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How does international law contribute to and tackle climate change?
Environmental change and resource scarcity have emerged as existential threats in recent decades. As many environmental problems such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and desertification are global in nature and require cooperation across state borders, international lawyers have attempted to proffer solutions, largely since the early 1970s.
The birth and evolution of the specialised field of international environmental law (IEL) is conventionally narrated as progressing through a series of conferences, beginning with the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment through to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 2002 Johannesburg Conference, leading up the most recent Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012. The embryonic field of IEL[1] has gradually constituted itself through these conferences and many others, as states, non-state actors, scholars, experts, and other interested parties gradually build up a body of treaties, legal principles and concepts to guide international action on environmental issues.
One such concept is that of sustainable development, which has been canonical for IEL since the 1992 Rio Summit when the international community expressed a strong consensus in its favour. Sustainable development calls for development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs"[2]. It places development policy-making within the context of the absorptive capacity of natural ecosystems and recognises the limits of such systems. It places emphasis on not only inter-generational equity but also intra-generational equity by basing itself on three interdependent pillars: economic, social and environmental sustainability.
The recent Rio+20 Conference provided an opportunity to look back and assess IEL's progress and determine to what extent the world has made the paradigm shift from conventional to sustainable development. Global consciousness and concern for environmental issues has grown in recent decades, as has recognition that economic, social and environmental sustainability are linked. However, many of the problems that IEL aimed to address, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification, have worsened[3]. Why has IEL failed? Is international law a useful avenue for solving environmental problems? And if so, how?
Why should African peoples care about these questions? Less developed regions of the world have long been either sceptical or ambivalent about IEL and its usefulness, perceiving IEL as an attempt to ameliorate Western development mistakes at the expense of non-Western development.
Since independence, postcolonial states have sought development in the Western sense, believing it to be the only path out of mass poverty and humiliating financial dependency. At the same time, Western states gradually realised that their understanding of development was causing grave global environmental harm and was unsustainable. Thus, the two dominant strains of argument in IEL have been affluent Western environmentalists calling for global environmental protection, and advocates from poorer regions prioritising poverty eradication and insisting that rich regions should take responsibility for the environmental problems they caused.
i) Common but differentiated responsibilities
IEL concepts such as sustainable development and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities for the global environment attempt to address both concerns by insisting that, firstly, environmental and developmental concerns are inextricably intertwined; second, states that cause the most environmental harm should bear the primary responsibility for solutions; and third, richer states should take the lead and bear a greater burden because of their greater economic and technological capacity.
While these concepts clearly articulate what is needed, more developed states have either not formulated, or not adhered to, a concomitant hierarchy of norms and actions. Thus IEL has failed to eradicate the sense of injustice that poorer regions feel and, on a diversity of issues from species conservation to climate change, IEL is characterised by a deepening divide between the poor and the rich.
ii) Disproportionate suffering
Indeed it is deeply unfair that Africa, which has contributed least to global environmental problems, should have to concern itself with environmental protection at a time when many struggle with accessing the basics of survival such as drinkable water, food and shelter. However, in recent years, international law advocates for the poor have increasingly re-engaged with environmental issues because, just as the rich receive a disproportionate benefit from exploiting nature, the poor bear a disproportionate burden of scarcity, pollution and environmental crises such as climate change. Globally, dominant development patterns coupled with population growth have led to increased resource consumption and pollution and waste, causing both resource scarcity and ecological crises.
As the last remaining pockets of many natural resources exist in poorer parts of the world, and as poorer regions are more vulnerable to ecological crises, IEL is an increasingly strategic site from which vulnerable peoples, and the movements, scholars, and states that represent them, can contest, negotiate, and resist international economic and development paradigms. Today, grassroots social movements are increasingly harnessing environmental issues as an opportune means of challenging fundamental assumptions that underpin capitalism and development[4].
The overriding sustainable development challenge in Africa is poverty eradication,[5] and African states have looked to economic growth for the solution. In the past decade, six African countries were among the world's ten fastest growing economies[6]. The average growth rate was about the same for Africa and Asia and there is a strong likelihood that Africa will surpass Asia's growth rate in the next decade[7]. Yet economic growth in Africa has generated significantly less poverty reduction and social benefits than in other developing regions[8]. It has not created enough jobs and inequality has increased[9]. Africa is the only region in the world where poverty has increased both in absolute and relative terms in the last ten years[10].
iii) Continued cycle of domination
Just as in the past when Africa's rich and diverse natural resources attracted colonial powers, today primary products continue to dominate Africa's export sectors[11]. The value added locally remains minimal compared to the financial gains accruing outside the continent[12]. Some resources such as oil and diamonds have also contributed to conflict. While Africa is well-endowed with fossil fuels, hydropower, uranium, biomass and other renewable energy resources, many Africans do not have access to reliable and affordable energy[13].
Hunger and malnutrition remain pervasive and the spectre of famine continues to haunt millions on a continent with ample agricultural endowments[14]. This is the result of various factors including the global increase of food prices, developed countries' agricultural subsidies benefiting their own rich producers, and many years of structural adjustment programmes encouraging African governments to repay ballooning debts by diverting resources from food production to cash crop exports[15].
Globally, increasing climate variability, rising costs of fossil fuels, and concerns for future energy and food supplies, has spurred foreign investors and speculators to buy fertile land in Africa. And while foreign acquisition of African land is increasing, transparency about the acquisitions is decreasing[16]. Control over land is crucial for smallholder farmers but they remain highly vulnerable to dispossession and exploitation. This applies particularly to women, who constitute a majority of the agricultural workforce in the region, producing about 80% of the region's food, yet owning less than 1% of the land on which they work[17]. They, along with children, are the first to suffer the effects of economic downturn, drought, famine and violent conflict.
Africa's economic growth pattern does not bode well for either poverty reduction or environmental protection. The latter has grave consequences for the region's poor who depend directly on the livelihood support of functioning ecosystems. Environmental degradation causes poverty, hunger, gender inequality, and health problems[18]. The poor also have less capacity to adapt and cope with the increasing onset of ecological crises. Notwithstanding its low greenhouse gas emissions, Africa will be most affected by climate change mainly due to low adaptive capacity in the face of increasing extreme events such as floods and droughts[19].
Persistent loss of biodiversity is also a major problem, caused by expanding agriculture, deforestation, climate change, and desertification[20]. Drought and desertification affect 65% of the population and highly variable rainfall results in uneven distribution of water resources[21]. Thus, for a combination of economic, social and environmental reasons, African peoples have strong incentives to participate in and shape international cooperation on environmental issues.
Can international law overcome past failures and address the urgent needs of those on the frontline of environmental crises? The primary barrier to sustainable development is a dominant development paradigm dependent on an infinite increase in economic growth, consumption, and production. While of Western origin, this paradigm now has almost universal influence. Western understandings of development come from value systems with deep cultural and historical roots and are difficult to change. Transformation requires, first, a better understanding of the problem and, second, viable alternatives.
i) International law as the problem
On the first point, while international lawyers have focused on disciplinary solutions to environmental challenges, less attention is devoted to uncovering the role of international law in creating unsustainable patterns of behaviour. Environmental issues have been relegated to the specialised field of IEL. However, harmful assumptions about the environment lie at the heart of international law concepts such as sovereignty, development, property and human rights.
For instance, sovereignty assumes certain types of control and productive use of land - a requirement that has had significant consequences for the range of decisions in which postcolonial states engage. International law and its institutions have also played an important part in universalising and normalising an idea of development and political economy wedded to the infinite exploitation of natural resources. Conceptions of property in international law, such as the public-private distinction and the notion of the commons, reflect a particular understanding of nature where selective aspects are commodified. The anthropocentricity of international law, most easily identifiable in the powerful discourse of human rights, also plays a part in limiting disciplinary responses to ecological crises. Unpacking some of these assumptions may help us think our way out of destructive development patterns.
ii) Local solutions
On the second point, the hegemonic nature of the dominant paradigm makes it difficult to imagine alternatives. For inspiration, communities often turn to scientific innovation as well as cultural and historic knowledge, creating hybrid and innovative local sustainable solutions. Indigenous knowledge as yet unobliterated by globalisation has helped some African communities survive food, nutrition, healthcare and climatic challenges with little or no support from the outside world[22].
Perhaps the only bright side to underdevelopment is that Africa is less wedded to the dominant development paradigm and may find it easier to imagine and adopt alternative paths. IEL has focused on top-down normative guidelines for states but perhaps it should instead be more receptive to the potential that local sustainable practices have for tackling global problems[23].
The first 40 years of IEL were predominantly shaped by the Western experience of environmentalism. Alongside the re-emergence of the economic and political power of Asia, Africa and Latin America, there is an opportunity for alternative cultures, understandings, and voices to emerge to help creatively articulate what sustainable development is, and provide choices other than the harmful development trajectories of the past.
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1. How did the field of international environmental law come to exist?
2. How does international environmental law illustrate the distribution of power within the global political economy?
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4. How do environmental problems require both global and local discourses?
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[1] For a larger overview of important documents connected to international environmental law see http://www.asil.org/erg/?page=ienvl. For a more comprehensive historical timeline, see http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2006/sd_timeline_2006.pdf
[2] In 1987, the United Nations released the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future, which included what is now the most widely recognized definition of sustainable development.
[3] B Metz et al (eds), Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007); United Nations Convention on Biodiversity Secretariat, Second Global Biodiversity Outlook (2006); United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification Secretariat, Land and Soil in the Context of a Green Economy for Sustainable Development, Food Security and Poverty Eradication (2011).
[4] See further U. Natarajan, 'TWAIL and the Environment: The State of Nature, The Nature of the State and the Arab Spring' (forthcoming 2012 Oregon Review of International Law).
[5] African Ministerial Statement to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002).
[6] From 2001-11: Angola, 11.1 per cent; Nigeria, 8.9 per cent; Ethiopia, 8.4 per cent; Chad, 7.9 per cent; Mozambique, 7.9 per cent; and Rwanda, 7.6 per cent. IMF forecasts indicate that seven African countries are likely to be among the top ten over the next half decade (2011-5): Ethiopia, 8.1 per cent; Mozambique, 7.7 per cent; Tanzania, 7.2 per cent; Republic of Congo, 7.0 per cent; Ghana, 7.0 per cent; Zambia, 6.9 per cent; and Nigeria, 6.8 per cent. Since 2000, trade between Africa and the rest of the world has increased by two hundred per cent. While resource rich African countries have grown rapidly due to the extractive sector boom, so have net food and energy importing countries such as Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda. Thus, sources of growth are diversifying and African economies are becoming larger and more resilient. See UNECA, Rio +20 UNCSD: Progress towards Sustainable Development in Africa Summary Report (2012) 12.
[7] Ibid. World Bank figures suggest that in eight of the last ten years growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been faster than that of East Asia, not including Japan.
[8] Ibid 14-15.
[9] Ibid. UNCTAD projections show that the region's per capita income will grow only 2.7 per cent in 2011 and 2.8 per cent in 2012, both of which are below the 3 per cent threshold considered the minimum to make a dent in poverty. The UNDP's new inequality-adjusted Human Development Index shows that the human development ratings of African countries have fallen substantially, if adjusted for inequality in wealth distribution. For example, the adjustment reduces ratings for countries such as Central African Republic, Mozambique and Namibia by as much as 40%.
[10] UNECA, Sustainable Development Report on Africa I (2005) 1. IFAD, Rural Poverty Report (2011): Sub-Saharan Africa is home to a third of the world's poor, a number that has risen from 268 million to 306 million over the past decade. The UNDP Multi-dimensional Poverty Index puts the number of poor in the region as high as 458 million.
[11] Ibid v, ix.
[12] Ibid ix.
[13] Ibid xi. Of the 1.4 billion people without access to electricity worldwide, 40 per cent are in Africa, and almost entirely in Sub-Saharan Africa: UNECA, Rio +20 UNCSD: New and Emerging Challenges in Africa Summary Report (2012) 9.
[14] A famine occurred in Somalia in 2011 and the Sahel is at risk in 2012: UNDP, Africa Human Development Report: Towards a Food Secure Future (2012) iv.
[15] Ibid.
[16] International Land Coalition et al, Dealing with Disclosure: Improving Transparency in Decision-Making in Large Scale Land Acquisitions, Allocations and Investments (2012).
[17] UNECA, Progress towards Sustainable Development (2012) 16.
[18] UNECA, Sustainable Development Report on Africa: Five-Year Review of the Implementation of WSSD Outcomes in Africa (2008).
[19] UNECA, Emerging Challenges (2012) 5.
[20] Ibid 2.
[21] Ibid 3, 8: More than 30 per cent of global dry lands are located in North Africa, the Sahel and the southern part of Africa. They cover almost two billion hectares in 25 countries. Over 400 million people live in the dry lands, the majority of them the rural poor with an annual population growth rate of 3 per cent. The dry land is under threat from deforestation, soil erosion, nutrient mining, recurrent drought and climate change, potentially resulting in land degradation and desertification, and aggravated poverty.
[22] UNECA, Progress towards Sustainable Development (2012) 21-22.
[23] See further K Khoday & U Natarajan, 'Fairness and International Environmental Law from Below: Social Movements and Legal Transformation in India' (2012) 25 Leiden Journal of International Law 415.
Usha Natarajan is an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo's Department of Law and the Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies. She has a multidisciplinary background, with a PhD in international law from the Australian National University, a MA in international law from the United Nations University of Peace and an LLB in Law and a BA in Art History from Monash University. She has taught international law at the Australian National University, and worked with various international organisations including UNDP, UNESCO and the World Bank.


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If you have yet to visit the elephant seals in San Simeon, it is an absolute must!
The seals arrive just a few miles north of Hearst Castle to deliver their offspring and breed. Along the beaches, hundreds of these gigantic creatures can be viewed – it really is quite a sight. You'll see newborn 'pups', the females and the huge males, which can grow up to two thousand pounds, fighting among themselves to establish dominance. It's quite a lively display, and can be considerably noisy, too.
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By Natalia Petkovich, Fiction Editor, Ivory Tower
This is an exciting time of the year for the staff at Ivory Tower: We're moving into the final stage of magazine production and the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight. We recently finished the intense process of choosing all of the literary pieces and works of art that will appear in our magazine. Now, we just need to finalize the layout and send it off to the printer. I'm thrilled to see our final product. More than just thrilled: ecstatic, delighted, giddy, really any kind of adjective that expresses excitement and joy. I know that the rest of the staff feels the same way. Are you thinking that we're getting too excited about a simple magazine? Well, keep in mind that this magazine is something that the staff has been diligently working on for the whole school year. On the first day of class, we went around the room and everyone said that they were interested in careers in publishing. We knew that Ivory Tower would be a first step into the publishing world, and a class that would give us the unique opportunity create something special. After all of these months, our hard work is soon going to become a reality. I imagine that it will be somewhat of an emotional experience holding a physical copy of our magazine and knowing that it's going to be in the hands and hearts of many other people. It will be a bittersweet moment as well, because by the time we receive copies of our magazine, the class will be coming to an end.
Anyway, I don't want to start getting too sappy, so I want to end this post with a pitch for our launch party. It'll be at The Whole Music Club on April 24 at 7 p.m. We'll have refreshments, author readings, free copies of our magazine, and overall good company--mark your calendars and invite your friends, because it will be a swell time!


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Property is in very high demand and likely to sell quickly, even if it is overpriced or not in the best condition. Sellers receive multiple offers and the price is usually bid up above the seller's initial asking price.
Rental property is in high demand and availability is low. Rent prices have decreased by 1% over the past 3 months. This is 64% lower than the state average of $1,271 and 209% lower than the country average of $2,388.
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There's been a huge rise of parody websites as many popular sites are being imitated because of their success. Parody can be part of a marketing strategy to gain exposure by poorly imitating well known websites. There are certainly advantages for making parody sites, but the disadvantages can outweigh them.
The advantage of having a parody website is that you get more exposure early on than the average. That's all thanks to the exposure from the original owner, media, and word of mouth. With such traffic early on, anyone will be tempted to make a parody website. Now on to the disadvantages…
One of the main disadvantages of using parody is the loss of your own identity as you are sort of using the original's identity. The parody site owner is more or less reinforcing the image of the original owner by their style and format. Another disadvantage is the potential legal actions that may be taken against the parody site owner. Being at the mercy of the original that can shut you down is not very pleasant. The last disadvantage would be that you will never be as big as the original as parodies are just shadows of a bigger entity.
Parody has its risk and advantages. It is very much short term gain, long term drain. That is the result of all parody websites. It is best to know the advantages and disadvantages of such marketing strategy before employing them.


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10 Tips for Fostering Mutual Respect and Appreciation
In today's rough and tumble world, practicing courtesy, kindness and respect may seem out of place but NOT for us devotees trying to purify our lives! For us, it is imperative to practice these as 'devotional service begins at home.' It is so easy to lose respect and appreciation for each other due to the challenges of familiarity, conflicts, stress, unexpected events such as guests, illness, financial downs, hormonal changes, natural disasters, and even more serious ones such a shaky relationship, abuse or infidelity. These last 3 mentioned need marriage counseling and reading these tips and acting on them may be appropriate in the maintenance stage after your relationship has healed, not used as a substitute. Practicing respect and appreciation is not easy but the rewards are tremendous! It helps us become more loving, closer to Guru and Krsna and it ultimately takes us to the spiritual world where we all want to be. Acquiring divine qualities in turn brings us into a state of bliss and peace. Hence we wanted you to join in this adventure called growing in spiritual life by sharing some tips with you. Feel free to add whatever you think works for you. GENERAL TIPS ALWAYS try to see your partner/ dependents as gifts from Krsna, meant to be in your life for your spiritual benefit. ALWAYS keep Krsna in the center. ALWAYS visualize yourself and your partner close together at the base of an isosceles triangle, with KRSNA at the apex, this helps to feel connected even during stressful times. ALWAYS decrease stress by taking good care of your self, include exercise, good nutrition and refreshing sleep as MUSTS. ALWAYS prepare for unexpected events by drawing up a mutually agreed on plan, and develop a sense of humor! Our loved ones are our 'PRANA' [life] and this acronym may be useful to you. PRINT OUT AND PLACE WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT DAILY AND MEDITATE ON IT. Tip No. 1 PRACTICE respect and appreciation everyday either saying or doing something that honors the people in your life, including children, parents, elders etc. Say, 'I am so blessed to have you in my life.' Or 'May I show you how much I love you/appreciate you by______[ helping you clean the dishes/mow the lawn?]"and then do something loving. Tip No. 2 RESTORE healing in relationships by forgiving and seeking forgiveness, repenting and making amends and trying not to hurt again. Simply expressing sincere regret by saying, 'I am so sorry, please forgive me' is very powerful provided you really mean it. Tip No. 3 AWARENESS of one's challenges and working on one's weaknesses is essential for us to grow out of unhealthy patterns of behavior. Inform your spouse that you are working on hurting behaviors and ask for feedback. Tip No. 4 NURTURE growth by spending good, quality time with the people in your life. Ask them what they'd like you to say/do and NOT what you think is good for them! Tip No. 5 ACCEPT that progress takes time, patience, determination, consistency and mercy. You want to develop divine qualities and become a 'DEVA' so use this acronym to help you progress! Tip No. 6 DEVELOP an "attitude of gratitude" for all the positive effects your spouse and other loved ones bring into your life. Tip No. 7 EVALUATE your self from time to time by requesting an honest appraisal from your loved ones about your attempts- have they noticed a decrease in anger, blaming, criticizing and an increase in listening, appreciation, respect? Tip No. 8 VALUE each loved one by telling/showing/doing something for them that conveys how they add value to your life such as a hug, a kiss, a card, doing/sharing a chore, writing a love letter, going for a walk with them, reading a book together etc. Tip No. 9 ACTIVE LISTENING- empathize, empathize, empathize! Practice empathy! Practice what it feels like to be in your loved one's shoes and practice listening skills. Reflect what your partner is speaking, to convey that you understand. Listening actively and empathetically is the single most important gift of love that conveys respect and appreciation. Tip No. 10 Respect, love and appreciate YOURSELF! Reward yourself for every step you move forward in growing into the loving, exemplary devotee KRSNA wants you to be! Enjoy your growth and share your joy! Sridevi dasi, also known as Dr. Lakshmi Dajak, has a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy and is working as a consultant marriage and family therapist in private practice. She also brings her considerable experience as a medical practitioner [M.D.; D.C.H.,Pediatrics and Neonatology] working with children and families in India to her work here in the USA. She is currently living with her husband, His Grace Nanda Suta das, at ISKCON, New Talavana, a rural farm community in Mississippi, USA.


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Paintball Injuries: A Discussion of Causes and Prevention
Paintball can be one of the most intense physical sports in the world, despite its lack of player on player (intentional) contact. Every weekend people go to their backyards, speed ball fields, and big games without the slightest inkling of what they are about to put their (unprepared) bodies through, and thousands of minor injuries happen in the US alone. ... Read More »
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Behind the Fog A behind the scenes look at the FogDoc.com family. By Denise Kawaii It was early spring when I first started corresponding with Derek Roberts, owner of FogDoc.com. We were working together on a press release to be put out announcing his company as one of the gold sponsors of SuperGame 45, the largest big-game event in Oregon ... Read More »
Mag Fed Markers, a Cautionary Tale
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Tippmann X7 Phenom Paintball Gun & QLoader Modification
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Arusha — People who appreciate the value of historical monuments are still angry with the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) and the Arusha Municipal Council for desecrating the Clock tower monument built more than 60 years ago.
A year after TANAPA has enclosed the monument with wraparound video screens, the bizarre initiative has only succeeded to attract "the dregs of Arusha's society", according to a letter published in the latest edition of Twiga Times , an official tourism newsletter of the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators (TATO).
The LCDs defiling the monument feature non-stop wildlife videos that attract town jobless people especially when the lions intimacy episodes are on screen. " We are writing this letter to protest most strongly against the unsightly and inappropriate advertising billboards which increasingly dominate the streets of Arusha town. We are particularly incensed by the electronic billboard of Tanzania National Park (TANAPA) which has been attached to Arusha Clock Tower," says the letter apparently written by Willy Lyimo, Branch Manager, of the Tanzania Tourist Board, Arusha office.
" The Clock Tower Monument, built more than 60 years ago, marks the halfway point between Cape and Cairo as well as the exact centre of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. As inscribed on its base, the Clock Tower was "Presented by Christos Galanos Esquire to commemorate the glorious victory of the Allied Nations 1945" says the letter which continues as follows:
"It is a fact that historical monuments have always attracted the interest of travelers, bearing, as they do, important testimony to the past. Now that this monument is enclosed by wraparound video screens, travelers will completely miss the point of it.
"We would ask, in genuine puzzlement, why this desecration was approved; whom were you targeting? Certainly not tourists, who have a plethora of wildlife video at home and come to Africa to see animals in their natural environment. Does the LCD billboard have any cultural value? On the contrary, it intrudes on a cultural site! Do you think it adds to, or detracts from, the aesthetic beauty of our Geneva of Africa?
"Tanapa's films attract the dregs of Arusha's society, who crowd the walls of our main Post Office building at all hours to watch "free movies". This rabble of jobless men is making passage difficult and often unpleasant for local shoppers and other pedestrians.
"We are not alone in our concern; there have been several letters of disapproval; from the residents of Arusha, especially through their weekly newspaper, The Arusha Times. Of interest to note here is the article of Ramadhan Kupaza ( a consultant in environment and development) which pointed out that the electronic billboard is in conflict with our Government's 2002 Tourism Master Plan. His article was published in The Arusha Times of May 2-8, 2009.
" While we urge the concerned authorities to safeguard the historical value of Arusha Clock Tower, we wish to end with a quote from Confession of an Advertising Man, 1963, by David Ogilvy, founder of the Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Agency: "As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard."
The letter was sent to the Director of Arusha Municipal Council. Attempts to get comments from the Arusha Municipal Director, Mr. Raphael Mbunda were not fruitful as he was out of town attending a meeting.
But TANAPA's Public Relations Officer Pascal Shelutete speaking to the Arusha Times on telephone on Wednesday said his organization had also received complaints about the LCD billboard wrapped around the clock tower monument. He said TANAPA heads would hold a meeting to discuss the matter.
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Arizona Fires Head Coach Mike Stoops
After an abysmal 1-5 start to the 2011 season, coach Mike Stoops has been fired by Arizona.
The dismissal comes two days after the Wildcats lost to previously winless Oregon State, 37-27.
"Coach Stoops had many successes as our head coach over the last eight seasons," Arizona AD Greg Byrne said in a statement on Monday. "It was a difficult decision but I feel now is the time for new leadership and direction."
Stoops was just 41-50 in eight seasons at Arizona but his record is deceiving. The program was a disaster when he arrived in Tucson and Stoops lead Arizona to back-to-back eight-win seasons in 2008 and '09, and on the verge of a Rose Bowl appearance in the latter.
But with a potent offense starring QB Nick Foles and WR Juron Criner, a loss to a previously winless team proved to be in the last straw for Stoops.
Three names that are already in circulation as Stoops' replacement are former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, who ran the same "Air Raid" offense now featured by the Wildcats, Houston's Kevin Sumlin, who runs the same offense and has the 6-0 Cougars ranked No. 25, and ex-Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, who worked with Byrne at Oregon from 1995-98 and spoke with Colorado last fall about their head coaching vacancy at the time.


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Sequester Delays Some Contract Awards
April 17, 2013
Many of the government's biggest pending contracts are encountering significant delays.
Among the 20 largest pending contracts, the Army is facing delays in awarding six procurements worth nearly $22 billion combined, according to new estimates from Deltek, a market research firm.
"We've noticed the delays," said Jennifer Sakole, principal analyst for federal information services at Deltek, speaking about pending solicitations not just in the defense sector but across the government.
"We think that a number of those delays are a direct result of contracting offices waiting to receive guidance in regards to specific cuts if they're going to impact these programs," Sakole said. "So they're waiting to move forward until they receive that guidance."


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Building a national brand requires hard work and very good products and services to export and not just marketing compaigns. The article points out most of what hinder our entrepreneurs to excell and grow. Thank you
Tunisian Entrepreneurism and Innovation: The Road Ahead
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Tunisian Entrepreneurism and Innovation: The Road Ahead
By Chris Carr, Professor of Business Law & Public Policy at California Polytechnic State University
Chris Carr is a professor in the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University located in San Luis Obispo, California. He was recently a Fulbright visitor hosted by the University of Sfax. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
I recently spent three weeks in Tunisia as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. I was invited to advise how Tunisian universities might move forward in the area of teaching entrepreneurship and innovation. I met many wonderful and very smart people in education, business, law, medicine, engineering and government, and I am grateful for their time. Here are some takeaways from my visit.
Roughly 55 percent of the Tunisian population is under the age of 25 and in recent years unemployment has hovered around 14 percent (30 percent and higher for recent university graduates), so for democracy to take root in Tunisia job creation will be crucial. For this reason alone entrepreneurship and innovation are being taken seriously in Tunisia and are viewed as a way to jump-start the economy and job growth. The players here also recognize that recent political changes present a rare opportunity that may never come again. Tunisians are also wisely studying lessons from places like Silicon Valley, Route 128 and the Research Triangle in the US and smaller innovation clusters such as those found in Finland and Singapore. Here are some of the upcoming challenges I see for Tunisia.
Mindset and Culture: Entrepreneurship and innovation are as much about culture and a way of thinking as anything else. They are less about new technology parks, cheap rent, tax breaks, and new degree programs and academic courses. To succeed, entrepreneurial thinking must permeate all levels of the entrepreneurship ecosystem from top to bottom, and regardless of whether it is in the schools, government or private industry. Tunisia does not yet appear to be the land of second chances where startup failure is valued and evidence of being a seasoned entrepreneur. One of Tunisia's biggest challenges will be to create and foster the risk taking adrenalin and mentality that forms the DNA of many entrepreneurs. This will not be easy, although there is some recent evidence that is encouraging. For example, a number of Tunisian entrepreneurs recently participated in the Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference, a follow-on to U.S. President Barack Obama's Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship.
Lack Of Access To Capital: Securing startup funds appears to be one of the biggest hills to climb for aspiring entrepreneurs in Tunisia. I was told private lending institutions require a prohibitive 20% deposit. And as best I can tell, there is no startup funding support from family and friends (as can be found in the Chinese model); no rich Tunisian people or angel investors looking to step forward and invest in the next exciting startup; no rich Americans or Europeans have yet arrived looking for investment opportunities; and no venture capitalists are in the country stalking for business opportunities. This unfortunately means young entrepreneurs cannot access the wise business expertise such investors can offer to build and grow their business.
Connection to Private Industry and Successful University Alumni: The university educational environment in Tunisia, particularly as it relates to entrepreneurship and innovation, seems to be disconnected from private industry and successful alumni. This is a missed opportunity.
Small Businesses, Scalable Startups, or Large Company Entrepreneurship: These types of entrepreneurship are different, and need to be taught, nurtured and managed in different ways. Nobody could identify for me which one Tunisia wants to focus on. No country has the resources to do it all. It is important to pick one and focus.
How Can Tunisia Attract American Business?
I was asked this question, a lot. Here was my advice.
This goal will require a sustained, focused effort at all levels of the pyramid. There is no magic bullet. Ask your very best and brightest people to work on this. But the good news is Tunisia has a lot of very bright and smart people to pull this off.
Decide what your strategic focus will be. For example, "For the next five years we are going to focus on building innovation in areas X, Y and Z." Tunisia's resources and human capital are limited. Make this difficult strategic and political decision sooner, not later.
Identify which type of entrepreneurship Tunisia will focus on. If it wants to attract American business, scalable startups and corporate focused entrepreneurship will be more attractive; small family business and micro credit type entrepreneurship much less so.
Aggressively identify and destroy any left over corruption from the Ben Ali regime, make it a priority and do it quickly. Corruption in business closes the door for many aspiring startups and entrepreneurs not born into the hands of nepotism.
Start building Tunisia's (new) national brand. Tell that story to every American businessperson and government official you interact with. That is, we are smart; hard working; well educated; good universities; a stable country with stable and independent institutions; progressive and open minded people; moderate government; corruption from the prior regime will soon be eliminated; we offer neutral courts, good judges and good lawyers to fairly decide business disputes between locals and American firms; we are a gateway to Libya; and we are a hub that can allow American firms to access the larger markets of Africa, North Africa, the Middle East or Europe. On this point I can't express enough how favorably impressed Americans were with your recent revolution and how happy we are for you in its success. The largely non-violent way your revolution unfolded and how quickly it succeeded in comparison with other recent Arab revolutions is appreciated and important to attracting American business.
Good technical skills in your engineers and the like are important, but may not be enough for American firms to come. Other places with much larger domestic markets also offer low cost, high quality engineering and strong technical skills (e.g. India). Tunisia must also show that its work force and university graduates are strong in the "soft skills" of business, such as a creative and innovative mindset, strong oral and written communication skills, leadership and teamwork skills, business ethics, and a true understanding of globalization.
Get your Rolodexes out and work with your local, provincial and national governments, university presidents and professors, the US Embassy in Tunis, Tunisian Embassy and all Tunisian consulates in the US, various US state governments and Chambers of Commerce, Tunisian Diaspora, the right contacts in places like Silicon Valley, Route 128 and the Research Triangle, etc., to identify and narrowly target the US firms likely to be attracted by the new Tunisia and your new technology parks. Get a business road show together that will bring them to Tunisia, and once here you must sell and deliver on your promises. There is encouraging evidence this is already happening. While writing this piece I learned that in late January 2012 the US State Department is hosting nine prominent Tunisian Chamber of Commerce Directors for a visit and just this type of networking and relationship building.
Relatedly, learn from places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Candidly, many Americans like to do business in these places because they are "Asia lite", particularly with respect to hotels, food and shopping. Keep this in mind as you build and modernize Tunisia's tourism industry.
I acknowledge that living somewhere for three weeks does not make you an expert and there is a good chance I misunderstood or misinterpreted some of what I saw or heard, or that I did not see and hear enough. In closing, I thank my Tunisian hosts for the invitation to visit your amazing country and meet some of your wonderful people. I was impressed and had a very positive experience.
Insha'Allah, I will be back.
I see government needs to put strategic plans medium term and long term. Agree these economical plans and make them independent of political variations. Fight corruption is really required.


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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:17:16 -0700
> From: Harold Lee <email@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] server setup
> To: lugod's technical discussion forum
> You should be able to assign the Linux server a
> static IP address in
> your local network (e.g. 192.168.1.10 usually works
> well). Just
> configure the Linux box with that static IP and see
> if it works. Then
> you can configure the router to forward ports like
> 80 (HTTP) and 25
> (SMTP) to that IP address. On my Linksys router this
> is under
> "Applications and Gaming" -> "Port Range Forward".
> That should be all
> you need to do to be able to get to your Linux
> Apache server from
> "the outside".
> - Harold
Yeah, I've got a Linksys myself and I noticed that
feature. A few questions for you:
1. When you set your ports, do you use TCP or UDP?
2. Regarding #1, what application do you put (if any)
on those forwarding lines in the router setup?
3. Do you leave your INTERNAL dhcp server on or off?
4. You're using a static internal IP on the server
itself, right? Otherwise, how would the router know
where the server is - how else would it be able to
send packets coming in on port 80 (or 22, or 25) to
the right computer on my LAN?
5. Do I leave my Windows client set to dynamic IP
6. Regarding #4, what do I put into the server for
gateway, subnet mask, and DNS? The same DNS, gateway,
and subnet mask info that the router itself uses w/ my
ISP? Or just 192.168.1.1 over and over for all those?
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> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:55:42 -0700
> From: Wes Hardaker <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] server setup
> To: lugod's technical discussion forum
> <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Do you need to access the server from the internet?
> IE, is it actually
> going to be serving something? Or is this just a
> linux box to play
> with.
This is going to be a web and email server. Right now
it can't even ping hosts like mit.edu, much less serve
incoming HTTP requests. Which it would seem is all
port forwarding does - I'd think it useless for
establishing basic outbound connectivity.
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Apple is apparently in the process of further improving the search feature of the App Store with the introduction of related search keyword suggestions on iOS.
As first pointed out by Time Planner co-developer Olga Osadcha (via 9to5Mac), the related search keyword suggestions appear at the top of the search results in the App Store app on iOS. Tapping any of the suggestions leads to a new results page for that related search.
Just noticed "Related" search suggestions in App Store. Has it always been there? (iPhone only) pic.twitter.com/QDny04vNKs
— Olga Osadcha (@oosadcha) March 25, 2014
Here's a couple of other searches
#ios #apple #news pic.twitter.com/uzx2hP2x80
— Olga Osadcha (@oosadcha) March 25, 2014
What's interesting is that if you tap on one of the suggestions it leads to other related suggestions, thus producing more and more keywords
— Olga Osadcha (@oosadcha) March 25, 2014
According to various reports, the new App Store feature has been rolled out by Apple to select users on iOS 7.0.x and iOS 7.1 only. While it appears to be still in its experimental phase, it's safe to assume that this feature will be made officially available in the near future.
This new feature is just the latest step taken by Apple toward improving its App Store search mechanism. Last November, the company was reported to have improved results for misspelled queries with typos. Then, in December, it was found to have adjusted its App Store algorithms for more optimized searches.
But perhaps what remains the biggest step thus far is Apple's acquisition of the algorithm-based app search engine Chomp, whose technology was integrated into the App Store app in 2012 with the release of iOS 6.
At any rate, it's great to see that Apple continues to try new ways to enhance iOS device users' experience for app search and discovery.
Have you been seeing related search keyword suggestions on your iOS device's App Store?


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At this Park
18553 acre Park managed by: United States Bureau of Reclamation
Warm water in the summer is one of the principle draws of this popular reservoir.
Theearly spring and late fall are good times for birding both in the hilly grasslands and along the shoreline during migration and nesting seasons. Anglers can fish for both cold and warm water species.
Bureau of Reclamation's page for this site.Official Park Page
Get Involved:Become a trailblazer, Review this Park, Log Wildlife Sightings, and Submit Photos.


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