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Posted 16 September 2011, by Muguntan Vanar, The Star (Star Publications (M) Bhd), thestar.com.my
KOTA KINABALU: Environmental groups are planning a major gathering to endorse the Earth Charter aimed at creating a sustainable global society.
Dubbed Himpunan Hijau, or Green Gathering, the organisers are expecting some 10,000 people to turn up for the event, which will be held at Balok Beach in Kuantan on Oct 9.
Organising committee chairman and Sabah Environmental Protection Association (Sepa) president Wong Tack said some 80 NGOs and civil society groups had expressed their support for the campaign.
"The committee is looking for partnerships with all groups, be they cultural, religious, educational, business or governmental, to champion the movement.
"The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century," he told a press conference here yesterday.
Wong said former United Nations General Assembly president Tan Sri Razali Ismail was among those involved in the formation of the global charter.
He added that the organisers planned to hold the gathering on an annual basis, on the second week of October.
On the event in Kuantan, Wong said participants would stamp their handprints on hundreds of metres of black cloth to register their presence, which will symbolise the stamping away of darkness in their lives and welcoming a new era.
"The cloth will be stitched together and handed over to next year's host, Sabah," he added.
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Posted 16 September 2011, by Nafeesa M P, Daijiworld (Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd), daijiworld.com
We see every new cosmetic brand guaranteeing protection from the sun, is it not the same sun our elders were faced with each day while working hard in their fields? Is it not the same sun which keeps us warm and sources energy for all the processes on the earth? Answer for these questions is a harsh reality which tells us the tale of pollution we have inflicted. The consequences of so called industrial development have reached the skies damaging the ozone layer which protects us from sun radiations. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and other Ozone depleting substances containing the chemicals chlorine and bromine are the culprits.
Ozone is the layer of ozone gas that is set 15 to 30 kilometers above the earth and serves as a shield to protect the earth dwellers from the harmful Ultra Violet B (UVB) rays beamed out from the sun. Ozone is a highly reactive molecule containing three oxygen atoms, which is constantly being broken and formed above the atmosphere in a region called Stratosphere.
Scientist in the 1970's discovered that the layer was thinning and as a result of the release of CFC's, and consequently, the Ozone Hole developed. CFCs, which are used as industrial refrigerants and found in aerosol sprays have caused the breakdown of the ozone layer for last 50 years. The CFCs reaching the upper atmosphere are exposed to UV rays which causes them to break down into Chlorine substances. This chlorine reacts with oxygen which in turn depletes the ozone. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency one atom of chlorine destroys more than a hundred thousand ozone molecules.
The ozone above the Antarctic has been impacted due to pollution since mid-1980s, low temperature in the region speeds up the conversion of CFCs into Chlorine. During the southern summer when the sun shines for longer periods in the region the ozone break down occurs on a massive scale that is up to 65 percent. This is called 'Ozone Hole', whereas in other regions ozone is depleted up to 20 percent.
It is a bitter fact that more than 130,000 new cases of Melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer are reported each year around the world. The disease can also be caused by excessive exposure to the Ultra Violet B (UVB) rays beamed towards the earth from the sun. The extra UVB radiation which is reaching the earth due to ozone depletion inhibits the reproductive cycle of many single celled organisms, which are the root of the food cycle. Researchers have also found variations in the reproductive cycles of fish and other under water species.
Since 1995 on September 16 each year the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed. The day is observed to focus on the protection of the ozone layer at global, national and local level. The day has been designated by the UN General Assembly to commemorate Montreal Protocol.
Nations around the world convened at Vienna in 1985 to develop a framework for co-operative activities to protect the Ozone layer and the agreement became known as the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) monitors programmes of the international treaties aimed at eliminating the production and use of ozone-depleting substances.
The Montreal Protocol which was agreed upon on September 16, 1987 at the Headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal stipulated that production and consumption of compounds that deplete ozone in the stratosphere are to be phased out by the year 2000. A Multilateral Fund (MLF) has been established as a financial instrument of the Montreal Protocol, which assists developing countries in the implementation of the protocol.
India acceded to the Montreal Protocol September 17, 1992 India's per capita consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances is at present less than 3 grams and did not cross 20 gms as against 300 gms permitted under the Protocol.
As of now about 90 percent of the CFCs present in atmosphere were emitted by developed countries in the northern hemisphere including US and Europe. The amount of chlorine in the atmosphere dropped down following the ban of CFCs in these countries in the year 1996. But scientific estimates still predict that it will take another 50 years for the chlorine levels to reach natural level.
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Posted 16 September 2011, by Spectrum Generations, Village Soup, villagesoup.com
Opening a beehive at the Vose's
In light of the growing concern over the recent loss and disappearance of honeybees across the country, many backyard devotees are rediscovering a relatively simple and fun way to assist essential pollinators. By providing a pollinator habitat in your yard, you can increase the quality and quantity of your garden fruits and vegetables. While many may prefer butterflies, moths and birds paying visits to their gardens, bees should also be welcomed as they are such important pollinators of many crops in our food supply.
On September 21, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. Dick and Jean Vose will open their Nobleboro yard for a talk about gardening to attract pollinators – the "good bugs" as well as butterflies, moths and hummingbirds. The original homestead was established in 1910 and features a farmhouse of that era bounded by 10 acres of open field.
Their gardens feature vegetables, herbs, ornamental grasses and shady spots. And, they have a garden just for beneficial insects/pollinators. Jean is a master gardener and an advocate for companion planting. Most of the gardens have been established for about 10 years. After benign neglect over the past 5 years due to other commitments, they have worked this summer to bring back and improve the existing gardens while adding new ones.
The Voses have been backyard beekeepers since 1986. They began with one hive in their backyard and quickly expanded to 10 hives located across Worcester County, Massachusetts. They were active in both their local county beekeeping association and the Massachusetts Beekeeping Association.
They relocated to the mid-coast area of Maine in October 1998 bringing one hive with them. After finding no local bee school or beekeeping association in their area, they started a beekeeping school in 2001. From this school, the Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB) was established in 2003. At present, they keep 4 hives in their backyard apiary. They are managed for pollination and honey. For this presentation, an observation hive will be available in the garage area for close up viewing.
The Voses will give a short talk about honeybees, the gardens, and answer questions. Demonstration tables with beekeeping equipment will be featured. This year, KLCB piloted the "Plant a Spot for Honeybees" project with 5 local nurseries. This project identifies plants to help our pollinators. More information and brochures will be available. In addition, many brochures about bees, native pollinators and flowers will also be available. Advanced Registration is Required. To register and for directions to the Vose's home in Nobleboro please call 563-1363 by September 20.
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Posted 10 September 2011, by Esha Chhabra (Special to The Chronicle), SFGate (San Francisco Chronicle), sfgate.com
Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Rebecca Burgess picking Coreopsis tinctoria to use for her dye in Lagunitas. The artist started a project of using only garments made within 150 miles.
When textile artist Rebecca Burgess embarked on a challenge to wear only clothes that were 100 percent locally sourced for one year, she found herself dressing in one outfit for three weeks.
Her Fibershed Project, as it was named, began gaining momentum in spring 2010 with the support of a grassroots fundraising campaign that drummed up $10,000. Pieces began trickling in that summer, allowing Burgess to officially start the nonprofit effort last September. By then, more than three dozen farmers and designers had agreed to design pieces for her yearlong wardrobe of bioregional clothing.
Burgess was determined to pay farmers, mills, pattern-makers and others fairly for providing garments made, start-to-finish, within 150 miles of her home in Marin County. The goal: to illustrate that regional, organic clothing is still possible in today's globalized climate.
"For three months, I would tell designers, 'Please give me sleeves. I wish I had sleeves,' because it was beginning to get cold," Burgess said with a laugh, as she tended to indigo plants on her small farm in Lagunitas recently. "There was a time when I just had one outfit, and at that point, I had to ask myself, 'Is this going to work?' "
Burgess began with a team of about 40 people, including farmers, designers, seamstresses and volunteers. By the end of the year, she had three times as many folks working with her.
Now they're building an online Fibershed Marketplace – set to go live this month – where shoppers will be able to purchase fibers, cotton and dyes from within that 150-mile radius.
Researched dyes
Prior to Fibershed, Burgess spent more than two years researching bioregional dyes throughout the country. Her work appeared in an internationally circulated book, "Print and Production Finishes for Sustainable Design," and most recently in her own book, "Harvesting Color." She also works with Santa Rosa's Post Carbon Institute, developing curriculum. She has coupled her artistry with an environmental philosophy that calls for not only a resurgence of local craftsmanship but also a reduction of the carbon footprint in the textile industry.
In her blog, Burgess often marks the carbon footprint for the pieces produced for her. For instance, a pair of organic cotton fleece pants, sourced by a local cotton farm and crafted by Thara Srinivasan, a UC Berkeley scientist with an interest in sewing, has a carbon footprint of approximately 5 miles of driving.
But Burgess believes the project has the capacity to have a broader impact than just being environmentally savvy: It can help revive local economies.
Her neighborhood of West Marin, for example, has a 13 percent unemployment rate. By bringing production back to the community, the local economy is likely to benefit, she said.
For instance, she recently hired an out-of-work neighbor to help tend her small indigo farm, which she started a year ago to produce organic natural dyes for her clothing. Demand for the indigo dye has increased in the past year, and if this trend continues, she will need more hands to help.
Then there's Sally Fox, who resides on an organic cotton farm in Guinda (Yolo County).
"If she hires just even a few more people to help on the mill, say four or five," Burgess said, that's a significant boost. "Those are rural jobs. But even in urban areas, the designers have been so inspired by the materials that we're seeing little small businesses starting, specializing in this."
Yolo connection
Fox, who has been growing organic, naturally colored cotton for more than 25 years, accepted Burgess' request to contribute to the Fibershed project a year ago and is now working with her to develop a line of denims. Fox, though, embodies what has happened to American textiles as a result of foreign imports and cheap labor.
"My dream is to have a mill on the farm. But right now most of the mills left in the country are research mills because of their size. They're not production mills. But maybe one day," Fox said.
Burgess' denim project, an effort to create everyday wearable jeans from Fox's organic cotton, is under development and will help determine whether there is enough interest in bioregional clothing.
There is already significant commercial interest in the Fibershed project, but Burgess is focusing on smaller quantities of high-quality artisan products from local designers.
Sustainability is key
After all, sustainability and community are at the center of the Fibershed model: adjusting profit margins to account for the artisan work of the farm and the designer, eliminating waste and excess transportation costs, reconnecting farmers with local designers and experimenting with natural fabrics to avoid polluting waters with chemical dyes.
"This is what we talk about when we say community-building. It's more than just a few local meals together. It's about shifting the whole material culture. There's a sweet intimacy between me and my community," Burgess said. "They're responsible for my well-being and I'm responsible for theirs."
Read more about Fibershed at fibershed.wordpress.com.
E-mail the writer at business@sfchronicle.com.
(Ed Note: Please visit the original site for another photograph associated with this article. As well, the website Rethink Social has re-posted this article with another, different, photograph from The Fibershed Project.)
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Posted 17 September 2011, by Iftikhar Gilani, Tehelka (Anant Media Pvt. Ltd.), tehelka.com
The Dard Shin tribe of Gurez, speakers of the Shina language, are to be uprooted to Srinagar. But what is a pastoral hill community to do in the city, asks Iftikhar Gilani
Imagine the kind of uproar civil society and rights groups would have created had the Centre decided to shift the indigenous Jarawas from their native Andaman and Nicobar Islands to New Delhi. However, no such noise has been made so far even as the Dard-Shina tribe, said to be the last of the original Aryans living in the remote Gurez region is being robbed of its hearth and home. The tribal community will be relocated to Srinagar, making way for the 330-MW Kishanganga hydro-electric project in Kashmir. Away from the high-profile land acquisition cases of Bhatta Prasaul and Nandigram, this scenic place on the north-western tip of the Valley has hardly had anyone crying foul after the Centre announced relocation plans.
Since there is no land in this heavily militarised region close to Line of Control (LoC), the Government has decided to rehabilitate the tribals to Srinagar. Hyder Ali Samoon, a sub-inspector, a resident of Badwan village looks at his ancestral house with a sense of foreboding. The water from the dam will submerge what has been home to him and his ancestors. Pointing towards a nearby graveyard, where his ancestors lay buried, Samoon tells his sons and grandsons to engrave and store images of the house and the picturesque beauty of the village in their minds so that they can, at least, pass on their heritage to the future generations.
Nearly 300 families belonging to three villages of Badwan, Wanpora and Khopri are being relocated to Srinagar city. Against their peers across the Kanzalwan mountains in Bandipora, these villagers are getting a compensation of Rs 5.75 lakh per kanal (a unit of area). The farmers in Bandipora, on the other hand, with more fertile lands are being paid only Rs 2.25 lakh per kanal. Why this difference? Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir Asghar Samoon, who incidentally was touring the area, told TEHELKA that Gurez tribes are being paid more because they are not only losing land but also their culture, civilisation, and will probably become extinct over the next few decades, thanks to the hustle and bustle of Srinagar.
The controversial Kishanganga project, which envisages diverting water from the Kishanganga river through tunnels to the Wullar Lake in Bandipora district of Kashmir Valley has not only come to focus due to Pakistan's opposition invoking the clauses of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) to complain against India to the World Bank but the project has drawn enough attention to itself for being ambiguous about its nature. What is intriguing is that the National Hydel Power Company (NHPC) officials have kept the voluminous environmental assessment report of Kishanganga undertaken by the Centre, for Inter-disciplinary Studies of Mountain and Hill Environment, close to its chest. Not only has it refused to share it with the state government, but it also did not accede to the request of former Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz, when as a minister he wanted to see the report, before it went to the Cabinet.
Ed Note: Please visit the original site for a photo gallery associated with this article. Click on the image above to go to the original site.
The Rs 3642.04-crore power project will displace 362 families and consume a total of 4280 kanals (535 acres) of land. The Centre and the NHPC's move to relocate the displaced families outside Gurez Valley were influenced by several factors. For instance, land in the mountainous valley is very limited. Some 27 revenue villages, inhabiting the region with a population of 31,900 (latest census) houses around 26,000 troops. Total land under Army occupation is 2802 kanal, out of which 918 kanals are unauthorised. Out of 1883 authorised occupation, the Army provides rent for 1140 kanals. The LoC fencing has consumed 339 kanals.
The local magistrate of Gurez Mohammad Ashraf Hakak said that the only land that was available on the foothills of mountains was prone to avalanches. Therefore, the Government, with the help of the NHPC, decided to shift the affected families to Mirgund, around 16 km from Srinagar.
At the core of this rehabilitation exercise stands the Dard Shin tribe of Gurez. Speakers of the Shina language, the rare tribals will be cut off from their culture, livelihood and roots if moved to Srinagar. Many historians and anthropologists claim that the Dard Shin people are pure Aryans.
For more than six months Gurez remains cut off from the rest of the world. Until Jammu and Kashmir was divided between India and Pakistan, Gurez was part of the Gilgit state.
"Relocating people outside Gurez is an attempt to divide and rule the people of Gurez," said the chairman of J&K Dard-Shin tribal minorities, Mir Hamidullah. Unhappy with the plan, he said that in order to preserve their culture and language, the people of Gurez should be provided land and rehabilitated in Gurez itself. "Shina language is the mother of Sanskrit. We are a people with our own history and relocating our people outside Gurez will hurt the community," said Mir.
The price of development:
Apart from jeopardising their cultural identity, the move to rehabilitate them will also risk the state of cultivable land in the area, which will be shrunk further by the dam. "This project will affect whatever little agricultural land is left in our village," said Abdul Khaliq Ganie of Tarbal, the last village near LoC, about 20 kms from Gurez town. "We have been losing our cattle to the minefield areas every year, and now this project has added to our worries as this village remains cut off from the Kashmir Valley for most part of the year," he added.
Known for its scenic beauty, Gurez is separated from the Valley by the north Kashmir mountain range that runs west of Zojila Pass. For more than six months Gurez remains cut off from the rest of the world. Until Jammu and Kashmir was divided between India and Pakistan, Gurez was part of the Gilgit state. The taxes would be paid at Drass, which happens to be the only area on this side of the LoC that shares its language, culture and customs with Gurez.
The compensation being offered to the people for their homes and land, the locals say, is too little. "They are giving me one lakh rupees for one kanal of land, but how am I going to survive on this little amount along with my nine children," rued a resident of one of the affected villages in Gurez.
According to civilian officials, the NHPC has promised (under the new relief and rehabilitation plan) to pay Rs 5.57 lakh to the families whose houses will be affected by the project and construct a new house per household outside Gurez. The powerhouse will be located in Kralpora village of Bandipora. Waters from a fast flowing Kishanganga—from Teetwal to Gurez—would be stored at Gurez and diverted to the Bandipora power station. The water will then go into the Bonar Madhumati and eventually flow into the Wullar Lake.
"Shina language is the mother of Sanskrit. We are a people with our own history and relocating our people outside Gurez will hurt the community," Slug: Kashmir
Pakistan has raised objections over the water diversion part of the project as it believes the inter-tributary transfer amounts to a violation of the IWT of 1960. Pakistan is worried that the diversion of the river will leave thousands of acres of its rice fields, fed by Neelum (that's what Kishanganga is known as in Pakistan) dry, and impact Mangla Dam and the viability of its upcoming Neelam-Jhelum power project.
Environmental experts say that the rise in water level of Kishanganga will adversely affect the ecology of Gurez, submerging substantial plantation and leaving an impact on its agricultural land and wildlife. The dam will also affect the breeding cycle of trout fish, found in Kishanganga. "There will be no breeding of trout fish because of this dam as they need fast running water to breed," said an official from the fisheries department. The dam will also lead to an extreme winter in Gurez, which already has a long winter, as the river will freeze because of the dam, some experts said. "There is a danger of floods too as the water level increases and this will affect other adjoining villages as well," revealed a government official.
Work flows, unhindered:
However, despite many pitfalls, work on the power project continues on both sides of Gurez and Bandipora. The Hindustan Construction Corporation (HCC) has been allotted the EPA contract by NHPC for implementing the project. An amount of Rs 269.96 crore has been spent until March 2010, sources said.
Conceived in 1996, the work on the project began in 2007. HCC is constructing a 37m-high rock-filled dam, and a 23.50 km headrace tunnel to take water to three turbines (110 MW each) for generating 1,350 million units of energy a year. The HCC, last winter, spent a crore on the helicopter service to reach the dam site in Gurez.
In addition to the various problems associated with the project, the HCC has been accused of discriminating against Kashmiri engineers and employees. The HCC authorities, locals alleged, are forcing families in the affected villages to vacate their houses and land even before providing them with compensation.
"The affected families are asking the HCC authorities to give compensation before they vacate their lands," said a Kashmiri engineer working for the HCC site in Bandipora. "People of Kralpora, which is the most affected village, were recently beaten up by the HCC authorities for protesting and demanding land compensation," he added. The HCC and NHPC officials, however, refused comment.
Local labourers alleged that they are paid less than the outsiders. "NHPC did not employ the people from the villages that will be submerged because of the dam. They should have been given preference, but the project authorities brought employees from outside the valley," a government official said.
Minefield of historical wealth:
The region with its unique history is littered with gems of archaeological interest. Archaeologists believe that there are many sites in Gurez, which have inscriptions in Kharoshthi, Brahmi, Hebrew and Tibetan. Experts are of the opinion that an archaeological investigation of Gurez valley will give further insight into the history of the Dard Shin people and about Kashmir in general.
Incidentally, Gurez valley falls along the section of the ancient Silk Route, which connected Kashmir valley with Gilgit and Kashgar. Archaeological surveys in valleys north of Gurez along the Silk Route, particularly in Chilas, have uncovered hundreds of inscriptions recorded in stone. The Kishanganga project will also affect this route, which has traditionally been crucial for trade in Central Asia. One of the three villages that will also be affected by the project is Kanzalwan, which is believed to be an archaeological site of historic importance. The last council of Buddhism is said to have been held in this village, and further down the stream, the ruins of ancient Sharada University lie preserved along the Neelum.
The toll the project is going to take on the local population is heavy. It will mostly hit people who are entirely dependent on agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood. "Those families whose livelihood is entirely dependent on agriculture will be affected more as they have to look for other avenues of employment after their land compensation is exhausted," said a government official in Gurez.
Iftikhar Gilani is Special Correspondent with Tehelka.com.
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First Recycler Indicted for Exporting Toxic E-Waste
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Posted 16 September 2011, by Staff, Environment News Service, ens-newswire.com
DENVER, Colorado, September 16, 2011 (ENS) – In the first case where criminal charges have been brought against an electronic-waste exporter, the federal government today charged two executives of Executive Recycling Inc., a Denver, Colorado electronics recycling firm, with multiple crimes.
Executive Recycling CEO Brandon Richter and Tor Olson, vice president of operations, were indicted on 16 counts, including wire and mail fraud, environmental crimes, exportation contrary to law, and destruction, alteration, or falsification of records.
The charges were brought in conection with shipments of e-waste going to developing countries. Informal processing of e-waste without safety provisions can cause serious health and pollution problems. Some electronics, such as the cathode ray tubes of old computer monitors, contain lead, cadmium, beryllium, and others may contain brominated flame retardants.
The federal government first became aware of the alleged violations following an investigation by Basel Action Network, BAN, a Seattle-based toxic trade watchdog.
After 30 months of investigations, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations team and a team from the U.S. EPA Criminal Investigation Division laid charges today.
The investigation was brought to public attention when BAN worked with CBS's 60 Minutes news magazine in an episode entitled "The Wasteland."
In 2007 and 2008, BAN volunteers photographed 21 sea-going containers at Executive Recycling's loading docks that they tracked across the world, with most ending up in China.
BAN then alerted the Government Accountability Office and 60 Minutes, and together the groups documented U.S. businesses posing as responsible electronics recyclers but instead shipping e-waste to developing countries where it was processed in what BAN calls "deadly, polluting operations."
Electronics waste collection point in the Denver suburb of Highland Ranch, August 2008 (Photo by Steve Scheer)
According to the federal grand jury indictment, Executive Recycling was responsible for at least 300 such exports, including shipments of more than 100,000 toxic cathode ray tubes that netted the company $1.8 million.
"This is a major victory for global environmental justice," said BAN Executive Director Jim Puckett.
"Even before we have a U.S. law in place to explicitly prohibit this dumping on developing countries, the U.S. government's criminal justice system has recognized the massive toxic trade we first discovered in 2001 as fraudulent, as smuggling, and as an environmental crime," said Puckett. "Now these sham recyclers are warned: their shameful practices can land them in jail."
Legislation has been proposed in both the House and the Senate to prohibit the export of toxic electronic waste to developing countries.
Such an export prohibition already exists in Europe.
In 2008, the U.S. Government Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, criticized the EPA and uncontrolled e-waste exports in a strongly worded report. EPA enforcers themselves have said that the United States lacks clear laws to combat the global e-waste dumping practice.
"Sadly, Executive Recycling is just the tip of the e-waste iceberg," said Puckett. "They are but one of hundreds of fake recyclers who sell greenness and responsibility but in fact practice global dumping."
Puckett advocates passing federal legislation to ban dumping e-waste in developing countries. He urges anyone disposing of electronic waste to use only Certified e-Stewards® Recyclers who will not export old toxic computers and TVs to a developing country.
Executive Recycling still operates in the Denver area and has had e-waste recycling contracts with the cities of Denver, Boulder, and Broomfield and the El Paso County and Jefferson County governments.
The company is registered with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as a "Large Quantity Handler of Universal Waste."
The United States is the world leader in producing electronic waste, tossing out about three million tons each year.
China already produces about 2.3 million tons (2010 estimate) domestically, second only to the United States. And, despite having banned e-waste imports, China remains an e-waste dumping ground for developed countries.
According to a report by UNEP titled, "Recycling – from E-Waste to Resources," the amount of e-waste being produced – including mobile phones and computers – could rise by as much as 500 percent over the next decade in some countries, such as India.
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Permaculture (How to Design Systems for Sustainable, Community Living) – Bill Mollison
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Posted16 September 2011, by Staff, Sterling Insights, sterlinginsights.com
Permaculture (permanent agriculture/culture) is the use of Ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, technology, & community development. The objective is to produce an efficient, low-maintenance, productive integration of plants, structures & people, to obtain on-site stability & food self-sufficiency in the smallest practical area.
See also: http://www.heathcote.org/PCIntro/2WhatIsPermaculture.htm
WHO IS BILL MOLLISON?
Bruce Charles 'Bill' Mollison (born 1928 in Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher and naturalist. He is considered to be the 'father of permaculture', an integrated system of design, co-developed with David Holmgren, that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology, but also economic systems, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities.
He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1981 with Patrick van Rensburg.
Bill Mollison, father of Permaculture, gives insight into the techniques, practices and benefits of the most important interdisciplinary earth science of our age. Watch the following videos to learn about his concepts:
THE PERMACULTURE CONCEPT – Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofKTgmW_FAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0v3jrjEtUI&feature=watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwZiikke5HI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKuF7VZFVY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvmffZbDOk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2_EdEOYLiQ
DRYLAND PERMACULTURE STRATEGIES – Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W15RRvKyJSk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIelsCmdTA8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGotaEnwqic
BILL MOLLISON BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements (with David Holmgren, Trasworld Publishers, 1978) ISBN 978-0938240006
Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture (Tagari Publications, 1979)
Permaculture – A Designer's Manual (1988) ISBN 978-0908228010
Introduction to Permaculture (1991, Revised 1997) ISBN 978-0908228089
The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition (1993, Revised 1997) ISBN 978-0908228065
Travels in Dreams: An Autobiography (1996) ISBN 978-0908228119
The Permaculture Way: Practical Steps To Create A Self-Sustaining World, with Graham Bell (2005) ISBN 978-1856230285
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Brian Doyle Essays On Success
[Editor's note: This article first appeared in our December 2013 issue to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.]
IN THE YEAR since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last Dec. 14, thousands more have died by gun violence, and the NRA seems to stymie sane firearm measures at every turn. How do we stave off despair, hold on to hope, and keep moving forward when the odds feel overwhelming? —The Editors
Bigger Than Politics
What do we say to those who are weary?
by Brian Doyle
WHAT WOULD I SAY to those who are weary of assault rifles mowing down children of all ages, every few months, for as long as we can remember now? Oregon Colorado Wisconsin Pennsylvania Connecticut Texas Massachusetts Minnesota Virginia do I need to go on? I would say that this is bigger than politics. I would say this is about money. I would say Isn't it interesting that we are the biggest weapons exporter on the planet? I would say that we lie when we say children are the most important things in our society. I would say that the next time a tall oily smarmy confident beautifully suited beautifully coiffed glowing candidate for office says the words family values, someone tosses an assault rifle on the stage with a small note attached to it that reads Is this more important than a kindergarten kid?
We all are Dawn and Mary in our hearts and why we wait until hell and horror are in front of us to unleash our glorious wild defiant courage is a mystery to me.
I would also say, quietly, that this is bigger than rage and anger and snarling at idiots who pretend to hide behind the Constitution. I would say this is also about poor twisted lonely lost bent young men no one paid attention to, no one really cared about. And I would say that people like Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Scherlach, who ran right at the bent twisted kid with the rifle in Newtown, are the flash of hope and genius here. Those are the people I will celebrate on Dec. 14. There are a lot of people like Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Scherlach, may they rest in peace. We all are Dawn and Mary in our hearts and why we wait until hell and horror are in front of us to unleash our glorious wild defiant courage is a mystery to me. But it's there. And there are a lot of days when I think the whole essence of Christianity, the actual real no kidding reason the skinny Jewish man sparked the most stunning possible revolution in history, is to gently insistently relentlessly edge us away from our savagely violent past into a future where Dawn and Mary are who we are, and you visit guns in museums, and war is a joke, and defiant peace is what we say to each other all blessed day long.
Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland (Oregon) and the author most recently of The Thorny Grace of It, a collection of spiritual essays.
An Insanity of Rationality
This spiritual disease thrives on violence and calls it good.
by Joan Chittister, OSB
THERE IS A MADNESS abroad in the land, hiding behind the Constitution, brazenly ignoring the suffering of many who, over the years, have died in its defense, and operating under the banner of rationality. It's a rare form of spiritual disease that thrives on violence and calls it good.
They want a proper response to violence, they tell us, and, most interesting of all, they insist that only violence can control violence. If "the good guys" have guns, this argument goes, "the bad guys" won't be able to do any harm.
The hope? The hope lies only in those who refuse to feed this addiction to violence.
This particular insanity of rationality argues that violence is an antidote to violence. Then why do we find scant proof of that anywhere? Why, for instance, hasn't it worked in Syria, we might ask. And where was the good of it in Iraq, the land of our own misadventures, where the weapons of mass destruction we went to disarm did not even exist and the people who died in the crossfire of that insanity had not harbored bin Laden. So how much peace through violencehave all the good guys on all sides really achieved?
The insanity of rationality says it is only reasonable to arm a population to defend itself against itself. And so, day after day, the level of violence rises around us as hunting rifles and small pistols turn into larger and larger weapons of our private little wars.
Clearly this particular piece of childish logic has yet to quell the gang violence in Chicago. It didn't even work on an army base in Texas where, we must assume, the place was loaded with legal weapons.
What's more, it does nothing to save the lives of the good guy's children, who pick up the good guy's guns at the age of 2 and 3 and 4 years old and turn them on the good guy fathers who own them.
So the mayhem only increases while white men in business suits insist that their civil rights have been impugned, their right to defend themselves has been taken from them, and more guns, larger guns, insanely damaging guns are the answer. Instead of hiring more police officers, they argue that arming students and teachers themselves, nonprofessionals, will do more to maintain calm and control the damage in situations specifically designed to cause chaos than waiting for security personnel would do.
It is that kind of creeping irrationality that threatens us all.
And in the end, it is a sad commentary on our society. We have now become the most violent country in the world while our industries collapse, our educational system declines, women are denied healthcare, our infrastructure is falling apart, and there's more money to be made selling drugs in this country than in teaching school. No wonder gun pushers fear for their lives and sell the drug that promises the security it cannot possibly give while the country is becoming more desperate for peace and security by the day.
The hope? The hope lies only in those who refuse to feed this addiction to violence. These are they who remember again that we follow the one who said "Peter, put away your sword" when it was his own life that was at stake.
The hope is you and me. Or not.
Joan Chittister, OSB, a Sojourners contributing editor, is executive director of Benetvision, author of 47 books, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.
Recently a man took up residence on my town's football field, sleeping in a small tent in the northwestern corner, near the copse of cedars. He had been a terrific football player some years ago for our high school, and then had played in college, and then a couple of years in the nether reaches of the professional ranks, where a man might get paid a hundred bucks a game plus bonuses for touchdowns and sacks. Then he had entered into several business ventures, but these had not gone so well, and he had married and had children, but that had not gone so well either, and finally he'd taken up residence on the football field, because, he said, that was where things had gone well, and he sort of needed to get balanced again, and there was something about the field that was working for him, as far as he could tell. So, with all due respect to people who thought he was a nut case, he decided he would stay there until someone made him leave. He had already spoken with the cops, and it was a mark of the general decency of our town that he was told he could stay as long as he didn't interfere with use of the field, which of course he would never think of doing, and it was summer, anyway, so the field wasn't in use much.
He had been nicknamed the Hawk when he was a player, for his habit of lurking around almost lazily on defense and then making a stunning strike, and he still speaks the way he played, quietly but then amazingly. When we sat on the visiting team's bench the other day, he said some quietly amazing things, which I think you should hear:
The reporter from the paper came by, he said. She wanted to write a story about the failure of the American dream and the collapse of the social contract, and she was just melting to use football as a metaphor for something or other, and I know she was just trying to do her job, but I kept telling her things that didn't fit what she wanted, like that people come by and leave me cookies and sandwiches, and the kids who play lacrosse at night set up a screen so my tent won't get peppered by stray shots, and the cops drift by at night to make sure no one's giving me grief. Everyone gets nailed at some point, so we understand someone getting nailed and trying to get back up on his feet again. I am not a drunk, and there's no politicians to blame. I just lost my balance. People are good to me. You try to get lined up again. I keep the field clean. Mostly it's discarded water bottles. Lost cellphones I hang in a plastic bag by the gate. I walk the perimeter a lot. I saw some coyote pups the other day. I don't have anything smart to say. I don't know what things mean. Things just are what they are. I never sat on the visitors' bench before, did you? Someone leaves coffee for me every morning by the gate. The other day a lady came by with twin infants, and she let me hold one while we talked about football. That baby weighed about half of nothing. You couldn't believe a human being could be so tiny — and there were two of him. That reporter, she kept asking me what I had learned, what I would say to her readers if there was only one thing I could say, and I told her, What could possibly be better than standing on a football field, holding a brand-new human being the size of a coffee cup? You know what I mean? Everything else is sort of a footnote.
Thank you for sharing The Sun.
Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine and author of "a sprawling labyrinthine vast inchoate Oregon novel" called Mink River (Oregon State University Press). He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Q: Beautifulsoup object does not contain full table from webpage, instead grabs first 100 rows I am attempting to scrape tables from the website spotrac.com and save the data to a pandas dataframe. For whatever reason, if the table I am scraping is over 100 rows, the BeautifulSoup object only appears to grab the first 100 rows of the table. If you run my code below, you'll see that the resulting dataframe has only 100 rows, and ends with "David Montgomery." If you visit the webpage (https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/2019/base/running-back/) and ctrl+F "David Montgomery", you'll see that there are additional rows. If you change the webpage in the get row of the code to "https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/2019/base/wide-receiver/" you'll see that the same thing happens. Only the first 100 rows are included in the BeautifulSoup object and in the dataframe.
import pandas as pd
import requests, lxml.html
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Begin requests session
with requests.session() as s:
        # Get page
        r = s.get('https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/2019/base/running-back/')

        # Get page content, find first table, and save to df
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content,'lxml')
        table = soup.find_all('table')[0]
        df_list = pd.read_html(str(table))
        df = df_list[0]

I have read that changing the parser can help. I have tried using different parsers by replacing the BeautifulSoup object code with the following:
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content,'html5lib')

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content,'html.parser')

Neither of these changes worked. I have run "pip install html5lib" and "pip install lxml" and confirmed that both were already installed.

A: This page uses JavaScript to load extra data.
In DevTools in Firefox/Chrome you can see it sends POST request with extra information {'ajax': True, 'mobile': False}
import pandas as pd
import requests, lxml.html
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with requests.session() as s:

    r = s.post('https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/2019/base/running-back/', data={'ajax': True, 'mobile': False})

    # Get page content, find first table, and save to df
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'lxml')
    table = soup.find_all('table')[0]
    df_list = pd.read_html(str(table))
    df = df_list[0]
    print(df)

A: I suggest you use request-html
import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from requests_html import HTMLSession

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Begin requests session
    s = HTMLSession()
    # Get page
    r = s.get('https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/2019/base/running-back/')
    r.html.render()
    # Get page content, find first table, and save to df
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.html.html, 'lxml')
    table = soup.find_all('table')[0]
    df_list = pd.read_html(str(table))
    df = df_list[0]

Then you will get 140 lines.

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Novel ADHD Digital Therapy Shows Promise
By Jenna Payesko
Children with ADHD treated with AKL-T01 showed a significant positive improvement in attention.
Boston-based Akili Interactive has announced top-line results from the STARS-ADHD pivotal study of its investigational digital therapeutic medicine AKL-T01, in treatment of pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
AKL-T01, the company's ADHD treatment in development, is a first-of-its-kind prescription digital medicine being evaluated as a potential treatment for pediatrics with ADHD.
"Children affected by ADHD can experience fundamental challenges with attention and impulse control, which can lead to serious limitations in daily life," Eddie Martucci, PhD, president and chief executive officer, Akili, told MD Magazine. "Our technology is directed at these attentional impairments through specific sensory stimuli that targets neurological function, and this study was the first very important step to rigorously evaluate AKL-T01 as a potential new digital treatment for pediatric ADHD through this direct targeting approach. We're very happy to see that children with ADHD treated with AKL-T01 showed a significant positive improvement in attention compared to an active control game, and we look forward to further data analysis and additional research to understand AKL-T01's full potential."
The digital medicine, AKL-T01, is a video game for patients to play on tablet devices. It uses the same storytelling and reward mechanisms as standard videogames; however, it features mechanisms to act on neural systems and algorithms that dial the level of stimulus up or down, meeting the needs of the patient.
In the STARS-ADHD randomized, controlled trial of 348 children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD, AKL-T01 showed a statically significant improvement compared to an active control group on the predefined primary endpoint, a change in the Attention Performance Index (API), a composite score from the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA).
Secondary outcome measures showed statistically significant positive improvements in both the treatment and active control arms, although there was not a significant separation on the measures between both groups.
The trial evaluated patients with ADHD and objective attention deficits before and after 4 weeks of at-home treatment with either AKL-T01 or an active control that was designed and tested to have a similar level of expectation of benefits and engagement.
Researchers recommended that children complete a 30-minute session of the game 5 days a week.
The active control application was deployed in the same format as AKL-T01, a mobile tablet, and mimicked the reward and engagement however deployed different stimuli than the therapeutically-active component.
After the 4-week period, an assessment measured changes from baseline on standard measures of attention, memory and impulsivity. Children and adolescents that received AKL-T01 showed a statistically meaningful improvement in attentional functioning on the API.
Secondary outcomes included subjective parent-reported behavioral ratings.
AKL-T01 was well tolerated and safe, with only 11 treatment-related adverse effects: primarily headache and frustration. No serious adverse effects were reported, and only 1 patient discontinued treatment.
Engineered as a therapeutic active treatment for cognitive deficiency, AKL-T01 is built on Akili's patented Project: EVO technology platform that allows selective targeting and activation of specific cognitive neural systems in the brain that exhibit deficiency from various medical conditions.
The technology uses adaptive algorithms to deliver the presentation of stimuli that engage targeted neural in the prefrontal cortex. In a closed-loop system, the algorithms automatically adjust the level, or dose, for a personalized treatment experience tailored to the needs of individual patients.
The treatment looks and simulates a high-end video game with art, music, storytelling and reward cycles to engage patients in the delivery of therapeutic activity.
"This innovative study represents, to my knowledge, the largest and most rigorous evaluation of a digital medicine," Dr. Scott Kollins, principal investigator of the study, professor of psychiatry, director of the ADHD program, Duke University School of Medicine, said in a statement. "The objective improvements of attention observed in the study suggest that AKL-T01 addresses a key deficiency in ADHD that is not directly targeted by standard treatments. Since the active control group in this study also played an engaging video game, we are encouraged that the statistically significant group differences were drive by the therapeutically active component in AKL-T01 and not just the video game experience."
Akili plans to file for regulatory approval with the FDA in the first half of 2018 for clearance as a novel treatment for children and adolescents with ADHD, paving the way for the first 'digital' prescription product to directly treat a disorder.
The company is also studying whether a similar version of its video game could potentially treat adults with depression, and the Akili recently started a mid-stage clinical trial with early results expected late next year.
A press release has been made available.
This article was originally published by MD Magazine.


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Please Note: The ThePlatform.ie has further developed its position from that laid out below. The information below however remains relevant.
The updated position is now on a new website the PeoplesPlatform.ie
Link to the PeoplesPlatform.ie
People of Ireland; are you tired yet of the whipped Political Party System enslaving you and selling you and your children and the country out?
There are solutions!
Ireland and its People are Under Attack:
The compromised and dysfunctional whipped Party Political system has taken us here; puppets of greed, cronyism and secret powers, both Irish and international controlling our country. Couple this with the agendas of the UN, EU, ECB and the WEF; any semblance of sovereignty would seem lost. Wholesale mismanagement and waste of taxpayers' money by Government, Councils and quangos is now the norm. Zero accountability for the culprits, as they are promoted or retire on large pensions, leaving the taxpayers and the productive economy paying for their misdeeds.
Is this the future you want to live in, and is it what you want to leave to your children?
Bailing out the Banks' Bondholders in 2008 destroyed the country, while as far back as 2001 the Central Bank knew that under flawed IAS 39 Standard the banks could conceal their losses, and knew in 2005 that the banks were quickly becoming insolvent,1 but still allowed them to increase credit for a property bubble, at up to 30% per annum. The Central Bank and ECB knew the crash was inevitable; in fact, they facilitated it – no other outcome was possible. The bank auditors are also culpable and are possibly liable.
Thousands of businesses were wiped out while the banks sold their properties to their cronies, and they put thousands out of their homes. The banks got bailed out, the people and businesses got sold out by those same political parties. Yet another generation of Ireland's best and brightest young were forced to emigrate.
Housing, rented accommodation & homelessness crises: We now have a serious housing, rented accommodation and homelessness crises resulting from self-serving, captured and incompetent politicians and political parties that have controlled Government for decades. Ample and affordable housing and rented accommodation is possible, but there has to be radical changes in Government, Government policy on Real Estate Investment Trusts (Banned from buying homes in Germany since 2007), Vulture Funds, Councils, the construction industry, the quangos controlling services, and of course the banking system.
The Government backed CETA (EU-Canada) trade deal, complete with its own corporate courts, i.e. the Investment Court System (ICS),2 which is a re-branded version of the highly contentious Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, which solely benefits multinational corporations must be stopped.
We are already paying for water; "At the moment Irish taxpayers are paying about 1.2 billion Euros for the cost of water, water is not free at the moment." Simon Coveney, 2014.3
What sort of future have you to look forward to, at the hands of these same puppets? Ireland was in stringent lockdown for over a year, while our neighbours in Sweden had no lockdowns yet fared better, and incurred no huge debt.4 Never before in history have healthy people been locked down; it was regarded as unsafe to enter your local shop or business with a few people – but it was safe to be in a multinational supermarket with hundreds.
Cases, cases, and more cases based on a very dubious PCR test often run at excessive cycle rates, resulting in countless false positives in non-infectious people.5 Rampant fear-mongering and terrorizing of the people by the national broadcaster RTE, and our captured Government puppets. This has resulted in billions more in debt being heaped on the backs of the Irish people.
EU Digital Green Pass: All but two of our MEPs voted for the EU Digital Green Pass,6 the name is deceptive, as is the purpose; it will be used to coerce people into vaccination, with a credit score system as in China, possibly added to it later.
Political Parties are Paid by the State (tax-payers) to Canvass the tax-payers to Vote for Them.
Taxpayer/State Funding of Political Parties in 2017. • FF €5.6 million • FG €4.7 million • Sinn Féin €3.4 million (26 County Report) • Labour party €1.6 million • Solidarity/People Before Profit c. €900,000 • The Social Democrats €600,000+ • The Green Party €530,000. Data from IrishTimes.com7 article, Oct 2018, by Pat Leahy. There's also the Issue that the political parties of Government have virtually unlimited access to the State Broadcaster, RTE.
It is time for change, but you will have to help make it happen by being one of the new breed of independent candidates, or their supporter and helper. People of all ages in Ireland – you have to take responsibility for your own, and your country's future. Don't leave it to the corruption of the past; we simply cannot allow the farce to continue.
The opportunity will present itself at the next elections – we must be ready.
Please read the list of principles below, if they resonate with you, consider becoming a candidate in the next election or nominate a candidate from your community.
It's a job with a salary of €100,191 p.a. + Allowances & Expenses – Consider the calibre of the people who are there, and their allegiance to their party, to the EU or to corporate interests, rather than to the people who voted for them and the country – there's no doubt more ethical and capable community representatives are available to be nominated and elected.
Politicians & a Political System that Work for You, your Community & the Country:
A Dáil made up of TD's upholding the Constitution and representing their constituents, and not a Dáil whipped by political parties or controlled by external powers.
Accountability and liability for actions in Public Office and Public Service.
The Taoiseach to be directly elected by the people and accountable to the people.
Two community-nominated candidates to contest every Dáil seat in General Elections.
State funding of political parties to be stopped. Funds to be used to facilitate the nomination of the best community candidates in every constituency. Every candidate, party and independent to receive the same basic support from the State, i.e. a flyer delivered to every door in their constituency, and nothing more. No preferential treatment given to party candidates in funding or in access to time on the State Broadcaster RTE.
The Public to elect County & City Council Managers and Judges – Ending appointments by political parties.
Every elected TD and Senator required to meet in public with constituents, in an organized setting, at least eight times per annum and a mechanism in place for the public to propose motions for debate and action.
Those bound by oaths to any organisation to be prohibited from participating in elections, being elected to, or holding a seat in the Dáil, Seanad or any public office. All oaths taken by candidates, politicians and all public officials to be publicly declared.
A Comprehensive Community-Public Banking System to be established nationwide over the next 5 years, to support our indigenous economy and provide safety for deposits.8 This also returns control of the credit of the nation to the people. Public banks can lend for Public Projects, ending the extortion by Public Private Partnerships & their unending debt burden on the public. A major expansion of the Credit Union's role in serving their members and of the Post Office network in serving the public. Retention of physical cash in society.
Prioritize support for the local indigenous economy; i.e. rural and urban local businesses and local enterprise, creating jobs locally 9 and an environment that supports the return home of our emigrants.
A radical review of the Health, Education and Legal/Judicial systems, covering their fitness-for-purpose, motives, agenda, direction and results produced. Regarding the Legal/Judicial system; issues such as restricted access, delayed access and excessive costs in accessing justice for the public need to be addressed. Also needed is the introduction of Collective Redress lawsuits, the development of a Restorative Justice system and the enforcement of the UN Bangalore Principles for ethical conduct of Judges,10 of Independence, Impartiality, Integrity, Propriety, Equality, Competence and Diligence.
A full review of RTE, the 'Public Broadcaster': its Public Mandate, policies, control, independence from Government and service to the public.
A review of the EU, ECB, UN and the WHO and their influence and control of the country. The ECB & CBoI oversaw the property bubble and forced the bank bailout. EU countries are taking c. €5.5bn per annum in terms of wealth, from Irish waters.11 We're importing farm produce, while Irish farmers are subsidized not to farm. Other farmers, even of medium sized farms, cannot earn an average wage and are being driven off the land by unfair trading conditions, to be replaced by fewer, bigger, more intensive farms, and factory farms, as per the EU model. Ireland should be fully self-sufficient in safe and healthy non GMO food. We need to also harness the huge potential of industrial hemp.
Regulate WiFi as per EU Resolution 181512 in schools and public places. Deploy nationwide, a safe, wired Very High Capacity Networks (VHCN) in accordance with European Electronic Communications Code (EECC).
As per our Constitution, 'the family is the natural primary and fundamental unit group of society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienableand imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law'.13 This necessitates public oversight of, and investigation into Tusla and its associates, to ensure this principle adhered to. ThePlatform.ie recommends psychological support and the development of adoption services to best-practice-standards as a real option for crisis pregnancies.
ThePlatform.ie totally rejects the introduction of any form of travel, covid, medical or green pass, forced or compulsory medical intervention on adults or children, or any such infringement to our freedoms and basic rights. There is no immunity from prosecution for big pharma or those complicit in the 'intentional' infliction of harm.
Reinstate revised versions of Articles 47 & 48 of the 1922 Constitution. Citizen Initiatives; a constitutional process whereby national petitions can veto legislation and initiate new legislation.
The primary tenet of all law, 'harm no other or their property' applies, as a requirement for all interaction between people, between the State or State agencies and people, and between Corporations and people.
We call for full, open and informed debate on all subjects in public forums, with no subject off limits.
National Advisory Committees:
We invite people to join and develop the Committees listed below, with a view to further developing policy.
People's Cabinet for Reform:
Election Candidates are invited to participate in these committees and bring expertise, or gain expertise across a broad range of issues, with a view to introducing policy when elected. Candidates will be briefed in all areas of interest to them.
Government & Council Waste & Corruption.
Banking, Finance & the Indigenous Economy.
Housing & Reform of the Construction Industry.
Reform of the Political & Electoral Systems.
Judicial System & Access to Justice.
Safe Communication Technology.
Education & Apprenticeships.
Broadcasting & Media.
Sovereignty – External Agendas – Foreign Trade, EU, UN, WEF, PESCO, CETA etc.
Public Bodies Oversight.
Healthcare, Food, Water Fluoridation & Wellness Systems.
Farming & Industrial Hemp.
Fishing & Seaweed Industry.
Energy, Environment & Pollution.
The transition needed will only happen if it is community driven. We appeal to people from all over Ireland to get involved at a community and county level and contribute to bringing about the change that is desperately needed.
ThePlatform.ie Launches a Resource Hub for Independent Election Candidates – May 2021
ThePlatform.ie will be a Resource Hub for Independent Candidates for forthcoming elections.
ThePlatform.ie presents 19 principles by which real positive and constructive change is to be brought about, for the benefit of all the people. (See above.)
ThePlatform.ie appeals to the people of every County/Constituency in Ireland to establish committees and methods to nominate and support Independent Community Candidates for every Dáil and Council position in future elections.
Candidates to run as Independents, with the knowledge support of ThePlatform.ie Advisory Committees.
The County Committees will work with the Central Committees to develop proposals/solutions as to how exactly these changes can be brought about.
To this end, ThePlatform.ie is inviting election candidates, advisory committee members, supporters and helpers to come forward and organise in every community and county.
For all correspondence on the above, please e-mail the Independent Candidates Resource Hub, 'Inde-Hub' at indehub@theplatform.ie
By ThePlatform.ie May 2021 Website: https://theplatform.ie
References;
Cormac Butler & Tim Bush – Dáil Committee on Finance & Public Expenditure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVXDwMvN60
ISDS Platform https://isds.bilaterals.org/?-ceta-
Simon Coveney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3TyfERp-Iw
It Could Have Been Different – 'Covid, Tango and The Lagom Way' Sweden. https://theplatform.ie/it-could-have-been-different-covid-tango-and-the-lagom-way/
WHO (finally) admits PCR tests create false positives https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/
Every Irish MEP voted in favour of covid passports except Clare Daly and Mick Wallace https://gript.ie/every-irish-mep-voted-in-favour-of-covid-passports-except-clare-daly-and-mick-wallace/
Political parties now almost wholly reliant on State funding – Pat Leahy, Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/political-parties-now-almost-wholly-reliant-on-state-funding-1.3680924
The Public Banking Forum of Ireland www.RepublicIrelandBank.com
Professor Richard Werner – Shifting from Central Planning to a Decentralised Economy https://professorwerner.org/shifting-from-central-planning-to-a-decentralised-economy/
Political Scientist, Dr. Karen Devine DCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPrQZxjAPj8
Council of Europe – Résolution 1815 http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Council_Europe_Resolution_1815_The_potential_dangers_of_electromagnetic_fields_and_their_effect_on_the_environment_27_05_2011.pdf
UN Bangalore Principles https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/Bangalore_principles.pdf
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Q: Anime about mecha robots traveling into fairy tales I've been trying to identify an anime from my childhood. Is a mix of sci-fi and fantasy. The plot was about some people that travel to fairy tales (or some world that resembles the ones in fairy tales) and fight people trying to change those stories (but I'm not be sure about this last part).
If recall correctly the good guys used mechas that looked like animals (panthers or wild boars) to travel into these fairy tale-like worlds. The anime aired on Cuban television in the '90s, so it is probably from the '70s-'80s or older. It was dubbed in Spanish.
The animation style resembles that of Ranking of Kings.
I'm inclined to believe it was a movie; if it is was a series I only saw one episode.

A: The anime I was looking for was Time Bokan. The real plot (from Wikipedia):

Dr. Kieta, a somewhat wacky but intelligent scientist, has finally
succeeded in inventing insect-shaped time machines called "Time
Bokan". To prove its efficiency and safety, he decides to serve as the
very first guinea pig for its maiden voyage. However, by the time his
machine has returned, there's no trace of him inside. The only thing
that it returns with is a talking parrot, along with a large gemstone
called the Dynamond (ダイナモンド, Dainamondo), which is seemingly the most
powerful and valuable jewel in the world.
Now it's up to a search party, founded by Dr. Kieta's lab assistant
Tanpei, to travel through time to find Dr. Kieta. However, it seems
that someone power hungry is looking for the "Dynamond" as well.[1]
The story starred two vividly opposing sides, the heroes, and the
villains. Typical plots follow this format:
The heroes travel to a particular era or space during their search for
Dr. Kieta, and their hunt for the nature of the Dynamond, meeting the
famous historical figures (and some times fictional characters) in the
process. The heroes eventually encounter the villains. The two sides
battle each other with their time machines. The villains always suffer
a crushing defeat, either due to the smart foiling of their plans from
the heroes, or due to the villains' own ineptitude.

In particular I was looking for a film called Time Fighters in the Land of Fantasy, that was made mostly of episodes themed around fairy tales.


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Q: In django migrations are not being applied to the database I have updated some fields of a table in my database by removing a field and adding some, as well as adding a new table. I run:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

And I get no changes detected and no changes were applied.
In django admin I don't see the new table and when I click add a new record into the database it displays the old fields. This is also reflected in the database as it displays the old fields and not the new table.
I have dropped all tables in the database and deleted all migrations in each app leaving init.py and I still get this error which confuses me because how can it show old fields which I have deleted and there are no record of as I have deleted the table and migrations?
The code in question:
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
from src.profiles.models import Profiles

# Create your models here.
class Product(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200, primary_key=True)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2)
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

class ProductsOwned(models.Model):
    ownedID = models.ForeignKey(Profiles.user)
    product = models.ForeignKey(Product.name)
    purchaseDate = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    expiryDate = models.DateTimeField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

If you need any clarification or have any questions please ask.
Edit: I can literally delete all my code in the models and no changes will still be detected.
Edit 2: Make migrations code uploaded to a pastebin: http://pastebin.com/GywuiCZj
Edit 3: The app I am editing is catalog, my installed apps:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'profiles',
    'contact',
    'crispy_forms',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'allauth',
    'allauth.account',
    'allauth.socialaccount',
    'stripe',
    'checkout',
    'catalog',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

A: If your catalog does not have any data and it is safe to remove the tables related to catalog app then you can do the following.

*

*If you are using MySQL, DELETE FROM django_migrations where app = 'catalog'

*Delete all migrations from catalog\migrations.

*Now do python manage.py makemigrations catalog.

On a side note, the standard way of listing apps in settings.py is that django apps first, third party apps second and your own app third.

A: Could be possible the migration file is flagged as migrated due to certain reason.
Note:
1. If this is the 1 migration file in this app, the name of file would be 0001_initial. It could be possible you had migration file with name earlier which you could have deleted.

*Also something I would suggest is in installed_apps keep all the django app i.e django.contrib.admin, django.contrib.auth ... above your custom apps.

Finally If nothing works you can unfake your migration file.
python manage.py migrate --fake core 0003
python manage.py migrate --fake core zero
(caution with this. It would unfake all the migration files)
and then
Reference: fake/unfake migration