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Adaptation is the Soul of Agriculture
Global food production and food security are threatened by the greater variability of the climate and increasing occurrence of extreme weather events. Yet the agriculture negotiations are not moving with the urgency required to support the world's poor, especially those engaged in agriculture and related activities, in adapting to these adverse impacts. A vast majority of the world's population is dependent on small-scale food producers -- climate change puts all of this at risk.
While underscoring the importance of mitigation in the agriculture sector, Parties should be working toward safeguards which protect biodiversity, provide equitable access to resources by rural peoples, ensure food security and the right to food, and build on indigenous and local knowledge.
Developed countries must recognise that for agriculture in developing countries, the priorities remain food security, sustainability and climate resilience. Parties must provide financing for promoting biodiversity, ensuring resilient small-scale agriculture based on agro-ecological principles, and support for appropriate technology development and transfer that enhances the sustainability of food production systems.
The HOW of Equity
At the ADP opening yesterday, ECO waited in vain for bold and innovative ideas to ensure each Party proposes its equitable share of the global effort. We are all agreed that equity matters (the WHY) – so let's figure out the HOW.
The COP and ADP opened with clarion calls for ambition – and the key to ambition is equity. Your mission this week, dear Parties, is to move beyond vague statements about fairness and map the all-important Convention principles onto a common list of equity indicators.
We hope you've been busy since Bonn doing your homework on this, but just to help out, here is some know-HOW.
ECO believes there are five indicators that really matter: Adequacy, Responsibility, Capacity, Development Need, and Adaptation Need. These are the minimum indicators required to operationalize the core equity principles enshrined in the Convention.
For a fair 2015 outcome, Warsaw must deliver a consensus on the indicators that should guide Parties in formulating their pledges, and against which their pledges will be reviewed and strengthened as necessary. And there is no time to lose!
Getting on the Right Track for Workstream 1
The Warsaw city bikes are a good choice to explore this place which we call home for the next two weeks. The main task of ADP workstream 1 is to chart the course of work needed to deliver a fair, ambitious and legally binding agreement no later than COP 21 in Paris. So we should not spin our wheels in the same old direction with the same old interventions.
Here are some of the key points for the ADP WS1 outputs that will set the right course:
* The deadline for tabling commitments: 2014
The Paris Protocol must signal the beginning of the end of fossil fuel use, with commitments inscribed that put the world on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with 1.5/2°C. To ensure this happens, Parties cannot wait until they show up in the City of Light to make their commitments but rather must table them much sooner so that a review for adequacy and equity can be done. This means Parties must begin working on their proposed commitments right away so they can be tabled in 2014. And the 2014 deadline applies equally to mitigation and financial commitments.
These should not be viewed as 'initial offers' in some negotiating game, but real commitments that will add up to an ambitious deal from the beginning. The timeline for tabling in 2014, inscribing in 2015 and the adequacy/equity review are just the safety nets to ensure that goal is reached and there is enough time for ambition to be raised if need be.
* A basket of indicators to guide commitments and the Equity Review
In Warsaw, Parties must agree common equity indicators to guide the development of their commitments, including: Adequacy, Responsibility, Capacity, Development Need and Adaptation Need. Key milestones for the review also must be agreed and the review must be concluded early enough in 2015 that Parties have time to revise commitments.
* Information required for commitments
Sufficient information about the proposed commitments should be provided to enable the review ex ante for adequacy and equity. Such information should include the gases and sectors covered and the GWPs used. Information is also necessary for the land-use sector and carbon markets, and work needs to begin next year on a common accounting framework for them.
Further specific information may be required depending on commitment type. For developed countries this should be straightforward as commitments must remain in the form of absolute, economy-wide, multi-year, emission reduction targets. The 2015 agreement should retain the 5-year commitment period length in order to ensure responsiveness to the latest science.
* The contours of the Paris Protocol
In order to be able to deliver a draft negotiating text by COP20, Parties will need to decide on key elements and the work plan here in Warsaw.
The AR5 WG 1 report makes clear that all countries need to take deep emission reductions if we are serious about not breaching the 1.5/2°C threshold. It is also clear that the efforts for emission reductions by all countries will be different in this regard for arriving at fair and equitable emission-reduction efforts. Working backwards from December 2015, Parties need to agree here in Warsaw when to table, what to table, and how to review.
The Open Road for Workstream 2 Ambition
As Parties pave the road towards the 2015 agreement under ADP Workstream 1, a crucial brick seems to have gone missing. According to the UNEP Emission Gap report, pre-2020 mitigation efforts currently fall 8-12 GtCO2e short of what is needed to keep global temperature increases below 1.5/2°C.
ECO would love to hear how Parties intend to reach a global deal in Paris if they don't increase their pre-2020 ambition significantly. If global emissions do not peak by 2015, the entire basis for Paris negotiation will have to be revised to address increased adaptation and finance needs and more loss and damage.
How many more lives will be put at threat because of inaction? How many more climate activists will have to risk their lives to show the lack of political will and the world's unrelenting dependency on fossil fuels?
ECO is tired of repeating that 2020 is too late to start acting. Without stronger mitigation action by 2020, typhoons like Haiyan will become ordinary climate events. Experts tell us that a 2°C pathway implies an immediate peaking of global emissions and a much faster rate of fossil CO2 decline – at least 3% by 2019 and 4% by 2036 (Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013). Should there be a political decision to choose a less ambitious pathway, who will bear the responsibility of a significant increase in climate risk?
COP 19 is nearly the last opportunity to increase pre-2020 mitigation efforts. It must be decided in Warsaw that all developed countries – including those not participating in the Kyoto Protocol – will take the lead and put forward increased mitigation commitments by the Bonn Ministerial next spring. ECO is deeply concerned by current rumours coming from some Annex I countries that they may fall backwards and actually decrease their already far below the mark pre-2020 ambition. At the Bonn ministerial, developing countries should also announce new NAMAs while clarifying their finance needs.
There is also strong momentum to make progress on complementary initiatives. We must hope that Warsaw sends a signal to the Montreal Protocol process for the rapid phase-out of HFCs. Positive signals are coming from many Parties, so now is the time to seal a decision.
Parties should also engage on concrete proposals for scaling up renewable energy and energy efficiency globally. By COP 20, Parties should adopt a global aspirational target of 25% renewable energy by 2020, and increasing energy efficiency by at least an additional 2.4% above the current penetration rate per year from 2014 until 2020. This alone will help us save 7.5 to 8.5 GtCO2e by 2020, a major contribution to closing the gigatonne gap. And developed countries should take the lead and submit renewable energy and energy efficiency targets in addition to any existing domestic GHG targets.
Finally, how many billions of taxpayers' money will developed countries continue to put in the pockets of the big oil, gas and coal industries? Elimination of fossil fuel subsidies primarily in Annex 1 countries is a crucial step in increasing mitigation ambition in the short term.
Bob Dylan asked: "How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?" ECO takes the view that the open road for increasing pre-2020 ambition is right ahead of us.
ECO Stands in Solidarity with the Philippines and All Vulnerable Countries
Yesterday, we heard from the Philippines lead negotiator, Yeb Sano, who addressed the opening session of the UN climate negotiations, calling for an end to the madness and taking urgent action to prevent a repeat of the devastating storm that hit much of his country this past weekend. Super Typhoon Haiyan was nothing the world has ever experienced, taking thousands of lives in just two days. Yeb Sano even declared that he will voluntarily refrain from eating food during this COP until a meaningful outcome is in sight.
Very importantly, he put a lot of faith in civil society. The message is unmistakable: "These last two days, there are moments when I feel that I should rally behind the climate advocates who peacefully confront those historically responsible for the current state of our climate. These selfless people who fight coal, expose themselves to freezing temperatures, or block oil pipelines. In fact, we are seeing increasing frustration and, thus, more increased civil disobedience. The next two weeks, these people, and many around the world who serve as our conscience will again remind us of our enormous responsibility. To the youth here who will constantly remind us that their future is in peril, to the climate heroes who risk their lives, reputation, and personal liberties to stop drilling in the polar regions and to those communities standing up to unsustainable and climate-disrupting conventional sources of energy, we stand with them."
We respond, your faith in us will not be misplaced. The many voices contributing to ECO will never lose their passion, motivation, and determination to achieve a change in light of these and many other events. They firmly stand in solidarity with the Philippines and all other nations vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. They urge the international community to act more strongly than ever before to reduce their emissions, and push towards a new, globally-binding agreement at COP19 and beyond.
As Yeb Sano stood with climate activists, we will stand with him. And in keeping with that pledge, a number of CAN members, youth and other civil society are also undertaking a solidarity fast alongside him.
Words into Action: The Gender Workshop
Twelve years ago the deficit of women's participation at the UNFCCC was raised as a matter urgently needing attention, and Parties decided to improve the participation of women in UNFCCC bodies in decision 36/CP.7.
A year ago, with a view to the continuing and significant deficit of women's participation, and with increased recognition of the importance of women's effective participation and gender equality to all aspects of climate change, a new and more powerful decision was adopted requesting Parties to work toward a goal of gender balance, gender-sensitive climate policy and capacity building on the issue.
This decision also established gender and climate change as a standing agenda item of the COP, and Parties and Observers were requested to submit their views. Today from 15:00 to 18:00 in meeting room 1, the UNFCCC will convene the first in-session gender and climate change workshop to discuss Party submissions as well as the major themes of the gender decision. This is an opportune time to engage on this critical issue and map out concrete next steps on gender in the climate change debate.
Fossil of the Day Award
The First Place Fossil goes to Australia. Many would have thought that Australia's position at COP19 couldn't have got much worse after the dismantling of its climate change department, ridding itself of the burden of a climate change minister and intending to remove its carbon price during COP. But we thought wrong.
Yesterday, the Australian media revealed that Australia will not be putting forward any new finance commitments in Warsaw.
This is despite the crushing losses suffered by the Philippines this week, illustrating Australia's lack of understanding as to the purpose of climate finance.
To top it off, Australian cabinet ministers characterize climate finance as 'socialism masquerading as environmentalism' – we have news for you, it's not socialism, its equity and it's your responsibility.
Ray of Solidarity
Special recognition, the Ray of the Solidarity, goes to the Philippines. The lead negotiator called for urgent action to prevent a repeat of the devastating storm that hit parts of his country this past weekend. Super Typhoon Haiyan was nothing the world has ever experienced.
His speech thanked civil society, especially those who are risking their lives climbing oil rigs in the arctic, trying to stop the building of new oil pipelines, or any direct action against the dirty fossil fuel industry.
To this we say, civil society has never felt the urgency of action as much as now. We stand in solidarity with the Philippines and all other nations that were hit by this devastation, and urge the international community to act more strongly than ever before to reduce the threat of climate change and push towards a new, globally-binding agreement at COP19.
The Topsy-Turvy Land Downunder
You may have heard that things have gone a little awry in the climate downunder.
Not only has Sydney just had the worst bushfires ever in October (mid-spring!), this year saw national temperature records broken month after month after month. After the hottest day ever across Australia in January, the Bureau of Metereology had to include a new colour for much hotter levels of hot. And perhaps this is no surprise -- now the heat seems to have gone into the heads of the politicians.
Despite the fact that the majority of Australians want action on climate change (as made clear by extensive exit polling at the recent election), the new government sacked the independent Climate Change Authority (which provided independent scientific advice on climate policy), and is in the process of repealing Australia's carbon price and limit on pollution as well as its legislated commitment to 80% reductions by 2050.
Say again? With more than 40 countries, states and provinces around the globe implementing a carbon price, the new government is falling backwards, scrapping Australia's pricing scheme and moving to an inefficient government funded scheme that – wait for this! -- pays polluters to pollute.
But unfortunately, there's even more. What about Australia's ability to meet the middle or upper end of their 5% to 25% 2020 target range? Seems to be gone in a flash. Other countries should sound alarm bells and question Australia's intentions to contribute its fair share to cut global pollution and limit warming.
The new Australian government is hardly inclined to take climate change seriously -- but they must.
Perplexing Poland
Has the Polish Government been taken over by the Yes Men? (That would be the somewhat erratic outfit with a penchant for highlighting the superficial and often self-serving follies of leading institutions and firms). ECO asks this only rhetorically, of course -- at times the back and forth made our eyes cross. But let us explain.
There was that somewhat mad posting a few weeks ago on the official COP19 website about the economic opportunities that the Arctic ice melt would bring while chasing pirates, ecologists and terrorists off the seas.
The Yes Men stepped up to claim credit, sort of. The whole thing left everyone quite perplexes, including the Polish government.
But then the story got better (or really, worse). Check out the official COP iPhone application. It actually greets you with this opening message: 'Climate changes are natural phenomena, which occurred already many times on earth'. So why worry, huh?! ECO has been wondering whether an accompanying ringtone is coming, maybe "Que sera, sera"…
Inviting 12 fossil industry firms to sponsor the COP, including only the anti-climate lobby Business Europe in the pre-COP and – to top the madness, actually organizing a global coal summit in Warsaw alongside the COP, complete with a "Warsaw Communiqué "?
All this would push the envelope even for the Yes Men.


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Today is my annual post about the Grand National. As always, some will read it, some won't. Some of you may look at the title of this post and turn away, not wanting my words to spoil your office bit of fun betting on the sweepstakes. As ever, all I hope is that at least one person reads my blog today and changes their mind about making that bet. Forever.
The Grand National isn't the only horse racing event of the year of course. Recently we had the Cheltenham Festival.
North Hill Harvey. Dresden. Sandsend. Some Plan.
Sound familiar? Probably not. But they died for your viewing entertainment at the Cheltenham Festival this year. A broken leg in the horse racing world isn't repairable. A broken leg is a death sentence.
Animal Aid began a record of the death of horses 11 years ago at the Cheltenham Festival. Since then, 1677 horses have died. That is 3 horses, every single week. 3 horses, A WEEK. During the popular horse racing events and months, that figure increases. In March alone 18 horses were destroyed due to injuries in a race.
This weekend is the Grand National. People who do not bet the whole year round get together and chose their horses, either with families or work colleagues. It is a tradition. After years of horses dying at every Grand National meet, they have at least improved the course and unlike places like Cheltenham who practically have fatalities every year, the Grand National hasn't had a fatality in five years.
Every year the course at the Grand National is improved. Made safer for the horses, yet still last year 21 horses out of the 40 entered failed to finish. In any other sport, it would be deemed too dangerous. By a mile. By 50 miles. But because it is horse racing, it is somehow deemed acceptable.
When you make your bet today, what are you thinking about? The possibility of winning a couple of pounds on a five pound bet? Probably. What you won't be thinking about, what I want you to think about is a horse. A horse who loves to run. But a horse that doesn't know that he is entered into a race which could take his life if he breaks a leg, or a shoulder. A horse who if he manages to make it through the 16 fences, 14 of which jumped twice, will be whipped to the finish line. All for your two pound win.
So when you think about placing your bet today, ask yourself this. Do I like seeing horses whipped? Do I like watching a race where death is a very real prospect for the horses involved? Do I want to contribute to an industry that values horses value at zero and the mob at one hundred percent? I hope you know the answer to that question.
We are a nation of animal lovers. If you love animals, you do not want horses to be treated this way.
The organisers at the Grand National have started to listen. It is time that all organisers of all horse races do the same until it is still a competitive sport, but not a fatal one. Not one where a winner has been whipped to succeed.


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REPORT No. 110/18 CASE 12,678 MERITS PAOLA DEL ROSARIO GUZMÁN ALBARRACÍN AND RELATIVES ECUADOR OCTOBER 5, 2018 I. SUMMARY 1. On October 2, 2006, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the "InterAmerican Commission," "the Commission," or "the IACHR") received a petition submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Centro Ecuatoriano para la Promoción y Acción de la Mujer (CEPAM-Guayaquil) (hereinafter "the petitioner") alleging that the Republic of Ecuador (hereinafter "the Ecuadorian State," "the State," or "Ecuador") was internationally responsible to the detriment of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín (hereinafter "Paola"). 2. The Commission approved Admissibility Report 76/08 on October 17, 2008.1 The processing from the filing of the petition to the decision on admissibility can be found described therein. On February 20, 2009, the Commission notified the parties of the report and made itself available to help them reach a friendly settlement. 2 The parties were given the time provided for in the Rules of Procedure to submit additional comments on the merits. All the information received was duly transferred between the parties.3 On October 19, 2015, the IACHR held a hearing on the merits of the case. 3. The petitioner alleged that the State is responsible for the harassment, sexual abuse, and lack of medical attention that took the life of Paola at the age of 16. It stated that the assistant principal of the public institution where Paola was studying took advantage of his position of authority to sexually harass her, culminating in a forced sexual encounter that resulted in a pregnancy. It stated that the institution did not respond properly to her suicide attempt, leading to Paola's death. It alleged that the inefficiency of the judicial and administrative system have allowed the facts to remain in impunity. 4. For its part, the State indicated that at the time of the facts, a myriad of laws and public policies were in place that were designed to protect the rights of girls and women, in compliance with international standards. It also argued that the case involves a relationship between private parties for which the State has no responsibility, adding that State authorities have responded appropriately under the law to the report of the facts. 5. Based on the considerations of fact and of law, the Commission concluded that the State of Ecuador is responsible for the violation of articles 4(1) (right to life), 5(1) (humane treatment), 11 (privacy), 19 (rights of the child), 24 (equal protection); 26 (work and health) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the American Convention" or "the Convention"), in conjunction with the obligations established in Article 1(1) of the same instrument. Likewise, the State is responsible for violating Article 13 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Protocol of San Salvador"; all of the above to the detriment of Paola del Rosario Guzmán IACHR. Report No. 76/08. Petition 1055-06. Admissibility. Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín. Ecuador. October 17, 2008. On June 7, 2010, the petitioner informed the Commission of its decision to withdraw from the friendly settlement process it had informally begun with the State in May 2009. In May 2011, the petitioner decided to reopen the possibility of reaching an agreement with the State of Ecuador. On December 12, 2013, the petitioner informed the Commission of its decision to permanently withdraw from the friendly settlement process. On January 7, 2014, the Commission informed the parties of its decision to move forward with the merits of the case. 3 In addition to the communications of the parties, on August 9, 2015, an amicus curiae brief was received from the Universidad San Francisco in Quito. The State alleged that such briefs were not provided for under the Rules of Procedure, and that rather than an opinion, the document was an attempt to position the university as an interested third party in the dispute. The Commission first noted that there was no such figure as an "interested third party" in the inter-American process. The parties before the IACHR are the petitioner and the State. It had been the IACHR's practice to consider other types of information received in the framework of the case as amicus curiae briefs, thus providing the parties with an opportunity to make comments on their content, as happened in this case. Second, the IACHR observes that the brief itself from the university states it is strictly an amicus curiae brief, and thus, in keeping with its practice, it will be considered and weighed as such. 1 2
I.SUMMARY1
II.POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES2
A.Petitioners2
B.The State3
III.ESTABLISHED FACTS4
A.Prior consideration regarding the public hearing on October19,20154
B.Relevant legal framework5
C.Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, her possible pregnancy, and her death6
D.Domestic proceedings and information that emerged during them on the facts prior to the death of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín9
IV.ANALYSIS OF LAW19
A.Right to life, humane treatment, honor and dignity, rights of the child, right to equal protection and right to education and health, (Articles 4, 5, 11, 19, 24, and 26 in conjunction with Article 1.1 of the American Convention), the right to education (Article 13 of the Protocol of San Salvador) and the right to live a life free from violence (Article 7.a and 7.b) of the Convention of Belem do Pará)19
1.General considerations regarding the right of children and adolescents not to be subject to any form of violence and regarding violence against women and girls19
2.Relevant consideration regarding the right to education and health in sexual violence contexts22
3.Characterization of what happened to Paola Guzmán Albarracín and its causal link to her death27
4.Analysis of the attribution of international responsibility to the State28
4.1General considerations regarding the duty to respect and guarantee human rights28
4.2Analysis of the case30
5.Conclusion32
B.The right to judicial guarantees, judicial protection, and equality and nondiscrimination (Articles 8.1, 25.1, and 24 of the American Convention and Article 7 of the Convention of Belem do Pará)32
1.General considerations32
2.Analysis of the case 35
C.Right to humane treatment of the family members of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín (Article 5.1 of the American Convention)38
V.CONCLUSIONS38
VI.RECOMMENDATIONS38
Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín y familiares. Merits Report Nº 110/18
Merits Report
Antonia Urrejola Noguera
Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño
Flavia Piovesan
Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli
Joel Hernández García
Margarette May Macaulay
Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín y familiares. Merits Report Nº 110_18.pdf
Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín y familiares. Informe de Fondo Nº 110_18.pdf
Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín y familiares. Informe de Fondo Nº 110_18.docx
Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín y familiares. Merits Report Nº 110_18.docx
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Judge and/or Commissioners 4
IACHR documents 3
Hearing 1
Admissibility Report 1
Letter of Submission to the IACourt 1

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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1976 → March 1976 → 10 March 1976 → Commons Sitting → FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Angola (British Citizens' Passports)
HC Deb 10 March 1976 vol 907 cc409-11 409
§ 14. Mr. Beith
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many of the passports confiscated from British citizens returning from Angola have not yet been returned.
§ Mr. Ennals
Thirty-eight up to today.
§ Mr. Beith
Will the Minister confirm that those which have been returned to former mercenaries have been returned on the basis of an undertaking that they will not in future go to Angola for those purposes? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that action of that kind sets a precedent which might be used by future Governments in order to silence critics or prevent other kinds of conduct which was disapproved of on grounds that it might be controversial?
I think that there are very limited categories in which this action can be taken. The list of categories of persons from whom passports may be withdrawn was given to the House on 15th November 1974 and included those whose past or proposed activities are so demonstrably undesirable that the grant or continued enjoyment of passport facilities would be contrary to the public interest."—[Official Report, 15th November 1974; Vol. 881 c. 265.] I remind the House and especially Opposition Members that this action was taken at precisely the time when reports were coming to this country that some mercenaries had been massacred in 410 Angola. I am happy that the recruitment of mercenaries has now ended. I also point out that if those from whom passports have been withdrawn now apply to the Passport Office their passports will be returned, provided they sign an undertaking that they will not return to Angola as mercenaries.
§ Mr. George Cunningham
Does my right hon. Friend recognise that many hon. Members in all parts of the House are very disturbed about this practice and feel that while the comparison is far from being an exact one it ill behoves us, who criticised the Berlin Wall, to impose any restrictions upon the exit of citizens of this country from this country? Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the impounding of a passport does not prevent a citizen of this country from leaving, nor, indeed, take away his right to come back so long as he has some proof that he is a settled citizen of this country?
I am naturally interested to hear the concerns of my hon. Friends. I think it right that whenever action is taken like this it should be—[HON. MEMBERS: "Answer."] I shall answer, because the most recent occasion when this action was taken was when the Conservative Party was in power. This is an action for which there is a precedent set by a previous Conservative Government. Therefore, I shall not take criticism on this issue from the Conservative Party. It is perfectly right for my hon. Friend to express his concern. The fact that this was done for a brief period for a situation that caused great alarm in the House—a situation that has now changed—and the fact that passports can be returned will be a reassurance to my hon. Friend.
Mr. Mandling
Is it not true that the circumstances of the precedent to which the Minister has just referred were quite different, because it had a United Nations resolution behind it? The Minister said that people would not be allowed out if their activities were "demonstrably undesirable". To whom are they "demonstrably undesirable"?
It was demonstrably undesirable—[HON. MEMBERS: "To whom?"] I cannot imagine that hon. Members on either side of the House 411 would say that it was desirable that British citizens should go to Angola as mercenaries and become involved in massacres of other British citizens as well as in the destruction of the lives of the Angolan people.
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Welcome to the Grand Harbor Yacht Club at Grand Harbor in Vero Beach, Florida. The information below will hopefully help you decide if you would like to share in our r/c adventures and misadventures!
We currently boast a fleet exclusively of 23 CR 914s, and sail them every Sunday (weather and dispositions allowing) with practice at 1 pm and races at 2. Usually anywhere from 8 to 13 boats show up. Two of our boats are "loaners" which are reserved for passersby who demonstrate even the slightest interest in joining us. The Venue is available at all times for Captains who want to sail informally.
Our members are almost all residents of Grand Harbor, most but not all with sailing experience. Most of us are growing old with grace, failing eyesight, and an improving sense of humor, and most are of the male persuasion except for Captain Tina who exudes limitless energy and delight.
We sail at The Sunset Cove Sailing Venue which is alongside Via Marabella Boulevard in Grand Harbor. The Venue boasts a fresh water pond with marks in place all season. A movable starting mark sometimes provides for a proper upwind leg. Each week we put chairs out along the shore, as well as a Pavilion which is actually a colorful beach umbrella. Our Bistro is a cooler with an assortment of beer and other savory libations which we quaff at Halftime or at the conclusion of the races.
Onlookers every week include several residents of Grand Harbor and an assortment of turtles, birds, otters, and alligators. One of these days an airborne mullet promises to dismast one of our boats.
Our unwritten but totally understood mission is to improve our skills as r/c sailors, with emphasis on seamanship, boat trim, respect for the rules of racing, and having fun. The GUST (Geezers Under Sail Trophy) is awarded to sailors who distinguish themselves, and The Fugawe Trophy goes to the captain whose craft spends the most time in the shoreline weeds.


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Barbados Environment Minister caught lying again about Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary Dispute
Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook."
Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Environment Minister Denis Lowe:
"Environment Minister, Dr. Denis Lowe says the re-opening of the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary is up to the owners, but government remains committed to doing all it can to ensure it happens.
He says he's looking forward to having discussion with the owners of the sanctuary soon.
According to the minister, a working group has been set up to help government coordinate its vision for the sanctuary with the owner.
Dr. Lowe says the survival of the sanctuary has never been in question for the DLP administration which has inherited a strained relationship with the owners." (Total lies from the Government mouthpiece CBC article Graeme Hall Talks)
Government Refused to Communicate with Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary since January 2009!
The last time that Environment Minister Lowe met with representatives from the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary was over a year ago in January of 2009. At that time, Dr. Lowe was again informed that the government-controlled sluice gate into the wetlands had been broken for five years.
Environment Minister Lowe said he'd "get right back" to the Sanctuary representatives about the sluice gate and the other concerns that caused the Sanctuary owner to shut the facility.
Dr. Lowe never contacted the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary again. That remains true a year later in February 2010. The sluice gate is still broken and wildlife species are still dying in the sanctuary as a result.
Now Denis Lowe has the audacity to lie to the Bajan public about what has and is being done by the government about the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary. It's a damned shame that the CBC reporter didn't ask a few more simple questions but the truth is he or she might have but the Prime Minister's pal Leroy Parris is in charge at the CBC.
The same tall tale is in the Barbados Advocate and wonder of wonders – that story doesn't talk about any of the central issues either. Nothing about the change in land permissions to allow development on the Graeme Hall watershed. Nothing about the demise of the Graeme Hall National Park first proposed in the government's land plans around 1982. Nothing about the government's refusal for six years to repair the sluice gate that regulates the health of the wetlands. Nothing about the fact that the Canadian investor behind the nature sanctuary recently filed allegations of international treaty violations by the Government of Barbados.
Nope. Not a word of the big issues in the Bajan media. According to Minister Lowe and his government, it's all a "personal dispute" with the owner doan ya know! Not a word about the theft of a National Park from the people of Barbados.
'nuf said.
Barbados Government cut off water to Nature Sanctuary wildlife
Just so you know the truth
The government did one crucial thing this past December though: it cut off the water to the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary over a billing dispute about water. You can read the nature sanctuary press release for the details, but the short form is this…
When the government workers arrived at the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary and shut off the water service and chopped the pipe (not just lock it!) it wasn't about a billing dispute. It was just one more step in the constructive expropriation of a foreign investor's assets by the political and business elites of Barbados.
Dr. Lowe's current lies in the Barbados news media are designed to manage public talk about what happened when the DLP Government changed the land use permissions to allow development of the Graeme Hall wetlands and watershed. The David Thompson government took away a planned National Park from the people of Barbados and arranged for land developer friends to profit from the move.
The Barbados news media is assisting to keep the people in the dark and refuses to cover the central issues of the Graeme Hall story – when they talk about it at all.
And that's the way it is this morning in Barbados.
Bajan Reporter, January 29, 2010: BREAKING NEWS – Promised Meeting with Graeme Hall Officials Fails to Materialise When Barbadian Government Officials Refuse to Respond
Bajan Reporter, December 21, 2009: Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary – who's REALLY hurting from the closure?
Bajan Reporter, October 30, 2009: Canadian Alleges Treaty Violations by Barbados
Here's the current article in the Barbados Advocate. Check out their website to get your own copy, but we'll post it here in its entirety because the Barbados news media regularly changes history by removing articles from their electronic and paper archives. (click on image for 200k Jpeg file)
Filed under Barbados, Corruption, Environment, Nature, Offshore Investments, Political Corruption, Politics, Politics & Corruption, Wildlife
Tagged as Barbados, Barbados Investment, Environmental Disaster Barbados, Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary


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Albert J. Neupaver, executive chairman of the board of Wabtec Corporation, has been appointed to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation Board of Trustees.
Neupaver joined Wabtec Corporation in 2006 as president and chief executive officer, and a member of the company's Board of Directors. He was named executive chairman on May 14, 2014.
Prior to joining Wabtec, Neupaver spent nine years as president of the Electromechanical Group of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electric motors.
"On behalf of the entire board, we welcome Al to the Foundation and are thrilled to have him bring fresh ideas to help build our future of philanthropy," said Jay Cleveland, chair, Foundation Board of Trustees. "We are continually wanting to grow and evolve the Foundation to broaden our impact on the well-being of children and we know that Al will bring a new vision to advance that mission."
A native of Belle Vernon, Pa., Neupaver earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1972 and served as an officer on nuclear submarines from 1972 to 1977. He earned a master's degree in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering and Business Administration both from the University of Pittsburgh.
For more information on Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, visit www.givetochildrens.org.


Sustainability How the circular economy aims to decouple growth from finite resource consumption.
The 2017 Zero Waste Conference will showcase the unique perspectives of keynote speakers Cady Coleman, scientist and retired NASA astronaut, and award-winning author Tristram Stuart. Stuart is a tireless campaigner on the environmental impacts of food waste, while Cady, who spent almost six months on the International Space Station, says her experiences have greatly shaped how she now views our planet.
The shift to zero waste and circular economy principles will have impacts in all aspects of our lives. This year's theme — A Circular Economy Within Reach — includes a focus on plastics in the ocean, along with sessions on textiles, food waste, business innovation, and circular cities.
By mid-century, the weight of the microplastics clogging our oceans could surpass the biomass of all fish and pose significant threats to humans, birds, mammals and marine life — unless we do something to stop it.
That's the view of people like Mats Linder, Lead, Innovation Programme, New Plastics Economy at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, who will shine a spotlight on plastics — and the potential harm they pose to humans and marine life when they settle in the ocean — at the seventh annual Zero Waste Conference on November 1 in Vancouver.
Linder will sit on a four-person panel that will debate the shortcomings of plastic recycling and the latest global developments to keep them out of our oceans.
In a circular economy, manufacturers consciously design products and packaging to be easily disassembled, repaired, reused, and recycled. End-of-life materials become inputs for new products, just as in nature.
Linder agrees that the circular economy will benefit the environment because it aims to decouple growth from finite resource consumption. This can be done by "designing out" waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use and regenerating natural systems. Earlier this year, Linder noted that his organization launched the New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize, with the aim of starting an innovation journey to rethink the way we make and use plastics.
Metro Vancouver Board Chair Greg Moore maintains that pursuing waste prevention and the circular economy offers great promise for addressing the issues of waste.


THIS is an unflinching and courageous insight into Darren McGarvey's personal life and the social conditions which crushed him, until an epiphany led to a radical change in his outlook and approach.
Growing up in Pollok, the south-west Glasgow housing estate where physical and verbal violence was the norm – and where debt was incurred by "acting like we had more money than we did" because the price of looking poor "was always far higher" – is an experience, McGarvey says, that is very rarely represented, reported and discussed.
His direct connection to this life means that he's been involved in numerous BBC documentaries but, when he tried to bring a class perspective to bear in them, it was made clear that being descriptive of the symptoms was fine but analysis or even being prescriptive is not what was required.
The need to tackle this outlook, so that working-class life is represented and acted upon, is one of the motives for, and lessons in, the book .
But remedial action cannot take the patriarchal form it did previously, where decision-makers , excluding the community, decided what is good for local people. An example is the failed tower blocks named A, B and C by the planners and ironically dubbed Alcatraz, Barlinnie and Carstairs by residents and locals.
Political participation, McGarvey says, was not about the community making its voice heard but corralling the herd to a pre-determined destination behind closed doors. Pollok Country Park – gifted to Glasgow to remain open-space woodland – has the M77 motorway running through it, dividing the community, and leading to the Silverburn shopping centre being built there.
McGarvey's anger about poverty and class sees him heading up an angry mob whose object of ire was the artist Ellie Harrison and her project The Glasgow Effect.
His impulse, angry and violent, lacked any comprehension of even the most basic facts of the matter. The title of the book comes from his dismissive, knee-jerk description of Ellie Harrison's Creative Scotland-funded year living within the confines of Glasgow. It was, he said, a 'poverty safari'.
That's a technique refined in Scotland during the 2014 referendum campaign and deployed against predictable targets since, including McGarvey himself. He confesses that his urge for retribution was so strong that it blinded him to the fact he and the artist were fighting for the same thing.
Breaking the cycle of his old ways by being a responsible parent is "the most practical way of transforming my community," a lesson that a lot of men – and it is mostly men – need to learn if communities like Pollok are to change on their own terms, not those set by others.
As the author says: "Those who shape the discussion about poverty often lack the necessary insight to accurately represent the issue," but McGarvey does this with great honesty, humour and perception.
"Class, above all, remains the primary dividing line in our society. In truth, it's less a line and more an industrial-scale wound," he declares, and such comments make this a book that should be required reading for all those engaged in the fight against poverty.
Buy it. Discuss it. Act on its insights.
Gordon Munro is Labour councillor for Leith Ward, stood as Labour candidate for Edinburgh North and Leith in the 2017 general election and is a member of the Scottish Poetry Library.


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Rear View Mirror: The True Story Behind Fastball's "The Way"
Each week on Rear-view Mirror, Rich Terfry and the Radio 2 team look back at a great song from the good ol' days. Today, Talia Schlanger steps in for a story behind "The Way" by Fastball.
But listen to the story behind the song… and I promise, you'll never hear it the same way again.
Rear View Mirror: Fastball's "The Way"
We begin in 1986. Salado, Texas. Lela and Raymond are strangers. They're both grandparents, both in their 70s. Both of them lose their spouses. And they each resign to spending their golden years alone. That is — until they meet each other.
Lela and Raymond fall madly in love and get married. They share everything. Their last name, their families, their love of music.
Every summer, Lela and Raymond pack up the Oldsmobile and drive 15 miles from Salado to Temple, Texas, for their favourite fiddling festival.
And in June of 1997, that's exactly what they set out to do. It's tradition. Even though Raymond was 88 and recently had a stroke, and Lela is 83 and starting to show signs of dementia, that day they hit the road to the festival like a couple of crazy teenage lovebirds.
Days later, in another part of Texas, Tony Scalzo — the bass player for the band Fastball — sits down at the breakfast table with a cup of coffee and a newspaper and reads the headline: "Elderly Salado couple missing on a trip to nowhere." Lela and Raymond Howard set out for a fiddling festival, and didn't come back. Their kids are worried. The search parties are out.
A few days later, Tony reads another headline: "Family still mystified by disappearance."
Tony becomes obsessed with the story. Who were these people? And where were they going without ever knowing the way?
Tony writes a song about Lela and Raymond. And it isn't until after Tony plays that song for his band Fastball and they decide to record it, that he reads the final newspaper headline: "Elderly couple found dead in car two weeks after trip to festival."
Lela and Raymond Howard's bodies were discovered in that Oldsmobile, at the bottom of a canyon, hundreds of miles away from where they meant to go.
And the next year, 1998, when their children and their grandchildren got in the car, flicked on the radio, you can only imagine how they felt to hear their family story immortalized, romanticized in this song by Fastball: "The Way."


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Introduction to Hellenism
by Christian Schaller
Classical Greece invented philosophy and democracy, while the Roman Empire still forms the foundations of our Western culture and civilization. In fact, however, there are several hundred years between the heydays of these two cultures. This is the period of Hellenism, that is, the epoch between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the beginning of the sole rule of the first Roman emperor Augustus. In terms of dates, it covers the period from 336 B.C., the beginning of Alexander's reign, to 30 B.C., the year in which the Roman Empire annexed Ptolemaic Egypt, the last remaining Hellenistic empire. These epoch boundaries are fuzzy. Even before Alexander, Greek culture had spread far and wide, there were colonies on the coasts of the Black Sea and the entire Mediterranean, as far as France and Spain. Mainland Greece, on the other hand, became part of the empire even in the midst of Hellenism. And even after the end of the Egyptian Ptolemaic Empire, Greekism played a prominent role in the now leading culture of the new world empire. The Romans loved the Greek way of life and they revered and received the philosophers until late antiquity, where not least Neo-Platonism was to shape early Christianity and thus in turn the European Middle Ages.
Hellenism is not as deeply anchored in today's consciousness as the world empire of the Romans or the great achievements of classical Greece. Yet it is precisely this epoch that surprises us with its abundant cultural life. In the Mediterranean region, the three pre-Christian centuries were exceedingly multicultural and pluralistic. It was a wedding of art, music and poetry, but also science and technology.
Statue Alexander der Große; Pixabay Lizenz, © papazachariasa
Alexander the Great was already accompanied by geographers who surveyed the country. Mathematics, medicine, but also philosophy took up the achievements of classical Greece and continued to develop. At the same time, peoples and empires were in constant flux, there were wars and tensions, but also fruitful cultural mergers. The Mediterranean region became increasingly "Hellenized," but ultimately there was a multitude of other ancient peoples – Egyptians and Persians, Punic and Etruscans, Berbers and Celts. They all played a major role in shaping the colorful era of Hellenism.
But back to the beginning: In the Peleponnesian War of 431-404 B.C., the city-states of the Aegean, but also of Sicily and Asia Minor, fought each other for almost a generation. Sparta ultimately emerged victorious, breaking Athens' former supremacy. By the fourth century B.C., the heyday of Attic democracy and the golden age of classical Greece were finally over. Sparta's supremacy also dwindled again, and the Greek world's hopes for general peace and freedom were to remain unfulfilled for decades. In this chaos and power vacuum, King Philip II. (382-336 BC) was able to lead his homeland Macedonia to new supremacy in Greece. He reformed his army, insisted against the Illyrians and Thracians in the north and united the Greek states and cities into the Corinthian League, whose hegemon he had himself elected. He was already planning a campaign against the old enemy Persia in the east, but was murdered by his bodyguard in the summer of 336 BC. His young and ambitious son Alexander now ascended the Macedonian throne.
By this time, Greek culture had become widespread in the Mediterranean region, but the dominant power – especially in the eastern Mediterranean – continued to be the great Persian empire. However, the giant empire in the east began to show its first weaknesses: Revolts and throne disputes shook the internal politics, the kings hoarded wealth and thus weakened the economy, while the satraps, i.e. the governors of the many provinces, acted arbitrarily and likewise only increased their wealth. After Alexander had put down attempts at rebellion in Greece, he moved with 35,000 soldiers to Asia Minor and defeated a similarly large but inept Persian army. A year later, in 333 B.C., there was the famous battle of Issos on the Anatolian-Syrian border. Again the Persians lost, this time led by Great King Darius III. Alexander did not pursue the ruler at first, but turned south, where he conquered the Levant and eventually Egypt. In 331 BC, he finally defeated the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela. In the following two years, he brought the entire east of the Persian Empire under his control, entering Babylon and Persepolis, and Darius, who had fled once again, was finally assassinated as well. Alexander moved his army as far as India, but mutinous soldiers eventually forced him to turn back. In 323 B.C., Alexander died after a lavish feast in Babylon. His ambitions can only be called cosmopolitan. Through city foundations and the mass wedding of Susa, he wanted to merge Greek and Eastern cultures and overcome the old antagonisms. But his followers did not share his ideas and soon after his death the huge empire disintegrated into several so-called Diadochian empires (Greek for successor), each ruled by former generals of Alexander.
Alexandria; Pixabay Lizenz, © fitycr
In Macedonia, the Antigonid dynasty (after the general Antigonos "the one-eyed") took over. In Syria, the Seleucid Empire (after the general Seleucus "the Victorious") arose, which during its greatest expansion in the late third century BC encompassed large parts of Asia Minor, the Levant and the Near East. In Egypt, the dynasty of the Ptolemies (after the general Ptolemy Soter) came to power, whose last ruler 300 years later would be the famous Cleopatra (VII Philopator).
In the Diadochan empires, there was a strong contrast between the immigrant Greeks, who usually made up only one percent of the total population, and the native "Orientals." Greeks were not punished as harshly for offenses and were given preference in filling political and military offices. The immigration of Greeks was massively promoted by the various rulers, as was Greek culture as a whole. This included not only way of life and cult practice, but also the language. An all-Greek lingua franca quickly emerged, the so-called Koine (Greek for "general, common dialect"). As a language understood from southern Italy to Bactria, it was of great importance to all societies of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East until late antiquity. For example, the New Testament of the Bible was also written in the Koine. It was soon considered desirable to be a Greek, or at least to behave Greek. Even the Romans traced the origin of their city back to the legendary Trojan, and thus Greek, Aeneas. Despite the ethnic separation, Greeks and non-Greeks increasingly grew together – the Hellenes became Orientalized and the Orientals Hellenized. Religion and cult played a major role in this process. The Diadochi tended to merge their gods with the native ones – for example, the Greek fertility goddess Demeter was equated with the Egyptian mother goddess Isis. In addition, there were also some social structures that were positive from today's perspective. On the whole, the position of women was better than before in classical Greece or afterwards in the Roman Empire. Women were allowed to hold offices, run businesses, receive schooling, and they were eligible for court. Slavery was also not as prevalent in many areas as one would expect for ancient societies. And there was hardly any nobility in the narrower sense either. Offices were not hereditary and were usually conferred by ability. Although the diadochal rulers possessed great authority and usurped political, fiscal and military power, numerous cities continued to grow and flourish. In addition to flourishing metropolises such as Pergamon, Antioch or Cyrene, however, Alexandria, the capital of the Ptolemaic Empire, stands out above all. Founded by Alexander the Great, the port metropolis was expanded in a planned and monumental manner by the new rulers of Egypt. Fueled by its political and economic importance, Alexandria rapidly developed into one of the greatest cities of antiquity, where the sciences flourished to an unparalleled degree. Even today, the famous Library of Alexandria or the Lighthouse of Pharos, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, are familiar to many. The tomb of Alexander the Great was also located in the city.
In addition to the Diadochi empires, however, there were numerous other dominions in the Mediterranean region. On the Hindu Kush, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom broke away from the Seleucids; in Asia Minor, several small territorial states developed, such as Bithynia, Pergamon, and Pontos; and in Sicily, monarchies established themselves, such as the kingdom of Syracuse. Italy was characterized by the continuous wars of conquest of the regional power Rome, which gradually brought the peninsula into dependence. In the third century B.C., the Punic or Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Libya became the richest metropolis in the Mediterranean. Its sphere of power included many coasts of North Africa, southern Spain, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. The Romans first gained supremacy over Italy during Hellenism, then defeated their great rival Carthage in the three Punic Wars and increasingly claimed extra-Italian territories. Soon their gaze also fell to the East: little by little they brought the Diadochi kingdoms into their dependence, conquered them when necessary, and gradually annexed the regions as Roman provinces into their ever-growing empire. When, after long civil wars and battles, Octavian, better known as Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, finally conquered Ptolemaic Egypt – the last existing diadochic empire – in 30 BC, the age of Hellenism ended.
More on this every month on our video platform – Christian Schaller takes us through the history of antiquity!
Literature used
Chaniotis, Angelos: Die Öffnung der Welt. Eine Globalgeschichte des Hellenismus. Darmstadt 2019.
Lotze, Detlef: Griechische Geschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zum Hellenismus. München 2017.
Meißner, Burkhard: Hellenismus. Darmstadt 2007.
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Q: How can I sort my column so that NaN is not shown? I tried sort_values to put na as last position. But it is not working. I do not wish to remove the NaN fields as it will affect my data analysis later.
def mortality_rate(row):
    if row['Population 2020 (in thousands)'] >= 50000:
        return row['Total Deaths'] / row['Total Infected']

df1['Mortality Rate'] = df1.apply(lambda row: mortality_rate(row), axis = 1)

df1 = df1.sort_values(['Smokers in Population (%)'],ascending=[False])

df1.sort_values(by = ['Mortality Rate'] , axis=0, ascending=False, inplace=False, kind='quicksort', na_position='last')

print(df1[['Country','Smokers in Population (%)', 'Mortality Rate']].head(10))

Current output
>                   Country  Smokers in Population (%)  Mortality Rate
>60              Montenegro                       45.9             NaN
>34                  Greece                       43.4             NaN
>39               Indonesia                       39.4        0.066014
>78                  Serbia                       38.9             NaN
>11  Bosnia and Herzegovina                       38.9             NaN

Desired output
>        Country  Smokers in Population (%)  Mortality Rate
>39    Indonesia                       39.4        0.066014
>30       France                       32.7        0.154892
>32      Germany                       30.6        0.045456
>89       Turkey                       27.2        0.027695
>17        China                       25.6        0.055173

The results should be filtered by descending 'Smokers in Population (%)' then 'Mortality Rate' for 'Country' with 'Population 2020 (in thousands)' > 50000. Currently the filter only applies to 'Smokers in Population (%)'. The 'Mortality Rate' values capture all population.
I cannot drop the rows in Mortality Rate as I need it for further analysis in the later part.

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Spoke 'n' Chain on Tour: Wahahey! La Belle France!
We made it! We transibericed!
We made it up and over the Coll d'Ares, one of the little passes of the Pyrenees, a doddle at only 1513m.
At the bottom of the hill we stopped in Ceret. Here once upon a time Pablo Picasso and his friends hung out, The Grand Café, is still operating today, This is the old museum of modern art. We prefered the old one to the new one. Neither were accessible. The old one was more interesting as art.
We had to cycle past three dangerous Robo Geishas! We know they hide chainsaws and samurai swards in their kimonos.
We made contact with Ceret en Transition. A bit last minute so not much happened, but they're there, they just opened a little organic cafe as part of the association and they're in the process of overturning the local government. Go go go!
Then a little further down the hill we went to visit our old friends from Energie Citoyenne in Perpignan.
And of course visiting old friends we made, encore plus new friends.
The Energie Citoyenne velo division is working on opening a Maison du Velo where people will be able to fix their bikes and have access to cheap bikes.
They cycled for four days, from the top of the mountain, meeting people who do good things, organising little events. We joined them in Perpignan and cycled together to Calce where we spent the evening in the company of many lovely people and Le Professeur Boum Boum.
Le Porfesseur Boum Boum explains in simple words and with funny musical interludes the ecological and economical state and affairs of our world. Ici a little youtube clip part 1 la haut.
It was an epic etape the next day - 92km with 50km/h winds straight in our faces!
In a massive team effort and with some music playing on Kevins bike to keep the legs going round, we made it to Narbonne well in time for the Velorution with Velo Cite Narbonne and Le Tour Alternatiba.
La reine de la velorution Narbonne en porte bagage !
In Perpignan we saw this recumbant bicycle that someone had made themselves out of bamboo... very nice!
And in Narbonne this beauty of a mini racer hung upon Gilberts garage wall... aaah!
On our first leg with the Tour Alternatiba we stopped for lunch at the refugee welcome center in Bezier. Here we met the president of Velociutat Bezier. Later on that day we met Hubert who is part of the festival du Roc Castel, which this year celebrates slow travel for a whole week.
...and decided to stay another couple of days to witness the birth of the Sete Cycling Campaign....and pique-nique avec Sel en Sete.
H.G. Wells was right more adults on bicycles - the future is here and now, it begins.
We cycled fast as the wind, against the wind again, through the Camargue... der Wind, der Wind das himmlische Kind in the boiling heat to catch up with the Alternatiba in Arles.
.... and The Orange Velorution who cycled all the way from Berlin to Arles on this very heavy Surrey bike to stay here at the Longo Mai community until she finds a new co-velorutionaire who is brave enough to take on the next voyage.
Here we say good bye to Le Tour Alternatiba for a little while and take a short cut straight north to Montelimar where we meet Chantal and Gilbert who are part of Montelo Velo.
Montelo Velo has a new Bike Kitchen since last year, opening their workshop to the good people of Montelimar to come and find a cheap bike, make themselves a bike or simply come and fix their old bike.


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NDMC to hand over six swimming pools to private agency
New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) Facing acute financial hardship, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has decided to hand over its half a dozen swimming pools to private hands, besides raising the user charges in the range of Rs 100 to Rs 300.
The decision to hand over the six swimming pools of the civic body located at Kutcha Bagh (Chandni Chowk), Shalimar Bagh, Prashant Vihar, Rohini Sector III, Majlis Park and Keshav Puram, on a monthly licence fee to outside agency selected through e-auction, was taken at a recent meeting of NDMC standing committee, said a senior municipal corporation officer.
The committee also approved the fee structure to be adopted by the selected private agency. The revised rates for municipal, government and aided school children will be Rs 300 instead of the existing Rs 200.
User charges for private school children have been raised from Rs 300 to Rs 500, for employees of municipal corporation or their children from Rs 300 to Rs 500, and all other users from Rs 500 to Rs 800, said the official.
The civic body took the decision owing to the acute financial scarcity faced by it. Last year (2014-15) the swimming pools earned a revenue of Rs 13.31 lakh, while Rs 9.57 lakh was spent on their repair and maintenance.
Work for repair and maintenance of the pools could not be undertaken due to severe financial constraints faced by the civic body in the current year, he said.
The licence granted to the selected private agency will be for a period of three years and it could be renewed by the NDMC for one year more upon satisfactory performance.
The NDMC has fixed a minimum reserved monthly licence fee of Rs 75,000 for each of the six swimming pools. The selected bidder will have to submit a security deposit totalling six months licence fee within ten days from the date of issue of the acceptance letter by the civic body, he said. PTI VIT SK DIP
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You sell a website by showing someone a theme and when it's done your client is confounded because the images in the theme demo are not included.
As experts, we take for granted that images in theme demo screenshots need to be bought separately on most occasions, but a client may have chosen a theme based on the visuals you showed them.
Get around the problem by explaining that photos are not included and that you will source others that will give the same effect.
Photographers and the models they use in stock photos need to be compensated for their work. When you buy a license, some of your payment goes to the agency and some to the photographer (who has often paid the models in advance for the rights to use their image).
There are two common types of licensing; royalty-free and digital rights managed (DRM).
Royalty free images are yours to use according to the license conditions once you have paid for them.
DRM images have a variety of conditions attached to their usage including the type of usage (online, print, logos, etc.), the number of copies or online views, and what countries they can be used in.
CC0 (Creative Commons 0) licenses are common. This is a public domain license where the owner has repudiated all rights to the image. However, even here you may still face legal issues if the photo contains any faces or trademarks such as car manufacturers' badges on radiator grills of any cars in the shot.
The client's reaction to high-price stock images may be to use a Google image search and find free pictures. This presents you with another problem: Explaining that these photos may be stolen or otherwise subject to copyright restrictions. The problem is made worse because so many amateurs have the attitude that everything on the Internet is free and theirs' for the taking.
When your client shows you something they found using a Google image search, you need to explain the whole complicated world of image copyright and why you can't be a party to stealing unlicensed photographs.
Another source of unique images is Flickr, but would you trust Yahoo! with your personal details? Me neither, yet you must now have a Yahoo email address to use Flickr.com.
Flickr users have been known to repost copyright images they have found online as creative commons (CC0). Even if you use them in good faith, you are liable for a bank account breaking lawsuit for copyright infringement.
If a client reveals his preferred photo is one he found on Flickr, you need to explain that many pictures on the platform have been stolen. If the client insists, then have a legal document drawn up absolving you of all responsibility and placing the client rather than you in the legal firing line.
However, if you intend to use a picture of another beautiful person using a laptop, you might want to think again. Photoshopped images of beautiful computer users are everywhere.
Your client needs to convey the idea that they are original, the 'real deal,' so using an image everyone has seen on hundreds of other websites won't work.
Always use a reverse image lookup program such as TinEye to check how many other website builders have used the image you think looks so fresh and unique.
Free photographs are good because they are free, but if you want something approximating to unique, you might have to do some creative editing so the average person cannot identify the original.
Free photos work well for website backgrounds, especially after cropping or editing to make them darker or blurred. For featured photographs and hero shots, unique images are mandatory.
There are scores of sites where you can buy photos, but a search will reveal that even these images have been used by many other websites. You will need to pay a lot more for an exclusive license.
Pay close attention to the license details, particularly in the case of DRM photographs.
If you are buying an image from a stock photo site, it is best to explain your intended use to a representative. You will be asked questions such as how many people will see the image, what countries will it be shown in, and whether it will be part of a sales page. Have your answers ready.
Many stock agencies hide their fees until you send a request explaining your proposed use.
Alamy.com has one of the least obscure pricing models.
Your design fees are unlikely to be high enough that you can afford to swallow the costs of buying photos from stock agencies. If your client is intent on using such images, you need to point out the restrictions on use and the costs. Many clients will rethink their requirements when they realize the financial hit involved.
You can exercise your Photoshop skills on market-specific templates, available for most niches.
As an example, if you are building a tee-shirt site, here's a link to 40 PSD tee-shirt mockup templates on Oberlo.
Tee-shirt templates that include the model's face will cost more, but you will find yourself stuck for choice.
Niche-specific PSD website themes are widely available, such as the pets themes shown below from Template Monster.
These will be unique. You will own the copyright, and they will be better than any expensive photoshopped image you can buy.
You can take perfectly good photos for web use with a mid-range phone camera: The secret is in the editing. You can add atmospheric effects using Photoshop, but remember not to over-process your models, so you leave the people with their imperfections. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should edit.
Editing is useful to remove extraneous objects from a photograph, but should otherwise be limited. Your first rule in editing should be, "Is it essential?" Avoid the temptation to make grass greener, colors more vivid and a model's skin glow. And never slim down or reshape the people in your photographs.
If you need to change an image to use it as a background, by making it darker or reducing contrast, then that counts as essential, because you don't want the photo to distract webpage users from the content.
Website clients are hard to please. They want the impossible, and it's your job to deliver.
You don't have to make your life impossible though; there is no need to design every icon from scratch because there are downloadable sets available for low prices.
Avoid over-used free images and check how many other copies of any image already exist online.
PSD templates and your own photos are the best solutions for most designers.


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J. J. Keller launches best-in-class online content platform for safety & compliance professionals
A leader in safety and compliance since 1953, J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. is excited to offer a new way for industry professionals to access and engage with its regulatory knowledge and expertise.
The J. J. Keller® Compliance Network is an online solution that delivers best-in-class content, tools, and resources custom-tailored to the safety and regulatory needs of businesses in the workplace safety, transportation, environmental, human resources, and other industries.
While visitors to the Compliance Network website can try a number of features for free, those who purchase a Professional Membership will receive full access to everything the platform offers, including:
Regulatory News: View current top stories, industry highlights, and regulatory developments affecting your organization.
Compliance Resources: Look up word-for-word regulations and get easy-to-understand explanations from J. J. Keller Experts.
Institute for Learning & Professional Development: Gain foundational knowledge on 120+ compliance topics with articles, videos, and practical exercises that test your understanding in real-world scenarios.
Discussion Forums: Connect with fellow compliance professionals from across the country in member-only forums.
Expert Help: Ask questions, schedule one-on-one consultations, and submit in-depth research requests to J. J. Keller's accomplished specialists.
By personalizing their profile with key information like professional focus, roles and responsibilities, and area(s) of operation, members ensure the content they see is as relevant and helpful as possible. They can also upgrade their membership to receive premium content offering guidance for hazmat and environmental fields.
Equal parts news source, content library, expert communication hub, and professional community, Compliance Network is like having a personal compliance consultant on hand to offer guidance when needed.
J. J. Keller President and CEO Rustin R. Keller believes the platform's authoritative content and versatility make it an invaluable resource for today's safety and compliance professional, especially in navigating an environment where standards and regulations change suddenly.
"Compliance Network is a platform for safety and compliance leaders to have greater confidence in making intelligent, accurate decisions quickly," says Keller. "With regulations and best practices evolving all the time, it's important to have a resource to rely on for peer networking, expert advice, and strong content."
He is particularly enthusiastic that the new solution provides even more avenues for compliance professionals to engage with the company's renowned team of regulatory experts, well beyond what had been offered by previous products.
"The ability to schedule a live consult with our experts is unique and very exciting," Keller says. "So is the ability to request a research project from our staff. Both of these are more in-depth and tailored to customers' specific applications than anything we've done in the past. I'm looking forward to seeing these in action!"
The J. J. Keller® Compliance Network is now available. Learn more and begin building your profile at JJKellerComplianceNetwork.com, or call 800-327-6868.
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With over 19 million registered vehicles in the state of Florida, it comes as no surprise that the level of accidents has risen in recent years to over 344,000 in 2015 with many of them resulting in serious damage. Who then has to pay for the repairs to your car and any medical bills for injuries which might have been sustained? In an ideal world, money wouldn't be an issue, but unfortunately many of us are not prepared for emergency situations such as this.
So what do we consider a car accident to be? Well, the legal definition describes it as being when any type of motor vehicle crashes or strikes a stationary object, an animal, a pedestrian or another vehicle. Whatever type of accident you are involved in can shake you to your core even if there are no injuries, and will leave you wondering what course of action should be taken. This is the point in time where you will want to consider getting car accident legal help from a professional car accident lawyer to help you through the tough times ahead.
What Are the Standard Legal Procedures to Follow after a Car Crash?
In a dazed state, our brains often try to take us away from the here and now, making it difficult to stay calm. However, you should try to focus on getting yourself and any passengers out of the car and to a safe area as quick as you can and assess the situation.
Get as much information at the scene as you can. Don't admit any fault but be polite and exchange names and insurance information with any other drivers involved in the accident. If there are any witnesses, try and get their contact information also.
Take plenty of pictures if it is possible and you have a smartphone or camera handy. Concentrate on the damage of all the vehicles involved including their license plates, damage to property if applicable and any debris that may be lying around.
When filling out the insurance claim form, you will need to record such information as the time and date of the accident, weather and traffic conditions, how the accident occurred, and a complete breakdown of damages and injuries. This includes details of any emergency services which were involved. You should also ask for a copy of any incident reports filed by the police or other involved parties to help with the insurance claim.
Being involved in a car accident can have severe consequences which may leave you with mounting medical bills and having difficulty restoring life to normal. By securing the services of a car crash injury lawyer, however, you put yourself in the hands of experienced professionals who will undertake everything on your behalf to get all that is owed to you.
With a long list of successful outcomes here at Ainbinder Law you can work with us in complete confidence. You will be provided with a free consultation on what is full auto coverage with no fees to be paid up front whatsoever. Our only concern will be to get you the compensation which is owed to you so that you can get back to the routine of daily life with nothing to worry about.
If you have recently been involved in any kind of vehicle crash, contact Ainbinder Law now at 561-609-1904 for car accident legal advice that can simplify your life.


Age-related cataracts are the leading cause of low vision and blindness throughout the world. By age 75, about 70% of people will have them. Surgery to remove cataracts has become almost routine. Can diet make a difference?
The idea that one can reverse aging, especially in eye diseases like cataracts, is usually looked upon as an unrealistic expectation. And yet research increasingly reveals that dietary interventions can lead to remarkable improvements.


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Q: Undefined symbols for architecture i386: error in Xcode I am working on translation App for that i use marketplace azure and its client and so on ,in that app only i am using ocr tesseract for text scanning then apply translation as translate in required in language,
i am getting an bellow error
Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
   "_OBJC_CLASS_$_AFHTTPRequestOperation", referenced from:
  objc-class-ref in FGTranslateRequest.o
   "_OBJC_CLASS_$_AFJSONResponseSerializer", referenced from:
  objc-class-ref in FGTranslateRequest.o
   "_OBJC_CLASS_$_AFXMLParserResponseSerializer", referenced from:
  objc-class-ref in FGTranslateRequest.o
   "_OBJC_CLASS_$_TMCache", referenced from:
  objc-class-ref in FGTranslator.o
  ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
  clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

guide me ...

A: This type of errors normally occurs if your class' .m file is not listed under the "Compile Sources". Normally it's done by xcode but if there is any target related problem it fails to do it.
Steps:

TargetSettings -> Build Phases -> Compile Sources -> Add Your .m Class ->Build and Run


Technically speaking, most members of this large family of flies can be identified as hoverflies by the presence of a spurious extra 'vein' on their wing.
A few weeks ago I was out chasing newly-arrived migrant birds when a low, steady buzz approached my left ear. I turned to see that a large, barrel-bodied fly was keeping pace with me as I ambled, making minute adjustments to the angle of its wings every second in order to stay in perfectly level flight. When I stopped, it too paused and simply hung in the air beside me. It was of course a hoverfly, the first I'd seen closely all year. Technically speaking, most members of this large family of flies can be identified as hoverflies by the presence of a spurious extra 'vein' on their wing. But short of catching and then inspecting them under a lens, you're more likely to recognise a hoverfly the same way I did above: the clue is in the name.
I was almost certainly being escorted by the Common Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax. This is one of the most common hoverflies, not just in Britain but worldwide, active all year round on sunny days. Also out in good numbers at the moment is the subtly pointier Tapered Drone Fly, Eristalis pertinax. Brighter members of their tribe include Eristalis horticola (pictured) all the way to the beautifully patterned Helophilus pendulus (also pictured), which is sometimes known as 'The Footballer' because of its vertical stripes. If I told you what these have in common – larvae called 'rat-tailed maggots' – hoverflies might begin to seem less appealing, but then the multiplicity of forms taken by hoverfly larvae is actually fascinating (from aphid munchers to scavengers to slug-like inhabitants of ant nests) and, if I'm honest, still too far outside my knowledge to cover in any detail.
Alongside drone flies the best known hoverflies are the Syrphini, amongst which you'll find most of the black-and-yellow striped species – in other words, the generic hoverflies of popular imagination. I can almost guarantee that one of these, the Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus), will appear in your garden at some point this year and will probably be ubiquitous by late summer once their numbers are bolstered by migrants from the continent. Migration being another marvel of hoverfly flight, when you think about it, beyond even their helicopter-like manoeuvrability – imagine something that small crossing the English Channel.
Finally, a mention for my personal favourites: the big, bold Volucella family. With the exception of Cossus Hoverfly (Volucella inflata, pictured) they lay their eggs in the nests of social wasps or bumblebees, and also spectacularly mimic their appearance. One to look out for is Volucella bombylans. It has two colour forms, each of which mimics a different bee species: var. bombylans taking the form of the red-tailed bumblebee, Bombus lapidarius, and var. plumata assuming a dress code similar to that of white-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees (B. lucorum and B. terrestris). Top of my wish list for 2013 is the stunning Hornet Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria), on the increase in Britain since its first establishment in the 1940s. But with so many other splendid hoverflies among the 270 or so British species not mentioned here, I'm sure whichever I – or you – happen to find next is bound to be worth a second look.
Lurking under almost every mass of cuckoo spit in Britain will be a nymph of the common froghopper, Philaenus spumarius, on its way to becoming one of the highly variable adult colour morph – which range from mottled pale brown to almost solid black.
Nineteen species have been recorded in Britain, of which at least ten are resident natives, and this list is lengthening as climate change drives the distribution of many species northwards.


Leave granted. The question that arises for consideration in this appeal is whether the Wakf Tribunal has got jurisdiction to entertain a suit for injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the administration, management and peaceful enjoyment of the Mosque and madrassa run by it and all the assets attached to the Mosque. Appellant, a society registered under the Societies Registration Act stated to be formed for the management and administration of wakf property including a Mosque situated therein, filed a suit for an injunction before the Court of Munsiff, Manjeri, which was transferred to the Court of Wakf Tribunal, Kozhikode and numbered as O.S. No.53 of 2003.
The suit was contested by the respondents on merits and ultimately it was decreed by the Wakf Tribunal on 28.09.2004 and the plaintiff was given a decree for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants/respondents and their men from interfering in any manner in the administration, management and peaceful possession and enjoyment of the Mosque, namely, Akkode Juyamath Palli, the madrassa run by it and all the assets attached to the Mosque. The respondents herein filed Civil Revision Petition as CRP No.1362 of2004 under Section 83(9) of the Wakf Act before the Kerala High Court.
Tribunal constituted under Section83 of the Wakf Act was competent to entertain and adjudicate upon disputes regarding eviction of the appellants who were occupying different items which were admittedly wakf properties. The Wakf Tribunal answered the question of jurisdiction in affirmative and decreed the suit which was affirmed by the High Court. This Court, after examining the various provisions of the Wakf Act and Section 9 of the Code of Civil Procedure held in paras 34 and 35 of the Judgment as follows: "34. The crucial question that shall have to be answered in every case where a plea regarding exclusion of the jurisdiction of the civil court is raised is whether the Tribunal is under the Act or the Rules required dealing with the matter sought to be brought before a civil court. If it is not, the jurisdiction of the civil court is not excluded. But if the Tribunal is required to decide the matter the jurisdiction of the civil court would stand excluded.
35. In the cases at hand, the Act does not provide for any proceedings before the Tribunal for determination of a dispute concerning the eviction of a tenant in occupation of a wakf property or the rights and obligations of the lessor and the lessees of such property. A suit seeking eviction of the tenants from what is admittedly wakf property could, therefore, be filed only before the civil court and not before the Tribunal." This Court allowed the appeals and the orders passed by the Wakf Tribunal were set aside and the suit filed by the respondents for eviction of the appellants before the Tribunal was held not maintainable.
The ratio laid down in the above-mentioned Judgment later came up for consideration before this Court in Board of Wakf, West Bengal and another v. Anis Fatma Begum and another 2010 (14) SCC 588 and the Judgment in Ramesh Gobindram (Dead) Through Lrs. (supra) was held distinguishable. That was a case where the dispute related to the Wakf Estate which was created by registered deed of Wakf dated 22.09.1936. The question raised was with regard to the demarcation of the Wakf property, which this Court held is a matter which fell under the purview of the Wakf Act. The judgment of the Calcutta High Court which held otherwise was set aside and this Court held that the Wakf Tribunal has jurisdiction to decide those disputes.
We are of the view that the dispute that arises for consideration in this case is with regard to the management and peaceful enjoyment of the Mosque and madrassa and the assets which relate to Wakf. Nature of the relief clearly shows that the Wakf Tribunal has got jurisdiction to decide those disputes. We, therefore, find no error in the Wakf Tribunal entertaining O.S. No.53 of 2003 filed by the appellant and the High Court has committed an error in holding otherwise. Consequently the impugned order passed by the High Court is set aside and the matter is remitted to the High Court to consider the revision on merits. The appeals are disposed of as above, with no order as to costs.