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As Tropical Storm Isaac gained strength in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend Anderson flew from the Republican National Convention in Tampa to New Orleans.
On Tuesday, shortly after 11 a.m. CDT Isaac was upgraded to a Category 1 storm according to the National Hurricane Center. At 6:45 p.m. CDT the National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated that Isaac made a first landfall along the coast of southeast Louisiana in the marshland of Plaquemines Parish, southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. After wobbling back over the water near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Isaac then made a second landfall at about 2 a.m. CDT near Port Fourchon, 60 miles southeast of New Orleans, according to an early morning update by the National Hurricane Center.
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Hope you guys are staying warm in the storm. I never did understand something by these media folks. I am sure you guys are paid really well, but do you really have to struggle so much to get the news. Why do you'll stand in the rain and cover the news – I never did understand the concept. You sure are going to show the wind blowing and the rain sweeping....whatever .....but it never makes sense to stand in the pouring rain and talk. I mean, you'll can stand in a room etc and still show us the storm. Never did understand that concept...it is scaring for us and I dont think the public demand is so bad that we want to see you'll being swept in the rain....take care and come back home safe...
Hi Anderson, I wish you can get out before this election and come vist the people that are not spoke about, the people that are not even talked about unless they are speaking about the poor people in the USA! I dont consider myself poor, I work every day. I have a daughter that starts her first year of college this fall and I am pushing on because I would love to see someone from this poor family become successful in the USA. My grandmother worked all of her life and at the age of 87 she cant get a homehealth aid under her health insurance. I have 4 generations of college Grads in this family and why is it that we are still waiting for that American Dream. I pray that someone I am reaching out to will visit my community and see the struggel we the poor people go threw on a daily basis and I dont belive thier is no Rep or Dem that will ever understand or have a clue about we the so called middle class or poor people go threw on a daily basis. AC I think this will be a great story for you and the world to open thier eyes to.
Great job, as always, CNN! All of you are doing a great job covering the convention AND the hurricane. No one does it better! Keep up the great work!
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Evidenced-based methods are more cost effective than traditional NGO awareness raising approaches to ensure sustained behaviour change in the WASH sector, says environmental psychologist Prof. Hans-Joachim Mosler.
Two of his presentations on evidence-based behaviour change are now available online. An accompanying guideline for behaviour change [1] was published in June 2012.
Mosler begins his first presentation with examples of failed sanitation and water projects. What they have in common is that they focus on hardware and neglect behaviour change. In one striking study, the construction of new school latrines actually increased health risks among girls because hygiene behaviour did not improve [2].
Drawing from his research on sanitation, handwashing and household water treatment (HWT) projects, Mosler shows how evidence-based behaviour change methods can help prevent failure. His studies include research on the use of shared toilets in Kampala, Uganda, handwashing research in Ethiopia and Haiti conducted for Oxfam America. and the use of arsenic-free safe wells in Bangladesh . A group of HWT behavioural studies looked at solar water disinfection (SODIS) in Bolivia and Zimbabwe, and fluoride removal in Ethiopia.
To determine the factors that influence behaviour, Mosler has developed the Risk, Attitude, Norm, Ability, Self-regulation (RANAS) model.
Hans-Joachim Mosler is a professor at the University of Zürich and a senior researcher and group leader at EAWAG, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.
[1] Mosler, H-J et al., 2012. A guideline for behaviour change. Dübendorf, Switzerland: EAWAG – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Available at: < http://washurl.net/aa4o2a > [43.5 MB]
[2] Greene, L.E. et al, 2012. Impact of a school-based hygiene promotion and sanitation intervention on pupil hand contamination in Western Kenya: a cluster randomized trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep;87(3):385-93. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0633 [open access]
Related web sites:
- Eawag – Environmental and Health Psychology | Group 'Modeling Social Systems'
- IRC WASH Library – documents on behaviour change

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Porter Stemming
September 8, 2009
Stemming, in the parlance of searching and information retrieval, is the operation of stripping the suffices from a word, leaving its stem. Google, for instance, uses stemming to search for web pages containing the words connected, connecting, connection and connections when you ask for a web page that contains the word connect.
There are basically two ways to implement stemming. The first approach is to create a big dictionary that maps words to their stems. The advantage of this approach is that it works perfectly (insofar as the stem of a word can be defined perfectly); the disadvantages are the space required by the dictionary and the investment required to maintain the dictionary as new words appear. The second approach is to use a set of rules that extract stems from words. The advantages of this approach are that the code is typically small, and it can gracefully handle new words; the disadvantage is that it occasionally makes mistakes. But, since stemming is imperfectly defined, anyway, occasional mistakes are tolerable, and the rule-based approach is the one that is generally chosen.
In 1979, Martin Porter developed a stemming algorithm that, with minor modifications, is still in use today; it uses a set of rules to extract stems from words, and though it makes some mistakes, most common words seem to work out right. Porter describes his algorithm and provides a reference implementation in C at http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/index.html; the description of the algorithm is repeated on the next page.
Your task is to write a function that stems words according to Porter's algorithm; you should be aware that this exercise requires rather more code than we usually write, though it's no harder than usual. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
6 Responses to "Porter Stemming"
September 8, 2009 at 12:53 PM
(module porter-stemmer scheme
(define or-map ormap)
(define and-map andmap)
(define (consonant? str i)
(let ((char (list-ref str i)))
(cond ((member char '(#\a #\e #\i #\o #\u)) #f)
((equal? char #\y)
(if (= i 0) #t (not (consonant? str (- i 1)))))
(else #t))))
;; m() measures the number of consonant sequences between k0 and j. if c is
;; a consonant sequence and v a vowel sequence, and indicates arbitrary
;; presence,
;; gives 0
;; vc gives 1
;; vcvc gives 2
;; vcvcvc gives 3
;; ….
(define (num-consonant-sequences str)
(letrec ((helper (λ(str lim i prefix-ends-in-consonant?)
(if (0 stem) (1 stem) (cry in step1b
(has-vowel? (rest str)))))
(define (ends-in-double-consonant? str)
(let ((r (reverse str)))
(and (< 1 (length str))
(equal? (first r) (second r))
(consonant? r 0))))
;; cvc(i) is TRUE i-2,i-1,i has the form consonant – vowel – consonant
;; and also if the second c is not w,x or y. this is used when trying to
;; restore an e at the end of a short word. e.g.
;; cav(e), lov(e), hop(e), crim(e), but
;; snow, box, tray.
(define (cvc? str)
(let ((last (- (length str) 1)))
(and (< 1 last)
(consonant? str last)
(not (consonant? str (- last 1)))
(consonant? str (- last 2))
(not (member (list-ref str last) '(#\w #\x #\y))))))
(define (cvcv? str)
(let ((nonvowel (memf (λ(x) (not (member x '(#\a #\e #\i #\o #\u)))) (reverse str))))
(and nonvowel (cvc? (reverse nonvowel)))))
;; ends(s) is TRUE k0,…k ends with the string s.
(define (starts-with str beginning)
"true iff beginning is a substring of str starting at 0"
(or (if (empty? beginning) str false)
(and (not (empty? str))
(equal? (first str) (first beginning))
(starts-with (rest str) (rest beginning)))))
(define (ends-with str ending)
(let ((stem (starts-with (reverse str) (reverse ending))))
(if stem (reverse stem) #f)))
(define (ends str ending)
(ends-with str (string->list ending)))
(define (replace-ending-if str condition ending replacement)
(let ((stem (ends-with str (string->list ending))))
(if stem
(if (condition stem)
(append stem (string->list replacement))
(define (->true any) true)
(define (rules str proc replacements)
(or (or-map proc replacements) str))
;; step1ab() gets rid of plurals and -ed or -ing. e.g.
;; caresses -> caress
;; ponies -> poni
;; ties -> ti
;; caress -> caress
;; cats -> cat
;; feed -> feed
;; agreed -> agree
;; disabled -> disable
;; matting -> mat
;; mating -> mate
;; meeting -> meet
;; milling -> mill
;; messing -> mess
;; meetings -> meet
(define (step1a str)
(λ(p) (replace-ending-if str ->true (car p) (cdr p)))
'(("sses" . "ss")
("ies" . "i")
("ss" . "ss")
("s" . ""))))
(define (step1b str)
(let ((ed-ing-stem (or (ends str "ed") (ends str "ing"))))
(if ed-ing-stem
(or (replace-ending-if str m>0 "eed" "ee")
(if (has-vowel? ed-ing-stem)
(or (replace-ending-if str ->true "ated" "ate")
(replace-ending-if str ->true "ating" "ate")
(replace-ending-if str ->true "bled" "ble")
(replace-ending-if str ->true "bling" "ble")
(replace-ending-if str ->true "ized" "ize")
(replace-ending-if str ->true "izing" "ize")
(if (ends-in-double-consonant? ed-ing-stem)
(if (member (list-ref ed-ing-stem (- (length ed-ing-stem) 1)) '(#\l #\s #\z))
(reverse (rest (reverse ed-ing-stem))))
(if (and (m=1 ed-ing-stem) (cvc? ed-ing-stem))
(append ed-ing-stem '(#\e))
;; step1c() turns terminal y to i when there is another vowel in the stem.
(define (step1c str)
(or (replace-ending-if str has-vowel? "y" "i") str))
;; step2() maps double suffices to single ones. so -ization ( = -ize plus
;; -ation) maps to -ize etc. Call this function only if the string before the
;; suffix has at least one non-initial consonant-sequence.
(define (step2 str)
(lambda (end-pattern)
(replace-ending-if str m>0 (car end-pattern) (cdr end-pattern)))
'(("ational" . "ate")
("tional" . "tion")
("enci" . "ence")
("anci" . "ance")
("izer" . "ize")
("bli" . "ble")
;; To match the published algorithm, replace prev line with
;; ("abli" . "able")
("alli" . "al")
("entli" . "ent")
("eli" . "e")
("ousli" . "ous")
("ization" . "ize")
("ation" . "ate")
("ator" . "ate")
("alism" . "al")
("iveness" . "ive")
("fulness" . "ful")
("ousness" . "ous")
("aliti" . "al")
("iviti" . "ive")
("biliti" . "ble")
("logi" . "log") ;; DEPARTURE: the published algorithm does not have this line
;; step3() deals with -ic-, -full, -ness etc. similar strategy to step2.
(define (step3 str)
(lambda (end-pattern)
(replace-ending-if str m>0 (car end-pattern) (cdr end-pattern)))
'(("icate" . "ic")
("ative" . "") ; huh?
("alize" . "al")
("iciti" . "ic")
("ical" . "ic")
("ful" . "") ; huh?
("ness" . "") ; huh?
;; step4() takes off -ant, -ence etc., in context vcvc.
(define (step4 str)
(lambda (ending)
(replace-ending-if str m>1 ending ""))
'("al" "ance" "ence" "er" "ic" "able" "ible" "ant" "ement" "ment" "ent"
"ou" ;; for -ous
"ism" "ate" "iti" "ous" "ive" "ize"))
(replace-ending-if str (λ(stem) (m>1 (append stem '(#\s)))) "sion" "s")
(replace-ending-if str (λ(stem) (m>1 (append stem '(#\t)))) "tion" "t")
;; step5 removes a final -e if m() > 1, and changes -ll to -l if m() > 1.
(define (step5a str)
(let ((stem-e (ends str "e")))
(if (and stem-e
(let ((m (num-consonant-sequences stem-e)))
(or (1 str)) "ll" "l") str))
(define (puts . stuff)
(map display stuff)
(car (reverse stuff)))
(define (steps str)
(let* ((zero (puts "step0: " (string->list str)))
(one-a (puts "step1a: " (step1a zero)))
(one-b (puts "step1b: " (step1b one-a)))
(one-c (puts "step1c: " (step1c one-b)))
(two (puts "step2: " (step2 one-c)))
(three (puts "step3: " (step3 two)))
(four (puts "step4: " (step4 three)))
(five-a (puts "step5a: " (step5a four)))
(done (puts "step5b: " (step5b five-a)))
;; In stem(p,i,j), p is a char pointer, and the string to be stemmed is from p[i] to p[j]
;; inclusive. Typically i is zero and j is the offset to the last character of a string,
;; (p[j+1] == "). The stemmer adjusts the characters p[i] … p[j] and returns the new
;; end-point of the string, k. Stemming never increases word length, so i <= k <= j. To
;; turn the stemmer into a module, declare 'stem' as extern, and delete the remainder of
;; this file.
(define (stem str)
(let ((len (string-length str)))
(if (string
(string->list str)))))))))))))
(provide stem)
September 8, 2009 at 12:59 PM
#lang scheme
;;; The above should have come with the documentation:
;; The Porter Stemming Algorithm, somewhat mechanically hand translated to Common Lisp by
;; Steven M. Haflich email@example.com Feb 2002. Subsequently translated to Scheme and made
;; wholly inefficient, if more readable, by Gregory Marton in 2009.
;; This port has only been tested with PLT Scheme, though there is little PLT-specific code.
;; This code is offered in the hope it will be useful, but with no warranty of correctness,
;; suitability, usability, or anything else.
;; This is the Porter stemming algorithm, as presented ins
;; Porter, 1980, An algorithm for suffix stripping, Program, Vol. 14,
;; no. 3, pp 130-137,
;; only differing from it at the points maked –DEPARTURE– below.
;; See also http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer
;; The algorithm as described in the paper could be exactly replicated
;; by adjusting the points of DEPARTURE, but this is barely necessary,
;; because (a) the points of DEPARTURE are definitely improvements, and
;; (b) no encoding of the Porter stemmer I have seen is anything like
;; as exact as this version, even with the points of DEPARTURE!
;; Release 1
;; Note that only lower case sequences are stemmed. Forcing to lower case
;; should be done before stem(…) is called.
;; This implementation is not a particularly fast one.
;; In particular, there is a common optimization to make the many ends-with
;; tests faster by switching on the last or penultimate letter, which I chose
;; not to use here for the sake of readability.
;; I suspect without proof that the many reversals could be ameliorated by just
;; reversing the string in the first place and pre-reversing the patterns, or
;; by maintaining a last position in the string vector instead of using a list of
;; characters.
;;; and the tests, which refer to files that can be found at:
;;; http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/
(require (planet schematics/schemeunit:3:4))
(require (planet schematics/schemeunit:3/text-ui))
(require "files.ss")
(require "porter-stemmer.ss")
(define *the-tests*
(let ((count 0))
(lambda (line)
(set! count (+ 1 count)) (when (integer? (/ count 1000)) (display "."))
;;(display line) (newline)
(let* ((untab (regexp-split #px"\t" (chomp line)))
(original (first untab))
(stemmed (second untab))
(result (stem original)))
(check-equal? result stemmed original))))))))
(define num-errors (run-tests *the-tests*))
(define (test) (exit num-errors))
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We've got a Web server. We've got SSL/TLS. We've got PHP. We've got a database. Now, finally, it's time to do something with them: we're going to set up self-hosted WordPress, one of the Internet's most popular blogging platforms.
Certainly, WordPress isn't the only choice. There are many blogging platforms out there, ranging from big and full-featured content management systems (like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla) to static site generators like Jekyll (and its customized variant Octopress, which I use on my own blog). However, WordPress is extremely popular, and it also has a wealth of themes and plugins available with which you can customize its behavior. So, because it's the platform that first comes to mind when people think of "blogging," we're going for it.
Disclosure, and a word on security
This isn't the first time I've talked about setting up WordPress. Some parts of this article will be taken from my previous blog post on the subject, though the instructions here will contain a number of improvements.
We also need to talk about security. WordPress gets kind of a bad rap about being absolutely riddled with security holes. That's not entirely fair—vulnerabilities in the base platform are rarely the cause of WordPress blog compromises. Rather, WordPress's huge library of add-ons is both its greatest asset and also its greatest weakness: security issues in WordPress are more often due to a hole in a plugin than a hole in WordPress itself.
What can we do to help keep things secure? I've said it before in this guide and I'll continue to say it: no system is completely secure, but there are things that can be done to mitigate risk. The first, and most obvious, is to minimize the plugins you use with WordPress. Use what you need and no more. Next, keep your WordPress installation and your installed plugins up to date. Finally, lean on your Nginx configuration to guard against common attack vectors. This last point is one we'll focus heavily on.
Predownload configuration choices
One important choice needs to be made before we download anything: do you want to serve WordPress off of its own virtual host, or out of a subdirectory on your current virtual host? The former would mean that your blog's URL would be something like
http://blog.yourdomain.com, whereas the latter would mean the URL would be
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog (or just
http://yourdomain.com/blog, depending on how you've configured Nginx).
For this guide, we're going to go with the second choice and serve WordPress out of a subdirectory. It's a little easier to set things up this way with the configuration choices we've made with Nginx so far. Serving WordPress out of its own virtual host is also quite doable, but it would require us to set up a second virtual host file. For the sake of brevity, we're going to skip that and just serve it out of a subdirectory on your existing virtual host.
Getting WordPress
WordPress has an excellent set of installation instructions which we're going to follow pretty closely, but it won't get us all the way there. That's OK, though, because the parts it doesn't cover (namely, Web server configuration) are parts we'll get pretty detailed on.
Download WordPress directly from its download page. The easiest way to do this is to get the zipped installation file directly from your Web server, so ssh into your server. We're going to launch a root shell so that we don't have to keep prefacing commands with
sudo, and then we'll use
wget to download the current WordPress package:
sudo /bin/bash cd /usr/share/nginx/html wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
After WordPress has been downloaded to your Web root directory, we want to decompress it using the command line. We already have the
unzip utility downloaded from when we installed SQL Buddy last time, so use the same tool to uncompress it to its own directory:
unzip latest.zip
This will create a
wordpress directory underneath your Web root and stuff all of WordPress's files there. Delete the downloaded zip file with
rm latest.zip to keep your Web root nice and tidy.
We're also going to rename
wordpress to
blog. It's a bit shorter, and your site by default will have enough WordPress branding on it without also needing it in the URL. To rename the directory, use the
mv (move) command:
mv /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress /usr/share/nginx/html/blog
Lastly, since we've been doing all this as root, we need to change the ownership on the
blog directory so that our Nginx user owns it instead:
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/nginx/html/blog
Prepping your database
In order to actually use WordPress, we need to prepare a database for it to use. For this, we're going to use SQL Buddy, though you can use the command line if you're more comfortable with that. You can also use any other Web SQL administration utility, including the tiny and light Adminer or the powerful (but complex) phpMyAdmin.
Log into SQL Buddy as your root user (using whatever account name you renamed root to in part 4). The third section in the SQL Buddy home page is called "Create a new database," and that's where we're going to start. In the "Name" field, give your WordPress database a name (I'm using "wordpressdb"), and change the "charset" drop-down list to "utf8" and then hit "submit."
The WordPress database will be created. Next, we need to create a SQL user that only has access to the WordPress database. This will make sure that WordPress can only do things inside of its own database and can't interfere with any other databases. It also reduces the amount of potential damage an attacker could do in the event of a system compromise; if they gain access to the WordPress SQL user, they won't be able to do more than trash your WordPress database.
To create a WordPress user, click the "Users" menu item at the left of the browser window. Leave the "host" field set to "localhost," and give your user a name in the "Name" field. I'm using "wordpressdb" as the user name, so that there's a direct correlation between the user name and the name of the database to which we're going to grant the user access. Give the user a complex password. You won't be entering this password regularly, so it can be complicated.
Toggle the "Allow access to" radio button to "Selected databases," and then ensure only "wordpressdb" is checked. This constrains which databases the user can do things to. Leave the "Give user" radio button set to "all privileges," in order to ensure that WordPress has the ability to alter its own database according to its needs. Leave the "Grant option" box unchecked (this option would give the wordpressdb user the ability to grant other accounts permissions on the WordPress database, and we don't want that). Finally, click "Submit."


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As the Mayanist-in-residence here at the museum, I was asked to write up a few thoughts on the dreaded date, December 21, 2012. The Maya are very much en vogue these days as media outlets across the country play out doomsday scenarios "as predicted by the ancient Maya." Apparently, according to a recent New York Times article, Russians are frantically stock-piling dry goods and duct tape as well as sculpting Maya pyramids out of ice. As the local expert with my finger on the pulse of Maya scholarship, I can reassure you that scholars around the world agree: the sun will rise on December 22, 2012—which is good, because The Ancient Maya World has only been on view for a couple of weeks so far. But, in the spirit of full disclosure, I am neither an epigrapher nor a calendrical expert (nor very good at math); therefore, for a much more detailed explanation of the complexities of Maya time-keeping, I refer you to Dr. David Stuart's blog.
Mayanists suddenly find themselves in a rare historical moment as a sought-after commodity. A colleague and I even considered setting up a 1-800 number to address public fears: 1-800-baktuns at your service! Press 1 for why the world will not end. But as I field questions regarding the supposed apocalypse and the precision of the Maya calendar, I find myself asking why, forty years after the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing, which gave voice to an ancient people, do we persist in our fascination with the "mysterious Maya?" Frederick Catherwood's nineteenth-century watercolors of ruins swallowed by a tangle of jungle vines and palm trees gave rise to this conceit of a mysterious people lost to history.
Hollywood continues to popularize this image. Films such as the 1963 Kings of the Sun, starring a young Yul Brynner as an upcoming Maya king, the 2006 Darren Aronofsky film The Fountain about the Maya Tree of Life and its life-saving properties, and the apocalyptic 2012, all employ Maya culture as a trope, a signifier for the exotic and the mystical Other. Since the 1960s, scholars have deciphered thousands of inscriptions decorating the facades of buildings, stone sculptures, painted vessels, and even personal items of jewelry (these last ones belong to what we might refer to as the "summer camp literary genre,"e.g., I belong to K'inich Yax K'uk Mo. If lost, please return to Copan).
These texts enable us to dispel the mysterious mists and fill in the outlines of the ancient Maya world: we have compiled extensive political histories for city-states across the region; we understand who married whom and why; and even what people ate, drank, and consumed recreationally. But still the television outlets ask, "Who built the pyramids?" Well, the Maya did. With stone and forced labor. Another frequently asked question concerns the fate of the Maya, "Where did they go?" The ancient Maya, originators of the complex calendars and misty cities, thrived from 200 to 900 CE across an area corresponding to the present-day countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. In approximately 900, drought, deforestation, and vicious in-fighting among rival states contributed to a devastating societal collapse that forced the ancient Maya to abandon their urban centers and regroup in the hinterlands. However, Maya culture did not disappear. The modern Maya continue to inhabit the region; over thirty different Maya languages are spoken today. In fact, a number of Yucatec Maya have migrated to northern California and you can sometimes catch the tonal syncopations of Yucatec Maya in Bay Area kitchens.
The Maya captivated my imagination the first time I climbed Tikal Temple V, and I have spent more years than I'd like to admit studying their writings and their painted narratives in order to reconstruct the details of this vibrant, ancient culture whose poetry and time-keeping rival Homer and Archimedes. On December 21, pull back the curtain and see the Maya for who they were and who they continue to be.
Victoria Lyall, Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas


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Mission Growth: Europe at the Lead of the New Industrial Revolution
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Date: 29/05/2012
Europe is facing a severe economic crisis. But this situation and the changes are also an opportunity. We cannot let our industry simply leave Europe. It is a significant contributor to the real economy producing real values. Now, all efforts need to be undertaken to secure a modern, resource efficient, competitive and robust industry in Europe.Europe's economy cannot survive in a sustainable way without a strong and profoundly reshaped industrial base. New technologies have dramatically changed our life and our economy in the past 20 years. Political systems collapsed, new players emerged on the markets, as well as new materials, new technologies and workers who are better skilled than ever. The wind of change is blowing at a time when Europe is facing a severe economic and social crisis. But this situation and the changes are also an opportunity. Politics should play its part in seizing it, aiming straight at a new industrial revolution. We cannot let our industry simply leave Europe. It is a significant contributor to the real economy producing real values. Now, all efforts need to be undertaken to secure a modern, resource efficient, competitive and robust industry in Europe. Along with the need to create new jobs and boost our competitiveness, we have to tackle other vital challenges: the ageing of people in Europe whilst the world population is growing; increasing pressure on raw materials and energy supplies; the need to counter climate change and preserve ecosystems. Therefore we need an industrial revolution.
The new industrial revolution – The vision
The new industrial revolution should lead towards the gradual substitution of hydrocarbons as our main source of energy, and towards a more efficient and sustainable use of our resources. More in general, our economy as a whole is going through major transformations, with new production techniques based on digital technologies, advanced materials, key enabling technologies, space, robotics, renewable energy, recycling and reuse of raw materials.
This revolution will affect many economic sectors: manufacturing, services, energy, raw materials, transport, construction, and chemicals; and it will be accompanied by technological innovation and the creation of new professional figures, such as:
- New materials and nanotechnologies can provide adequate substitutes to rare earths and make renewable sources of energy less expensive and more efficient and we can reuse wastes as new sources of energy.
- Making the electric car a mass consumption good, with costs and performances comparable to those of traditional vehicles, but with 0 emissions as they will use renewable energy.
- Buildings can dramatically consume less energy and become producers of energy.
- Thanks to developments in the space industry, our transport and electricity transmission systems will be "smarter".
- The factories and the cities of the future will impact less in terms of emissions, but provide a higher living quality and higher job satisfaction.
- Digital technology, creativity and design will revolutionize the production of goods and services.
- Innovations in the chemical sector and biotechnologies are the only way to create sustainable and competitive biofuels.
- We will have many new small economic players, new entrepreneurs running smart start-ups, as they will provide the creative power, the ideas and innovations which we need to speed up the transition to the Third Industrial Revolution.
- Europe needs to exploit the business opportunities resulting from the transition to a more sustainable, resource efficient and low carbon economy. In particular, we need to ensure that industrial, climate, energy, environmental and other relevant policies provide consistency, coherence and certainty and create the right conditions for innovation.
Green technologies: Big opportunity for European firms
The global market for green technologies represents a big opportunity for European firms. Currently, the global market for environmental goods and services is estimated to be around €1000 billion per annum – and this is expected to double or even triple by 2020.
Europe produces some world leading eco-technologies. Our core environmental industries that are active in the fields of pollution management and control, waste collection and treatment, renewable energy and recycling have a combined turnover of over €300bn; provide more than 3 million jobs, and have an impressive overall global market share of approximately 1/3rd. This sector is offering many new and skilled green jobs and exploiting first mover advantages. And as European industries have to thrive or strive in the global arena the external competitiveness implications of our actions are also crucial.
The global market for green technologies represents a big opportunity for European firms. Currently, the global market for environmental goods and services is estimated to be around €1000 billion per annum – and this is expected to double or by 2020.
But neither Europe nor industry can do this alone. In a globalised world, we have to be realistic and reasonable about our industry's potential contribution to worldwide environmental improvements. The EU is working hard to obtain ambitious and effective outcomes in Rio+20 and in climate and other relevant negotiations. Each region's responsibilities and priorities are different but as we share the planet, we must all be part of the change we want.
It is encouraging to see that in Europe significant decoupling of economic growth and environmental impact has already been achieved and is continuing. Policies like Ecodesign are driving this change and helping to deliver more sustainable, products, production and consumption. Corporate Social Responsibility is also a flexible and effective way to encourage companies to do the right thing for societies and the planet – think partnerships instead of polemics.
Example: Impressive employment developments in eco-industry sub-sectors
Recycling recorded the fastest growth rate among the largest eco-industry sub-sectors (recycling, waste supply, wastewater treatment and waste management). Admittedly, its annual growth rate could not match the renewable energy sub-sector, which expanded by 37 % per year in the period 2004–2008 (EREC, 2010). However, the annual increase of recycling's turnover was still very rapid at 17 %.
The growing importance of the recycling sub-sector is also apparent in its increasing scale relative to the economic output of key sectors. In the period 2004– 2008 the value of recyclables relative to the gross value added of the manufacturing, electricity and waste management sectors increased from about 1.7 % to 2.7 %. Although the financial crisis has reduced this level, the importance of recycling for the economy is still greater in 2009 than five years earlier.
As figure below shows, overall employment related to materials recovery in Europe has increased steadily, from 422 inhabitants per million in 2000 to 611 in 2007, which is an increase of 45 %.
Employment growth in EU eco-industry sub-sectors in the period 2000–2008
Waste management
844 766
1 466 673
|Water supply
|417 763
|703 758
|Wastewater management
|253 554
|302 958
|Recycled materials
|229 286
|512 337
|129 313
|193 854
|Renewable energy
|49 756
|167 283
|Air pollution
|22 600
|19 067
|39 667
|49 196
|Soil and groundwater
|14 882
|18 412
|Noise and vibration
|4 176
|7 565
|2 005 764
|3 441 102
How to promote sustainable production?
This calls for a twin-track approach to encouraging sustainable (green) growth across all industry sectors while taking initiatives to help the environmental goods and services sector. To help bring about a more competitive and more environmentally sound industry, we also need to move beyond consideration of products and traditional services, adopt a value-chain approach and look more into innovative ways of organising production modes, cooperation and partnerships between businesses (e.g. green business models, industrial symbiosis). We know that many of the most resource-efficient economies are also the most competitive. But we also know that the transition will not be cost free and will require significant investment by industry.
Recycling can be an important source of raw materials
But how could Europe call for a new industrial revolution without considering the elements that are absolutely fundamental for the development and reinforcement of its industrial base – that is raw materials. 360 kg of lead; 343 kg of zinc, 1630 kg of aluminium, 14883 kg of iron and 561603 kg of sand and gravels are consumed during the life of a European.
However, for a number of these raw materials, considered "critical" by the European Union, the EU is largely dependent on third countries' production. This is, for instance, the case of indium, used in photovoltaics and flat screens, antimony (e.g. flame retardant) and cobalt (e.g. building and transportation) or of the now renowned rare earth elements, essential for permanent magnets in electric cars and wind turbines, with a 100% import dependency rate, or graphite, with a 95% import dependency.
Confronted to the very basic need for a secure supply of raw materials, innovation can be a major driver for progress. And in today's globalised world, it is even a prerequisite if European companies are to survive the competition of developed but also emerging countries.
Although Europe is a world leader in recycling, there is still room for significant improvement. For example, only 17% of metals in mobile phones are being recycled today. When only 40% of waste material of iron and steel is reused today, it has the potential to reach up to 55% of future consumption. For other metals, recycling could potentially contribute to up to 50% of consumption. New technological solutions have to be found so that critical raw materials can be recovered.
But recycling will not, on its own, provide the solution. Europe needs to improve raw materials production within its own territory. It has been estimated that the value of unexploited European mineral resources at a depth of 500-1,000 metres is about € 100 billion: there is a need to mine at lower depths, in more remote areas and under harsher conditions.
There is also a need to increase knowledge of Europe's geological potential, develop alternatives and substitutes for critical raw materials, and reinforce the skills in these different fields to meet the challenges ahead, along the entire raw materials value chain.
That is why the European Commission has proposed, on 29 February 2012, to launch a European Innovation Partnership on raw materials, which will aim to push Europe to the forefront in raw material exploration, extraction, processing, recycling and substitution technologies by 2020.
For example, it has been estimated that the value of unexploited European mineral resources at a depth of 500-1,000 metres is about € 100 billion. (IP/12/196 – More information on raw materials).
Low energy buildings: Still a limited market uptake with high CO2 saving potential
In low energy buildings, as much as 80% of the operational costs can be saved through integrated design solutions; however there is still a limited market uptake. So far, around 20.000 low energy houses have been built in Europe of which approximately 17.000 in Germany and Austria alone.
At present, seven EU MS have defined for themselves when a building is a low energybuilding (AT, CZ, DK, UK, FI, FR and DE, BE (Flanders), a few more (LUX, RO, SK, SE) plan to do so. Typically the required decrease in energy consumption will range from 30 to 50 % of what is defined for standard technology for new buildings.
EU Member State policies on low energy buildings
|Planned: social housing subsidies only for passive buildings as of 2015
|By 2020 all new buildings use 75 % less energy than currently enshrined in code
|30 – 40 % less by 2010 : passive house standards by 2015
|By 2012 all new buildings are low energy buildings (Effinergie standard), by 2020 new buildings are energy-positive
|By 2020 buildings should be operating without fossil fuel
|New buildings to be zero emission buildings by 2020, for large investments already in 2012
|60 % less by 2010, Net zero energy buildings by 2013
|50 % reduction by 2015, 25 % reduction by 2010 both compared to current code plans to build energy-neutral by 2020
|UK (England
and Wales)
|44 % better in 2013 (equivalent to Passivhauslevel) and zero carbon as of 2016
|Total energy use / heated square metre in dwellings and non residential buildings should decrease. The decrease should amount to 20 per cent until 2020 and 50 per cent until 2050, compared to the corresponding use of energy in 1995.
In summer 2012 the Commission will present a communication on its ideas to promote sustainable construction in the EU.
Key enabling technologies – Europe is not reaping the full benefits
The global market in Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), notably micro- and nanoelectronics, advanced materials, industrial biotechnology, photonics, nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing systems, is forecast to grow from EUR 646 Billion to over EUR 1 Trillion between 2008 and 2015; this is a jump of over 154%, or more than 8% of the EU's GDP. Rapid growth in jobs is expected. In nanotechnology industries only, the number of jobs in the EU is expected to increase around 400,000 by 2015. Europe is a global leader in KETs research and development with a global share in patent applications of more than 30%. Despite this, the EU is not translating its dominant R&D base into the goods and services needed to stimulate growth and jobs.
KETs potentials: KETs are a key source of innovation. They provide indispensable technology bricks that enable a wide range of product applications, including those required for developing low carbon energy technologies, improving energy and resource. The Europeans Commission will present in June 2012 a communication on how it intends to promote KET that they give European industry a competitive edge in deploying the industrial technologies of the future.
Space – A high tech industry defying global competitions
The European navigation and Earth observation service industry is an emerging industry with a high worldwide potential for growth and job creation, mainly made up of SMEs and start-ups which form the backbone of our economy. It is estimated that, already, 6-7% of GDP in Western countries, i.e. € 800 billion in the European Union, is dependent on satellite radio navigation. The deployment of Global Navigation Satellite Systems and GMES infrastructures will soon open up new opportunities for the sector in Europe. Galileo and EGNOS are expected to generate economic and social benefits worth around € 60-90 billion over the next 20 years. Europe cannot afford to miss out on this growth sector. Although some private applications have already proven successful, satellite enabled products and services still depend to a large part on public customers at national and local levels at this stage of development.
Galileo will boost economy and make life of citizens easier
Promoting electric car/less polluting cars
In summer 2012 the European Commission will issue EU-wide guidelines for incentives to incite consumers to purchase energy efficient cars, enabling car manufacturers to realise economies of scale, which is currently not possible as Member States have different systems in place which forces car producers to run costly, smaller series of eco-friendly cars.
How can EU action help?
Overcoming the bottleneck of access to finance
EU firms are facing a credit crunch that is likely to worsen further as the banking system restructures and deleverages. It is rather alarming that enterprises face insufficient access to appropriate sources of risk capital, since this continues to be one of the most significant constraints to the creation and development of growth-oriented firms.
We must therefore consider the broader picture: as capital markets are being transformed by the crisis and the regulatory reforms that it has triggered, we shall review what new possibilities are created by these changes. It is necessary to consider new ways of improving financing conditions for SMEs and to strengthen the whole range of risk capital markets.
What can be done?
Reserving part of the new resources from the Growth Agenda to loans to SMEs for this same purpose could considerably increase our potential. It is important to underline that this support must be provided on a commercial basis, such as the new Risk Sharing Instrument which is being RSI) is being created under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). It is expected to unlock a further €6 billion of loans until the end of 2013, including up to €1.2 billion for SMEs.
Moreover Europe is providing a balanced mix of flexible financial instruments under the current programme period (2007-2013) to support SMEs.
- The financial instruments (loan guarantees and venture capital) of theCompetitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) with a budget of €1.1billion will enable financial institutions to provide about €30 billion of new finance for more than 315 000 SMEs.
- In the field of Cohesion Policy, the JEREMIE facility (Joint European Resources for Micro to Medium Enterprises) provides access to finance to SMEs by means of equity, loans or guarantees. In the current financial period the measures are estimated to amount to at least €3 billion.
- The European Progress Microfinance Facility (Progress Microfinance) aims to increase access to microcredit (loans of up to €25 000) for individuals who have lost or are at risk of losing their job or have difficulties entering or re-entering the labour market.
- During 2011, the European Investment Bank Group provided €13 billion of finance for SMEs and midcaps companies. Overall more than 120 000 SMEs received EIB Group support across Europe last year.
- For the forthcoming programming period 2014 – 2020, the Commission is aiming at increasing the use of financial instruments. In the context of the COSME Programme it is proposed to dedicate €1.4 billion to debt and equity instruments that support SMEs and to build on the success of the financial instruments established under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme.
More information on EU policies to improve access to finance.
Consultation: Enabling consumers to spur industrial innovation
Consumers should not underestimate their power to spur industrial innovations. For example, if coach operators would bundle their orders asking car manufacturers to fit the roof of busses with solar panels, industry could produce such coaches at larger scale and at lower price. These busses would not only help to reduce CO2 emissions, they could even trigger similar demand for vans or passenger cars, thus enabling mass production of innovative cars at larger scale. Another example: If consumers would concentrate their purchases on less energy consuming household products, or garden tools with low noise emissions, industry would speed up the supply of such innovative products.
Thus, innovation is not only the result of the work of inventors, researchers and engineers. Also demand led innovation can be powerful, thereby helping European industry to become more competitive and to become innovation leader for a series of industrial goods, at the same time addressing societal challenges.
These ideas were reflected in the European Council Conclusions 1-2 March 2012:
"Creating the best possible environment for entrepreneurs to commercialise their ideas and create jobs and putting demand-led innovation as a main driver of Europe's research and development policy"
There is a vast potential in harnessing the demand-side in innovation policy development to support European industry. In times of crisis we need measures to help turn innovative ideas into new marketable products and services, creating jobs and growth in Europe. The well-functioning of EU internal market for innovations should be ensured.
Therefore, in a few days the European Commission will launch a public consultation with the aim to gather inputs from stakeholders and citizens on the scope of possible future EU-level actions in demand-side policies for industrial innovation policy.
The Consultation will be published here
More information on lead markets/Demand led innovation
More actions to help boost the EUs industry
There is a need to reinforce initiatives to relaunch growth with short-term actions. We must concentrate our efforts in creating a climate of confidence capable of reigniting private sector investment in the adoption of new technologies to increase our competitiveness to facilitate investment for the take up of new technologies and innovations
- First, the speedy development of industrial standards and the provision of a stable regulatory environment, especially the protection of industrial property rights, will contribute to remove uncertainties for the development of these new technologies and their markets. With respect to standards, a good standard can ease consumers' life, promote sustainability, and enhance European competitiveness and technological leadership in global markets (IP/11/668 -Commission for better standards to boost European competitiveness).
- Secondly, large productivity and resource-efficiency gains result from the adoption of new technologies by user industries, public support for investment in these new technologies could be achieved in the short term by the reorientation and concentration of efforts of the CIP programme on the take up of new advanced and cleaner technologies by SMEs. In the mid and longer term, the COSME programme could take up a major role in this sense (IP/11/1476- € 2.5 billions to boost business competitiveness and SMEs 2014 – 2020).
- Timely Internal Market rules are needed to strengthen this weak link in our innovation chain. We should keep improving the Single Market. It is the core of the EU and the basis of wealth creation, so any obstacles to the free circulation of goods must be addressed. More information
- Framework conditions for industry need to be improved. At a time of economic crisis, it is essential that the public sector itself does everything in its power to reduce regulative and administrative burdens. More information
We need to act on industrial innovation in order to keep Europe's global leadership. It is essential that Europe continues to invest in R&D and innovation and that the EU improves its performance on the take-up and commercialisation of technologies. This may concern our space industrial policy, life sciences or other technologies. There is not much point in being creative and research new products and technologies in Europe, if in the end it is non-European enterprises that benefit from it and end up actually manufacturing the new products or deploying the new technologies. Our policies must therefore focus more on connecting the research stage with deployment and actual market introduction.
Finally, we need to support the internationalisation of EU firms. The sources of growth are changing rapidly in the world economy. The emerging market economies of Asia and Latin America are likely to more than double their output up to 2020, outpacing the growth of the more developed economies. It is essential that EU businesses, especially SMEs, are enabled to make the most of the resulting opportunities and gain from EU-coordinated efforts to open and operate in international markets. (IP/11/1318 - Opening the world for small and medium sized enterprises to enhance EU growth)
VP Tajani visited in the framework of the new scheme "Missions for Growth" several Latin American countries recently, and such business diplomacy initiatives should be continued. On such visits the VP is accompanied by European CEOs from all main industrial sectors.
EU industry needs to overcome lack of confidence
Lack of confidence is undermining the dynamism of European manufacturing delaying investment plans, especially for SMEs. The Commission has reviewed downwards its investment forecasts from +0.8% in Autumn 2011 to -0.9% this Spring. The outlook isparticularly bleak for business investment in equipment: high uncertainty remains a drag to investment decisions. In several Member States, equipment investment is still influenced by tightened financing conditions and companies' deleveraging.
The effects of this are seen in declining employment, productivity and competitiveness in EU industry. Employment in manufacturing has fallen by some 18% since 2000 and by over 10% since the beginning of the crisis. EU manufacturing productivity growthmeanwhile has weakened over the last decade from 2.6% up to 2005 to 1.9% in the second part of the decade. This is in marked contrast to the strong "catch-up" productivity gains in the emerging market economies.
Manufacturing output down in first quarter 2012
The serious interruption in the economic recovery of industry since the second half of 2011 continues to affect economic prospects. Trend-adjusted manufacturing output in the first quarter of 2012 was a percentage point lower than in the second quarter of last year, whilst headline industrial production has fallen back somewhat further owing to developments in the mining and energy sectors. The ECFIN industrial confidence indicator remains at its longer-term average, whilst the PMI confidence indicator indicates further contraction in the euro area. Uncertainties about the economic outlook, high international raw materials and energy prices and on-going difficulties in access to finance continue to weigh down business confidence. Construction output has also fallen in recent months, with a strong contraction in civil engineering (roads, bridges etc.).
Overall in the first quarter of 2012, manufacturing production was some 0.8% lower than a year ago and also some 0.6% below the level registered in the preceding three months. The situation varies across sectors with most capital goods sectors maintaining their expansion, whilst consumer goods sectors have contracted. In the first quarter of 2012, the highest growth was registered in chemicals, computer and electronics, and machinery and equipment sectors, whilst the biggest declines in production occurred in leather, other non-metallic products, and beverages. Manufacturing output is now 11% higher than its trough in early 2009 and some 9% below its former peak in early 2008. Recent data and forecasts for services, including tourism, remain positive, but their future performance will be affected by general economic situation.
EU27 production indices 1993 – 2011 (trend adjusted)
Source: Eurostat
International demand for EU products has increased rapidly and has supported EU manufacturing production (see article in the March issue). Extra-EU exports have already recovered their previous peak. In contrast, intra-EU trade, internal demand and private consumption continue to be subdued. The recovery in output growth in Europe has greatly lagged that in the rest of the world, particularly emerging Asia and Latin America.
The Monthly note "The recovery of European industry" (edition May 2012) will be available soon here.


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What I like about Jack's Gourmet sausages most, specifically and because of their superb taste, is the many dishes they can be used in. This past Tuesday I made a Sausage Pizza using both their Sweet Italian and the Hot Italian sausages and I used SYR's simple recipe.
SYR's Sausage Pizza
- 9" pizza crust (I used a crust from Tradition, made with honey, with raised edges to avoid spillage)
- Pizza Sauce (enough to fill the crust)
- 1 cup shitake mushrooms, chopped (you may use any other kind of mushrooms as well)
- 6 Pearl onions, chopped (little, sweet, Vidalia onions might even work better)
- 1 elephant garlic clove, chopped
- 2 cups fresh spinach, chopped
- 1 cup fresh basil
- 10 grape tomatoes, sliced (you may use any other kind, including sun-dried tomatoes)
- 1 Jack's Gourmet Sweet Italian sausage, sliced
- 1 Jack's Gourmet Hot Italian sausage, sliced
- Oregano
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 450 F.
- Put crust in oven for 7 minutes to make it crisp.
- Take out crust and pour in pizza sauce, thin and evenly.
- Suatee the chopped mushrooms, onions, and garlic, lay them out on the sauce.
- Sautee the spinach and the basil, add on the sauce.
- Add the sausage slices, alternating each time between the Sweet Italian and the Hot Italian.
- Sprinkle the whole with the oregano. salt and pepper.
- Put in oven for 15-20 minutes or until sausage slices look slightly brown.
I washed it down with a glass of well chilled Bartenura Asti Spumante. Scrumptious and delightful pairing I would have enjoyed it tremendously even if I had ordered it in a restaurant!
As for tonight, I'll be getting a little more adventurous by making this salad:
Radicchio, Mango and Pomegranate Salad with Sausage
- 2 medium shallots, sliced 1/8 inch thick (about 1 cup)
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon NatraZyle Xylitol (you may use granulated sugar, if you wish)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed mango juice
- 2 teaspoons whole-grain mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1pound radicchio and curly endives mixed, washed, dried, and torn into bite-size pieces
- 1 cup cubed mango
- 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds (from 1 small pomegranate)
- 1 Jack's Gourmet Boereworks sausage, sliced
- 1 Jack's Gourmet Mexican Style Chorizo sausage, sliced
- Prepare an ice water bath by filling a bowl halfway with ice and water; set aside. Bring a small saucepan of well-salted water to a boil over high heat. Add shallots and blanch until tender, about 30 seconds. Drain shallots and place in the ice water bath until cool. Drain and set aside.
- Combine vinegar, NatraZyle, and 1 teaspoon of the salt in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring until the Xylitol, or sugar, has dissolved. Pour the boiling liquid over the reserved shallots and pickle until the shallots are slightly wilted and have lost any sharp taste, about 5 minutes.
- Drain the shallots into a strainer set over a large, heatproof salad bowl, collecting any pickling liquid in the bowl; set the shallots aside.
- Whisk the mango juice, mustard, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper into the pickling liquid. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil while whisking until the vinaigrette is emulsified. Taste and adjust the seasoning as needed.
- Heat the sausages in a sautee pan with a small amount of oil until golden brown on all sides, approximately 4-6 minutes.
- Add the sausage slices to the salad.
- Add the radicchio, curly endives and mango slices and toss well to combine. Top with pomegranate seeds, pickled shallots and serve.
The contrast between the mild Boereworks and hot Mexican Style Chorizo combined with the rest of the salad should be very interesting. I can't wait!


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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Six elderly Massachusetts women are scheduled to go on trial next week on charges they chained themselves to the gate at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant two days after the state was hammered by the remnants of Hurricane Irene.
The women, all members of the Shut It Down Affinity Group, traveled to the plant gate in Vernon on Aug. 30, 2011, used a chain and padlock to lock the entrance gate and chained themselves to the fence, members of the group said.
It was one of about 22 protests the group has mounted against the reactor's continued operation in recent years. There have been five similar protests since the one that triggered the trespass charges on which the women are to be tried next week.
The six were identified as 93-year-old Frances Crowe, 82-year-old Nancy First and 68-year-old Patricia "Paki" Wieland, all of Northampton, 73-year-old Hattie Nestel, of Athol, 69-year-old Ellen Graves, of West Springfield, and Mary Kehler, also known as Betsey Corner, 64, of Colrain.
Neither Windham County State's Attorney Tracy Kelly Shriver, nor her deputy, Steven Brown, who is handling the case, would say why that particular protest was selected from nearly two dozen similar events in recent years as the one that would produce charges.
"Historically the Windham County state's attorney's office has not filed charges against Vermont Yankee protesters," Shriver said.
Two of the protesters, Crowe and Nestel, said there was nothing unusual about their behavior at the plant gate compared with other protests. But they said Vernon police Chief Mary Beth Hebert expressed displeasure to them that they would hold a protest two days after Irene caused widespread flooding in southern Vermont, spreading public safety personnel thin.
Calls to Hebert's office on Wednesday seeking comment were not immediately returned.
Shriver and Brown refused to say whether the proximity to the storm-related emergency is what prompted the trespass charges against the women. The charges carry a potential penalty of three months in jail and a $500 fine for each defendant.
Crowe said she had had a long career in such protests and previously served time in jail. She spent three months in jail in Cranston, R.I., after being arrested during a protest against nuclear weapons in that state, she said.
She said she was pleased her Vermont activities were drawing a stiffer reaction from authorities.
"We are very honored. They're finally taking us seriously and they're taking us to trial," Crowe said.
Asked how many time she had been arrested in such protests, she pointed to the fact that war, nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants continue to exist. "Not enough," she said. "I don't know. I don't count. But I know I haven't achieved what I'm trying to achieve."


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Do you think the right to name calling is reserved only for you @ philip? You have made a fine art of that nasty little habit!
Yes. Yes he does.
He is a hypocrite.
As long as we know who we are talking too, names do not matter. Unless one wears one's heart on one's sleeve. Or has such a hard heart pills or defibs are needed.
Bad heart ≠ "hard" heart.
Bad hearts sometimes need pills and/or defibs to stay functional.
My MIL needs a pacemaker, for instance.
I don't know how one could read anything bad in that.
Excessive masturbation and not being moved to tears are what cause hard hearts. Study-up, Donna.
Again, this doesn't address what you originally posted, " Or has such a hard heart pills or defibs are needed."
I don't know why you would even bring that up in a post to Chrissy, unless that was supposed to be an indirect insult at Chrissy's heart condition; surely you would not be so base.
I don't need to study up on a condition that seems wholly fabricated, Philip. There is no such condition as a "hard heart."
Crap. My stupid phone changed pages. Am at my office and will pause working to satisfy the IRS, and chat with you "two" on my PC. Will be black Philip for awhile. Not blue. Brb. Sheesh.
Dont bother on my account philip. I am no longer that foolish person that so used to look forward to chatting with you!!!
If what you say is true you would stop talking about me.
You bring us up constantly; are you saying we should not defend ourselves ahgaunst your slanderous lies?
Not going to happen.
Though crime rates are down is no excuse to call-off the US Military from their authorized task to rid US of gang bangers and fat lazy men on Harleys.
It's no reason to unleash the US Military on its citizens, either.
The US Military has already been unleashed on US citizens known to the NSA to be lazy and fraudulent and gang-affiliated. Sorry. But is true.
I invnvite you to post that citation; I have yet to se a credible source that confirms that.
Over 850 Homeland Security Prisons have been built for them, not "foreign terrorists" as Bush and congress said.
Have you ever said anything wrong, Donna? It seems not.
Yes I have; the difference is, I apologize and don't repeat the behavior.
Ya know THATs where you are very, very WRONG @ philip! Verbal, mental and emotional abuse are FAR worse than any physical abuse!!! Physical pain goes away but the pain from mental, verbal and emotional NEVER goes away!!
Ya don't say. So shut up already.
According to the FBI, MLK was a womanizer. Care to debate or not.
That is a known fact; it, however, does not detract from his achievements one iota.
Romans 3:23, and all.
Only in your eyes. Not in God's who forbids such things and has many times executed men for doing so.
Sorry, @banasy. But you are confusing crimes with sins.
What crime did MLK commit?
When MLK was alive, cheating on your wife was still a crime in the USA. Not anymore, though.
Suddenly your using man's laws as the arbiter? Curious.
Oh, and it is still a crime in some states. Some consider it a felony; most are misdemeanor.
(And it still does not detract from his achievements.)
The truth is, @banasy and Chrissy and myself would be a bit bored on CNNblogs without each other's company. This evening, for instance. Who else is here! he he I really like you gals. And appreciate your company. And THOROUGHLY enjoy our battles. I kind of enjoy JIF's company more, but he is hardly here anymore. Anyway. TRUCE for one evening?
Let us pretend we just met. Along with the usual formalities. OK?
Hi, @banasy. And Chrissy. Nice to meet you. Where r u from? I am from a place known worldwide as "God's Country". COLORADO USA!!!! Yeah baby. 🙂
I already posted excerpts from the NDAA, along with thoughts of well respected military and legal analysts. US troops are in fact authorized to shoot gang bangers on US soil same as overseas.
I live near the 4th largest military base on planet earth. Many of my customers are US Military who are now being trained for urban combat. Not desert warfare as before.
I miss the good old days! The TJI days of several years ago! But even pretending....isnt going to bring them back.
Yeah. I miss the good old days when we three got-along quite well together. And days gone by before highway rage. 🙂
...before Going Postal and Aurora Theatre shootings became household slogans.
Those were the days i was speaking of. Been re reading alot of old threads lately and ive amused myself immensly with them. Ya know this site still has some blogs running. At least last week it did anyway. Much smaller ones.
Yeah. We Americans, you and I and Donna, used to get along quite well together not too many years ago.
In order to repent, one must make public confession of ones sins and ones crimes. MLK never did that. Nevertheless, even though a wicked man, he will be resurrected. MLK died for his own sins and has yet to be covered by the ransom of Jesus.
"Having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked." Acts 24:15
You don't know what MLK did out of the spotlight; you never will.
And it doesn't matter; you are not the judge, anyhow.
He wasn't wicked. He was just a man.
The FBI investigated his lawyer, Donna. And found out about MLK being like Bill Clinton. A womanizer. You need to study this. Ok?
Um, Philip? I don't need to study the sex lives of men to answer this: "You don't know what MLK did out of the spotlight; you never will.
And it doesn't matter; you are not the judge, anyhow.
He wasn't wicked. He was just a man.", which was in direct answer to your "In order to repent, one must make public confession of ones sins and ones crimes. MLK never did that. "
You don't know that. You cannot know that. The FBI cannot know that.
Again, the sex lives of these men, although personally repugnant to me, doesn't minimize the achievements; unless, of course, one places too much importance to the organ between his legs over the importance of the organ contained in the skull.
Jesus has no authority to forgive crimes. Only sins. For example, he forgave the man dying next to him of his sins. But that common criminal still had to pay for his crimes with his own lif.
*with his own life
r u going to reply to this comment or not, Donna.
My goodness, Philip, I am on my phone.
So let me see if I have this right: Jesus doesn't forgive crimes, but sins. You stated MLK committed a crime, not a sin; therefore, by your own analogy, MLK is has nothing to be forgiven for, correct?
And yes, I am aware of the 7th Commandment; so it would seem that he did break God's Commandment.
Do you think God holds a harsher punishment for an adulterer than one who breaks the 9th, daily, without a public admission for repentance?
MLK never did publicly admit to cheating on his wife, though he did father many creamy babies. He never did repent. Yet, will still be resurrected back to life on earth and given another chance. For that is how much God loves men. And women. (I guess. lol)
He fathered children.
What's a "creamy baby" again?
The kind of kids Aussies claim "A dingo ate my baby".
And what is that supposed to mean? You use this term quite often; explain it, please.
You wouldn't be afraid to? No. You have stated quite emphatically you are afraid of nothing and no one.
Definition of creamy baby, please?
"Whatever it is that you are owing the court, every last penny will be repaid." -The Word.
Your sins may or may not be forgiven. But your crimes will be paid for in full. By you.
...and me. No human has ever committed no crimes. For example, if every stop light you ran or every time you drove over the speed limit you were caught by police, you and I and everyone would be convicted as habitual traffic offenders. I still owe the courts 14K out of 88K. And will pay, or die by the hand of God, says The Word.
Does total adherence to Man's laws make a difference to to God?
What if they are contrary to His laws?
Because I have a hard time believing God cares if one rolls through a stop sign in the larger scheme of things, or that He cared about traffic laws when The Word was being handed down to those that recorded them.
Yes. King David achieved much because even after he had a man murdered in order to sleep with that man's wife, he publicly admitted what he had done and did not say "what is se x". And went on to father the wisest man who ever lived. Solomon, whom Jesus adored most.
FBI investigations mean something, @banasy.
You will also recall who was Director at that time; gathering information for future blackmail and power was his forte.
I am unimpressed with the knowledge that I've known for years: NLK was unfaithful to his wife.
It still does not detract one bit from his achievements, Philip.
MLK never publicly admitted to cheating on his wife. Billy Clinton tried to weasel his way out of it. King David publicly admitted it, and was forgiven. And went on to father Solomon. No such heir to MLK is there.
You don't know that; you never will; you are judging, and it is unsavory behavior.
Jesus has no authority to forgive crimes. Only sins. For example, he forgave the man dying next to him of his sins. But that common criminal still had to pay for his crimes with his own life. What say you, Donna.
Um, what do you expect me to say?
banasy© says:
January 23, 2015 at 11:29 pm
What crime did MLK commit?
Philip says:
January 23, 2015 at 11:
When MLK was alive, cheating on your wife was still a crime in the USA. Not anymore, though.
By your own words, Jesus must be OK with MLK's crime, right?
Is 10pm. Have taxes. ttyl
Yup lol this "hard heart" may be under reconstruction soon @ banasy...bet it will be even harder then! And i dont imagine this blog will be operating tomorrow so have a nice life @ philip. Ttyt @ banasy.
Clearly the answer to your heart problem is less masturbation and more tears, Chrissy.
Lmao well thx @ banasy! Wonder why MY doctor didnt mention that? Lol
Oh thats right! Thats probably because i dont have Dr. Phil lmao.
Fareed is being dishonest by implying that the Gita Bhagavad is the ONLY source of law in Hindooism. Many things don't appear directly in Gita Bhagavad but are considered a part of hindoo law and hindutva jurisprudence. The sources second only to Gita B are the Ramayana tales, and as an Indian, Fareed knows this to be true. And in Ramayana several examples are given Lord Shiva ordering the killing of those who mock or satirize him in poetry or other forms. These sanctioned killings forever enshrined the practice of death to blasphemers as a legitimate part of hindutva law. Those who are denying this are being willfully dishonest or are simply ignorant. Here is a small list of examples from the puranas which give these terrorists the backing they need in hinduism for their acts.
Fareed is a CIA agent. Intellectually, he should be publishing a newsletter for AQAP in Yemen.
Mossad agent also. Dual role.
When the Apostle returned to Veranasi after his raid on Benares, word spread that he had killed some of the men who had satirized and insulted him. The poets who were left spread in all directions.
kama sutra:597
'You obey a stranger who encourages you to murder for booty. You are greedy men. Is there no honor among you?' Upon hearing those lines Lord Shiva said, 'Will no one rid me of this woman?' Modi, a zealous Hindoo decided to execute Lord Shiva's wishes. That very night he crept into the writer's home while she lay sleeping surrounded by her young children. There was one at her breast. Ganesha removed the suckling babe and then plunged his sword into the poet. The next morning in the mandir, Shiva, who was aware of the assassination, said, 'You have helped Lord Shiva and His Apostle.' Ganesha said. 'She had five sons; should I feel guilty?' 'No,' the pundit answered. 'Killing her was as meaningless as two goats butting heads.'
Some purple colored, dhoti wearing hinddoou terrorist/raipists troll/s squatting in a cave in India. Rubbing mustard oil on his d ik trying to m asturbate looking at Durga Maa's photo. Incense made out of cow d ung is burning nearby. Suicide belt hangs on wall. Human feces all over the floor.
That about describes the rant of three drug addicts who frequent the boards to post sewage.
No wonder they shut this board down. @chrissy, banasy and philip enjoy your time raiping in your motherland India. Namasatay to you.
Spot on @Cantor.
The Jobless Indian trolls cling like cokroaches as you can see by the disjointed and nonsense comments they are making. All this while typing with one hand and scratching their bollz by the other. Then they pick their nose, eat their boogers and scratch their a ss. This ritual culminates with licking their fingers after eating curry with unwashed hands and then back to making comments.
They say 95% of hindus don't have plumbing in their homes in India. They dig a hole in the fields to take a crap. Dry the stuff up and use for plastering their homes or as cooking fuel. Thats how the word dryvit came about.
They bottle the p iss and use in lieu of coffee first thing every morning.
One is a pariah if you are a pedophile like Modi. Plus India and Modi have subjugated and massacred and keep on massacring minorities including sikhs and moslems and Christians and Jews. The memories of India's leader Gandhi siding with Hitler and holocaust of Jews is still fresh in our minds. The filth Indian hindus have spewed below is unforgivable. No one would take them seriously nor accept the sincerity of whatever they say. I am sure everyone agrees to that.
Modi has a boyfriend in Myanmar. He is a monk.
Natinder Modi is a pariah and considered a low caste buccha baaz in international circles. Nobody wants to talk to him nobody wants to give him a visa to travel. Modi is a murderer and a raipist. Some call him chai walla. Everyone calls him chutiya.


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When will we see a herpes cure?
As a feature of CNNhealth.com, our team of expert doctors will answer readers' questions. Here's a question for Dr. Gupta.
From Lloyd Bartley, Bowling Green, Kentucky
"How close are scientists to developing a cure for herpes, figuratively speaking will we be seeing a break through in 10, 20, or even 30 years?"
Well, Lloyd, there is good news and bad news on the herpes front. The good news: Researchers have made serious strides and now better understand the mechanism behind herpes outbreaks. The bad news: There is very little funding for that research.
After receiving your question we reached out to a leading herpes expert, Bryan Cullen, the director at the Center for Virology at Duke University. Cullen is hopeful that a cure for herpes could come within 10 years, once funding hurdles are crossed.
Nearly one in five people over age 12 in the U.S. is affected by herpes. It is caused by a virus - either the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) or the herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). Both strains can cause genital herpes, but HSV-1 usually infects the mouth and produces cold sores.
Despite funding challenges, Cullen and his team are inching closer to a cure. They conducted a study recently that identified the pathway herpes takes as it infects. They now know how herpes embeds itself into the cells and how it eludes treatment. Now that they have honed in on the physiology of the disease - and its triggers - researchers believe they are steps closer to creating drugs that could cure herpes.
While we wait for a cure, there are drugs out there that can at least suppress herpes. Three antiviral drugs: acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir are commonly recommended to quell outbreaks. A physician might recommend taking these drugs when an outbreak occurs to quiet symptoms; or taking them continuously to reduce the likelihood of an outbreak.
And of course the best way to avoid spreading herpes is to abstain from sex, but if you are sexually active, engage in safe-sex practices such as using condoms.
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