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Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, has lived up to his name again. Three minutes after he left an election rally in the northern city of Gombe on Monday, a suicide bomber blew herself up in the nearby parking lot. "The president had just passed the parking lot and we were trailing behind his convoy when the explosion happened," said a local witness, Mohammed Bolari. But Jonathan's luck held.
His rival for the presidency in the election on 14 February, former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari, also has his share of luck. Last July he barely escaped an assassination attempt in the northern city of Kaduna. As in Jonathan's case, the attack was almost certainly mounted by Boko Haram, the self-proclaimed affiliate of "Islamic State" that now rules an area about the size of Belgium in north-eastern Nigeria.
"A fast moving vehicle made many attempts to overtake my security car but was blocked by my escort vehicle," Buhari said after the attack. "We reached the market area of Kawo where he took advantage of our slowing down and attempted to ram my car and instantly detonated the bomb which destroyed all three cars in our convoy." But he too survived.
Good luck for them, but it's not so easy to say that it was lucky for Nigeria. Africa's most populous country by far (180 million people) has a long history of dreadful presidents, but these two both rank quite high in that list.
Buhari has been president before. After a lengthy period of military rule, Nigeria got an elected civilian president in 1979 – who unfortunately proved to be spectacularly corrupt and incompetent. So in 1984 General Buhari seized power and imposed military discipline on the nation. The military then stayed in power for another fifteen years – but Buhari lasted only twenty months.
He jailed hundreds of politicians, officials and businessmen for corruption. Most were probably guilty, but he didn't bother with proof. As part of his "War on Indiscipline", he ordered Nigerians to form neat queues at bus stops, and sent whip-wielding soldiers to enforce the order. Civil servants who were late for work were publicly humiliated by being forced to do frog jumps.
So Buhari was overthrown by another general after only twenty months – but as soon as democracy returned in 1999, he began his campaign to return to the presidency. Every four years he runs again, and this time he might even make it. That's partly because the four main opposition finally united and made him their candidate, but it's also because Goodluck Jonathan is such a hopeless case.
Jonathan is clearly intelligent – he has a PhD in zoology – but he has a reputation as unimaginative, unambitious man who rose to the presidency almost by accident. He was a humble environmental officer for the Niger Delta Development Commission when the governor of his home state, Bayelsa, chose him as his deputy. Then the governor went to prison for corruption, and Jonathan became governor.
From there he was picked as a safe running mate for President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, a Muslim northerner who needed a Christian southerner (but not a potential rival) to balance the ticket. Then Yar'Adua died, and Jonathan became president of Nigeria. By accident, so to speak.
That was six years ago, however, and Jonathan ran in his own name in 2011. Now he's seeking a second term as president, so we can forget the bit about his not being ambitious. Unfortunately, it's not so easy to dismiss the claim that he is inept, inert and unimaginative, and that most of the people around him are corrupt and very greedy.
When 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria last April, it took Jonathan forty days even to mention the incident. Ten thousand Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram in the past year, but he didn't even mention the organisation's name in the speech launching his reelection campaign.
Nigeria's defence budget is $4 billion, but the soldiers fighting Boko Haram are less well equipped than the rebels, and often lack food, ammunition or even decent uniforms. The north-east's biggest city, Maiduguri (pop. 2 million) is under attack by Boko Haram and could fall any day.
When the governor of the central bank, Lamido Sanusi, pointed out last year that $20 billion had gone missing from the state oil company in only 18 months, Jonathan responded by dismissing him from his job. He has been a disaster as president – but would an unrepentant ex-dictator like Buhari be any better? Nigeria deserves a better choice, but the system was not designed to produce that.
"The Nigerian system was designed by colonialists to extract as much as possible and transfer it to (an elite group)," said Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, director of the Lagos-based Centre for Public Policy, in an interview with The Observer. "From time that group changes – first it was colonial masters, then the military, then a select group of citizens. So from that point of view, the government is functioning as it should be."
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 3 and 12. ("A fast…survived"; and "Nigeria's…day")
There's going to be an election in Nigeria in mid-February, and the weird thing is that it's not going to be all about Boko Haram. The Islamist terrorists are now killing people at the rate of at least 500 a month — two 9-11s a year, in a country with half the population of the United States — but most Nigerians seem to regard Boko Haram as just one more problem, and a fairly local one at that.
Up in the three northeastern provinces of the country, where Boko Haram has now declared that it is setting up an Islamic "Caliphate" on the model of ISIS's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, they do care about terrorism. They are also now starting to worry about it more in the rest of the north, where Boko Haram attacked the central mosque in Kano, the biggest northern city, last Friday, and killed at least a hundred people.
But in the rest of the country, the terrorist threat has not really risen to the top of the political agenda. The forthcoming election will not focus on the stunning incompetence and sheer inertia of President Goodluck Jonathan's government in the face of this threat.
Boko Haram's rise to prominence has taken place entirely on Jonathan's watch, and at no time has he shown much interest in fighting it. He spoke out strongly when Boko Haram attacked targets in the capital, Abuja, but did nothing. For the rest, he left the problem to the army and to his northern allies, the feudal emirs who still dominate politics there.
These traditional rulers have managed to hang onto their power because the north's population is more illiterate and far poorer than that of the southern states. In order to justify their wealth and political privilege, the emirs have always stressed their traditional religious roles. So when reformers began to criticize them from a radical Islamic standpoint in the 1990s, they tried to steal the radicals' thunder by bringing in Sharia law right across the north.
That didn't placate the growing Islamist opposition to the rule of the emirs. The opposition turned violent in 2009, with Boko Haram's first attacks, and despite its extreme cruelty it enjoys some support across the north among both pious Muslims and the downtrodden. And the army, as usual, did nothing useful.
Last Friday's attack on the Kano central mosque showed all these cross-currents vividly. The building is on the main square right next door to the palace of the emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi II, who frequently preaches in the mosque. Naturally, he always exhorts the populace to resist Boko Haram.
But the emir also urges people not to depend on the army, because it is useless. They should organize to defend themselves, for the soldiers cannot be trusted to protect them. "If people flee the villages (because the army hasn't come)," he said, "the terrorists slaughter our male children and abduct our girls to force them into slavery."
The Nigerian army is widely accused of corruption, brutality, and even cowardice. It rarely takes the fight to Boko Haram directly, but it often fires on the crowds who gather after terrorist attacks to protest at the government's failure to protect them. Nigerian army troops did that again outside the Kano central mosque last week, and nobody even bothered to express their outrage. Nobody was surprised.
This is how almost all of Borno state except the capital, Maiduguri, has slipped out of government control. So have large parts of neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa states, and Maiduguri itself, a city of two million, may fall before the election.
In these circumstances, you would expect the federal government, and especially President Goodluck Jonathan, to be under constant attack for having failed to act decisively against Boko Haram, but nothing of the sort.
When the four biggest opposition parties united two years ago to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), they gave Jonathan's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) its first serious opposition since democracy was established in 1999. But the APC's charms have faded as the election nears. It attracted lots of prominent defectors from the PDP at first, but those new recruits brought their old reputation for corruption with them.
It is this new struggle for power at the centre, not the ugly and alarming developments in the far northeast, that monopolizes the attention of the political class, for the outcome of the February election matters greatly for them. It will decide who gets their snouts in the trough for the next four years.
Voters' expectations are so low that they are not even shocked by the quite plausible accusation that Jonathan has failed to fight hard against Boko Haram because the three northeastern states would probably vote against the PDP in the next election. Whereas if there is enough chaos in the northeast, the election will be cancelled in those states.
And so the band plays on, as Nigeria drifts towards civil war and disintegration.
A coalition of imams and organisations representing British Muslims has written Prime Minister David Cameron asking him to stop using the phrase "Islamic State"when talking about the new country carved out of Iraq and Syria by Islamist terrorists. That's what Abu Baqr al Baghdadi, who has proclaimed himself "the caliph of all Muslims and the prince of the believers," calls his newly conquered territory, but it's giving ordinary Muslims a bad name.
The British Muslim leaders declared that "the media, civic society and governments should refuse to legitimise these ludicrous caliphate fantasies by accepting or propagating this name. We propose that "UnIslamic State" (UIS) could be an accurate and fair alternate name to describe this group and its agenda – and we will begin to call it that."
Good luck with that. But meanwhile two more "UnIslamic States" are being created right now, on Libyan and Nigerian territory: same black flags, same fanaticism and cruelty, even the same ski masks. (It's a fashion statement.)
The city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, has more than two million people. It is surrounded by the forces of Boko Haram – the name roughly translates as "Western education is forbidden" – and most of the rest of Borno has already fallen under their rule. In fact, the whole north-eastern corner of Nigeria is passing out of the government's control.
"At this very moment," Alhaji Baba Ahmad Jidda, the secretary to the Borno state government, told The Independent newspaper last week, "most parts of Borno state are being occupied by Boko Haram insurgents. Government presence and administration is minimal, with economic, commercial and social services totally subdued. Schools and clinics remain closed."
Boko Haram's ultimate goal was the imposition of an Islamic state in Nigeria ever since it began active operations in 2009. It was in touch with al-Qaeda from the start, and later with the jihadi groups in Syria that subsequently turned into ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and finally into the "Islamic State" that now spans those two countries.
Only the northern half of Nigeria's population is Muslim, so that was where Boko Haram's murders and abductions were concentrated, although it also carried out terrorist bombings in the Christian parts of the country. 3,600 people were killed in these attacks in the four years to 2013, but then there was a major acceleration: 2,000 more people have been killed in just the first half of this year.
From about mid-July, Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau also changed tactics: instead of hit-and-run raids, he started to take and hold territory. In August, after his fighters captured the town of Gwoza in Borno, he released a video declaring that the area was "now part of the Islamic Caliphate." He now rules over about three million people in northeastern Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon.
The Nigerian army rarely stands up to Boko Haram's fighters. Like the Iraqi army, which ran from far smaller numbers of ISIS troops, it is corrupt and badly equipped, but it is also deeply penetrated by Boko Haram sympathisers: last June fifteen senior military officers were found guilty by court martial of passing arms and information to Boko Haram. So Abubakar Shekau may end up ruling much of northern Nigeria.
Libya is considerably further down the same track. A civil war broke out between the various militias left over from the 2011 campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, the former dictator, shortly after the June election that might – just might – have produced a government that would try to disarm those militias. It has got so bad that almost a third of the Libya's population, 1.8 million people, has fled the country, mostly seeking shelter in Tunisia.
The real divisions between these warring militias are regional and tribal, but a number of them have adopted extreme Islamist ideologies, partly because it guarantees a flow of arms and money from certain governments in the Gulf. These Islamist militias have emerged as the winners both in the savage fighting in western Libya around the capital, Tripoli, and also in the other major city, Benghazi, in the east.
In fact, Islamist militias with ISIS-style ideologies now control every city along the Libyan coast except Tobruk, a short distance from the Egyptian border. That is where the new parliament elected in June has taken refuge, and the parliament's members are living on a hired Greek car ferry that is serving as a floating hotel. The front line starts just west of town – and the next town along the coast, Derna, has been declared an Islamic caliphate.
A lot of this is just ideological fashion, of course. The various "caliphates" are in touch with one another, after a fashion, but there is no master plan. However, the results are truly nasty both in Nigeria and in Libya – and the risk of over-reaction by those who feel threatened by these developments, especially in the West, is quite large.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 5 and 9. ("At…closed"; and "The Nigerian…Nigeria")
26 March 2014
Nigeria: Is 100 Years Enough?
The reason they convened a National Conference to discuss Nigeria's future last week is that it's the hundredth anniversary of the unification of the northern and southern protectorates into one nation. Well, one colony, actually, since the whole place would remain under British rule for another half-century. And the one subject the delegates are banned from discussing is whether unification was really such a good idea.
It was an excellent idea from the viewpoint of the British colonial administrators, of course. Not only was it tidier, but it crippled resistance to British rule. When you force five hundred different ethnic groups with as many languages into a single political entity, they will spend more time fighting one another than the foreigners. (Even Nigeria's name was invented by the British.)
A century later, the country is still riven by ethnic and religious divisions that distort both its politics and its economy. Nigeria is one of the world's biggest oil producers, but two-thirds of its 170 million people live on less than $2 a day and even the big cities only get electricity four hours a day. It ranks 144th on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, which means in practice that most public funds are stolen.
In the mainly Muslim north, an extremist Islamic insurgency by a group called Boko Haram ("Western Education is Forbidden") killed more than 1,300 people in the first two months of this year. Or rather, they and the brutal and incompetent army units who respond to their attacks with indiscriminate violence together accounted for 1,300 lives.
And when Lamido Sanusi, the internationally respected head of Nigeria's central bank, accused the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to repatriate $20 billion of the $67 billion received for oil sales between January 2012 and July 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan suspended him for "financial recklessness and misconduct."
"Failing to repatriate" actually means that the money stayed abroad and disappeared into the foreign bank accounts of powerful Nigerians. This is normal: it has been estimated that two-thirds of the $600 billion that Nigeria has earned in the past fifty years from selling its oil was lost to corruption by the political and business elite. What was unusual was for a member of the elite to challenge the practice openly.
Sanusi, who was named Central Bank Governor of the Year in 2010 by Banker magazine, was promptly accused of links to Boko Haram in a document circulated to Nigerian websites that was traced back to President Jonathan's social media adviser. It was a typical establishment response, and it was total nonsense. But a depressing number of southern Nigerians will believe almost anything about Sanusi simply because he is a northern Muslim.
He is actually a member of the northern aristocracy – his grandfather was the emir of Kano – and an Islamic scholar who condemns Wahhabist fundamentalism. He is one of Nigeria's foremost advocates of a tolerant, inclusive Islam: "Even a cursory student of Islamic history knows that all the trappings of gender inequality present in the Muslim society have socio-economic and cultural, as opposed to religious roots," he said recently.
Yet the mistrust between Muslims and Christans, northerners and southerners, is so great that Sanusi's whistle-blowing is seen by many southerners as a political operation aimed at the Christian president. They believe this even though they also know that the money really was stolen by people at the NNPC, and that Goodluck Jonathan is protecting them because some of it was going to be used to finance his re-election campaign next year.
And why does Jonathan need so much money? To buy the support of the northern power-brokers, who will then deliver the votes to keep him in the presidency. Then he will be able to go on protecting his friends. It's a closed system, and it's making Sanusi more radical by the moment.
Recently he told the Guardian: "If the population as a whole starts protesting what is going on in our country, how many of them can they kill?" He added that the ousted leaders of Ukraine and the Arab spring nations "never did half as much damage to their countries as our rulers have."
But Sanusi is unlikely to bring the system down. That is why, at the National Conference on Nigeria's future that meets in Abuja over the next three months, some people will certainly defy the ban and start talking about re-dividing Nigeria between north and south. They will mostly be southerners, who resent the large amounts of oil income that the federal government transfers to the northern states that desperately need the money.
Northerners will fiercely resist the idea of partition because they would be left running a country only slightly better off than Mali. (Despite the transfers of oil revenue, 72 percent of the population in the North lives in poverty; in the South, only 27 percent does.) And in the end, nothing will happen, because cutting off the North would spoil the game.
Nigeria is unquestionably the most dysfunctional large country in the world, but it will hang together because all the elites benefit from the dysfunction, which allows them to steal massive amounts with complete impunity. Indeed, you might say that Nigeria survives because it is dysfunctional.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 2, 6 and 11. ("It was…British"; "Failing…openly"; and "Recently…have")


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A study suggests that the virus may not be evolving as quickly as a previous group estimated.
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A study suggests that the virus may not be evolving as quickly as a previous group estimated.
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A researcher challenges the UK government's conclusion that neonicotinoids aren't that bad for pollinators.
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Researchers perform whole-genome sequencing on roughly 1 percent of the Icelandic population.
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Latest analysis suggests the yeti is a known bear species, not the new, hybrid species suggested by a previous study.
March 12, 2015|
The personal genomics firm announces plans to make medicines.
March 5, 2015|
If passed, Republican-led efforts to change the US Environmental Protection Agency's handling of science may never make it past the President's desk.
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Ocean animals have been getting bigger over the millennia, according to an analysis of thousands of genera that have plied Earth's seas since the Cambrian Period.
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The US Food and Drug Administration will allow the personal genomics company to resume a disease-risk analysis.
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Apples genetically modified to resist browning can be commercially planted in the U.S., the government ruled last week.
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Researchers working in China have unearthed the fossil remains of two diminutive mammals that speak volumes about faunal diversity during the Jurassic Period.


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Sam Simon, Executive Producer on 'The Simpsons,' Dies at 59
The longtime TV writer, producer, director and 'The Simpsons' co-developer succumbs to cancer on Sunday, March 8, 2015.
DUCK Signs Aatma Studio
San Francisco-based broadcast and interactive media studio joins Los Angeles-based DUCK Studio's directing roster.
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Alex McDowell
Alex McDowell, world-building expert and Professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, discusses world building, film and animation production design, and more as part of AWN's series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
World Famous Animates New Comedy Central Series, 'Pixelheads'
Creative collective collaborates with Comedy Central on its new animated series, 'Pixelheads,' with gameplay from Divekick, award-winning games from Electronic Arts, and the voices of comedians Steve Agee, H Michael Croner and Rich Fulcher, among others.
English Voice Cast and U.S. Release Dates Set for Studio Ghibli's 'Marnie Was Here'
Kevin Aratari Joins Troika
Former mOcean exec to oversee sales and marketing and help spearhead new business development and thought leadership initiatives.
Valerie Petrusson Named President of Beast
Post production industry veteran will be responsible for overseeing creative editorial company's seven offices across New York, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and Austin.
PipelineFX's Qube! Releases Autodesk VRED Job Type
Artist workstation batch render support extends ability to optimize render farm manager's path to visualization software.
Breakthrough Ent. Appoints New Distribution VP
Industry veteran Craig McGillivray rejoins Toronto-based production and distribution company in a senior-level role focused on international sales and programming acquisitions.
The Fred Rogers Co. Producing Second Season of 'Peg + Cat'
Twenty-five all-new math-infused episodes -- including a musical one-hour special – of Emmy-winning preschool hit set to roll out starting Spring 2016.
Red Giant Introduces New Volume Licensing Program
Designed for organizations with multiple artists, workstations and facilities, new program features easy-to-manage floating license model for world-class motion graphics and visual effects plug-ins.
Innovation Crush: Hugh Forrest – SXSW: From Austin to Awesome
Hugh describes the perseverance, support, and vision it has taken the festival to achieve such phenomenal success.
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis, actor, director and producer, discusses his pioneering performance capture work in roles like Gollum, Caesar, and more as part of AWN's series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
Director Jeff Hale Passes at Age 92
Animation director Jeff Hale, whose half century of work included the controversial Lenny Bruce short 'Thank You Mask Man,' has died.
Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' Gets Animation Treatment on Instagram
Animator Sascha Ciezata releases a multimedia graphic novel based on Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' with daily episodes on Instagram.
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Carl Rosendahl
Carl Rosendahl, PDI Co-founder and Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, discusses the founding of pioneering CG studio PDI, the industry's ongoing economic volatility, and more as part of AWN's series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
New Poster Unveiled for Annecy 2015
Regina Pessoa, director of the award-winning 'Tragic Story with Happy Ending,' designs the poster for Annecy 2015 with a focus on women and history.
Nathan Love Signs Motion Design Duo Native to Noise
New York City-based directorial duo's unique style combines vector art, animation and mixed media, and has resulted in work with Google, UPS, CNN and AstraZeneca.
Torill Kove's 'Me and My Moulton' Wins Canadian Screen Award
Five NFB films honored at 2015 Canadian Screen Awards, recognizing excellence in film, television and digital media.
One Animation Launches 'Oddbods,' Expands Biz Dev Team
New sketch-based CG-animated comedy series lands on Disney XD in the U.S. and the popular PTDR cartoon slot on the Canal+ Kids channel Télétoon+ in France.
2015 CG Student Awards Issues Call for Entries
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Film London Spotlights Local Animation Scene with U.S. Execs
In an effort to encourage international co-production, representatives from FreemantleMedia Enterprises, Marvel Television, Cinema Management Group, Tricon Kids and PBS travel to the British capital in a three-day "familiarization" trip.
Animation and VFX Spring 2015 Movie Preview
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Sustainable seafood
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Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
After years of seemingly failed government attempts to halt the world fisheries crisis, in 1996 WWF together with Unilever, one of the world's biggest buyers of frozen fish, successfully established the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to change the way fish are caught, marketed and bought.
Now an independent, non-profit organization, the MSC works with fisheries, retailers, and other stakeholders to identify, certify, and promote responsible, environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable fishing practices around the world.
New standards
To fulfill this ambitious task, the MSC developed a standard for assessing and certifying fisheries. This standard - known as the MSC Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing - is the only internationally recognized set of environmental principles to assess whether a fishery is well managed and sustainable. It is based on the best scientific data and the latest knowledge about the marine environment, and was developed in conjunction with relevant stakeholders in a two-year global consultation process.
Only products from fisheries assessed by independent certifiers as meeting the standard are able to use the MSC logo on their products. For the first time, this gives consumers a way to identify - and the choice to purchase - fish and other seafood from well-managed sources.
A good idea is now becoming reality
The MSC is witnessing increasing support from retailers, governments, non-governmental organizations, conservationists and the fishing industry. Over 100 fisheries around the world are now certified, representing over 7% of global wild fisheries production for human consumption.
Over 100 major seafood buyers have pledged to purchase MSC-certified seafood products, including large supermarket chains in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the US.
Today, more than 10,000 MSC-certified fish products on sale in 40 countries - ranging from fresh, frozen, smoked, and canned fish to fish oil dietary supplements.
WWF: New enhanced US action against illegal fishing to support the EU to close its doors to black markets
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Spanish government opens proceedings against alleged pirates
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Nature is the 300+ billion euro investment plan to kick-start Europe
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From crisis to opportunities: five steps to European Sustainable Economies
This report presents WWF's analysis and recommendations on why and how Europe1 should shift to sustainable economies, boldly and rapidly.
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In the Darkroom Cookbook (pp. 40-41), Steve Anchell suggests that 250 ml of undiluted developer is the bare minimum to develop 80x80 inches of film (e.g., 1 roll of 36 exp. 35mm),
I appreciate comments and advice. Thanks!
I believe you mean 80 square inches of film (1x80) not 80x80, which would equal 80 rolls of 135x36 film. The rest is what Kodak recommends as well.
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Hi friends,I have a HP Probook 4540s (VGA: 7650, 2 gig). There's some drivers in AMD's website like Catalyst 13.10 that can run games more better like this game: Splinter cell blacklist. There's a driver in HP's website (about 500 MB) that I know the instruction of installation of it but I don't know how can I install AMD's driver (about 150 MB ) (People who installed this new driver run that game in high mode without AA filter 20 frames per second but I run the game in medium mode without AA with 20 frames per second splinter cell:BL )
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Propaganda About Concealed Carry on Campus
Should legally armed men and women who peacefully carry their private firearms everywhere else the law allows.. be barred from college property?
That is a good question, but it isn't the question that anti-rights advocates want to ask. It isn't even close. The way you twist the question often determines the answer.
The anti-rights advocates want to phrase the question like this-
Should the pimply-faced delinquent who went off to college and got stoned the first time he was away from home.. be given a gun to play with at school?
Choose from the following-
Yes (are you crazy, guess again)
That was my sample question. Now that you know how the propaganda game is played, here is another bait-and-switch question to test you.
"Why shouldn't we ban guns on campus?"
Do you see the hidden assumptions? We don't really keep guns off campus any more than we stop drugs, robbery, or rape on campus. We only prohibit them.. as if drugs, robbery and sexual assault weren't already against the law.
Now that I've sensitized you to the propaganda of false alternatives, listen carefully to the next gun-ban argument you hear and see if I exaggerated. When you do, please keep these facts in mind.
-Licensed concealed carry holders are over 21 years old and have no criminal history.
-They carry almost everywhere else.
-Concealed carry holders are less violent and more law abiding than the police.
-The seven states which allow campus carry saw a drop in crime on campus.
Those are facts rather than hypothetical speculation. Too bad the gun-ban groups forgot to mention them.
So I'm asking you, why do we want to disarm the truck driver who delivers to the college cafeteria.. or the mom who takes her child to the campus clinic?
Why will firearms prohibition on campus succeed where drug and alcohol prohibition failed?
You have 10 minutes to complete your answer. Cite your sources from the materials covered in class. ;-)
It is Easy to Stop Illegal Immigration
Democrats have run the economy into the ground. Now they are offering free citizenship to immigrants in a desperate search for votes. That is easy to stop.
People cross our border illegally. They jump the fence, where we bothered to put up a fence, for several reasons. Money is the largest. Illegal immigrants come here to work. They also come here to use our welfare system. They come here to give their children American citizenship and to give their children an American education. Each situation is easy to correct.
Illegals cross the border for jobs. Companies pay illegals less than they pay American citizens to do the same work. Sometimes the employment is recorded, and sometimes the illegals are paid under the table. Almost always, employers claim the wages they pay to illegals as a cost of doing business. That means the wages are a deduction from income for the company.
A presidential executive order simply has to say that paying illegals is.. illegal. The executive order says a company can not benefit or receive tax credit for a known illegal act.. an illegal like paying an illegal immigrant. That means every dollar paid to illegals becomes taxable company income rather than an expense. The company is taxed for wages, benefits, social security and Obamacare payments paid to illegals. The job market for illegals will be gone the next day.. if we had a president who wanted to stop illegal immigration. Stopping illegal immigration is easy to do. Unfortunately, many politicians don't want to stop it.
Before we go on and discuss the other incentives for illegals to jump the queue and the border fence, let's talk about the politician's incentives as well.
The magic of politics is to concentrate benefits and diffuse the costs. I'm going to say that another way because it is such a powerful and important idea. A politician wants to concentrate the benefits of a law onto a small group of beneficiaries, and the politician wants to distribute the costs across as many citizens as possible. Now let's look at illegals and jobs.
Illegals benefit by getting jobs they couldn't get in their home country. They wouldn't need to support any politician in the United States if they entered the country legally. The illegals and their supporters favor a politician with votes or donations only as long as their immigration situation is in doubt and their jobs can be bought with votes. The illegal lobby doesn't need to support a politician once the illegals have a right to live and work here. The politician has nothing to offer them at that point. That explains why we've had an incomplete immigration policy since 1985. Politicians benefitted by a leaky border.
Some businesses benefit as well. The business can benefit by paying sub-standard wages to illegals. The illegals will accept sub-standard wages because the illegals can not freely compete in the open labor market here in the United States. The businesses benefit in two ways. The businesses benefit as long as there are illegals who work for sub-standard wages. The businesses also benefit from an open border policy that floods the job market with workers, be they legal or illegal. In both cases, businesses pay lower wages and earn higher profits. That is why businesses pay huge political donations to keep our borders open.
These political payoffs stop when the border is closed and the illegals can't get jobs. That explains why we've had an incomplete immigration policy since 1985.
Illegals and some businesses benefit from illegal immigration. Illegals and their advocacy groups pay politicians. Businesses also pay politicians. The average citizen pays the cost with lower wages and higher taxes. The benefits are concentrated and the costs of open borders immigration are widely distributed.. as I talked about earlier. That explains why we've had an incomplete immigration policy since 1985. Politicians will keep the border open as long as we let them.
How long is that?
We'll talk about welfare and corruption next time.
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Let's Put Reason into Marriage
"Let's get the government out of marriage?"
You've heard that catchphrase. The headline works. It grabs your attention and it sounds appealing. The phrase is easy to remember. It is also an easy phrase to use when you want to end debate. Too bad the phrase doesn't work in the real world. Let's get some reason into the marriage debate.
The government has done a bad job with marriage. Divorce law and family law is a mess. You and I want the government out of marriage so we have more freedom to honor the commitment of marriage. We don't want a government bureaucrat in our bedroom. We don't want the IRS in our bedroom anymore than we want the IRS in.. say.. in our doctor's office. Let's look at what a government-free marriage really means and why some people want it.
Today, getting the government out of marriage also gets the contract out of marriage. Businesses need contracts so people keep their word. Marriage needs people to keep their word too. A free society can't survive without it. When we look back, we see that marriage pre-dates society. That may come as a shock to some young people, but the reception party after your marriage and the stunning bridal gown are recent inventions. Those modern artifacts are not the purpose of marriage. For thousands of years, marriage is how working societies connected fathers to mothers.. and fathers to their children. Marrying couples together is essential to a free society. Those obligations are the essential public purpose of marriage. Everything else.. from the flowers to co-insurance from your employer.. everything else is a private purpose of marriage.
The public purpose of marriage is important. Intact functional families keep government small. We asked for more freedom, but we see that government grows whenever a marriage fails. Government grows to take care of abandoned children. Government grows to subsidize single parents. Government grows to enforce a divorce decree. Government grows for humanitarian reasons to clean up the broken promises, the broken homes and broken children from a failed marriage. Things get worse from there. Government continues to grow for political reasons.. to turn these vulnerable dependents into a permanently dependable voting bloc. Freedom shrinks when marriage fails.
Intact families teach children to govern themselves. That is essential for a free society. Marriage does that and no other institution comes close to matching its performance. Not government and social workers. Not midnight basketball and subsidized tutors. Government expands again when broken children from broken homes grow to be broken adults.
Some people are willing to break society as they seek affirmation for their "non-conventional marriage". Any society that doesn't support their sexual activities deserves to die.. or so they say. I disagree. I think the people attacking marriage seek affirmation for themselves. My motivation is different. I want marriage so families thrive in freedom.
Should we ever get the government out of marriage? We could, but today, government won't allow it. Instead, what politicians want to do is dictate the terms of marriage and sell "marriage" to their favorite political donors.
Look at the libertarian ideal of marriage without government. We could have contracts without government. The analgy isn't perfect, but marriage, like a contract, is a promise to perform. We need someone to enforce that promise if one of the parties breaks their oath. That institution used to be the church. These days, politicians won't let the church have the power to enforce marriage. Politicians won't let the church grant a divorce or enforce a divorce decree. Politicians won't let a private arbitrator do it either. Politicians want to keep that power for themselves.
How much power are we talking about? We have to let the church garnish your wages because you signed and broke a marriage contract. We have to let the church collect your tax refund and seize property if you renege on your promise. Can you see any politician returning that control to the people? I have not seen it. I'd like to.
Politicians poisoned marriage instead of letting it grow. Politicians gave us unilateral divorce. The divorce rate soared with one-sided divorce. If marriage is a contract, then the government said that either party could get out of the marriage contract any time they wanted and with no questions asked. The results were predicable.. and predicted.
Before we get the government out of marriage, we have to understand that some people want life long married love.. and some don't. Some people want to have sex and run away with the next man or woman they think offers them something better. These run around lovers are happy to leave their abandoned spouse and children in the care of the state. That is how government grows.
Disposable marriage isn't fair to children. I've been there and seen that as a foster parent. Disposable marriage isn't fair for the rest of society either.
There is more going on behind the scenes. Getting government out of marriage is a code phrase for letting politicians establish protected classes. These legally protected classes are based on sexual orientation and justified by "fairness". Big government advocates love it. I don't like it because government grows and freedom shrinks once we redefine marriage.
In the libertarian ideal, the utopia ends with the government out of marriage. That is not where liberty begins today. We have to radically downsize government as a first step. We need to create the social institutions that support marriage before we get the government out of the marriage business.
Have at it. It is a worthy goal. Start with the family courts and tell me how it goes.
Thanks to Steve Pauwels for the inspiration for this article. It first appeared at Clash Daily.
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Why the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Didn't Outlaw Your Ammunition This Week
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms claimed the most popular rifle cartridge in the US was illegal. That was a huge power grab by the Obama administration. That claim required the ATF to reinterpret its long standing rules. And why not. There is no one to stop President Obama if he pressed forward with an illegal presidential finding. Certainly the republican senators or congressmen will not stop President Obama. That leaves me wondering .. who stopped the latest gun grab?
Republicans said they might do.. something. That is a hollow threat. Remember this is the legislature lead by Representative John Bonner and Senator Mitch McConnell.. Messeurs Spineless and Chinless. These are the same RINO politicians who voted for Obamacare and supported open borders immigration while they were in the legislative majority. They could never find the courage to defund the ATF. Obama set the groundwork to outlaw rifle ammunition in the US.. and a few Republicans wrote a sternly worded letter in reply.
The republicans are posturing politicians and the Obama administration knows it.
This proposed ammunition ban by the ATF opened the door to outlaw all civilian rifle ammunition. That door remains open. The director of the ATF, B. Todd Jones, said all 5.56 ammunition is a threat to law enforcement. So is most rifle ammunition in general. We should not be surprised by the ATF Director's comment. The sentiment comes directly from the community organizer we elected as president. So what stopped the ATF?
The ammunition grab didn't go as planned. The Obama administration assumed the news media would offer unquestioning support. Instead, the news media actually reported the ammunition grab.. as news. That is amazing. I was as shocked as the Obama administration must have been.
The media actually reported the news and what it meant to American firearms owners. Suddenly, the Obama ammunition ban became politically dangerous for the ATF. Their action could galvanize America's 100 million gun owners into opposition. Yes, even the gun owning old Fudds who think they are immune from politics could wake up. Gun owners, that sleeping mass of Americans, might wake up and realize that Obama wants to take their guns after all. Those "non-political" gun owners are a giant the ATF wants to leave alone. The ATF wants that giant to sleep soundly.. at least through the next election. Another 10 million members of the NRA could change an election. The Obama administration didn't want to risk that.
The ammunition ban almost woke up the gun owners of the United States. This ammunition ban almost drove American gun owners to join the National Rifle Association, the Gun Owners of America, and the Second Amendment Foundation. I say almost.
The gun groups were ready to beat the drum and expand their membership. The gun groups ran commercials asking people to join them. The political masters at the ATF do not want to politicize and activate the 100 million gun owners in America. So who stopped the ATF ammunition grab?
We did!
The ammunition ban isn't over. The ATF will wait until a cop is shot with a rifle.. even if they have to sell the rifle to the criminal. Then the ATF will return to the main stream media with fresh talking points in hand and propose an ammunition ban. Count on it.
What should we do? How can the average Joe and Jane support liberty? I'm sorry, but it is not by giving money to the Republican Party and its RINOs. Wake up, America. Join the National Rifle Association, the Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation. They support liberty and protect our rights.. even when Republican's don't.
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Trattoria al Forno Opens on Disney's Boardwalk
Jeremiah sits down for dinner at Trattoria al Forno.
Characters In Flight and Disney Springs From the Air!
Jeremiah take a birds eye view of Downtown Disney including a look at the recently opened bridge that connects the Marketplace to Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa
A Walk Around Disney' Polynesian Village Resort
Jeremiah takes a walk around Disney's Polynesian Village Resort to give us a look at the most recent changes.
Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Update
Jeremiah take a look at the current state of the Polynesian Hotel as it goes through a transformation as it adds Disney Vacation Club units.


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I bought these for a roofdeck in a beach front condo, the tiles look fantastic! It gives the whole space a "zen garden" type of feelings. They were very easy to install and I've purchased more for my other patio areas.Read More
Unfinished Edges???
Unless I'm missing something, like a set of edging tiles, these look unfinished... Am I expected to cut off the interlocking holes along the edge? Otherwise, they're beautiful! The teak feels soft, unlike any other wood. I compared other teak shower mats and could not get one as big as this set connects to be, and these are a much cheaper option at almost half the price of a 20x40 solid mat I found elsewhere. Still, what to do about the edges???Read More
Wonderful and versatile product
I ordered this product for flooring over a gravel grate drain in an outdoor pool shower. The teak tile looks great, and is very good quality. The interlocking system was simple, and takes only a couple moments to connect the entire floor. Overall, a wonderful product that I highly recommend. I liked it so much, I have already ordered more. The only thing I would like to see is a straight slat tile product, as well as the design tile product for additional uses and style.Read More
My deck was coated with fiberglass and looked unfinished. The tiles were fun to install and turned the deck into a detailed masterpiece. We've had several heavy rainstorms and the tiles look great, have stayed in place and have not warped.Read More
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Hello, tata4811. Unfortunately, that item has gone out of stock. Thanks for making us a part of your day! l.b.
How does 10 tiles cover 10 square feet?
Hello junel1025, Each tile covers one square foot. Please let us know if you need additional assistance. I hope this helps, thanks for shopping with us.
border or edging? for spiral teak deck tiles?
Hello maxbcollie, You would need to purchase corner and side trims to give your deck or patio a finished look. Please use our Search function to find item number 16057038.Thanks for shopping with us!
I would like to use this for my kitchen floor. Can it be grouted? Is it ok to use as a kitchen floor?
Hello lucca11,It's possible to use it, but it isn't really designed for kitchen use. We don't recommend the use of grout with these tiles. Thanks for shopping with us!
I have a wooden deck that I would love to cover with teak tiles. The deck of course is not flat and level like a concrete walkway, of course. Is there a way to use the connecting tiles without too much wobbliness?
Hello Le Click Style Spiral Teak Interlocking Deck Tiles (Set of 10), Perfect fit for indoor and outdoor flooring projects. Solid teak wood mounted on PVC layer with stainless screws. Please feel free to contact us again with any further questions. Thank you for shopping with us!
How much weight can this hold, such as patio furniture items?
Hello olmartin, I'm sorry these are not weight tested. Thank you for shopping with us!
I am thinking of laying this over a concret slab. One side is open to dirt/stone walkway. How do you cover the side so it looks finished?
This is what you can do, you can use Le click side trims/corner and end pieces (sold separately) or you may take a chisel and clip off the loops, from the loop side of the tiles. Good luck and thank you for your question.
how often do you have to oil the wood?
Thank you for the question. You will want to oil the flooring at least once a year to restore the luster and a site I researched said twice a year in high traffic areas.
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I have called Tammy Irons again, as well as Jabo Waggoner and Del Marsh (as per the mass email the AHA just sent out). I have also posted on my facebook begging all my friends to call them too!
"Why did you.... what was the point of... how drunk were you when you decided this was a good idea?" - DMartin
Got this email from senator Holtzclaw this afternoon that gives me hope. Especially the fact that he says there is no opposition to this bill. It is as follows:
I apologize for the delay in thanking you for supporting HB354. Im happy to support you and Representative McCutcheon to get this bill passed.
I wont sugarcoat this we are literally down to the wire with one legislative day remaining; Wednesday the 16th of May. This bill has simply come too far to not get its fair shot on the Senate floor. I requested that it be placed on the Special Order Calendar last week but was unable to have it pushed through the log jam of bills.
I have a couple of silver bullets left and will use one this week, hopefully ensuring HB354 is placed on the Calendar. You can visit this page to see what bills are placed on the calendar for next Wednesday - http://www.legislature.state.al.us/senate/senaterules/senaterulescommspecialordercalendar.html
I have also been at work talking with colleagues on both sides of the isle to uncover any opposition and am happy to report that no one has shown any opposition
hopefully that will continue hold true. Wednesday will be a wild and wooly day! Thanks again for your support.
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If we get this through, I think we should have a huge party and invite Mac, Holtzclaw, Irons and the others that have worked for us!
If I am alive I would show up for that, with several cases of homebrew, BUT not more than 15 gallons.
Sounds promising aubie thanks for posting!
I got this email today. Get on the phone Monday and call these guys!
Dear Alabama AHA, BA and Support Your Local Brewery Members,
This is the final opportunity to legalize homebrewing in Alabama this year!
The American Homebrewers Association is working with a group of homebrewers in Alabama to legalize homebrewing in the state.
There is just one day left in the 2012 legislative session that the Alabama Senate can vote on House Bill 354. If it is not brought to a vote, it will die with the end of the session. This is the farthest homebrew legalization legislation has ever come in the state, but the outcome is by no means sure.How Can You Help?
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Senator Jabo Waggoner, Rules Committee Chairperson
Senator Del Marsh, President Pro Tempore
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The firehose that is the social web pumps out thousands of links, articles and potential insights every day and we often find ourselves missing strong, provocative thinking.
This is something we stumbled across in the last 24 hours which is worthy of yanking out of the river and saving (if I was going to stretch the analogy I'd say 'saving in our little Labs lake' but I'm not prepared to say that).
It's a fantastic short piece about the design process at Facebook. Simply called: 'Design at Facebook'. We found it compelling not only because of the insight it provides into the design process of such an important interface as Facebook, but also because it's not about theory, about speculation, about supposition . . . it's about doing.
The four key hypotheses outlined by the author, Luke Wroblewski, are as follows:
1) Designers need to be there start to ship: from strategy to launch. This is different from other companies.
2) Share early and share often. Sharing with the team and users helps make the design better.
3) Get your hands dirty. Important that you understand how Web code works. All designers write a bit of HTML, CSS, and maybe PHP.
4) Don't fall in love. Software is impermanent –it is always changing and you need to accept that.
Resonating with us and challenging us right now are the following additional points Wroblewski makes:
- There is no creative director at Facebook (we find this particularly challenging, and wonder how processes work with the speed they clearly do without the focus that a decision-maker provides).
- There is a culture of continual internal sharing between and across the group, and they utilize software to help this happen more smoothly and inclusively.
- In his view, Designers tend to err on side of over simplicity. Engineers tend to err on side of more functionality.
- The culture sounds exhausting: 'More than ever our work is never done'.
Excellent stuff, plenty for us to learn from. Have a read of the full post at: Design at Facebook.
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