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AP WAS THERE: OJ Simpson's slow-speed chase
In this June 17, 1994 file photo, a white Ford Bronco, driven by Al Cowlings carrying O.J. Simpson, is trailed by Los Angeles police cars as it travels on a Southern California freeway in Los Angeles. Cowlings and Simpson led authorities on a chase after Simpson was charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. (AP Photo/Joseph Villarin, File)
EDITOR'S NOTE: The first week of the O.J. Simpson case in mid-June 1994 moved quickly, with reporters racing to reach the news. The only thing that was slow was The Chase.
The football great had been accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend, and there he was on live television, in the back of his friend's white Ford Bronco with a gun to his head. The freeway was like a parade — with the police, media and fans following "The Juice." There were crowds on the overpasses, signs, cheers and fists punching the air as the pursuit unfolded.
In The Associated Press newsroom, editors and writers were riveted to small televisions. And that's where many would stay for the next 17 months — glued to a TV as the so-called "Trial of the Century" unfolded.
Twenty years after its original publication, the AP is making available the story wrapping up all the developments from The Chase.
O.J. ARRESTED IN SLAYINGS OF EX-WIFE AND HER FRIEND
LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson was hunted down and captured in his driveway Friday night after running from charges of murdering his ex-wife and her male friend and leading police along 60 miles of freeways and city streets.
"I can't express the fear I had that this matter would not end the way it did," said Simpson's attorney, Robert Shapiro, who had worried earlier that the former football great would kill himself.
Outside the walls of Simpson's estate, members of Simpson's family hugged each other and cried after word of the arrest came out.
A cheer came up from the crowd of 300 spectators.
The arrest shortly before 9 p.m. culminated an incredible drama that unfolded on live national TV in which police first announced charges against the former football great, then said he had disappeared and finally followed him along the highways for more than an hour.
After the white Ford Bronco came to a halt at Simpson's estate, a man believed to be his lifelong friend and teammate, Al Cowlings, got out. Simpson's lawyer arrived at the mansion nearly an hour later and the arrest came minutes later.
Before fleeing as he was about to be arrested, the former football great left a handwritten letter proclaiming his innocence, saying goodbye to friends and making "a last wish" to "leave my children in peace."
Shapiro earlier said he feared Simpson was suicidal and pleaded with him to give up. At the same news conference, a friend read Simpson's letter.
"I've had a great life, great friends," the football Hall of Famer's letter said. "Please think of the real O.J. and not this lost person."
The district attorney called it "the fall of an American hero," and Los Angeles police, angered that he reneged on a promise to surrender earlier in the day, mounted a manhunt for him and a former teammate.
In the letter, Simpson wrote that he tried to do "most of the right things" in life and asked: "Why do I end up like this?"
"First, everyone understand, I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder," Simpson's letter begins. "If we had a problem, it's because I loved her so much."
"I don't want to belabor knocking the press, but I can't believe what is being said. Most of it is totally made up. I know you have a job to do, but as a last wish, please, please, please, leave my children in peace," he wrote.
Shapiro said Simpson has been "exceedingly depressed," but he didn't know if Simpson had committed suicide.
"I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying that we will be able to bring him into a court," Shapiro said.
"Wherever you are, for the sake of your family, for the sake of your children, please surrender immediately."
Police immediately mounted a manhunt when Simpson fled, and said he may be armed.
"Mr. Simpson is out there somewhere and we will find him," Police Cmdr. David Gascon told reporters.
If convicted of killing Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, Simpson – among the most prominent celebrities ever charged with murder – could face the death penalty.
"We saw, perhaps, the fall of an American hero," District Attorney Gil Garcetti said.
Simpson, 46, was scheduled to surrender at 11 a.m. but failed to honor the agreement made with Shapiro, Gascon said.
Shapiro said he was with Simpson, Cowlings and two doctors in a house in the San Fernando Valley on Friday morning when police called to say they were coming to arrest him. He said Simpson and Cowlings, who grew up with Simpson in a San Francisco housing project and was his teammate in high school, at the University of Southern California and the Buffalo Bills, vanished before police arrived.
"The Los Angeles Police Department is actively searching for Mr. Simpson," Gascon said. "The Los Angeles Police Department is also very unhappy with the activities surrounding his failure to surrender."
Authorities also were looking for Cowlings, Garcetti said, warning, "If you assist him in any way you are committing a felony."
The investigation was anchored by a grisly array of evidence, from media reports of a blood-stained ski mask to a bloody glove.
Gascon declined to say how the police lost Simpson, who was handcuffed and questioned by police Monday but let go. He had been seen at his house earlier in the week and attended his ex-wife's funeral Thursday. Someone resembling Simpson was seen driving away from his house an hour before his expected surrender.
Mike Botula, a spokesman for Garcetti, said the charges included the special capital punishment circumstance of multiple killings. There is no bail in such cases, Botula added.
"A final decision on whether we would seek the death penalty will be made at a later time," Botula said.
Fans and colleagues of the sports legend who had insisted on his innocence were forced by Friday's arrest warrant to confront an ominous possibility – that Simpson could have killed the mother of their two children, daughter Sydney, 9, and son Justin, 6.
"There's nothing to say except that the law must take its course," said Howard Cosell, who worked with Simpson on ABC's "Monday Night Football."
The bodies of Mrs. Simpson, the football star's strikingly beautiful ex-wife, and Goldman, a 25-year-old aspiring model and waiter at a trendy restaurant, were found outside Mrs. Simpson's posh condominium.
Mortally wounded by multiple stab wounds, the bodies were discovered in a pool of blood by a passerby.
The couple divorced in 1992 following a seven-year marriage. While still married, Mrs. Simpson called police in 1989 saying she feared he was going to kill her. She had been punched, slapped and kicked by Simpson, who pleaded no contest in the case, authorities said.
Some reports suggested the two were attempting to reconcile at the time of the slayings. They had recently been seen together, but a family friend said those attempts failed and Simpson had turned vengeful.
"He was telling her girlfriends and her that if he ever caught her with anyone he would kill her," the friend told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity. "She totally broke it off with him three weeks ago."
Through his attorneys, Simpson maintained his innocence, claiming he was at home at the time of the slayings, waiting for a limousine to take him to the airport for a flight to Chicago. He attended his wife's funeral Thursday and hired forensic experts to assist in his defense.
Simpson flew to Chicago the night of the killings and was summoned home by police the next morning.
In filing the charges, authorities painted a grim picture in stark contrast to Simpson's graceful moves on the football field. Simpson was accused of using a knife to kill Mrs. Simpson and Goldman. The knife hasn't been found, Garcetti said.
Goldman, his family said, wasn't romantically involved with Mrs. Simpson. Reports indicated he fought valiantly for his life.
Orenthal James Simpson is known to many as the nimble and powerful running back for the Buffalo Bills, for whom he set a single-season NFL rushing record with 2,003 yards in 1973. He helped make USC a national champion in 1967 and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968.
He also was widely seen as a television sports commentator and in advertisements for Hertz rental cars. He also produced several television movies and had featured roles in such productions as "Roots" and "The Naked Gun" comedies.
After the warrant was announced, Hertz dropped Simpson.
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Iranian, Ansarullah officials discuss political solution for Yemen, aid delivery
EghtesadOnline: Senior officials of Iran and Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement have sat down for talks in Tehran on ways to help end the political conflict in the war-torn Arabian Peninsula state and provide humanitarian aid to its people.
On Monday, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, the Iranian foreign minister's special assistant for political affairs, met with Mohammad Abdulsalam, the Ansarullah movement's spokesperson, in the capital
According to PressTV, the two also explored ways of providing aid the people of Yemen, which has been under attack by Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its allies since March 2015.
They also discussed efforts to find a political solution to the conflict among Yemeni political groups.
Abdulsalam arrived in the Iranian capital on Saturday and held talks Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
He presented the Iranian top diplomat with a report on the state of affairs in Yemen.
Zarif pointed to a four-step solution he had proposed earlier last week to solve the crisis, underlined the need for an urgent end to the bombardment and concomitant Saudi-imposed siege of Yemen, and facilitation of transfer to the country of direly-needed aid supplies.
The top Yemeni official presented the top Iranian diplomat with a report on the state of affairs in Yemen.
Zarif pointed to a four-step solution earlier proposed by Iran to solve the Yemen crisis, underlining the need for an urgent end to the Saudi bombardment and siege of Yemen,
Iran's peace plan calls for an immediate ceasefire, the provision of humanitarian assistance to the war-stricken people, intra-Yemeni talks, and the formation of an inclusive government.
Saudi Arabia and its allies have been seeking to return Yemen's former Riyadh-aligned government to power. The invasion has killed some 13,600 people and pulverized much of Yemen's infrastructure.
The head of the former government Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi had resigned and fled to Riyadh after turning down Ansarullah's call to rescind the resignation and continue to negotiate power.
Ansarullah has been running the country's affairs and also defending the country against the Saudi aggression.
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It can be said it is the concept that aids the construction sites in creating a digital model which is based on a predetermined set of data and it is capable of doing all the operations that are needed for the complete building procedure. Building information modeling is basically a computer engineering supported by different tools, contracts and software between the building site and the production companies which involve the generation and execution of virtual representations of physical and functional features of their physical locations. These include everything which concerns the positioning of the walls, roof, flooring, etc. which can be required to be assembled in order to construct the building. Building data modeling involves the generation of these models which are used for the architectural function and for various other functions such as providing support to the engineers in designing the building.
All this is dependent upon the model that's made from building information modeling. The models that are generated by means of this technology are designed in such a manner so they may be utilized for different purposes. It also helps the engineers in assessing the demands of the building site and in designing a version accordingly. Building design is made in such a manner that the design gets more true by considering various factors like the construction site requirements, budget, timeline etc.. When these parameters have been considered correctly, the engineers can generate the perfect model that's suitable for the building site.
These models are generally generated at a level where they aren't just true but also help in saving a great deal of time and money. Additional benefits of building information modeling include reducing the cost and increasing the accuracy with the aid of the usage of computers, software and other technical equipments like CAD machines along with other software.
There are several varieties of modeling software available in the marketplace which may be used for data modeling purposes. These applications are specially designed for the purpose of generating information models that are useful for various purposes such as constructing virtual models, which can be used for building preparation, which may be used for your evaluation, construction preparation, etc.. This is the reason it is vital for each and every building site in order to make use of these programs while preparing and constructing the building plans.
What is building information modeling? That is a question that has puzzled many people since long.
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There are various kinds of jobs, which are undertaken by building sites in order to construct new buildings, bridges, roads, etc.. These projects may also involve changing the construction of the existing buildings and thus it may be crucial for the construction site to make a virtual model that will help it in understanding the various aspects of the project. This is the most important reason information modeling has been termed as the most important facet of a construction website.
All this is dependent upon the model that's made from building information modeling. The models that are generated by means of this technology are designed in such a manner so they may be utilized for different purposes. It also helps the engineers in assessing the demands of the building site and in designing a version accordingly. Building design is made in such a manner that the design gets more true by considering various factors like the construction site requirements, budget, timeline etc.. When these parameters have been considered correctly, the engineers can generate the perfect model that's suitable for the building site.
These models are generally generated at a level where they aren't just true but also help in saving a great deal of time and money. Additional benefits of building information modeling include reducing the cost and increasing the accuracy with the aid of the usage of computers, software and other technical equipments like CAD machines along with other software.
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Q: How do I stop background color code from overriding round corners code in xml? I have encoded in layout.xml the following button
<Button
    android:id="@+id/buttonCorrection"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="30dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    android:text="Undo last entry"
    android:textSize="@dimen/button_text_size"
    android:textAllCaps="false"
    android:textColor="@color/colorAgainstBackground"
    android:background="@drawable/clickcorrectionbutton"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/textviewPlayerB"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/textviewPlayerA"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/textviewPlayerA" />

The clickcorrectionbuttion.xml is used to set the button's background color and the rounding of its corners:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <corners android:radius="10dp"></corners>
            <solid android:color="@color/colorCorrection"></solid>
        </shape>
    </item>

</selector>

This works perfectly. However, the java code at some point in the app calls for the button to change color and text. That code reads as follows ...

buttonCorrection.setBackgroundColor(getColor(R.color.colorAgainstBackground));
  buttonCorrection.setTextColor(getColor(R.color.colorAgainstButton));
  buttonCorrection.setText("Select button");

The problem is that, when that java code is invoked, it does indeed change the background color and text of the button as desired, but it also deletes the round corners. It somehow seems to override what's in the selector. How can the corners be kept rounded?

A: I made a selector xml for each of the button states. The background selection java code now looks like
buttonCorrection.setBackground(getDrawable(R.drawable.clickcorrectionbutton))
and
buttonCorrection.setBackground(getDrawable(R.drawable.clickcorrectionbuttonnonactive))

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Trichodesma setiferum is een keversoort uit de familie klopkevers (Anobiidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1858 door LeConte.

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Manufacturing companies that operate their Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes so that supplier relationships are collaborative, data-driven, strategic alliances improve client quote generation.
Manufacturing companies that operate their Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes so that Supplier Relationships are collaborative, data-driven, strategic alliances improve client quote generation. They are lean, strong, agile supplier relationships that aren't siloed to strict, expensive parameters. They develop with trust and time through trans-formative iterations that eliminate unnecessary processes so your quotes aren't ambiguous and give you a proper apples to apples comparison.
These iterations, coupled with highly-configurable digital technology, ensure that manufacturers can clearly define the Scope of Work (SOW) at the onset of the P2P process, yet change as needed whether the deliverable's are raw material, custom components or domestic warehoused parts.
The scope of work is what a job entails technically, logistically, timing and cost. This is especially important if you are a manufacturer and you need a particular component quote within a specific time frame. It helps to include a print (production drawing) so that your supplier can quote the component.
This is especially true if you are a small manufacturer creating proprietary parts using raw materials extracted from such commodities as tungsten. Such manufacturers must rely on international suppliers when raw commodities cannot be fulfilled by a domestic supplier. Quotes for these kinds of commodities can be tricky. Often currency fluctuations, transportation and other logistical issues, as well as import/export tariffs, affect raw materials, which in turn, affect custom component quotes.
For instance, if the price for a monthly supplied raw material that must be mined in a certain region in China increased 38 percent within the last month, does this mean that your price will also increase 38 percent? To ascertain that your supplier is giving you a fair quote, you must make sure that both your historical and current data integrity is of the highest quality.
What about domestic warehoused components like plastic for injection molding parts? It follows the same principle. Your supplier data must be impeccable and readily available. You can't have a supplier on the phone while sifting through mounds of manual files to find the historical figures that support your reasons to question a quote.
The domestic and international business world moves information around at lightning speed whether you are an SMB or an enterprise-level company. Your value stream of data should not be undervalued or subject to barriers like non-strategic, informational workflows that do nothing to improve client quote generation.
Maybe you should be asking your P2P team: "Is your data working for you or are you working for your data?" If the answer is the latter, then there is no real collaboration or synthesis between your P2P process and your suppliers.
You want to be able to track historical and current supplier data so that you have quantitative and qualitative insights to supplier quotes. It's time to reduce or eliminate the technological barriers that inhibit data-driven, strategic alliances.
iQuote, along with iApprove, iPurchase, iManagePOs and iVoucher is one of the core solutions in our agile BPI Supplier Relationship Improvement portfolio; SRI iBundle. Each solution is seamlessly integrated with QAD EA, and most leading ERP solutions for real-time actionable data with multi-device functionality.
These highly configurable, web-based, on-premise or in-the-cloud BPI solutions reduce or eliminate unnecessary processes, bringing manufacturers and suppliers collaborative, lean, agile quotes that take your scope of work to the next iteration in the framework that works best for your particular P2P. Contact us when you're ready to overcome the barriers that keep your company from improved, global, collaborative client quote generation.


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Prévocourt ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Moselle in der Region Grand Est (bis 2015 Lothringen). Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Sarrebourg-Château-Salins.

Geographie
Prévocourt liegt in Lothringen, 37 Kilometer südöstlich von Metz, 18 Kilometer nordwestlich von Château-Salins und vier Kilometer nördlich von Delme im Saulnois (Salzgau) auf einer Höhe zwischen 228 und 360 m über dem Meeresspiegel. Das Gemeindegebiet umfasst 6,77 km².

Geschichte
Das Dorf gehörte früher zur Grafschaft Bar, wurde 1392 an Metzer Bürger gegeben und kam dann an die Salmsche Baronie Viviers. Die Ortschaft wurde 1661 zusammen mit Bar von Frankreich annektiert.

Durch den Frankfurter Frieden vom 10. Mai 1871 kam die Region an das deutsche Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, und das Dorf wurde dem Kreis Château-Salins im Bezirk Lothringen zugeordnet. Die Dorfbewohner betrieben Getreidebau und Viehzucht.

Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg musste die Region aufgrund der Bestimmungen des Versailler Vertrags 1919 an Frankreich abgetreten werden. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg war die Region von der deutschen Wehrmacht besetzt.

Das Dorf trug 1915–1919 bzw. 1940–1944 den eingedeutschten Namen Probsthofen.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Wappen
Das Kreuz im Gemeindewappen erinnert an die Zugehörigkeit zu Lothringen, der Bär steht für die Abtei St. Maximin in Trier. die Besitz in Prévocourt hatte.

Literatur
  Prévocourt, Kreis Château-Salins, Elsass-Lothringen, in: Meyers Gazetteer, mit Eintrag aus Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon, Ausgabe 1912, sowie einer historischen Landkarte der Umgebung von Prévocourt (meyersgaz.org).
 Eugen H. Th. Huhn: Deutsch-Lothringen. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde, Stuttgart 1875, S. 503  (google.books.com).
 Georg Lang: Der Regierungs-Bezirk Lothringen. Statistisch-topographisches Handbuch, Verwaltungs-Schematismus und Adressbuch, Metz 1874, S. 178  (books.google.com).

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Is it only one single WBSE for which the user is not able to enter dates, (as you mentioned)? Is he able to do the same for the rest of Project / WBSE ?


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They buildOn: Stella & Dot Stylist Sells Bracelets to Build a School, Empower Women
In honor of International Women's Day we're showcasing bracelets from the Stella & Dot Foundation, a philanthropic division of jewelry company Stella & Dot focusing on women's rights. All proceeds from the bracelets will go to three great organizations – buildOn, Accion USA, and Girls Inc. The bracelets are available here. Find out more below as They buildOn profiles a Stylist who hopes to build a school in Nicaragua through the sale of the foundation bracelets.
The Stella & Dot jewelry company's foundation has been donating proceeds to buildOn and two other nonprofits since summer 2010. Its stylists are selling turquoise and jade charity bracelets for women and children to benefit the construction of a school in Nicaragua.
The stylists going on the trek will be selected by a raffle. Stylists earn a raffle ticket for every ten bracelets sold. Stylist Shaina Haller (left) is currently the top saleswoman for the charity bracelets. The winners will accompany Stella & Dot's founder and CEO Jessica Herrin to Nicaragua in August 2011. The foundation scheduled the trip for Mother's Day to symbolically celebrate the company's mission: To create positive change in women's lives through education and economic empowerment. And since several of the company's stylists are mothers themselves, departing on that particular holiday made perfect sense.
"It's our greatest pride that our Stylists have built a business that can give back in such a significant way," Herrin says. The company has been training entrepreneurial women in the United States and Canada as Stylists since 2007.
We interviewed Shaina Haller to explore what might be motivating her passion for the campaign; when we last spoke to her she had sold nearly 400 bracelets online and through trunk shows. Determined to go on the trip, she wants to sell 500 or more bracelets by the end of the month. "My goal is to reach out to people in our community and share with them how important buildOn is and to support it through our foundation," she claims. "This is my year to give back and travel and do things for my family." If Haller is chosen, she'll go with her husband.
Learn more about Stella & Dot from this video.
City: Danville, California.
What are three words you'd use to describe yourself? Motivated. Grateful. Inspired.
How have you seen your contribution with buildOn make a difference?
The money that I've personally been able to raise is helping children involved with afterschool programs, and will build schools in low-income areas. It makes the people buying the bracelets feel good and makes me feel good about helping on a small scale.
[pullquote]buildOn is an inspiration. But it's also a huge goal in the initiative for the Stella & Dot to help us work together, to help those in need.[/pullquote]
What buildOn initiatives mean the most to you?
I value helping other woman and other children and (contributing through the foundation) makes us have that connection.
Complete this sentence: buildOn is…
An inspiration. But it's also a huge goal in the initiative for the Stella & Dot to help us work together, to help those in need.
How did you end up being a stylist with Stella & Dot?
I was a stay at home mom with three kids and looking for something fun to do. I saw Jessica [Herrin] on The View and Google-ed the company, and signed up to be a stylist. A few months later my husband's job changed, and this became an amazing vehicle to help support my family. I think it's done that for so many women, helping us get back on our feet. And now I think it's the perfect opportunity to help others… It's changed me and my family in ways I didn't think were possible.
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Bristol and Bath Rising Tide – New Year Meetings
January 24, 2010 at 9:53 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: bath, bristol, climate justice, rising tide, westside
Rising Tide – Rises again !
Rising Tide UK is a network of groups and individuals dedicated to taking local action and building a movement against climate change.
After quite a pause since we last met – it was decided at the recent Westside Gathering to get regular meetings of Rising Tide happening in Bath and Bristol. If you are still up for tackling the root causes of climate change – come and join us.
So the next meeting is going to be at the Black Cat Social Centre in Bath at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday 2nd February. This is currently in the squatted vicarage building at the back of the Methodist church on the corner West Avenue less than 20 secs from Oldfield Park train station (turn left when leaving the station go over the railway bridge and you are facing it). For Bristol folk there is a train from Bristol Temple Meads at 18.49 arriving 19.03 and trains back at 21.10 and 22.28.
The following meeting will be in Bristol at the Kebele Social Centre, Robertson Rd, Easton at 7.30 on Monday 15th Februay. Our proposal is that meetings will then continue on a fortnightly basis alternating between Bath and Bristol – lets give it a try.
Climate Rage!
November 15, 2009 at 5:56 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: bike bloc, bristol, climate debt, climate justice action, Climate Rage, COP15, copenhagen, naomi klein
Climate Rage
By Naomi Klein – November 11th, 2009
One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being hyped. Officials from 192 countries were finally going to make a deal to keep global temperatures below catastrophic levels. The summit called for "that old comic-book sensibility of uniting in the face of a common danger threatening the Earth," said Todd Stern, President Obama's chief envoy on climate issues. "It's not a meteor or a space invader, but the damage to our planet, to our community, to our children and their children will be just as great."
That was back in March. Since then, the endless battle over health care reform has robbed much of the president's momentum on climate change. With Copenhagen now likely to begin before Congress has passed even a weak-ass climate bill co-authored by the coal lobby, U.S. politicians have dropped the superhero metaphors and are scrambling to lower expectations for achieving a serious deal at the climate summit. It's just one meeting, says U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, not "the be-all and end-all."
As faith in government action dwindles, however, climate activists are treating Copenhagen as an opportunity of a different kind. On track to be the largest environmental gathering in history, the summit represents a chance to seize the political terrain back from business-friendly half-measures, such as carbon offsets and emissions trading, and introduce some effective, common-sense proposals— ideas that have less to do with creating complex new markets for pollution and more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground.
Among the smartest and most promising—not to mention controversial—proposals is "climate debt," the idea that rich countries should pay reparations to poor countries for the climate crisis. In the world of climate-change activism, this marks a dramatic shift in both tone and content. American environmentalism tends to treat global warming as a force that transcends difference: We all share this fragile blue planet, so we all need to work together to save it. But the coalition of Latin American and African governments making the case for climate debt actually stresses difference, zeroing in on the cruel contrast between those who caused the climate crisis (the developed world) and those who are suffering its worst effects (the developing world). Justin Lin, chief economist at the World Bank, puts the equation bluntly: "About 75 to 80 percent" of the damages caused by global warming "will be suffered by developing countries, although they only contribute about one-third of greenhouse gases."
Climate debt is about who will pick up the bill. The grass-roots movement behind the proposal argues that all the costs associated with adapting to a more hostile ecology—everything from building stronger sea walls to switching to cleaner, more expensive technologies—are the responsibility of the countries that created the crisis. "What we need is not something we should be begging for but something that is owed to us, because we are dealing with a crisis not of our making," says Lidy Nacpil, one of the coordinators of Jubilee South, an international organization that has staged demonstrations to promote climate reparations. "Climate debt is not a matter of charity."
Sharon Looremeta, an advocate for Maasai tribespeople in Kenya who have lost at least 5 million cattle to drought in recent years, puts it in even sharper terms. "The Maasai community does not drive 4x4s or fly off on holidays in airplanes," she says. "We have not caused climate change, yet we are the ones suffering. This is an injustice and should be stopped right now."
The case for climate debt begins like most discussions of climate change: with the science. Before the Industrial Revolution, the density of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—the key cause of global warming—was about 280 parts per million. Today, it has reached 387 ppm—far above safe limits—and it's still rising. Developed countries, which represent less than 20 percent of the world's population, have emitted almost 75 percent of all greenhouse-gas pollution that is now destabilizing the climate. (The U.S. alone, which comprises barely five percent of the global population, contributes 25 percent of all carbon emissions.) And while developing countries like China and India have also begun to spew large amounts of carbon dioxide, the reasoning goes, they are not equally responsible for the cost of the cleanup, because they have contributed only a small fraction of the 200 years of cumulative pollution that has caused the crisis.
In Latin America, left-wing economists have long argued that Western powers owe a vaguely defined "ecological debt" to the continent for centuries of colonial land-grabs and resource extraction. But the emerging argument for climate debt is far more concrete, thanks to a relatively new body of research putting precise figures on who emitted what and when. "What is exciting," says Antonio Hill, senior climate adviser at Oxfam, "is you can really put numbers on it. We can measure it in tons of CO2 and come up with a cost."
Equally important, the idea is supported by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—ratified by 192 countries, including the United States. The framework not only asserts that "the largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in developed countries," it clearly states that actions taken to fix the problem should be made "on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities."
The reparations movement has brought together a diverse coalition of big international organizations, from Friends of the Earth to the World Council of Churches, that have joined up with climate scientists and political economists, many of them linked to the influential Third World Network, which has been leading the call. Until recently, however, there was no government pushing for climate debt to be included in the Copenhagen agreement. That changed in June, when Angelica Navarro, the chief climate negotiator for Bolivia, took the podium at a U.N. climate negotiation in Bonn, Germany. Only 36 and dressed casually in a black sweater, Navarro looked more like the hippies outside than the bureaucrats and civil servants inside the session. Mixing the latest emissions science with accounts of how melting glaciers were threatening the water supply in two major Bolivian cities, Navarro made the case for why developing countries are owed massive compensation for the climate crisis.
"Millions of people—in small islands, least-developed countries, landlocked countries as well as vulnerable communities in Brazil, India and China, and all around the world—are suffering from the effects of a problem to which they did not contribute," Navarro told the packed room. In addition to facing an increasingly hostile climate, she added, countries like Bolivia cannot fuel economic growth with cheap and dirty energy, as the rich countries did, since that would only add to the climate crisis—yet they cannot afford the heavy upfront costs of switching to renewable energies like wind and solar.
The solution, Navarro argued, is three-fold. Rich countries need to pay the costs associated with adapting to a changing climate, make deep cuts to their own emission levels "to make atmospheric space available" for the developing world, and pay Third World countries to leapfrog over fossil fuels and go straight to cleaner alternatives. "We cannot and will not give up our rightful claim to a fair share of atmospheric space on the promise that, at some future stage, technology will be provided to us," she said.
The speech galvanized activists across the world. In recent months, the governments of Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Paraguay and Malaysia have endorsed the concept of climate debt. More than 240 environmental and development organizations have signed a statement calling for wealthy nations to pay their climate debt, and 49 of the world's least-developed countries will take the demand to Copenhagen as a negotiating bloc.
"If we are to curb emissions in the next decade, we need a massive mobilization larger than any in history," Navarro declared at the end of her talk. "We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth. This plan must mobilize financing and technology transfer on scales never seen before. It must get technology onto the ground in every country to ensure we reduce emissions while raising people's quality of life. We have only a decade."
A very expensive decade. The World Bank puts the cost that developing countries face from climate change—everything from crops destroyed by drought and floods to malaria spread by mosquito-infested waters—as high as $100 billion a year. And shifting to renewable energy, according to a team of United Nations researchers, will raise the cost far more: to as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade.
Unlike the recent bank bailouts, however, which simply transferred public wealth to the world's richest financial institutions, the money spent on climate debt would fuel a global environmental transformation essential to saving the entire planet. The most exciting example of what could be accomplished is the ongoing effort to protect Ecuador's Yasuní National Park. This extraordinary swath of Amazonian rainforest, which is home to several indigenous tribes and a surreal number of rare and exotic animals, contains nearly as many species of trees in 2.5 acres as exist in all of North America. The catch is that underneath that riot of life sits an estimated 850 million barrels of crude oil, worth about $7 billion. Burning that oil—and logging the rainforest to get it— would add another 547 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Two years ago, Ecuador's center-left president, Rafael Correa, said something very rare for the leader of an oil-exporting nation: He wanted to leave the oil in the ground. But, he argued, wealthy countries should pay Ecuador—where half the population lives in poverty—not to release that carbon into the atmosphere, as "compensation for the damages caused by the out-of-proportion amount of historical and current emissions of greenhouse gases." He didn't ask for the entire amount; just half. And he committed to spending much of the money to move Ecuador to alternative energy sources like solar and geothermal.
Largely because of the beauty of the Yasuní, the plan has generated widespread international support. Germany has already offered $70 million a year for 13 years, and several other European governments have expressed interest in participating. If Yasuní is saved, it will demonstrate that climate debt isn't just a disguised ploy for more aid—it's a far more credible solution to the climate crisis than the ones we have now. "This initiative needs to succeed," says Atossa Soltani, executive director of Amazon Watch. "I think we can set a model for other countries."
Activists point to a huge range of other green initiatives that would become possible if wealthy countries paid their climate debts. In India, mini power plants that run on biomass and solar power could bring low-carbon electricity to many of the 400 million Indians currently living without a light bulb. In cities from Cairo to Manila, financial support could be given to the armies of impoverished "trash pickers" who save as much as 80 percent of municipal waste in some areas from winding up in garbage dumps and trash incinerators that release planet-warming pollution. And on a much larger scale, coal-fired power plants across the developing world could be converted into more efficient facilities using existing technology, cutting their emissions by more than a third.
But to ensure that climate reparations are real, advocates insist, they must be independent of the current system of international aid. Climate money cannot simply be diverted from existing aid programs, such as primary education or HIV prevention. What's more, the funds must be provided as grants, not loans, since the last thing developing countries need is more debt. Furthermore, the money should not be administered by the usual suspects like the World Bank and USAID, which too often push pet projects based on Western agendas, but must be controlled by the United Nations climate convention, where developing countries would have a direct say in how the money is spent.
Without such guarantees, reparations will be meaningless—and without reparations, the climate talks in Copenhagen will likely collapse. As it stands, the U.S. and other Western nations are engaged in a lose-lose game of chicken with developing nations like India and China: We refuse to lower our emissions unless they cut theirs and submit to international monitoring, and they refuse to budge unless wealthy nations cut first and cough up serious funding to help them adapt to climate change and switch to clean energy. "No money, no deal," is how one of South Africa's top environmental officials put it. "If need be," says Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, speaking on behalf of the African Union, "we are prepared to walk out."
In the past, President Obama has recognized the principle on which climate debt rests. "Yes, the developed nations that caused much of the damage to our climate over the last century still have a responsibility to lead," he acknowledged in his September speech at the United Nations. "We have a responsibility to provide the financial and technical assistance needed to help these [developing] nations adapt to the impacts of climate change and pursue low-carbon development."
Yet as Copenhagen draws near, the U.S. negotiating position appears to be to pretend that 200 years of over-emissions never happened. Todd Stern, the chief U.S. climate negotiator, has scoffed at a Chinese and African proposal that developed countries pay as much as $400 billion a year in climate financing as "wildly unrealistic" and "untethered to reality." Yet he put no alternative number on the table—unlike the European Union, which has offered to kick in up to $22 billion. U.S. negotiators have even suggested that countries could fund climate debt by holding periodic "pledge parties," making it clear that they see covering the costs of climate change as a matter of whimsy, not duty.
But shunning the high price of climate change carries a cost of its own. U.S. military and intelligence agencies now consider global warming a leading threat to national security. As sea levels rise and droughts spread, competition for food and water will only increase in many of the world's poorest nations. These regions will become "breeding grounds for instability, for insurgencies, for warlords," according to a 2007 study for the Center for Naval Analyses led by Gen. Anthony Zinni, the former Centcom commander. To keep out millions of climate refugees fleeing hunger and conflict, a report commissioned by the Pentagon in 2003 predicted that the U.S. and other rich nations would likely decide to "build defensive fortresses around their countries."
Setting aside the morality of building high-tech fortresses to protect ourselves from a crisis we inflicted on the world, those enclaves and resource wars won't come cheap. And unless we pay our climate debt, and quickly, we may well find ourselves living in a world of climate rage. "Privately, we already hear the simmering resentment of diplomats whose countries bear the costs of our emissions," Sen. John Kerry observed recently. "I can tell you from my own experience: It is real, and it is prevalent. It's not hard to see how this could crystallize into a virulent, dangerous, public anti-Americanism. That's a threat too. Remember: The very places least responsible for climate change—and least equipped to deal with its impacts—will be among the very worst affected."
That, in a nutshell, is the argument for climate debt. The developing world has always had plenty of reasons to be pissed off with their northern neighbors, with our tendency to overthrow their governments, invade their countries and pillage their natural resources. But never before has there been an issue so politically inflammatory as the refusal of people living in the rich world to make even small sacrifices to avert a potential climate catastrophe. In Bangladesh, the Maldives, Bolivia, the Arctic, our climate pollution is directly responsible for destroying entire ways of life—yet we keep doing it.
From outside our borders, the climate crisis doesn't look anything like the meteors or space invaders that Todd Stern imagined hurtling toward Earth. It looks, instead, like a long and silent war waged by the rich against the poor. And for that, regardless of what happens in Copenhagen, the poor will continue to demand their rightful reparations. "This is about the rich world taking responsibility for the damage done," says Ilana Solomon, policy analyst for ActionAid USA, one of the groups recently converted to the cause. "This money belongs to poor communities affected by climate change. It is their compensation."
Putting "The Fun Between Your Legs" in Copenhagen
November 3, 2009 at 10:26 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: arnofini, bike bloc, bike block, bristol, cja, climate chaos, climate justice, climate justice action, COP15, copenhagen, laboratory of insurrectionary imagination, mobilisation, never trust a cop, put the fun between your legs
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Climate Camp are plotting together to design and build a new tool of civil disobedience for the RECLAIM POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen, during the UN climate summit in December. Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.
Everything we take for granted: the weekend, gay rights, contraception, women wearing trousers, the right to strike, to form a union, the abolition of slavery. Everything was won by disobedience, fought for by people who refused and resisted, claimed back from those in power. Their disobedience was a gift to our future.
Every form of rebellion we know, from protest marches to lock-ons, barricades to boycotts, factory occupations to street parties, super glue actions to climate camps was invented, dreamt up and designed. More often than not, by a small group of people huddled together, laughing and creatively conspiring with each other; engineering the art of resistance.
Bike hackers, welders, climate campers, artists and engineers will be working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two cities: Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th 30th Nov.) and Copenhagen (4th- 18th Dec.) Come and take part, either designing and building the prototype in Bristol, putting together the real thing in Copenhagen or swarming with us on the day of civil disobedience on the 16th of December.
*Put the fun between your legs, become the bike bloc.*
For times and how to get involved:
funbetweenyourlegs.info
bikebloc@climatecamp.org.uk
Green Scare in the UK (part II): UPDATED
October 16, 2009 at 3:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: bristol, climate justice action, co-mutiny, COP15, copenhagen, fiddlers ferry, ian kerr, No Borders, reprssion, rising tide, rmt, terrorist act, ukba, westside
As the Climate Justice Movement becomes bigger and more of a threat, repression grows:
UPDATED SUNDAY:NOW WORKER ACTION TARGETTED UNDER TERRORIST LEGISLATION "The main contractor at Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire is seeking an injunction under the Prevention of Terrorism Act to prevent blacklisted workers from picketing the site. A hearing is pending in the Royal Courts of Justice, London, on Wednesday 21st October at 10.30am, at which a company is applying for an injunction against Steve Acheson, one of the 3 electricians in the class legal action blacklist case against companies affiliated to Ian Kerr's Consulting Association, & also Sec. of the Unite/EPIU Manchester Contracting Branch: this is an injunction sought by the company (main contractor) at Fiddlers Ferry. This injunction is being brought under the Prevention of Terrorism Act & seeks to show that Steve, as the 1st respondent, & others unnamed [as second respondents], by their constant picketing of the site represent "a threat to the energy supplies of this country". Because this application is being brought under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, Steve will not be able to defend himself at this hearing, as we understand it. The basis of the application is that by picketing the site he is committing a Trespass because he & others are on the Firm's property; that having issued leaflets to workers on the site calling for 'direct action' he is 'inciting' the workforce to commit acts contrary to the national interest which may impact on energy supplies & that he has, at times, acted in a way that might have intimidated the workforce. There is no mention in the company's deposition to the Court that he was formerly employed by them, nor that his picket represents a campaign against blacklisting. One senior trade union leader in the RMT has already said that if this goes ahead it will have consequences for the whole trade union movement."
CLIMATE TERRORISTS?
Too tired to write seperate article but one additional quote from the coppers who interviewed us: "95% of people we stop under this legislation aren't terrorists". This shouldn't make people afraid of travellling to Copenhagen – or any other international mobilisation – but any travel plans should take this into consideration.
The Next Bristol- Copenhagen Mobilisation meeting is: Monday 26th October, Kebele, 14 Robertson rd, Bristol. BS5 6JY at 7pm
UK border police (Kent Constabulary) used anti-terrorist legislation to prevent 4 British climate change activists (including a westsider) from crossing over into mainland Europe where he planned to take part in events surrounding the forthcoming United Nations summit in Denmark.
Chris Kitchen, a 31-year-old office worker, said he feared his treatment by police could mark the start of a clampdown on protesters, hundreds of whom are planning to travel to Copenhagen for the climate change talks in December.
Tonight he will make a second attempt to reach Denmark, where he plans to take part in discussions organised by a network of protest groups coming together under the banner Climate Justice Action.
He said he was prevented from crossing the border yesterday at about 5pm, when the coach he was travelling on stopped at the Folkestone terminal of the Channel tunnel.
Jack Sheppard adds:
"On our second try to get to Copenhagen we we're reminded that we were relatively lucky, when 2 "Sans Papiers" were removed from our coach at 3.00am – probably to a German Detention Centre"
Kitchen said police officers boarded the coach and, after checking all passengers' passports, took him and another climate activist to be interviewed under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a clause which enables border officials to stop and search individuals to determine if they are connected to terrorism.
The passports were not initially scanned, Kitchen said, suggesting the officials knew his name and had planned to remove him from the coach before they boarded. During his interview, he was asked questions about his family, work and past political activity. The police also asked him what he intended to do in Copenhagen.
When Kitchen said that anti-terrorist legislation does not apply to environmental activists, he said the officer replied that terrorism "could mean a lot of things". By the time his 30-minute interview had concluded, Kitchen's coach had gone.
Police are understood to be monitoring protesters on a number of databases, some of which highlight individuals when they pass through secure areas, such as ports.
Kitchen is a prominent activist who has taken place in a number of peaceful acts of civil disobedience, such as glueing himself to a statue in parliament, to call for more action to cut carbon emissions.
"The use of anti-terrorist legislation like this is another example of political policing, of the government harassing and intimidating people practising their hard earned democratic rights," he said. "We are going to Copenhagen to take part in Climate Justice Action because we want to protest against false solutions like carbon trading and to build a global movement for effective, socially just solutions.
"People who are practising civil disobedience on climate change in the face of ineffectual government action are certainly not terrorists, and I am sure that their actions will be vindicated by history."
Kitchen said police paid for a ticket for him to return to London after questioning and arranged for the coach company to give him a seat on another coach.
A Home Office spokesman said: "There has been no change in policy. Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 enables an examining officer to stop, search and examine a person at a port or in a border area to determine whether they are someone who is or has been concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
"The exercise of the powers by the police is an operational matter for each force."
Jack Sheppard adds: "The fact that legislation allows people to be detained, delayed -and forced to answer questions (under the legislation "no comment" is an offence), have there mobile phones confiscated and presumably empited of all there numbers, texts etc without even reasonable grounds for suspicion that we were going commit terrorist offences – the interviewing police officers made it clear that we weren't suspected of being terrorists,or or were ever likely to commit them in the future is clearly a piss take."
Swoop Arrests:
Climate activists including members of campaigning groups Climate Camp and Plane Stupid have pledged to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station run by German energy giant E.ON. The arrests follow an injunction taken out by E.ON against protesters that will allow police to arrest anyone who enters the plant's grounds. A large police and private security presence is expected at the site, which has upped its security measures, including the erection of a new electric fence.
The campaigner charged yesterday has been released and bailed to return to a police station on Saturday, when the power station protests are due to take place. On Tuesday this week, 31-year-old office worker Chris Kitchen was prevented from travelling to Copenhagen to take part in events around the UN climate talks this December. Three other activists are now understood to have been detained and searched this week while attempting to travel to Copenhagen, though they have subsequently completed their journeys.
Activists for Plane Stupid also claimed they were phoned yesterday by Nottinghamshire police and told "they would be arrested" if they came to Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Tracy Singh from Plane Stupid said "the police are acting like hoodlums. We are absolutely disgusted." A press spokesperson for Nottinghamshire police said it would be facilitating lawful protest around the power station and denied activists would be arrested simply by coming to the site.
Richard Bernard, a spokesperson for Climate Camp, added: "They're threatening and arresting people for just thinking and talking about taking meaningful action. This is clear intimidation — they're just trying to scare us. But what's really scary is climate change, and that's why we're going to take control of Ratcliffe on Saturday."
E.ON has responded to the planned protest by placing a series of videos on its YouTube channel with comments from its press team, the power station manager and protestors.
A spokeswoman for E.ON, said: "We respect the right of people to have their say as long as it's peaceful and lawful. [The planned action] is incredibly dangerous and irresponsible. What I would say is by all means come, but don't try to break into the power station."
Activists have been sharing satellite maps and photos of the power station online, which they plan to travel to by train and bus. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station emits 12.8m tonnes of CO2 a year and is Britain's third largest source of direct greenhouse gas emissions. E.ON says it is one of the UK's most efficient coal power stations.
In April this year, 114 people were arrested at a Nottingham school on suspicion of planning a direct action on the power station. At least 25 of the activsts have been subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass, a charge which places restrictions on communications with friends and family and potentially carries a sentence of six months.
E.ON has also been the subject of an ongoing campaign by climate activists for its plans to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. Last week the company said Kingsnorth had been postponed because of the global recession, an annoucement that campaigners viewed as a victory for the climate movement.
Bristol-Copenhagen Mobilisation Meeting: Never Trust a Cop
September 28, 2009 at 8:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: bristol, cop16, copenhagen, december, kebele, mobilisation, westside
For all those who want climate justice and are pondering going to Copenhagen for the latest in the a long series of ineffective and corrupt inter-governmental talks (COP15) then come to Kebele on Monday October 12th at 7pm. That 's 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY
never ever, ever trust a cop of any description
See ?
Co-Mutiny: Next Meeting/COP 15 – Mobilisation
June 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: bristol, climate chaos, climate justice action, co-mutiny, COP15, copenhagen, kebele, Klimax, mobilisation, never trust a cop, westside
Next C0-Mutiny Meeting– Thursday 6th August 7.30pm. Kebele, 14 Robertson Rd, Easton. BS5 6JY
Never trust a cop!
blog address: http://nevertrustacop.wordpress.com/
Climate Change is not an Environmental Disaster it is a Capitalist Disaster
While remaining part of the Climate Justice Action umbrella group, a more radical voice was needed for the mobilisation around the COP15 (Conference of Parties meeting, no. 15) this December in Copenhagen.
The mobilisation will be massive – tens of thousands of people will converg on copehhagen – but will it be more than an ineffective lobbying exercise ? The Choice is yours.
e-mail westsideclimateaction@gmail.com for local mobilisation advice/suggestions.
http://nevertrustacop.wordpress.com/
Against COP15 summit, Copenhagen Dec. 2009
The catastrophe is real and climate change is one of its many symptoms.
The COP15's inevitable talk of "saving the world from the climate
crisis" is an elaborate hoax to disguise the COP15's true purpose: to
restore the legitimacy of global capitalism by inaugurating an era of
"green" capitalism. A new rhetoric of "saving the climate" will exist to
justify their repression, their fortified borders, their colonial
resource wars. To give the Emperor new clothes. Our response to this
astounding lie is an uncompromising and absolute NO to their system.
More has to be shaken than our holiday habits to sustain the world for
times to come. It would be foolish to pin our hopes upon the very people
who continue to kill off the planet for money. At Copenhagen, they will
argue over how to properly create a market to commodify and so pollute
the biosphere, dispossessing millions of people from their land to
profit from destroying what remains of our earth. Governments and
corporations will not sacrifice their growth to reduce carbon emissions,
or only do so in order to create a new authoritarian regime for themselves.
The entire rhetoric of the "climate crisis" and the "financial crisis"
is a cynical maneouvre by the state spin-doctors to deny the
all-encompassing crisis of self-declared civilization. The COP15 will
only attempt to hide the war that capitalism is waging against all life
on the planet, a war that has spread across the entire globe for the
last five hundred years, a war that encompasses the totality of even the
oceans and atmosphere. In the midst of war, one does not talk of
management and "technical solutions." You cannot fight a war by
pretending the war does not exist, by blinding yourself to repression
and becoming complicit in accepting the false-promise of a petit
bourgeois tranquility. Instead, one recognizes the enemy. One chooses a
position. One fights.
Only by ridding ourselves of those who claim to be representing us and
by defeating the ideology of endless economic growth, industrial
production and consumption can we take control of our lives and planet.
It is time to state: we are going to consciously attack the structures
supporting the COP15: we will break through the lines of their police;
we will refuse to negotiate with warmongering governments and the
embedded media; we will refuse to side with sell-out NGOs and all the
would-be managers of protest; we will refuse all governments and
governance and not just de-legitimize the present ones. It is time to
state why we think that insurrection is needed to actually begin the
change everybody is so desperate for. Acting together in fundamental
opposition to those in power we might get a first glimpse of the
richness and opportunities possible when ideas, experiences and concepts
are shared amongst people from all over the world.
Bristol Co-Mutiny
May 20, 2009 at 10:51 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: bath activist network, bristol, bristol animal rights coalition, bristol no borders, bristol rising tide, bristol space invaders, co-mutiny
Come and join the Co-Mutiny!
Bristol September 12th – 20th, 2009
Social Change not Climate Change
self- created recession, war, climate change, repression, environmental
degredation and poverty the list goes on…
But there is hope. Anti government protests are taking place across the
world, factory and school occupations have spread throughout the UK. Local
communities . We are relearning old skills and learning new
ones for the transition to a just society.
In Bristol and surrounds, a diverse bunch of enraged creatives, dreamers
and schemers, builders and gardeners, workers and students have been drawn
together by the common threads of our indignation at how a combination of
corporate greed, social injustice and environmental degradation is leading
us all towards climate chaos and financial collapse. We invite you to
converge on Bristol for an uprising of autonomous actions and events from
practival skill share to direct action.
12th – 20th of September 2009. Come on down, join the mutiny, get in touch!
OPEN PLANNING MEETING: 13th June 2009, 12pm Bridewell Police Station (the
old one! – does it have another name?)
The Co-Mutineers will be organising actions and events but we need you to
get involved, wherever you are from and whatever your experience. We
encourage autonomous actions.
We are looking for groups and individuals to come along with ideas, plots
and plans for actions, workshops and skill shares. We need you to make
this happen!
For more info: email: comutiny@riseup.net or web: comutiny.wordpress.com/
Merthyr to Mayo Solidarity Bike Ride
Westside/Rising Tide Blockade Merthyr-Aberthaw Coal Train
From Our Women in Bolivia
B & B Rising Tide Show Solidarity With Rossport Campaigners
Letter From COP15 Accused, 19th March
Ayya2Cochabamba
Bastard Squad Collective
Bath Activist Network
Bristol Anarchist bookfair
Bristol Indymedia
cop15 radical mobilisation blog
Espacio Bristol-Colombia
Evening Post Watch
http://offsetdavidattenborough.wordpress.com
No Borders Bristol
No Borders South Wales
smash raytheon
South Wales Anarchists
Workers Climate Action
Westsiders
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Description: One of the most dramatic of Bahrain's desert flowers, the desert hyacinth literally forces its way up through the ground in late January and early February, to produce a pyramid of waxy flowers topped by mauve buds which open up as the plant grows. One particularly interesting feature of the desert hyacinth that is not seen in other species of the same family, is that it is a parasite. Its seeds are able to lie dormant in the ground waiting for the rains to initiate growth of the host plant, a member of the Chenopodium genus. As soon as one of the wide reaching roots of the goose foot comes within a few milimeters of the seed, a chemical reaction is triggered which initiates growth of this unusual flower.
Hill, M. (2003) Wildlife of Bahrain.


In this section I invite readers to share their own classic trail riding photos. Any peroid photos from the 60s to the 80s are welcome to help illustrate the good times that off road riding is all about. If you have photos that you would like to post, send scanned jpeg images between 500k and 1 meg to jnick@nztrailrider.co.nz include your name, the rider(s) plus a short description of where and when it is and what's happening.
If you don't have a scanner your local photo print shop will help you get your images onto disc or memory stick. Old photos are valuable records and saving them digitally is a good idea in any case.


If you've got a green thumb, an eye for beauty, and are handy with arrangement and design, then floristry might interest you as a green business idea. But not just any type of floristry will do for an ecopreneur, due to the numerous environmental and social issues attendant with conventional floristry, so focusing on creating edible and organic arrangements and bouquets could be a sustainable alternative that can grow into a thriving eco-friendly business.
1. What is a sustainable, edible, and organic floristry?
Conventionally grown flowers have a host of environmental problems; intensive application of agrochemicals, plus freshwater resource consumption which is higher per acre than most food crops, and a big carbon footprint from long-distance transportation. Sixty per cent of flower workers have health problems associated with exposure to chemicals in their work. The bottom line, though, is that the flowers have a useful life of only a few days and then are tossed.
A far more sustainable approach to floristry is to create floral arrangements that are edible (and fair trade and organic, if possible). These can be as beautiful as any flower bouquet, and have the added advantage that they are not just thrown away, but instead deliciously enjoyed!
To get an idea of the market for edible floristry, a relatively new industry, take a look at an industry pioneer: Edible Arrangements. The company opened its first store in 1999 and currently has 942 stores worldwide. In one decade, the company has exploded, adding roughly 100 new stores per year on average. Entrepreneur Magazine ranked Edible Arrangements #40 in the global top 500 franchises.
There are no formal educational or training requirements for this business. However, a knowledge of edible flowers, along with learning a variety of ways to display and present them to customers, will go a long way in an edible floristry business. In addition, learning which flowers and fruits are in season, and where to source them locally, is imperative in being able to offer the widest range of options for your edible floristry customers.
$-$$ (on a scale of $ to $$$$$) Although this green business idea could be started at your kitchen table, to really be able to store, display, and arrange the flowers and herbs that make up your edible arrangements, a large cooler and a work table will come in very handy.
$$-$$$ (on a scale of $ to $$$$$) Like many businesses, the income potential for an edible and sustainable floristry business will depend a lot on the type of customers you can attract. Selling single arrangements and orders to individuals is not going to be nearly as profitable, or have the sales volume to be sustainable, as it is if you can land some contracts for events such as green weddings or parties, or for restaurants or hotels.
5. What is the best location for a sustainable, edible, organic floristry?
Do you enjoy artistic expression and arranging beautiful pieces?
Do you like promoting what you are doing and making people happy?


1) Do Not Litter. Please keep the park clean for other users to enjoy.
2) Disc Golf is played like ball golf, except you use flying discs. Each throw is counted to determine a score. The winner is the player with the lowest score.
always throws first. Never throw until the players ahead of you are out of range, and until the fairway is completely clear of spectators and park guests.
5) The player with the least amount of throws on the previous hole is the first to tee-off on the next hole. Golf is a game on honor and etiquette.
last throw came to rest. The other foot shall not be any closer to the hole.
meters (33 feet) from the hole. Inside 10 meters, "Falling" or "jumping putts" are not allowed. A player shall show balance after the putt.
8) A disc that comes to rest inside the disc golf basket or chains constitutes successful completion of that hole. A disc that comes to rest on top or outside of the basket does NOT count as a completion of the hole.
9) A throw that lands out of bounds must be played from the point where the disc was last inbounds, with a stroke penalty. Water, roads, parking lots, and over fences are normal disc golf out of bounds hazards.
10) Be courteous to other players. Stand quietly while they drive, approach, and putt and try to stay behind or at least off the line of sight while they throw.
Most importantly – have fun and enjoy the game of Disc Golf.


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Mason Graphite Inc. (LLG.V)
TSXV - TSXV Real Time Price. Currency in CAD
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Canadian Coast Guard opens the first Marine Mammal Desk to better protect Southern Resident Killer Whales and other cetaceans
SIDNEY, BC, Jan. 14, 2021 /CNW/ - The protection of Southern Resident Killer Whales and other cetaceans is a priority for the Government of Canada.
Mason Graphite Announces Initial Governance Changes and Grant of Stock Options
MONTREAL, Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mason Graphite Inc. ("Mason Graphite" or the "Company") (TSX.V: LLG; OTCQX: MGPHF) announces today that it has formalized initial governance changes, which include the appointment of Mr. Fahad Al-Tamimi as Chairman of its Board of Directors (the "Board"), the appointment of Messrs. Peter Damouni and Simon Marcotte as executive directors of the Company and the grant of an aggregate of 6,925,000 stock options to directors, members of management, consultants, and employees of the Company. Mr. Fahad Al-Tamimi, a director of the Company since June 2020, has been appointed Chairman of the Board. Mr. Al-Tamimi is a seasoned businessman who was the founding investor in Mason Graphite in 2012, and who recently led a successful effort to bring meaningful changes to the Board. Mr. Al-Tamimi beneficially owns approximately 9.92% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company.Mr. Al-Tamimi commented: "It is with great pleasure that we can finally move forward, and I would like to once again thank the shareholders of the Company for their trust and overwhelming support in our effort to put the Company on the right track with a Board having interest aligned with the interest of all shareholders. We will now proceed with our vision as expressed during the recent process." A copy of Mr. Al-Tamimi's dissident information circular dated December 3, 2020 is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.Furthermore, Messrs. Peter Damouni and Simon Marcotte have been appointed as executive directors of the Company in order to facilitate the transition until executive appointments are recommended by the CEO Search Committee and approved by the Board.In addition, over the next weeks, the Board will be reviewing the functions and responsibilities of its committees with the aim of improving its corporate governance structure to be ready for the Company's next stages of development. The Company expects to make further announcements in due time.Lastly, the Company announces changes to its director compensation, whereby the directors of the Company will be remunerated a fixed fee of $30,000, with the exception of the Chairman of the Board who will receive an annual fee of $50,000. This compensation will replace the current compensation whereby directors are paid annual fees (including additional fees for chairmanship of the Board or committees) and per Board and committee meeting and is expected to yield significant savings to the Company. The Company has also granted an aggregate of 6,925,000 stock options to directors, members of management, consultants, and employees of the Company pursuant to its stock option plan. Each option will entitle its holder to purchase one common share of Mason Graphite at a price of $0.46 until January 11, 2026. One third of the options will vest upon their grant, one third will vest on the first anniversary of their grant and the remainder will vest on the second anniversary of their grant. The option grant is subject to regulatory approval, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.About Mason GraphiteMason Graphite is a Canadian corporation dedicated to the production and transformation of natural graphite. Its strategy includes the development of value-added products, notably for green technologies like transport electrification. The Company also owns 100% of the rights to the Lac Guéret graphite deposit, one of the richest in the world. The Company is managed by an experienced team cumulating many decades of experience in graphite, covering production, sales, as well as research and development.Mason Graphite Inc.: Ana Rodrigues at info@masongraphite.com or 1-514-289-3580 Head Office: 3030 Le Carrefour Blvd., Suite 600, Laval, Québec, H7T 2P5Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Fairstone Financial Holdings Inc. Acquired by Duo Bank of Canada
TORONTO and MONTREAL, Jan. 5, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ - Duo Bank of Canada ("Duo Bank"), a Toronto-based financial services provider supported by Stephen Smith, Centerbridge Partners L.


Ends Sunday per Calendar, but technically it ends when the last monument is uncovered.
The option to SURVEY (finding an uncovered monument) disappeared.
The intention was the event would continue after the calendar time expired.
Dev Calls are in progress.
Interest in the past accomplishments of the now mummified Pharaohs and heroes of old was piqued as High Elder Dudimos in Hyksos pored over texts he had been given by his Royal Archeologists. There were drawings of great Monuments included within the papyrus pages. Little by little more scrolls were brought to the King's Palace near Avaris. The past is key to the present. It is unwise not to take into account the achievements of those long dead who stood out in their pursuits of knowledge.
Dudimos looked at his notes very carefully. Yes, it looked like he had a complete list of where the old Monuments had been built. But over time they would be covered by sand. The locations were difficult to pin down since they were described by local landmarks which had changed through the generations. He would bring this list to King Tutimaos for a decree to be given that all citizens were to start searching for these great statues and buildings called Monuments. Rewards would be offered as incentives.
In fact, the other two factions had shown as great an interest in this project as the Hyksos'. Viceroy Kashti was quite learned about architecture. Kashti was so keen on finding the statues that he had volunteered his own archeologists to work in conjunction with the Hyksos'. The Meshwesh King Osorkon had shown a milder but growing interest and sent shovels and meat products to the workers. The beauty that it would add to the Egyptian landscape to unearth these Monuments would be stunning!
Have an Archaeologist's Shovel in your inventory. The Endurance timer is affected by the quality of the Archeologist Shovel. (9.5k almost always x6, 8k x5 & x6, 7k x4 & x5, 4k x3 the normal speed of digging). High End food is suggested or at least Grilled Onions for a +2 End boost.
A quality 4020 Archeologist's Shovel can be made by loading 8 metal on the anvil and immediately completing it or try to make a higher quality shovel.
Once the event begins, click yourself/Special/Archeologist and pin the Survey Area menu. The result of the survey will be in Main chat. There is a slight Endurance timer on surveying. It surveys ~5 coord radius.
When the message in Main says "You uncover a piece of the Ancient Monument of Whatever at #x the normal speed!", a shadow appears with a small piece of the monument sticking out of the ground. Call your fellow Egyptians to come help dig It out.
To help dig you click the little piece to get the "This is an Ancient Monument of Whatever" window to pin (if you cannot find the little piece of monument in the center of the shadow then click Survey Area until you can). You then click on "Gently dig around the Ancient Monument of Whatever". There is an Endurance timer.
The monument slowly rises out of the ground, the more digging, the quicker it is completely dug up.
The monument is completely dug up when you hear the music and have the ability to read the challenge.
Prizes for Most Cumulative Work Done: Handed out at end of event when last monument has been dug up.
In T4 the people of Egypt elected to have 7 new skills and technologies researched and implemented by the next generation's scientists with the warning that all monuments would be considered false and give no new tests in the next generation. Wahim and Sami were two sons of the deceased Pharaoh who put forth a vote for their ascension to the throne with those two contingencies.
Fryoj confirmed with Pascalito that "700 coord radius" really does mean a circular search area around each old monument location. Unfortunately the wiki's "circ" drawing tool seems to interpret "circ x,y radius" to mean "put a circle at (x,x) with radius r"; i.e., it seems to ignore the y coordinate you specify. Until that's fixed, just imagine a circle inscribed inside each of the squares below.
Edit Maps/Monuments and Maps/Monument Search Areas if you'd like to update the underlying data.
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Savage Beauty, V&A, London
Alexander McQueen may no longer walk among us, for which couture is very much the poorer, but he lives on in a canon of incomparable work recently exhibited in London: Savage Beauty was the unquestionable hit of the V&A's summer roster.
The exhibition tracked his output from his 1992 MA graduate show through to his unfinished 2010 collection. Included are the infamous "bumster" trousers – so perilously low-rise that the skinny dared not sneeze – and a 3D hologram of Kate Moss set to the soundtrack of Schindler's List, the haunting finale to his The Widows of Culloden collection in 2006.
A degree of fascination attaches to the gifted who die tragically early; given the uncompromising naming strategy McQueen applied to his collections – e.g., Nihilism, Highland Rape, The Widows of Culloden and The Hunger – it's tempting to see Savage Beauty through a prism of personal torment. But this would be to detract from his extraordinary creativity. He worked with a vast range of materials, from plywood to razor clam shells, metals to Swarovski crystals, feathers to leathers, embroidered silks to tartan wools, and his technical expertise and ingenuity have to be seen to understand why he was hailed a genius. One illustration was his insistence on designing from the side – if his clothes flattered the body's worst angle, he reasoned, they'd work all the way round. The spectacle didn't stop with McQueen: also on display was breathtaking work from celebrated collaborators – jewellery by Shaun Lean and sculptural hats by Phillip Treacy.
No account of Savage Beauty can ignore the mannequins' faces: encased in leather and metal, they resembled modern versions of the Scold's Bridal or the gimp mask. Misogyny? Surely no one who loved his mother so deeply could have loathed the rest of womankind? My companion at Savage Beauty was a psychotherapist whose observations give another perspective: "McQueen spoke of how beauty comes from within, but I was struck by the flamboyant and aggressive surfaces (leather, feathers, polyurethane, plywood, et cetera) and how any sense of an inner self disappeared. This was emphasised by the masks and headdresses, often reminiscent of S&M or animal themes, so the models appeared faceless, powerless, interchangeable. Watching the videos of his shows, they seemed to focus on external drama to avoid seeing inside. Could a fragile inner self have been extravagantly hidden to the point where containing it became unbearable? And what about the incessant need to be yet more creative over time? Is creativity constantly regenerative and quantifiable? Did it become a burden?"
Poignantly, just before his death McQueen had been accepted for an MA at London's Slade School of Fine Art. He had wanted to pursue his passion and get out of fashion. If only he could have applied the title of his Spring/Summer 2005 collection to life: It's Only a Game.


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› KPMG sets sights on learning technology transformation
KPMG sets sights on learning technology transformation with Microsoft integration
KPMG sets sights on learning technology transformation
KPMG has further strengthened its relationship with Microsoft with a focus on closely integrating Microsoft technology.
KPMG has further strengthened its relationship with Microsoft with a focus on closely integrating Microsoft technology – including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 – with the KPMG Learning Platform (KLP). This commitment forms part of KPMG's wider investment of up to US$5 billion in technology, people and innovation globally to accelerate the digital transformation of its member firms and clients.
The benefit of this approach is maximised by Microsoft 365 and the power of Azure Cognitive Services, part of Microsoft's Azure AI platform, and will form the foundation of the vision that both firms are working towards and the core of KPMG's next generation in learning technology solutions.
Mark Williamson, Head of People Consulting at KPMG in the UK, said:
"This global collaboration enables us to bring considerable benefits to our clients in Learning, in particular through our KPMG Learning Platform. Working closely with Microsoft, we have been able to innovatively integrate their key products and functionality into the learning platform to enhance the way we deliver learning and value to our clients. In the coming months this work will intensify, seeing KPMG and Microsoft engineers and learning specialists co-developing the platform, including further integration with Microsoft Teams to bring more personalised, business outcome-oriented learning to our clients."
Takuya Hirano, Microsoft Vice President of Global Alliances, said:
"At Microsoft, we believe that culture and learning play a key role in the digital transformation of organisations of all sizes, from large enterprises to small businesses. In that context, today's announcement extends the existing broader KPMG and Microsoft collaboration and strengthens our common belief in providing employees with the latest innovation and best technology to enable learning in the flow of work, as exemplified by the integration of the KPMG Learning Platform with Microsoft Teams and Azure to help accelerate this transformation and drive productivity gains."
This shows the value and the power of the collaboration to drive product enablement and allow both organisations to deliver stronger value-add services and solutions to their clients, whilst embracing a commitment to build a culture of learning for themselves and their clients.
About KPMG in the UK


COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Association of Health Care Journalists has announced the selection of the fourth class of AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows. The 10 journalists will spend a week studying a variety of public health issues at two Atlanta campuses of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Karen Herzog-Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wis.
Jeanette Moninger, freelance journalist, Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Sharon Salyer, The Herald, Everett, Wash.
Tammie Smith, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.
Cindy Uken, Billings Gazette, Billings, Mont.
Winnie Yu, freelance journalist, Voorheesville, N.Y.


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Station Praha-Holešovice (Nádraží Praha-Holešovice) is naast het hoofdstation het belangrijkste spoorwegstation van de Tsjechische hoofdstad Praag. Onderdeel van het station is het metrostation Nádraží Holešovice aan de Praagse metrolijn C.

Het station bevindt zich in de wijk Holešovice, ongeveer drie kilometer ten noorden van het hoofdstation. Het station wordt onder andere aangedaan door internationale treinen op de lijn van Berlijn via Dresden naar Praag en verder naar Brno en Wenen.

Spoorwegstation in Praag