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'Big Boy' of American Radio station, Real 92.3, asks Burna Boy for "expensive birthday gift"
The African Giant seems to have a lot of spotlight on him across the world lately.
Host of the Los Angeles-based radio station has asked the 'Anybody' hitmaker to gift him an expensive item for his forthcoming birthday.
Talking to Burna Boy during an interview, Radio Host, Big Boy
"You know my birthday is next week right? Yeah right, I'm glad you do. Did you bring anything new for me?" Big Boy asked.
Burna responded by telling him he was well aware his birthday is forthcoming.
"You know with me, I want gifts from the heart. But I like expensive gift from the heart you know." Big Boy added.
Burna promised him that he'd send him a gift where ever he is.
Big Boy, born Kurt Alexander, is a nationally syndicated American radio host and actor. From 1997 he has hosted the morning show at Los Angeles Rhythmic contemporary station KPWR until his move in February 2015 to KRRL.
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UPDATE: January 11, 2017 at 11:39 a.m.
More than a year after it was initially tested, you can now get a taco with a shell made out of fried chicken at Taco Bells across the U.S. What a wonderful world we live in.
The Tex-Mex–inspired chain announced Wednesday that it is introducing what's now called the Naked Chicken Chalupa to stores everywhere beginning January 26. The shell is made of marinated, fried white-meat chicken with Mexican spices and seasoning. On the inside, you'll find lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, and creamy avocado-ranch sauce.
An executive at Taco Bell couldn't help but include every possible chicken pun in one statement: "Something this delicious yet different is bound to ruffle some feathers; some might even cluck their tongues at it," Marisa Thalberg, Chief Marketing Officer, said. On its own, the Naked Chicken Chalupa will go for $2.99, or you can get it in a $5 box alongside a Doritos Locos Taco, a regular crunch taco, and a medium drink.
ORIGINAL POST: September 3, 2015 at 10:15 a.m.
Taco Bell is reportedly testing a new menu item that replaces the usual taco shell with fried chicken. The item, called the Naked Crispy Chicken Taco, is currently available at only two locations, both in California, according to food website Foodbeast.
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Taco Bell did not immediately return Seventeen.com's request for comment.
The fast-food chain is no stranger to experimenting with its taco shells. In 2012, it introduced the Doritos Locos tacos, where the shells are made of Doritos. People went nuts for them, and they proved to be a blockbuster success for the company.
But the Naked Crispy Chicken Taco is actually more reminiscent of KFC's Double Down sandwich and hot dog, which replaces the bun with fried chicken. For that reason, it might come as no surprise that KFC and Taco Bell are owned by the same parent company, Yum Brands.


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An unlikely pair
Dante´s love story: enemies by nature, lovers by fate
by Victoria de Lima on August 30, 2019
And then he saw her, and the world stopped for a heartbeat. He pushed this feeling aside and scoffed at the idea of his enemy's daughter catching his attention.
His idea of rushing in guns blazing, which had seemed so efficient a few moments ago, had failed. He had intended to break in the castle and shoot down his mark: Vasile. The bloodsucker punk had been terrorizing the populace all over Linirea, and it was his duty to put an end to it. It would have been over by now if it hadn't been for her and the utter distraction she brought.
He knew Vasile had female company as he heard a velvety voice arguing with the old vampire, but he never expected to be smitten by her. If someone had even suggested such a thing could happen to an old seasoned hunter, he would have mocked them.
Vasile, knowing the odds were not on his favor, as his army of Vampiresas was not around, disappeared in a smoke cloud, leaving his daughter at the mercy of the hunter.
Dante pointed at her, masking his feelings under a blank stare and ordered her to stand still. Lucrezia silently looked at him to evaluate his adversary and the quickest way to get him out of her way, but her sight got caught in his eyes. In her countless years, she had never seen such profound eyes, like two dark pits, that mesmerized her. She blinked quickly to break the eye contact and gather herself back.
-Who are you? Why do you dare to break into my father's lair? I can't decide whether you are a fool, if you have a death wish... or both.-She said with a soft voice.
-I am here to end Vasile's reign of terror, and whoever stands on my way to his demise, will face the same fate.-Dante replied.
-I can agree he has done too much damage to these lands, but you are truly delusional if you think you can take him down with a few shots of your guns. He is an ageless immortal; it would take a lot more than that to banish him.
Dante quickly evaluated the situation; what she was saying was not lacking in truth. It was painfully obvious he needed a new strategy ( a much better thought out plan) than the one he had. Dante needed to know Vasile's weaknesses, and he was staring at the creature that could enlighten him with that valuable information. He was going to get it, even if it meant bringing her along in his journey.
He ordered her to come with him, but she had other plans. With a mischevious grin, Lucrezia jumped through one of the castle's windows and disappeared. Dante cursed and tried to follow her, but she was nowhere in sight.
Dante was both frustrated and curious about this mysterious creature, not to mention, in desperate need of her knowledge; So he spent the next months tracking her down. Much like a chess game, every time he managed to make a move and almost have her in his grasp, she managed to outsmart him and escape.
With each encounter, the respect and admiration for the other flourished. Soon both began to yearn for those moments without even noticing it.
It is a dangerous thing for a hunter to be distracted from his objective, and this was almost Dante's downfall. He was tracking her down through the woods, planing a new antic to throw her off guard when he walked into a trap. Vasile and his vampiresas had surrounded him.
Dante knew his time had come, but he was not going to go down without a fight. He fought bravely and took many vampiresas down, but he knew he could never win as he was grossly outnumbered.
Vasile grabbed him and was about to rip him into pieces when suddenly a strong force pushed Vasile away. Lucrezia had come to Dante's aid and managed to tear him away from the danger.
She held out her hand to him, and he took it, fleeing from danger and knowing, fully well, they were never going to let the other one go.
A word of caution to the reader: When you walk through the roads of Linirea, you have to keep your eyes open; you never know when you will fall into an ambush... or into love.
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According to the API doc getModulator() (and similar functions) can only be called in onInit, however I'm successfully using it in onControl, is this a bug? will it cause any problems?
I recently changed this so that you can call this in the onControl callback which is required when you want to create modulators dynamically, so no it shouldn't cause any problems.
I think you can't do it in the MIDI callbacks though (and it would be pretty stupid to do so), but I'll have to update the API docs.


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UPDATE, 11:08AM: Looks like Jimmy Fallon's second night hosting The Tonight Show and Conan O'Brien's second night in 2009 doing the same are tied among the key demo but wide apart in terms of audience. Fast nationals have both broadcasts drawing a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49 for NBC. However in terms of viewership the two aren't at all close. On his second night on June 2, 2009, O'Brien had 6.15 million viewers while Fallon's midnight show pulled in 7.366 million last night. Now granted, Fallon had the Olympics providing a bit of bump, though their numbers were down last night, but still that is the best Tuesday audience The Tonight Show has had since the 7.44 million who watched the day after Christmas in 2000. The 18-49 result is the best the late night show has done on a Tuesday since the 2.5 of December 13, 2005.
PREVIOUS, 7:03AM: The second night of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon brought sturdy ratings to NBC and outperformed Night 2 of Conan O'Brien's stint in 2009. In overnight metered-markets ratings, Fallon Night 2 drew a 5.3/15 result. While that's unsurprisingly down from the strong 7.1/17 result the host pulled for his first show, which started at midnight like last night's did, it did beat O'Brien's second night hosting The Tonight Show by 5%. However percentagewise, the drop was much more than what Jay Leno experienced on the second night of his return to The Tonight Show in 2010. Leno was down 14% from Night 1 to Night 2 while Fallon fell 25%. With guests Jerry Seinfeld, former fellow SNLer Kristen Wiig (who came on dressed as One Direction singer Harry Styles) and Lady Gaga, Tonight followed local news and NBC's tape delayed Olympics primetime coverage of the Sochi Winter Games – which were down Tuesday with a 12.0/19 metered market rating from Monday's 14.6/22.
Related: Fallon 'Tonight Show' Debut On Par With O'Brien's 2009 Premiere, Beats Leno's 2010 Return
O'Brien's June 2, 2009 show got a 5.0/12 overnight metered-market result – down from the 7.1/17 of his first night. It's worth noting that Conan didn't have the Olympics as a near lead-in like Fallon did – though the highly watched 2009 Stanley Cup finals between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings were going on that week but weren't shown on NBC that particular night. The total viewership for night 2 of O'Brien's short lived Tonight stint was 6.15 million with a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49. On his debut night, O'Brien had 9.17 million viewers with 3.8 rating among the demo – that's a demo tie with Fallon's first night and 2.14 million less in terms of viewers that the first night of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon had.
Apples-to-oranges, Fallon's second night was far ahead of night 2 of Leno's return to The Tonight Show in 2010. Leno went from a 5.4/14 in metered-market result on his first night to a 4.6/12 on March 2, 2010. When the final numbers were in Leno had attracted 5.81 million viewers with a 1.6 rating among the key 18-49 demo. His first return show had the same demo rating but 6.67 million viewers. Also, Fallon surpassed his last late night second night. That March 3, 2009 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon broadcast pulled in a 2.0/7 in overnight metered-markets results. Ultimately, that Late Night had 2.507 million viewers with a 1.0 rating among adults 18-49.
Late night rivals David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel received respective overnight metered market ratings of 2.2/15 and 1.9/5 last night – a tiny drop for the ABC show despite a much hyped showing of the new trailer from Disney/Marvel's upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy pic. We'll update with final Fallon Tonight Show Day 2 numbers when they come in later.
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Match is underway. Both teams have dropped a spinner each - Kathik and Rehman. But whats interesting is that India have strengthened their batting by bringing in Sehwag, while Pakistan have strengthened their pace battery with Sohail Tanvir coming into the side.
And as I write Saurav Ganguly has been cleaned up by Shoaib Akhtar with the 3rd delivery of the match afer being hit for a boundary.
What do u people think? My bet - 1-1 at the end of today.
Lets discuss the game on this blog.
Dhoni and Pathan have also opened.
A lot of openers in 1 game.
With the exception of the 2 wides and no-ball by shoaib, I think pakistan have bowled very well. India have only lost wicket with a combination of good luck and decent defensive technique. Its heartening to see shoaib averaging 90 miles per hour in the 5th over of his spell as well.
We need some quick wickets as anything in excess of 260 will be extremely difficult to chase for our batsmen. The lights at the mohali stadium are not very high(as it built at very high altitude and alot of planes use the airspace as its close to an airforce base) and batsmen often have a hard time adjusting to the light there. Last match we played at mohali was in the champions trophy against south africa where batting under lights we were dismissed for 89.
Damn that 89!! I still remember that and it was while chasing also! But i dont think 3 left armers - pathan, zaheer, and RP as are as threatening as Pollock, Ntini, and Nel..
Shoaib seems fitter than ever Farees...havent seen him this determined before...hope it lasts.
Indian bowlers might not be as threatning as the south africans but as seeing the pakistan batting in recent times it can collapse in front of any bowling line up on a fast and bouncy pitch!! but lets hope for the best! and dew might come into great effect under lights!
Sachins on 88 of 81 - dont remember the last time he batted like this.
He's scored 41 ODI 100s out of whcih India have won in 29 matches.
BUT against Pakistan, he's scored 5 ODI 100s out of which India have won only 1 match.
Moving on, despite that, with the kind of total India look set to get, I take back my 1-1 prediction.
So much for that stat. Sachin falls for 99 - the 5th time in the 90s this year! How did Akmal do that?
I just woke up, and I was not giving Pakistan any chance of winning before going to sleep. Its 42 off the last 4 and looks like its going down to the wire!
Can Misbah fill the Ul-Haq shoes?
And my prediction of 1-1 comes true :-). I wouldn't say i told u so cause id be the first to admit that i changed my mind half way through India's innings. Never gave Pakistan a chance...watch their whole innings though and they were nothing short of professional and brilliant.
Younis, Misbah, Afridi - 2 Pathans and a Faisalabadi...hehe...great stuff!


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Год Змеи — российская рок-группа. На заре своего творчества коллектив исполнял композиции в стиле пост-гранж, позднее песни стали всё более и более походить на альтернативный рок.

Сами музыканты описывают своё творчество, как «порой жесткие и бескомпромиссные, порой — лиричные и задушевные песни, искренний драйв, волна мощной положительной энергии со сцены»:

История

«Сезон»
В 1998 году Алексей Марковников создал группу «Сезон». Группа добилась определённой популярности на региональном уровне, ездила с концертами по городам республики. Также усилиями Марковникова было создано «Рок-Кафе» в ДК «Химик», позже переехавшее в ДК УМПО, куда помимо «Сезона» приглашались и другие местные группы: «Сезон дождей», «Гнездо сарыча», «Lumen», «Ne.ru», «Калипсо».

«Сезон» просуществовал два года, в течение которых происходили постоянные изменения состава, и в середине 2000 года группа распалась: басист Влад Николаев и барабанщик Сергей Печищев ушли к Стасу Никоненко (экс-вокалисту «Нечто») и создали группу «Никола Стасюк». Оставшись один, в марте 2001 года Марковников создаёт новую группу из своих старых друзей по музыкальному цеху: ударника Эдуарда Нухова, ранее игравшего с Алексеем в группе «Джеф», басиста Дениса Лаптева из группы «Сезон дождей», гитаристом на тот момент стал Гера Орлов по прозвищу «Зак».

Группа, образованная 8 марта 2001 года в одном из маленьких кафе города Уфы, получила название «Год Змеи». Идея названия принадлежит всё тому же Марковникову, которого на тот момент поддержал в этой идее лишь звукорежиссёр группы Андрей Арямнов. В итоге было решено оставить название как «рабочее», а затем сменить, но за всё время существования коллектива ничего лучше придумано не было.

«Секс и рок-н-ролл» (2001—2005)
В таком составе 1 мая 2001 года группа выступила на Первом городском открытом конкурсе молодёжной музыки «Майская Фритоника», где неожиданно выиграла Гран-При фестиваля и гитару «Fender». После этого «Год Змеи» претерпел некоторые изменения, несколько раз сменились гитаристы, в связи с таким непостоянством группа решила взять клавишника, Антона Иванова.

Всё это время готовился новый материал и в 2002 году группа своими силами выпустила дебютный альбом «Линия жизни». Запись диска велась полулегальным способом по ночам на студии одной из радиостанций.

«Год Змеи» периодически выступал в клубах Уфы и на разных сборных концертах. Наиболее заметными выступлениями стали «Майская Фритоника», День радио, День города, День рождения газеты «Московский Комсомолец в Уфе», акция «Страха НЕТ», где группа играла со знаменитыми группами «Чайф», «Сплин», «Мумий Тролль», а также поездки в города Чебоксары, Екатеринбург, Новосибирск и Москва.

К этому времени в группу пришёл постоянный гитарист Альберт Назмутдинов (группы «Сезон дождей», «Пупсы!»), а клавишник Антон Иванов её покинул. Его место занял Ярослав Гришай, и в таком составе в декабре 2003 года группа издала макси-сингл «Секс и рок-н-ролл».

В течение 2004 года «Год Змеи» работал над свежим материалом, также была начата постройка собственной базы-студии «Живая вода», где и планировалось записать новый альбом. Группа выступила на нескольких крупных фестивалях, таких как «Старый мельник».

Весной 2005 года в группе «Год Змеи» произошли изменения: вместо очередного ушедшего гитариста Альберта Назмутдинова пришёл Булат Аминов, ударника Эдуарда Нухова заменил Сергей Печищев. Ярослав Гришай также покинул группу и ей пришлось полностью отказаться от клавишных инструментов. Вследствие таких пертурбаций «Год Змеи» обрёл новое звучание и начал запись альбома «Слова… Осколки» — первая «живая» пластинка, которую вполне можно назвать самой сильной и самой любимой среди поклонников. Группа активно выступала на фестивалях, в их числе «Старый Новый Рок» в Екатеринбурге.

«Код доступа в Небеса» (2006—2007)
7 апреля 2006 года в Молодёжном театре Уфы состоялась презентация нового альбома «Года Змеи» «Слова… Осколки», прошедшая при полном аншлаге.

Вскоре группу покинул гитарист Булат Аминов, которого ненадолго заменил Михаил Яковлев, ушедший уже в конце года.

В течение 2006 года «Год Змеи» записывал очередной альбом и работал над видеоматериалом, в результате осенью увидел свет двойной релиз: новый альбом «Код доступа в Небеса» и одноимённый сборник видеоклипов и концертных выступлений. Группа выступила на фестивалях «Unifest», «Рок-Огни», «Рок-Коалиция».

25 января 2007 года «Год Змеи» с успехом выступил на региональном рок-фестивале «Знай наших-5», открыв его совместным сетом с известным кураистом-виртуозом Робертом Юлдашевым.

28 апреля состоялся сольный концерт группы, посвящённый её шестому дню рождения, а летом увидел свет первый «живой» DVD-альбом «Года Змеи» — «Шесть&Жесть»

Во второй половине 2007 года группа записала новый студийный альбом «Бабочки... Цветочки», презентация которого состоялась 1 декабря. На нём группа снова обратилась к клавишным: место за синтезатором занял сын Алексея Марковникова Илья.

«Да пребудет с нами Кинич Ахау!» (2008—2009)
В начале 2008 года группу покинул басист Денис Лаптев, вместо которого пришёл Павел Сагитов.

21 марта состоялся концерт «Семь жизней», посвящённый семилетию группы. В мае «Год Змеи» приступил к записи нового альбома «Кинич Ахау». Параллельно группа работала над акустическим альбомом «Distortion Off. Песни подъездов, дворов и переходов», который увидел свет в октябре. Данный диск группа планировала записать в течение нескольких лет, и, наконец, эта идея была воплощена в жизнь.

«Год Змеи» выступил с серией концертов в Санкт-Петербурге и Москве.

29 ноября — 30 ноября 2008 года победили на рок-фестивале «Оренсток 2008» в Оренбурге в номинации лучшей рок-группы по итогам интернет-голосования. Также на данном фестивале коллектив выступал в оба дня фестиваля.

6 января 2009 года вышел концертный DVD «Семь жизней».

В марте вышел очередной студийный альбом «Кинич Ахау». На презентации альбома, прошедшей 29 марта в РК «Огни Уфы», был снят материал для нового концертного DVD.

В июне, выступая на неофициальном открытии «Уфимского Арбата», группа представила акустическую программу, состоящую из её лучших песен.

В июле группа приступила к записи нового альбома «Плагиат», который сами музыканты охарактеризовали, как «эксперименты со звуком, со стилями (от панка до хеви-метал) и, конечно, с текстами». Одновременно велась работа над третьим концертным DVD группы «Кинич Ахау», который вышел 9 октября.

В конце 2009 года была закончена работа над «Плагиатом». Группа не стала его издавать, а выложила на официальном сайте для свободного скачивания 25 декабря.

«Змеелов» (2010)
В течение всего 2010 года «Год Змеи» работал над записью нового альбома под названием «Змеелов», своеобразным отчётом за 10 лет творчества группы.

11 апреля 2010 года состоялся совместный концерт с уфимской группой Нечто в РК «Огни Уфы» с программой «Поехали». Данный концерт был отправной точкой ещё двух концертов в Москве (Mezzo Forte) и в Санкт-Петербурге (Цоколь).

26 марта 2011 года в РК «Огни Уфы» в рамках юбилейного концерта состоялась презентация альбома.

Осенью того же года Илья Марковников покинул группу по состоянию здоровья.

Состав

Текущий состав
 Алексей Марковников — вокал, музыка, тексты, гитара, программирование (2001-)
 Андрей Водяницкий — гитара (2012-)
Олег Макаренко — бас-гитара (2018-)
Руслан Исламов — ударные (2019-)

Бывшие участники
 Антон Иванов — клавишные (2001—2003)
 Эдуард Нухов — ударные (2001—2005)
 Денис Лаптев — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал (2001—2008)
 Герман «Зак» Орлов — гитара (2001)
 Валерий Мусин — гитара (2001—2002)
 Альберт Назмутдинов — гитара (2002—2005)
 Ярослав Гришай — клавишные (2002—2005)
 Булат Аминов — гитара (2005—2006)
 Илья Марковников — клавишные (2006—2011)
 Михаил Яковлев — гитара (2006). Продолжает принимать участие в студийных записях группы в качестве сессионного гитариста
 Влад Галеев — администратор, концертный директор (2006—2008)
 Виталий Двоеглазов — администратор, концертный директор (2008—2010)
 Мария Хмельницкая — администратор, PR-менеджер (2011—2012)
 Альбина Шафеева — скрипка (2011—2012)
Павел Сагитов — бас-гитара (2008-2018)
Сергей Печищев — ударные (2005-2019)
Андрей Арямнов — звукорежиссёр (2001-2018)

Дискография

Студийные альбомы
  — «Слова… Осколки»

Ссылки
Официальный сайт

Примечания

Год Змеи
Рок-группы России
Музыкальные коллективы Уфы
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 2001 году
Музыкальные коллективы 2000-х годов
Музыкальные коллективы 2010-х годов

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Scott v Inland Revenue
The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Scott v Inland Revenue. The case straddles the border on whether it warrants a bulletin, but I have done so as it contains a small number of useful 'soundbites' on diverse points that advocates might want to quote in tribunals.
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* aggravated damages: aggravated damages are separate from awards for injury to feelings, and the two should not be amalgamated (paras. 34-35)
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El Harrach
El-Harrach prison is one of Algeria's most infamous prisons along with Serkadji, Lambese, and berrouaghia. It is located 10 kilometers south of the Algerian capital. It is built to accommodate two thousand prisoners, but it incarcerates a number of inmates that exceeds that. It is a prison that held a number of Algerian nationalist activists and leaders during the colonial era, including Messali Hadj and Abane Ramdane (1955).
It is a jail in which many Islamic Salvation Front members have been detained, including its leader Ali Belhaj. Mohamed Benchicou, editor of - Le Matin - daily, was imprisoned there for two years during which he wrote his diary, now published under the title - Algeria's Prison Cells. Algerian authorities have decided to close it and build a new jail in its stead.
El-Harrach Prison, LOBS,12 December, 2019
El-Harrach, the Algerian prison where rebels and oligarchs rub shoulders, LOBS, 12 December 2019


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A yummy bit of gingery sweet spice. This chewy & moist cookie was featured on the Cabbage Moon Family Radio Hour for December 2017. It's a very satisfying treat and easy to make! I've made a few modifications to help that ginger taste peek through! This recipe is quick, but midway you will refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours. Lucky you! Now you can plan to do something else while the dough chills!
In a medium bowl mix the dry ingredients & whisk together: Flour, spices, soda & salt. Set Aside.
In a larger mix bowl (standing mixer is nice, but hand mixer will work, too) beat together butter & sugar on medium speed for 2 minutes until light & fluffy. Scrape down the sides if needed. To this mixture add the eggs (one at a time) & the molasses. Beat on medium speed until all is well combined.
Now add the dry ingredients a little bit at a time. Beat until all is well combined.
Lastly, add the entire bag of ginger chips. Stir in well to distribute.
Cover the top of the dough with plastic wrap so that the dough is completely sealed with no air getting in. Now refrigerate the dough for 2 hours. Hey, it's clean-up time!
Preheat the oven to 375℉. Get out your cookie sheet/s.
Pour your extra sugar or sugar crystals into a small bowl & put near your work area.
Roll the dough into small balls, about 1 inch in diameter. One at a time, place the dough ball into the bowl of sugar. Roll it around until it is completely coated. Place on cookie sheet at least 1 inch apart.
Once your oven is hot to 375℉, place the sheet one at a time in the oven. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies begin to slightly crack on top. Remove from the oven and let cool for a minute or two. Then transfer to wire cooling rack to finish the job.
SERVE IMMEDIATELY OR STORE IN A SEALED CONTAINER FOR UP TO 1 WEEK!
The Vegan version is really good! The only thing that this omnivore missed was a richer butter taste, but I was very happy, as were the grandkids, & the Vegan School Teacher*!
My granddaughter's teacher is a Vegan. Making things for her since 2012 has really taught me to enjoy Vegan baking. I've learned a lot along the way. Thank you, Ms. Orth!


The high cost of Day School education is a barrier to the growth of this tool for Jewish revitalization, and creates serious financial challenge for most Jewish families. One organization devoted to overcoming this challenge is the National Jewish Day School Scholarship Committee, promoters of the "5% Mandate".
Help organize the local committee at your school which will create the endowment fund and promote commitments to include a 5% contribution from each person's estate to their chosen Day School.


Thanks Martin, it was fun while it lasted.
Looks like they are in negotiations though?
Yeah just read that! Looks like they have reached some sort of happy medium, which is great!
Its a great project but if you have a jailbroken iphone/ipad dospad seems to run all the classics better. Sort of seems like cheating seeing the commands you need to use for each area. Still not convinced. I think Activision should convert invest a little in a rewrite like the guys did at ADGInteractive.


A survey was conducted in the Xokleng reserve in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil, where we observed language use among the Xokleng to determine the likelihood of the maintenance of the Xokleng language. Language development work with the Xokleng was being considered. Our methods included observation and questions.
Citation: Anonby, Stan; Anonby, Sandy. 2004. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-002.


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Fate of the Four Guardians
#20 on 2013/02/10 Sunday — 19 Comments
The Shitennou (the Japanese name for the Four Guardians of Master X) make up some of the most memorable new characters from the Zero series. Despite their being on opposing sides of a domestic war and harboring an intense rivalry with our protagonist Zero, somehow they were never quite our enemies. They sought peace while fighting tirelessly to serve humanity, protect their beloved homeland, and uphold the name of their world's savior, X. By the end of Zero 3, it seemed they had finally wound up on the same side… And then they disappeared from the next game without so much as a mention. The series ended, but the Shitennou were nowhere to be found. What happened?
On June 23 back in 2005, U-CAPCOM answered a fan letter about the Rockman Zero series, asking why the Shitennou were absent from Rockman Zero 4. Their answer left many fans excited, for reasons you can surmise by reading the translation below.
===========Letter===========
I finished Rockman Zero 4. Why oh why aren't the Shitennou in it!? I really like the Shitennou! In fact, I love them!! The Shitennou are the reason I'm interested in Rockman Zero in the first place!! So why aren't they in the latest game, huh!?
Oh please oh please put all four of them in the next game!! Bring back Phanotom from the dead too!!
Signed, Pale Clearwater
Following the "EXE Corner", were starting up the "Zero Corner"!
This time, we've brought in the Rockman Zero 4 development team to answer this question.
From the Entire Development Team:
Thank you very much for your passionate support of the Shitennou.
To tell you the truth, at first our plan was for Zero and the Shitennou to conduct their final decisive battle in Rockman Zero 3, a coup de grâce to be the crowning glory in the climax. However, all of the developers had gotten really attached to the Shitennou and their strong character, and several of us felt "It's such a shame for the Shitennou to end up defeated like that!" So that's why they wound up appearing in Rockman Zero 3 the way they did.
Then Rockman Zero 4 rolls around, and due to Vile's "Operation Ragnarok", everyone in the world and the very future of mankind is in crisis. Even though they are bitter rivals, the Shitennou just wouldn't be able to go chasing Zero around as they please in a situation like this.
They are first and foremost "soldiers born for the sake of defending humans," you see. So perhaps at the same time Zero was fighting his battle, they were off in other locations waging their own struggle to protect the humans.
Honestly, we all regret not having been able to depict what happens next with the Shitennou in Rockman Zero 4, but at least this way all the Shitennou supporters out there have made their voices heard and let us know how popular they really are.
We can't promise anything now, but someday if the opportunity arises to report the adventures of the Shitennou to all you users in some form, we would like very much to do just that.
So that's the kind of thing you discussed going into Rockman Zero 3… Thank you for this priceless inside look behind the scenes! We'll be looking forward to the day when the Shitennou's activities can finally be brought to light.
And so fans went on believing that while Zero's story may have ended in Zero 4, the saga of the heroic Shitennou was a tale still to be told, especially when a certain image popped up amongst the goodies in the Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero 4 Physis album later that year in September, 2005.
So you can imagine the Japanese fans' surprise the following year when instead of the Shitennou game they were anticipating, they met Vent and Aile's mighty morphin' cosplay rendition of the four. When the Rockman Zero Official Complete Works book hit Japanese bookshelves in August 2006 (just a little over a year since their original word on the Shitennou's fate), Zero series producer Takuya Aizu and his crew dropped a surprise retcon bomb on the Shitennou fans:
So now it seemed, they were all dead: sacrificing themselves to save their sworn rival, possibly some measure of redemption for their past sins under the despotic rule of Copy X. This was unexpected for many reasons, not the least among them that the ending of the game doesn't seem to show anything like that happening. So that image that generated so much excitement, that was just a non-canon unsolicited service cut? Or was it their ghosts observing the event from the netherworld of Cyber-space?
The very idea just seemed to fly in the face of what the developers had said before, and some frustrated fans felt that this untimely end to the trio was shamelessly tacked on by the game's developers just to get the Shitennou out of the way so people would move on and concentrate on the new ZX series. Well, like it or not, that the Shitennou had died saving Zero in the end of Zero 3 was the final official word on the subject.
Until December 2012, when along came R20+5 and with it The Answer, where Inti Creates' own Takuya Aizu changed his story yet again.
Q05: Seems there are 2 versions regarding what happened to the 3 Shitenou members from the Rockman Zero series: U-CAPCOM's "they're off somewhere fighting for the sake of humanity" theory, and the Official Complete Works' "they died shielding Zero from Omega's explosion" theory. So in conclusion, what really happened to them?
Aizu: According to Neo Arcadia's official record, there is no documentation of the three's activities following that incident. Therefore their registry access was deleted (handled as if they were deceased). However, I can't deny the possibility of them fighting for the sake of the humans someplace outside the scope of Neo Arcadia's surveillance.
So now they're maybe… not dead? Or didn't die there, at least?
So is that image of the Shitennou with X at the fall of Ragnarok canon now? Were they somehow fighting Dr. Vile's regime without being detected, or working against some other threat? Did they scour the Earth to bring Ciel the remains of Zero, allowing her to make Livemetals of them all? Or was that explosion their end after all, and the rest naught but stories and rumors by humans who still held a candle for Neo Arcadia's stalwart generals? (Come on Inti, make up your minds!)
For now, like so much else in the realm of Rockman, it seems the ultimate fate of the Shitennou remains a mystery. Probably the kind where fans can believe whatever they want with neither contradiction nor confirmation coming to intervene. Then again, we may have a new answer in another couple years. As it stands, I think I'd rather their fate be revealed as a flashback in a new ZX title than a Shitennou spinoff game, but neither one seems too likely at this point.
The legend continues…
Posted in R20+5, rockman, translation, u-capcom, zero
19 Comments to "Fate of the Four Guardians"
2013/02/10 Sunday - 8:32 am | Permalink
Thanks for the translation, #20.
I must say this is one case where I'm more satisfied with the lack of a conclusive answer. Shielding Zero from Omega's explosion may seem noble in principle, but it's a rather inglorious fate in practice. Perhaps Aizu came to the same conclusion and changed his mind?
I suppose I wouldn't mind a game based on the Big4. The Biometals of ZX may give a taste in terms of mechanics, but as much as I love the series, it doesn't quite feel the same. And I would be interested in seeing how the Four Guardians develop when they put aside their rivalry with Zero.
That last thing you said does peak my interest, I must say. Is there life beyond Zero-rivalry? Of course, I think in some ways, their relationship as livemetals in ZX is exactly what that would be like, but we really only get fragments of that to go on.
No matter if they die or didn't die at the end of Zero 3, they die or their souls were transferred to some device found by Ciel at some point between Zero 4 and events that take place before ZX.
Such a same that they couldn't finish the ZX series, at least the Zero series ended in an epic way.
Inti's flip-flopped on this too, confused on what constitutes a robot's soul. It's probably not too far off to say that whenever there's something controversial in the fandom, Inti isn't sure what they mean and you can believe what you like.
A topic for another day, maybe.
2013/02/11 Monday - 8:31 am | Permalink
I don't feel like Inti's flip-flopped on the matter of a robot's soul. They've just grouped both DNA Souls and the Sigma Virus under the broader Cyber-Elf category. You can compare it to how Reploids are robots, but not all robots are Reploids.
2013/02/10 Sunday - 4:11 pm | Permalink
I'd like to go with the "they survived" answer, even if it doesn't help explain why they're later seen in Biometal form, 'cuz come on–the Big 3 (out of 4) deserve better than "chumped by exploding Omega".
I like this reconciliation of ideas.
Wonder if Aizu changed his stance when he realized 'a certain image' wasn't just published in Physis, but rather as a part of the Vile's Incident retrospective. They always presented it an actual part of the story, not simply 'fanservice by Nakayama.'
That said: any chance you'll ever translate any of Vile's incident, #20? The latter half of that text is (like the ZX drama tracks) a complete unknown to most of the fandom.
2013/02/13 Wednesday - 4:50 am | Permalink
Never say never, but it isn't on my short list. That Montagne is awfully wordy.
DWN9
2013/05/31 Friday - 3:05 pm | Permalink
Not completely unknown, but in need of better translation:
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Vile%27s_Incident:_Eden_dome,_its_sin_and_rebirth
2013/02/11 Monday - 11:05 pm | Permalink
I have to admit, I like this answer as well. Kind of works to allow both, in a way.
2013/02/14 Thursday - 7:43 pm | Permalink
This is why I don't put much stock into the "We have an outline for what happens between classic and X" answer to begin with. I'm sure they could come up with something if necessity demanded. But the series has gone on so long and changed so many hands, I can't imagine there's been a single explanation in the background all this time. Even the origins of the Sigma virus, and how it works, have been reconsidered multiple times.
And yes, thanks for the translations. I really should have started this as soon as I got the book, but it just… never popped into my mind as a thing to do. Incidentally, I think I saw that Command Mission was regarded as an alternative universe sort of thing? Did you cover that yet?
2013/02/15 Friday - 9:33 am | Permalink
Shhhh, you're giving away the good stuff! 😉
Just kiddin'. Did you want to claim a couple? I don't plan to do them all, actually, but I hoped to eventually share X 13, the DASHs and ZEROs, Xovers, and then a handful of EXE and Others. The ones I have done so far:
CLASSIC: 2, 5, 6
X: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14
Z: 3, 5, 6
EXE: 11
OTHER: 6, 10
For the rest Udon will probably step in with an official trans if we wait long enough. Do you have any favorites? Meijin's answer to EXE 6 probably made me chuckle the most. Clearly he's been thinking of that girl much longer than I have.
Nah it's cool, I've still only just glanced over them. Also I'm like a year behind in translating Phantom of Network.
Belated projects piling up, I know that feeling well. Anyway, congrats on the N2! Looking forward to the rest of PoN!
Will you still post more of The Answer, or are you leaving that one for the official UDON release? The Command Mission Q&A in particular has been much hinted at, and I'd love to see what this alternate universe thing is all about.
Since the announcement, I'd been going back and forth over what was still worth doing. Far as I know, the book doesn't have a release date, though even if it did pessimistic history teaches us to add at least 30 days to whatever we're told. Maybe a short spoiler post is enough for people who don't want to wait. Of course, impatient people already have no love for the update droughts around here.
But since you asked, maybe that will be my last one.
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Gonna allow this because I'm slightly amused to be getting spam in Japanese. Got rid of the link though.
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What's up with Japan and wedding dresses anyway? This is the third such relation I see in two days.
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Although the guy has his face censored it is still a grade A clip because his face is not what we are interested in.
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Here's our completely unofficial and totally subjective list of the five best sledding hills in the Capital City.
For those who complain that there's nothing to do here in Cheyenne, check this out. Two local entrepreneurs recently opened Wyoming's first live "Epic Escape Game".
Who said there's nothing to do in Cheyenne!


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or other kinds of flower i would like to see.
Would the sky be blue in my Dreams too?
I think it would be. How would it not be blue when blue is the most beautiful color in the entire world.
Perhaps it shines a little purple too through the clouds.
The clouds im sleeping in.
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When the raindrops falls, i know that's my life.
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The angels just called me, time to go home now.
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She called a friend who was an avid bird-watcher, and together they consulted a field guide to solve the mystery. "My tall, blue-gray bird was an adult great blue heron. This one experience got me tuned into birds, and I began noticing them everywhere I went," she says.
For Wilson, that heron was her "spark bird"―the one that sparked her interest in bird-watching. Wilson's experience is not unusual. Bird-watching is booming in North America. According to recent estimates by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are about 50 million North American bird-watchers. There are more than 200 birding festivals held each year in the country, and nearly 25 states now have driving routes―called birding trails―specifically dedicated to the pastime.
People who are not bird-watchers are often curious about why this activity is so popular. The late Roger Tory Peterson, whose field guides made bird identification easier, believed it was because birds are "the most vivid expression of life." After all, they demonstrate behaviors and characteristics we humans find admirable: beautiful plumages; elaborate, musical singing; courtship of mates; dedicated raising of offspring; defenders of home territory; and, perhaps most wondrous of all, flight―something humans have only mastered in the past 100 years.
The best times of day to watch birds are early in the morning and late in the day, when they are most active. Most birders get out early―often before dawn―to take advantage of the height of activity and to be in good birding habitat when the sun rises. Carrying binoculars and a field guide, you can watch and listen for birds. When one is seen, it's observed carefully using binoculars so that unique plumage and other features can be noted. Then the birder looks to the field guide for a matching image and description. Many watchers keep notes of their sightings―a journal of their birding experiences―as well as a checklist of species seen.
To learn about bird-watching, it's easiest to do it with others. Join a local club or nature center bird walk; the social aspect is as enjoyable as seeing the birds. When you are with other birders, don't be afraid to identify yourself as a beginner. Bird-watchers are always eager to share their enthusiasm and willing to answer questions.
Clubs offer lectures and identification advice that help hone your skills and give you new ideas for places to go birding or new equipment to try. Most clubs offer field trips year-round, locally and farther afield. Visiting a birding festival will put you in contact with dozens or even hundreds of other bird-watchers with whom you can share stories and swap information on sightings, experiences, places, and equipment. These events also are a good opportunity to test and purchase products to enhance your enjoyment of the hobby. And the field trips, seminars, and programs offered by festivals are a great way to expand your birding knowledge and experience.
On the recommendation of her friend, Wilson purchased binoculars and a field guide―the two must-have tools for any beginner. Starting out is really that simple.
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Published on 27 September 2021
There is more and more for students to do. Visit a film festival, follow a workshop or try a sport, for example. But how can you see at a glance what's on and whether anyone wants to join you? Download the Uni-Life app and find out.
'Uni-Life brings together all public activities within and outside the University,' says Mark Kuipers (from Student and Educational Affairs). The University has purchased the app, and student and event organisers can use it for free, he explains. These could be study and student associations, but also organisers from outside the University, such as sport clubs and cultural festivals.
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Why is the University providing the app? Kuipers: 'With the long lockdowns lots of students ended up in social isolation. They want to do fun activities once again and meet other students, but don't always know what there is to do. This app makes it easier to find out, so it improves student wellbeing and brings students together.'
Psychology student Nienke Jongejan already uses the app and can see its advantages. 'It takes me a lot of time and effort to look at all the different diaries and websites. Now I have a much better idea of what's going on because it's all in one place.' After the long lockdowns she too feels the need to get out and about again. 'For ages now, I've hardly been able to meet anyone at all. This app is encouraging me to get active again.'
Nienke Jongejan already uses the app.
From foodies to cryptocurrency followers
The range of activities is giving Jongejan new ideas. In the 'meet ups' section you can easily meet new people and ask who fancies a festival or a quick game of football. And it's easy to start a new community and find others who share your interests. There are already communities of sport fanatics, foodies, cryptocurrency followers and film freaks, and there's a community for new students at the University.
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The idea behind the app is to bring people together, says Kuipers. Associations can post activities as long as these aren't for members only but are open to all students. Since the start of the academic year, around 400 students have already downloaded the app. Kuiper and Jongejan hope that many more will follow. Jongejan: 'Download the app because you just might stumble across an event or club that makes student life even more fun.'
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Ellen Degeneres Reportedly Invites Demi Lovato to Live With Her After Completing Rehab
Matthew Scott Donnelly Published: August 9, 2018
Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi might be ready for a new tenant: The married couple have reportedly invited Demi Lovato — who's in treatment after a reported drug overdose and hospitalization — to live with them upon her completion of treatment.
Lovato, who reportedly relapsed last month, has an open invitation to stay at Degeneres' and de Rossi's beach house or, if she prefers, with them at their Los Angeles abode.
"Ellen told Demi that their beach house [in Santa Barbra, Calif.] is hers whenever she wants it. It's close to nature and the perfect place to escape the pressures of Hollywood. They've also extended an invitation for her to stay at their L.A. place," a source told OK! The site added that the A-list couple is determined to help Lovato recover, and and are eager to introduce her to equine therapy.
A source told Entertainment Tonight earlier this month that Lovato is serious about getting back on the right track.
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fou una impulsora d'art i cultura catalana.

Va formar una família de músics i artistes plàstics amb projecció internacional. Es va casar amb el barceloní Ramon Pichot Mateu i va ser mare de set fills: Josep (1869, advocat i paisagista), Ramon (1871, pintor modernista), Antoni (1873, emigrat a Cuba), Maria Gay (1879, mezzosoprano i intèrpret de lied), Mercè (1881, pianista), Lluís (1887, violoncel·lista) i Ricard (1888, violinista). El 1891, va comprar la península d'es Sortell a Cadaqués on va fer una casa de linees modernes que es va finalitzar el 1899, convertint-se la família en un dels primers estiuejants de Cadaqués. A través de Ramon Pichot van anar a Cadaqués Santiago Rusiñol, Albéniz i Enric Granados; i Picasso, Derain i els Dalí. El 1908, Josep Pichot, el fill gran, va vendre una part d'es Sortell al notari Dalí que hi va fer una casa i amb qui van arribar Lorca, Buñuel, Éluard o Duchamp.

El 1904, Antònia va llogar una casa al barri d'Auteuil, a l'oest de París, on es va emportar als seus dos fills petits Lluís va estudiar musica amb el violinista belga Mathieu Crickboom i el francès Jacques Thibaud; i Ricard amb el viol·loncelista belga Ernest Gillet i Pau Casals. A la casa "Villa Reunion" si aplegaven tambe amb els germans grans Ramon i Nini i es va convertir fins al 1911 en lloc de trobada i esperit d'amistat dels Pichot per convidats de la creació (pintura, cant, música i escriptura). El 1909 va morir Ramon Pichot Mateu. Antònia va continuar a París però va tornar a Figuerés el 1913 fins que va morir el 1916 quan va anar a visitar a la seva filla Nini a Peña Roa.

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Bentley's upcoming SUV to have a plug-in hybrid variant
29/03/2013 - 16:46 | Bentley | Nithyanandh K
Bentley is in the final stages of deciding the fate of the proposed SUV, the first of its kind in the British marque's illustrious history.
Everybody who are close to the development are pretty confident about the Bentley SUV becoming a reality. The Bentley EXP 9 F concept which was unveiled at last year's Geneva Motor Show had received some harsh comments and views regarding its design.
Nevertheless, Bentley says that there are more than 2,000 prospective customers who are already willing to write a cheque even without knowing how the production model would look like. This has given the Crewe based car maker enough confidence to sign off the SUV for production, but not before a redesign.
While the exact specifications and final design are not known, Mr. Kevin Rose, board member in-charge of sales and marketing, Bentley, told Caradvice.com.au that a plug-in hybrid version of the SUV is a certainty.
He said, "We'll probably bring an SUV to market, and that may be the first time we come with a plug-in hybrid. That is the sort of technology we see would be better for Bentley globally."
The yet to be named Bentley SUV, if signed for production, could be launched in the later part of 2015. The car would share its platform and hybrid technology with the next gen Audi Q7 and the VW Touareg.
Bentley is looking to improve its reach and stop its existing customers from migrating to another brand for their SUV needs.
[Source: Caradvice.com.au]
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Australia is either Green genius or Kyoto-criminal depending on fires and forests: Tom Quirk
Posted By Joanne Nova On November 5, 2013 @ 8:07 pm In Global Warming | Comments Disabled
Tom Quirk has taken look at the numbers for the Australian Government's direct action plan (someone had to do it). Not surprisingly in a vast nation with hardly any people, the numbers that matter are the ones about "land-use" — which means anthropogenic changes to farms and forests. Electricity is our largest emitter of CO2, but without shutting down the nation there are no easy gains to be had. Demand is inelastic. Cuts are expensive. Renewables are pathetic. Ditto for industry and agriculture. Whether we meet our targets and whether there is P-A-I-N all depends on whether we count the CO2 molecules that come and go from agricultural land and managed forests.
The big question then is do we pretend those CO2 molecules coming and going from plants, soils, lakes and animals are irrelevant? (Greenpeace and the EU seem to think that's a good plan). It's a make or break thing in the carbon accounting world. But if carbon is causing global warming, surely all CO2 molecules are equally to blame. However only net emissions caused by humans (and which wouldn't have been emitted naturally) count towards the national tallies and targets.
If we are to save 5% from our 2000 emissions, the figure to aim for is either 5% less than 500Mt of CO2 (if we ignore "land use" changes) or 5% less than 550Mt (if we count the CO2 involved in "land-use"). If we ignore the CO2 in land-use, things are tough for Australia. We start at 500Mt, are at 552Mt now, and are headed for 594Mt by 2020 instead of 475Mt. We need to find savings of about 120Mt — a huge 20% of net emission levels. Instead, if we include CO2 in land-use, we start at 550Mt, are at (who knows) 511Mt and are aiming for 525Mt, which is pretty close to where we are headed (subject to accounting methods). And if we included fire and oceans all bets would be off, but we don't because they are not "anthropogenic".*
Bizarrely, fire is an Act of God, so it doesn't count at all in natural forests (natural forest and "natural" fires are not included in Kyoto agreements). That leads to a perverse incentive where in a managed forest, Governments might want to grow a crop of trees then burn them catastrophically. The CO2 going in gets taken off the tally, and the CO2 going out is invisible. As it happens, most of the carbon in the trees and debris goes up in smoke but about 1% becomes charcoal, which is stored in the soil for thousands of years because it is chemically and physically inert — permanently sequestered by humans. This is of course a joke and not seriously considered anywhere, but the perverse incentive exists under carbon accounting rules.
Quirk notes that the numbers on land use are highly variable. In 2011, for some reason (perhaps an accounting change) the land use changes wiped out nearly half the entire emissions from all the cars, planes, trains, trucks and buses in Australia. I didn't hear the Greens celebrate.
I have long said that attaching monetary value to a basic molecule of life is stupid, and I'll say it again. These numbers prove my point. We can't account for it, most of the players can't pay (because they are gum trees), the loop-holes are bigger than the loops, and we have to defy chemistry and treat identical molecules of CO2 as if they are not the same.
Does Greenpeace want more Green? It doesn't seem so. — Jo
The Australian ¡®Direct Action¡± plan to reduce CO2 emissions
With the looming demise of the carbon tax, imposed not to reduce emissions but to prolong the life of a minority government, we are faced with an alternative of ¡°Direct Action¡± to meet our Kyoto target of 2020 CO2 emissions being 5% less than that in 2000. This approach may be unique amongst developed countries as its success will depend on how much CO2 can be absorbed by modifying farming and forestry in the very large land mass of Australia, ¡°adjustments¡± made to the accounting protocols for CO2 emissions, and the use of uncertainties in measurements.
The Australian anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases as estimated by the Department of the Environment and Climate Change are given by sector and total in Table 1 along with estimates for the year 2020 based on the performance of each sector from 2002 to 2012. The estimates of fugitive emissions and agriculture largely depend on estimates of methane emissions[1] that have large uncertainties. Similarly there are large uncertainties for land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF). Table 1 also shows the average annual changes in emissions and the projected amounts for 2020 based on the average annual increases.
Table 1 Australian CO2 equivalent emissions in millions of tonnes
Year Stationary energy Trans-port Fugitiveemissions Industrialprocesses Agri-culture Waste
Total net
(excluding
LULUCF)
Land use change and forestry
(including
Elect-
ricity
Average annual increases in emissions from 2002 to 2012 in Mt CO2-e per year
Mt CO2
per yr
Projected annual emissions for 2020 based on the average annual increases
The target for the year 2020 is emissions 5% below the level in 2000. This is either a reduction to 475 Mt or 525 Mt CO2-e with and without the land use changes. This requires a reduction of 120 Mt CO2-e without land use changes from the projected 2020 total emissions of 595 Mt of CO2-e. It is not possible to get an estimate of land use changes owing to the erratic variations of the annual values (see values shaded green in Table 1).
Some 66% of emissions come from stationary energy and transport. Table 1 shows annual increases in these sectors. The Australian population may grow by 10% from 2012 to 2020 (ABS models of population growth) and it is unlikely that stationary energy use or transport use of fossil fuels will fall significantly.
The Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme with 20% of electricity from renewables by 2020 would give about a 40 Mt reduction in the electricity contribution to CO2 emissions. However the present impact of this scheme is uncertain as the decline in electricity use after 2008 and hence emissions may be partly due to a drop in economic activity or the carbon tax that started in July 2012. Since the growth in electricity demand has fallen since the RET was set, there are already calls for reducing the target and the success or failure of the scheme is not determinable at this time.
The effect of the RET if fully met still leaves a balance of 80 Mt to be found from other activities. This cannot be found from reductions in any combinations of the remaining emission sectors except perhaps in land use changes (see Table 1).
The net emission changes in land use, land use change and forestry vary quite markedly from year to year. In addition they vary quite markedly by the year in which they are reported. The components of this are shown in Table 2 and are taken from the website of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat…
Table 2 Emissions from land use, land use change and forestry
Estimated emissions in Mt CO2-e
reported in 2009
Forest land
Cropland
The changes in forestry are said to be the shift from harvesting in old growth forests to the use of plantations. What is remarkable is the variation of this contribution as this shift has been taking place over many years. What it may well illustrate is the use of uncertainties in measurement to yield a favourable result. There have also been changes in accounting rules. As an example trees felled in forests were treated as immediately converted to CO2 but now accounting may be delayed until the CO2 from the wood actually enters the atmosphere! [Note from Jo — David Evans –carbon modeler, says that our Kyoto accounting program has allowed for slow decay for as long as he can remember, around 2000 onwards.] Bush fires are treated as ¡°acts of God¡± but as He or She is not anthropogenic (an interesting philosophical question), these emissions are no longer included.
The Coalition Direct Action Plan as detailed before the election of the Abbott Government had two main programmes:
An Emission Reduction Fund to bring emissions down by 140 Mt CO2-e by 2020 thus meeting the target of emissions 5% below that in 2000. This fund, capped at about $3 billion, would ¡°buy¡± reductions by paying companies to produce fewer emissions. This fund might assist old power stations to be modified to reduce CO2 emissions such as the conversion of brown coal burning stations to using gas. An expensive exercise in rebuilding boilers and using more expensive gas. An example is to compare the short run marginal cost of brown coal burning Hazelwood at $6 per MWh to Newport, with gas fired boilers at $40 per MWh. So changing fuel source is not the answer if you do not want to add to the cost of generating electricity and Australia needs to keep the advantage of low cost electricity. Innovations will not be easy to find and will take time to develop and demonstrate. How they might be implemented without adding to costs is the key and unanswered question.
The other area of activity that might yield some reduction in emissions is farming and forestry. Landcare Australia, spending a modest $6 to $8 million per year, has achieved some notable demonstrations of how returning carbon to the soil can increase crop yields as well as removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Chapter 22 of the Garnaut Report discusses some of the possibilities and opportunities for absorbing CO2 emissions through changes in land use.
Perhaps the greatest example of land recovery is the experience of the Dust Bowl in the United States and Canadian prairies in the 1930s. Extensive plowing of the virgin topsoil displaced the deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture even during periods of drought and high winds but applying dry-land farming methods gave rise to a recovery.
There is also a promise to plant 20 million trees in public spaces with no estimate of the resulting reduction of emissions. The higher levels of atmospheric CO2 should enhance tree growth, just as the forests in the far northern hemisphere have been growing at about 1% a year for the last 40 years.
The fund will spend its $3 billion over the next 3 to 4 years.
Direct action on renewable energy is a promise of more subsidies for solar, tidal and geothermal installations. There is $100 million a year for domestic solar panels, $100 million a year for Solar Towns and Schools and $50 million a year for Geothermal and Tidal Towns. (And don¡¯t worry about sea level rises.) This does not help innovation where the driving force is either meeting a present need at a lower cost or meeting an unmet need which is not the case for electricity.
There may be a real benefit from the Direct Action plan if, in addressing farming of grassland and cropland, there is a significant rise in farm productivity from better use of soils and carbon as a fertiliser. This would thus pay for itself and would be a true innovation.
Any moderation of CO2 emissions will take a considerable time to have an appreciable impact, quite apart from the delays in auditing the claims of CO2 emission reduction.
However forestry changes resulting from accounting changes might deliver the desired reduction of our emissions to 5% less than the year 2000 emissions.
Greenpeace, the major transnational franchisee on climate, has become so upset by this possibility, calling it ¡°Australia¡¯s carbon scam¡± that they commissioned an analysis from the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy[2].The report discusses how, with suitable drafting of the emissions reporting protocol for land use, land use change and forestry, Australia might not need to take any active steps to reduce emissions but simply shelter behind the accounting rules that would allow the reductions of emissions to the agreed 2020 target.
The conclusion is that the policies of Direct Action will have little or no effect on our direct emissions of CO2. However the policies offer a double benefit from the Kyoto protocol escape clauses sheltering the direct emissions and the improvement of agricultural yields giving real economic benefits, a very significant achievement in itself.
The Kyoto protocol changes were proposed by Labor before the election of the Abbott Government. So the outgoing government may have bequeathed a great benefit to the new government and to the country.
[1] In the new 2013 IPCC Summary for Policymakers the projections to 2100 for atmospheric methane are kept at the present level and will have no additional effect except for one scary and unjustifiable scenario where methane has more than doubled by 2100. This is no doubt to keep the maximum temperature and sea level rises in play ¨C see: http://www.henrythornton.com/article.asp?article_id=6620
[2] http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/en/news/climate/lulucf-australia-s-carbon-sca/
*Except for arson and army mistakes.
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Joe Uchill Dec 19, 2018
Secret EU diplomatic cables exposed during hack
European Commission headquarters in Brussels. Photo: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Security firm Area 1 says it discovered a hacking campaign that hit as many as 100 different targets dating back to 2010, including the European Union's secure COREU network — attacks Area 1 attributes to the Chinese government. In the course of the hacking, data, including diplomatic cables, were posted to a public website.
Why it matters: Though the website was not intended for the public to find, its existence meant that anyone who found that site gained access to the documents — including any of the 100 largely public policy-based victims who may have pulled the threads of their own attack.
China appears to be the culprit, according to Area 1's report, because malware, internet addresses and domain registration used in the hack match earlier known Chinese attacks. The victims chosen and data exfiltrated also demonstrate interests like the South China Sea and other topics of relevance to China.
Details: The operation was able to exist so long without being uncovered because the many victims did not employ defenses typical for military or business targets, said Oren Falkowitz, CEO of Area 1.
"The campaign was able to go so long without being noticed because it was particularly focused on policy-based data and, as a result, some of the organizations were not very well-protected."
The hackers entered through a phishing attack and used techniques and malware to move around the network that were effective, yet not technologically advanced.
The campaign was focused on espionage, not the theft of intellectual property. IP theft is often a hallmark of Chinese hacking.