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With apologies for the delay (I was in Liberia last week – more on that soon), here's the round up of the news on REDD from two weeks ago, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). For those who can't wait until Monday for their REDD news, REDD-Monitor's news page is usually updated daily: REDD in the news.
UN-REDD March/April 2010 | In this edition, member countries weigh-in on their REDD+ progress and the value of the UN-REDD Programme; guest columnists provide analysis of the FAO's latest Global Forest Resources Assessment report (FRA 2010) and UN-REDD Inception Workshops; and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is explored in Viet Nam. Catch the latest advancements, news and information emerging on the issue of REDD+ as we explore more integrated approaches and partnerships on REDD+. We hope that you enjoy this issue and welcome your comments and suggestions. Kind regards, The UN-REDD Programme.
Making the forest carbon commons: Tracing measures to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Angai Village Land Forest Reserve
By Roland Sundström, Master's thesis, University of Helsinki, 2010 | By means of ethnographic fieldwork and document analysis, this study seeks to place those rationalities and techniques in relation to the ways in which people access, use and benefit from forests in Angai Village Land Forest Reserve (AVLFR) in Liwale District, south-eastern Tanzania. While exploratory in nature, this inquiry demonstrates that the reconceptualisation of forests as carbon stocks; and the techniques of forest carbon quantification, performance-based compensation, and long-term integrated land-use planning are likely to have important instrument effects, irrespective of whether REDD achieves its overarching aim of mitigating anthropogenic climate change.
REDD, forest governance and rural livelihoods: the emerging agenda
Edited by Oliver Springate-Baginski and Eva Wollenberg, CIFOR, 2010 | Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) initiatives are more likely to be effective in reducing emissions if they build on, rather than conflict with, the interests of local communities and indigenous groups (referred to henceforth as 'forest communities'). To show how REDD could most benefit forest communities, lessons from incentive-based forest programmes and recent experiences in six countries were reviewed at an international workshop held at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, United Kingdom, in the Spring of 2009. Workshop participants included researchers from the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR) and UEA, and REDD experts from six focus countries: Brazil, Indonesia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Mexico and Nepal.
Implications of the Copenhagen Outcome for the Forest Sector
FAO, April 2010 | The aim of this paper is to inform the European Forestry Commission of the outcome of the fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Copenhagen from 8-19 December 2009. It focuses on the issues of importance to the forest sector. [R-M: pdf file, 69.4 KB, available here: http://bit.ly/90kze6]
19 April 2010
Gov't's LCDS recognised as model approach in global climate solution
Guyana Chronicle, 19 April 2010 | The University of Guyana, in collaboration with the British High Commission, hosted a panel discussion at the Regency Suites Hotel Wednesday, with specific emphasis on Climate Change -challenges and opportunities for Guyana. The panellists were Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud; Executive Director, Conservation International Guyana, Dr. David Singh; Chief Executive Officer (ag), Guyana Energy Agency, Mahender Sharma; People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Winston Murray; and Major General (retired), Joseph Singh.
APA urges donors to ensure indigenous rights upheld when they finance forest conservation
Stabroek News, 19 April 2010 | Worried about unresolved land titling and a lack of meaningful participation in decision-making, the Amerin-dian Peoples Association (APA) has urged donors to ensure that indigenous peoples' guaranteed rights are fully upheld in all forest conservation activities they finance here. As a result, the APA and some community leaders are calling for an urgent review and amendment of the current Amerindian Act to strengthen land rights as well as the creation of safeguards to ensure that opt-in/opt-out procedures under the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) comply with principles of free, prior, and informed consent. Additionally, they recommended the establishment of an independent Amerindian advisory group to complement the LCDS multi-stakeholder committee and a working group to address the application of international standards in the process.
No Rip-Offsets – Climate Justice Now!
Insitute for Policy Studies, 19 April 2010 | The question remains: What laws, financial support and other measures are needed to incentivize sustainable land use practices? In the early stages of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the notion that land-based sinks should be part of any carbon trading regime was rejected. Now, there is a huge push, coming largely from industrial agriculture and forestry, to reintroduce carbon offsets for credits from land-based sinks in the international carbon trading regime. In 2009, the U.S. House and Senate provided the first major opening for these offset credits for land-based sinks with climate legislation that has yet to pass both Houses. Should this legislation pass, it would open up a Pandora's box of possible land-based carbon offsets globally, creating a land grab for carbon offsets globally.
REDD rush risks failure: Study
carbonpositive.net, 19 April 2010 | The development of a global REDD scheme to halt deforestation risks reversing positive reforms in developing countries that are already helping to tackle the problem, a new study finds. The study published in the issue of the journal Science by Edward Webb and Jacob Phelps at the National University of Singapore and Arun Agrawal from the University of Michigan, warns that the rush to REDD could see forest governance re-centralised in the hands of national governments. They say, however, decentralisation to local authorities and forest peoples in some developing countries in recent years has helped boost carbon storage and incomes. The study finds that creating a financial carbon market around forest preservation will likely attract more government intervention to control the large sums of money at stake. Webb and Phelps also say a properly constituted REDD scheme is complex and risks poor outcomes if it's rushed.
Bring Indigenous Voices into the Conversation About Climate Change
care2.com, 19 April 2010 | The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries or UN-REDD was created to offer developing countries financial incentives for cutting down carbon emissions by preserving forests and biodiversity. Addressing global climate change is vital, but unfortunately policies developed by the global North are not always harmonious with the livelihoods of the indigenous peoples that live on the lands. The watchgroup REDD-Monitor points out specific language in REDD's call to action that can be problematic.
20 April 2010
Guyana hosting international workshop on Amazon protection
By Priya Nauth, Guyana Chronicle, 20 April 2010 | The Guyana Government remains committed to supporting the protection of the Amazon and believes that the recipe to address the challenges facing it is through a partnership, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett affirmed yesterday. She was speaking at the opening of a regional two-day workshop, themed 'Conservation experiences of local and indigenous communities in protected areas of the Amazon region', at Grand Coastal Inn, Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara. The forum is being facilitated by the Latin American Technical Network for Natural Parks, other protected areas, wild flora and fauna (REDPARQUES), the Government of Guyana and the National Parks Unit of Colombia, with the involvement of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO).
Raiding rainforest funds in climate legislation will turn cost projections into fantasy
By Glenn Hurowitz (Avoided Deforestation Partners), Grist, 20 April 2010 | In the ongoing negotiations over the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill, different polluters are clamoring for cash to compensate them for not fouling the atmosphere quite so much. One of their targets: the legislation's set-aside funds for reducing tropical deforestation, which is responsible for at least 15 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions (more than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world). Outside of all the myriad benefits of protecting tropical rainforests for the planet, raiding this "Climate Forest Fund" seriously threatens the affordability, effectiveness, and political viability of energy and climate legislation. Here's why: one of the primary purposes of this fund is to help rainforest nations supply the international offsets needed to keep the bill affordable and end deforestation.
Reduce trust-deficit in climate talks
By Jairam Ramesh, Economic Times, 20 April 2010 | At the Major Economies Forum meeting in Washington, India made it clear that that the first order of business would be to reduce "the huge trust deficit that prevails in the climate change negotiating community"… Given the trust deficit, India stressed that "some visible triggers" need to be "activated very soon", this would "ensure that Cancun does not repeat Copenhagen". Among the triggers is the actual disbursement of the $10 b promised by the developed countries for vulnerable economies, small island states and LDCs, an agreement on REDD/REDD plus, which isnt limited to forest-basin countries and finalising the architecture of technology cooperation. Suggesting immediate action, Mr Ramesh said, "all these elements should be a part of a multilateral package in two tracks that should be delivered in Cancun."
Major economies focus on finance at climate meeting
Reuters, 20 April 2010 | The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate included presentations by the United States and other developed countries on what they would do to make good on financing outlined in the Copenhagen Accord resulting from last year's U.N. climate meeting in Denmark… At Monday's meeting, the United States issued a document to participants that said its climate-related appropriations for 2010 total $1.3 billion and that the Obama administration has requested $1.9 billion for fiscal year 2011. The funds include support for the U.S. administration's pledge to provide $1 billion for the U.N. program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. Stern said there was progress on six issues at the meeting including mitigation, transparency, financing, technology, forests and adaptation.
RI Gets Int`l Support For Its Climate Change Fight
Antara News, 20 April 2010 | In connection with preparing the DA-REDD, the director general of forestry production supervision, Hadi Daryanti, said Indonesia received an aid from the Australian government that had allocated Aus$40 million for the mitigation funding, and would increase its commitment by Aus$30 million until 2012. Other countries supporting gas emission reduction efforts in the country and sustainable forest management are Germany through GTZ totaling 3.5 million euros for three years and through KfW 20 million euros for seven years, Norway through the UN-REDD scheme totaling US$5.64 million for 20 months and TNC totaling 50 to 100 million US dollars, ITTO-Japan US$900 million for 2009-2013, and South Korea US$5 million for 2009-2012. Last March, Indonesian Ambassador to Germany Eddy Pratomo lauded Germany for its support to help save and protect the tropical rain forests in Sumatra.
Where do forest carbon markets go from here?
By Gabriel Thoumi, mongabay.com, 20 April 2010 | Even though the global carbon market grew to $136 billion with 8.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide traded in 2009, less than 0.1 percent of that was based on removing existing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere using photosynthesis. While it is very important to engage in developing a low-carbon economy, it is equally important to remove existing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, especially since this is, in fact, a key to mitigating climate change… Organizations and individuals in this sector simply need to choose their skill set within a trans-disciplinary framework, not a multi-disciplinary framework. Masquerading occurs when NGOs act as bankers and bankers act as foresters. Examples of this include: NGOs masquerading as financiers on Wall Street; Financiers masquerading as biologists and foresters; Standards masquerading as insurers. [Gabriel Thoumi is a consultant with Forest Carbon Offsets, LLC.]
CIFOR Publishes Study on Forest Law Enforcement and REDD in Guyana
Climate-L.org, 20 April 2010 | The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a member of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR), with funding from the Norwegian Government, has published a study on forest law enforcement and governance, and forest practices in Guyana. The study was carried out within the framework of an agreement between Guyana and Norway to develop a mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD), and assesses the effectiveness and legitimacy of forest governance for achieving REDD. [R-M: The report is available here: http://bit.ly/94Zk5g]
For U.S. Forests, REDD Begins at Home
By John Talberth, GreenBiz.com, 20 April 2010 | Four months after the Copenhagen Accord, the interest and discussions about reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries — colloquially known as REDD plus — continues. Clearly, helping developing countries implement comprehensive initiatives to protect their forests is a sensible investment; however, new satellite mapping technologies, such as those highlighted on SeeSouthernForests.org, the World Resources Institute's new web-based mapping portal, show that deforestation and forest degradation occurs in the United States as well.
Lack of transparency hinders fight against logging mafia
By Adianto P. Simamora, 20 April 2010 | A lack of public data on illegal logging cases could prove to be the undoing of the government's plans to root out illegal logging syndicates in the country, activists said. Activists from the Natural Resources Law Institute (IHSA), which recently published its annual report on illegal logging cases in Indonesia, said organized crime syndicates that masterminded illegal logging were difficult to trace. "In our experience, the most difficult task is to get data on illegal logging cases. Officials seem reluctant to release it to the public," said Fadli Moh. Noch, an IHSA researcher dealing with illegal logging in East Kalimantan, on Monday. "Until now, it remains unclear which institution manages the data on illegal logging cases."
21 April 2010
PM Hinds says Guyana expects US$3OM this year
By Priya Nauth, Guyana Chronicle, 21 April 2010 | THE sum of US$5M has already been earmarked to further support the Amerindian people, from the US$30M that Guyana expects, this year, under the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) and Norway agreement. This was disclosed by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Monday, at the opening of a regional two-day workshop, themed 'Conservation experiences of local and indigenous communities in protected areas of the Amazon region', at Grand Coastal Inn, Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara.
By Alan Boyle, Cosmic Log, 21 April 2010 | There are many challenges in adequately enforcing protection: illegal logging, forest fires, conversion to agriculture/palm oil, wildlife trade and mining are among the most difficult challenges faced… Overcoming these challenges will require new ways of doing and thinking about business in the Heart of Borneo, both in existing sectors such as palm oil as well emerging sectors such as carbon trading. Rather than conventional stereotyping of traditional environmental foes, we see an alternative future where industry provides both economic development and conservation outcomes. Likewise, international market-based mechanisms such as reduced emissions from deforestation (REDD) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) need to be realized and implemented. That is, forests need to be worth more standing than clear-cut.
22 April 2010
Vatican might sue over unplanted carbon-offsetting forest
AFP, 22 April 2010 | The Vatican said Thursday it might sue a Hungarian company that failed to plant trees as agreed to offset the Vatican's carbon emissions. "It's true that the forest has not been planted," Father Ciro Benedettini, deputy head of the Vatican press office told AFP. "We have asked several times to respect this commitment and we are currently studying the possibility of resorting to justice," Benedettini said. The head of US-Hungarian Planktos-Klimafa told news agency ASCA the company "is in a very difficult financial situation." In July 2007 Planktos-Klimafa agreed to plant 7,000 hectares of trees in a national park in Hungary in order to make the Vatican state carbon-neutral. Benedettini said the Vatican might sue Planktos-Klimafa to protect its name and reputation. The Vatican has also installed solar panels on top of an audience hall in order to offset its carbon emissions.
Derivatives bill calls for US carbon market study
By Timothy Gardner and Roberta Rampton, Reuters, 22 April 2010 | A tough new proposal to regulate U.S. markets calls for top regulators and government officials to conduct a study on transparency in emerging U.S. carbon markets as part of the financial reform package. The heads of the Treasury Department, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other U.S. agencies would be required to study oversight of existing and prospective carbon markets, according to the proposal, part of a bill passed by the Senate Agriculture Committee this week. The goal of the study is "to ensure an efficient, secure, and transparent carbon market, including oversight of spot markets and derivative markets," the bill said.
23 April 2010
Luncheon posits agencies can come to conclusions here
By Priya Nauth, Guyana Chronicle, 23 April 2010 | HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon, noting that the Amerindian People's Association (APA) has written to international agencies regarding the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), said most of them are represented in Guyana and had an opportunity to come to their own conclusions. He said, at his weekly post-Cabinet media briefing Wednesday, in Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown: "I don't know. They, probably, got a lot of money because my understanding is that most of these agencies are represented here. And, apart from their being represented here in Guyana, I think they, themselves, quite competently, would over time, the same time, hopefully, that the APA put into coming to whatever conclusions they have had about the LCDS."
Grassroots summit calls for international climate court
By Andres Schipani, Guardian, 23 April 2010 | The conference – which was attended by 30,000 people, according to the organisers, including NGOs, scientists, as well as union and government delegations – resolved to push for proposals that keep fossil fuels in the ground, protect indigenous rights, and reject plans to pay countries not to cut down forests through schemes like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Redd). "This alternative has to succeed because the alternative to Cochabamba is Copenhagen and Copenhagen came out with a so-called solution to climate change that in no way meets the severity of the climate crisis," said Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
World People's Summit Calls for a Climate Justice Tribunal
By Claudia Lopez Pardo, solveclimate.com, 23 April 2010 | Delegates emphasized the need for a common vocabulary to address the structural causes of climate change and a common vision to address solutions, including international agreements on the respect for human rights of climate migrants, technology transfers and recovery for older technologies. They also demanded fair payment of climate debt and effective scientific solutions to the problems caused by climate change, with developed countries assuming the costs and responsibility and quickly cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. UN-supported programs like REDD (Reducing Emissions Through Deforestation and Degradation) were roundly criticized for allowing polluters to pay their way out of taking responsibility for their actions.
In Forests, the Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty
Living on Earth, 23 April 2010 | Living on Earth's Mitra Taj visited one project in Indonesian Borneo… Zoe Harkin, a forest carbon specialist for the conservation group Fauna and Flora International, or FFI, offers this explanation: HARKIN IN MEETING: If you protect the forest in Indonesia, it makes it less hot in Australia. So we want to help protect forests here so it's not so hot in Australia… TAJ: Out here, slash and burn agriculture is one of life's essentials -in order to eat, you grow rice, in order to grow rice, you clear the forest. But for Fauna and Flora International to successfully market carbon credits from its REDD project, it has to make sure the forest it promises to protect stays protected, and that might mean changing age-old agricultural practices.
24 April 2010
Building a Climate Justice Movement
By Tina Gerhardt, AlterNet, 24 April 2010 | The forest working group starkly rejected the UN program REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). REDD is a shell game, using market mechanisms to offset carbon emissions, which allows for speculation and for companies to get around actual carbon reductions. "REDD is branded as a friendly forest conservation program, yet it is backed by big polluters and climate profiteers. We cannot solve this crisis without addressing the root cause: a fossil fuel economy that disregards the rights of Mother Earth," said Alberto Saldamando, legal counsel for the International Indian Treaty Council. Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), added that "REDD is a predatory program that pretends to save forests and the climate, while backhandedly selling out forests out from under our indigenous people."
25 April 2010
Bolivia 'people's conference' calls for system change, not climate change
By Tina Gerhardt, Grist, 25 April 2010 | The working groups had varying degrees of success. Some reached agreements that supporters can organize around and push for at future U.N. climate meetings. The forest working group rejected the U.N. REDD program (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), arguing that by using market mechanisms to offset carbon emissions, it allows companies to speculate and get around actual carbon reductions… But there was also dissent at the conference. Various organizations and an unofficial 18th working group focused on the discrepancy between Morales' rhetoric on behalf of Mother Earth and his policy of resource extraction, emphasizing the environmental degradation brought about by mining and oil and gas drilling. Revenues from natural gas help to keep Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, afloat. Eduardo Gudynas has referred to this policy as the "new extractivism" of Latin America.
Tools for community training on climate change launched
Kaieteur News, 25 April 2010 | Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation (Iwokrama) and Conservation International Guyana (CI-Guyana) jointly launched a publication, Climate Change & the Role of Forests — A Community Manual this week. The manual is a key part of a set of tools designed to enhance community understanding of the issues related to climate change and the role that forests can play in addressing these issues.
Global REDD+ registry proposed
carbonpositive.net, 25 April 2010 | A group of climate policy researchers has proposed an international registry be set up to coordinate the disparate efforts toward a global REDD+ mechanism. The Technical Working Group on the Institutional Architecture for Climate Finance says such a body is needed to harmonise the wide range of funding initiatives dedicated to REDD+ readiness efforts, implementation and credits… n a paper released this month, A Registry Approach For REDD+, the policy group does not mix its words in arguing that "the sheer confusion and inefficiencies currently underlying that disjointed landscape of publicly-funded mechanisms for REDD+ demand immediate rationalization and reorganization".
Guyana met all REDD+ targets in '09
Stabroek News, 25 April 2010 | The first Annual Progress Report on REDD+ enablers under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement was recently released and the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment has since invited tenders for the verification of these enabling activities. The report was posted on the Low Carbon Development Strategy website and documented activities which took place in 2009, with an update up to February 2010. Commencing April 6, it was open for public comments for 14 days ending last Tuesday. To date, Guyana has met all its targets under the agreement and has reached all the benchmarks that should have been met by December 31, 2009, the report states.


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Android rooting is the rite passage that connects you to the deepest level of your Android operating system. Perhaps, you may not know the actual benefits of staying connected to the deepest level of Android or you may already know the actual benefit of it. Rooting can be explained as the process which should be followed to get administrative privileges. A system administrator is someone who is powerful to acess all the files and commands in a system and he is limitless. Likewise, rooting gives you the unlimited power to handle your device with your own will.
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Last month I noted here the increasing desperation of the Climatistas, who tried to scare us with a study showing that global warming will cause an increase in the crime rate decades from now. But philosophy professor Lawrence Torcello of the Rochester Institute of Technology has taken the desperation one step further, arguing that climate skeptics should be criminally prosecuted:
If those with a financial or political interest in inaction had funded an organised campaign to discredit the consensus findings of seismology, and for that reason no preparations were made, then many of us would agree that the financiers of the denialist campaign were criminally responsible for the consequences of that campaign. I submit that this is just what is happening with the current, well documented funding of global warming denialism. . .
We have good reason to consider the funding of climate denial to be criminally and morally negligent. The charge of criminal and moral negligence ought to extend to all activities of the climate deniers who receive funding as part of a sustained campaign to undermine the public's understanding of scientific consensus.
A twofer! Not only are we asked to trash the scientific traditions of skepticism, but the rule of law along with it. Free speech? Nah—not for skeptics:
My argument probably raises an understandable, if misguided, concern regarding free speech. We must make the critical distinction between the protected voicing of one's unpopular beliefs, and the funding of a strategically organised campaign to undermine the public's ability to develop and voice informed opinions. Protecting the latter as a form of free speech stretches the definition of free speech to a degree that undermines the very concept.
This is of course laughable; given that the climate science and policy community receives billions a year for climatism, Prof. Torcello ought to look in the mirror when making charges of financial gain. Plus, what about the speech of those many analysts like Anthony Watts or JoNova who receive no funding from anyone for their work? Something tells me Torcello would hand them over to the Climate Grand Inquisitor, too.
Maybe my favorite part is his shout-out to Michael Mann:
Many scientists recognize these civic and moral obligations. Climatologist Michael Mann is a good example; Mann has recently made the case for public engagement in a powerful New York Times opinion piece: If You See Something Say Something.
Ah yes—that would be the Michael Mann who claimed to be a Nobel Prize winner in court filings in his suit against Mark Steyn and even mocked up his own certificate for his office wall, only to be disavowed by the Nobel Committee, which sent this in response to a reporter inquiry:
1) Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2) He did not receive any personal certificate. He has taken the diploma awarded in 2007 to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and to Al Gore) and made his own text underneath this authentic-looking diploma.
3) The text underneath the diploma is entirely his own. We issued only the diploma to the IPCC as such. No individuals on the IPCC side received anything in 2007.
So much for truth telling from the Climatistas.
It's only March, but I think Torcello is the early front-runner for Power Line's Green Weenie of the Year.


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Scaife scores 28, Berry adds 22 to power Ball State past Toledo 86-72
TOLEDO, Ohio – Jauwan Scaife scored 28 points, making 5 of 10 from behind the arc, as Ball State defeated Toledo 86-72 Saturday in a Mid-American Conference game.
Jesse Berry added 22 points and Chris Bond chipped in 16 to help Ball State (13-14, 6-8) split its season matchup with Toledo and win its third straight game.
Dominique Buckley's 3-pointer brought Toledo, which trailed 67-60 with 7:22 remaining, within 71-69 with 5:02 to play.
Scaife answered with a 3-pointer, as Ball State scored the next eight points to go up 79-69 with just under three minutes left.
Toledo (13-13, 8-6) went the final five minutes without a field goal and scored just three points during that stretch.
Toledo shot just 28.6 percent (10 of 35) in the second half.
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Per Se
If you're looking for premium French fine dining in Hell's Kitchen, look no further than Per Se. Be prepared to drop at least $150 per person here, but trust us when we tell you that the high price tag is worth it. Per Se is bar-none, one of our favorite restaurants in all of New York City. Formal attire is required, but there is no air of pretension here. The place never feels snobby or uptight, although the food will definitely make you feel like a member of high society.
Per Se offers two daily tasting menus, including a nine-course chef's tasting menu and a nine-course vegetable tasting menu. No single ingredient is ever repeated throughout these nine courses. Some of our favorites from the most recent chef's menu include the oysters and pearls, smoked sturgeon mille-crepe, and the "terrine" of Hudson Valley moulard duck foie gras.
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B Side is easily our favorite pizza and wine bar in Hell's Kitchen. The menu features a wide variety of green appetizers, specialty pastas, and pizzas with complex flavors and toppings. Some of our favorite appetizers include the roasted brussel sprouts, bacon and beef meatballs, black kale, and zucchini noodles salad. If you're a pasta lover, you can't go wrong with the ricotta gnocchi or lasagna. And if you're looking for some delectable speciality pizzas, we're big fans of the Oscar the Grouch (spinach, black kale, garlic, mozzarella fonduta), el puerco loco (tomato, mozzarella, basil, oregano, sea salt), and the "You've Got A Lot Of Balls" (tomato, meatballs, mozarella, taleggio, oregano, and peppers).
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As a result of population growth in the Town of Clay in the late 1960's, Bishop David Cunningham decided a new Catholic Church was needed. The new parish would draw parishioners from Christ the King in Liverpool, St. Mary's in Baldwinsville and St. Stephen's in Phoenix.
The founding families decided the church would be named in honor of Pope John XXIII and he would be its patron when he became canonized. St. John's Roman Catholic Church was officially founded on July 1, 1971 and Father James O'Connell was appointed as its first pastor.
An agreement was signed between Kabeth Properties and the Diocese to transfer land on Soule Road with the stipulation being that a parish would be established on it. With a donation from the O'Donnell family and a loan from the Diocese, construction of the rectory and church began.
While the church was being built, masses were held in the Bayberry Theater and other venues, while funerals and weddings were held in neighboring parishes. Construction was completed in the fall of 1973 and the dedication ceremony was held on Christmas Eve that same year.
As the parish membership grew, several additions and renovations were made to the original building. These included the addition of eleven classrooms in 1979 to accommodate religious education needs; the construction of the Parish Center in 1993; and the movement of the parish offices to the church building in 2011.
From the inception of St. John's Church, there was an immediate commitment to volunteerism and evangelization by its lay people in which that allegiance remains great today. Parishioners have been active in liturgy, the Faith Formation program, the maintenance of the church along with many other ministries and committees needed to run such a large parish.
Throughout the years there have been many community-building activities including dances, breakfasts, dinners, movie nights, and picnics. Some special activities have included the celebrations of the 25th and 35th anniversary of St. John's Church as well as Father O'Brien's 45th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood.
As the parish concluded its yearlong anniversary celebration in 2012, the vision of its founding members was finally realized with the renaming of the parish to Pope John XXIII Roman Catholic Church of Clay, NY.
With the retirement of Msgr. O'Brien we welcomed Father Zach as the new leader of our community. At the same time, we became linked with our neighboring parish Christ the King and are moving forward in new and wonderful ways.


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After getting setup on Battle.net with my Blizzard accounts, I decided to get Diablo II setup so I did not have to have the CD in my computer to be able to play. Fortunately Spinks provided a URL that described the steps to set Diablo II up to not require the CD.
There are, essentially, two steps. The first is to patch the game up to version 1.12a, which I had already done.
The next step is to make sure that all of the .MPQ files that are on the play disk and the expansion disk are moved to the root directory of the game on your local drive. That took a few minutes, but once it was done the game ran fine without the CD.
Of course, once I had it running, I had to play for a bit. I rolled an assassin and played through the first act then went back to my paladin and moved him along through the second act.
Playing Diablo II always reminds me how much World of Warcraft owes the game. People complain the Blizzard stole everything that makes WoW what it is (and what did Picasso supposedly say about great artists?), but if they did, they stole some of it long enough ago that the statute of limitations has to be getting close running out. I mean, we've all seen this:
If you had asked me five years ago, I would have told you I had no interest at all in the Warcraft IP and that I would only be interested in a Diablo based MMO from Blizzard. I only ended up playing WoW because so many of my friends from EverQuest and TorilMUD ended up playing the game. (All on different servers, but I've grumbled about shards before.)
Of course, once I started playing I could see that once you peeled back a bit of the Warcraft look and feel, there was a lot of Diablo in the game, enough that I am convinced that they can't really make a Diablo MMO without it becoming mostly a giant version of Darkshire. Maybe somebody could do a Diablo mod for WoW?
The next day I went back to Battle.net and decided to download StarCraft and see how that looked more than 10 years after release. The bad news about installing from Battle.net is that it uses the same patcher that they use for WoW. On the plus side, the game isn't that big, about 1 GB, and isn't a popular download, so it went pretty fast. Also, you get the latest (or last) fully patched version with no CD dependency.
I was worried about how the game would look, but even on a 1600×1200 monitor, it looks pretty good. It does get a bit blocky if you stare at the screen, but visual closure has you covered for the most part. 640×480 is pretty small though. A full screenshot does not take up much space a all.
I played a lot of StarCraft for the first couple of years after it launched. In fact, to this day my wife occasionally asks me, "What ever happened to 'Jacked up and good to go'?" referring to one of the stock phrases the marines say. So I turned up the speakers on my computer (which got my wife to walk by and see if I was really playing such an old game) and started a simple Terran vs. Zerg skirmish, with me playing the Terran.
Even after a few years away from the game, I was able to remember just enough to defeat a single Zerg opponent. It took me a while, almost an hour, and I ended up playing with almost every unit, but eventually I was able to stop turtling and go wipe out the enemy in detail. Still, I used to play as Terran and take on three computer Zerg opponents, so not a stellar performance, but not so bad after all that time away.
So after all of that, I am pretty high on Diablo/StarCraft nostalgia and am really impatient for Diablo III and StarCraft II to come out.
Of course, that doesn't mean I will like them when they come out. Diablo III is especially in danger of retro-remorse, being done by a completely different team from the first two games. And sequels have disappointed me before. I went back to Age of Empires II: Age of Kings after playing Age of Empires III for a very short space of time, and I still think Civilization II is the best in the Civ series, so the future is fraught with potential disappointment.
Hrmm, where did I put my Age of Kings CD?


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AOA Mina's Father Passes Away after Battle with Cancer
AOA Mina's father has passed away.
FNC Entertainment revealed that "On the morning of November 29 at around 8 a.m., Mina's father Mr. Kwon passed away from cancer."
"The late Mr. Kwon's battle against cancer began about three months ago. Mina, who is currently appearing in the SBS drama 'Modern Farmer,' spent most of her free time with her father in the hospital, and is deeply grieved by her loss," said the agency.
Mina has currently put drama filming and other promotions on hold.
We offer our deepest condolences to Mina and her family.


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Playground banter never changes too much over the years. Last night's football, tonight's football, girls and plans for the weekend will probably be forming the basis of a few hundred thousands conversations this morning. But one pupil at a school in Huddersfield will be able to tell the story of how he became the Football League's youngest ever player last night.
Reuben Noble-Lazarus (great name) came on as a substitute for Barnsley in their 3-0 defeat against Ipswich last night. And it was a Noble job because at 15 years and 45 days the youngster is too young to pick up a pay cheque for his efforts.
Realising the dream of many schoolboys, Noble-Lazarus came off the bench in the 84th minute. But today he is back in his GCSE lessons at school. Barnsley have reached an agreement whereby they can take the speedy player out of school two days-a-week to train with the first-team squad (yet another schoolboy dream!).
Barnsley boss Simon Davey, who knew the youngster from his time in charge of the academy, said: "I have kept an eye on him over the last two years and have tried to integrate him as quickly as I could into the first team. He is a confident lad but he is still only 15. He is a talent and we need to nurture him in the right way."
Noble-Lazarus beat the record of 15 years set by Bradford Park Avenue's Albert Geldard in 1929 and equalled by Ken Roberts of Wrexham in 1951. The youngest Premier League player record was broken this season by Jose Baxter of Everton, but he was a relatively ancient 16 years and 191 days.
The other modern Football League youngsters
Only five other 15 year olds have played in the Football League in the past 15 years:
Moses Ashikodi (Millwall) aged 15 years 240 days on 22/02/2003
Matthew Etherington (Peterborough) aged 15 years 262 days on 03/05/1997
Lee Holmes (Derby County) aged 15 years 268 days on 26/12/2002
Scott Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) aged 15 years 275 days on 26/12/2004
David Billington (Peterborough) aged 15 years 342 days on 21/09/1996
What this shows us, among other things, is that senior pros love to skive Boxing Day matches!


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As there will be no SIGs to advertise during the week 2 - 8 May, the next newsletter will be sent out on Friday 7 May with SIG meeting information for the following week.
Tuesday 27 April - Main Meeting - 5.30pm - 8.30pm
From memory, it has been a year or two since we last heard from anyone in the Internet phone calling industry, also known as "VoIP" or voice over Internet Protocol. These days Internet calling is a mature technology, allowing millions around the world to dramatically lower their phone bills and save lots of money each and every month.
Rene Sugo of MyNetFone is our guest this April, and he will explain to us his company's latest phone plans, showcase the latest Internet phones (that look and work like regular telephones, be they wired or wireless, with some extra snazzy features), and if all goes to plan, there'll be an amount of free phone calls via a VoIP service to be won as the main prize!
I'm still to determine exactly what that prize will be, but with Australians eager to lower costs and take advantage of the latest technologies to get one up over Telstra, it will be interesting to learn what MyNetFone offers consumers in 2010 after several years of VoIP being on the market, what the latest VoIP phones are like, and the other products and services that MyNetFone offers.
So - come along to the April Main Meeting, take a call from Rene and see if he can put a smile on your "dial"!
See you there,
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We'll have our usual Penrith SIG meeting on Saturday 1st May, at the usual venue, St Clair High School, Endeavour Avenue, St Clair, but from 2 pm to 5 pm, now that daylight saving has finished.
As well as our usual Q and A session around the table, where we share problems, advice and tips, we will partition a brand new portable 500 GB hard disk. From a recent Choice Computer magazine, we will look at the findings of tests conducted on the five most common internet browsers. We'll check how Word and the Open Office word processor can be used as simple databases. Another article we'll read is the difference between 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7.
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EWEA: Annual Report 2010 [Powering the Energy Debate]
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2010 was a year of many highs and some lows. One of the highs was the fact that the Member States' National Renewable Energy Action Plans showed the EU to be en route to slightly exceed the 20% renewable energy target.
Similarly, the European Commission's important communications on a 2020 strategy and on infrastructure priorities were steps towards a Europe-wide power grid and a functioning single electricity market.
EWEA Annual Report 2010


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MUMBAI: The Retailer Magazine's Collector's Issue has done a study to rank the 50 Most Powerful People in retail in the country and Shringar Cinemas managing director Shravan Shroff has been ranked number 24 in the survey.
Shringar Cinemas owns the Fame chain of multiplexes across the country.
This survey has ranked Shravan ahead of his other competitors from the same industry, placing him ahead of PVR Cinemas chairman and managing director Ajay Bijli and Fun Republic's Atul Goel who have been ranked 27th and 31st respectively.
The survey conducted by The Retailer Magazine has put Shravan Shroff in the league of other retail giants like Mukesh Ambani, Sunil Mittal, Kumarmangalam Birla, Gautam Singhani amongst others.


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Real melting chocolates. Belgium 1926. Godiva was founded by Pierre Draps in 1926 out of his dream to create a more wonderful world through exquisite, Belgian chocolate. Today-after nearly a century of craftsmanship, the finest ingredients, and inventive flair-we invite you to create your own Godiva experience at home with our range of Godiva Baking Ingredients. www.godiva.com. Contains product from Canada.


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Typically Typical – Take Two
I wrote last year about the folly about using "typical" specs when designing systems . My sense from reading the comments is that a lot of responses were from older engineers. As one of those myself, I have to confess that eons ago, as a freshly-minted EE, I was a rather careless designer. Need a pull-up? Any old resistor would do. Capacitors? Sure, select one based on voltage and capacitance. I rarely thought about tolerances, temperature effects, and the myriad other factors that make a circuit reliable in production.
But sometimes there were problems, and I learned that between the lab and the manufacturing line lies a huge gulf.
Fortunately, a mentor appeared, an older engineer who was a complete pain in the you-know-what. He critiqued everything. We had to justify the smallest design decisions. He'd demand small changes to meet his notion of getting things reliable.
We all hated him.
But a strange thing happened. These carefully-reviewed designs worked. All the time. Customers weren't ticked off. And it turns out that it's actually interesting and rewarding to think through design decisions with care.
Another mentor appeared, a chemical engineer turned sailing bum. He taught me to apply the engineering method to building and maintaining ocean-going sailboats, where failures can be life-threatening. No fitting was too unimportant to think about from a stress, wear, and materials standpoint. Dan taught me to generalize the engineering mindset to life in general. Some politician makes an odd claim? Do the numbers. What's likely to happen to the teenagers on that weekend at the beach? Do a worst-case analysis and develop contingency plans.
It drives my wife crazy.
In that article about typical specs I complained that the vendors spew "typical" numbers, but they admit that these aren't tremendously useful for design. That thwarts any attempt to do careful engineering analysis when building a system.
Consider this excerpt from an ARM datasheet:
My mentor of yore is rolling is rolling in his grave. This dearth of hard data makes it impossible to create a reliable design.
As reader DaveSchabel replied in the comments to my earlier article "I'm not sure if the manufacturers realize that poor datasheets often eliminate an otherwise superior device from design-ins."
It wasn't always this way. Here's an example from TI's 1976 TTL Databook for the 7447A BCD to seven segment decoder/driver:
Note that all of the specs have a max or min number, and the data shows what conditions those numbers apply to (e.g., Vol is with Vcc-MIN, Vih=2, Vil=0.8, Ioh=-200 uA). The typical specs aren't much different from the worst-case numbers. Compare that to some MCUs whose max sleep current, in those rare cases where one is listed, might be two orders of magnitude greater than the listed typical.
Admittedly, in the olden days just a few pages were enough to fully document a part. Today a thousand page spec isn't uncommon, and that immense document commonly leaves out important information. Properly characterizing a component isn't easy.
Here's another datasheet – it's from a box of Entenmann's donuts:
These are worst-case specs. They are guarantees. Contractual terms between Entenmann's and the buyer. You know what you're getting.
Min/max specs, too, are guarantees. "Typical" is not. Why would one risk using a part that the vendor refuses to guarantee?
Just last month an FAE from a large vendor told me some of their typical numbers are really marketing tools. Does that mean they can change with the competitive landscape? "Our competitor just dropped their typ specs; we better do the same!"
Me, I want a guarantee.
What's your take?
Jack G. Ganssle is a lecturer and consultant on embedded developmentissues. He conducts seminars on embedded systems and helps companieswith their embedded challenges, and works as an expert witness onembedded issues. Contact him at . His website is.


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Multiple Sclerosis Stem Cell Therapy in Mexico at Del Prado Hospital
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a nervous system disease that affects your brain and spinal cord. It damages the myelin sheath, the material that surrounds and protects your nerve cells. This damage slows down or blocks messages between your brain and your body, leading to the symptoms of MS. They can include
- Visual disturbances
- Muscle weakness
- Trouble with coordination and balance
- Sensations such as numbness, prickling, or "pins and needles"
- Thinking and memory problems
No one knows what causes MS. It may be an autoimmune disease, which happens when your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. Multiple sclerosis affects women more than men. It often begins between the ages of 20 and 40. Usually, the disease is mild, but some people lose the ability to write, speak, or walk.
There is no single test for MS. Doctors use a medical history, physical exam, neurological exam, MRI, and other tests to diagnose it. There is no cure for MS, but medicines may slow it down and help control symptoms. Physical and occupational therapy may also help.
How can Stem Cells Help Multiple Sclerosis?
From what we know so far about stem cells and MS, there are two main ways that potential treatments for MS might be developed:
- Immunomodulation – preventing immune damage to the nervous system
- Remyelination – repairing the myelin sheath that has already been damaged
These are both considered 'neuroprotective' therapies because they aim to protect the nerve fibres inside the myelin sheath.
Because MS is a neurodegenerative disease, and its more prominent feature is the damage the disease does to the central nervous system, it is hoped that stem cells may hold the key to reversing the damage done by facilitating the repair of damaged nerve cells.
Which Kinds of cells are used in Multiple Sclerosis and how are they obtained?
Adult Stem Cells are obtained from ITC Bank from donor tissue or Autologous Transplant is harvested from the patient own Adipose Tissue and it takes 21 days to culture, differentiate and administered the Adult Stem Cells to the patient.
How are Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) administered in Multiple Sclerosis?
A Typical treatment is as following and are administered by a license physician.
- Medical evaluation, blood testing
- 1 intravenous injections of adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells , with Vit. C, Eicosanoids and Amnoaciids(day 1)
- , Hyperbaric Chamber(day 2)
- 1 intravenous injections of adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells , with Vit. C, Eicosanoids and Aminoacids(day 3)
- Hyperbaric Chamber(day 4)
- 1 intravenous injections of adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells , with Vit. C, Eicosanoids and Aminoacids(day 5)
Will anyone follow up with me after I returned home?
Del Prado Stem Cell Center cares about how you are doing after you return home. So, we will monitor your progress on a regular basis. Regular follow-up also helps us evaluate the effectiveness of our clinical protocols and improve them based on observed outcomes.
Therefore, our medical staff will be contacting you after 1 month, 3 months, 4 months, and 1 year to follow up on your condition.
Feel free to contact us we will be more than glad to assist you.
For Del Prado Stem Cell Center is very important to inform both the medical community and society in general that stem cell therapy it may be unsuccessful in some cases or not recommended for all patients. Must never create false expectations without clinical and research studies to support the implementation of these treatments. So we suggest you talk to your doctor before receiving treatment.


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yum-verify(1) yum-verify(1) NAME
yum verify plugin SYNOPSIS
yum [options] verify [package ...] DESCRIPTION
This plugin extends yum with some commands that give verification information on the installed system, much like rpm -V. You can change how the verification is done and which files it applies to. added yum commands are: * verify * verify-rpm * verify-all all of which take the same arguments as the list yum command, obviously you can only verify packages that are installed on the system. verify Is the generic verification command, and is intended to give the most useful output. It removes all false matches due to multilib and ignores changes to configuration files by default. verify-rpm Is meant to be 100% compatible with rpm -V output, and any differences should be considered as bugs. verify-all Is used to list all the differences, including some that rpm itself will ignore. GENERAL OPTIONS
These are the options added to yum that are available in the verify commands. They are: --verify-filenames This option is used to limit the filenames that the packages will perform verification. --verify-configuration-files This option is only useful in the generic verify command, and will enable/disable verification of files that are tagged as configu- ration files. EXAMPLES
To do the same as rpm -Va, use: yum verify-rpm To verify the packages starting with the name yum, use: yum verify 'yum*' To verify the binaries that are in a bin directory, use: yum verify --verify-filenames='*bin/*' To verify all include files, Eg. for multilib problems, use: yum verify-all --verify-filenames='/usr/include/*' SEE ALSO
yum (8) yum.conf (5) the verify.conf file in /etc/yum/plugins.d AUTHORS
James Antill <email@example.com>. BUGS
Currently yum-verify does not do verify-script checking or dependency checking, only file checking. Should you find any other bugs, you should first consult the FAQ section on http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq and if unsuccessful in finding a resolution contact the mailing list: email@example.com. To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs. James Antill 01 March 2008 yum-verify(1)