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The "West" has made Israel into an object of worship and everything is permissible to the Israeli regime, which uses Judaism as it's shield. Criticize Israel and the shield will be raised with shouts of "Antisemitism!" and "Holocaust!" and obedient Western politicians run into declare their and their countries undying and unconditional support to Israel no matter what it does.
Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, torturing people like Arafat Jaradat to death and enslaving an entire nation (American born Israeli minister Naftali Bennett publicly declaring that Israel will occupy "at least 200 years" those parts of West Bank that it's not planning to annex)
are seen by the West to be Israel's right, which might occasionally "lamented", but never opposed.
And naturally the victims of Israeli Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing are claimed to be guilty of their own suffering, like Barack Obama has said. According to him everything that Israel has done to Palestinians is their own fault. Imagine the outrage if someone would say the same about past Jewish suffering.
Time for EU sanctions against Israel. Cessation of Israel-EU trade, banning of visits by Israeli politicians to any EU country, freezing of any Israeli state assets held in EU banks.
No action can be expected by the US. US interest in human rights has almost vanished.
European Union is finally going to label illegal settlement products, but it's leaders are also largely Israel's sycophants, like the current British Blairite foreign policy representative Ashton, who has not condemned a single action by Israel during her entire tenure (she "laments" and "deplores" which is the most severe use of words she can use against Israel's regime).
Leaders of individual EU states are eager to declare their pro-Israel credentials, with France's Hollande opposing BDS campaign and Britain's Cameron declaring that criticism against Israel is "an attempt at delegitimization", with Germany's Merkel declaring that Germany will stand with Israel.
The fact is that Israel is above international laws and human morality according to EU leaders also, and that to them also Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing is a Zionist right and opposing Israel's war crimes and human rights violations is always antisemitism.
Or perhaps the US isn't obsessed with finding opportunities to blame and persecute Jews.
Thankfully, that hasn't been an American problem.
Did you read the article? Who is being persecuted by whom? The article reported state-supported, institutionalised theft of Palestinian property by Jewish settlers. This behaviour is unworthy of a country that aspires to be civilised, and US support of this behaviour is disgraceful.
There's no doubt that the West should bring pressure to bear on Israel to curb human rights abuses and illegal settlement building. But if Western countries were to ban trade and diplomatic relations with any country that oppressed and/or occupied minority populations, there would be no trade with China (Tibet, Xinjiang), Russia (North Caucasus), Turkey (Kurdistan), Saudi Arabia and Bahrain (Shia), Morocco (Western Sahara), Burma (Burmese muslims), just to name a few. Maybe Europe should cut off trade with the US over Guantanamo as well? Unless you're proposing that world trade basically come to a halt, Lao Shi, it seems to me that your proposal would create a double standard for how Western countries deal with human rights abusing nations. I'm just curious what makes Israel so special vis-a-vis these other countries that we should single it out for such extraordinary measures? There must be something that causes the world to ignore all of these other cases while focusing so intently on Israel... what could that reason be?
Was It a "double standard" when the world decided to apply sanctions and boycott South Africa? Was it the worst regime in the world at the time?
When something is wrong and there is a way to address it, there is no need to address all the wrongs in the world at the same time in the same way. That is just a recipe for inaction.
I wrote the previous comment referencing the other cases, and I think FROY that you make a great point that one should not decide not to act simply because there are other similar cases upon which one hasn't acted. But my point is still not addressed -- namely, why Israel's abuses get so much more attention from otherwise disengaged citizens and governments in Western countries than do similarly atrocious abuses in all sorts of other countries in the world.
As my post implies, I think it has to do with the world's ongoing obsession with Jews, who comprise less than 0.2% of global world's population. Just as Jews constituted not even 1% of Germany's pre-WWII population and yet were blamed for all its troubles, just as the UN general assembly has passed over 200 resolutions concerning Isreal/Palestine since 1948 while focusing very little on comparatively important geopolitical issues, it's clear that the world remains obsessed with Jews. And this obsession with such a tiny minority population, whether regarding Jews domestically within countries or Israel as a member of the international community, is part of a pattern dating back thousands of years in which the focus has all too commonly been tinged with underlying resentment and hate against Jews, whether because Jews have been viewed as egotistical, subversive, overly wealthy and miserly, or simply because people wanted a group to blame for their troubles.
So when we focus on Israel and how to get it to stop its oppressive, unlawful, and quite frankly self-destructive behavior, let's also be cognizant that this issue receives an undue share of the world's attention given the sheer number of other cases of systematic state-sponsored human rights abuse. We should be cognizant not just to better understand our own focus on Israel rather than the North Caucasus or Xinjiang, but also because this unbalanced obsession with Israel plays a very large part in Israel's self-perception of being besieged by a hostile outside world. Indeed, it is this very idea of 'us vs. the rest' within the Israeli consciousness that allows rightist Israeli politicians to blind Israelis to the fact that they are the true aggressor. So while, to get back to your original point, just as we shouldn't not act on the Isreali issue just because we're not acting on other similar issues, so should we seek to understand our true motivations in order to more constructively engage the Israeli political establishment and public.
What made apartheid get so much attention? What makes Tibet get so much attention? Some conflicts manage to do that, while others, very much worse, go on forgotten piling up corpse upon corpse for decades.
In the case of Palestine, anti-semitism certainly is a factor for some. For others, it is anti-colonialism. Even anti-americanism. Other just root for a dispossessed and brutalized (and undeniably romanticized) underdog, which still has the nerve to fight back ferociously.
And the thing is that, the more publicity it gets, the more people pays attention, and sympathizes for the plight of the wronged Palestinians. And the more people sympathizes and pays attention, the more publicity it gets. Sometimes it's just that. Herd mentality.
It still doesn't change that what Israel does is wrong, and that it deserves to be acted upon for it.
Or perhaps Israel is useful to the USA as a "local policeman". Empires in decline often need such props and assistance - read Toynbee.
The following conversation was overheard in London recently:
An Israeli arrives at Heathrow airport. The customs official says to him, "Your occupation, Sir?"
"No, no, not at all" replies the Israeli. "Just visiting."
Superb stupidity - how can they believe that lyin' Jooooo? Embrace yourself, pinko London! We're comin'!
The West Bank belongs to Israel. It is decreed by Yawheh in the Torah. When will the Palestinians accept this simple fact? The sooner they leave the better it will be for them.
Who is Yawheh??
A Klingon goddess - had children with Yeehaw - a 3 eyed unicorn.
Indeed - and the medieval book conferred the right to transfer land title to Yawheh??
Is the Torah a bit like Alice in Wonderland??
I thought Hyundai discontinued production of the Yahweh
Torah? Oh I remember now, I saw the film. About the Japs attacking Pearl Harbour, wasn't it?
Sorry for my typoo. I meant to say Yahweh. It snot a laughing madder.
No but snot is.
Yahweh is getting "madder"!!! Why so??
I did a bit of research on your pal, Yahweh. It seems that he was drunk most of the time - on Manna (from the Heavens). For the Israelites, Egypt was the origin of Manna, which explains why all the Patriarchs of Israel were educated in Egypt, Moses, Christ, and Joseph The favorite son of Israel, were all educated in Egypt. Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter, and Abraham found his God at a place called Shechem, which is another Egyptian word for Manna. Teonanacatl [Maya] Soma [Hindu], Ambrosia or Broma-Theon [Greek] Manna [Egyptian, Israelite].
It can be no coincidence that the Mayan, Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, and Israelite words for the mushroom all mean exactly the same thing: The Bread Of God.
Manna was round, was found on the ground in the dew, would melt to mush if not dried or collected on time, and would breed larvae. All unique characteristics of mushrooms. When dried it was like "wafers of bread" and it's color was like "coriander seed", the consistency and color of dried mushrooms, as described in Exodus Ch. 16.
In addition to enjoying hallucinogenic drugs, the interaction with ancient Egyptian culture on the whole region (including Southern Europe) was very profound - more on this later.
This aspect of the origins of Bible is being researched in several universities globally (including Israel), as archeologists (and botanical scientists) have identified the exact kind of magic mushrooms that were used by the ancient Israeli's (Psilocybe cubensis is a potent species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin).
Here is a press clipping from the British Journal of Psychology (March 2008):
"Moses and the Israelites were on drugs, says Benny Shanon, an Israeli professor of cognitive philosophy.
Writing in the British Journal, he claims Moses was probably on psychedelic drugs when he received the Ten Commandments from God.
The assertions give a whole new meaning to Moses being "high" on Mount Sinai.
According to Shanon, a professor at Hebrew University, two naturally existing plants in the Sinai Peninsula have the same psychoactive components as ones found in the Amazon jungle and are well-known for their mind-altering capabilities. The drugs are usually combined in a drink called ayahuasca.
"As far as Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effects of narcotics," he told Israel Radio in an interview.
The description in The Book of Exodus of thunder, lightening and a blaring trumpet, according to Shanon, are the classic imaginings of people under the influence of drugs.
As for the vision of the burning bush, well obviously that too was a drug-fueled hallucination, according to Shanon.
"In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation," he wrote, "the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings."
Shanon admits he took some of these drugs while in the Amazon in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," he said."
There is more research on hallucinogenic drugs and the tendency of the writers of the Bible to exaggerate things - e.g., killing, sexual experiences/fantasies, "revelations", God's "orders", burning bushes, rivers parting, etc. Therefore, current biblical archeologists and historians are concentrating their efforts on issues that can be verified. The results are interesting.
More in my next comments.
More on magic mushrooms - and their potent effect.
The ancient texts, and the influence of psychotic drugs on the authors. Depends upon your level of belief in God, all the "revealed religions" have a fatal flaw - i.e., they claim authorship from an unknown creator, who has a bipolar temperament (sometimes kind, very often angry - sometimes rational, often totally berserk - sometimes supreme - often murderous and genocidal). And hence the age-old problem of monotheistic religions. As Prof. Armstrong puts it:
"The Yahweh of Elijah's time still didn't possess what many people would call a modern moral sensibility. For example, he wasn't very tolerant of alternative theological perspectives. In that episode in First Kings, God uses his "voice" to instruct Elijah on how to get every Baal worshiper in the vicinity killed. Then, a chapter later, after some Syrians express doubt about the Hebrew god's power, Yahweh underscores their confusion by producing 127,000 dead Syrians!!!
This is of course a common complaint about the monotheism that emerged in the Middle East — that its theology bred belligerent intolerance. Some even see this as an intrinsic property of monotheism; whereas polytheism leaves room for the validity of other peoples' gods, ardent monotheists, according to this indictment, are allergic to peaceful coexistence.
This is momentously unfortunate. Christians and Muslims, like Jews, trace their god back to the god that, according to the Bible, revealed himself to Abraham in the second millennium BCE. These three Abrahamic religions have more than three billion adherents, a little over half of the world's population. And, though all three groups claim the same lineage for their god, they don't always see each other as worshiping the same god. This perception seems to have lubricated a huge amount of Yahweh-on-Yahweh violence (Crusades, jihads, and so on) that has only reinforced Abrahamic monotheism's reputation for belligerent intolerance."
The Hebrew Bible took shape slowly, over many centuries, and the order in which it was written is not the order in which it now appears. Fortunately, biblical scholarship can in some cases give us a pretty good idea of which texts followed which.
Archaeology has supplemented history with potent interpretive tools. In the early twentieth century, a Syrian peasant plowed up remnants of an ancient Canaanite city called Ugarit. Scholars set about deciphering the Ugaritic language and combing the earth for Ugaritic texts. These texts, along with other vestiges of Canaanite culture unearthed in recent decades, have allowed the assembly of something notably absent from the Hebrew scriptures: the story from the point of view of those Baal-worshipping Canaanites. And, over the past few decades, archaeology has brought another check on the story as told in the Bible. Excavations in Palestine have clarified early Jewish history, which is often at variance with the biblical story line.
The influence of drugs. The dead sea scrolls and other documents show that the use of hallucinogenic drugs (magic mushrooms, etc.) was very widespread.
"Manna is the food-from-heaven provided by God to Israelites in the wilderness, according to the Bible the Israelites are said to have eaten Manna.
Exodus 16:14-24 indicates that Manna was inevitably a mushroom.
It was a small round thing in the morning dew, it bred larva, and would melt to mush if not dried.
Daniel 5:3-5 with Exodus 16:32 and Hebrews 9:4 indicates that the mushroom was a drug. After sacking the temple in Jerusalem and stealing the Ark-of-the-Covenant, the King of Babylon and his table drank from the golden cup containing the holy "Manna" they had visions within the hour.
Hebrews 9:4 makes it clear that Manna was the most holy thing to Israelites, kept in a Pot-Of-Gold in the Ark Of The Covenant, in the Most Holy Of Holys.
Psalm 78:24-25 calls Manna Food Of Angels, just as Mayan/Inca Priests from Meso-America called it Teonanacatl Food Of The Gods. As I mentioned earlier Manna is an Egyptian word, not Hebrew or Aramaic, meaning "The Bread of God". This is what Moses called it in Exodus 16:15: "Bread Of God" means Food-Of-God.
John 2:6-9 indicates that Jesus made water into wine by boiling mushrooms.
Those who drank the water made into wine said it was the most potent intoxicant - St. John 2:10. The Bible tells us that Jesus making water into wine was the "beginning of miracles" … in other words no one saw any miracles until drinking the wine made from water - St. John 2:11.
As I mentioned earlier, Prof. Benny Shanon and many clinical researchers have proved that excessive use of "magic mushrooms" can cause hallucinations of grandeur, violent urges and excessive lust - e.g., "The Song of Solomon, or "Song of Songs" as it is sometimes called. Have you read it??
Come on guys - this is supposed be a serious discussion even if the Israelis treat the peace proces as a joke!
Yawn - hah.
it makes no sense trying to convince those who are so blinded by their own bias that they won't acknowledge when you may have a logical opinion. You can always spot them by how long winded they are in posting comments as if a normal person would read all of that.
it makes no sense trying to convince those who are so blinded by their own bias that they won't acknowledge when you may have a logical opinion. You can always spot them by how long winded they are in posting comments as if a normal person would read all of that.
What's disgusting is not that Israel is doing this to the Palestinians - though its quite irreprehensible that a people who survived the holocaust turn around treat another people in this way - but that fact that the international community continues to allow it to happen. Shame on you Britain - you caused this in the first place! - and shame on you Washington and Paris and Berlin and Moscow and every other global power.
If the Arabs had sat down and negotiated a partition agreement with the Jews in 1947, there would have been no wars etc, and there would have been two independent states.
The Arabs refused to negotiate with the Jews, and threatened to destroy Israel and the Jews.
They still threaten to destroy Israel, sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly.
When the Arabs eventually recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and stop threatening to destroy her by war, demographics, terrorism or diplomacy [or a mixture of them all], there will maybe be peace in the area.
All the Muslim countries have no qualms about calling themselves Muslim states, so why should the Jews not have a Jewish state.
Hey, blind man, they have had a Jewish State since 1947. Is that not enough?
Absolutely - the Brits started it, but the real culprit is Harry Truman, the US president at that time - he recognized Israel within 11 minutes of Israel's declaration of independence!!! All his senior advisers asked him to wait, including Secretary of State, George Marshall.
"its quite irreprehensible that a people who survived the holocaust turn around treat another people in this way" - your comment.
In psychology, this is known as the Stockholm syndrome.
UN dictated a division plan that would have given 55 percent of British Palestine to Jewish colonialists in continous state and just 45 percent of land to an Arab state of Palestine divided in three different, unconnected pieces of land.
It was a plan that could not have been accepted, when Jews were a majority in 6 percent of British Palestine at the time.
You probably mean reprehensible not irreprehensible.
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I wouldn't rank Ichigo's power on how well he fights after a fight. Be like Mike Tyson going the full 12 rounds then having to take on some fresh street thug, no matter how good you are when your fucked your fucked. Besides Ichigo not only took unnecessary damage while protecting Orhime against Grimmjow but he also took a beating from Nnoitora before Telsa stepped in.
Fair enough Ichigo lost the first time by underestimating his opponent (so it seemed) but we have seen him improve greatly since then and he's bound to do some more. Hell he got K.O by Byakuya in 2 hits then went on to beat him. To say his still no match for Ulquiora i think is too harsh. How Ichigo would win i'm not sure, but he could surely put up a fight.

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I'll plug my USB into my X and laptop, and then my X always shuts down and reboots before I can access my memory card to transfer music/videos/pics to my laptop. Once it boots back up, I can do the transfers fine, though. Is this normal?
Same thing is happening to me. My somtimes reboot while still hooked to the pc! Help us! Sent from my DROIDX using DroidForums
Mine did that too. I found it happened more times when using a non vzw usb cord. But then I started using the included plug/usb and it would reboot 2/3 times. Called vzw and they said it was defective. Got a replacement dx and now it never happens on any brand of usb cable. Sent from my DROIDX using DroidForums
Cool ill give vzw a call. It gets irritating when its rebooting when hooked up to the pc. Other than that it work perfect as far as I can tell. Sent from my DROIDX using DroidForums
Well I saw another post about running apps on the sd card so I deleted them all and tried again and it worked the three times I tried it in a row then I left it plugged in and it unmounted my sd card and rebooted by itself. Sent from my DROIDX using DroidForums
I called vzw and was told to enable USB debugging and stay awake everytime before plugging it in to the computer. They also suggested pulling the battery out with the phone ON. That to me just doesn't sound right. Has anyone ever tried that before? Sent from my DROIDX using DroidForums
I have the same issue, rebooting upon hooking up to PC via USB. Apparently there are plenty of us experiencing this issue... Is the only fix to get a new one?
Just adding to the rest of your messages...I'm having the same issue, but it seems to be a very recent issue for me, like just in the last week or 2. I don't plug into my laptop a whole lot, but the last couple of times recently I've seen this reboot issue. I'm pretty sure we haven't seen any OTA updates, but since a lot of us are having this, could it be a recent update to a common app? Google Maps, Facebook...etc?
My Droid X will do this too. I also get my phone to restart when I tell it to turn off. I cannot turn off my phone unless I pull the battery...
Mine just started doing it too. There doesn't seem to be any other side effects of this. Just mildly annoying Sent from my Liberated DROID2
It started happening to me about a month ago, and I haven't figured out why. It only happens when my USB connection is set to USB Mass Storage; it never happens when it's set to Charge Only. I suppose an app could be causing it, but I'm not sure. In any case, it's baffling and annoying. My X also sometimes reboots on its own, without being hooked up to a PC via USB. It can happen in the middle of a phone call, which drives me batty. Again, no idea why -- it started a couple of months ago. I'm pinning all my hopes on the OTA Gingerbread to fix it, which may be completely unreasonable of me. :icon_eek:
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There are many fruit stands and farms in the region, and the national route, which passes through, is called the "Fruit Road". I am not sure about the exact location of the "Sobetsu Fruit Farm".
Can anyone helps to answer:
1. Which way to take to Sobetsu - JR Toya stn or Datemonbetsu Stn nearer?
2. Can anyone tell me the bus time-table for Datemontestsu to Sobetsu?
Thank you so much.
GPS systems can be ordered at an additional cost or are included for free. They are in Japanese only.
Which way to take to Sobetsu - JR Toya stn or Datemonbetsu Stn nearer?
Buses to Toyako Onsen depart from both stations at about the same frequency (roughly one bus/hour). Buses from Datemonbetsu Station are more convenient to access the Sobetsu area.
May i know is there any cheap accommodation in Sobetsu or datemonbetsu area?
Any locker in Datemonbetsu Jr Stn?
There is lots of accommodation (all budgets) in nearby Toyako Onsen (Lake Toya Onsen):http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e6725.html
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We went last night and enjoyed our bowls of noodles in the bustling yet friendly casual atmosphere. Service is fast and courteous.
My wife had egg and vegetable chow mein and found the long hand-pulled noodles were the tastiest ever. I had the leek and egg noodles at medium spiciness -- just great down to the last drop of red oil.
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just came here yesterday, and am VERY happy to see biang biang noodles (especially the dry garlic one, #24 I think). we have something similar in Boston but drier (re: at Gene's Flatbread) which I prefer, but I'm not complaining.
we had leftovers which I ate this morning, and there's still some of the garlic and sauce leftover. I'm trying to make my own biang biang noodles at home right now so that I can use it up.
the liang pi noodles with gluten were pretty good too.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Financial Times and Citi are pleased to announce that Community Cooker Foundation has been named global winner in the inaugural FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action programme. A distinguished panel of judges selected the Kenyan not-for-profit organisation as the global winner for its development of an innovative and practical waste-burning stove, which holds tremendous potential for environmental, economic and social change in low resource environments.
In addition to the global award, winners were recognised in four categories - education, energy, healthcare and infrastructure - for demonstrating particular originality, efficiency and impact in meeting urban challenges in their respective fields. Winners included: College Possible (Education), Community Cooker Foundation (Energy), GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen (Healthcare) and JCDecaux - Velib' (Infrastructure).
The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards aim to recognise leaders, teams, organisations and community groups that have developed innovative solutions to benefit cities, citizens and urban communities. The awards, sponsored by Citi, were presented last night at an awards dinner in New York where Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE, Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, delivered keynote remarks.
"We are delighted to be celebrating so many innovative and creative ideas that have the ability to change urban life for the better, in ways both large and small," said Martin Dickson, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times. "Now more than ever, cities around the globe face the tremendous challenge of providing basic services and infrastructure to booming populations, often with extremely limited resources. The inaugural winners of this award represent an impressive pool of organisations working to achieve that goal."
"We are pleased to congratulate the winners, and all the finalists, for developing urban solutions that are innovative, scalable and replicable," said Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi, CEO, Citi Transaction Services. "Enabling progress has been Citi's central mission for 200 years. We are proud to recognize those who share our commitment to help cities thrive and strengthen the communities where we live and work."
The judging panel included:
- David Adjaye, OBE, Principal Architect, Adjaye Architects
- Professor Abhijit Banerjee, Professor, MIT and Co-author, Poor Economics
- John Bowis, OBE, Honorary President, Health First Europe
- Sir Terry Farrell, CBE, International Architect & Design Champion and Director, Terry Farrell and Partners
- Reinier de Graaf, Partner, OMA
- Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE, Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects (Honorary President of the judging committee, non-voting)
- Edwin Heathcote, Architecture and Design Critic, Financial Times (co-chair)
- Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director, INSEAD eLab (co-chair)
- Professor Carlo Ratti, Professor, MIT and Founding Partner, Carlo Ratti Associati
- Luanne Zurlo, Founder and President, Worldfund
Submissions were received from 41 countries, including: Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Uganda, U.A.E., the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay.
For more details on the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards, please visit www.ft.com/ingenuity.
Video and photos from the event will be available upon request.
2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity Award winners:
Community Cooker Foundation
The Community Cooker operates on a simple principle: young locals collect rubbish, which is burned in the cooker at high temperature levels. The heat generated is used for cooking, sterilizing and industrial purposes. The cooker has considerably improved the quality of life of slum dwellers by minimizing waste, reducing emissions from cooking, providing a cheaper alternative to wood fuel and creating youth employment.
Kenyan architects Planning Systems Service created the concept, which is now managed by the Community Cooker Foundation, a not-for-profit organization. The cooker currently has one prototype in operation in one of Nairobi's largest slums but is already being replicated in other areas in Kenya and in Mombassa. The Foundation has received many enquiries from other countries which are keen to replicate this simple and effective concept.
College Possible
Creating a vital support network, College Possible helps ensure that low-income students achieve a post secondary degree and break the cycle of multi generational poverty, enabling them to have a positive impact on the success of their urban communities.
College Possible uses the national service model of AmeriCorps to provide five key services to low-income students who have the potential to go to college, but will struggle to do so without help. It provides intensive ACT/SAT preparation, assists college application, gives financial aid consulting, provides guidance in the transition to college and offers support towards completion of their college degree.
GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen
The GSK New Citizen Health Care Project is an innovative 100-square metre urban centre designed to integrate migrant populations into city life through the delivery of community health promotion, healthcare education and health services.
Launched in 2009 in Sanlin Town, Shanghai, the centre is largely operated by professionals and volunteers from migrant farming families. It was established as a long-term and sustainable platform to build community support networks, promote positive behaviour transformation, and improve targeted community health. The centre organizes training, workshops, family activities and on-site services to assist migrant workers to adapt to city life and become more involved in urban society.
JCDecaux - Velib'
The Velib' project, launched by JCDecaux, put cycling at the heart of urban mobility, making self-service bicycle systems an important complement to public transport. The concept is based on three core principles; developing a system that is easy to use, available everywhere and affordable.
Velib' enables individuals to hire a self-service bicycle for an indefinite time and leave it in the station of their choice at the end of their journey. The scale, quality and scope of Velib' made it a showcase for bicycle hire schemes and has been replicated worldwide.
2012 FT/Citi Ingenuity Award category finalists:
Abhyas Trust - Power of Seeing, India
Asociacion Aprendo Contigo, Peru
City of Dubrovnik - Educational Vertical, Croatia
College Possible, United States
Sustainable Cities Initiative, United States
City of Houston - Green Office Challenge, United States
Community Cooker Foundation, Kenya
Proterra, United States
The Energy and Resources Institute, India
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Japan
Child Eye Care Charitable Trust, India
GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen, China
Pro Mujer, Nicaragua
Protect Your Child, Egypt
Bitcarrier, Spain
Ikhayalami, South Africa
JCDecaux - Velib', France
ORE Design + Technology, United States
For further information, please contact:
Ryann Gastwirth
Financial Times
E: [email protected]
Liz Fogarty
Kristina Eriksson
Financial Times
E: [email protected]
About the Financial Times:
The Financial Times, one of the world's leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of more than 600,000 (Deloitte assured, Q3 2012) and a combined print and online average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide (PwC assured, May 2012). FT.com has more than 5 million registered users and over 312,000 paying digital subscribers. The newspaper has a global print circulation of 293,326 (ABCs, October 2012).
About Citi:
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://new.citi.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi
About Citi for Cities:
Citi for Cities is an initiative that harnesses the best of Citi across the globe to enable cities to become more efficient, by providing financing that facilitates commerce and modernization, and by empowering citizens to access services that enhance liveability and prosperity. Citi aims to help cities achieve their ambitions across the key ecosystems that power a city including administration, roads and transit, ports of entry, energy and utilities, workplace and education, health and safety and regeneration and development. Citi's span of engagement with cities includes public and private sectors, the financial sector and citizens and the communities in which they live. For more information, please visit www.citiforcities.com.
About the FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards
More than half of the world's population lives in cities today, a number which is expected to rise in the decades ahead. As a result, cities have a pressing need to address the challenges of urbanisation and find solutions that modernise infrastructure, improve efficiency, enhance quality of life and foster sustainable growth and development.
The FT/Citi Ingenuity Awards: Urban Ideas in Action, a global programme sponsored by Citi, was developed to recognise leaders, teams, organisations and community groups that have developed groundbreaking solutions to urban challenges that benefit cities, citizens and urban communities in the fields of education, energy, healthcare and infrastructure.
Criteria and metrics for the Awards were developed by INSEAD, one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools. All entries were reviewed by the FT and INSEAD for qualification. As sponsor, Citi did not review or judge submissions.
Submissions were reviewed based on a range of criteria, including originality, impact, efficiency and outcomes.
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