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FriendFeed's ability is to connect you to Digg or any Blog just based on username makes is a very easy tool to use. No invasive procedure of handing over your password to your e-mail account to every new site you sign up with. If I add my Digg username, "happyStalking" to FriendFeed, the site goes through Digg's databases looking for any aticles i have dugg, made comments on.., etc. How convenient? The same is true for any blogs I have on the web. I just provide the URL of the blog and if I want to filter the articles posted to just articles that I have authored, I simply provide my username.
But what happens if I provide a URL that I don't actually participate in and a username that is not actually me? In this case, I chose the popular www.techcrunch.com and the author name I chose was Michael Arrington (my pen name on the web). Now my FriendFeed is full of Arrington posts (that guys busy). And my facebook profile posts my Arrington posts on Facebook.
Also, I chose some random dude's username on Digg.
Highlighted below are the FriendFeed entries that I didn't have anything to do with.
I'm sure if I was smart enough, I could use this querk to make myself look much more important than I really am. Let's say I was looking for a tech job and connected with a potential IT employer to my LinkedIn profile where I had posted many insightful blogs about my industry and shown a serious interest in the most erudite IT topics on Digg. "This guy would be great. He know his stuff." my future employer would think to himself.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
I'm Back!
I've been on vacation for almost a week, but now it's back to the 'ole freelance grind. Actually, it wasn't so much a vacation as it was me insinuating myself into a business trip. Why? Because the business trip was six days at a spa/winery. You heard that right- a place that offers both spa treatments and makes its own wine. Why anyone would want to go to such a place without taking me along I simply cannot imagine.
Ok, so the question for a lot of freelancers is generally whether they should tell their clients that they will be out of town. I see a lot of people who insist that you should immediately tell everyone you ever work with that you will be gone, but I don't think it's that dire. If you will have Internet access and can stay in communication in case you're needed, it's not a huge issue. If you don't want to be bothered with work at all while you're away, well, being self employed is probably not your calling.
I generally tell the ones that need to know, and that works out just fine. I told every client but one this time. The one that didn't hear about it didn't need to because I have an end-of-month deadline with them. So, I don't really believe there are any rules set in stone concerning the issue.
If you go out of town a lot, which I don't, it might not be a good idea to mention it or you may be seen as someone who is frequently unavailable. If you rarely get a chance to go anywhere, like me, use your own discretion. If it comes to it- this isn't the Renaissance. There are laptops, hotel business centers and even Kinko's if you need to communicate while you're away.
You can also postdate articles to appear on different dates ahead of time, which I did with a couple of sites. For regular gigs like blogs or other regular postings, there may be a time-stamping option that will make it look like you never even left.
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Principles to create your own blogging success
Allow me now to share with you how you can use these same principles, that I learned from self-publishing my own books to building my blog, for your own blogging success.
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- Make it your goal to clearly communicate your message between 600 and 1000 words.
- Study the best and most influential bloggers in the world.
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- Write some of your best material for other blogs. In fact, give your best away.
- Always reply to comments.
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- Write another article for those who reject you, and ultimately get accepted.
- Continue to ask for interviews, and although you may not get them all you will still get most of them.
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|January 30th 2018
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, a new book featuring her iconic heroine of Me Before You and After You, Louisa Clark
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her new job and New York life.
As she begins to mix in New York high society, Lou meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. Before long, Lou finds herself torn between Fifth Avenue where she works and the treasure-filled vintage clothing store where she actually feels at home. And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself: Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you find the courage to follow your heart—wherever that may lead?
Funny, romantic, and poignant, Still Me follows Lou as she discovers who she is and who she was always meant to be—and to live boldly in her brave new world.
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Pueblo Science makes science accessible to students in Philippine villages
Pueblo Science conducted its third annual teachers' training program in the Philippines from May 16 to 31, 2013. Three Philippine provinces were selected as sites for the workshops: Palawan, Davao and Masbate. A total of 290 teachers from various villages in each province were trained during the camp, potentially benefiting over 17,000 students this year alone! During each of the two-day training sessions, the teachers were taught how to run 12 fun experiments using locally sourced materials so they could be reproduced in even the most remote classrooms. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive: "Pueblo Science 2013 is an awesome science training camp for teachers because of the fun-filled educational experiments, hands-on activities and lectures which are very needed in Masbate due to our lack of science majors and lab facilities. Pueblo Science is an answer to science teachers' needs for teaching the subjects." – Edwin Returan, Masbate, Philippines
Three Canadian volunteers affiliated with the University of Toronto were joined by four local volunteers from the University of the Philippines. After the training, the volunteers were able to enjoy local hospitality, delicacies, and tourist attractions such as diving, beach hopping and wake boarding. "It was a great way to spend 2.5 weeks of my time, combining science, interactions with locals and giving back. Overall, it was a really fun and rewarding trip!" says Nari Kim, one of Pueblo Science volunteers, currently completing her PhD in UofT's Department of Chemistry.


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fully on some important business of the kingdom, as necessity urgently required. For the pope, because of the indignation which he had conceived against the king and all the nobles òf the kingdom, was devising all kinds of arguments for stretching out his hand so as to inflict daily grievances on them, and to extort money from them, and was -adding to the weight of his oppression every day. For the anger of the pope was swelling and furious against the miserable English, because they had dared to complain before the council of the oppressions and injuries which were daily inflicted on them. And, indeed, injuries were uninterruptedly multiplied in the kingdom ; and in the pope's, sight, that is to say in his court, the English were made of less account than any other citizens of even the most significant nations. On which account he is reported to have said, "It is desirable that we should put that king of England on a level with the prince (meaning Frederic), so as to crush him, since he is our vassal, and is now resisting us.9' Moreover, because the aforesaid king had obtained a privilege so that no legate can enter hie kingdom except at his own request, he sent some sophistical and disguised legates, having great power, to extort revenues and money, and in all respects more rapacious than ordinary legates, though they had not the insignia of legates, being at one time secular clergy, at another time Preaching Brothers,1 and at another Minors, of whom the pope made bedels and tax-gatherers, to the injury and disparagement of their order and profession, since they had promised under a vow to God to endure voluntary poverty and humiliation. On which account many of them who had clear consciences, sighed in their hearts, and grieved, saying, " Alas ! how soon, through the envy of the devil, does our order learn folly. For a thousand years the order of Saint Benedict has not received so much injury."
Also the lord the pope stretched out his hand to carry out further acts of extortion, such, for instance, as embracing in the bosom of his avarice all the property of those who died without wills, not without great injustice and loss to the princes ; and he seized them even if a man being sick, and not able or willing to speak, by reason of his weakness, deputed some one to made a will for him ; and this injustice is said to contravene the laws. Besides this, a thing which was
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ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Josef Newgarden has a pole to go with the new garden that fans planted in his honor at Road America.
The defending IndyCar series champion led a Team Penske sweep up front for the 222-mile race Sunday. Newgarden turned a lap time in 1 minute, 43.20 seconds for his fifth career pole and second straight after taking pole position two weeks ago at Texas.
At Road America, Newgarden also gets a vegetable garden .
"Someone set up my own garden, too," he said Saturday after qualifying. "It shows you the kind of you support you have around here."
He edged teammate Will Power by 0.05 seconds.
"That was close. We were off the whole time. I gave it everything the last lap — a surprise front row," Power said.
Andretti Autosport drivers locked down the second row for the road-course race Sunday, with Ryan Hunter-Reay starting third and Alexander Rossi taking fourth.
"Just came up a little short there. All of a sudden, Josef and Will popped out of nowhere," Hunter-Reay said.
Rookie Robert Wickens will start fifth, with Sebastien Bourdais starting sixth.
Wickens and Newgarden recorded the top two laps over the three practice sessions at Road America.
Newgarden's momentum carried over into qualifying. Maybe Road America will give him a spark after dropping to fifth in the points standings following a five-race stretch finishing no higher than eighth.
"We were on the pole last week in Texas too. Qualifying for us doesn't really guarantee anything in this series," Newgarden said.
"We've got speed," he added. "We've just got to make sure we execute on race day."
Points leader Scott Dixon will start eighth, his lowest starting position since qualifying ninth for the Indy 500 last month.
But Dixon, a four-time series champion, is a threat no matter where he's stationed on the starting grid.
"I think even if Scott started 23rd he'd still be in the front at the end," Rossi said.
WHO'S HOT: Hunter-Reay will have his best starting position of the year. He has moved up from ninth to fourth in the points race following four straight top-five finishes, including a win at Belle Isle.
WHO'S NOT: Simon Pagenaud was left out of the Penske party up front. He will start 14th after just missing the cut to advance out of the first round of qualifying.
PENSKE'S POLE: Newgarden won Team Penske's third straight pole at Road America, following Helio Castroneves in 2016 and Will Power last year.
IRON MAN: Tony Kanaan qualified 18th in the 23-car field in what will be his 293rd consecutive series start, extending an IndyCar record. The race Sunday will come 17 years to the day that the streak began at Portland International Raceway in 2001.
"The car is understeering all weekend," Kanaan said. "We tried something overnight that didn't work, so it put us behind a session and we're back to the car we had yesterday."
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
Fragile Heart
6 comments:
- Joysze said...
Looking forward to the after picture, Bev. I'm sure she's going to be gorgeous. Can't wait! :D
- Thursday, May 05, 2011
- Lesleyanne said...
Great progress. She is looking lovely.
- Friday, May 06, 2011
- Claire said...
Wow, i just love the reds in her hair. How many colours does it use?
- Friday, May 06, 2011
- Lisa said...
She's coming along Bev, I just love this design. So wish I'd signed up for this one now instead of the Spangler one, the colours are just gorgeous.
- Friday, May 06, 2011
- Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...
Love the red hair on this one.
- Saturday, May 07, 2011
- The Crafty Princess said...
Hi Bev. I just read your comment that you left on my blog. OMG! I may need to lend my guardian angel to you. It's nice that you got what you wished for but bit concerned about the way it came about though. You have a fantastic sense of humour I love your blog and all your wips esp Mermaid and Marilyn. I'm also doing Fragile Heart for the SAL. Good luck with yours she's looking great so far. I had to do a restart since I gouged a hole in the fabby. So not much done on her. Take care and I mean that truly LOL xo Alicia
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On the 10th and 11th of June, 2017, the Youth4Environment fellowship officially launched with a two day training session.
This is the first program of its kind, tapping into the under-utilised resource that is the RWA network and empowering young people to create change on a local level. The Fellows come from all across Delhi, representing different neighbourhoods, age groups, and walks of life. The one thing they all share is a passion for the environment, and a belief that they can make a difference.
With the support of all of the organisations involved, these Fellows are working to create campaigns on environmental issues that matter to them, no affect their local community directly. Their campaigns will address a range of subjects including solar power, waste segregation and green mobility, and engage with volunteers from the community to create long lasting, sustainable change.
Through inter-generational collaboration and community involvement, the Fellows hope to address urgent issues facing not only their neighbourhoods but also the planet as a whole. As Sahej, a Youth4Environment Fellow, puts it, "environmental issues are important because it's our own home and our own rivers that we are polluting. We are writing our own obituaries." But the Fellows are determined to change this. "Everyone has a part to play and a responsibility towards the environment. I am playing my part," Aryan, another of the fellows, said.
Hosted at the YWCA in Connaught Place, the two training days were a chance for the newly inducted Fellows and members of the involved RWAs to meet each other, and pick up some of the vital skills that they will need to run successful environmental campaigns. A number of expert panelists addressed the Fellows, including Sunil Dahiya, Greenpeace India Campaigner; Rajiv Dinesh, Co- Founder and CEO of Sunfund Renewable; YK Chawla, Energy Advisor, Government of India and Sarika Panda Bhatt, Manager, World Resources Institute. The Fellows left even more invigorated and excited about the months ahead, and many have already started work, hosting meetings and events within their communities.
Shashi Issar, a Youth4Environment Fellow from Ashok Vihar, recently arranged for Greenpeace India's Solar Bus initiative to visit his community and educate people about solar energy. This bus also visited Jorbagh, where Fellow Manya Berri is working to educate her community about the benefits of solar energy. Another Fellow, Mitali Chakraborty, held a plantation drive which planted 50 trees in an effort to green up his South Delhi neighbourhood. And this is just the very beginning. It will no doubt be inspiring to see what these otherwise ordinary citizens can achieve over the next few months.
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The buildings themselves bear little outward resemblance between the two movies. Besides the second stories being added for "Army Girl," the overall complex has a new finish and different trim, along with changes to the windows and doors. But the general layout seems to be the same — that is, the buildings remain in the same place in "Army Girl" where they stood in "Wee Willie Winkie."


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I love that I am an animal. I know my instincts for survival and thriving are no greater or less than those of another species, excepting paramecium or amoeba with whom I am not well acquainted. When I go to a concert, I am less focused on being in a fancy music hall, with polished wooden floors, marble statues and high decor. My true self is stalking the "sweet-spot" of my own species, thinking "look how undefended we can be together, standing in wild proximity to one another and blending our voices on purpose, to send an arrow of auditory energy straight to the places that ache to be touched." I am thinking that music does that - goes in without permission. Enters us without knocking, or knowing the password, or paying the price of admission at the door.
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When it comes to non-emergency medical transportation, it is one of the booming businesses nowadays. But before starting it, there are several things that are needed to be understood. Basically, this write-up gives a brief on how you can actually start with the NEMT business.
The market is flooded with different types of operators in the industry. So, you need to understand and clear that which type of business you will start and what kind of operator you will be when it comes to non-emergency medical transportation services. Usually, entrepreneurs benefit with the franchise model. But in franchise model, you will need to pay the initially and in an ongoing process as well. Moreover, you can even start this business independently as well as it is not so difficult to do.
Another important aspect is of choosing the right kind of area where you actually set up your business. You need to finely see the areas where you can get more number of elderly, disables or Medicaid citizens who may be living in the nearby areas. You also need to compile a list of hospitals, dialysis centers, retirement homes, assisted living centers and other relevant operations. This step will give you clear idea on the areas that can benefit you the most.
On next step, you need to find out your competitors in the region who might be providing the same or similar services. After finding out the competitors, you can even find out the types of services they are providing so that you can understand the service you need to offer to your clients.
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And I agree as well, even if I'm on the wrong end of supporting that lifestyle. Of course, the new age stuff that I've endured with my wife has not been without some great fringe benefits. Examples include secretly flipping the psychic $20 to tell my wife she needed a more active sex life, the never ending pain in my testicles that gets relieved through reiki, the sexy yoga poses, and last, but certainly not least, the hours of quiet I get when the wife's meditating...
Are you still around?
"the never ending pain in my testicles that gets relieved through reiki."
Has that pain returned or it is still gone?
Did you see doctors about it, or it is not really troublesome but just an annoyance like a slight* from a kid which does not bother you if you are busy with other things more important or interesting or urgent.
*Slight = light insult like calling you old baldy.
I'm glad I'm not the only one reviving long dead threads around here.


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On 11 August 2008, Via Campesina Brazil and the Movement of Landless Peasants (MST) launched an international campaign against the activities of the Swedish-Finnish pulp and paper company Stora Enso. Via Campesina Brazil is asking people to write to the governments of Sweden and Finland and to the head office of Stora Enso, to protest against the company's operations in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The letter is below. Representatives of Via Campesina and MST will visit the Finnish and Swedish embassies in Brazil this week, to deliver the letter.
TO Mr. Jouko Karvinen
CEO – StoraEnso
Stora Enso Oyj Head Office
Kanavaranta 1
P.O.Box 309
Tel. +358 20 46 131
Fax +358 20 46 214 71
Stora Enso AB Head office
World Trade Center, Klarabergsviadukten 70, C4
P.O.Box 70395
Tel. +46 (0)1046 46 000
Fax +46-8 10 60 20
Governement of Sweden
Primeiro Ministro:Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switchboard work+46 8 405 10 00
Address workRosenbad 4
Postal address postal103 33 Stockholm
Governement of Finland
Primeiro-Ministro:Matti Vanhanen
To the stockholders and managers of Stora Enso corporation
And to the governments of Sweden and Finland
The names signed below take responsibility to communicate and inform the board of directors of Stora Enso cellulose corporation and the governments of Sweden and Finland, as well as any other people who might be interested, the wrong ways of doing business of the company's Brazilian branch, made clear in internal investigations, and which have been extensively reported by the Brazilian media, such as:
1 – The purchase of land in Rio Grande do Sul, close to the Brazilian border, against Federal Law, and without the necessary legal proceedings.
2 – The irregular establishment of a company, Azenglever, which is boarded by the directors of Stora Enso's Brazilian branch, with the purpose of bypassing the Law, and with the inability to match the directors' income with the company's earnings, yielding a possible investigation by the Federal Police, and Public Prosecution.
3 – Putting pressure on local political authorities to violate environmental legislations, which, in turn, generates anger and aversion in civil society, hurting the company's image, and creating judicial insecurity for the future; these manipulations have led to the discharge of an environmental state minister and of the president of the state agency FEPAM, responsible for studying environmental impacts, as well as creating protests by all public sectors related to environmental issues.
4 – Disregarding the severity of implementing vast areas of eucalyptus monoculture in the pampas biome, and the very severe consequences on the environment, the subsoil water, and the survival of hundreds of animal and plant forms that belong to the biome.
5 – The purchase of land fit for agrarian reform with the purpose of producing cellulose, creating anger in the landless agricultural families that had been camping there for years with the expectation of getting help from the Brazilian social sector, which was defeated by Stora Enso's actions.
6 – Dedicating extensive resources on political campaigns for congressmen and other public positions that although they are legal, they are highly immoral, since the company needed permits to be approved by these politicians.
7 – Violently repressing rural women for trying to expose all the irregularities, and social and environmental problems created by wrongful course of action that Stora Enso has been taking, in an attempt to stand by human rights.
This is all we wish to communicate at the moment, although we are in your disposition in the case you need more important information. Attached is a document explaining everything in a more detailed manner.
As you can see, this company is responsible for increasing the concentration of land ownership, for increasing the concentration of wealth, for the increasing the migration of rural people to cities, and for severe damage to the environment, which will have serious long-lasting future consequences. One day, the people of Brazil and the people of Rio Grande do Sul will charge you for all that the company has done.
Attached to the letter is the following document, which details the social and environmental impact of Stora Enso's monocultures in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina:
Denunciation of the Activities of Stora Enso in Rio Grande do Sul- Brazil
1. Introduction
The Swedish-Finnish corporation Stora Enso is the largest producer of paper and cardboard in the world. Some years ago, seeking better natural conditions for the production of cellulose, it began to transfer its investments to Brazil in search of higher profits. To reach its goals it joined other monopoly groups that already produced cellulose in Brazil such as Aracruz (a Norwegian company that now partakes of international, national and state financial capital,) and also Votorantin (Brazilian cellulose corporation). From this alliance was born the biggest cellulose factory in the world, Veracel built in the South of the state of Bahia.
Currently, Veracel (ownership of which is 50% Aracruz and 50% Stora-Enso) has 205,364 hectares of land in the south of Bahia, of which 95,574 hectares are already planted with eucalyptus. Besides this, the corporation has around 23,000 hectares of forest promotion, which is eucalyptus planted in partnership on the property of others. And it says it has another 100,535 in reserve. Currently the corporation is considering doubling its cellulose production of around 900 thousand tons per year. This doubling would also mean a doubling of the quantity of eucalyptus that is planted, concentrating land even more and expanding monoculture in the region.
In 2005, this corporation began to build in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the south of Brazil on the border with Argentina and Uruguay. In just three years, the corporation has already concentrated thousands of hectares in the state. According to the corporation's own press releases, in five years Stora Enso accumulated territory equal to 100 thousand hectares in the state.
The amount of land concentrated by the corporation is even greater if we consider that along with Stora Enso, two other corporations control the planting and production of cellulose in Rio Grande do Sul: Votorantin Cellulose and Paper (VCP) e Aracruz Cellulose. At the same time, VCP is a shareholder of Aracruz and is for its part a partner of Stora Enso in a joint venture, which is Aracel. So all are part of the same conglomerate and already control half a million hectares of territory in the south of Brazil for the production of pine and eucalyptus. According to statements by its directors in the press, the planting of eucalyptus in Rio Grande do Sul should reach a million hectares by 2014.
2. Concentration of ownership of land in defiance of Brazilian Law
The acquisition of these lands implies serious social consequences. In practice, the action of the corporations has excluded hundreds of families of farmers and medium-sized land owners from their lands, offering above-market prices to convince them to sell. And whoever resists the pressure at first and becomes a neighbor of the corporation's eucalyptus, continues to feel the pressure and with time, isolation makes this farmer sell his property to the cellulose corporations. Besides this, they have obstructed the process of land reform in the state, overvaluing the price of lands and acquiring latifundios that would be destined for agrarian reform.
Brazilian law forbids a foreign company from buying lands in a zone of 150 km next to Brazil's border. Stora Enso was interested in the Brazilian lands on the border with Uruguay and Argentina because there was greater availability of lands dedicated to cattle ranching so they could buy land with better conditions for growing eucalyptus. Since the law forbids this, the corporation put together a fake company as if it were Brazilian and casually registered it with the name Azenglever in the name of two of its directors. They bought more than 80 thousand hectares of land in the border zone this way, scoffing at the law. INCRA discovered the maneuver and vetoed the transfer of property from the latifundios who were selling to the front company of Stora Enso. The fake owners on the other hand did not succeed in proving in the Federal Revenue the source of the $R200 million used to buy this land. It's obvious that the money was a foreign investment of Stora Enso.
The case is being investigated by the Federal Police and there is a process in INCRA that denied the registration of ownership of lands. But this did not prevent Stora Enso from having ownership of the lands and they have already planted eucalyptus in this areas that were fraudulently purchased.
On the other hand, the corporation is betting on its "power" to convince the authorities and has undertaken two procedures. First it entered a special request in the National Security Council in Brasilia, trying to free up these areas, arguing that the export of cellulose is also important. But the law is clear, this request would have to be made BEFORE the purchase and not after as is being done now and therefore should not be granted. And on the other hand it "motivated" Senator Sergio Zambiasi (PTB_RS) so that he could introduce a bill that is already circulating in the Senate, reducing the prohibition of the purchase of foreign lands by foreigners from 150 to only 20 km zone on the border and thus freeing up all the corporation's lands. The parliamentary maneuver is so big and so favorable to Stora Enso that fearing reactions from the military, the senator's bill would reduce the border zone only on the Southern border, keeping the same prohibition on the Western border and in the North of the country and in the Amazon region.
Proof of the corporation's illegal actions can be seen in various documents that are archived in INCRA and recognized even in an email message between the corporate attorney Valdo Costar de Rizzo, forest director João Borges and the Stora Enso vice president for Latin America, Otávio Pontes, where they reveal that the lands are being bought not in the name of Derflin (the subsidiary of Stora Enso) but in the name of Azenglever Agropecuária Ltda, whose capital would supposedly be owed by people who are legally Brazilians but in practiced acquired lands for the Swedish-Finnish corporation without needing authorization from Brazilian law and the Council for National Defense.
The effect of the concentration of land in the state is also accelerated. The process of agrarian reform and distribution of lands in the state carried out by the Federal and State governments, distributed only 130 thousand hectares of land to 15 thousand landless families in Rio Grande do Sul in the period from 1982 to 2007. In the meantime in only three years it bought 100 thousand hectares from 1200 small, medium and large landowners, concentrated in just one corporation.
3. Consequences for the Environment
Rio Grande do Sul just like Uruguay and Argentina make up part of an ecological system known as the Pampas biomass, which has a unique biodiversity with native grasses, 450 species of typical subtropical vegetation composed of 3000 vascular plants, 450 species of grass and 150 of legumes, besides 385 types of birds and 90 mammals. Some of these species are called endemic because they only occur in this ecosystem. In the subsoil of this region is the largest reserve of sweet water in the Americas, the so-called Guarani Aquifer that comprises a territory extending from the state of São Paulo to the River Prata in Argentina and Uruguay.
And it was precisely for these characteristics that this territory was chosen by Stora Enso for its project of cellulose production. Eucalyptus, the basis for cellulose, planted in Brazil can be harvested in just seven years. In the northern regions of the planet, it would need at least 50 years to develop and be used for cellulose. So this territory has all the conditions to guarantee high rates of profit. Cheap land, available biomass for planting, a lot of sun and a lot of water.
Ironically, Stora Enso and its partners call their activity "reforestation" when a forest never existed that could be restored in the pampas biomass. On the other hand, the scientists warn that the monoculture of eucalyptus trees cannot be called a forest and reforestation since a forest necessarily includes all the varieties of plants that form the biodiversity. In the case of the industrial planting of eucalyptus, all the other forms of plant and animal life that existed before in that biomass are destroyed.
Furthermore, eucalyptus consumes a lot of water. In its growth phase each plant consumes 30 liters of water daily. And it has a large capacity for evaporation, able to dry out the soil, dry up springs, lower the water table, dry up the grassy marshes, lower the water level in the small creeks and streams, etc. leaving the local population without water.
In Uruguay, where the Finnish corporation Botnia and the Spanish corporation Ence are planting 700 thousand hectares, a lack of water has already been noted. Many farm communities who were isolated by the planting of eucalyptus are already finding themselves without water and are supplied by water trucks from the local towns. According to the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), the planting of eucalyptus in Uruguay even dried up artesian wells 30 meters deep. Studies by the WRM in various countries of the world in the last 10 years, researching in farm communities about the availability of water after the arrival of eucalyptus corporations in their regions, arrives at the following conclusion: the planting of eucalyptus has a negative impact on water sources for these communities.
And according to Science magazine (12/23/2005), the planting of eucalyptus in the Argentine pampas reduced the flow of water by 52% and dried up 13% of the rivers. In Rio Grande do Sul, according to studies by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), eucalyptus is going to consume 20% more water than the state gets in rainfall. Since the tree causes desertification and soil acidity, there will be unknown consequences for the three thousand species of plants in the pampas.
4. Factory pollution
The cellulose factories are also big users of water with the use of many chemical products for whitening cellulose, with the risk of environmental accidents always present. For example, the Botnia corporation's factory on the border between Uruguay and Argentina uses 13 chemical elements considered dangerous in the production of cellulose paste, creating 150 tons of toxic residue yearly. Argentine society reacted with protests that went on for many months.
In the case of Rio Grande do Sul the three new factories will be installed on the banks of important rivers in the state, because they need more water to be able to function.
5. The promiscuous relation between the corporations and Public Power in the State
All the planting of eucalyptus in Rio Grande do Sul is being carried out without environmental impact studies and its impact on the environment and on people, in complete violation of Brazilian law. The failure to comply with this legal prerogative constitutes a crime. Brazilian legislation is one of the most advanced in the world in considering that actions that attack the environment are also crimes. These crimes can also result in prison sentences.
But so that Stora Ensol and its shareholders would not suffer economic damages, the Governor of Rio Grande Yeda Crusium (elected in October 2006) allowed the planting of trees without an environmental authorization, unlike former governors who tried to respect environmental law.
Since there was opposition to the expansion of eucalyptus on the part of the State Secretary of the Environment who already had studies about the serious consequences, the governor got rid of Secretary Vera Callegaro. And following that, the President of the Foundation to Help the Environment (FEPAM), who was responsible for the studies, was fired. And so the way was free for the corporations to decide how and where they would plant eucalyptus, determined only by the needs of the market and of profit.
Through their union, the employees of FEPAM put together a document denouncing and protesting the clear manipulation of reports and the violation of environmental law to favor the cellulose corporations in the state.
The earlier agreement carried out by FEPAM and the corporations in the so-called Terms of Adjustment of Conduct (TAC), signed on December 31, 2006, determined that all the areas larger than one thousand hectares should be studied for an environmental authorization. FEPAM carried out a study of environmental zoning in the state in which there were highly restricted regions in which the corporations could only plant 2% of the area in eucalyptus. Other zones with average preservation could plant 30 to 40% in eucalyptus and in the other regions 50% of each property in the area could be planted with eucalyptus. These three classified regions are concentrated precisely in the region where the ranches are being purchased by the three paper companies. And now, all this regulation was overthrown and the corporations do not have to respect any of the determining conditions in the technical study. In other words, they are cultivating 100% of the ranches that they are acquiring. According to the earlier regulations, each area or ranch that is acquired for the planting of eucalyptus needed to have a specific environmental impact study. Now the government says that an authorization allows the planting of eucalyptus in any ranch of the entire region.
The promiscuity of the corporations with the conservative politicians in the state became public and notorious in the financing of electoral campaigns in 2006. The three cellulose corporations spent no less than $R2 million in the sponsorship of campaigns for candidates for the governors of the state and the 75 candidates for federal and state office of almost all the political parties. Besides the financial resources, the corporations contributed with an unlimited quantity of paper that was used in the electoral propaganda. The current governor Yeda Crusius alone received R$500 thousand from the paper companies, according to data registered in the Electoral Superior Court. (WWW.TSE.GOV.BR). (Source: A peleja do Eucalipto, by journalist João Grande, published by UFSC – Federal University of Santa Catarina)
In 2006, the Stora Enso corporation invited and paid for all the trip expenses for various state legislators to visit Finland to get to know close at hand the "development" promoted by the cellulose sector in that country. And so afterwards they offered no obstacles to the monoculture of eucalyptus in the state.
More recently, the government of Rio Grande do Sul has been printing the brochures for their government programs with paper and the financing of the Aracruz corporation.
6. Financing production activities with public funds
The Brazilian public contributed with funds and various forms of savings to make possible "investments" of these cellulose corporations. We can see evidence in various examples and concrete cases.
There's a Brazilian law approved by the Cardoso government back in 1995 that gives a tax exemption to all exports of mineral and agricultural raw materials – it's known as the Kandir Law in homage to its author, then Minister of Planning in the Cardoso government. So all the exports of cellulose in the form of paste and raw material for paper and cardboard pay absolutley no tax in Brazil. This by itself represents at the minimum a subsidy of 17% of the worth in relation to the other Brazilian exports, which are taxed.
And considering that the cellulose corporations export 97% of all that they produce in Brazil, the volume of the subsidy received by the corporations can be estimated over the value of cellulose exports, which reach more than $3 billion dollars yearly.
The taxes on import of machines and equipment needed for cutting down the eucalyptus and the industry for producing cellulose also has a total tax exemption. The corporations pay nothing to the Brazilian state.
There is an actual cartel of the cellulose industry for export and for internal production of paper and packaging by four corporations: Aracruz, Stora Enso, Votorantin, and Klabin. All of them are associated with finance capital and own factories together as partners.
To install these new modern factories that require large investments, the Bank of Economic and Social Development of Brazil (BNDES) has financed these investments, using the national treasury, generally derived from funds of the working class, and loaned funds to these corporations with subsidized interest rates well below market rate. The biggest celloulose factory in the world, Veracel, inaugurated in 2005, which belongs to the Stora Enso-Aracruz cartel was entirely financed by the BNDES in an amount corresponding to $1 billion.
On the other hand, the activities of planting eucalyptus also receive financing from the public Brazilian banks, especially BNDES and the Bank of Brazil, which offer funds with 10 year repayment schedule, 7 years of no payments and 3 years to pay. It has the longest repayment period of any credit in Brazil, clearly favoring these corporations. These amounts are, for example, much higher than the funds that are available for INCRA to expropriate lands in the states to carry out agrarian reform and also higher than the amount of credit available for the 4.5 million farm families in all of Brazil.
More recently in July 2006, the Federal government through the Central Bank lowered the schedule that allows the exporting corporations, such as the cellulose corporations, to compensate for the unfavorable rate of return, so that they can deposit in foreign banks up to 50% of the total amount of their exports in dollars or in Euros. This directive is in truth the legalization of the indirect transfer of profits and revenue for the exterior without any control.
7. Unemployment in the countryside
The introduction of eucalyptus monoculture in vast regions has brought with it unemployment and the depopulation of rural areas. These areas are purchased and immediately their former owners and workers are forced to leave the locale. Even in regions of unproductive latifundios with a low rate of manual labor, employment completely disappears from broad regions of the state.
Companies only use employment for the intense period of planting that lasts no more than three months, and then for seven years the area provides no employment to the local population.
It is clear in the municipalities already taken over by eucalyptus that favelas (or shantytowns) arise and poverty increases in the city's periphery after the start of cellulose.
There are emblematic cases such as the various plantations in the muncipality of Herval Grande, in the extreme south of the state, where there were dozens of families living as peons. Today, a monoculture of eucalptus covers the six thousand hectares, providing employment to only one person, the forest guard. The forest guard lives in the city and comes by car everyday to monitor the area for fire.
In the cellulose factories, the industrial processes introduced are the most modern in the world. Their demand for high technology and labor productivity means jobs are offered to only a few, highly qualified people.
In 2006, with the cellulose factory completely functioning, the company Veracel Cellulose employed only 741 people in its factory and plantations. These jobs do not benefit people from the region who generally have fewer qualifications. The workers at Veracel are highly qualified. No less than 42% of Veracel's employees have university degrees and the other 40% have completed secondary school.
With a total investment of $1.5 billion U.S. $ in the Cellulose factory, it means a cost of $2.2 million per job created, or in terms of amount of land that Veracel has planted with eucalyptus, one job for 103 hectares of eucalyptus.
Every other agricultural activity, even livestock production, generates more jobs, and permits people to live on the property. People are not welcome to live on the land in the eucalyptus business, and if need be intruders are forced to leave by private, armed militias that do the security for all of the eucalyptus firms in Brazil, including Stora-Enso.
At the same time, factory workers of Stora-Enso in Sweden and Finland are losing their jobs because of the high profits offered to the corporation in Brazil.
The Votorantim corporation, for example, has done a lot of propaganda in the southern region of the state. They claim that with the expansion of eucalyptus, thirty thousand new jobs will open up. However, specific company projects say that the new factory will only give jobs to 2,500 industrial workers, and another 2,000 workers will have jobs in the maintenance and cutting of eucalyptus on the plantations.
8. The use of Violence to protect their illegal farms.
The close relationship between politicians and political authority has led to the systematic use of repressive organizations, juridical power, military police and state intelligence service by the authorities in order to persecute, repress, and judge the workers and population that dare to protest this devastating process of cellulose.
The most emblematic case happened on March 4, 2008 when 900 women peasants and their children occupied the Fazenda Tarumã, acquired illegally by Stora Enso in the municipality of Rosário do Sul. The peasants' occupation was intended to denounce the illegal sale of their lands that border Uruguay. They also wanted to denounce the monoculture of eucalyptus, especially its affect on food production.
Within a few hours the military police of Rio Grande do Sul, known as the Military Brigade, was transferred to protect the area of Stora Enso. All of the journalists were removed from the locale and prohibited from reporting the police action. With tear and pepper gas, dogs, horses and batons, the Police attacked the women. Hundreds were injured, including two pregnant women whose injuries could result in miscarriage.
For more than six hours, the women could not be attended to by doctors, lawyers or the press. They stayed as prey in the bus, watched by the Police. Weapons were held to their heads. The 250 children were separated from their mothers, and were only allowed food after 6 hours. Then, the women and children were detained in a gymnasium for another 12 hours. The state government ordered that the media not divulge information about the police action. Nearly 51 women of La Via Campesina stayed to exam the bodies of the injured who were seriously hurt, and lawyers contributed to the court case against the government's attacks. Now, as the legal process is underway, the victims have become the defendants. A delegate of the police has accused the women of forming a gang, invading someone else's property, and attempting to assassinate the commander of the operation, the one really responsible for the aggression.
In the face of all of this, including the harmfulness of the project to the environment and the interests of the Brazilian people, we demand the withdrawal of the Stora Enso from the state of Rio Grande do Sul and Brazil.
Porto Alegre, July 2008


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