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andhra chicken curry recipe with gravy
andhra cuisine is popular for hot and spicy foods and especially the foods made in Guntur region. Guntur, a small town in andhra pradesh is well known for its fiery hot and spicy foods.
This Spicy and hot simple andhra chicken curry called as Kodi Kura is a gravy that is cooked with minimum ingredients in many households in vijaywada and guntur regions of andhra pradesh.
Well there are many versions of andhra chicken curry, while in the coastal regions it is prepared with coconut milk or ground coconut.
But today's andhra chicken curry recipe does not require any tomatoes,coconut milk or paste, instead poppy seeds and lemon juice are used to neutralize the spicy taste and to bring down the body temperature that is caused by the spices and chicken. However there are also recipes that call for more ingredients, but this chicken curry is a simple and quick one that is tasty and is easy to prepare.
how to make Andhra Chicken Curry – Kodi Kura gravy
1.Wash chicken and marinate with marination ingredients and set aside for at least 30 minutes, Dry roast poppy seeds and cool. make a fine paste of the poppy seeds. if you do not have a good blender or do not have poppy seeds, use 10 cashewnuts , make a smooth paste
2.Heat oil in a deep pan, sauté bay leaf,cumin, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom in the oil for a min
3.Add green chili, onions and salt . fry till onions turn golden brown evenly. (important step)
4.Add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a min
5.Add the marinated chicken and fry on a high flame for 2 to 3 mins.
6.Add mint leaves and the rest of the chili pow and garam masala. mix well and fry for 2 to 3 minutes. i have updated this recipe with mint leaves, but you cannot find them in the step by step pictures.
7.Pour water just enough to immerse the chicken.mix well . (I used 200 ml, but this depends on the kind of chicken you are using)
8.Close the lid and cook on a low flame till the chicken is fully cooked.
9.Add the poppy seeds paste. Stir well and cook till you get the required consistency. Keep string else the poppy seeds paste will stick to the bottom.
If you are looking for more andhra chicken recipes, you could check my chicken curry with tomatoes ,chicken iguru , chicken ghee roast , restaurant style kodi vepudu , guntur kodi vepudu
andhra chicken curry recipe below
- ½ kg chicken
- ¼ tbsp. Guntur red chili powder or any other chili powder
- Garam Masala Pow (coriander 2½ tbsps +Cinnamon 2 inch +cloves 6 to 8+cardamom 3 + jeera ½ tsp+6 pepper corn) or biryani masala powder
- 3 medium onions finely chopped.
- 1 green chili slit
- ¾ tsp ginger garlic paste
- 3 tbsps. Oil
- fistful of mint leaves (finely chopped)
- 3 tbsps. Poppy seeds or 10 cashewnuts / jeedi pappu
- Marination
- ¾ tsp ginger garlic paste
- ⅛ tsp turmeric
- Salt as needed
- 3 tbsps. lemon juice (as needed)
- ¾ tbsp. Guntur Red chili pow
- Whole spice
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 cloves
- 2 cardomom
- 1 inch cinnamon stick
- ¼ black cumin (shahi jeera)
- First powder roasted poppy seeds thoroughly to a fine powder and then add water to make a smooth paste.Use very little water. Do not add water before it becomes a fine powder else you will feel the poppy seeds in the mouth while eating. if you cannot make a smooth paste, do not attempt to use the poppy paste, instead replace with 10 cashewnuts paste.
- Marinate chicken with marination ingredients and set aside for at least 1 hr
- Add oil in a deep pan and heat till hot, sauté the whole spices in the oil for a min
- Add green chili, salt and onions. Fry till onions become fragrant and golden evenly.
- Add ginger garlic paste and sauté again till it becomes fragrant
- Add chicken and fry on a high flame for 2 to 3 mins.
- Add chopped mint leaves and the rest of the chili pow and garam masala.
- Add water just enough to immerse the chicken.Stir well .Do not add lot of water. your curry becomes runny.
- Cover and cook on a low flame till the chicken is fully cooked and is tender.
- Add the poppy seeds paste. Stir well and cook till you get the required consistency for about 3 to 5 minutes. Keep string else the poppy seeds paste will stick to the bottom.


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In his Sunni family's ancestral home in Fallujah it was the heavy shelling -- first by the Americans in 2004 and then again this past January, when the walls shook and the roof caved in over their heads. In the Baghdad neighborhood where they have twice sought refuge, it is the persistent fear of a late-night knock on the door by shadowy sectarian militias.
Abu Omar's grim odyssey is shared by countless members of Iraq's once-dominant Sunni minority, who feel maligned by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, hounded by its security forces and increasingly threatened, once again, by the militias that terrorized them during the darkest days of sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007.
Their grievances have metastasized since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and handed power to the long-oppressed Shiite majority. Their anger fueled the rampage of Sunni militants across northern and western Iraq this summer, and the militant onslaught has aggravated sectarian tensions elsewhere, again driving Iraq to the brink of civil war.
After a humiliating retreat from much of the north in June, the Iraqi military managed to halt the offensive by the Islamic State extremist group on the outskirts of Baghdad. But in the mostly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in the heart of the capital, Abu Omar feels he is under a different kind of siege.
The patriarch of a 13-member family says he's afraid to let his sons leave Azamiyah because their names give them away as Sunni. "They hear Omar and Othman and right away think they are with Daesh," he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. "The (Shiite) militias want to make trouble for anyone who is Sunni."
The family, which asked that their last name not be published for fear of harassment, first fled to Azamiyah from Fallujah in 2005, when U.S.-led forces launched a massive assault on the restive western town aimed at rooting out insurgents.
Two years later they returned to Fallujah, fleeing the sectarian violence then engulfing the capital, when Sunni and Shiite militants abducted and killed scores of people every day, leaving the streets littered with corpses, many bearing signs of torture.
The worst of the sectarian violence subsided in the following years under the leadership of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who deployed the military against Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias and briefly united Iraqis under the banner of security.
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Late last year the Islamic State group and allied Sunni militants seized Fallujah, and in a grim repeat of 2005 the Iraqi military surrounded the city and began bombarding it. The shelling was even worse this time, Abu Omar said, and when the roof collapsed, he and his family returned to Baghdad -- again seeking what can only be described as relative safety.
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Sarpy County authorities say 13 people with existing family violence or related arrest warrants were taken into custody as part of a warrants sweep.
The Sarpy County Sheriff's Office said the effort was held in conjunction with National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the National Family Violence Apprehension Detail.
Forty-nine attempts were made to service active warrants, which resulted in the 13 arrests. Those arrested have been booked into the Sarpy County Jail.
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West Germany, 1970 (MIFF 1971, Programme 26)
Director: Werner Herzog
The cast consists entirely of 27 dwarfs and midgets who act out an obscene parody of human life.
Starting out as a revolt against authority, it details a destructive rampage by the inmates of an asylum for dwarfs, depicting their assorted and extended cruelties. The film aims at showing not the alienation of the dwarfs, but their inherent similarity to the norm, and in the style of Bosch and Gruenewald, expresses a view of life that we ignore at our peril.
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Mumford and Sons recruited an all-star comedy cast for their recently-released music video for "Hopeless Wanderer," a track off 2013′s Babel.
Jason Bateman, Jason Sudekis, Will Forte and Ed Helms all pitched in to parody the English folk-rockers, hilariously hitting all the notes of a typical Mumford and Sons video – a sunshine-drenched grassy field, suspenders and vests, and scraggly facial hair.
The fake foursome even pick up a set of Fender banjos and fans in unison as a barbershop quartet. All in all, it's a great watch and something you won't want to miss.
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This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word dabber
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
dabdæb(v.; n.)dabbed, dab•bing
(v.t.)to pat or tap gently:
I dabbed my eyes with a handkerchief.
to apply (a substance) by light strokes.
to strike, esp. lightly.
(v.i.)to strike lightly; make a dab; pat:
She dabbed at the stain on her dress.
(n.)a quick or light pat, as with something soft.
a small lump or quantity:
a dab of powder.
Origin of dab:
1250–1300; cf. Norw dabbe shuffle along, G tappen grope
any of several flatfishes of the genus Limanda, esp. the European flatfish
L. limanda.
Category: Ichthyology
Origin of dab:
1570–80; of obscure orig.
Dictionary of American Biography.
a thing or person that dabs.
a cushioned pad used for applying ink.
Webster Dictionary
that with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink
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NASHVILLE -- Gov. Bill Haslam said today he doesn't favor Volkswagen recognizing the United Auto Workers based on union authorization cards after plant employees narrowly voted against unionization in February.
But the governor, who along with fellow Republican politicians has fought the UAW's unionization attempts at virtually every turn, said it's premature to say whether his administration wouldn't offer state incentives to Volkswagen if that were to occur, The Nashville Post reported today.
"We'll have to wait and see how that plays out," The Nashville Post quoted Haslam saying this morning. "Obviously, we believe in the importance of a vote. We think democracy matters, no matter where you are. There was a vote at the plant and the UAW did not win the vote, we think that should mean something."
The anti-union group Center for Worker Freedom said Monday it believes Volkswagen's top managers are considering sidestepping the election in which workers voted by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin against recognizing the union.
The group's head, Matt Patterson, said he heard Volkswagen officials are weighing letting in the union via authorization cards. The UAW has said it garnered a majority of plant workers' signatures on cards as it prepared the legal groundwork leading to the unionization election.
Haslam said he doesn't know whether Volkswagen intends to rely on the card checks or not.
The state last year put a $300 million incentive offer on the table to entice VW into adding a second line of production for SUVs at its Chattanooga plant. But those were later withdraw -- the administration said they "expired" after VW officials did not move with the union election coming up.
Asked if any move by VW to recognize the UAW via the union card checks would jeopardize future state offers of incentives, Haslam said, "It's too early to get there.
"There's a lot of conjecture about what may or may not be happening down there," Haslam said. "I think the main thing for us, like we've said, is we're ready to sit down with Volkswagen and say whoever can come speak for the company, let's sit down and have these conversations about hopefully expanding in Chattanooga."
Andy Sher is a Nashville-based staff writer covering Tennessee state government and politics for the Times Free Press. A Washington correspondent from 1999-2005 for the Times Free Press, Andy previously headed up state Capitol coverage for The Chattanooga Times, worked as a state Capitol reporter for The Nashville Banner and was a contributor to The Tennessee Journal, among other publications. Andy worked for 17 years at The Chattanooga Times covering police, health care, county government, ...


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Italy, 1959 (MIFF 1960, Programme 24)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
In 1959, General Della Rovere received the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Festival and the O.I.C.C. Award; thus, it is the first significant film to be made in many years by the noted director of Open City.
The story belongs to the time of the German occupation of Northern Italy. Bertone, a petty blackmailer and swindler, is unmasked by Colonel Mueller, Commander of the S.S. in Italy. Impressed by the strong personality of the man, Mueller decides to use him to impersonate General Della Rovere, whom the Germans had previously killed. In order to ferret out the Italian resistance leaders, Bertone, as the general, is sent to Milan's San Vittore prison. Once there, he identifies himself with the General. His role is convincing; he gains the respect of the prisoners who believe him to be their head - General Della Rovere; right-hand man of Badoglio's anti-Fascist Rome Government.
One day, the Germans introduce a group of prisoners into the prison, aware that among them is Fabrizio, a resistance leader, who is certain to contact the "General". But the false general is shaken by a crisis of conscience, touched deeply by his fellow-prisoners' behaviour and their respect for him; feeling that he has become more and more one with them he refuses to continue his informer's work.
While the immediacy of Rossellini's neo-realist classics is absent in this dramatic reconstruction, he has obviously been impressed by this material more than any he has directed since, and the result is often intriguing, gripping, moving, sometimes even amusing, but always significant.
Vittoria De Sica gives his best performance for some time as the "General". Hannes Messemer superbly plays the Gestapo Colonel, whilst also effective are Vittorio Caproli's tortured fellow prisoner, and Sandra Milo's prostitute.
Throughout, however, it is unquestionably the hand of the director which gives a unity of style and tone to this document of its time.


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The project aiming to enhance the landscape and celebrate the history of the Inner Forth
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A pioneering partnership project aiming to enhance the landscape and celebrate the history of the Inner Forth is one step closer to securing a major funding boost.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced on 23 July 2012 that RSPB Scotland, on behalf of the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative, has received an earmarked first-round pass of £1,975,900, including £75,900 development funding through its Landscape Partnership (LP) programme.
The Inner Forth Landscape Initiative (IFLI) sees local government, charities, and agencies working together with local people to deliver an ambitious vision for the area. The partnership is formed of RSPB Scotland (lead agency), Scottish Natural Heritage (Chair), Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Historic Scotland, Clackmannanshire Council, Stirling Council, Falkirk Council, Central Scotland Forest Trust, TCV Scotland, and SUSTRANS .
Its intention is to reveal the hidden cultural, historical and natural wealth of the upper reaches of the Firth of Forth, restore and conserve important features, open up access, and ultimately leave a legacy of a richer landscape and new facilities for all.
The Inner Forth sits close to the heart of Scotland between two of its ancient capitals – Stirling and Dunfermline. As well as being within an hour's drive of Edinburgh and Glasgow and includes coastal areas within Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and Fife.
The project aims to:
The Forth is designated as an internationally important site for birds, providing refuge for thousands of wildfowl and wading birds in winter. The landscape has also been home to Scotland's industries for centuries, becoming an important trading route with the rest of the world.
Along the coastline, there is evidence of ancient ports and harbours, salt pans, limekilns, mining and whisky production, sitting alongside the industries of today at Grangemouth, Alloa and Longannet. The layers of history and heritage hidden within the landscape create a fascinating story to be told.
Kate Studd, Inner Forth Landscape Partnership Officer, said:
"We're delighted that we have cleared this all important first hurdle and that the Heritage Lottery Fund recognises the potential of what can be achieved in this landscape. The Inner Forth is an area of real conservation and historic importance. Sadly, despite its fascinating history, it is often overlooked and undervalued. With this support from HLF, we will be able to work with local communities to take action to protect and celebrate the area's valuable heritage."
Anne McCall, Regional Director for RSPB Scotland added:
"RSPB Scotland is proud to be lead partner in this exciting project. The Inner Forth Landscape Initiative is a real team effort and allows us to deliver key conservation work on a large scale. This work, we believe, will play a vital role in improving the landscape of the Forth for people and wildlife for generations to come."
Andrew Bachell, Director of Operations at Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said:
"The landscape and nature in the Forth area is important to us all, offering recreational and economic benefits right in the heart of the Central Scotland Green Network. We are delighted to be working with others on projects to restore some ecological processes and to strengthen links between local communities and nature so that we can increase the health and other benefits from living in a good environment."
Colin McLean, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Scotland, said:
"The natural and built heritage of the Inner Forth lies undiscovered for most, overlooked because of its industrial character. The area is, however, very important in terms of rare and diverse wildlife and the role it has had in shaping the history of Scotland over the centuries. HLF is delighted to give our initial support to a project which will enable this huge area of land to be conserved and managed, and local people reconnected with pride to the heritage on their doorstep."
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- Starring: Terry Chen, Luke Mably, Michelle Borth
- Summary: This new medical drama is about a military hospital in Afghanistan and the doctors who work there.
- Genre(s): Drama
- Creator: Douglas Steinberg, Daniel Petrie Jr., Jinder Oujla-Chalmers
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Jun 21, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
Positive: 4 out of 10
Mixed: 5 out of 10
Negative: 1 out of 10
It's unlikely that any TV drama filmed in Toronto could ever come close to the bloody reality of war, but ABC's new series, Combat Hospital, makes a pretty compelling attempt at doing so.
Placid and often incomprehensibly bland, Combat Hospital still has flashes of intelligence. Definitely worth a second look.
Like fellow Canadian import Rookie Blue, Combat Hospital seems almost purposefully forgettable. Watch a China Beach rerun instead.
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The "medical drama" is far too paltry to sustain the series without ramping up the relevance of the war context.
Score distribution:
Positive: 8 out of 11
Mixed: 1 out of 11
Negative: 2 out of 11
Jul 8, 2011I accidentally stumbled across this series on HULU the other night. I couldn't find anything that looked better so i watched it and was 'blown away." As a big fan of MASH, I didn't think that there could ever be a military hospital based drama or comedy that would come close...but this one does. I watched two episodes in a row and will go back tonight and watch the third. Particularly like Elias Koteras and the character he plays but some of the younger actors appear capable and promising also. They deal with difficult issues - like the "friendly fire" sub-plot in one episode - with thought and insight. I highly recommend this for anyone who is a MASH fan or just likes a good, thought provoking drama.… Expand
Sep 6, 2011Great show great acting very beautiful women on the show I hope the show comes back I like show about the military. The show has good action and has a great cast… Expand
Nov 8, 2011It is a very good drama that needs time to develop. Networks want things to be hits from episode one. If they would have done that with MASH it probably wouldn't have gone 11 seasons. Give this some time and it has great potential. Good characterization and story lines throughout the first season is a great start but they need time to develop. This is like Firefly another series that never got the chance. Let's hope if CBS drops the ball somebody picks it up. Combat Hospital is a great show that is different than anything else on TV. Just because it isn't a CSI or NCIS or LA Law clone don't kill it. We need different not reality!… Expand
Jul 9, 2011An engaging ensemble cast who carry off a nice blend of drama and humour. I liked that the drama was not over the top. Don't expect to see every military detail/convention accurately portrayed, but Combat Hospital has lots of potential and I have a feeling that this show will only get better.… Expand
Aug 24, 2011From Canada, eh? I guess that explains the good parts. It's getting better but I could do with a little less moralizing. The head doc is really solid and character driven, the psychiatrist is splendid, the hot shot brain surgeon is really a hot shot but the bland, bland, bland 'pretty' female lead, Michele something is just so much window dressing. Plus she's a bore.… Expand
Jun 25, 2011I enjoyed the pilot more than I expected. I realize that character development and plot cannot be see in their fullest but must be allowed to mature over time. We haven't been able to see into a combat hospital in sense since M*A*S*H and I look forward to seeing how this show will progress. I do not expect it to follow the format of the M*A*S*H series and hope it will develop it's own persona. Only time will tell. It does help me to keep in mind that real people are over there right now. Keeping the sacrifice they make each and every day in the forefront is not a bad thing!… Expand
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It's official – Arctic 30 protestors are not pirates
As Kumi Naidoo, International Executive Director of Greenpeace International has said, this is an historic event. The actions of the Russian government two months ago – and the continuing failure of the UNFCCC to agree action to mitigate climate change – do not give confidence that humanity will avert an environmental catastophe. However, it is good that it has at least been agreed that peaceful protestors abducted at gunpoint in International waters cannot be jailed for piracy and/or hooliganism. Here is the email I received yesterday:
Dear supporter,
Today is a historic day – a day when the fundamental rights of the Arctic 30 have been upheld by an international court of law.
As you may recall, there was a hearing on November 6 at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea. The Netherlands brought the case seeking the release of the Arctic Sunrise and its crew.
Today, just moments ago, the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea ordered the Russian Federation in a binding ruling to release the Arctic Sunrise and the 28 activists and two freelance journalists who were on board upon payment of a EUR 3.6 million bond.
The Arctic 30 were detained only because they stood up and courageously took peaceful action against Arctic oil drilling and to halt the devastating impacts of climate change.
I have just come from the UN climate talks in Warsaw where governments again have failed to take action against climate change. The Arctic 30 took action and it is time that governments acted with them. It is time for the Arctic 30 to come home to their loved ones. It is time for the Arctic to be protected.
Russia is now under an obligation to comply with the order: the Russian Constitution itself states that international law forms an integral part of the Russian legal system and Russian courts are under an obligation to implement this order. Greenpeace therefore expects Russia to respect International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, as it has done in the past.
As we keep saying, it is still not over for the Arctic 30. So this is also not over for you or me. We must continue to stand firm until all charges against the Arctic 30 are officially dropped. Thirty people stood up for 7 billion people. We must stand with them.
Here are 30 things you can do to help us continue to make the case for the Arctic 30 and against drilling in the Arctic.
In solidarity,
Kumi Naidoo
International Executive Director
Greenpeace International
How many more must die because of climate change denial?
Warmer oceans cause more evaporation; leading to more moisture in the atmosphere more of the time. This results in more frequent storms of greater intensity than before. This email from Greenpeace therefore needs no further introduction from me:
Dear supporter,
These are extremely tough times for the people of the Philippines. Unfortunately, this disaster is not over yet and recovering from it will take a lot of time and resources. Nothing will make up for the lost lives though.
I often say this and unfortunately it is true on this occasion as well. It is those who are the least responsible for climate change who are getting hit the hardest by its impacts.
I received the email below from the Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Von Hernandez. It was such a powerful reminder of why we do what we do that I asked if I could share it with you. He agreed.
Please continue to show solidarity with our colleagues, their families and the Filipino people and remind our governments that every fresh investment in a fossil fuel project is a bet against our children and children's future on this planet, as Von put it himself.
In solidarity,
Kumi Naidoo
International Executive Director
Greenpeace International
Dear friends,
It is impossible to put into words the despair that millions of Filipinos are going through right now.
Days after Haiyan (Yolanda) sliced through the central islands of the Philippines, it has become horrifyingly clear that the damage wrought by the super typhoon has been colossal, the devastation absolute.
As of this writing, almost a thousand people have been officially confirmed to have lost their lives. The number of dead, however, is expected to exceed 10,000 — as more reports continue to filter in from other cities, islands and villages that were flattened by the apocalyptic winds and enormous walls of sea water that came rushing ashore.
More than 10 million people are estimated to have been displaced by this single event. Hunger, sickness and despair now stalk the most hard hit of areas, even as aid from both local and international sources started to trickle in. The President has already declared a state of national calamity.
It will probably take a few more days, maybe weeks before the total extent of this disaster can be confirmed. But for sure, this is now considered the worst natural calamity that the country has ever experienced.
While storms and typhoons are indeed natural occurrences, the ferocious strength and destructive power delivered by this typhoon have been characterized as off the charts and beyond normal.
This is also not the first time.
Last year, there was Bopha, which resulted in more than 600 fatalities, and before that a number of other weather aberrations too freakish even for a nation that has grown accustomed to getting more than 20 of these howlers in any given year. As if on cue, and following the template of Bopha in Doha, Haiyan also came at a time when the climate COP is taking place, this time in Warsaw.
Some of you would have already heard about the emotional opening speech delivered by the head of the Philippine delegation at the climate summit, bewailing the absence of responsible climate action at the global level and refusing to accept that the fate of Filipinos may now be irretrievably linked to a future where people are served super typhoons for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Once again, a disaster such as this one, underscores the urgency of the work we do as a global organization on climate change.
It is in fearful anticipation of tragic scenarios such as these why our staff and activists go through great lengths, putting their life and liberty at risk, to take action at the frontlines of climate destruction — whether that's in the forests of Sumatra or the hostile waters of the Arctic.
I would like to believe this is part of the larger narrative why 30 of our colleagues remain in detention in Russia. And it is our hope that they find courage and inspiration to endure the injustice they are going through, moving the planet away from the clear and present danger posed by runaway climate change.
We thank you all for the messages of solidarity and support you have sent our way at this time.
More importantly, I would urge you to use this moment to remind your governments that every investment in fossil fuels is an investment in death and destruction.
The impact of new coal plants being built or new oil fields being developed — do not remain in their immediate vicinities — they translate into epic humanitarian disasters and tragedies, as we continue to witness in the Philippines.
Von Hernandez
Executive Director
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Views of Doha
The 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) to the UN's Framework Convention on climate Change (UNFCCC), ended in Doha (Qatar) last weekend. Sadly, this event was not considered newsworthy in the mainstream media in the UK. Irrespective of the outcome of COP18, the X Factor and the tragic death of a nurse following a hoax phone call were considered far more important than the diminishing prospects for international cooperation to avert a climate catastrophe.
Back in the real world – as opposed to the sweet-smelling rose garden of our celebrity-obsessed media – the consequences of the UNFCCC's failure to prevent continual growth in carbon dioxide emissions over the last 20 years have been reported by a wide range of bodies. The news is not good.
Even before COP18 had ended, Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo, was on record as having told the AFP news agency:
If we make a judgment based on what we've seen in these negotiations so far, there is no reason to be optimistic. – Fractious Doha talks bode ill for 2020 deal, observers say
Writing for the website of the Global Travel Industry News website – let's not talk about its carbon footprint for now – Wolfgang H. Thome (a PhD from Uganda) reported the outcome of COP18 as follows:
In spite of the writing now being clearly on the wall, and climate change projections suggesting an average rise of temperatures by 2 degrees C 40 years from now, and up to 5+ degrees C by the end of the century, the main polluters have once again succeeded to push tough decisions into the future. – Doha's failure spells doom for Africa
A team of observers from the Center for American Progress website, introduced their summary of events as follows:
The end of this year's UN climate summit last weekend in Doha, Qatar, marked a period of transition… to… a three-year process to create a new comprehensive climate treaty, which will be applicable to all countries and cover 100 percent of global emissions. – See here for the full briefing on the outcome.
There is just one problem with the glacial speed of the UNFCCC's progress towards a Treaty to replace the failed Kyoto Protocol – unlike glacier melting in the real world – it is not accelerating in response to the increasingly obvious warming of the planet.
With my thanks to fellow-blogger Paul Handover for alerting me to it – via his most recent post – the Yale Forum on Climate Change and The Media has reported that the renowned British climate scientist – and prominent critique of UK government policy – Professor Robert Watson, recently told a California audience that:
Fundamentally, we are not on a path toward a 2 degree world… Average global temperatures could rise 2 to 7 degrees C by the end of the century, driving a litany of environmental change… Therefore, we must adapt… – Forget About That 2-Degree Future
What scares me about this is that, as Clive Hamilton suggested (in Requiem for a Species), believing that we can adapt to the accelerating change that our leaders are ignoring is very probably a fanciful delusion in itself. – http://www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/media/documents/speeches/launch_speech_for_website.pdf
We have failed to heed the warning signs and therefore, just as William Ophuls predicted (in Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity), we are currently in the process of reducing the Earth's long-term ecological carrying capacity. Furthermore, the longer our political "leaders" take to acknowledge – and respond to – this fact, the greater the collateral damage is going to be. – http://www.greatchange.org/ophuls,ecological_scarcity.html
In the long run, unmitigated climate change is almost certainly going to cause genocide on an unprecedented scale – at least 100 times greater than the extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazis 70 years ago. As was the case back then, an awful lot of people seem to be just standing around allowing it to happen.
Paying the price of UNFCCC failure
I have been somewhat pre-occupied with the task of ending my unemployment recently. However, I found myself pondering the above subject on my drive home from a couple of job interviews in London yesterday.
I know I have blogged about the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) before (and the Kyoto Protocol to which it led in 1997); and – in particular – how we (all human beings on this planet) are now so clearly in breach of Article 2 of the UNFCCC:
The ultimate objective of this Convention… is to achieve… the… stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
However, driving from London to my home in the NW of England yesterday on part of the UK's motorway network, I was astonished to see almost every single river valley covered by floodwater. Some parts of the UK have been very wet this year (bringing to an end a record-breaking 18-month drought). However, on the 180-mile journey home yesterday, I was really impressed by the fact that – as the BBC have reported – this flooding is now affecting such a large part of the country.
Meteorologists and climate scientists have a phrase for what we are witnessing – it's Global Weirding. I believe James Hansen spoke for the majority of reputable climate scientists when, in August this year, he provided irrefutable historical statistical evidence for a reality that atmospheric physics has made inevitable:
A warming atmosphere containing more moisture more of the time will lead – and has led – to the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events of all kinds.
I think all decent human beings owe it to their children and grandchildren to face up to the facts of history; and accept the nature of reality:
So-called "climate sceptics" (i.e. those ideologically prejudiced against admitting human activity is responsible for any and all environmental degradation) have dismissed the warnings of climate scientists over several decades as attempts to justify and perpetuate research funding. In a vain attempt to prevent having to pay for the environmental cost of its pollution, the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry before it, has denied that it is the cause of the problem for decades… They have sought to perpetuate doubt and uncertainty; and have even accused climate scientists of crying "wolf"… However, the truth of the matter is that much more money has been spent denying science than has been spent on research and, just as it did in the morality tale, the wolf has now turned up.
What I really object to is that my children and grandchildren are going to be the main ones that have to pay the price for the shortsightedness of fossil fuel executives who have succeeded in ensuring the UNFCCC has achieved absolutely nothing.
Over the last 20 years of UNFCCC meetings, there has been a great deal of talk and very little action. Despite Hurricane Sandy and President Obama's fine words on the night of his re-election this month, I suspect COP18 in Doha (starting next week) will be no different: Sadly, I think real action will only start to be taken when events like Hurricane Sandy become an annual occurrence.
Therefore, although I do not wish such things on anyone, I suspect I may look forward to concerted action becoming a reality before the end of this decade. By then, as any decent insurance company will admit to you, it is now very likely that we will all be paying the price of the failure of the UNFCCC process.
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Therefore we are already in breach of Article 2 (i.e. the objective) of the UNFCCC:
"…to achieve… stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that… prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system…"
REDD is definitely not Green
As promised yesterday, I want to encourage all those that are not familiar with the issues surrounding deforestation, to explore them in more detail.
Given that humanity seems determined to keep burning fossil fuels simply because they are there, it is now more important than ever that we preserve the Earth's forests because:
1. Trees photosynthesise – turning carbon dioxide into oxygen.
2. Trees are carbon sinks – they use the carbon to grow (biomass).
3. Burning biomass not used for timber adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Deforestation is therefore bad because it reduces the Earth's capacity to recycle CO2; it reduces biomass; and it adds to atmospheric CO2. It is bad for many other reasons, including the fundamental issue of habitat destruction leading to species extinction: Habitat loss is the primary cause of species extinction; and in destroying rain forests in particular, we are not only reducing the Earth's vital lung capacity, we are destroying its most biodiverse ecosystem too.
Many commentators have criticised the UNFCCC and REDD/REDD+ for serving the interests of the global North (i.e. perpetuating atmospheric pollution) and working against the interests of the global South. With REDD/REDD+ being variously described as turning forests into commodities to be traded; excluding indigenous communities; and/or encouraging counter-productive activities, the situation is clearly very complex. But what is the solution? Some say the problem is that REDD/REDD+ is seeking to privatise Nature. Some say that the privatisation of Nature will be its salvation. I think the evidence of history clearly shows that the latter is a libertarian myth. Just as with the Earth's oceans – and all creatures they contain – we cannot divide them up; assign property rights to them; and then punish individuals that mismanage them. However, must everyone who dares to suggest that property rights and the free market are not the solution to our problems be denounced as a Communist? Garrett Hardin was certainly denounced – if not as a Communist then – as a left-wing bourgeoisie academic… and for what? For suggesting that over-exploitation is the inevitable consequence of an unrestrained free market when dealing with finite resources not owned by anyone. You can see where the libertarian myth comes from: The idea that the tragedy of the commons can be avoided by having no commons. However, this is clearly unachievable. Therefore, we must either exercise collective restraint or we will inevitably destroy the very things that support all life on Earth – namely our oceans and our forests.
In researching this subject, I came across another excellent video – this time a bit longer and involving first-hand testimony from those being adversely affected by REDD and REDD+. So, please, don't take my word for it, listen to what all these people have to say in this video produced by the Global Justice Ecology Project.
As policies and programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and to enhance forest carbon stocks (REDD+) are promoted around the world by global and national elites, Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities are raising the alarm that these programs will have serious negative impacts — and will not reduce the cascading threats of the climate crisis. This 28-minute documentary introduces the many concerns about REDD from the perspective of the people who are most impacted, featuring interviews and testimonies from Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, India, and California.
Somehow we must find a way to make our politicians change course because, if we do not, I think humanity is doomed. And if anyone is looking for an epitaph, I think I found it many years ago (I just did not realise how it can be applied at a global level):
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." (Proverbs 14:12)
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I am afraid REDD is not Green
In my search for employment I have recently come across FERN – a European non-governmental organisation (NGO) seeking to improve the way the EU deals with the issues surrounding deforestation. FERN certainly has picked a very difficult nut to crack. However, to understand how the UN is now failing to solve the problem of deforestation, one has to understand how, over the last 20 years or so, it has failed to solve the much bigger problem of climate change.
From its very earliest days, the UN Framework Conventions on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has pursued the notion of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR). This supposedly committed each developed country (and/or Annex I party) to "corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change, by limiting its anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting and enhancing its greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs" [Clause 2(a) of the UNFCCC]. However, it took 5 years to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol; which included the principles of joint implementation (JI); the clean development mechanism (CDM); and putting a price on pollution through emissions trading (ET). Critics have denounced the latter as allowing speculators to make money out of trading in pollution permits; the non-ratification of the Kyoto treaty by the USA did not help; and an awful lot of time has been wasted arguing about what exactly CBDR means.
In recent years, the UN has sought to address the multi-faceted problem of deforestation through its Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). Unfortunately, REDD is widely seen as failing because:
(1) It has allowed polluters to purchase forested land (and so prevent its destruction) as an alternative to reducing their pollution (ET); and
(2) It has encouraged land owners to make money from forested land by replacing native forest with commercial plantations such as palm oil.
The UN has responded with its REDD+ programme – designed to encourage the conservation of biodiverse old-growth forest rather than their replacement with monocultures – but this too is widely seen as failing (because ET is failing).
This is a subject I intend to explore in more detail but, for now, I would like to encourage all readers – especially those for whom all these acronyms may be new – to watch this brief video, which I found on FERN's Home Page.


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In this 2005 file photo, former Jefferson County Commissioner Chris McNair reacts outside of the Hugo L. Black Federal Courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., after being indicted on bribery, mail fraud and obstruction in the 1997 - 2003 Jefferson County sewer operations.Photo by Associated Press /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The father of one of four black girls killed in a 1963 racist church bombing in Birmingham is home from prison after being granted an early release.
A defense lawyer says 87-year-old Chris McNair was reunited with wife and daughters late Thursday.
Defense attorney Doug Jones describes McNair as being upbeat and happy to be back home in Alabama.
A federal judge approved the Obama administration's request to release McNair from a prison medical center in Minnesota where he was serving time for federal bribery convictions.
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BHAG = Big Hairy Audacious Goal
The notion of the BHAG (yes, I know it sounds vaguely offensive) is a business concept I was first exposed to when I underwent orientation to join the Board of Governors of our clinic. It is a notion that resonates strongly to me. The concept is to set a dramatic goal with the understanding that it may not be met. It should be action oriented, innovative, and compelling in its reach. Noted examples have included:
As a grand purpose, the BHAG can carry some significant advantages. By focusing on the grand vision, the mundane steps, once considered only possible to reach, become a given. If your BHAG is to be the predominant oncology group in the nation, surviving the next 2-5 years or getting a better payor mix cannot be a goal. It will be a given.
It can be an idea that is difficult to sell within an organization. Administrators and organizations tend to see goals as "having to be met." It can also be a concern to some who prefer to "under-promise and over-deliver." Personally, I can easily see having both concepts at play in a single institution.
Cancer research and funding of cancer research has not generally embraced this concept. NIH and NCI funding mechanisms have generally required a fairly rigorous step-wise advancement of knowledge and studies. Department of Defense grants, on the other hand, have been more open and even requiring of the "big risk/big reward" ideas. It has been enjoyable to be a reviewer on DoD panels and watching scientists used to the NIH approach have a very difficult time with that notion.
Now we have what may truly be considered the first, widely publicized, BHAG in the field of oncology. The MD Anderson Cancer Center has announced their Moon Shots program. With an initial focus on myelodysplasia/AML, CLL, melanoma, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and triple-negative breast/ovarian cancers, MD Anderson is committing major programmatic resources in the areas of prevention and early detection as well as expanding our ability to fight more advanced disease. The overriding idea is, as stated on the cancermoonshots.org webpage, "The time is now to end cancer."
Yes, we have heard similar things before. We have, after all, been fighting the "War on Cancer" for more than four decades. The approach here has a true potential to differ. A single institution can adopt a mindset more like the Department of Defense's "big risk/big reward" approach. If MD Anderson does stay more along the NIH way of evaluating ideas, however, it will run the risk of trying to make incremental changes meet a quantum goal.
I thoroughly applaud MD Anderson in this step. We must acknowledge the bravery to commit to this magnitude of a goal, even while knowing that cynics may snigger about the audacity. It will be interesting to see if other organizations step up to make similar commitments.This could be a first step in revolutionizing our chosen field. There is no better description for that than a truly Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
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