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Hi love these cartoon strips. They usually make me smile each time I get to read them. This one, though, I have a slight issue with. It really makes it sound like God is telling Spencer that being good will get him to heaven. Jesus is the only way and this could be very confusing for someone who’s not a believer. Just thought I’d give my two cents. Thanks for making these! God bless.
Mandy, it amazes me how some folks can misunderstand simple statements too. A pre-believer might infer that being good is good enough. But someone else would think that Spenser is already believer since he and God are on such good speaking terms and God is telling him to express his faith by works instead of burnt offerings which tend to be more religion than relationship. On the other hand, a non believer would probably blow off the strio altogether.
I have to comment. This is ALL OF THE COMIC STIP I HAVE SEEN. They are so good and hilarious. But they make me stop & think of how I am with the Lord. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tommy, I see no error in how you approached it.
Folks, we have to remember Spencer is a 6 year old! I think it adds to the humor for him to think that sacrifices will get him to Heaven.
I mean how realistic (not to mention unfunny) would it be if he just came out reciting that Jesus is the only way? We know it’s true, but it wouldn’t set the stage for a teaching moment in a future comic strip.
Every now and then, when I’m stuck for an idea, I will open the Bible to a random page and write a strip about the first verse my eyes land on. The above comic is a result of such an exercise. Of course, for the life of me I can’t find that passage. I really need to start writing these things down.
Anyway, the joke here was supposed to be that Spencer would find it easier to burn his toys by way of an offering than to actually behave and mind his parents. Under that is the notion that God does not require us to make burnt offerings or sacrifice goats in order to gain His favor.
I think that really sums it up. For a lot of us, facing martyrdom, burning our toys, and other brief extremes seem easier than just obeying our parents and being kind to people day by day. Apparently, Spencer feels that way. But God’s right (as always) when he says that burnt offerings aren’t needed anymore: Jesus has already made the sacrifice for all of us.
This discussion is great! Saw it coming, because KOHD raised the vital issue of just how to get right with God!
LOOKING forward to the Talk!

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Four-Bedroom Holiday home in Harboøre 11 is situated in Harboør. This holiday home offers accommodation with free WiFi. The holiday home features 4 bedrooms and a fully fitted kitchen with a dishwasher. A TV is available. Holstebro is 48 km from the holiday home. The nearest airport is Karup Airport, 86 km from the property.
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Hi Folks! Just in case you were wondering where I’d been for the past two weeks, well, let’s just say, using the new, you beaut, better than Windows 7 ever will be, you’ve got to be crazy not to want this programme, Microsoft Windows 10 has been… an education.
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Japanese chef knives are some of the best knives available in the world. A lot of skill and mastery goes into the manufacturing of knives in Japan. What you may not know as a Western cook who is just looking into the world of Japanese cutlery, is that there are many types and styles of Japanese knives. The variations make it difficult for a newbie to choose the best Japanese chef knives for their own kitchen.
Being a frequent traveler, and having visited Japan myself, I know that a lot of people who visit Japan put finding and buying top-quality Japanese kitchen knives at the top of their list of things to do while there.
Of course, there are a number of shops in tourist areas of Japan, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, where you’ll find a huge assortment of Japanese kitchen knives just waiting to be taken home with you, but if you don’t go into the experience with at least a little knowledge about what to look for when purchasing a Japanese chef knife, you have a high probability of walking away with the wrong one for you.
We’ve put together a list of important criteria to look for when you choose the best Japanese chef knife. Once you’ve read through this list, you’ll be more familiar with the types of Japanese kitchen knives that are available and you’ll be primed and ready to purchase one that suits you.
Keep in mind when looking for a knife that not all of them are created equal. To be blunt, a lot of knives that are called “Japanese” knives are actually manufactured in China, using the same method as a Japanese knife. There is a difference. If you’re looking for the highest quality, top of the line materials and construction, you should make sure the knife is manufactured in Japan. The knives in the chart below are all manufactured in Japanese and are some of the best knives you can easily purchase without traveling there yourself.
However, that doesn’t mean knives that are manufactured in China are bad. If you can’t afford an expensive Japanese knife, these lower-cost knives can be a great way to try a Japanese style knife and see how you like them. Below, you’ll find 4 options of Japanese-style knives that don’t have the hefty price tag of the high-end Japanese knives, but are still very good, high-quality knives.
If you don’t have time to read all of the reviews in order to make a decision, this comparison chart should make it easy for you to quickly see the knife options and their main features.
First off, let’s clear up one thing that will quickly narrow down the field of choices. I mentioned before that there are many different styles of Japanese knives, but the one you will likely use most frequently is a gyuto. Gyoto is the basic equivalent of a Western chef’s knife. They generally range from 210mm to 270mm in length, though you’ll find some that are shorter and longer. They have a very similar style to what you’re probably used to in a chef’s knife. Unless you’re specifically looking for a sushi knife or a fish knife, it’s a gyuto you’ll be looking for. I personally like a smaller knife blade, somewhere around a 180mm is equivalent to a Western utility knife.
Read this guide on cheftalk.com to learn more specifics about Japanese knives.
If you’ve already decided to purchase a Japanese chef knife, you likely already know the differences between Western and Japanese knives, but for those who don’t, we’ll quickly go over it.
Japanese knife makers have a tough task. They produce knives for chefs who spend their lives perfecting one specialized craft, which usually requires expert knife skills and great precision. Without the perfect knife, they wouldn’t be able to reach the level of mastery they do. For this reason, Japanese knives are quite a bit different than Western knifes. However, many Japanese knife brands have begun to build Western-style knives for Western chefs, so you need to be aware of the differences or you may end up with a Western-style knife made by a Japanese manufacturer.
Read more about German knives and how they differ from Japanese knives.
One of the main differences between Western and Japanese knives is hardness. Japanese knives are harder, which gives them a few advantages over softer knives. The harder the steel, the more narrow of an edge it can sustain, thus Japanese knives typically have a 15 (or less)-degree angle, rather than a 20-degree angle. The hardness also allows the knife to hold a sharp edge longer. The softer blade of a Western knife has a tendency to bend or fold over slightly with use, requiring more frequent honing and sharpening. Needing to sharpen the knife more often will eventually lead to shorter life span for your knives. It’s ideal to use a whetstone to sharpen Japanese knives, but there are a few electric knife sharpeners that are made for Asian knives.
However, hardness can also be a con for the Japanese knives, because it causes them to be more brittle. Dropping the knife could lead to significant damage and if you’re in the habit of throwing your knives into the sink, the blade could easily chip. You can’t use the knife to crack through bones like you can a softer Western knife.
Western knives have a symmetrical bevel, meaning they are sharpened on both sides of the blade. Japanese knives tend only to be sharp on one side of the blade. The single bevel gives it the ability to be sharper. As already mentioned, the edge on a Japanese knife is often 15-degrees of less, while the Western style rarely goes below an 18-degree edge. These days it’s become easier to find Japanese knifes with a dual edge, but in many cases the edges are still not symmetrical.
Again, due to the hardness factor, Japanese knifes can be built thinner and lighter than their counterpart that must be thicker to be sturdy. If you want a lightweight knife that can slice through things like butter, with very little effort, the Japanese knife will suit you well. Western knives tend to be heavier and bulkier. The knife weight lends itself to the cutting process, where as the Japanese knife doesn’t require as much pressure to cut.
For the typical home cook, a stainless steel Japanese knife is recommended over a carbon steel knife. Carbon steel has a tendency to rust when they aren’t throughly dried, or if food is left on them. For this reason, carbon steel knifes require a lot more care and vigilance than stainless steel. Of course, if you have no problem keeping your knives clean and dry all the time, there are benefits to carbon steel, such as staying sharp longer. Both of these materials are better than ceramic knives, which can’t really be sharpened.
Cost may or may not be a factor for you, depending on how much you are willing to spend. Japanese chef’s knives cost on average $150. You can find ones that are less and more, obviously. But if you’re willing to spend around $150, you can find a very nice, high-end Japanese chef’s knife that will last for a very long time.
An 8-to 8.5-inch chef’s knife is the typical and most preferred size for every day tasks in the kitchen, but you may find other lengths available too. How do you choose which is right for you? I think you have to try them out to be sure which one you like best. If you have smaller hands, you might prefer a smaller blade. You can’t really know until you try it. But it’s recommended to start out with an 8-inch blade.
The tang refers to the way the blade is attached to the handle. You’ll hear this said as either full tang or push tang. A full tang means the knife blade runs the full length of the handle. This can sometimes indicate better quality because it’s possible that the blade may come lose from the handle on a knife with a push tang, but when considering higher-end knives, it’s likely not going to be a concern, just personal preference. In Japanese knives, it’s not as important to consider the tang of a knife, because it is crafted differently, with the blade and the handle being two pieces that are welded together.
The handles of Japanese knives are often made of wood which won’t become slippery when wet, as many of the Western knives with plastic fitted handles will. The wood is fine-grained and porous to hold its shape and improve grip. The general shapes are chestnut (frequently called “D”) and octagon, with a tapering to be slightly larger at the tail end.
Cladding refers to a knife that has been wrapped. For instance, the core of the knife is carbon steel, which has been wrapped in another metal like stainless steel. These are easier to take care of than a full carbon steel knife. Many Japanese knives are clad in a style called Damascus (or Suminagashi), which adds a swirl design to the outside of the knife. The cladding doesn’t necessarily offer any benefit, but you do want to be aware of the layers and the type of steel used.
As mentioned above, many Japanese knives now come with dual edges, though not necessarily symmetrical. This will be an issue for left-handed people. You’ll want to check the edge in this case, to be sure that the cutting edge faces the right directly for you. If you’d rather have a single-edged knife, you will also need to take care to look for this specifically on the knives you’re considering.
A Japanese chefs knife should be made in Japan, right? Most of them are, but some are not. Of course if you’re buying the knife in Japan, you shouldn’t need to worry about this. But if you’re buying a knife online, you should check to make sure. Some are made with Japanese materials that have been imported into another country (like China) to be made cheaper. Want Japan quality? Then buy only Japanese knives.
If you have a chance to travel to Japan to look for a knife, that’s the best possible way to find one that fits you. I had the opportunity to look at knives in Tokyo in Tsukiji Market and when I saw “the knife” I knew it was the one for me instantly. Even if you don’t believe in kismet with a knife, you will have a chance to talk to the shop owner about the knife, tell them exactly what you want (now that you’ve learned everything about Japanese knives!) and they can help you make a wise purchase. There are knife shops all over Japan, but of course it will be easiest to find them in the major cities – Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.
One particular shop I like in Tokyo is Kamata. They have both hand-made and factory-made knives to suit all budgets, and they’re beautiful. You can stop by the store if you’re in Tokyo, or you can even order online and have the knives shipped to you. Tsukiji Masamoto is another option in Tokyo, if you’re already going to be in Tsukiji Market.
In Osaka, you can find a really fantastic selection of knives at Tower Knives (easy to get to by train), they are open from 10am-6pm and regularly receive foreign guests, so no need to worry about a language barrier. Osaka is known as the kitchen capital of Japan. There is a whole street devoted to kitchen and restaurant supplies, called Sennichimae Doguyasuji Shopping Street. If you can’t find a knife there, you aren’t looking very hard.
In Kyoto, the best place for tourists to find knives is in Nishiki Market: plus, it’s really fun to walk around. There’s a store there called Aritsugu. There are more than 400 knives on display there, so even if you’re not in the market for a knife, it’s a really cool place to explore.
If you’re thinking about planning a Japan trip, but don’t know where to start, we recommend thinking about a guided tour. The company Japan and More offers a fully escorted 8-day Intro to Japan Tour that’s perfect for experiencing the best of Japan. The itinerary covers Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya, plus the mountain village of Takayama. The cost of the tour includes all accommodations, transportation, entrance fees, some meals, and pre-departure help and advice. The tour group is small, at just 8 people, so you won’t feel like you’re stuck on a bus or anything. They actually have three different tours that depart throughout the year.
Going to Japan on a guided tour is beneficial because the guides can help you navigate the world of Japanese knives and find the right places to buy where you won’t be taken advantage of as a tourist. You may also want to read our guide on taking a cooking vacation in Japan.
It would be great if everyone could go to Japan to pick out their favorite chef’s knife for themselves, but that’s not very practical. Instead, we have to find good options at home that we can trust. Below are a few of our favorite Japanese chef knifes that are available to purchase from the comfort of home – no flight necessary.
The Shun Premier Chef’s Knife is a really good place to start. If this is your first Japanese chef’s knife, and you don’t have the time or want to put in too much time researching the options, then you can make a safe bet on this knife. It’s a good all-purpose knife for chopping, slicing and dicing. The knife has an 8-inch blade and a slightly contoured Pakkawood handle in a walnut finish that is NSF certified. The handle is symmetrical so it can be used by either a right-handed or left-handed person.
is also a great buy for Shun fans who don’t want to pay quite this high of a price.
The Yoshihiro Chef’s Knife is a very nice looking knife. It has a VG-10 stainless steel core clad with 16 layers of hammered Damascus steel. It is a full tang blade encased in a mahogany wood handle. The curved blade makes it great for chopping and cutting with a rocking motion. This knife has a 15-degree blade that is standard for most Japanese-style knives.
This knife is not mass produced in a factory, like others are. It is 100% handcrafted in Japan. One of the things I like the most about Yoshihiro is that it also comes in a 7-inch version, in case you want a smaller blade, or have smaller hands.
Out of these four Japanese Chef Knives, the Koto brand knife is the only one that is not made in Japan. It is made in China with Japanese materials, which helps bring the price down, but doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s of lessor quality. The Koto knife is a very good quality knife, especially for the price, and is a good alternative if you can’t afford the pricier options.
The knife is made with VG-10 Super Steel and is clad with 67 layers of high carbon steel, which has been imported from Japan. It has a Damascus pattern. The handle is made with black Pakkawood and has a slight curve to give a better grip. The blade has an 8 to 12-degree edge and it is full tang.
The Miyabi Kaizen is crafted from VG10 super steel with a 64-layer flower Damascus pattern and was handmade in Seki, Japan. Miyabi’s process is to put the blades through an ice-hardening process that improves the strength and flexibility of the blade and makes it corrosion resistant. The edges are then hand-finished using the three-step honbazuke blade-honing technique that is supposed to give it a longer lasting edge. The edge has a 9 to 12 degree angle.
The handle of the Miyabi Kaizen is made of a durable black linen Micarta in a D-shape that has a slight pattern on it to improve the grip. The Miyabi knives come with a lifetime guarantee and should last for a very long time if properly cared for.
There is a lot of information you need to make a smart decision on which Japanese chefs knives to buy, but now that you’ve read through our guide, you should be able to make a much more informed decision. We hope you end up with a great knife that will last you a lifetime! If you’re looking to stock your kitchen with better, higher-quality knives, we have a whole guide on how to fill your knife block.
Ceramic knives can be sharpened but only with a diamond sharpening plate. An Edge Pro, or other clone fixed angle sharpener can be used with a wide assortment of stones and diamond plates.
Thanks Pia. We have an article all about sharpening ceramic knives too!
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First, let me say that it is taking all the will-power I have as I sit here writing this post to not get up and grab one of these cookies. They are delicious! It was my Mom's birthday this week, and instead of a cake or pie, she got these. I think it was a good choice.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat together butter and sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, then beat in vanilla. With mixer on low, gradually add flour and 1/2 teaspoon table salt, and beat to combine. Press dough together in plastic wrap, then roll into 1 1/4-inch balls. Dip each ball in beaten egg, and roll in coconut. Place balls on parchment-lined (or use silpat mats, like I do) baking sheets, and press an indentation into each with your thumb. Bake for 10 minutes, then remove sheets from oven, and re-press indentations. Bake cookies until golden, 9 to 10 minutes more. Let cool on wire racks. Repeat with remaining dough.
2. Place caramels and heavy cream in a small saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the caramels are melted and mixture is smooth, 4 to 6 minutes. Spoon into indentations in cookies, and sprinkle with sea salt. Rewarm caramel if it hardens before all cookies are filled.
If you are looking for a new cookie to try, I can't recommend these enough. In fact, I'm off to snack on one right now!
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Happy Birthday to your mom! Hope your willpower sustains! Your cookies look delicious.
I just love the sweet and salty combination, these cookies look delicious! I am sharing my Chipotle Chocolate Molten Cake today. Hope you have a wonderful week and thanks for hosting!
Those cookies look incredible! Thanks for hosting such a great party every week!
Alissa, great minds think alike. I linked up my caramel coconut kiss cookies (using Hershey's coconut kisses). Enjoy! THanks for hosting each week!
Oh my gosh these are AMAZING. A friend made these a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn't stop from shoveling them in my mouth! So glad to be able to pin the recipe, thank you!
These would be so awesome with a salted caramel hot chocolate from Starbucks :). My husband would love these...he loves anything caramel. Don't you just love silpat baking mats? I am so in love with mine! THanks for hosting!
What a wonderful combination..caramel and coconut.
Oooh yum! You know what, though - now I'm wondering how, say, a lemon or lime sauce would work in place of the caramel. Very springy. What do you think - would the cookies hold up to something like that?
You had me at salted caramel. Wow!
These look amazing! Thanks for hosting!
Your photographs are always amazing. Thanks for hosting.
This week I've posted my recipe for left over roasted veggies - stick em in an omelet and eat it for breakfast! (or supper because breakfast at dinner time is awesome).
Caramel and Coconut. Two of my favorite things. I bet they would be yummy rolled in sugar, too! YUM!
these look too heavenly- just started linking up- you are too great!
Your cookies look amazing! I can taste them now! I'm thinking I might make them as part of our Easter desserts.


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On January 27th, 1945, the Red Army liberated what was left of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Taylor Downing reveals extraordinary aerial photographs of the camp taken during the summer of 1944, which pose awkward questions about why the Allies did not act to stop the killing.
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER IN AUSTRALIA, WHO HAVE SOME IDEA OF THE SADISTIC SCHEME, THAT THE NSW GUARDIANSHIP TRIBUNAL, THE NSW ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS TRIBUNAL, AND THE NSW TRUSTEE & GUARDIAN ENFORCE, DAY IN DAY OUT. YET THEY SIT ON THEIR HANDS, TURNING A DEAF EAR, AND BLIND EYE TO THE FACTS, WHICH MAKES THEM JUST AS GUILTY.
I’M SURE THERE WOULD BE SOME FOLK, THAT I HAVE LEFT OUT UNINTENTIONALLY!
KEEP IN MIND, THAT THE NAZI HOLOCAUST ONLY HAPPENED 70 YEARS AGO.
WHETHER THEY REALISE IT OR NOT, ALL OF THE LISTED ABOVE, PLAY A PART, IN CRUSHING THE INCAPACITATED PERSON, WHO IS UNDER TRUSTEE AND/OR GUARDIANSHIP.
BUT ULTIMATELY, THE VICTIM IS CONTROLLED BY THE NSW TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN.
THE SO CALLED ‘CLIENT’, HAS HIS OR HER RIGHTS SEVERELY VIOLATED, EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEATH!!!

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The University of Maryland is the state's flagship and land-grant institution with 37,500 students in 12 schools and colleges, 9,000 faculty and staff, and a $1.9B annual operating budget, including $500M in external research funding. It is a member of the Association of American Universities.
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Rob and his group did an incredible job of getting the shop turned over to the holiday and winter season to come. I know there are those that are grumpy seeing this in what rightfully is the fall, but it takes many days and many pairs of hands to get this all ready. Our one evening event of the year featured Rob’s lighting as usual, and pizza cooked up fresh on the driveway. The description doesn’t sound all the great, but sitting on the driveway in 40 degree weather, eating pizza right out of the oven – perfect. To follow are pictures of the before during and after of that event, for those readers too far away to attend. Our season kickoff open house goes on all weekend, and is a perfect prelude to the season to come. If you are nearby, we are well worth the trip.
And this morning-our first snow!
A perfect day for a winter open house, don’t you think?
Those of you who make a practice of visiting Detroit Garden Works are aware that we have planter boxes on the roof. Eight rectangular heavy gauge sheet metal boxes span the entire width of the front of the shop. Designing and maintaining the planting for those boxes is a challenge. The weather conditions up there are extreme. It is always hot, windy, and completely exposed to whatever nature has a mind to dish out. Furthermore, whatever gets planted in them has to make some sort of impression from the ground. How are impressions made from afar? Light or pastel colors always read better at a distance. Large leaves are helpful. But the biggest impression to be made in this instance comes from the mass. This is 40 linear feet of boxes. The mass possible in these boxes is always in my favor, if I take advantage of it.
The design is not the only issue. Growing and maintaining plants on the roof has its own set of issues. It isn’t very practical to drag a hose upstairs, so we do have automatic irrigation in the boxes. You would think that would eliminate all of the water worries, but it doesn’t. The need for water changes all the time. Its very difficult to determine the moisture in the soil from the ground, although I personally can spot wilted plants from a long ways away. We have to get up on the roof to groom the pots, and feed them, so it is easy to check the water in person. Chelsea was up there to dead head the green and white plectranthus, and she noticed that the soil was bone dry in a number of places. It was easy to figure out that some of the micro mist heads had become clogged. Once they were cleaned, the water was flowing again.
The box is planted with two rows. The back row is planted with bouteloua gracilis “Blonde Ambition”. Commonly known as blue grama grass, or mosquito grass, this hybrid of the species has chartreuse flower heads which gives way to blond seed heads. Those seed heads that resemble mosquito larvae hang from only one side of the flowering stalk. This makes for a horizontal seed head that is as beautiful as it is unexpected. Hardy in zone 3, it is happy in dry to moderate moisture conditions. The seed heads hold through the fall, and in to early winter. For the full rundown, see the entry from the Missouri Botanic Garden website: grama grass “Blonde Ambition” Between each grass is the annual blue salvia cultivar, Cathedral Sky Blue. Salvias are not especially showy, but the color of this cultivar is captivating. Mealy cup sage, or salvia farinacea, is notorious for sporting lots of foliage, and less in the way of flowers. The grama grass is a perfect companion. It all but obscures the foliage of the salvia. The airy seed heads hover over the the more dense and static salvia flower spikes. I was not expecting the combination to be so appealing.
The row closest to the street has green and white plectranthus, and white petunias, alternating. The plectranthus has thick juicy leaves, so this plant is fairly well suited for drier conditions. Petunias, once established like the heat, and moderate water. The plectranthus is already cascading over the edge of the boxes, and hopefully the petunias will grow and ride the wave of plectranthus. We usually have our first hard frost late in October, which means we have almost 3 months more time to go with this planting.
It is easy to see in this picture that white flowers have the best visibility of any color in the landscape. That white will help to draw attention to the cloud of seed heads behind them. The salvia is tough to see from the ground, but it does read as a pale heliotrope blue haze.
The plectranthus is beginning to wind its way into the grass. We will edit that, if it seems to be smothering its neighbors. I do not anticipate much of that, as the front of the boxes faces south. But there will come a point where we let it all go, and watch what results from nature’s free for all. The 4th quarter of a container planting can be its most interesting phase. Once a planting reaches its mature size, its overall shape will have a sculptural element, in addition to the color and texture.
This may not be the most showy of my roof box plantings, but it is most certainly my favorite ever. I like how loose and informal it is. I love the color. I have David to thank for these pictures up on the roof-I do not go up there. Climbing up to the roof of the Works on an extension ladder is not for me. How it looks in these photographs makes me think I may want to bring this scheme downstairs somewhere.


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By Mark Foss, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 21 April 2014 | Natural forests and wildlands across 58 tropical research sites provide 28 percent of total household income — nearly as much as crops — according to a new study. The study, titled “Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis,” is the product of the Poverty and Environment Network (PEN), a collaborative effort led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). The largest quantitative global-comparative research project to date on forests and rural livelihoods, it analyzes data gathered from some 8,000 households in 24 developing countries. In addition to research on income generation and rural livelihoods, the global study tackles the themes of safety nets during shortfalls, gender and forest use, forest clearing and livelihoods, and tenure and forest income. The papers appear in a special issue of World Development.
mongabay.com, 21 April 2014 | Forest disturbance in Malaysia, Bolivia, Panama, and Ecuador surged during the first quarter of 2014, according to NASA data. NASA’s Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), a satellite-based product that underpins Mongabay.com’s Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF-DAS), recorded a more than doubling in the number of deforestation signals in Bolivia (162 percent increase), Malaysia (150 percent), Panama (123 percent), and Ecuador (115 percent) relative to a five-year baseline. Cambodia (89 percent), Nigeria (63 percent), and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) also saw sharp increases in forest disturbance, according to the tool.
Forest Trends, Huffington Post, 22 April 2014 | He was not hard to spot. In the shadow of Oxford Castle, under the dome of the Bodleian Library, or from the tower of St. Mary’s Church, the vivid feather headdress was impossible to miss, as was the face of the man who wore it, Chief Tashka Yawanawa, in Oxford, England, earlier this month for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Here, where the history of the place is somehow strangely still alive, his headdress stood for a different kind of history. Not one of bards and decades upon decades of scholarly thought and soaring architecture, but an even older history – of forests and the people who make the trees and the land their home. Tashka made the long journey from his village in the northwest corner of Brazil to join more than 1,000 social entrepreneurs at the conference.
By Assaad W. Razzouk, The Independent, 22 April 2014 | Institutional investors command a stratospheric £70 trillion of assets and tens of millions of savers worldwide depend on them. These investors continue to back the 90 companies responsible for two-thirds of the harmful emissions generated since the industrial age began. The scientific community is absolutely certain that climate change is a clear, present and massive danger and scientists continue to churn out report after report to that effect. Institutional investors, by and large, have their earplugs on and their reading glasses off. At the apex of the £70 trillion sit pension fund trustees, individuals who owe the public a duty to invest prudently. They evidently aren’t doing so because although 80 per cent of known fossil reserves cannot be extracted without extremely serious consequences across our economies, pension funds and stock markets continue to assign value to companies on the basis of these reserves.
By Jane Kelly, Phys.org, 22 April 2014 | What might a snapshot of the earth look like in 2050? How much land will be occupied by forest? How much will produce food? And how much area will be used to supply biofuels for alternative energy? How hot will it be, globally and in particular spots? How will decisions about forests and tree cover affect land use and human communities around the globe? Those are the big questions being asked at the University of Virginia, where faculty and experts from a wide swath of disciplines and countries are embarking on a climate change-mapping project. A new U.Va. initiative, “Global Programs of Distinction,” that seeks to bring resources from across Grounds to bear on issues of global import, is backing the effort.
Survival International, 22 April 2014 | On Earth Day today, a Brazilian Indian shaman and spokesman of the Yanomami tribe will arrive in California with an urgent appeal to save the Earth from destruction by protecting the world’s rainforests and its inhabitants. Davi Kopenawa – who has been called the ‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’ following his tireless work to protect his tribe’s land in Amazonia – will be giving press interviews and several talks in the San Francisco Bay Area: a once in a lifetime opportunity for Americans to hear Davi’s message to the world. He will be accompanied by Fiona Watson, Survival International’s Research Director and world expert on uncontacted tribes.
By Stian Reklev and Kathy Chen, Reuters, 22 April 2014 | Revenues for China’s biggest sellers of U.N.-issued carbon credits shrunk last year to a tenth of 2012 values, choking off billions of dollars flowing to clean energy projects in the world’s top carbon-emitter. China will now have less money to put into a stepped-up campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions, clean its air and raise the share of fossil-free energy in its total mix to 15 percent by the end of the decade, from a current 8 percent… Since 2006, Chinese companies have been issued 873 million carbon credits, nearly two-thirds of the total. These have been sold in Europe and Japan to bring in at least $8 billion in profits that can be reinvested in new projects.
By Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com, 22 April 2014 | Corruption, weak governance, and powerful timber barons are illegally stripping the forests of Papua New Guinea, according to a new report from the Chatham House. The policy institute finds that 70 percent of logging in Papua New Guinea is currently illegal, despite the fact that 99 percent of land is owned by local indigenous communities. “The biggest challenge is dealing with collusion between corrupt officials and logging firms,” author of the report Sam Lawson told mongabay.com. “The logging industry in Papua New Guinea is very powerful, while the government is extremely weak…The largest logging firm owns one of the two national newspapers, for example.” In fact, the logging industry has managed to skirt some of the strongest community and forest land rights in the world—at least on paper.
By Finnigan Wa Simbeye, DailyNews, 22 April 2014 | Villagers from Kilwa District, Lindi Region, have earned over 110,000 US dollars (over 179.4m/-) from sales of timber to international markets since receiving endorsement from Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC). Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative (MCDI) Chief Executive Officer, Mr Jasper Makala, said several villages have joined Kikole village which was the first to get FSC endorsement in 2009. “We have expanded our FSC group certificate scheme now covering 100,20 hectares of forest and more villages,” said Mr Makala who further noted that the villages are also poised to earn cash from Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). Most of the timber is exported to Britain where it is used as raw material for windwood instruments manufacturing. Kikole village was also the first village to join Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) group certificate scheme, joining the group in September 2009.
By Gloria Gonzalez, Forest Carbon Portal, 22 April 2014 | Among California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions culprits, the agriculture and forestry sector ranks well behind transportation, which is by far the leading contributor to the state’s GHG emissions. But with the transportation sector scheduled to be phased into the state’s cap-and-trade program for GHGs starting in 2015, land-based offsets – emissions reductions generated via agriculture and forestry projects – potentially have a critical role in helping California meet its ambitious GHG targets. The agriculture and forestry sector comprises only about 7% of the state’s GHG emissions, compared to 37.6% for the transportation sector, according to the most recent state GHG inventory data, released last year.
[UK] Can you put a price on the beauty of the natural world?
By George Monbiot, The Guardian, 22 April 2014 | On the outskirts of Sheffield there is a wood which, some 800 years ago, was used by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey to produce charcoal for smelting iron. For local people, Smithy Wood is freighted with stories. Among the trees you can imagine your way into another world. The application to plant a motorway service station in the middle of it, wiping out half the wood and fragmenting the rest, might have been unthinkable a few months ago. No longer. When the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, first began talking about biodiversity offsetting – replacing habitats you trash with new ones created elsewhere – his officials made it clear that it would not apply to ancient woodland. But in January Paterson said he was prepared to drop this restriction as long as more trees were planted than destroyed.
City of London Police, 22 April 2014 | Between 2005 and 2010 Matthew Noad and Clive Griston, both from Kent, ran a London-based boiler room which took in more than £10 million from victims conned into believing they would make returns of several hundred percent from sites across the UK that were ripe for housing development. In reality the land, located in Dumbarton in Scotland, Towcester in Northampton and Collumpton in Devon, had little or no value… The City of London Police, which is the National Policing Lead for Fraud, first got wind of the scam in 2010 when they started seeing more and more reports from people concerned about investments they had made in three companies – Browne Mackenzie, Lawrence Taylor and Charles Barkley. Having launched a nationwide investigation, supported by local forces, detectives arrested Noad, 30, and Griston, 52, In December of that year in Bromley on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
By Navin Singh Khadka, BBC News, 23 April 2014 | A global programme to reward developing countries for avoiding deforestation has made little headway, officials and conservationists say. The delays are proving particularly frustrating for communities concerned with conserving forests in those nations. Campaigners say that nearly eight years have passed since the programme, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Redd), was announced, but the international projects supposed to implement it are not happening anywhere. Some countries have seen pilot schemes started, but even these are lagging behind, according to sources. “There have been several demonstrations and preparation projects for nearly 10 years and now stakeholders are asking: ‘Why is the actual project not kicking off?’ They are getting impatient,” says Nurma Sripatin, who heads the Redd cell in Indonesia’s forest ministry.
By Imogen Badgery-Parker, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 23 April 2014 | Actions must be taken to clarify land tenure in forest-rich developing countries, and to improve the economic viability of REDD+ or risk jeopardizing efforts to reduce deforestation and mitigate climate change, a new study based on 23 forest carbon initiatives suggests. Hundreds of pilot initiatives designed to test the feasibility of REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, have got under way in recent years. But with obstacles mounting and a climate agreement still elusive, some initiative proponents are losing their enthusiasm for REDD+, according to the study, led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
By Doug Cress, The UN-REDD Programme blog, 23 April 2014 | By the year 2030, experts predict that human development will have impacted over 90 per cent of great ape habitat in Equatorial Africa, and that less than one per cent of the orangutan’s undisturbed rainforest homes in Southeast Asia will remain. That means the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan, whose population is already fragmented across northern Sumatra, will become even more isolated. Cross River gorillas in Cameroon and Nigeria will struggle to survive in the 11 pockets of forest they currently inhabit, mountain gorillas might lose the ability to roam freely across parts of the Albertine Rift, and the 24 chimpanzees that cling to the tiny Gishwati Forest in Rwanda – nicknamed the “Forest of Hope” – might cease to exist at all.
SciDev.Net, 23 April 2014 | A study tested in six tropical developing countries has introduced a novel method to measure carbon emissions from selective logging activities that are a prime cause of forest degradation. Published in Environmental Research Letters last April 1, the method takes into account all emissions from logging operations: the extracted timber volume, the damage caused by selective logging to the surrounding forest, and the logging infrastructure needed to transfer the logs from the forest to the mills. Developed by researchers from Winrock International, a non-profit development organisation based in the United States, the accounting method was applied in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Congo, Guyana and Indonesia. The study results revealed that the relative impact of carbon emissions from logging varies per country, depending on the amount of ongoing deforestation and the logging practices.
Ecosystem Marketplace, 23 April 2014 | Forest Trends’ Katoomba events are known for bringing people who don’t always talk to each other – soy tycoons and environment ministers, for instance – together to discuss practical solutions to major ecosystem services problems. The twentieth event, which begins today in Lima, Peru, has this kind of ambitious agenda. The theme is alignment. Attendees will consider how climate change, forests, water and people are deeply intertwined, and how payment for ecosystem services (PES) strategies addressing these issues must align, too. Current events in Peru provide an interesting (albeit frustrating) backdrop: The country’s comprehensive PES law, in development for six years now, was finally slated to be formally debated before the National Congress last week – but that debate has been delayed yet again.
Amazonas Florestal press release, 23 April 2014 | Amazonas Florestal, Ltd. ( www.amazonasf.com ) (otc pink:AZFL) (pinksheets:AZFL) (“Amazonas” or “Company”), a diversified forest management company generating revenues through innovative, sustainable forest management is pleased to announce today its initiatives for revenue growth, forestry preservation and building shareholder value. The Company’s business model is currently focused on 3 separate business’s initiatives; Sustainable forestry & Timber Operations, Biomass Development, Production & Revenue generation from carbon credits.
By Imogen Badgery-Parker, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 23 April 2014 | With Indonesia’s pro-environment president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono leaving office this year, questions are arising about how the change in the presidency will affect the country’s efforts to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by reducing deforestation. But presidential backing for a reform may be less important than public support and a shift in political culture, an analysis of Indonesian politics and REDD+ suggests. “There are many exciting ongoing reform processes, but many are facing political barriers in the way the system works, how the public and the state operates, and the relationship between the government and the people,” said Cecilia Luttrell, Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the study’s lead author.
By Alex Steger, New Model Advisor, 23 April 2014 | Two boiler room fraudsters have each been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to running multi-million pound land banking and carbon credit scams. Matthew Noad and Clive Griston, both from Kent, were sentenced at the Old Bailey and have been disqualified from being company directors for 10 years. Between 2005 and 2010 the pair ran a London-based boiler room which took more than £10 million from victims who were sold plots of land in the belief they would be redeveloped for housing, but which in reality had no planning permission. Despite first being arrested in December 2010 on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, Noad and Griston were released on bail and set up another boiler room selling carbon credits via a firm called Capital Carbon Credits, netting another £1 million.
By Tessa Norman, Money Marketing, 23 April 2014 | Two men found guilty of running a £10m boiler room fraud have been jailed for a total of nine years. Matthew Noad and Clive Griston ran a London-based scam which took in £10m from victims who were persuaded to buy worthless plots of land and valueless carbon credits. The fraudsters were sentenced to four years and eight months each in jail at the Old Bailey this week, and disqualified from being company directors for 10 years. Between 2005 and 2010 the two men conned investors, many of them elderly, into believing they would make returns of several hundred per cent from sites in the UK that were ripe for housing development. In reality the land had little or no value, as much of it was situated in greenfield belts or flood zones. Noad and Griston were arrested by City of London Police in December 2010 on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
By Ed King, RTCC, 24 April 2014 | Google plans to partner with SunPower Corporation in a $250m effort to drive residential rooftop solar systems in the US. The technology giant says it will buy solar panels and lease them back to homeowners at a cost lower than their electricity bills. “By participating in this program, you don’t just help the environment—you can also save money,” writes Rob Parker, from Google’s renewable energy team. Google’s $100m contribution to this project makes this its 16th major clean energy venture. In total the company says it now has over $1 billion invested in low carbon schemes around the world, part of a wider strategy to ensure it remains carbon neutral.
By Kathy Chen and Stian Reklev, Reuters, 24 March 2014 | Companies covered by the carbon emissions trading scheme in China’s fast growing city of Shenzhen saw a surplus of 3 million permits in the first year of the market, vice mayor Tang Jie said, meaning around 10 percent of the allowances were unused. The scheme, the first of seven pilot carbon markets launched to put the brakes on China’s rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions, regulates carbon emissions from more that 600 power generators and manufacturers. The city issues permits to companies and those that have a surplus can sell them while those that emit more than the permits allow have to buy more on the market. A surplus, if carried forward, could undermine prices next year and reduce the incentive for firms to cut emissions. “We are studying measures to cancel the verified surplus,” Tang told local newspaper 21st Century Business Herald on Monday.
By David Gaveau, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 24 April 2014 | The smoke rising over Sumatra has started early this year, with peatland fires in Riau, Sumatra, creating a haze so thick that in March it grounded flights and closed schools; at least two deaths were attributed to the choking smoke. It was a grim reprise of June 2013, when windblown haze from peatland fires in Riau clouded Malaysia and Singapore, leading to Singapore’s highest air pollution measure on record. Now, a major multilateral effort to stop the haze is gaining traction, seeking to encourage more research into a few key areas. The fires that create Riau’s haze are no accident — they are deliberately set by people to clear land for agriculture. Nor are they “forest fires,” as was initially reported in June — they are fires on already-deforested areas, chiefly peatlands, in an area where oil palm and paper pulp plantations dominate the landscape, where ignitions by both local communities and companies contributed.
By Eric Hilaire, The Guardian, 24 April 2014 | Award-winning Hong Kong photographer and photojournalist Paul Hilton’s latest series of images looks at the impact of deforestation on Indonesia’s wildlife. Basing himself in one of the most biodiverse hotspots in the world – the Leuser ecosystem in Aceh, home to rhino, orangutan, tigers and elephants – Hilton found that the clearing of forests for palm oil plantations means more roads are being cut into habitat, with endangered species being killed or sold for the wildlife trade in roadside markets.
By Finnigan Wa Simbeye, Tanzania Daily News, 24 April 2014 | Tanzania will soon sign an emission reduction purchase agreement with the World Bank which allows villagers to get compensation for climate friendly actions including conservation of forests. World Bank Senior Communication Officer for Climate Change and Finance Department, Ms Isabel Hagbrink, said negotiations into the deal are at final stages. “It seems we are very close to signing an emission reduction purchase agreement (ERPA) in Tanzania, and I will send you more information when it is available,” Ms Hagbrink said in an emailed message while responding to ‘Daily News’ questions. She, however, did not give details of the agreement and instead referred this writer to National Focal Point, Mr Evarist Nashanda, in Vice President’s Office who is yet to respond to issues raised. But according to World Bank projects, a renewable energy programme under Rural Energy Agency (REA) is lined up for endorsement.
By Andrew Smith, Witney Gazette, 24 April 2014 | Significantly, 1997 also saw the establishment of Oxford-based ClimateCare, one of the organisations set up to use the money raised from carbon offsetting which last week was announced as a recipient of Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the sustainable development category. Today, it continues to work with large corporations such as Jaguar Land Rover, Aviva and even government departments such as the Swedish Energy Agency. Its award citation highlights its “outstanding contributions to poverty alleviation and tackling climate change”. To date, ClimateCare has helped reduce more than 16.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and improve the lives of more than six million people.
By Justin Davenport, London Evening Standard, 24 April 2014 | Police today smashed a “fake Californian gold” fraud racket being run from offices in the heart of the Square Mile. Fifteen smartly dressed office workers were arrested at computer terminals in rented offices in connection with the alleged “boiler room” swindle. Sales agents were said to have bombarded victims, who are often elderly, with cold calls using similar techniques as those shown in Leonardo Di Caprio’s Wolf of Wall Street film. They claimed their firm had uncovered a huge gold cache in California worth $36 billion, which they intended to mine and offered shares for sale in the enterprise at discounted rates. In reality, detectives said there was no gold, or only a tiny amount that did not match the claims. Police believe the ‘boiler room’ had been running since February and fleeced victims out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
By Suanna Twidale and Ben Garside, Reuters, 25 April 2014 | The U.N. body tasked with channelling hundreds of billions of dollars to cutting emissions is under growing scrutiny as its once booming investment programme dries up, leaving most of its funds unspent while other climate initiatives are short of cash… From 2003, developers flocked to register projects such as destroying heat-trapping waste gases at Chinese chemical plants or installing hydroelectric power stations in Brazil, and made huge profits by selling the resulting carbon credits for up to 22 euros ($30.40) a tonne in 2008. But interest has waned while countries wrangled over setting new emission goals under the UNFCCC, hammering credit prices down to unprofitable levels below 0.20 euros.
By Adam Vaughan, The Guardian, 25 April 2014 | Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would be cut by 25-40% if Europeans cut their meat and dairy consumption by half, according to a UN report. Scientists from the UN Economic Commission for Europe say that as well as cutting air and water pollution, adopting a “demitarian diet” – cutting meat and dairy consumption in half – would lead to a 40% cut in Europeans’ intake of saturated fats. The vast majority of saturated fats come from animal products that can lead to cholesterol problems and obesity, and such a cut would bring levels to within a range recommended by the World Health Organisation. Prof Mark Sutton, one of the authors who coined the term demitarian and is one himself, said despite powerful farming lobbies it was not “pie in the sky” to envisage such a cut in meat consumption. But he said the team was not taking a position on how best to encourage people to change their food habits.
By Jacob Phelps, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 25 April 2014 | Controlled farming and cultivation have the potential to supply markets sustainably — whether in the form of teak plantations for wood furniture, cane-rat farms for local consumption, tiger farms for traditional medicine, game ranches for food and sport hunting, or plant cultivation for pharmaceutical markets. In addition to reducing pressures on wild resources, wildlife farming has the potential to enhance rural livelihoods and increase food access. Indeed, recent articles have called for mainstreaming interventions such as wildlife farming and ranching to help reduce rampant illegal trade — including a lucrative trade of protected timber species and shocking levels of elephant and rhino poaching. Despite considerable promise, research suggests that we need to further evaluate wildlife farming efforts.
Austrian Tribune, 25 April 2014 | The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) allows farmers to raise and sell carbon credits by storing carbon through activities like capturing methane from piggeries and landfills and reducing cattle burps. The initiative was launched three years ago and since then, the CFI has launched a number of projects. Recently, changes have been proposed for the CFI under the Direct Action Policy, which are considered to be a win-win situation for farmers. The Federal Government released the White Paper on Direct Action Plan revealing the policy design of its Emissions Reduction Scheme (ERF). Jemma Greene, research fellow with the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Unit, shared some of the important facts about emissions reductions. Greene affirmed that emissions reduction baselines are not clear and are difficult to determine.
Survival International, 25 April 2014 | In an unprecedented victory in the campaign to save Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Brazilian government has announced that all invaders have now been removed from the Awá indigenous territory in the eastern Amazon rainforest. The news comes exactly two years after Survival International and Hollywood star Colin Firth launched a high-profile international campaign to save the Awá from extinction – setting a new record in the history of Survival and its efforts to protect the land of indigenous tribes. Under unprecedented international pressure, the Brazilian government sent a ground squad of hundreds of agents to remove illegal cattle ranchers and loggers from the land of the Awá in January 2014. After an overflight of the area last week, the Public Prosecutor and Judge working on the case handed the Awá an official document confirming that all non-Indians have now been removed from their territory.
By Hal Hodson, New Scientist, 25 April 2014 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to the second largest tropical forest on Earth. Now an online digital mapping system called Moabi is letting people view how the land is being used, to help protect the area from over-exploitation. Forests are vital sources of biodiversity, as well being huge carbon sinks and providing oxygen, but logging and mining operations can threaten these ecosystems. The idea of the online map is to find a balance between preserving the forest and allowing responsible operations to continue. It is designed to increase transparency, so local citizens and international groups alike are informed about land use. Launched on 22 April, Moabi overlays maps of the DRC, built as part of the crowdsourced mapping project OpenStreetMap, with information from the country’s government on where activities like mining, drilling, forestry, agriculture and road-building are planned.


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Battle Beast shooting a new video!
The band’s latest album debuted last February, which was titled Bringer Of Pain. Among the great succeeded songs, there were also three short films (King For A Day, Familiar Hell, Bringer Of Pain), one of them featuring the fans. Noora Louhimo lead band is currently promoting the album that has just been mentioned, but in the days it has turned out that the formation is about to include a brand new video clip, but for the time being, it is still not known for which song will rotate the cameras.
Dark Sarah published their new album’s cover!

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VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) product updates address a critical vulnerability in the vCAC VMware Remote Console (VMRC) function which could lead to a remote privilege escalation.
VMware vCloud Automation Center has a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue may allow an authenticated vCAC user to obtain administrative access to vCenter Server.
This issue is present in environments that use the "Connect (by) Using VMRC" function in vCAC to connect directly to vCenter Server. Environments that exclusively use vCloud Director (vCD) as a proxy to connect to vCenter Server are not affected.
At this time the issue is remediated by removing the "Connect (by) Using VMRC" functionality for directly connecting to vCenter Server. Deploying the provided patch will remove this functionality.
VMware is working on a secure solution that will restore this functionality. Customers may continue to use the "Connect (by) Using RDP" or "Connect (by) Using SSH" options for remote desktop management as they are not affected by this issue.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2014-8373 to this issue.
Column 4 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.
* vRealize Automation 6.2 ships with "Connect (by) Using VMRC" removed for directly connecting to vCenter Server.
** Deployment of this patch will remove "Connect (by) Using VMRC" functionality for directly connecting to vCenter Server.
Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.
Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of patches for vCloud Automation Center 6.x on 2014-12-09.
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Shakespeare wrote “A Midsummer Night's Dream” in the 16th century. In his comedy he describes the various kinds of marriages and love relations. Mainly, the great British author shows the warm feelings between Theseus and Hippolyta, depicts the struggle between Oberon and Titania, and demonstrates the quite passionate and wild love of the young generation in general. Obviously, Shakespeare lays the special stress both on the value of love and its weird nature, unexplainable straying that usually takes as the sudden romantic feelings between two individuals.
We can see the numerous comparisons in the Shakespeare’s play, including the contrast between common sense and human imagination, or that between the sensible and the non-sensible aspects of human actions. Those, who understand the principle of Renaissance being, will easily figure out the primary and the secondary points.
Probably, with a help of reason, morality and wide-open mind people could distinguish themselves from the animals, for instance. It is known fact that passion is ruled not only by intelligence, because sometimes it stands beyond the human imagination. We could be trapped in our imagination, forgetting about the human reality and lost control of it.
None of the characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream is fully described from all sides, however, we can point out that the older pairs are deeply depicted as oppose to the Athenian young men and their female partners. Actually, Theseus’ character is shown diversely, but we do not see him in the three main acts of the play, while the almighty Oberon and Titania are so involved in the magic of passion that their characters are described poorly.
With the same logical approach you may describe the rest of the characters such as Hermia, Helena, Hippolyta, Lysander, Moth, Mustardseed, Oberon, Peaseblossom, Philostrate, Puck, Peter Quince, Snug, Tom Snout, Robin Starveling, Theseus and Titania.

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that the Redskins marks may disparage Native Americans.
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In a different case, a federal district court in Virginia upheld the PTO's cancellation of the Washington Redskins' trademarks under that law, which prohibits registration of marks that consist of "matter which may disparage persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.
New Delhi, Sep 16 ( ANI ): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Sunday reiterated that India has always strongly condemned all acts that disparage religious beliefs and hurt religious sentiments.
13, before an Oval Office meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Bush said he disagreed with those who disparage Islam and its adherents.
They were not meant to characterize homosexual individuals or encourage others to disparage homosexuals.
But the way to resolve them is not to disparage the doubters.
Evans publishes extensive excerpts from an anonymously-authored life of Sutton that set out to refute this supposition on the doubtful grounds that "'Ben understood well enough that his mushroome playes could never disparage or out-last mr Suttons .
Although commuters often disparage the HOV lanes, transportation planners see them as key to moving more motorists on increasingly packed Southern California freeways.
The Ninth Amendment of the Bill of Rights states: "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people?
Infidel" means, simply put, your religion is the wrong one; Christians used the word in the Middle Ages to disparage Muslims and, occasionally, Jews.

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More information about Apache Pine may be found here.
The Pinus Engelmannii is commonly known as the Apache Pine, Arizona Longleaf Pine as well as Pino Real.
The currently accepted scientific name of Apache pine is Pinus engelmannii Carr. It is a member of the pine family (Pinaceae) . In addition to the typical variety, there is one recognized variety in Mexico, P. e. var. blancoi Mart. . Where their ranges overlap, interspecific hybrids occur between Apache pine, interior ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa var. scopulorum), and Arizona pine (P. p. var. arizonica) .
Apache pine has a very limited distribution in the United States. It occurs in the Chiricahua, Huachuca, Dragoon, and Santa Rita mountains of Arizona and in one area of extreme southwestern New Mexico . The main part of its range is in Mexico. Apache pine occurs commonly in the Sierra Madre Occidental, extending southward from the United States border to Zacatecas .
Apache pine primarily occurs in Madrean pine-oak and oak-pine forests and woodlands. Codominant and subdominant species that occur with Apache pine in these communities are Chihuahua pine (Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana), Mexican pinyon (P. cembroides), and alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana); the understories are predominatly oak (Quercus spp.) . The communities may extend upward into the mixed pine forests . Apache pine forms open stands and is widely scattered in mixed pine forests with Arizona pine, Chihuahua pine, and southwestern white pine (P. strobiformis) . Apache pine is the principal species in the Apache pine series . Scattered Apache pine occur in riparian habitats. Along streamsides, Apache pine is a minor species in some stands of Chihuahua pine/pinyon ricegrass (Piptochaetium fimbriatum) habitat types and is codominant in Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica) types . It is a minor species in the Arizona sycamore (Platanus wrightii) series and community types . Apache pine is listed as a dominant or indicator species in the following publications: (1) Classification of the forest vegetation on the National Forests of Arizona and New Mexico (2) Forest and woodland habitat types (plant associations) of Arizona south of the Mogollon Rim and southwestern New Mexico (3) A digitized computer-compatible classification for natural and potential vegetation in the Southwest with particular reference to Arizona (4) A series vegetation classification for Region 3 (5) A forest habitat type classification of southern Arizona and its relationship to forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico . Species associated with Apache pine but not previously mentioned in Occurrence and Distribution include Arizona madrone (Arbutus arizonica), Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa), western white honeysuckle (Lonicera albiflora), and slimflower scurfpea (Psoralea tenuiflora) .


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Their common names — root knot nematode, stubby root nematode, cyst nematode, lesion nematode — describe some of the symptoms. These plant pathogenic nematodes can do further ill by transmitting bacterial or viral diseases to plants.
I’m not particularly worried about nematodes in my garden. For one thing, they’re more prevalent in warmer climates. Also, good gardening practices, such as enriching the ground with compost, leafy mulches, and other organic materials, and crop rotation go a long way to thwarting such problems.
If I did have a nematode problem, or suspected one, I could reach into a quiver of “organic” solutions. Marigolds can suppress nematodes. Not just a plant here and there, though, but a solid planting of giant, African marigolds. Mustard has a similar effect, whether grown, like the marigolds, as a cover crop, or applied as a seed meal, which also happens to be a slow-release nitrogen fertilizer.
In the same way that just about no one with an eye patch is a pirate, very few “nematodes” are bad guys. In the garden, so-called “predatory” nematodes are better than neutral; they are the “good guys,” preying on a wide range of garden pests.
Some of the most common beneficial nematodes are Steinernema carpocapsae, S. feltiae, and Heterorhabditisheliothidis bacteriophora. These three nematodes vary in their habits although they all attack a wide variety of garden pests. Steinernema carpocapsae is an “ambusher forager” that lies in wait near the soil surface for unwary pests to wander past. Heterorhabditisheliothidis bacteriophora is a “cruise forager” that moves around through various depths of soil, ready to pounce upon unsuspecting sedentary pests. The habitat and hunting behavior of S. feltiae nematodes is intermediate to the other two.
Beneficial nematodes can be purchased. To be effective, they must be shipped at the right growth stage and applied without their drying out. Even then, annual applications are frequently needed.
Some strains of the beneficial nematodes can survive and multiply in the soil year after year. I imagine that my garden soil has plenty of “good” nematodes; perhaps more would be better. Some day I may extract some of the “good guy” nematodes from my soil, multiply them, and then re-apply them to my ground.
For now, I intend to get hold of a starter supply of native, perennial nematodes and multiply my holdings, a process which I think will have the added benefit of being fun and interesting. The three kinds of nematodes extracted from soils in central New York, are available for purchase from http://blogs.cornell.edu/ccefieldcropnews/2018/02/28/discount-available-on-biocontrol-nematodes-to-protect-alfalfa-corn-crops/.
With nematodes in hand, a nematode host is needed if I’m going to multiply them. Waxworms, sold for fishing bait, are a convenient host. The waxworms get incubated with the nematodes which, after a couple of weeks, are rinsed free of the waxworms with water.
The aqueous suspension of nematodes is then ready for application. To prevent their drying out, they’re best applied in early morning or evening along with plenty of water. If all goes as planned, they should establish and multiply to kill such pests as wireworms that bore into carrot and radish roots, plum curculio that attack apple, plum and peach fruits, and any cutworms that attack just about everything.
Last minute notice: Come visit my farmden, in real life, on June 24th. As part of the Garden Conservancy Open Days program, I’ll be hosting visitors between 1 pm and 4:30 pm on that day. For more information about my farmden and other local sites, go to the https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/open-days-schedule/ulster-county-ny-open-day-2.
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Given supportive, nurturing conditions, highly reactive “orchid” children can thrive when tackling challenges, UCSF pediatrician and author Thomas Boyce says, especially if they have the comfort of a regular routine.
Broadly speaking, says Boyce, who also has spent nearly 40 years studying the human stress response, especially in children, most kids tend to be like dandelions, fairly resilient and able to cope with stress and adversity in their lives. But a minority of kids — those he calls the “orchid children” — are more sensitive and biologically reactive to their circumstances, which makes it harder for them to deal with stressful situations.
Boyce’s new book is The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive.
We do know, for example, that these two stress response systems … the cortisol system and the fight-or-flight system, the autonomic nervous system, both of those have powerful effects on the immune system so they can alter the child’s ability to build an immune defense against viruses and bacteria that he or she may be exposed to. And they have also powerful effects on the cardiovascular system, so could eventually, in adult life, predispose to developing hypertension, high blood pressure or other kinds of cardiovascular risk.
I think that this is probably the most difficult parenting task in raising an orchid child. The parent of an orchid child needs to walk this very fine line, between, on the one hand, not pushing them into circumstances that are really going to overwhelm them and make them greatly fearful. But, on the other hand, not protecting them so much that they don’t have experiences of mastery of these kinds of fearful situations.