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Respected visiting guests, ladies and gentlemen, and friends,
It has been a great experience for me to be in China over the last 6 years.
I have been able to see the huge transitions taking place in your cities and society, and been able to visit many beautiful places of interest.
I have also witnessed the preparations for and successful completion of the World Olympic Games, and must congratulate you on the impressive results. I have also witnessed the preparations, great experience and successful conclusion of the EXPO 2010 just these days.
The Outside world has through these events more than ever before come to appreciate the great achievements of the Chinese nation over its last 30 years history. More gradually the world have also come to better knowledge and deeper understanding of the recent history since Chinas current regime was established in 1949, as well as the legacy of Chinese civilization millenniums before that.
For me personally as a public health professional and politician, it has been especially inspiring to have been invited to be part of IESCO: While many global organizations focus on environment, OR health OR economic development OR tourism, IESCO tries to focus on a safe and sustainable inter-relationship of Humankind and Nature, whether in work or leisure. This holistic understanding and systems-based approach is just what we need in the current state of the world, and many of the Chinese philosophical traditions may just represent the kind of Mindset we need to meet our current integrated challenges of global economic crisis, broad ecological and climate degradation and the need for more equity between rich and poor, as we enter into huge increases in global population and regional imbalances in age groups .
It is also interesting to me to consider the issue of ecotourism. To the extent my small country is known to outsiders, it is mainly because of ecotourism. People come to Norway primarily to enjoy our wild nature and virgin mountains, fiords and streams, not particularly our cities. This is also what most Norwegians enjoy as our main asset!
But here we want to talk about URBAN ecotourism. It is estimated that already 55% of the world population live in urban areas in 2010. The urban population still consume 85% of the worlds resources and energy and emits 85% of the waste and carbon dioxide. And urbanization is predicted to continue. Cities in many ways represent the most massive impact of human civilization on our environment. In most cities very little if anything of the natural condition remains, huge environmental problems prevail and the impact of cities on their surroundings are also huge. From this point of view, you could consider any city as a major ecological emergency.
On the other hand, Cities are probably the most effective way to organize human life. Like ants and many other creatures, we find it safer and more productive in our more advanced states to collectively organize our livelihood in large groups like cities. We live our lives in cities, and we also love to visit other cities. Therefore we should aggressively pursue the goal of healthy, green and sustainable cities that can offer a better life, more exciting ecotourism and a harmonious relationship of the cities to their surroundings.
How can we achieve that? This is what I will talk more about now: I have chosen 6 main issues to consider:
1.The balance between urbanization and developing the countryside, 2.Land use and land abuse 3.Resource consumption or recirculation and conservation 4.Life Cycle Analysis and urban planning 5.Extractive engineering or green technologies 6.Management of Cities and the citizen��s role in the management.
1.The balance between urbanization and developing the countryside,
2.Land use and land abuse
3.Resource consumption or recirculation and conservation
4.Life Cycle Analysis and urban planning
5.Extractive engineering or green technologies
6.Management of Cities and the citizen��s role in the management.
1.First of all I will like to remind us, that part of solving the city��s future challenges will be to limit urbanization by also focusing on creating better livelihoods in the countryside. Currently, the overall situation in China is that its urbanization has exceeded 40%, but 300 mill more people is still expected to move to cities in the coming decades. I believe China should balance its policies of increased urbanization with a paralell focus on developing more stable and sustainable rural communities with good environments for employment, innovation, production. Improving conditions for more rural people to stay closer to their homes in smaller green, rural townships and communities is one good way of helping to reduce the pressure challenging many rapidly growing cities and that of many migrant workers as well.
2.Land Use or Land Abuse. Cites have tended to uncontrolled sprawl into the neighboring countryside and agricultural areas and claim land based on short term cost benefit considerations. With focus on ecological safety and sustainability, we need to think differently and more long term. Cites need the land that produce food for its citizens, and it needs green areas for recreation. Cites must develop more harmonious relationships to its surroundings. The new green zero emission neighborhoods being planned in Shanghai may be good examples of how future planning should proceed.
3.Cities tend to inefficiently use a lot of upstream resources form the surroundings like energy, water etc, and let out a lot waste and pollution downstream. Instead of these ��end-of-pipe-solutions�� cities must be much more clever to introduce a circular economy within its own boundaries. Then point-of-use technologies become crucial: How can we save and produce more renewable energy, recapture waste water, restore the aquifers and reuse other resources effectively. How can we save and produce more energy and materials from our own waste heat and urban waste, which are hydrocarbons as good as any coal or oil. How can we grow more greens and capture CO2 and other pollutants the organic way? How to grow more food inside the city and use the remains as fertilizers and other raw material. In ecological theory these considerations are called life cycle analysis, and bring me to my next point.
4.City planning and life cycle planning. Life Cyle Analysis (LCA) is a planning methodology designed to follow use of resources though their whole life cycle. I will like to extend that concept to the life of city people: In our planning we need to follow them through their daily life cycle and their needs connected to all phases of the normal day: Work, leisure, rest, food, exercise, entertainment, socializing, sleep and more.
We also need to follow their whole life cycle: Infancy and growth, childhood and play, youth and learning years, mature working life and retirement and aging. Far too much of City life is focused solely on work life, consumption and commercial entertainment. We must create broader environments with wider opportunities and choices that can create better and more genuine fulfillment of life.
5.New Green technologies are a crucial necessity for creating better cities. Many current technologies work against their own best assets when applied in mass scale. We all love to have our own car to move easily and independently around, but when we all do it that way at the same time, nobody get to move and we all get polluted. Energy use creates light and acclimatization but also darkens the skies and pester our air quality! New green technology paradigms and new sustainable ways of organizing our lives can change that. But we then also may have to radically change our priorities and mindsets and the way we organize our cities and our lives! We may need to share more and do more collectively, and develop radical new technologies for recirculation of resources in the cities. For water, energy and other resources, we need to develop more completely new point of use technologies to conserve and recirculate and less end of pipe solutions to produce and pollute more.
The common claim is that demands for ecological sustainability will harm and hamper economic growth. I will rather claim the opposite is the reality. New innovations and new technologies that effectively meet old and new needs create massive new demands in the market, just like when the electricity, cars, personal computers, laptops and mobiles were introduced. Also then representatives of the traditional technologies and economy with a petrified mindset were defying and obstructing progress. But Greentech and sustainable energy is already becoming the new technology paradigm driving the new economy!
6.City management and the citizens:
The focus of any city and community in the modern world should to become as self reliant and efficient on resourse use as possible given the local conditions, and to mobilize all technological and human capabilities to reach that goal. That implies we all may need to change our mindset substantially and swiftly, as well as that of many of our leaders. The French philosopher Foucault have analyzed how one of the most destructive and repressive power factors of rising societies are ��the power of the ruling ideas��. To be able to shape sustainable environments and eco-cities attractive for their inhabitants as well as tourists, we not only need to change our environment, but more important than anything we need to change our mindset!
In my country the civil society have contributed greatly to the development of new mindsets, to supporting the political ambitions for a more ecological growth and to create support for necessary change. I would therefore like to support what LI Junru who is vice president of Chinas society for Human Rights studies say in this quote from China Daily just last Friday, two days ago:
����We should further be aware that since the issue of Peoples livelihood is related to peoples existence and livelihood, we cannot solve problems related to peoples livelihood without the development of democracy.
We should not simply focus on people��s livelihood, but solve the problems related to people��s livelihood by closely linking them to the development of democratic politics.��
Four vital relationships for urban ecological reconstruction.
Currently, we are in a revolutionary era of globalization. In March 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon pointed out in one of his articles published in Washington Post;
����In the past century we have witnessed three economic transformations which were actually the industrial revolution, technological revolution and the current globalization.��
Globalization as the current stage of history has in its recent phase been characterized by 4 great challenges:
1.Irresponsible and unregulated financial speculation and exuberance leading to a grave global economic crisis. 2.The climate crisis as the peak of numerous ecological challenges due to immature technologies. 3.The equity crisis; Global growth has been very unevenly distributed due to inadequate economical policies. 4.The ongoing population crisis, which will increase population by an unprecedented 40% in only 40 years, or one generation, due to lack of education and balanced modernization in huge regions of the world.
1.Irresponsible and unregulated financial speculation and exuberance leading to a grave global economic crisis.
2.The climate crisis as the peak of numerous ecological challenges due to immature technologies.
3.The equity crisis; Global growth has been very unevenly distributed due to inadequate economical policies.
4.The ongoing population crisis, which will increase population by an unprecedented 40% in only 40 years, or one generation, due to lack of education and balanced modernization in huge regions of the world.
We have to understand and cope with all these challenges in concert. They are all part of our ��Global Ecological System��, the backdrop and conditions that will be the context for our own efforts to shape our future.
That implies first of all we need to see economy and environment as two sides of the same problem. The global industrial economy is driven by energy and resource exploitation, and energy production and resource extraction is our main driver for the growing ecological challenges.
Secondly; we cannot limit our attention to the environment and economic sphere in isolation. It is the relationship of these issues with human livelihood and human well being in general that should be our main focus, as it is that of IESCO. We need cities, but we need them to better take care of our diverse human needs, and we need them to take better care of our overall environment.
Thirdly; developing towards better ecological safety will not harm economic development. People used to believe that economic development would inevitably damage eco-environment and that environmental protection would have to affect economic development. However, everything indicates that green technology will be the new technological paradigm driving the economy, and that green innovation and new solutions will be the basis of wealth, prosperity and wellbeing for people in all parts of the worlds.
The fourth is the relationship between the law, the environment and the civil society. To protect our common and long term interests, we need strict regulation to avoid that special interests exploit our common environment for the interest their own profit. The supreme pursuit of urban ecological construction is the harmonious development of the individual, the community and our urban environment. Therefore, urban design and management should fully consider both the relationship between man and the city, and the relationship between people. The laws of planning, construction, operation and management of the city must be enforced and followed. But we also need the contribution, engagement and enthusiasm of the civil society lead by organizations like IESCO, DEVNET, the media, and enterprises with a strong sense of Corporate Social Responsibility to create the momentum needed to meet the future in time. We have less than 40 years to radically reinvent our global civilization!
When we have reached a level of science based civilization and a common wisdom and mindset where we manage our future rural and urban economy, ecology and human livelihood as one whole integrated system, we will be prepared for a bright future with eco safety for all, and unlimited opportunities for ecotourism in cities over the whole planet.
By Dr. Werner Christie, Chairman PA Asia, Beijing, Member of IESCO Presidium,IEEPA AdvisorOctober 24, 2010 Shanghai, China


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Digital Manga Turns to Kickstarter to Bring Book Back in Print
Posted in Manga News on November 12, 2011 by JohannaDigital Manga published Osamu Tezuka's Swallowing the Earth back in 2009, and once the initial run was sold, the book went out of print. Now, they've set up a Kickstarter drive asking for money to reprint the book. If they raise $3,950 or more (they're well on their way after just a day of posting), then contributors will get copies, as well as bonuses of other manga, either print or digital. Their reasoning, as posted on the site, is this:
… we're a small company, this is an expensive book, and we can't afford to put up the cash to reprint it. Because we love this book so much and we want Tezuka to be around in English for everyone to enjoy, we are hoping to raise funds for another printing of this important book through Kickstarter instead. All of the licensing and production work is already done, and printing and delivery should take just 30-60 days.
Congratulations to them on finding creative ways to get projects done, but my old-fashioned side says, "If you can't raise just $4000 for a book reprint with guaranteed sales, how do you call yourself a publisher?" How close to the bone are they running things over there? Fans don't seem to mind, though, since the highest reward level (promising, among other things, "VIP treatment at ALL future convention events we run") has already sold out.
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I see this as bordering on abuse of the Kickstarter model. It's not supposed to be for investing in startup companies, and this dances on the edge of that.
I'd like to see Kickstarter take a harder line on projects like this.I'm running the Kickstarter for Digital Manga. I know that this may look like an unusual move, and I wanted to reassure/respond on a few points.
1. This book is two years old, and though it would be great if we had enough cash on hand to print, store and ship all the books we want to right now, as you know that is not the place the publishing industry (and manga in particular) is in right now.
2. This is not a charity drive. Right now this book goes for about $65 secondhand. If this campaign is a success, we will be putting new copies in people's hands for less than half that. If it's not a success, we move on. DMI's survival does not depend on this campaign.
3. This is also partly a trial for bigger and better things, which will be more in line with Kickstarter's ideals. As I noted on the campaign, we are using this to test the waters and judge the appetite for manga on Kickstarter. If it's there, we are considering using Kickstarter to bring new niche titles over the United States – titles that publishers would never otherwise take a chance on.
Tough economic times mean less of a variety in manga. This could be a great way to combat that.
I've read your other articles on Kickstarter and I understand your skepticism, and we're certainly not looking to abandon the "old-fashioned" way of doing things. But right now you have to try to get ahead of the curve at the same time. Either way, thank you for giving this idea your consideration.
Thank you for posting and discussing this campaign!
I will admit that we are doing something unusual with the site, but on the other hand it is pretty much impossible for an individual to license, produce and publish a manga from Japan on their own (legally, that is), even if that individual is the artist him/herself. To get manga onto Kickstarter will mean stretching a bit in this direction, and to get the kind of niche titles we're considering into the States will definitely take a crowd-sourcing tool like Kickstarter.
Interesting idea. I'm on the fence for self-indulgent Kickstarter campaigns — I've seen A LOT of those recently — and I do value the fresh approach to reprinting. Having said that, I've been religiously buying each and every Tezuka reprint in the last ten years, as they come out, including 'Swallowing The Earth.' Thanks for taking it on. I don't know the financials on archival stuff, but I'd assume multiple reprint would be, sorta, par for the course, esp on something so important as Tezuka.
ps, Ben —
I want to say I'm on board for any true Kickstarter deal to bring over some new material. I'll gladly drop some coin to get that over here. :P
So what exactly is the problem people are having with this move? The fact that it's a "print-on-demand" thing, or the fact that it's a print-on-demand thing using the kickstarter platform?
DMP is putting it simply as "we don't have the cash flow, period" but I think it's more likely "we've got money but we don't have the luxury of incurring losses." So printing on demand is a good strategy to make sure their costs are at least paid for upfront. I think of it as a partnership between the readers and the publisher, especially when these titles have such a small market. It's something I wish other companies would do for their OOP volumes as well. But of course doing this is a hassle to begin with, and it brings little profit if any. So I'm kind of thankful DMP even bothers to do anything. That's not to say I want to pledge for every friggin manga volume I'll be getting from now on. I'm just saying it may not be such a bad compromise for obscure titles.
As for using Kickstarter, I think it's a matter of convenience right now. Whatever Kickstarter's mission may be, their platform is perfect for DMP's purpose and it's also already established. Since this is DMP's first pleding venture, I'm okay with it using Kickstarter since it's better to use something that's already up and running. If this works though, I say DMP should invest in its own pledging website for other projects. And who's to say Kickstarter wants to restrict itself to independent projects forever? Ebay started out as an auctioning site for individuals to get rid of their junks but now we've got full-time businesses putting up store fronts. Evolution is key to existing.I bought this manga last year on Amazon for about $16, it's surprising how much its spiked since then. But if this strategy were used on a manga I really want but didn't manage to get the first time around, I'd probably participate as well. AND you'd REALLY get participation on something like this from me on a series that was dropped in the U.S. and the company was offering to revive it. Unfortunately that situation would be a lot more expensive than simply re-printing something already completed.
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11/14/2011 at 3:39 PMHmm…I really like this idea, and I would really support the idea of licensing obscure titles in this print-on-demand sort of way. The thing is, what does this mean for people outside the US? Not just people from Canada, but let's say I'm living in India or something and I want Swallowing the Earth in English. I could just go on amazon or whatever and pay exorbitant amounts of money, or I could support this Kickstarter thing which would be the more complicated and frustrating option.
I'm not entirely sure why this bothers some people. DMP clearly is putting its money into other big projects, but would still like to bring out another print run of Swallowing the Earth. This way, they don't have to stretch themselves too thin financially and fans have a big say in what gets published.
As a buyer, I also don't want to go through this process too many times. I agree that I want my books ready to be bought and at a lower price point. I certainly don't want the days when we're expected to pledge for a line of things they put out because that can't be healthy. But I give DMP the benefit of the doubt in this specific case. They could be tied up with new releases and can't divvy their resources for a reprint. Or a reprint isn't going to bring them profits (considering StE's small readership share not to mention most should already own a copy the first time around). So if we want the book again we've got to help them help us. Maybe I'm being naive but I still see this as them going out of their way to work with the readers.
I have to confess that I don't really know how the publishing world operates nor do I know the financial situation at DMP. But I'd imagine this pledging thing to be a special case, so that even if it were to repeat in the future, it'd be reserved for similarly obscure titles that weren't going to be published otherwise (as said by DMP rep). If you think of it as a system for only collector's titles, it's not so tedious anymore. A small price to pay if they bring over, say, Rose of Versailles ^_^'- Manga in Translation: Missing Masterpieces « Helen McCarthy: A Face Made for Radio
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There are layoffs happ'ning
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Deep in the throes of wintertime, I tend to listen to my iPod on shuffle mode more often. Maybe it's because my Beats by Dre headphones double as cozy earmuffs. Maybe it's because my eardrums are liable to spontaneously collapse if I am subjected to a minute more of Christmas music. Maybe it's because my taste in music is so terrible I can't fully appreciate the lyrical genius of Beauty and the Beat. Regardless, beyond the immortal Michael Jackson (RIP), trusty ol' shuffle usually pumps out some inspiring, introspective tunes – and they often relate to my thoughts about Wall Street.
We can't go on pretending day by day
That someone, somehow will soon make a change
We are all a part of The Beard's great big family
And the truth, you know
Liquidity is all we need
You see, when you're a young banker, the lines between your worklife and lifework can get blurry. And in these tough times, it's especially difficult for those outside the Wall Street bubble to really understand what our lives are like. For some, life is more easily expressed through song, so I put together this shuffle-inspired playlist to help your mom better understand the nature of your work.
Maybe you won't walk 500 miles, but you will walk 50 blocks downtown, because it's 8 a.m., there's no room left in the black car, and the pitch starts in 10 minutes. And don't you fucking forget to flip the books, last time there was an extra comma in the footnote on page 87.
Click! Clack! That's the sound of the analysts working on the comp sets. You're going home one of these days, going home to see your woman, whom you love so dear, but meanwhile – you got to work right here. For those analysts who have passed the 1-year mark, replace 'woman' (she broke up with you months ago) with 'bed'.
Clowns to the left of you, jokers to the right – there you are, stuck in the middle. As an associate, you're asked to be everything from an analyst to a near-MD – sometimes simultaneously. (What? Carry the pitchbooks and explain the syndication strategy while calculating returns on the 12C?)
Perhaps you've got MBA loans lingering. Maybe you've got a family (your deal team doesn't count). Either way, you're balls deep in this career path and probably past the point of no return. You're not a number crunching monkey any longer, but you have few client relationships of your own. But guess what? If I am your MD, the pressure pushing down on me, is pushing down on you (what you asked for).
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All of the bad feelings have disappeared – here is the rainbow you've been praying for. Is there anything more to say? Side note: I wrangled between this one and Make it Rain for quite a long time. You could talk me into either option.
And so, when it comes down to it, at the end of the day, net-net, at a high level, all the investment bankers sing together (as ducks in a row)…
Which songs aptly describe the bankers at your firm? Embed your ideas or add your playlists in the comments section below!
Aaron Burr is a retired investment banking analyst and currently works as an associate at a private equity fund. He is a shufflin' fool – let him know if you find other lyrical parallels in the comments section or at [email protected]
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The large Kuiper belt objects exhibit one of the largest compositional variations of any class of objects in the solar system. These bodies range in composition from nearly pure ice to nearly pure rock, with a loose trend of increasing rock fraction with increasing size. This compositional variability is unexpected: generic accretion and mixing models would suggest that these objects formed from essentially the same mixtures of primordial materials and thus their compositions should be nearly uniform and reflect a primordial ice-rock ratio. Many of the large KBOs have apparent signatures of giant impacts, and these giant impacts have been suggested to play a role in removing ice form these bodies. However, the expected velocities of impacts that were common in the early solar system are too low to allow more than modest mass removal in any single event. We propose, instead, that removal of ice from large KBOs occurred as the objects accreted from a series moderate-sized differentiated bodies. Each impact between ~like-sized objects removes ~10% of the total mass of the system. In a differentiated body, this mass could be exclusively water ice. We will present simulations showing how this process leads to a correlation between size and density and how the densities of many of the known large KBOs fit within this paradigm. A few of the most extreme densities still cannot be explained simply in this context, but we discuss possible solutions.
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PUBLISHED: 11 Apr 2012 16:54:05 | UPDATED: 12 Apr 2012 04:00:26PRINT EDITION: 11 Apr 2012David Ramli
One of the world's largest online music services VEVO is launching in Australia in partnership with Melbourne-based small cap MCM Entertainment Group.
The favoured music site of well known artists like Lady GaGa and One Direction, VEVO first launched in 2009. It is a New York-based joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Media Group and Abu Dhabi Media.
It is one of the most visited music sites in the world, with various artists hosting their music under its banner on YouTube. It reportedly receives up to 3.5 billion "hits" per month, which refers to the number of times a users visits its content.
It generates revenue by forcing users to sit through advertisements and placing marketing material around its videos, which are mostly hosted on YouTube. While VEVO has long operated in the US, UK and Canada, it's main site is not available to Australian users.
The service is set to formally launch in Australia next week. MCM Entertainment Group chief executive Simon Joyce described VEVO as an all-premium music video service and said it had an extensive back catalogue of major artists.
"The addition of VEVO to our existing websites, Take40.com and TheHotHits.com will ensure MCM Media is delivering Australian music fans unparalleled access to artists, while giving advertisers greater opportunity to engage with music lovers," he said.
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Such a send sms from pc service was found finally when I visited Wondershare.com - the tech place which I frequently visit for all things softwares, for free! So, if you were also, like me, looking for a standalone desktop version software that will help you send sms from pc to mobile, then you just found the right place to get that!


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Occasionally solar powered products start to get just a bit odd. I mean if you really are working to get the public to use solar power more, you need to make it cost efficient, attractive, and something the general public could see themselves using. Okay, this product attempts to pull out lacy details, making it almost attractive, but it comes up short in several other areas.
First of all, it's solar powered lingerie. Solar power works by gathering energy, via the sun, meaning the panel has to be able to be in direct sunlight. It just ends up coming off as a wormy guy trying to get women to walk around in their bra.
Back in November I wrote up an article on Noon Solar's stylish bags and now they have come out with a few more goodies to add to your wishlist. The bags as always feature the solar panels to charge all those gadgets that are concealed within it.
Ever drive down the road and look over at the lane next to you and shriek in horror as you see a female putting on mascara as she drives down the highway at 70mph? Well, frankly boys are guilty of finishing up their morning rituals in the car as well and now they can do it in an environmentally friendly way. Now they can jet down the highway buzzing off those chin hairs while harnessing the power of the sun with this Solar-powered Razor.


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My neighbor's grandson is mentally challenged. He committed murder, but he thought it should have been considered homicide, since he was protecting his mother's life.
He didn't take into account that the person he was protecting her from was a police officer. He probably didn't understand much about the situation at all, nor that his mother was wanted for drug trafficking.
So, when a man with a gun broke down the door in the night and wrestled his mother to the ground, he didn't even think about the uniform the man was wearing or the police car parked outside. He simply took the gun out of the drawer, rounded the corner, and shot the officer.
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Drought can have a major impact upon crop growth, and subsequent availability of food if the drought is ongoing. Drought was one factor that contributed to the Dust Bowl years (1930's) in the U.S in which the dry topsoil was blown away from the farms in the Midwest. In 1998, drought in the U.S. accounted for over 40 billion dollars in damage. In some areas of the world, drought can have an immediate and severe impact upon the availability of food. A drought in 1984 and 1985 in the Horn of Africa was so severe that 750,000 people died from famine.
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Billie Joe Armstrong hits Broadway; Radiohead unsure on status of new album
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- Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will join the cast of "American Idiot" -- the Broadway musical based on his band's rock opera -- for eight shows starting Tuesday.
- About that Radiohead album that was supposedly done and ready to be released ... drummer Phil Selway says the band might just throw it all out. Or not. "It's all up in the air at the moment," he says.
- In sad local news, John Hansen, former guitarist for local party favorites the Slickee Boys passed away recently.
- In case you missed it, there was a big music festival in our backyard this weekend. Here's our recap of Virgin Mobile FreeFest and you can re-live it even more with our various instant updates throughout the day from Saturday.
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Huddersfield could include Oscar Gobern in their squad for the first time this season in Saturday's Championship clash with Cardiff at the John Smith's Stadium.
Gobern, sidelined since undergoing ankle surgery in the summer, has been back in training for several weeks and may be in contention for his first appearance of the season, while striker James Vaughan is expected to recover from concussion in time.
Defender Joel Lynch, who has missed the last six games due to a hamstring injury, is also expected back in the squad, as is midfielder Chris Atkinson (thigh).
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Winger Danny Ward (broken metatarsal), midfielder Keith Southern (Achilles) and striker Jermaine Beckford (hamstring) are all definitely out and forward Lee Novak (toe), midfielder Oliver Norwood (bruised foot) and defender Peter Clarke (concussion) are doubtful.
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National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance members participating in the 2012 Washington, D.C. Fly-In held last February. The 2013 Fly-In will be held Feb. 12-14.
National Alfalfa and Forage Alliance (NAFA) members will be returning to the nation's capital early next year for the group's third-annual Washington, D.C. Fly-In.
The Fly-In allows growers and industry representatives to inform Congress about how important forages are to production agriculture and the environment, say its organizers. A board meeting and banquet will be part of the event.
It is scheduled for Feb. 12-14. Contact the NAFA office at 651-484-3888 for more information.


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After much struggling with trying to find an organization that would work with the Guiyu E-waste issue in the aspect that I am, I've finally made a connection. I will be speaking with Ruediger Kuehr from StEP (Solving the E-waste Problem) on Thursday about my thesis and what my goals are. In his response email he told me that their organization is looking to work in Guiyu very soon which is what attracted him to my project.
Prior to getting in contact with Mr.Kuehr, I was able to finally speak to Jim Puckett, one of the top people from BAN (Basel Action Network) which has a very high stake in the e-waste problem. I told him about what I was doing with my thesis and about how I wanted to provide protection to the workers, but he was very reluctant to be associated with such causes. I realized that many of the organizations I tried to work with ended up in failure because of the fact that taking the initiative to provide protection to these workers would give people the impression that their particular organization was in support of the problem, or that they would think the organization considered the protection a solution to the entire problem. Basically, they were concerned with the reputation of the organization and the impression they would give off. So he basically shot down my thesis.
However, being my thesis, I continue to argue it. To go against what Jim said, that my "solution" may not be effective and would not really solve much I say this: You continue to say you are stopping the problem by campaigning against companies and governments to pass legislation to stop the transportation of e-waste from developed to underdeveloped countries, but how long will it take before changes actually occur? And in the meantime, while all of this campaigning is happening and coming to no avail for the next few years, what about these workers and children that must suffer the consequences? Are they to be left their to constant exposure to chemicals resulting in illness, birth defects, and even death? How many people will continually be harmed physically and internally until this is completely changed? To me, it seems a bit hypocritical.
I also received a response from the ILO (International Labor Organization) and am looking to talking to China Labor Watch. It's funny that all of these organizations come up when the deadline for having an NFP is so near...


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hi everyone ,i need help,i have recently purchased a a ford fiesta 1.8 turbo diesel van on a 51 plate, i brought it non start,it had been sitting for 3 months ,the previous owner has put a battery on it with still no start, i have checked all the feeds to the starter and they are ok ,ive also had the starter out and bench tested it in which it was working i just dont know if it has enough umph in it to turn the engine over,ive tried turning the vechile over by hand and it was stiff but i was able to turn it over, i dont know if it was hard as it is a diesel, the sound im getting when turning over is a clicking sound, ive also noticed that the instruments go all the way round and then back to normal is this an earth problem ???????????????
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connect a jump lead from the negative battery terminal to a clean metal part of the engine - this will give you a good earth
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