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Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Malaysia.
- 14-15 March 2011, Kuala Lumpur: BioWise 2011. (Themes: biodiesel, biofuels, biomass, feedstocks, markets, technologies)
- 7-8 December 2011, Kuala Lumpur: Bioenergy International Asia Expo & Conference. (Themes: biodiesel, feedstock, markets, palm oil, sustainability)
- 4-6 October 2010, Kuala Lumpur: Palm Oil Trade Fair and Seminar (POTS) 2010. (Themes: markets, palm oil)
- 3-6 March 2009, Kuala Lumpur: Global Sustainable Feedstock, Biofuel and Biochemical Summit 2009 organized by Neoedge Singapore (Themes: food security, cellulosic ethanol, finance, investment)
- 24–25 March 2009, Kuala Lumpur: Asian Biofuels Roundtable 2009 – 1st Annual Meeting
- "The 2009 Roundtable will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear from a panel of leading industry experts within all areas of the region's biofuels industry including governments, biofuel producers, oil companies, agribusiness companies and cutting edge technology suppliers." (Themes: bioethanol, biodiesel, technology)
- 26-27 March 2009, Kuala Lumpur: South-East Asia Stakeholder Outreach Meeting for the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. (Themes: biofuels, Asia, standards, sustainability)
- 17-20 June 2008, Kuala Lumpur: Biofuels Asia 2008 (Themes: Asia, biofuels)
- 19-20 August 2008, Kuala Lumpur: International Conference on Oil Palm Biomass 2008. (Themes: oil palm, biomass)
- 26-30 August 2007, Kuala Lumpur: PIPOC 2007 - Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) International Palm Oil Congress. (Theme: palm oil)
- Biofuel Industrial Bill - a draft law that will regulate the biodiesel industry in Malaysia. It will empower the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) "to issue and revoke biodiesel production and export licences, enable all vehicles in the country to use palm oil-based biodiesel, set a ceiling price, as well as direct petrol stations to sell the green oil to consumers."[1]
- In 2010, Malaysia mandated that by 2011 all vehicles must utilize a B5 biodiesel diesel fuel blend containing five percent processed palm oil.[2]
- A National Biofuel Policy was announced by the Government in August 2005 to promote development of a biofuels industry in Malaysia.
- The National Biofuel Policy entails a four-prong strategy:
- the production of a biofuel blend of 5% processed palm oil and 95% diesel (or B5),
- encouraging the use of B5 among the public
- establishing an industry standard for palm biodiesel quality
- the setting up of biodiesel plants in Malaysia for exports. (source: MPOB)
- In 2005, the total oil palm planted area increased by 4.5% or 174,000 hectares to 4.0 million hectares, the state of Sabah on Borneo accounted for 30% of the total area. (source: MPOB)
- Production of crude palm oil has been increasing for 7 consecutive years and reached 15.0 million tonnes in 2005. Production growth of 7.1% was mainly attributed to the increase in matured areas, enhanced plantation and mill management, recovery in fresh fruit bunches yield per hectare to 18.88 tonnes and continued improvement in the oil extraction rate (OER) to 20.15%. (Source: MPOB)
Governmental organizations
- Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Nongovernmental organizations
- Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) (Friends of the Earth Malaysia)
Industry Organizations/Companies
- Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC)
- Historical Analysis and Projection of Oil Palm Plantation Expansion on Peatland in Southeast Asia by Jukka Miettinen, Al Hooijer, Daniel Tollenaar, Sue Page, Chris Malins, Ronald Vernimmen, Chenghua Shi, and Soo Chin Liew; ICCT, February 2012. "Study using satellite mapping data of historical and projected rates at which oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia have expanded and will expand onto peat soils."
- "This study demonstrates that the area of industrial oil palm (OP) plantations in the peatlands of insular Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Indonesia, except the Papua Provinces) has increased drastically over the past 20 years. From a small area in 1990 to at least 2.15 million hectares in 2010, expansion has affected every region of Malaysia and Indonesia reviewed here."
- See also indirect land use change (ILUC). [3]
- "Sustainable" palm oil driving deforestation: Biofuel crops, indirect land use change and emissions (PDF) by Friends of the Earth Europe, August 2010. "This briefing looks at how demand for "sustainable" palm oil is contributing to ILUC. This is illustrated using the example of Malaysian palm oil company Sime Darby which is deforesting new land partially in order to meet increase in demand for certified palm oil for biofuel."
- Up for Grabs: Deforestation and Exploitation in Papua's Plantations Boom - 2009 Environmental Investigation Agency Report.
- "A pilot study in Sumatra and Kalimantan looked at the emissions from land clearing and oil palm cultivation and processing, compared with potential climate benefits of the biofuel produced. Oil palm was found to store less than 40 tonnes biomass on average over a 25 year lifespan. Logged-over forest stored 70-200 tonnes carbon per hectare. Untouched forests contain even more, sometimes in excess of 400 tonnes per hectare." [4]
- Coconut and mango waste could help power Asia 22 March 2012 by Syful Islam for SciDev.Net: "[DHAKA] Researchers in the United States say agricultural waste from coconut and mango farming could generate significant amounts of off-grid electricity for rural communities in South and South-East Asia."
- "Many food crops have a tough, inedible part which cannot be used to feed livestock or fertilise fields. Examples of this material — known as ['endocarp'] — include coconut, almond and pistachio shells, and the stones of mangoes, olives, plums, apricots and cherries... Endocarp is high in a chemical compound known as lignin. High-lignin products can be heated to produce an energy-rich gas that can be used to generate electricity."
- The researchers identified high-endocarp-producing regions of the world – and noted that coconut and mango agriculture account for 72 per cent of total global endocarp production. Coconut production alone accounted for 55 per cent... Most coconut endocarp comes from South and South-East Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- They then overlaid these findings with energy consumption data to identify communities with little access to electricity, who could benefit from endocarp-based energy.
- [Tom] Shearin [co-author and a systems analyst at University of Kentucky] said endocarp was preferable to crop-based biofuels as it had no value as a food item. "Its exploitation as energy source does not compete with food production," he said. [5]
- US Report Casts Doubt On Palm Fuel Benefits, 8 February 2012 by Jakarta Globe: "Indonesia has come under greater scrutiny over its policy to encourage palm oil development, following a report by US authorities that fuels derived from the commodity were not as environmentally friendly as initially believed."
- "Last month, the US Environmental Protection Agency put out a notice that palm oil-derived biofuels such as biodiesel and renewable diesel fell short of its threshold for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings of 20 percent compared to regular diesel...."
- "Meine van Noordwijk, chief science adviser at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), said if more than 10 percent of palm oil originated from peatland plantations, then the EPA's standards could not be met, regardless of all other efforts."
- "In 2009, 22 percent of Indonesia's palm oil plantations were on peat soil, while in Malaysia the figure was 13 percent, according to the EPA...."
- "In 2008 the EU banned biofuels from palm oil grown from deforesting tropical forests peatlands."[6]
- EPA Rejects Palm-Oil Based Biodiesel for Renewable Fuels Program, 27 January 2012 by Business Week: "The Environmental Protection Agency said that biodiesel made from palm oil doesn't meet the requirements to be added to its renewable fuels program because its greenhouse-gas emissions are too high."
- "In a regulatory filing today, the EPA said that palm-oil biodiesel, which is primarily produced in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, provides reductions of as much as 17 percent in greenhouse-gas emissions compared to traditional diesel fuel, falling short of a 20 percent reduction necessary to qualify under the law."
- "By failing to meet that threshold, oil companies can't use palm fuels to meet national renewable fuel standards. Other fuels they can use are made from soy beans, animal fat, recycled cooking grease or similar materials...."
- "Environmental groups, which are locked in a fight with the EPA over its approval of corn-based ethanol under the same program, praised the decision as an important marker by the agency. Palm-oil production has led to the deforestation of 6.5 million hectares (16.1 million acres) in Malaysia and Indonesia, according to Friends of the Earth."[7]
- Sustainable palm oil initiative falters, 20 November 2011 by Mail & Guardian Online: "Environmentalists have warned that an effort to encourage the sustainable production of palm oil launched several years ago has not kept pace with expanding cultivation driven by rising demand."
- "The issue will loom large this week at the annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil from November 22 to 24 in key producer Malaysia."
- "Despite some progress, major users of palm oil are not making enough effort to source and buy sustainably produced oil, while incentives for green production remain inadequate, green groups say."
- "Growers produced 5.2-million tonnes of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) -- accounting for about 10% of world supply -- last year but only about 56% of it was purchased."
- "Environmentalists say the consequences for rainforests in major producers Malaysia and Indonesia -- which account for 85% of world production -- and other producing nations will be dire unless the situation changes."
- "The forest loss contributes to climate change and further imperils threatened species like the orangutan while land disputes between local communities and large palm producers seeking to expand cultivation are rising."[8]
- Indonesia's withdrawal puts Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil on shaky ground, 5 October 2011 by The Star Online: "The jury is still out on the implications of Indonesia's withdrawal of its membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)."
- "On the one hand, some industry observers reckon the absence of Indonesia, being a sizeable producer, can derail the workings of RPSO."
- "But others think that as long as major palm oil producers such as Sime Darby Bhd and Wilmar International are still members of RSPO, there should be no negative impact on the grouping."
- "It is unclear if the decision by GAPKI will have any bearing on the Malaysia Palm Oil Association's (MPOA) stand on RSPO."
- "Fadhil Hasan, the executive director of GAPKI, was quoted as saying the association decided to resign because Indonesia already had the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO)."
- "RSPO has just recently achieved one million hectares of certified production area around the world. Malaysia and Indonesia contribute 88% of total certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO). Out of this, Indonesia produces 40% of global CSPO, second to Malaysia with 48% of production."[9]
- Advertising watchdog calls time on sustainable palm oil adverts, 6 July 2011 by businessGreen: "The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) has once again been ordered to change or remove adverts promoting palm oil as 'sustainable', as the sector steps up its efforts to convince EU policy makers to allow palm oil-based biofuels."
- "MPOC, which represents the Malaysian palm oil industry, is keen to highlight its efforts to reduce the industry's environmental impact as part of a campaign to convince the EU to include fuels made from palm oil in its sustainable biofuel certification scheme."
- "The case, determined last week, upheld FoE Europe's complaint that MPOC had breached 'les règles de l'éthique publicitaire' in an advert on the EurActiv web site earlier this year."
- "Defining 'sustainability' by three dimensions - social, environmental and economic - the jury concluded that there was not enough evidence to show that palm oil met all three aspects."[10]
- Mission signs contract to supply ISCC sustainability certified product, 2 May 2011 by Your Industry News: "Mission NewEnergy Limited, a global leader in providing energy from renewable sources, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract to supply sustainability-certified product to a major international producer and distributor of refined oil products."
- "'This is the culmination of two years of work by the Mission team in collaboration with International Sustainability & Carbon Certification System (ISCC) and FELDA. We are really proud to become the only certified supplier of palm-based products into the European market. It has opened a new market for us and we are currently in negotiations with several other buyers for our certified product,' said Nathan Mahalingam, Group CEO of Mission."
- "In early March, Mission announced that it had established Asia's first fully integrated ISCC certified palm biodiesel supply and production chain, in collaboration with FELDA."
- "FELDA, a Malaysian government corporation and one of the world's largest palm oil producers, in collaboration with Mission, Malaysia's largest biodiesel refiner recently completed ISCC certification of two of its mills and eight plantations in Peninsular Malaysia."[11]
- SE Asian palm oil firms go on African land safari, 29 April 2011 by Reuters: "Malaysia's Sime Darby and Singapore's Golden Agri Resources have joined a slew of global firms entering Africa by snapping up hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in Liberia, but it could still take years to turn the region into a net exporter and help ease high palm oil prices."
- "With an increasing number of firms rushing to Africa as part of a global grab for land in the face of soaring food prices, African governments such as Nigeria and Tanzania have also thrown open their doors to planters by offering tax breaks and big land concessions."
- "World Bank studies show Sub-Saharan Africa holds 201.5 million hectares suitable for crops, nearly half the world's total, or 16 times the combined oil palm acreage in Indonesia and Malaysia."
- "Investors are often lured by the fact that land in Africa can be rented or bought at a fraction of the price in Malaysia, where estates are priced at $6,000 to $7,000 per hectare, but there are other hidden costs."
- "Estates in Africa's top grower, Nigeria, yield about a tenth of Malaysia's 21.3 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches a hectare, FAO data shows, due to poor planting materials and the region's long dry season that stresses out water-loving oil palms."[12]
- Palm oil planters get wise with bird of prey pest control, 20 April 2011 by Reuters: "Leading Southeast Asian producers of palm oil have tried different pest control schemes over the years, from snakes to poisons, but the high success rate -- and low cost -- of owls has prompted more planters to turn to them for help in reducing damage."
- "Malaysia and Indonesia account for more than 90 percent of the world's supply of palm oil, while other smaller producing nations include Colombia, Benin, Kenya and Ghana."
- "But according to the green group Deforestation Watch, crop losses caused by rats feeding on the palm fruit has been estimated to be around 5 percent of the oil yield."
- "'The (plantations) say it's cheaper because they can decrease costs by 50 percent compared with using chemicals,' said Chaerul Saleh, a biologist at WWF-Indonesia."[13]
- Palm Oil Lobby Fights World Bank's Environmental Initiatives in Indonesia, Malaysia, 20 April 2011 by Treehugger: "We know how destructive the palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia, so it was great news when the World Bank announced that social and environmental safeguards would serve as guiding principles in its lending to the palm oil sector."
- "The World Bank said it would try to 'support smallholders and foster benefit sharing with rural communities,' but that palm oil lobbying groups World Growth International and the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) attacked the Bank for doing so."
- "The latter group issued a press release saying: 'The Bank's new framework for palm oil engagement elevates radical ideological opposition to agriculture development above the needs of the poor and hungry in Africa'—a position some are spinning as the Bank saying the environment is more important than African farmers."
- "What that fails to recognize is the precise link between climate change, degradation of the environment, and increased vulnerability for already impoverished people, specifically in Africa."[14]
- Malaysian palm oil giant in fight with forest people gets rebuke from RSPO, 6 April 2011 by Mongabay.com: "RSPO said IOI Corp breached 'two core membership mandates and obligations' on land conflict and conversion of high conservation forest into oil palm plantations. IOI Corp will have 28 days to deliver a proposal to resolve the outstanding issues."
- "Should it fail to do so by May 2, 2011, RSPO told IOI it will consider 'further sanctions against your company, which may include the suspension of your license for new transactions involving Certified Sustainable Palm Oil materials including GreenPalm certificates.'"
- "Such a move could cost IOI dearly in the marketplace. In 2009 and 2010, PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (PT SMART), an Indonesian subsidiary of Golden Agri Resources, lost a number of major customers after it was found to be clearing carbon-dense peatlands and rainforests in Indonesian Borneo."
- "The rebuke from RSPO comes just days after the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) highlighted the struggle between the people of Long Teran Kenan and IOI over two plantations on native lands in Baram, Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo."[15]
- Indigenous community takes court ruling into own hands and seizes oil palm plantation, 31 March 2011 by MongaBay.com: "A community in Malaysian Borneo seized an oil palm plantation belonging to the IOI Group after the palm oil giant failed to respect the terms of a court ruling that the plantation was established on native customary land, reports the Rainforest Action Network (RAN)."
- "Earlier this month, the people of Long Teran Kenan blocked the road and occupied the plantation. They have since started harvesting and selling the fruit to a nearby palm oil mill."
- "RAN is highlighting the situation because IOI supplies palm oil to Cargill, America's largest palm oil importer. RAN says Cargill has failed to enact policies that protect against such abuses."
- "IOI said the High Court of Sarawak did not grant 'the natives' the right to reclaim the contested land and added that the natives' customary rights on the land "can be extinguished by paying compensation." IOI further stated that the court 'did not grant any injunctions sought by the natives restraining IOI Pelita from remaining and continuing its operations on the lands.' Therefore IOI believes the actions by the people of Long Teran Kenan are 'illegal.'"[16]
- Norway to continue palm oil investments, 30 March 2011 by MongaBay.com: "Norway's $550 billion sovereign wealth fund will continue investing in Asian palm oil companies despite criticism from environmental groups, reports Reuters."
- "Runar Malkenes, Deputy Director of the Information Division at Norway's Ministry of Finance, told Reuters that while the fund will continue to invest in the sector, it may exclude palm oil companies that cause egregious environmental damage."
- "Last year Norway divested its holdings in Samling, a Malaysian company associated with destructive logging practices and social conflict with indigenous groups in Malaysian Borneo."
- "The fund, which invests revenues from the country's oil and gas industry, held 2.4 billion Norwegian crowns ($430 million) worth of palm oil-related stocks as of the end of last year."
- "Norway's statement comes a week after Indonesian activist group Greenomics criticized Norway for continuing to hold stakes in several palm oil companies linked to deforestation, including Golden Agri Resources (GAR), which owns PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART], a firm that had been targeted for Greenpeace over destruction of rainforests and peatlands in Borneo."[17]
- Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban, 25 March 2011 by The Ecologist: "The world's largest palm oil producer Indonesia is due to implement a two-year ban on granting new concessions of land to plantation companies in forest areas."
- "There are also restrictions on the availability of land in Malaysia. This has led companies like Sime Darby, which has more than half a million hectares of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, to look elsewhere."
- "Sime Darby - reported to be the largest palm oil producer in the world - has leased 220,000 hectares of land in Liberia and is considering buying a further 300,000 hectares for palm oil plantations in Cameroon."
- "Other rival palm oil giants like Sinar Mar, Olam International and Wilmar International are also tying up land deals in Liberia, Gabon and Ghana."
- "In Cameroon, campaigners have admitted to having strong reservations about Sime Darby's plans to lease land for palm oil plantations. Samuel Nguiffo, from the Centre for Environment and Development (CED), says even if they only develop on degraded forest, the deal is likely to involve farmland being taken away from local communities."
- "Nguiffo believes the land has more value in terms of sustaining local livelihood but says the government will push hard for a deal, regardless of the long-term consequences for the country's food security."[18]
- Counting the carbon cost of peatland conversion, 7 March 2011 by Nature News: "Up to 6% of carbon-rich peat-swamp forests had been cleared in Peninsular Malaysia and on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra to make way for oil-palm plantations by the early 2000s, according to a study published today. The clearances, a response to rising demand for food and biofuel, released as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the entire UK transport sector does in a year."
- "Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is the first attempt to systematically assign a value to the carbon loss due to peatland destruction in Southeast Asia that can be attributed directly to conversion to oil-palm plantations."
- "Malaysia and Indonesia (which includes Sumatra and parts of Borneo) are the world's largest suppliers of palm oil, accounting for 87% of global production in 2008."
- "Like most forests, peat-swamp forests store large amounts of carbon above ground as biomass, and this is lost when the forest is cleared. They also store large amounts of carbon in their soils, as dead organic matter decomposes slowly under marshy conditions. Draining peatlands to create agricultural land oxidizes the soil and releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."
- "For the first 25 years after an oil-palm plantation is established in a peat-swamp forest, about 60 tonnes of carbon dioxide are released per hectare every year, according to recent research."[19]
- Malaysian palm oil destroying forests, report warns, 2 February 2011 by the Guardian: "Study by Wetlands International claims level of palm oil-related deforestation in Malaysia is higher than previously thought."
- "The report claims that between 2005 and 2010, almost 353,000 hectares of peat swamp forests were cleared – a third of Malaysia's total – largely for palm oil production."
- "The clearing, draining and burning of peat swamp forests is responsible for about 10 per cent of mankind's greenhouse gas emissions, according to Wetlands International."
- "Palm oil firms in Malaysia and Indonesia are under increasing pressure by major Western retailers and consumer goods brands, many of which use palm oil in their products, to halt the expansion of plantations that lead to forest clearance."
- "Some Malaysian palm oil producers have also joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, but strong demand from India and China for unsustainably sourced oil means others can avoid doing so without necessarily harming their market share."[20]
- Palm Oil Plantations Embrace Biodiversity In Attempt To Change Environmentally Destructive Reputation, 20 January 2011 by The Huffington Post: "Palm oil plantations carry a history of controversy. The cash crop is used for fuel and food, but at the same time, it destroys rainforests. Also, compared to diverse forests, monoculture plantations do not trap greenhouse gases as efficiently."
- "These challenges are no more visible than on the United International Enterprises Estate, located in the Majung District of Malaysia. The plantation has over 1.4 million trees. Unfortunately, they are all the same."
- "A nature reserve has been created on the plantation, populated by rare trees. The manager's goal is to increase the plant diversity to 500 plant variations."
- "The plantation is the first to be certified by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil Production, a group working to make palm oil more eco-friendly."[21]
- Biofuels: Is Palm Oil a Blessing or a Curse, 9 November 2010 by Robert Rapier: "Palm oil presents an excellent case illustrating both the promise and the peril of biofuels. Driven by demand from the U.S. and the European Union (EU) due to mandated biofuel requirements, palm oil has provided a valuable cash crop for farmers in tropical regions like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand."
- "The high productivity of palm oil has led to a dramatic expansion in many tropical countries around the equator. This has the potential for alleviating poverty in these regions."
- "But in some locations, expansion of oil palm cultivation has resulted in serious environmental damage as rain forest has been cleared to make room for new palm oil plantations."
- "Palm oil represents a difficult dilemma: How does the West address negative social or environmental implications from the development of a palm oil industry (or any industry) that is helping to lift rural people out of poverty by providing an income stream for farmers? Western objectives (saving the rain forests) may be viewed as conflicting with their basic needs (feeding their families and sending their kids to school) — which is of course why globally rain forest continues to disappear."[22]
- Malaysia's once-vaunted biofuel industry grinds to halt, 6 September 2010 by AFP: "Malaysia's once-vaunted biofuel industry has seen production grind to a halt since a March announcement that the government's mandatory switch to the green energy will be delayed to June 2011."
- "Malaysia had ambitions to become a global leader in biodiesel and unveiled grand plans for the industry as the price of crude oil spiralled, peaking in mid-2008."
- "However, the future of the alternative fuels is now in question given cheaper crude prices and the higher cost of Malaysia's palm oil."
- "Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) figures show that the production of biodiesel, a mixture of diesel with five percent processed palm oil, dropped 99 percent from 12,640 tonnes in March to just 137 tonnes in July."
- "Malaysian Biodiesel Association vice-president U.R. Unnithan said the country had the capacity to produce 2.6 million tonnes of biofuel annually but that demand had completely dried up."
- "Unnithan said Malaysian biofuel cannot compete in international markets as many countries have protectionist measures and subsidies in place."[23]
- Nestle caves to activist pressure on palm oil , 17 May 2010 by Mongabay.com: "After a two month campaign against Nestle for its use of palm oil linked to rainforest destruction spearheaded by Greenpeace, the food giant has given in to activists' demands. The Swiss-based company announced today in Malaysia that it will partner with the Forest Trust, an international non-profit organization, to rid its supply chain of any sources involved in the destruction of rainforests." A company press release stated that "Nestle wants to ensure that its products have no deforestation footprint."
- "Nestle stated that under new sourcing guidelines it will only use palm oil suppliers that do not break local laws, protect high conservation forests and any forests with 'high carbon' value, protect carbon-important peatlands, and support free prior and informed consent for indigenous and local communities."
- "For its part, Nestle has pledged that 100 percent of its palm oil will come from sustainable sources by 2015. Currently 18 percent of Nestle's palm oil is from sustainably certified sources, but the company hopes to reach 50 percent by the end of 2011."[24]
- Related: Read about Nestle's "Responsible Sourcing" guidelines
- Flat-headed cat endangered by palm oil, April 2010 by MNN: "According to National Geographic, a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has indicated that the flat-headed cat's habitat is rapidly being transformed into vast biofuel plantations."
- "Native to the swampy peat forests of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, the cats are nocturnal, elusive, tiny (they typically weigh between 3-5 pounds) and difficult to observe."
- "Almost 70 percent of the area that historically provided good habitats for the flat-headed cat has already been converted into plantations, mostly for the purpose of growing biofuel. Furthermore, their remaining range has become fragmented, likely making it difficult for remote populations of the cat to breed with one another."
- "The cat's predicament is not unique in the region where it lives. Tropical Southeast Asia has both one of the highest rates of biodiversity and highest rates of deforestation worldwide. Much of that deforestation is for the purpose of planting palms, a cash crop destined for the biofuel market."[25]
- EU biofuels target borderline sustainable, report finds, 26 March 2010 by EuroActiv: "Going beyond a 5.6% share of biofuels in transport fuel could harm the environment, found a new report made public by the European Commission yesterday (25 March), suggesting that the EU's current target is only borderline sustainable."
- "The EU's Renewable Energies Directive mandates a 10% share of renewable energies in transport fuels by 2020. The report assumes that only 5.6% of this would come from first-generation biofuels."
- "[E]xperts said this is a gross underestimation because the other options - electric cars and second-generation biofuels produced from waste and non-food crops - will not in reality be widely available by 2020."
- "[T]he industry says targeting biofuels alone will not address the issue of deforestation in the EU's large palm oil-exporting partners, Malaysia and Indonesia. Only a small share of the palm oil entering the EU is used for biofuels. The rest is used in everything from everyday products like lipstick and ice cream to electricity and heat generation." [26]
- The full final report is also available here: Global Trade and Environmental Impact Study of the EU Biofuels Mandate (PDF).
- Malaysia to switch to biofuel next year, 24 March 2010 by AFP: "Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, will make it mandatory for all vehicles to use biofuel from next year, the government announced Wednesday. Malaysia's plans to shift to biofuel -- a mixture of diesel with five percent processed palm oil -- have been delayed over the past few years due to price fluctuations."
- "The government has said the switch to biofuel will help reduce the cost of fuel in Malaysia, where petrol is subsidised, but conservationists have criticised oil palm plantations for destroying wildlife habitats."
- "[Commodities Minister Bernard Dompok] said Malaysia -- which aims to be the global leader in biodiesel -- has approved 56 licences for biodiesel production, which account for a production capacity of 6.8 million tonnes."[27]
- Borneo mega-dams proposal raises fears for tribes, wildlife, 2 January 2010 by The Independent: "A massive tract of Borneo jungle, an area the size of Singapore, will soon disappear under the waters of the Bakun dam, a multi-billion-dollar project nearing completion after years of controversy."
- Success of Palm Oil Brings Plantations Under Pressure to Preserve Habitats , 17 September 2009 by New York Times: Each year, the oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia "produce millions of tons of palm oil, which has soared in popularity since the 1970s and is now found in foods like margarine, potato chips and chocolate, as well as in soap, cosmetics and biofuel."
- "But the palm plantations are in the cross hairs of consumer groups and corporations in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. Echoing the longstanding concerns of environmental groups, they say palm oil producers continue to fell large tracts of forest to make way for plantations, destroying habitat for endangered species like the orangutan."[28]
- Controversial palm-oil plan may save the orang-utan, 22 July 2009 by New Scientist: Orang-utan "researchers and conservationists in Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, may have to do what had until recently been unthinkable: join forces with the palm oil industry whose plantations have eaten into much of the orang-utan's habitat. October this year will see an unprecedented meeting of Malaysia's palm oil producers, conservationists and local government to figure out how to protect the world's last orang-utans."
- "Such collaborations will be especially important given the poor start for the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), set up in 2002, which is supposed to address the issues of environmental damage and wildlife conflict by encouraging producers to ensure their plantations are certified as sustainable."
- "Sabah's 26,000-hectare Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary is home to about 1000 orang-utans....The sanctuary has been heavily fragmented by oil palm plantations, and is now an archipelago of animal 'islands'."[29]
- Small-scale biofuels production holds more promise, says USAID, 21 June 2009 by BusinessMirror: "Decentralized biofuel production, or small-scale factories built on degraded or underused lands, has the potential to provide energy to half a billion people living in poverty in rural Asia."
- " The report, Biofuels in Asia: An Analysis of Sustainability Options…focused on China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. It analyzed key trends and concerns and highlighted sustainability options for biofuel production."
- "Compared with large-scale biofuels production, small-scale biofuels production for local use may deliver greater social benefits, including improvement of rural livelihoods, support of local industries, and a lower tendency toward exploitation of workers and co-opting of land from indigenous peoples."
- CIFOR Study on Oil Palm Plantations Identifies Research Needs on Biofuels and Carbon Impacts, 11 June 2009 by Climate-L.org: "The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)...has published a study on the impacts and research needs with regard to oil palm plantations, covering, among other issues, the impacts of increased cultivation for biofuel production."
- "The study titled "The Impacts and Opportunities of Oil Palm in Southeast Asia: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?"(PDF file) examines the current state of knowledge and research needs with respect to global trends in oil palm production and their impact on the environment and livelihoods, including impacts on deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With regard to biofuel production, the study concludes: the current expansion of palm oil production in Indonesia and Malaysia is driven primarily by increased demand for food oil and to a lesser extent by demand for biofuels; and the short-term costs of palm oil as carbon saving fuel greatly outweigh the benefits."[30]
- The world's top 15 listed palm oil planters, 9 June 2009 by Reuters: Information on the "15 largest listed palm planters, ranked by market value....mostly located in Indonesia and Malaysia".
- Statistics provided on "plantation holdings are in hectares and include both cultivated and uncultivated land".
- CPO Producers Say Green Efforts Not Paying Off, 31 May 2009 by JakartaGlobe: "While many palm oil plantations and farmers are struggling to get certificates proving their palm oil is produced in a sustainable manner, others that have the certificates are complaining that buyers in Europe don't want to buy their products because they are too expensive."
- "When the first batch of RSPO-certified palm oil arrived in Europe in November 2008, the company involved, Malaysia-based United Plantations, was accused by environmental organizations Greenpeace and Wetlands International of not actually meeting the RSPO's requirements....Greenpeace maintains that the roundtable's system fails to adequately address issues like deforestation, peatland clearance and other land-related conflicts."
- "The EU is in the process of requiring all palm oil producers to certify both crude palm oil and derivative products. Companies that do not obtain certification by 2010 will not be allowed to sell to EU countries."
- "Green" palm planters struggling to find buyers, 30 May 2009 by Alibaba.com: "JAKARTA, May 27 - Palm oil planters in the world's top two producers Indonesia and Malaysia are struggling to find buyers for their eco-friendly palm oil...threatening to slow momentum."
- "Under fire from green groups and some Western consumers, the palm oil industry established the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in 2004 to develop an ethical certification system that includes commitments to preserve rainforests and wildlife."
- "...the industry had so far sold only 15,000 tonnes of certified green palm oil since the first shipment last November while output might have reached around 600,000 tonnes."
- "The issue of 'green' palm remains contentious and some conservation groups argue that the current voluntary rules are not effective in protecting the environment."
- Sustainability criteria must be science based, verifiable and WTO-compatible (Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities), 25 February 2009, by the World Refining Association: Malaysia's Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, the Hon. Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui, stated in an interview that "We urge the EU to ensure that its sustainability scheme does not discriminate against third country producers and that the criteria used are science based, verifiable and WTO-compatible".
- "One of the biggest concerns in the use of biofuels is its impact on food security [...]. As far as the Malaysian Government is concerned, the local mandate B5 if fully implemented will require only 500,000 tonnes annually or a mere 3% of our national production of CPO [Crude Palm Oil]. In fact, 90% of Malaysian palm oil is used for traditional applications such as foodstuffs and oleochemicals (soap and cosmetics), while only a small fraction is destined for biofuel production."
- "We are engaging countries such as the EU and USA that are coming up with legislations which impose sustainability criteria on our palm and biofuel products. This includes the EU Directive on Renewable Energy."
- Biofuel producers warn EU over "unjustifiably complex" sustainability rules, 7 November 2008 by BusinessGreen: "Eight developing countries have written to the EU warning they will complain to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) if it passes proposed legislation designed to improve the environmental sustainability of biofuels by restricting the types of fuels the bloc imports."
- "The EU is considering legislation that is intended to ban the purchase of biofuels from energy crop plantations that are believed to harm the environment and lead to food shortages by displacing land used for food crops and contributing to rainforest deforestation."
- "[E]ight countries – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Indonesia and Malaysia – have written to the EU to protest against the proposals" in a letter that "claims that the new rules would 'impose unjustifiably complex requirements on producers' and argues that environmental criteria 'relating to land-use change will impinge disproportionately on developing countries'."[31]
- Biofuels standards challenged by new report on Malaysian Palm Oil , 8 October 2008 by Friends of the Earth UK: "Malaysian palm oil is finding its way into British petrol tanks despite concerns about its carbon balance and the rainforest being destroyed to produce it - according to a new report by Friends of the Earth international."
- "The UK Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) has reported that Malaysian palm oil being used for fuel in the UK meets a 'qualifying environmental standard', but Friends of the Earth's research reveals it is far from green."
- The FOE report finds that Sarawak state in Malaysia "plans to more than double its 2007 levels of oil palm acreage by 2010....at the expense of tropical forests" and that "companies regularly practice open burning on carbon rich peat soils releasing millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere".[32]
- See the report Malaysian Palm Oil: Green Gold or Green Wash?
- Malaysia, Indonesia to cooperate on biofuels, 5 August 2008 by Reuters: "Malaysia and Indonesia will cooperate in a biofuel development program, and may use the same biofuel specifications and amount of blending, Malaysia's commodities minister said on Tuesday."
- Malaysia reviews proposed biofuel policy amid rising palm oil prices, 12 February 2008, International Herald Tribune: "Malaysia is reviewing plans for mandatory blending of palm oil and diesel for biofuel after prices of the commodity more than doubled in two years".
- "Crude palm oil prices have soared to more than 3,000 ringgit (US$928; €638) a metric ton from about 1,400 ringgit a ton since the National Biofuel Policy was formulated in 2006".
- "Officials have said that oilseeds, jathropha and palm biomass are being explored as cheaper alternatives to palm oil in making biofuels."[34]
- Biofuels and banquets put pressure on stocks of palm oil, 9 January 2008 by the Times Online, reported that "The Malaysian Government has been forced to release emergency stocks of palm oil to break a wave of panic-buying after cooking oil prices soared. The crisis has prompted palm oil rationing in a country that is one of the world's largest producers."
- Malaysia May Revoke Biofuel Permits as Palm Oil Rises, 11 December 2007, by Bloomberg: "Malaysia, the second-biggest palm oil producer, may revoke some licenses to produce biofuel from the commodity...as the surging price of the raw material makes the fuel too expensive to make, a minister said." The minister also noted that one of Malaysia's four biodiesel manufacturing plants may close in the face of increased prices for the feedstock, which has risen some 55 percent in the past year. A reduction in output by Malaysia could also make it difficult for The European Union to meet its targets for biodiesel use.[35]
- Surging crude palm oil prices: Malaysian biodiesel plans in jeopardy, 25 April 2007 by AFP in the Daily Times (Pakistan), reports that "Surging crude palm oil prices have put a dent in Malaysian ventures to manufacture biodiesel, with licencees dragging their feet to set up factories;" currently, only six of 90 licenced firms are producing palm oil-based biodiesel, as high demand and raw material prices have threatened the financial viability of ventures, especially smaller ones.
- Malaysian company claims 6.48 billion liter ethanol output from Nypa palm in 2009, 10 April 2007 from Greencarcongress.com. A Malaysian company claims that it will be able to produce 6.48 billion liters (1.7 billion gallons) of ethanol from nypa palm sap when its refinery opens in 2009. The company has obtained rights to harvest the sap from 10,000 hectares of palms. Nypa palm has a very high yield of sugar-rich sap, which some studies claim may be able to produce 2-3 times more ethanol/acre then sugarcane.
- Malaysian company to invest 1.4 billion ringgit in ethanol from nypa palm, 5 January 2007 from The Star Online.
- Nippon Oil, Toyota and Petronas to develop Palm-oil biodiesel, 23 October 2006 from Biopact.
- Biofuel to boost palm oil prices, 14 August 2006, by Fin24, reports that Malaysia's Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister stated that biofuel "had created new demand for palm oil which is currently enjoying prices of 1,600 ringgit ($436) per tonne" and that "the first palm biodiesel plant...commenced production and would be officially launched in southern Johor state". [36]
- Grumble in the Jungle 18 June 2006 from the Observer. Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia threaten orangutans with extinction.
- Grumble in the wrong Jungle 23 June 2006 letter to the editor of the Observer from the Malaysian Palm Oil Council correcting "misrepresentation[s] of the current state of the palm oil industry and efforts taken to protect wildlife, particularly in Malaysia."
- ↑ Biofuel Bill ready for Parliament debate in May, 14 March 2007 from The Business Times.
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Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber had a busy night on Tuesday, April 17. She performed on 'Dancing With the Stars' while he revealed the 'Believe' release date (it's June 19) on 'The Voice.' The couple reunited at the Staples Center to take in a Laker game later that night and it was a PDA-filled public appearance. It was smooch city. They are young and so in love.
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The White House plans an aggressive public campaign to build support for its approach to reduce the deficit through tax increases and spending cuts, a sharp contrast to its private talks with Republicans that faltered last year. Photo: Reuters.
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Posted: Sep 05, 2011 4:58 am
Post subject: Deleting an EarthCache log
I'm new to being an EarthCache owner and want to discuss if it's okay to delete an EarthCache log that someone has submitted.
The log in particular was submitted without any email being sent through my profile. Assuming they might be busy I gave them 48 hours and then sent the cacher an email informing them of additional EarthCache logging requirements and gave them an additional 24 hours to submit any answers before I would delete their log.
I've still received no response to my email or any answers to the additional logging requirements. Am I off base here? Am I right to delete their log? Should I give even more time? (The EarthCache in particular is not in Manitoba and so it is not any Manitoba cachers that are involved here.) Any feedback from other EarthCache owners would be appreciated.
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I would give them more than a couple days, but if they don't send the info required or respond to a request for it, the log gets deleted.
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I just had the same issue with my Earthcache in Manitoba. It was logged by two cachers who appear to be newer. I sent them a polite email about what an Earthcache is and asked them to email me the information that was required. I had no response after one week, so I emailed them again to inform the cachers I would be deleting the logs. I feel it is reasonable to do this as the spirit of an Earthcache is to learn and to communicate with the CO. I think it is good to be polite in your emails and use it to educate the cacher about Earthcaches.
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I still don't really understand how people log these as found if they don't understand them. They obviously didn't find a container, so what are they logging.
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Posted: Sep 11, 2011 11:32 pm
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We have only ONE earthcache and of course, have some of the same problems. We wait a couple of days since we realize sometimes people are travelling, etc. We have sent polite emails to the newbies who might not know what EC is really about and I have received emails back telling me that they will go back to get the answers sometime. Still waiting the response from one cacher...
Guess not everyone knows that one is to get permission to log them once the answers are given correctly?!? Although one wonders if they haven't actually read the cache description at all?
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Xplorer and Ramblin Rose wrote:
Guess not everyone knows that one is to get permission to log them once the answers are given correctly?!? Although one wonders if they haven't actually read the cache description at all?
Actually, that's not true. Once they have submitted the information, they are free to log their find. They are not required to wait for confirmation from the cache owner.
As others have mentioned, I wouldn't be too hasty to delete the log, but if there is no response after a week or so, you'd be within your rights as the cache owner to delete their log. It would be a good idea to also send them a note at that time explaining why their log was deleted.
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Thanks, Junglehair, for explaining that we can in fact log it as found before getting a reply from the cache owner. We have usually just written a note while on a trip, saying that we will log it as found once we get the 'ok'.
We do give cachers lots of time to send the answers and I ALWAYS write them a note, explaining the rules of an earthcache before we delete any log entries.
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Actually, that's not true. Once they have submitted the information, they are free to log their find. They are not required to wait for confirmation from the cache owner.
That's interesting information as I had my log deleted by a Earth cache owner in Quebec once who was upset that I had logged my find before he sent me permission to log it.
I had sent him the asnwers and waited for a week. I even noticed he had been online since I had sent the info (and posted a picture to show that indeed I had been at the cache site) but still no answers after a week.
I posted my log and got a deletion notice along with a note from the owner who told me he had not given me permission to log.
I told him that I had waited for his permission for a week but his response was that he was away and couldn't answer to his email and I should know better than to log without permission...
I didn't pursue the discussion any further as anyone can play the game in anyway they want I guess.
But that's good information to know junglehair!
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If you have a log deleted for a reason such as that, you can contact Groundspeak, or an EarthCache Reviewer if you happen to know one
, and have your log re-instated and locked. Of course, they would consult the CO too to get their side of the story first.
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Mappy Monday: Making use of a lesson learned
One of these applications is Google maps. For many years I have used Google Maps when travelling, and over the years as I began to document the history of my family, I created maps to guide me to the various places in which family members were born, lived, died, and are buried in Ireland. I have emailed maps to others and printed out maps; however, I have not yet used such a map in any blog postings.
In his presentation Thomas demonstrated the use of such a map. If you wish to include a map in a blog post, after you have created your map in Google Maps, you will see on the left side of the map page the icon for the link possibility. If you click on this link icon you will see the HTML code you will need in order to post your personal map. You can also customize the map size.
So...Thank You Thomas MacEntee for this suggestion and many more, and here on Mappy Monday is the first of many family tree related "Google Maps" for this blog. If you click on the blue markers each one bears a description of the significance of the place on the map. For the best overall view, click on the link to view the larger version.
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Nice job on the map!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the shout out and I am so happy to see you put the Google Maps lesson to good use! I have a step-by-step process of how to create a "My Map" under Google Maps and embed it in a blog post or website here: http://fbbootcamp.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-maps-and-carnival-posts.htmlReplyDelete
Great job. Now I have to add maps to my list of things to do!ReplyDelete
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YWOC's Community Family Affair Day; "Who Made the Potato Salad?"; iPad tickets at library
�Let�s Talk� to encourage closer families
October nationally is designated �Let�s Talk Month� and The Young Women�s Outreach Center is sponsoring a Community Family Affair Day as part of its local recognition.
The all-day family event will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 5 at Pearson Park. It also is sponsored by P.E.A.C.E Foundation, Kinston Department of Public Safety, Elks Lodge, Eastpointe, and various other agencies and churches.
The day will start at 10 a.m. with a parade starting by Hardee�s on Herritage Street, marching up to Gordon Street, near the ship, into Pearson Park on Mitchell Street behind the Lenoir County Farmer�s Market. Immediately after the parade, festivities in the park will include vendors representing food, educational, health and fitness resources, fun, games and entertainment.
Families can register for a game of �Family Feud.� The team must consist of four members � two adults and two youth or one adult and three youth. The deadline to register a family team is Sept. 30.
Free items will be given to the first 100 people. Bring lawn chairs, claim prizes and join the celebration of families in the park.
Contact the YWOC office to register and get more information. Call 252-527-7844 between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. weekdays.
Original play to be performed today
�Who Made the Potato Salad?� is a one-act play written by Antuan Hawkins and E.J. Stewart. It will be presented at 11 a.m. today at St. James AME Church, 402 E. Shine St. The play will feature local entertainers, including Sandra Fisher, Katherine Whitfield, Terrie Oatman and Letari Thompson.There is no admission, but a love offering will be accepted.
In this play, it's time for the Quarterly Meeting picnic at church, and it seems that everyone has decided to bring the potato salad. When one sister refuses to be outdone by anyone else, she wages war on her biggest rival in the church.
This dilemma leads to lessons taught and lessons learned as the pastor straightens it all out and tries to find out �Who Made the Potato Salad.�
A variety of salads will be served, including potato salad. For more information, call Jackie Brown at 252-527-7348.
Library�s iPad tickets still available
The Kinston-Lenoir County Friends of the Library is sponsoring a drawing to give library patrons the chance to win an iPad.
The contest is ongoing throughout September, and there is still time to buy tickets. The drawing is set for 3 p.m. Sept. 30 in the library�s Brody Conference Room, 510 N. Queen St. It will be open to the public.
Tickets are available at the Circulation Desk of the Kinston, Pink Hill or Greene County libraries, and from Lenoir County Friends of the Library Board members.
Tickets cost $2 each or $10 for six. All proceeds will go to the Kinston-Lenoir County Friends of the Library to support children�s programming and literacy.


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Amanda Bynes was arrested Thursday after she allegedly tossed a bong out of her Manhattan apartment window, police said.
The "What I Like About You" star was reported to police at about 7:40 p.m. after an employee at the 47th Street high-rise where she lives alleged that she was smoking marijuana in the building's lobby, acting erratically and supposedly talking to herself, Reuters reported.
An officer went to Bynes' apartment then saw a bong -- a water pipe commonly used for smoking marijuana -- on her kitchen counter, according to the criminal complaint obtained by TMZ. When the officer asked Bynes about it, this is what an officer said happened:
"I observed [Amanda] grab said bong, run to the westbound-facing window, and throw it out the window where numerous pedestrians were walking on the 8 Avenue and West 47 Street sidewalks below," the officer said in the report.
The actress is said to live on the 36th floor, according to the New York Daily News.
The officer also noted smoke and the smell of marijuana in the apartment, E! News reported.
The 27-year-old was then arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, possession of weed and tampering with evidence.
E! News said that Bynes, who has been acting erratically in recent months, was first taken to Roosevelt Hospital for psychiatric evaluation and then taken to a police station for booking. She appeared in night court just before midnight where she remained in a holding cell for a morning hearing, TMZ said.
On Friday morning, she appeared before a judge. She was formally charged with attempted evidence tampering, reckless endangerment and marijuana possession.
The actress claimed that the alleged bong was "just a vase," according to reports.
She was was released without bail on her own recognizance after appearing for her arraignment in a New York court on Friday morning, the Manhattan district attorney's office told Fox 411. Her next court date was set for July 9 and the judge said that if she didn't appear a warrant would be put out for her arrest.
Bynes has had quite a few run-ins with the law. Most recently, she pleaded no contest (via attorney) earlier this month to driving with a suspended license.
The actress traditionally takes to her Twitter account to air her grievances, but, as of late Friday morning had only reposted a risque photo of herself since the arrest.
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Dear ChristiansHis Holynes metropolitan John Tomas of Scandinavia have made the resolution,to Ban this Forum for all who belong to the Church of Christ.
Dear ChristiansHis Holynes metropolitan John Tomas of Scandinavia have made the resolution,to Ban this Forum for all who belong to the Church of Christ.These forums/debates undermines the authority of the Institution of the Church of Yeshua ben Yosef the Son of God and bring only questioning "in absurdum Maximus" both of the servants of God and the clean teachings of Christ,wich his Church must teach the faithful.This forum have shown this not only when His Holynes tryed to reach faithful and ask for their prayers for the Metropolitat but all also over the forum.This was the words of Our Holy Father,a disciple of christ++Metropolitan John Tomas 1 of ScandinaviaAntiokinska Apostoliska Katolska Ortodoxa KyrkanSkandinavisk oberoende Metrolopitatet/Father.Michael,Secretary,spokesman of the see
Azurestone; In absurd um Maximus,IS grammatically correct.But i did the misstake of not have a space between absurd and um.I am sorry for that!
Iconodule; Your "papal bull" can not even be taken seriously. It is a shameful and disrespectful joke and a sick attempt
I think that the Antiochian Northamerican Archdiocese (OCA) do not like this character(Azurestone) whoever it is, to type things like this at all.They are,as we,selfgoverned and not subordinated HB Zakka or HB Ignatius.
Your unchristian practical joke have not even been shown to our Holy Father.However,i am certain of that he would only give a smile and shake his head.
I am sure of that other Christians living in the Love of the Son of God also Se the beautiful in this.It is only people of exceed pride and narrowness that would mind.
Iconodule is the name on churchfathers who was "pro"icons in a great schism of the Church of Christ.
What schism occurred because of the iconoclasm period?
Michal Kalina;Your judgement will judge yourself sir.At least,Our holy Father Metropolitan John Tomas exists and his Bull over this forum,proves his resolution is totally correct.
Bull... or fatwa?
How I long for the days of dattaswami.
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All Five Competing U.S. Teams Make the Gold Fleet in Sardinia
4 June 2008
Porto Cervo, Italy - Now four days into the Volvo Melges 24 World Championship 2008, all five US teams competing in Sardinia have successfully made the Gold fleet cut. With more than 100 International Melges 24 sportboats racing, the fleet has enjoyed six races making up and officially concluding the round robin series. Leading the US initiative is Brian Porter from Winnetka, Ill. on 'USA649 Full Throttle' seated in seventh overall.
Simon Strauss (resident of New York, N.Y.) on 'GBR592 Team Sevenstar Slam' with Bill Hardesty calling tactics is 17th and quick to comment after racing that the team seemed to be getting into the groove with a great deal of upwind speed, yet feeling a little off the pace downwind.
Bruce Ayres from Newport, Beach, Calif. on 'USA637 Monsoon' is seated 26th overall and ranked as one of five top Corinthians. It was an amazing day for Ayres as their third place finish in race six was undeniably satisfying. With a really nice start they immediately began clawing their way through the top five positions. In a sustained 25 knot breeze, Ayres made a great effort, but couldn't catch Championship leader Luca Valerio on 'ITA722 Alina Helly Hansen' and Gabrio Zandona at the helm for Giovanni Maspero on 'ITA633 Joe Fly' on the final downwind run and beat. Ayres proudly took third in the race.
Geoffery Pierini from Bernardville, N.J. with Doug Clark at the helm on 'USA551 Gazoo' is placed 39th. "I haven't sailed the Melges 24 much in the last 4 years. Although I sailed in Jacksonville and in St. Petersburg they were three-day, light air regattas so not much stock there. Here, the slightest adjustments or delay, whether it be the backstay or the mainsheet, traveler or jib trim, you go sideways for a second. It is so tough. Every inch that you lose is like 15 boat lengths,' commented Clark. "This has been very challenging. It's the first time we have sailed together as a team so, we are still learning how to communicate. Every mark rounding is an adventure. Regardless though, whatever the pressure downwind it's a fun ride. You are surfing downwind and life just can't get any better."
"This is a marathon, definitely not a sprint, 'Clark continued. "This is not going to get any easier moving up to the Gold fleet. Now, a satisfying tenth place finish is going to be like finishing twentieth, so our challenge is to turn it up a little. Comparing the class to four years ago, the bar has risen so high between professional sailors and the Corinthians. Things have changed for the better. If you want to be good you have to sail against the best. The pros are in it so, you have to go there."
Stephen 'Alex' Shafer on 'USA677 Sweaty Betty' had a difficult day and find themselves in 44th overall. "It was a disappointing day of equipment failure,' said 2005 Corinthian World Champion Marty Kullman, calling tactics for Shafer.
The next time the teams go racing, it will be full on championship racing with the top contingents going head-to-head. All other scheduled races were canceled for the day. Teams can anticipate going afloat early again for potentially a three-race day on Thursday.
FULL OVERALL RESULTS (After six, round robin races)
- 'Alina Helly Hansen', Luca Valerio/Maurizio Abba
- 'Pilot Italia', Alberto Bolzan/Gianni Catalogna
- 'Uka Uka Racing', Lorenzo Bressani/Lorenzo Santini
- 'Blu Moon', Flavio Favini/Franco Rossini
- 'Saetta', Nicolo Bianchi
- 'Marchingenio', Nicola Celon/Giorgio Marchi
- 'Full Throttle', Brian Porter
- 'Poizon Rouge', Jean-Marc Monnard
- 'Altea', Andrea Racchelli
- 'Brontolo Ab Medica', Matteo Ivaldi/Filippo Pacinotti
For further information, regular reports and results please visit www.melges24worlds2008.com
For more information or press photos, please contact Joy Dunigan, USMCA Press Officer and Class Communications Director via email or by phone at (912) 398-5776.
Or, for International Melges 24 Class contact Fiona Brown, Press Officer, International Melges 24 Class, Tel +44 (0)7711 718470, E-mail, Skype fpbrown, 3 Palmers Rd, Emsworth, Hants, PO10 7DL. www.melges24.com
Jill Campbell, Press Officer, Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Tel. +39 0789 902200, E-mail
Roberto Lonardi, PR Manager, Volvo Auto Italia, Tel +39 051 537791, E-mail, www.volvocars.it
Volvo Cars was founded in 1927 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, producing premium cars for the global market. Brand core values are Safety, Environmental Care and Quality. For further information about Volvo, please visit www.media.volvocars.com or www.volvocars.com.
Conte of Florence is an Official Supplier of the event. The Italian company has been a partner of the Volvo Cup for many years with a dedicated clothing line and is also present at the Volvo Melges 24 World Championship for which it has exclusively created technical garments. For more information visit For further information, regular reports and resultes please visit www.conteofflorence.com.
The Melges 24 is designed by Reichel Pugh and considered the most unique one design Sportboat in the world as well as one of the fastest-growing classes of high performance yachts. More information can be found at the official website of the U.S. Melges 24 Class Association (USMCA), the International Melges 24 Class Association (IMCA).


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From my dA. I'm not really sure why I drew this.
This needs a creepypasta. A terribly written one.
Looks like something Immelmann would draw.
These two, head stomping the Dog from confrontation.
Actually, on the second look of this image, i'm scared. :c
Gabriel, you mean something along the lines of Paulo the psycho/robot/possessed by an evil doll-demon kind of thing? Crafting a storyline around a picture is hard. What about Daisy dumping Abbey, Abbey goes mad, takes over McCain's lab and does unspeakable things to Paulo. I dunno. Good idea? Bad? Unquestionably amoral?
Great picture, by the way Angeline
awesome pic.. but its creepy.. o.o
but cool... but phyco looking... o.o
Actually, this DOES look like something Immelmann would draw.
This reminds me of Ruby's quest.
Red and Stitches man.
I can't even...(checks tags) ok never mind that sounds about right.


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According to PennDOT traffic engineer John Ambrosini, paint crews usually have a foreman on the job to clear any dead animals off the road before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by. This crew didn't have a foreman that day.
While repainting traffic lines, road crews in Pennsylvania inadvertently laid a fresh coat of yellow paint over an unforeseen obstruction.
A dead raccoon, seen by motorists earlier this week, was caught beneath the paint gun of the crew's vehicle.
A motorcyclist, Sean McAfee, noticed the coated road kill on his way home from work and took a photo of the flattened critter covered with yellow paint.
"When I saw it, I almost wrecked my motorcycle because I was laughing so hard," McAfee told The Tribune-Democrat.
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said the accident was unavoidable.
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"They did try to stop the paint gun," traffic engineer John Ambrosini told The Tribune-Democrat. "But with the amount of congestion Thursday, the squirrelly geometry of the road and the size of the equipment, they couldn't turn around to go back and fix the mistake."
Ambrosini said paint crews know to avoid such animals and usually a foreman vehicle travels in front or behind the vehicle to remove any obstructions. But the crew didn't have a foreman that morning, and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic on the curvy, narrow road, so the line couldn't be painted without the carcass in the way.
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A two-foot break in the lines shows where the crew apparently tried to avoid the deceased animal.
"We were out the next morning to clean it up," Ambrosini said.
An unpainted spot is all that remains where the vermin was run over, and Ambrosini said he is unsure when a crew will redo the paint job.
He said that "painting the yellow lines over the existing lines is not easily done," adding that the problem occurs "pretty frequently."
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In my 17 years here, I've seen a lot of people come and go in the sports department, and I've written about those colleagues who started new chapters in their lives.
I've never written about anyone from the news department, but after having the pleasure of not only being a co-worker but a friend to news clerk Elizabeth Gilbeaux, that's about to change.
For the past year-and-a-half, Elizabeth and I were like a tag team. As I was coming into work, she was leaving for the day. We always saw each other usually 20 minutes at most, but in that short amount of time, no matter how bad of a day either one of us had, we both made each other laugh at least once.
Tuesday was Elizabeth's last day at the Times-News. We saw each other for about 15 minutes. We laughed more than once and almost cried.
Looking through the paper, you don't see her name, but you will see her work.
"She was at the core of the newsroom, acting as a gatekeeper for community information," Jennifer Heaslip, our night editor, said. "She compiled the briefs packages for the lifestyles section and news and managed the weather art features, typed columns, letters-to-the-editor and worked with our intern."
Elizabeth's name has appeared only twice in the print edition of the paper … once for a feature story she wrote and the other for a letter to the editor she sent in just before she started working here. In both, her words were powerful, but it was in her letter to the editor that really showed what Elizabeth is all about.
This is the letter submitted in November 2012:
To the editor:
Don't let anyone fool you — it's the little things in this world that truly matter.
Thinking on the little things takes me back to being a much younger girl, being taught lessons and values at home first, and in kindergarten. Lessons like sharing is caring, and being taught when to use the words "please" and "thank you."
As we get older, we learn new lessons, but some forget that the first ones are the foundation to build upon.
Some 20 years later, "please" and "thank you" are still magic words, and my smile has always and will continue to get me farther than a frown.
Elizabeth Gilbeaux
That's Elizabeth. Her smile worked wonders and will continue to work wonders. We wish her all the best.
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Now, on to racing... that's right, racing. It's time to settle up on my friendly wager each year with WHKP's Chuck Hill. We picked the top three Chase finishers for the end of the season, and he got more right than I did. Only one of my picks (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) made the top 10. All three of Chuck's picks made it. So, I will be making my trip to WHKP later this afternoon with unsweet tea in tow.
Cheers, Chuck.
On the Sidelines: Farewell, Elizabeth
In my 17 years here, I've seen a lot of people come and go in the sports department, and I've written about those colleagues who started new chapters in their lives.


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After our first three-month gap between galleries, we bring you the next gathering of stunning artwork - all about the fusion of prehistoric critters and pop culture! We had so much fun the first go around, it's time for our 2nd Pop Culture Gallery!
If you would like to add your art to these talented folk, simply send Art Evolved your work and we will add it to this gallery! Our address is email@example.com.
Without further ado, ART Evolved's 2nd Pop Culture Gallery.
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For those unfamiliar with one or both of the references, the song is a parody of Perry the Platypus's theme song from Phineas and Ferb. The events depicted are modified from a sequence from the Discovery Channel documentary-drama-comedy-thing show Dinosaur Revolution where the near-mammal Castorocauda escapes from a pair of the basal tyrannosauroid Guanlong after spraying them with (entirely speculative) skunk-like musk.
Also, this will probably make more sense now.
First though, some assorted observations I noted while doing this:
-Plausible explanation for eyelashes: ground hornbills have them.
-Isn't it ironic for a small ceratopsian to have a crush on an oviraptorosaur?
-Applejack is farming a close Mesozoic relative of modern custard apples.
-I figured that dresses would be pretty superfluous for sapient maniraptors when you already have candy-colored feathers growing out of your hands and tail. Here Rarity is instead an expert on feather maintenance. Her mannequins have detachable feathers that can be replaced, so she can do designs based on the many different color schemes of her customers. She probably does design some clothing as well, but I suspect sapient maniraptors wouldn't wear anything much more extravagant than a cloak, like Trixie does.
-How do you show a female maniraptor is a tomboy? She's (the most) colorful. Incidentally, her color scheme appears to suggest that she leaves a
-I couldn't find a way to fit a crown on Celestia's head. I suppose if you have a huge crest on your head a crown becomes superfluous.
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"Donor hearts are a limited resource," says John V. Conte, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the senior author of the study. "Now, we have a simple-to-use tool that is highly predictive of survival after a heart transplant, and can help guide organ allocation decisions."
Conte and his colleagues pulled together a series of risk factors already associated with poor outcomes, such as age, race, gender, the cause of a patient's heart failure and whether he or she was on dialysis, and then assigned a number of points to each factor. The sum of those points created a score. The higher the score, the higher the risk of death one year after transplant.
Some factors were weighted more heavily than others, such as female gender (three points); African-American race (three points), and the need for dialysis in the time between being put on the transplant waiting list and getting a transplant (five points).
Patients with the lowest scores — between zero and two — had a 92.5 percent chance of being alive 12 months after surgery.
Patients with so-called IMPACT scores — the acronym the researchers came up with for the Index for Mortality Prediction After Cardiac Transplantation — above 20 points had a less than 50 percent chance of survival one year after surgery. Every point on the scale increased the chance of death within one year by 14 percent.
To develop and test the validity of IMPACT, Conte and his team analyzed data provided by the United Network of Organ Sharing comprising information from all heart transplants — 21,378 of them — conducted in the United States between 1987 and 2010.
More research is needed to learn what role is played by factors other than the recipient's risks, Conte says. Resuslts of their study suggest, for example, that an organ coming from a donor over the age of 50 or one that has been outside the body for more than four hours also increases the risk of death in the recipient, he says.
More than 3,000 people are on the waiting list for a heart transplant in the United States, and many will die before they can get a new heart. Only about 2,000 heart transplants are performed in the U.S. annually. Currently, determining who gets an available heart takes into account how long a patient has been on the list and how sick they are. There is no standardized consideration of other factors that may predict patients' outcomes, as is the case in determining which patients receive available lungs for transplant. Incorporating the IMPACT score would add another dimension to the conversation about who gets a heart transplant, says Conte, surgical director of heart transplantation at Johns Hopkins.
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Ellen - Using Assistive Technology
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Ellen uses Assistive Technology to go about her day to day life - both at home and in college. Ellen has Cerebral Palsy and has difficulty controlling her body - she is able to access her Assistive Technology using two head switches. Through these head switches, Ellen is able to drive her powered chair, communicate with people, access the computer and internet and control her TV and household equipment.


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'McQuade' Banana BreadPosted: May 10th, 2010 | Joanna | | Tags: banana bread, mcquade, vodka | 1 Comment »
I am one of those people who hunts down brown bananas like it's her job. I look for brown spottiness and mushiness, to me this is a positive trait in a banana because it means delicious banana-y baked goods. Once a banana has reached the dark brown-black mushiness I peel it, ziplock bag it, and freeze it. Once that bag has reached three or four mushy disgusting brown bananas… it is time for some serious banana bread making.
People are very protective of their banana bread recipes. My roommate Stef always recounts the sad tale of the recipe lost in the family move… that has yet to be replaced or recreated. Whenever I make banana bread in the apartment this story comes up again, and we always shed a tear over the bread that will never reach our lips. This particular recipe I am sharing with all of you has been in my family since the age of 10. It was published in our Otsego elementary school cookbook submitted by Pamela McQuade, a good friend of my brothers. To this day we still refer to it as McQuade Banana Bread.


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19 Action News asking the big question outside of court. What will happen to Cleveland Strangler crime scene after the case is closed?
"I want them to tear it down... but someone will get a hold of it first" says one of the Cleveland Strangler's victims' family members. Neighbors also want the serial killer's house demolished.
This, after eleven Northeast Ohio women's bodies were discovered at Anthony Sowell's home on Imperial Avenue.
City Hall tells 19 Action News they can't do anything while the site is still a crime scene, which should end when convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell gets sentenced in a few days.
Sowell family members say the home is now in the hands of a mortgage company. Next, the city will do an inspection. Should this place be condemned? What do you think? There are holes in the walls and the floor, but the City of Cleveland has to go through the motions for legal reasons.
If inspectors find the place "not habitable" the city can arrange for a demolition, which can take up to several months if there is anything like asbestos inside. It could be done quickly if it's considered an emergency.
Folks in the neighborhood can't see it go soon enough following the murders and attacks.
Red tape for now, but as soon as the case is closed that will all change.