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63rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY
General debate of Second Committee
Statement delivered on behalf of the European Union by Mr. Philippe DELACROIX, European Union Presidency Coordinator in New York
Madam Chairperson,
I am honoured to speak on behalf of the European Union.
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as the Republic of Moldova align themselves with this declaration.
As regards the item on the eradication of poverty and other development-related issues, this statement will focus on the Second Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, microfinance and industrial development cooperation.
Eradicating poverty is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development, which requires not only a tailored approach to countries' specific needs, but also global and coordinated solutions by all stakeholders. The internationally agreed development goals, in particular the Millennium Development Goals, represent the global framework for the international action relating to poverty eradication. Both high-level meetings organized this past September pursuant to the General Assembly gave governments an opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to achieving these goals, while new obstacles stand in our way because of energy, food and financial crises and which affect particularly the most vulnerable people.
Poverty affects all countries of the world whatever their level of economic development is, including the European Union, with phenomena such as social exclusion and precarity. These issues will be at the heart of the 2010 European Year against poverty and social exclusion.
The European Union has made great efforts in fighting poverty in developing countries, particularly the LDCs, and will continue working to this effect. By adopting the Consensus for Development in 2005, the EU consolidated its collective efforts. To implement the Agenda for the Accra Agenda for Action on Aid Effectiveness adopted September last, the EU has pledged to promote, support and strengthen national mechanisms to expand aid effectiveness partnerships, as well as to improve results-based management.
Coordinated, coherent and effective aid will enable reinforcing poverty eradication efforts. Implementing the United Nations Second Decade for the Eradication of Poverty must be enshrined in this framework, through strenghened cooperation among all stakeholders. The role of new donors, emerging countries, foundations, academia, NGO, private sector, should also be emphasised.
The European Union would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (A/63/190). As this report underscores, setting up national plans based on tangible goals specified by developing countries is a decisive step towards giving poverty eradication due priority. In this respect, the initiative of multilateral actors to strengthen this approach by defining coordinated strategies is essential.
It is critical to maintain a well-sequenced mechanism relating to the implementation of the Second Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, in particular as regards financing for development. The Secretariat's Chief Executives Board will be able to fill this coordination role. The "Delivering as One" initiative will also facilitate strengthening coherence at local and central levels, and should be further developed through a pragmatic and gradual process. This coordinated approach to foster pro-poor growth must show significant coherence as poverty includes other dimensions that go beyond income, such as access to health, social services and social protection, education, gender equality, the fight against social exclusion and the lack of voting rights or representation.
Poverty is not only an economic problem. When trying to eradicate poverty, special attention must be paid to human rights and dignity for all, as the Secretary-General recalled on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This day aims to give people in poverty-hit countries, as well as in developing and developed countries, the means to play an active role in decision-making and other activities which have direct consequences on their lives. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is now more necessary than ever to recall that it states, "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his or her family". The link between human rights and extreme poverty established by the Human Rights Council, and the recent renewal of the mandate of the independent expert on this matter, illustrate this concern of the international community.
Mechanisms such as microfinance have proved useful in fighting poverty. As outlined in the Secretary-General's report on the role of microcredit and microfinance in the eradication of poverty (A/63/159), the growth of this sector greatly contributed to improving the situation of about one hundred million poor people throughout the world.
Under certain conditions, microfinance stimulates economic growth and improves the living conditions of the poorest people, especially women, who as a result of the opportunities offered by microfinance, are playing an increasingly greater role in the economy. Access to savings, credit, transfer and insurance services makes the poorest people less vulnerable. However, more than two billion low-income people have no access to formal financial services.
This number must be reduced, which is why the European Union fully supported the establishment of the United Nations Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors in 2006, whose work allowed the new prospects and opportunities offered by microfinance to be defined. In June 2008, the Advisors Group presented recommendations containing key messages for governments, regulators, private sector and development partners to guide the efforts of different stakeholders in building inclusive financial sectors. The political declaration adopted by the High-level meeting on Africa's development needs underlines the importance of strengthening domestic financial sectors as a source of capital, by expanding access to financial services.
The European Union has included microfinance in its development policies, and in 2005, along with countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, implemented a framework programme for capacity-building among actors and institutions, the cofinancing of rating schemes for micro-finance institutions and financing information systems. The European Union is also committed to promoting the creation of financial and information standards to increase the transparency of microfinance institutions and improve regulatory frameworks and microfinance-related policies. Finally, this programme encourages the use of globally-recognized good practices and encourages South-South learning.
Enhancing microfinance presupposes encouraging innovative solutions which are emerging today in the field of inclusive finance, supporting the innovative work of specialized operators, while supporting microfinance institutions in diversifying their selection of financial services. These new services are part of the process to combat poverty, whether they be health micro-insurance products or credits adapted to the agricultural production cycle.
Finally, the European Union thanks the Secretary-general for his report on industrial development cooperation (A/63/309), which calls for appropriate industrial development strategies. The European Union recalls its support for UNIDO's priority of reducing poverty through productive activities promoting cleaner and more efficient use of energy in industry. This focus is complementary to the need for enhanced efforts towards rural and agricultural development.
The European Union supports the integrated approach to development focusing on partnership, and encourages UNIDO to work closely with United Nations system organizations and bodies. The EU also welcomes UNIDO's cooperation with NEPAD in the context of its technical cooperation programme for African countries, and its collaboration with the African Union on implementing its Action Plan for the Accelerated Industrial Development of Africa.
Thank you very much./.


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Cherokee County, TX — Three East Texans are sitting behind bars for allegedly stealing spikes and "hooks" from a railroad bed.
On Wednesday afternoon, Game Warden Brian Bearden received a call to investigate a problem in the area of County Road 4807.
During Bearden's investigation, at around 1:45 p.m., he spotted people stealing property from the tracks, pulling a home-made car that ran on the rails. When the game warden called out to them, they removed items from the cart and put them in the woods.
Officer Bearden was able to catch one of the suspects, but the other two ran from the scene. Bearden quickly discovered that the alleged thieves had been removing railroad spikes and "hooks" from the railroad bed, and selling them as scrap iron. Officer Bearden was also able to determine where the other alleged thieves had traveled.
After a deputy arrived on scene, he and Bearden head to a home in the 2900 Block of Highway 177 in the Mixon Community. The remaining suspects were arrested at that location without incident.
All three were taken to the Cherokee County Jail. The stolen spikes, hooks and the home-made cart were brought to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office as evidence. The property that belongs to the railroad will be counted, photographed and released back to them. The cart will remain with the Sheriff's Office as evidence.
Lance Lee Adam, 22, Briana Michelle Hale, 18, Dustin Scott Massey, 24, all of Troup/Mixon were arrested and charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and interference with railroad property. Their bail is set at $4,000.
There may be more charges filed if there is more damage to the railroad than was known at the time of the arrests.


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Original author(s) | Bruce Perens |
Developer(s) | Erik Andersen,[1] Rob Landley,[2] Denys Vlasenko[3] and others |
Initial release | November 4, 1999[4] |
Stable release | 1.23.1 (January 27, 2015[±][5] | )
Development status | Active |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Size | 2.1 MB |
Type | |
License | GNU GPLv2 only (versions 1.2.3 or later[6]) |
Website | www |
BusyBox is software that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux, Android,[7][8][9] FreeBSD[10] and others, such as proprietary kernels, although many of the tools it provides are designed to work with interfaces provided by the Linux kernel. It was specifically created for embedded operating systems with very limited resources. The authors dubbed it "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux",[11] as the single executable replaces basic functions of more than 300 common commands. It is released as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.[12]
In late 2007, BusyBox also came to prominence for actively prosecuting violations of the terms of its license (the GPL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.[13]
Originally written by Bruce Perens in 1995 and declared complete for his intended usage in 1996,[14] BusyBox originally aimed to put a complete bootable system on a single floppy disk that would serve both as a rescue disk and as an installer for the Debian distribution. Since that time, it has been extended to become the de facto standard core user space toolset for embedded Linux devices and Linux distribution installers. Since each Linux executable requires several kilobytes of overhead, having the BusyBox program combine over two hundred programs together often saves substantial disk space and system memory.
BusyBox was maintained by Enrique Zanardi and focused on the needs of the Debian boot-floppies installer system until early 1998, when Dave Cinege took it over for the Linux Router Project (LRP). Cinege made several additions, created a modularized build environment, and shifted BusyBox's focus into general high-level embedded systems. As LRP development slowed down in 1999, Erik Andersen, then of Lineo, Inc., took over the project and became the official maintainer between December 1999 and March 2006. During this time the Linux embedded marketplace exploded in growth, and BusyBox matured greatly, expanding both its user base and functionality. Rob Landley became the maintainer in 2005 and continued for several years.
As of October 2006[update] Denys Vlasenko maintains BusyBox.[15]
BusyBox can be customized to provide a subset of over two hundred utilities. It can provide most of the utilities specified in the Single Unix Specification (SUS) plus many others that a user would expect to see on a Linux system. BusyBox uses the Almquist shell, also known as A Shell, ash and sh.[16][17]
As it is a complete bootstrap system, it will further replace the init daemon and udev (or the latter-day systemd) using itself to be called as init on startup and mdev at hotplug time, respectively.
The BusyBox Web site provides a full list of the utilities implemented.[18]
Single binary[edit]
Typical computer programs have a separate binary (executable) file for each application. BusyBox is a single binary, which is a conglomerate of many applications, each of which can be accessed by calling the single BusyBox binary with various names (supported by having a symbolic link or hard link for each different name)[19] in a specific manner with appropriate arguments.
BusyBox benefits from the single binary approach, as it reduces the overhead introduced by the executable file format (typically ELF), and it allows code to be shared between multiple applications without requiring a library. This technique is similar to what is provided by the crunchgen[20] command in FreeBSD, the difference being that BusyBox provides simplified versions of the utilities (for example, an ls command without file sorting ability), while a crunchgen generated sum of all the utilities would offer the fully functional versions.
Sharing of the common code, along with routines written with size-optimization in mind, can make a BusyBox system much smaller than a system built with the corresponding full versions of the utilities replaced by BusyBox. Research[21] that compared GNU, BusyBox, asmutils and Perl implementations of the standard Unix commands showed that in some situations BusyBox may perform faster than other implementations, but not always.
Programs included in BusyBox can be run simply by adding their name as an argument to the BusyBox executable:
/bin/busybox ls
More commonly, the desired command names are linked (using hard or symbolic links) to the BusyBox executable; BusyBox reads the first element of argv to find the name it is called as, and runs the appropriate command, for example just
after /bin/ls is linked to /bin/busybox.
Busybox would see that its "name" is "ls" and act like the "ls" program.
The official BusyBox documentation lists an overview of the available commands and their command-line options.[22] The commands include:
- ash
- awk
- cat — Copy file content to stdout
- chmod — Change file modes
- cp — Copy
- date — Display system date/time
- dd — Copy a file with converting and formatting
- df — Print filesystem usage statistics
- dmesg
- echo
- egrep
- fgrep
- getty
- grep — Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input
- gunzip — Compressed file expansion
- gzip — File compression
- init
- kill — Kill a process
- ln — Create a link named LINK_NAME or DIRECTORY to the specified TARGET.
- login — Begin a new session on the system
- ls — List of files or folders
- mdev — akin to udev
- mkdir — Create a folder
- more — View FILE or standard input one screen-full at a time
- mount — Mount file systems
- mv — move file
- nc — networking Swiss army knife
- netstat — Display networking information
- ntpc
- ntpsync
- nvram
- pidof — List PIDs of all processes with names that match NAMEs
- ping — Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
- ps — Report process status
- pwd — Print working directory
- rm — Erase file
- rmdir — Remove directory
- rstats — Copyright of BusyBox
- sed — Text stream editor
- sh
- sleep — Suspend program execution for a specified time
- sync — Write all buffered file system blocks to disk
- tar
- touch — Update the last-modified date on the given FILE[s]
- udhcpc — Small DHCP client
- umount — Unmount file systems
- uname — Display system information
- usleep — Pause for N [microseconds]
- vi — (visual) Edit FILE
- watch — Execute a program periodically
- zcat — Uncompress to stdout
BusyBox is used by several operating systems running on embedded systems.
GPL lawsuits[edit]
What was claimed to be the first US lawsuit over a GPL violation concerned use of BusyBox in an embedded device. The lawsuit,[23] case 07-CV-8205 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was filed on 20 September 2007 by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of Andersen and Landley against Monsoon Multimedia Inc., after BusyBox code was discovered in a firmware upgrade and attempts to contact the company had apparently failed. The case was settled with release of the Monsoon version of the source and payment of an undisclosed amount of money to Andersen and Landley.[24]
On 21 November 2007, the SFLC brought two similar lawsuits on behalf of Andersen and Landley against two more companies, Xterasys (case 07-CV-10455) and High-Gain Antennas (case 07-CV-10456).[25][26] The Xterasys case was settled on December 17 for release of source code used and an undisclosed payment,[27] and the High-Gain Antennas case on March 6, 2008 for active license compliance and an undisclosed payment.[28] On 7 December 2007, a case was brought against Verizon Communications over its distribution of firmware for Actiontec routers;[29][30] this case was settled March 17, 2008 on condition of license compliance, appointment of an officer to oversee future compliance with free software licenses, and payment of an undisclosed sum.[31] Further suits were brought on June 9, 2008 against Bell Microproducts (case 08-CV-5270) and Super Micro Computer (case 08-CV-5269),[32] the Super Micro case being settled on 23 July 2008.[33] BusyBox and Bell Microproducts also settled out of court on 17 October.[34]
On December 14, 2009, a new lawsuit was filed naming fourteen defendants including Best Buy, JVC, Samsung and others.[35]
On about Aug 03, 2010, BusyBox won triple damages of $90,000 and lawyers' costs and fees of $47,865, and possession of "presumably a lot of high-def TVs" as infringing equipment in the lawsuit Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy, et al., the GPL infringement case noted in the paragraph above.[36]
No other developers, including original author Bruce Perens and long time maintainer Dave Cinege, were represented in these actions or party to the settlements. On Dec. 15, 2009, Perens released a statement expressing his unhappiness with some aspects of the legal situation, and in particular alleged that the current BusyBox developers "appear to have removed some of the copyright statements of other Busybox developers, and appear to have altered license statements".[37]
Controversy over Toybox[edit]
Toybox was started early 2006 under the GNU General Public License. At the end of 2006 it was re-licensed under the BSD License, then the project went dormant. On 11 January 2012, Tim Bird, a Sony employee suggested creating an alternative to BusyBox which would not be under the GNU General Public License. He suggested it be based on the dormant Toybox.[38] In January 2012 the proposal of creating a BSD licensed alternative to the GPL licensed BusyBox project drew harsh criticism from Matthew Garrett for taking away the only relevant tool for copyright enforcement of the Software Freedom Conservancy group.[39] The starter of BusyBox based lawsuits, Rob Landley, responded that this was intentionally as he came to the conclusion that the lawsuits resulted not in the hoped for positive outcomes and he wanted to stop them "in whatever way I see fit".[40][41]
See also[edit]
- Toybox – a clone of busybox published under the BSD license
- GNU Core Utilities
- util-linux, iproute2, ethtool
- Linux for embedded systems
- Linux for mobile devices
- ^ "Erik Andersen's Homepage".
- ^ Active Projects, Rob Landley's website
- ^ Denys Vlasenko, BusyBox maintainer
- ^ http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2009/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf
- ^ "BusyBox News". 2015-01-27. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
- ^ "BusyBox".
- ^ Robert Nediyakalaparambil [root]. "BusyBox X - Android Apps on Google Play".
- ^ Stephen (Stericson). "BusyBox - Android Apps on Google Play".
- ^ Burrows Apps. "BusyBox (No Root) - Android Apps on Google Play".
- ^ "FreeBSD port overview".
- ^ http://www.busybox.net/about.html The slogan for 'The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux' source
- ^ "BusyBox".
- ^ On Behalf of BusyBox Developers Andersen and Landley, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit (Software Freedom Law Center 20 September 2007)
- ^ http://busybox.net/~landley/forensics.txt
- ^ "Busy busy busybox". Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/shell/Config.in?rev=11083 The 'ash' shell adds about 60 kilobytes in the default configuration and is the most complete and most pedantically correct shell included with BusyBox. This shell is actually a derivative of the Debian "dash" shell by Herbert Xu, which was created by porting the "ash" shell, written by Kenneth Almquist, from NetBSD.
- ^ ash variants
- ^ BusyBox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
- ^ "IBM - United States". IBM - United States.
- ^ crunchgen man page at freebsd.org
- ^ Doug Thayer, Keith Miller (16–17 April 2004). "Four UNIX Programs in Four UNIX Collections: Seeking Consistency in an Open Source Icon". Proceedings of Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium. University of Minnesota, Morris.
- ^ "BusyBox Command Help". Retrieved 2013-02-24.
- ^ On Behalf of BusyBox Developers Andersen and Landley, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit (Software Freedom Law Center 20 September 2007)
- ^ Settlement reached in Busybox-Monsoon GPL case (Bruce Byfield, Linux.com, 30 October 2007)
- ^ Linux legal team sues over GPL violations (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com, 21 November 2007)
- ^ "Second Round of GPL Infringement Lawsuits Filed on Behalf of BusyBox Developers".
- ^ "BusyBox Developers and Xterasys Corporation Agree to Settle GPL Lawsuit".
- ^ BusyBox Developers and High-Gain Antennas Agree to Dismiss GPL Lawsuit (SFLC press release)
- ^ Open-source legal group strikes again on BusyBox, suing Verizon (Grant Gross, Computerworld, Dec 7 2007)
- ^ "BusyBox Developers File GPL Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon Communications".
- ^ Verizon Settles Open Source Software Lawsuit (Paul McDougell, InformationWeek, March 17, 2008)
- ^ SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBox Developers (SFLC press release)
- ^ BusyBox Developers and Supermicro Agree to End GPL Lawsuit: Good Faith Discussions Result in Dismissal of Copyright Infringement Case (SFLC press release)
- ^ 2008. Andersen v. Bell Microproducts, Inc., No. 08-cv-5270, Doc. No. 16 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 17, 2008) (notice of voluntary dismissal)
- ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10415270-92.html?tag=nl.e703 Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, 11 more named in GPL lawsuit
- ^ Jones, Pamela (2010-08-03). "BusyBox and the GPL Prevail Again - Updated 4Xs". Groklaw. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
- ^ Bruce Perens, "Statement on Busybox lawsuits", perens.com (December 15, 2009).
- ^ "Busybox replacement project". 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ "Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement". LWN.net. 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
The real problem here is that the [Software Freedom Conservancy's] reliance on Busybox means that they're only able to target infringers who use that Busybox code. No significant kernel copyright holders have so far offered to allow the SFC to enforce their copyrights, with the result that enforcement action will grind to a halt as vendors move over to this Busybox replacement.
- ^ "Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement". LWN.net. 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
>As the ex-maintainer of busybox who STARTED those lawsuits in the first place and now HUGELY REGRETS ever having done so, I think I'm entitled to stop the lawsuits in whatever way I see fit. They never resulted in a single line of code added to the busybox repository. They HAVE resulted in more than one company exiting Linux development entirely and switching to non-Linux operating systems for their embedded products, and they're a big part of the reason behind Android's "No GPL in userspace" policy.
- ^ Proffitt, Brian (2012-02-02). "GPL enforcement sparks community flames - Throwing the GPL baby out with the enforcement bath water?". ITworld. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
Further reading[edit]
- Perens, Bruce (November 1, 2000). "Building Tiny Linux Systems with BusyBox—Part I". Linux Journal. Belltown Media.
- Jones, M. Tim (August 15, 2006). "Busybox simplifies embedded Linux systems". Developer Works. IBM.
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In the 10 weeks since Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast and claimed 131 lives, there has been much discussion about the failures in infrastructure that left New York City at a virtual standstill for days. In an article published in this week's New Yorker, sociologist Eric Klinenberg discusses some of these concerns in a piece called "How Can Cities Be Climate-Proofed?". Emphasizing that "[t]he fundamental threat to the human species is, of course, our collective inability to reduce our carbon emissions and slow the pace of climate change," Klinenberg broaches Sandy from the perspective of how we might rethink a wide range of key design, infrastructure, regulatory and social components so as to adapt to rising sea levels and increase resiliency against these now inevitable extreme weather events.
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Citing examples of "climate-proofing" in other countries and the thoughts of experts on the subject, Klinenberg considers not only the often expansive and expensive measures that need to be taken to improve critical infrastructure, but also simpler measures to bolster resiliency at community levels. The larger engineering projects to protect against flooding that Klinenberg refers to are themselves quite interesting — and potentially vital.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg, when noting the relationship between climate change and Hurricane Sandy, acknowledged that storm surge barriers and levee protection systems would be necessary in the future to protect New York City, and it turns out "engineers at the Dutch firm Arcadis have designed a $6.5-billion barrier that would go just north of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge [while] others have proposed a five-mile gate that would stretch from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, to Rockaway, New York."
Such projects have supporters, but one of Klinenberg's interview subjects, Columbia University geophysicist Klaus Jacob, notes that such protection systems "will require at least twenty years to build… [and if] that happens, we'd get protection for perhaps a few decades. Walls will keep out storm surges, but not the rising ocean, and they could cause a sense of false security that prevents us from finding real solutions."
Beyond holding back rising waters, there is an extensive array of infrastructure improvements, underscored by Klinenberg, that could be made to improve resiliency in the face of future disasters — many of which have already been implemented in flood-prone areas of other nations. And many such improvements yield benefits outside of times of crisis. Smart grids, like those in the Netherlands and others implemented in Houston after Hurricane Ike, have the potential to not only restore power more expediently after wide-spread devastation, but could also help in regular outages. Regulation of the cell phone industry, meanwhile, could provide additional capacity in times of crisis, and provide baseline requirements for keeping service running. Not to mention the benefits that could be yielded from elevating public transit lines and burying power cables.
But one of the overarching, and perhaps most valuable, messages in Klinenberg's article is the fundamental importance of community resiliency. Citing drastically lower mortality rates during the Chicago heatwave of 1995 in tight-knit communities, Klinenberg goes on to visit The Rockaway Beach Surf Club, which in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy became a distribution point for relief and rebuilding resources and a vital meeting point for the community. As Michael McDonald, head of Global Health Initiatives, explains in Klinenberg's article, "What's actually happening on the ground is not under an incident command system. It's the fragile, agile networks that make a difference in situations like these. It's the horizontal relationships like the ones we're building that create security on the ground, not the hierarchical institutions. We're here to unify the effort."
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After the meeting, I asked Mr Quinlan if he knew about crisis mapping and tools like Ushahidi. He did not, wrote down the concepts, and was very interested in these ideas. Seems to me that there is a great opportunity here to link the crisis mapping community with electrical utilities so that they can improve their emergency procedures before the next disastrous event. You can see the Roundtable presentation at http://www.raabassociates.org/main/roundtable.asp?sel=117
Since then, I've contacted Joi Ito of Safecast and MIT Media Lab, Ethan Zuckerman of the Center for Civic Media, Caitria O'Neill of Recovers.org which has developed a preparedness platform for cities and towns and has been working on Hurricane Sandy relief and, InSTEDD, a nonprofit organization dedicated to innovating new responses to diseases, disasters, and emergencies. Ethan Zuckerman informed me he has passed this idea to his friends at Ushahidi.
Would be good to connect utilities with the open source and on the ground resilience efforts of everyday people.
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LOVE IT It's a neon pink that is sheer and full of glitter. It has pink and purple glitter. Great on it's own or can be worn over a polish. I like it with kiss on the chic. It makes a bold statement. An everyone will be asking what color it that who makes it. Followed by I have to have that color. Omg. lol
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This is THE prettiest color ever! It is bright pink with blue and purple toned shimmers, it is the glitteriest (is that a word?) color I have ever seen in my life. The reason I knocked a star off it is because I am not the biggest fan of OPI formula I find that it peels off in huge sheets quite easily. Which dissappoints me, especailly for how much this costs. Which is another downfall of this product I think it costs around $8 or $9 dollars, which where I come from is quite expensive for nail polish. But for this nail polish, and probably this polish only I would still buy it over and over again despite the price. Which is huge for me as I am very very cheap! But it is impossible to find, I think this is because it was a limited edition color if I'm not mistaken. Which really disappoints me because I am running a bit low on this. The color is perfect!
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*A Parent's Guide to the Best Kids' Comics — Recommended
- Posted by Johanna on March 11, 2013 at 3:46 pm
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- CREDITS: by Scott Robins and Snow Wildsmith
- PUBLISHER: Krause Publications; $16.99 US
I'm almost a year late talking about this reference guide — it came out last May — but the nice thing about a well-done, beautifully formatted volume like this is that it quickly becomes timeless. Particularly since the authors, both librarians, focus on graphic novels and book-format comics.
The book is diverse, including titles in a variety of genres. (Few superheroes, though, since they avoid periodicals, although a handful do get mentioned in collected form.) It's arranged by grade level, in four sections from Pre-K to eighth grade. Within each section, the books are presented alphabetically.
It's nicely laid out. Each selection gets its own double-page spread. The left has key information, while the right reproduces a page from the recommended book. The thick gloss paper makes for a heavy book for its size and reproduces the art samples well. The text information includes publisher, publication dates, genre, and format, while the writers made sure to include a "heads up" that indicates whether the work includes any areas of concern, whether violence, name-calling, potty humor, or kissing. Each title also has a "What's Next…" section that lists similar books as a kind of "if you liked this, try that" continuing recommendation.
I was surprised at how many of the titles I hadn't heard of, particularly in the section for the youngest readers. I suspect many of them are sold primarily to the educational/library market and/or promoted as children's books instead of comics. Although many come from book publishers, Top Shelf, Toon, First Second, and Viz, to name a few, are also represented. This would be a good book to take to the library with the kids, or for a comic shop to keep behind the counter to help clerks with recommendations for families.
Right now, the publisher's website has the book on sale. (The publisher provided a review copy.)
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- James Schee Says:
March 11, 2013 at 4:36 PMHmm sounds interesting, but, and maybe this is me being cheap. lol
Seems like something publishers and creators would/could fund in order to get these in book stores, libraries and the like. $16, $11 on sale I see on the site. Is just a bit steep for what amounts from the sound of it to a shopping list.
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March 11, 2013 at 6:28 PMWeird, when I go to the publisher's site, it shows a price of $7 right now.
There's more to it than a list — it's also got capsule summary reviews and series listings.
- James Schee Says:
March 11, 2013 at 7:36 PMHuh it does say $7 to me now as well. (Amazon is higher though)
I guess I wonder at target audience though. I don't see a lot of people, who aren't already comic fans, looking for something like this. And if they do… will they pay?
Especially in this time when there are so many free alternatives, like this very website.:)
Sorry to any contributors or the like. I'm sure it is a fine book, I'm just stuck at work bored and this is just a topic I'm curious about. I've asked my non-comic reading coworkers if they buy reference/review books in general and if so what kind. Seems to be magazine format mostly, but it is a small sampling (3 others)
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March 12, 2013 at 9:41 AMHi James! You've asked some good questions and I hope you don't mind if I, as one of the authors, provide something of an answer.
The target audience, as we envisioned it, is parents, librarians, and teachers, though we certainly hope that our book will be of use to bookstore staff also. As librarians, Scott and I get a lot of questions about what books are out there for kids and what titles are for what ages. There are still many parents and teachers who are confused by the term "graphic novel," assuming it has more to do with erotica than it does with comic books.
So we wanted to help them be aware of some of the great titles — both newer and classic — and help point out which ones might be of interest to their kids. The library world refers to that as readers' advisory and it's always been one of my favorite parts of being a librarian.
You are definitely correct that there are many wonderful websites that provide that information and which are able to do that in a more up-to-date manner than a print reference title can do. But many librarians, teachers, and parents don't feel that they have the time or understanding of comics to find those sites and to use them efficiently. So we were hoping to offer them an off-line reference. Many parents have told us that their kids like paging through the book, marking the titles they want, much like catalog shopping.
Thanks for the great questions! And, Johanna, thank you for a wonderful review and, as always, for your site, a terrific comic resource.
- Johanna Says:
March 12, 2013 at 10:18 AMOh, stop, you're making me blush. (Thanks for listing my site in your reference list!) I appreciate hearing more about your thinking in putting this together, too. It's good insight into a field (libraries) that's so important but I don't know enough about. Do you plan on creating any kind of update or addition later on?
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March 12, 2013 at 10:38 AMWe'd love to do an update or addition, but it all depends on how well the first volume sells. So fingers crossed for that, especially as there are so many great new titles that have come out and we want to talk about them!
It is very interesting to me the divisions that exist in the comic world. It seems to me that there are distinct groups publishing comics today: the big 2, the ones just below them in size (Dark Horse, Image, etc.), the independents (Oni, Top Shelf, Fantagraphics, NBM, Archie, etc.), the book publishers (Random House, Abrams, etc), the manga publishers (Viz, Yen, Vertical), and the school/library publishers (Lerner, Capstone, Scholastic, so on — those publishers who aren't as likely to be in either bookstores or comic shops, but which are prevalent in school and public libraries). There is some overlap, such as Vertical being distributed by Random House, but that's the rough breakdown.
And too many of them don't talk to each other. So, for example, the school and library publishers may not be up on what's happening in the superhero world, beyond the fact Disney now owns Marvel. And the comics publishers may not be aware of what's happening in the book publishing world. An excellent example of that last is the number of comics professionals I (and other librarians) have met who have never heard of Jennifer and Matt Holm's Babymouse series. This is a bestselling graphic novel series that has 17 volumes and counting, plus a spin-off series! But because it's published by a book publisher (Random House), it has flown beneath the comics radar for many people.
Add to that the fact that many librarians don't know comics publishers beyond the titles of theirs that are reviewed in Booklist and other library review journals and you end up with a situation where things are just overlooked. I was on a panel a few years ago at Dragon*Con that included Chris Schweizer (Crogan's Adventures), Andy Runton (Owly), and Van Jensen (Pinocchio Vampire Slayer) and the topic of communication came up, how there needs to be some bridge between all the various types of comics publishers, the library world, the education market, the bookstore and comic store market, and the ultimate consumers, which in the case of kids' comics are, by and large, parents. Scott and I were just lucky that our editors (Maggie Thompson and Brent Frankenhoff) were aware of the need for that type of bridge and asked us to be one small stone in the larger structure.
- James Schee Says:
March 12, 2013 at 11:49 AMThanks for your view point Snow I appreciate the look. I really was just bored at work. Being around the online comic community as long as I have it us easy to forget how most aren't. So your book probably is a great guide to what is out there.
- Snow Wildsmith Says:
March 12, 2013 at 11:50 AMI know exactly what you mean about insular communities! I have to remind myself not to talk "library speak," because not everyone speaks buzzword. :-)
- James Schee Says:
March 12, 2013 at 3:34 PMHah true. I was watching a tv show the other day, and they changed a character in the show's past. I went "Oooh retcon!" and my friends had no idea what I was talking about.lol
I hope to see the book at a local library or something soon. If even Johanna didn't recognize some of the books, that is something pretty neat.


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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A non-stop captivating ride from page one (no exaggeration). I only read this because of the hype at the time of publication, and the fact that everyone at work kept raving about it. Wish I hadn't wasted my time, Pure pot-boiling drivel. Everytime I read something by Jeffrey Archer I like his storytelling more and more, he has a brilliant way of weaving a story. Now I am undecided as to whether I enjoy his novels or his short stories more This book was hard to put down once I got into it -- a very compelling story of two men, born on the same day into very different circumstances. The obsession of these men, who are so alike in so many ways, each to destroy the other, was very sad. In addition, "Kane and Abel" is a good work of historical fiction, that covers major events of the 20th century very effectively. I suppose the main thing about the book that bothered me was how male it was -- although a few women characters played important roles, there was such an emphasis on the male perspective and the importance of a male heir that it sometimes offended me. Loved this book, Could not put it down. Great family saga with a fantastic twist at the end. Sequel "Prodigal Daughter" was good too. no reviews | add a review Is contained inKane and Abel/Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less/The Prodigal Daughter/A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer Honour Among Thieves/Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer Kane and Abel/Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer Kane and Abel/The Prodigal Daughter/A Quiver Full of Arrows/A Twist in the Tale by Jeffrey Archer Kane and Abel/Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less/The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer As the Crow Flies/First Among Equals/Honor Among Thieves/Kane & Abel/A Matter of Honor/Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer Contains
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312995059, Mass Market Paperback)William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have... (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:03:32 -0400) William Lowell Kane, the son of a Boston millionaire, and Abel Rosnovski, a penniless Polish immigrant, were born on the same day on the opposite sides of the world. The paths of the two men were destined to cross in their ruthless struggle to build a fortune. Rewritten by the author on the 30th anniversary of its first publication.… (more) |
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If one of the parents has a known dominant trait, however, there are various probabilities for a child having different traits.
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There are very few topical treatments for hair loss. However, clinical trials are currently in progress to test whether a chemical in the glaucoma drug Lumigan could help re-grow scalp hair.
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Phase II clinical trials are currently in progress in the United States and Germany.
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The National Alfalfa and Forage Alliance (NAFA) and seven other ag groups showed support for Roundup Ready alfalfa by filing a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
The Supreme Court will consider whether, in 2007, a lower federal court acted hastily and incorrectly by banning the sale of biotech alfalfa, despite extensive scientific evidence documenting the safety of the crop, according to a press release put out by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF).
"This is an important case because it will be the first time the high court has weighed in on the risks of genetically engineered crops," the press release continues. Of the more than 10,000 cases appealed to the Supreme Court each year, only about 1% is accepted for review on the merits and oral arguments. The case is set for oral argument on April 27. A decision is expected from the court by June.
Organizations joining NAFA and AFBF in support of the petitioners in the Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms lawsuit are the Biotechnology Industry Organization, American Seed Trade Association, American Soybean Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Cotton Council and National Potato Council.
The groups urge that the lower court decision to approve an injunction without adequately hearing key evidence must be reversed "to protect the farmers who choose to grow genetically engineered crops, as well as the public benefits that agricultural biotechnology brings to producers and consumers around the world."
In the 2007 court case, environmental groups and individual organic alfalfa farmers sued USDA, claiming that its decision to deregulate glyphosate-tolerant Roundup Ready alfalfa in 2005 violated the National Environmental Policy Act. USDA was ordered to implement an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the transgenic crop, which was pulled from the market.
The lower court injunction was made without the court conducting a thorough review of evidence that precluded a finding of irreparable harm, according to the brief. The brief also states that the lower court failed to consider the public benefits of ag biotechnology, already adopted widely in the U.S. for a number of key crops, such as corn, soybeans, cotton, sugar beets and papaya.
At this time, a 1,400-page draft EIS, again recommending that Roundup Ready alfalfa be deregulated, has just finished its public review period. A final statement is in the works.


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Pace, Presence and Proximity
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How do we assess things?
How do we figure out why someone does anything?
We are lost in our own interpretation of other people's experiences, usually based upon only a bare minimum of information.
We assess good-or-bad, right-or-wrong, like-or-dislike, always caught in the duality of polarity.
The purpose of this podcast is to give a way out of dualistic thinking by taking into account 3 key concepts….pace, presence, and proximity.
Our moral judgments are based upon the pain-pleasure conditioning we received from our parents, teachers, religious leaders, and friends. The media then bombarded us with violence influencing fear producing stories that mingled with our real life experiences to create some form of a perception mechanism which is highly dubious in its accuracy to say the least.
Because of this fact, that we can not assess correctly almost anything, we become trapped by the stories we tell ourselves and this becomes most people's `view` or `perspective` of reality. We then speak unconsciously this belief system into the world, trapped by an unconscious inaccurate assessment system.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, those people who have a more accurate assessment of value, rather than emotional reaction to external stimulation, get away with what they do because most human beings have been stupefied, conditioned, and educated into a perceptual state of learned helplessness.
Learned helplessness is the condition the elephant gets when as a young baby it is chained with a stake to the ground. As it gets older, larger, and stronger, the rope is thinned and the stake does not go in as deep. This is done in incremental steps. The elephant learns early it cannot escape and after a while it stops trying to escape forever.
This is a very important fact to know about the conditioning process. At some point the elephant has forgotten how it became that way. It is impossible to remember anything different because it was always this way. It could not remember Freedom because it never had it.
We are the same.
And those in power, who keep the ropes and stakes in place, have a condition called `Cognitive Dissonance` which blanks out any contrary evidence to them thinking themselves a `good` human being. They don't acknowledge there is a problem. They see challenges.
So with the masses trapped in `learned helplessness` and the global leaders trapped in `cognitive dissonance`, everyone continues to play out the final death throes of a dying economic paradigm of control which now is at the core of our possible species extinction.
It creates a mass stupidity which at some point starts to create mess after mess because so much waste is being created.
And this waste is being created because it has become a norm for the Western culture to be `wasteful`. Think of the newspapers handed out every day to people who toss them after checking out the sports scores they had already seen on the internet at breakfast.
Think of the coffee cups, plastic bottles, cardboard plates, and the other huge amounts of other containers that are thrown out almost immediately after use.
The Story of Stuff points the how's and whys of this beautifully…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8
I watch the amount of garbage I create and I am astounded. We love to put the food in, but fundamentally don't want to smell the shit as it comes out. Flush it away…quickly…there is stuff to do.
So what to do about it…everyone knows fundamentally at some level what was just pointed out.
The solution has to do with Pace, Presence, & Proximity.
PACE: If you are not in a rush, you can take the time to do any task in a wise manner.
PRESENCE: If you are present you can see the solution in the moment and have an accurate assessment of what is occurring.
PROXIMITY: If you deal with what is in your proximity first by being present and matching people's pace, you can calibrate to the frequency of the shared field.
Pace is not always the easiest to gauge, especially with those who are very fast. They miss the cues from those who operate a little bit or a lot a bit slower.
Proximity is that which you are around.
Presence is how aware you are of what is in your proximity combined with your inner world awareness and the relationship between your inner and outer worlds.
Pace is gauging the best interaction frequency between what is in your proximity and the amount of presence people are bringing into the field.
We are exponentially more influenced by what is in our proximity that has presence and is accurately assessing the necessary pace for the greatest relationship dynamics between all parts to come through.
When people are not present, confusion reigns.
Many people blindly jump into conversations, state their opinions, and rarely even assess the context, let alone some elementary field dynamics.
One of the main reasons why so much time is wasted in meetings is people don't speak their truth. Their minds and intent are elsewhere.
People are not present.
The proximity is forced and not flowing and the environment does not support the greatest synergy between people because of the nature of what `offices` have become. Sterile control mechanisms which no longer serve the post post modern knowledge workers.
We are collectively entering new territory and this Podcast + Blog is just one of hundreds of millions of opinions surging through the internet.
Why would this be any different…What is different here…
Like many people on the planet at this time, I have been working on a solution to what we are collectively going through. And what has occurred through my own research is a real hope and a deep inspiration into the hidden potential of human beings. We have vast unchartered territories in co-creating loving collaborative interactions with one another in brilliantly creative projects that can tap into a higher levels of collective intelligence.
There are ways of thinking and communicating which break through the limits of the dualistic thinking paradigm to `see` a new world.
What is stopping this from occurring is the old paradigm that has left scars everywhere we collectively need to heal.
The conflict that comes from being trapped in a dualistic mental framework creates a dysfunctional species. We are all fundamentally responsible for this. And so we must all fundamentally break free of the learned helplessness and cognitive dissonance and become present to our proximity and pace.
This involves being more present when someone is in real distress and needs a listening ear and a kind heart. No advice, judgement, or feedback. Just presence in your listening and compassion as your intention. A simple formula that non-violent communication so ably points out.
We are on the brink of huge technological and social change. Each of us has the choice in how we are either consciously or unconsciously to go through this. Either alone or with others. Either using the old methods and habits or truly breaking free in co-creating new ways of interacting together as a species.
This can only happen in spaces that facilitate this transformation. Spaces where people can experience a world beyond duality, where everything around you is there to be more sacred in your presence to those in your proximity, and allowing multiple paces to pulsate together into a conscious evolution of our species.
Many traditions have prophesized that now is the time that has been forecast for so long. And here we are collectively waking up together. The imaginal cells are looking about for those they can `pulsate` with.
The space where this could occur in each community is called DreamSpace. The place where dreams come true, but delving deeper into this in another podcast.
Peace be with you,