dozens, if not hundreds. They are able to study marks, manufacturing techniques and extrapolate many details that can only be learned through studying many examples side by side.
Probably the first to queue up in the "specialization line" were the British medal collectors. Faced with such an overwhelming selection of medals that were named to the recipients, very few collectors could afford to buy everything they encountered. Over the years, specialization has taken many paths, from the obvious of unit affiliation and combat record to more complex themes revolving around the types of medal or the family name associated with them.
Even in our historic military vehicle (HMV) hobby, rising prices have forced all but the wealthiest to pick and choose what they will include in their stable. Specialized collections of VC Dodges, M37s, WWII Jeeps and even half-tracks and amphibians have emerged. For many, the specialization is limited to just one or two vehicles, but that landscape is changing. In a recent conversation with a prominent dealer, he noted that sales to first-time or one-vehicle owners are way down during this economic downturn. On the other hand, those who can afford multiple vehicle collections are taking advantage of the slow-down to develop specialized collections with depth. Number of vehicles isn't the prestige marker anymore—rather, it's the depth of the story a collection of vehicles can tell. Some specialized collections that I have witnessed include prototype Jeeps, engineering vehicles, M37 variants, CCKW variants, Weasel variants and armor.
If you are serious about collecting militaria or HMVs, now is the time to buy. Because of the reality of attrition among aging collectors combined with a slow economy, some of the best material is coming up for sale—much of it offered to the collecting community for the first time ever.
The key, though, to assembling a valuable collection with meaningful depth, is not spending your time looking for those last few nuggets out in the wild (unless that is what is the thrill for you), but rather, network, network and network. Sign up for dealers' web site updates, go to shows, subscribe to auction catalogs, participate on forums and let people know what it is you collect. Someone isn't probably going to contact you if you say, "I specialize in WWII memorabilia," because that is too broad. But, tell them you are an aggressive buyer of paratrooper helmets or SA daggers in No. 1 condition, and the dealers will recognize that you aren't just a casual, "buy-what's-cheap gather," but rather, a serious, knowledgeable customer. You are much more likely to receive that call or email that begins with, "I have something you might want to add to your collection…"
Forget the Quantity, Pursue the Quality,
John Adams-Graf
Editor, Military Trader and Military Vehicles Magazine


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Chef Bao shows you quick tips on how to make stir fry vegetables or sauteed vegetables, the restaurant style, with simple step by step instructions.
In restaurants, these green beans and eggplant are typically deep-fried in oil. At home, you can cook beans in boiling water 2 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain and rinse under cold running water; then drain.
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Stir Fry Vegetables Recipes
1. Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans
# Ingredients
300g String beans
100g Ground meat
2 cloves Garlic
1/3 cup Dried chili pepper
1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorn
500ml Cooking oil
2 tbsp Cooking oil (For stir-fry)
1 tbsp Soy sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
Cooking wine
# Directions
1. Clean the sting beans. Put them into the large pot with boiling oil. Deep-fry until some wrinkles on the surface. Drain the fried-beans. Set aside.
2. In a large pan with medium-high heat, add some cooking oil, ground meat, minced garlic, minced chili pepper and Sichuan peppercorn. Stir-fry until sauté.
3. In the same pan, add fried-beans, seasoning with salt, pepper and soy sauce. Whisk in some cooking wine. Fry for a while. Transfer to the plate and serve.
2. Stir Fry Eggplant
# Ingredients
1 1/2 cup Potatoes
250g Eggplant
Bell peppers
2 tbsp Scallion
1 clove Garlic
2 tbsp Oyster sauce
1 tbsp Soy sauce
2 tsp White vinegar
2 tbsp Cornstarch
1/3 cup Water
500ml Cooking oil
2 tbsp Cooking oil(For stir-fry)
Salt and pepper to taste
# Directions
1. Chop potatoes and eggplants. Dip the chopped eggplants into vinegar and cornstarch. Set aside.
2. Heat up a large pan to high heat. Add oil. Deep-fry the chopped potatoes. Then add the chopped eggplants. Deep-fry again. Drain the veggies. Set aside.
In the same pan, add chopped bell peppers into colander. Fry for a while. Drain it and set aside.
3. In the same pan, turn down to medium heat. Add minced scallion and minced garlic, whisking in oyster sauce, soy sauce and stir-fry for a while. Pour in some water and cornstarch mixture. Seasoning with salt and pepper.
4. Put the fried veggies back into the pan. Stir-fry for a while and cook well.
5. Enjoy!
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Register for free by July 20 to attend an awesome science communication workshop at Naked City Brewing, July 29!
Money and Drugs: The Problems with Funding in Science
This is a companion piece for my previous post on philanthropists in risky research funding. Private donors can be a blessing for research, but if you're interested in the sorry state of money in biomedical research, here's a more in-depth dive.
Protectors of the Small: Philanthropists for Risky Research
When it comes to funding in science, all bets are off. Philanthropists can fill the gaps neglected by federal funding.
Medicine in ancient art: this 14th century Italian fresco is the first to get leprosy right
"The Triumph of Death" is the first known accurate portrayal of the ancient disease, leprosy.
Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson proves that STEM-friendly public figures aren't limited to politicians
Science hero spotlight! An article in Nat Geo today talks about the efforts of Hawaiian singer-songwriter and environmentalist Jack Johnson to better our planet's health.
What do flu shots and erectile dysfunction have in common?
The answer: cancer therapy. Tumor removal is an invasive and stressful process for the body. After surgery, it's common for some straggling cancer cells to be left behind. With one's system in such a vulnerable state, the body's immune system often can't keep these rogue cells from spreading and causing the cancer to come back. …
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Civic Engagement Spotlight: Archaeology Roadshow 2018
A huge part of my motivation behind this blog was to promote civic engagement in science. My recently-published article in SynBioBeta News, entitled "Shouting from the Ivory Tower", talks about the problems of science being inaccessible and, often, unfriendly. One big cultural solution to this problem is for more trustworthy science-friendly public figures -- namely …
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Mother Nature, the ultimate drug designer: why are we still using cheap synthetic compounds?
"I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident." - Alexander Fleming Natural products – chemicals produced by organisms in nature – have been the basis of medicine for centuries. Aspirin is based on a chemical in willow tree bark. Morphine comes from the opium plant. Penicillin was discovered in a mold. Nature …
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Researchers concerned about superbugs found in sea turtles' bums
Article: Superbugs found in sea turtles' bums.
Don't eat the cold noodles: multi-drug-resistant bacteria found in street food
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50 States in 50 Food Challenges
If you haven't seen or at least heard about the nauseating exploits of Adam Richman on Man vs. Food, then you're in for a shock. The show follows Adam as he eats his way across the country competing in America's most outrageous food challenges. Who can forget the episode in Alaska, where Adam demolished *deep breath* 3 lbs of crab legs, 12 oz sausage, 2 oz salmon cakes, 6 oz loaded potatoes, 6 oz veggies, and chips in under an hour? Impressive stuff but we think even Richman would be shocked with some of these challenges.
Think you've got what it takes to plough through an 8 lbs grilled cheese sandwich? Or could you demolish a beef burger with all the trimmings, totalling a whopping 15 lbs in weight?
You too can now eat your way across the country with 50 states in 50 food challenges. We are about to take you on a hunger quest like never before. This takes indulgence to another level. And then some.
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