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Can anyone refresh our recollection as to why we need these two competing projects?
It's embarrassing that the Apache foundation got involved in such an obvious act of vandalism.
I think so too.
It did make me wonder how the Apache Foundation tries to steward open source objectives.
The donation to the Apache Foundation seemed primarily a result of the initial traction around LibreOffice, and it was odd that Apache didn't look at Libre and feel that they would be good stewards of the effort.
Seriously? 'I think so too' 5, interesting.
With all due respect but just because your name is Bruce Perens and you have a four digit id doesn't mean 'I think so too' is more interesting than it normally would've been.
Posting AC for obvious reasons (Slashdot's typical 'don't touch my hero' atmosphere in case it's not so obvious)
"I think so too" comments are usually upmodded by moderators who agree with them. Comments themselves are (or should be) upmodded because of the content of the comments being Interesting/Insightful/etc., rather than because of opinion.
OTOH, maybe I'm just being an argumentative SOB looking for karma by defending someone name Bruce Perens who has a four digit id.
But Oracle kept a stranglehold on it long enough to very nearly kill OOo.
Unless OOo can gain some serious traction with new developers, it's still just a matter of time before LibreOffice replaces it completely.
OOo pretty much lost the race within the first month or two of Libreoffice forking from it. They merged in the code changes from go-oo pretty much immediately and most of the developers fled to Libreoffice, at this point, we're talking about OO.org and honestly, it's a zombie and has been for over a year. They may release a few more versions, but anybody that's using OO.org, ought to realize that it's basically dead in the water and falling further and further behind.
no, Oracle donated OOo to the Apache Foundation (I guess they couldn't be arsed with it once they realised they couldn't sell it and no-one liked them) so it's noow back to being properly open.
However, I don't think the world needs 2 open office suites, they should merge them together, then they can take the best of LibreOffice (the code) and the best of OpenOffice (the name).
But the point is this is under a more permissive license which some companies, IBM for example, want. Also, if no more than one office suite is allowed you better notify the Caligra people to shut up shop, too.
The issue is licensing.
Apache OpenOffice is APL, LibreOffice in LGPL. This means that they can't cross-port features or merge, even though they are 90% the same code base. Oracle owned the full copyrights of OO.org (originally released as LGPL), so they were able to donate it to Apache allowing them to relicense to the APL. Apache will not use a non-APL license for anything under their umbrella.
According to Apache, Libreoffice may be able to port from APL->LGPL, but Apache will likely not be able to port from LGPL->APL.
According to Apache, Libreoffice may be able to port from APL->LGPL, but Apache will likely not be able to port from LGPL->APL.
That's true, but they might get an email from the author allowing them to. It's only been a year - I imagine the authors would not be hard to track down.
That's not going to work in long term. Probably it already doesn't.
LO folks have spent about a year converting the code base to use standard libraries (most notably STL) instead of the old home-brew stuff OO.o still relies upon. That was a major clean-up done by LO people which allowed them to make code cleaner and accessible to new developers. But also made LO quite incompatible to OO.o.
Due to that, many features already cannot be ported between the two without some effort.
I think you are right about that - I was just addressing the issue of licensing.
If the issue is licensing, then it would seem that Calligra Suite (formerly KOffice) ought to be the favorite of the FSF, since it uses GPL2, as opposed to LGPL. Did the FSF re-license LO under LGPL3, and even if it did, is LGPL3 considered a more favored license than GPL2? AFAIK, the FSF recommends that software creators use GPL instead of LGPL wherever possible.
I would be interested in how these 2 suites compare w/ Calligra Suite 2.4.
According to Apache, Libreoffice may be able to port from APL->LGPL, but Apache will likely not be able to port from LGPL->APL.
Which is, IMHO, another example of why FSF licenses suck. Why some people think this a feature, not a bug, is beyond me.
A truly open license should foster a mentality towards openness and working towards a better product, with plenty of cross-pollination, instead of being a harbor for tantrum fits.
Now we have two office suites, and who knows which one is the best for the corpo
I think it does, because the world *seriously* needs a decent alternative to MS Access and neither OO nor LO have it.
Who uses MS Access seriously?
I guess your sig is relevant to this post.
Oh, just millions of people who work at an office and need small to medium-size (relational - though they don't actually know anything about RBs) databases.
Can anyone refresh our recollection as to why we need these two competing projects?
Hear hear, we already have Ed, why do we need all these other projects? It just isn't right.
1) Competition is good.
2) Oracle's heavyhanded governance went beyond the pale.
We need LO because it's a better product in every way. It incoporates all the GoOO patches created by Novell and Debian, and has undergone a massive cleanup that made the code smaller, faster, and easier to understand, without removing any functionality, and, since the cleanup, has had a steady stream of improvements added.
IBM needs OpenOffice because they had a separate license from Oracle to use OO code in Symphony, and the LO folks aren't offering the same deal--LO is GPL, take it or leave it.
Apache needs OpenOffice because it promotes their preferred license. Which isn't much of a reason, but it's something.
OO seems likely to become an IBM product in all but name. A handful of developers may feel motivated to contribute for whatever reasons, but unless OO undertakes a cleanup like the one LO already accompished, the complexity of the code is likely to discourage casual contributors. A cleanup of OO would likely put them even farther behind LO in features, but without a cleanup, it's going to be harder to add features, which will make it harder for them to keep up in the long run, and will mean that OO's performance will continue to suck compared to LO.
Parts of the code cleanup has happened with Oo. IBM hired some of the original OO developers in Hamburg, Germany and also donated Symphony to Apache. OO4 will resemble Symphony (minus the Java parts) much closer than the current OO3.x
There's a large team in Beijing contributing and they are motivated, educated and talented.
Disclaimer: I work for IBM and met all parties mentioned.
Oh, Debian patches, how reassuring! Now I'm certain I shouldn't get anywhere near LO. They can't even keep their servers from being hacked (not once, more than once...), and even Ubuntu sometimes breaks during upgrades!
This is just wasted energy...They should put their muscle behind KDE's Office suite, if they were looking for a free software project to play with. It actually has some nice and original features here and there.
http://500memes.com/plog-content/images/meme/futurama-fry/not-sure-if-trolling-or-just-stupid.jpg [500memes.com]
If you want a vendor that's never been hacked, I think you're going to need to look on another planet. Even OpenBSD has a less-than-perfect record, and they're about as close to never-been-hacked as you're likely to find. As to what the ~800 developers in the Debian project spend their time on, well, that includes all sorts of things, including your precious KDE suite. So if Debian involvement scares you, it'
Can anyone refresh our recollection as to why we need these two competing projects?
We don't, but you can thank SUN/Oracle for the split. Soracle was dragging ass on OpenOffice.org, so the latter was forked into LibreOffice. Soracle treated LibreOffice developers like shit, and the Free Software community noticed, so many of us went to LibreOffice on principle as much as anything else.
And that's not even the entire story. Just an important note.
I guess I've been out of touch, I thought Openoffice died with Sun and Libreoffice was forked and is the continuation of that product.
Seems like a lot of duplication of effort in maintaining both OpenOffice and LibreOffice and the community would be better off picking one. But then again, the same has been said about KDE versus Gnome.
the community would be better off picking one
You say that as if you have the money to pay them to pick just one.
the community would be better off picking one
You say that as if you have the money to pay them to pick just one.
No, I say that as someone who has spent years waiting for Linux on the Desktop to be ready, and I keep seeing so much software that is almost, but not quite there. Along with many competing software applications that do nearly the same thing, so it just seems like there's often alot of dilution from competing packages when there could be more cooperation to make one project more polished and usable.
And before you say "It's open source - write it yourself!", I have contributed to Open Source projects, but my contributions have mostly been on the systems tools side, I'm not a desktop applications developer.
I do run Linux on my desktop (both at home and work), but I keep a Windows VM handy for when I need to run a Windows application. I just can't move my boss over to Linux and say "Sorry your spreadsheet macros aren't working in OpenOffice. Here, download Libre Office, maybe it will work better. Wait, no, here's Gnumeric, I heard it has better macro support. No? Well someone online said KSpread might work better, try that one. Here, maybe I can get MS Office to load in Wine, the Wine website says most things sort of work"
OpenOffice has been "there" for a long time. We just want more, that's all.
"f you need a high level of shared editing and some programability, and are online with broadband, Google Docs is it. "
Fixed that for you. Google docs has a tiny flaw in that it don't work when you are not online.
What is this "not online" of which you speak? That term is unfamiliar to me.
>>> What is this "not online" of which you speak? That term is unfamiliar to me.
Move to an African country, preferably to a provincial town, and you'll become instantly familiar.
You're talking fairly simple use. However, in larger-sized businesses, your needs will grow: integration with a large SQL database, electronic documentation workflow, integrating C++ and Excel for numerical analysis of risk models, etc. Google and OO are not up to par, and lag behind the curve.
Google Docs was supposed to the MS Office killer, but Google hasn't actually done anything for real with its product. I'm not sure how you can integrate Google's own products across the board. Can you integrate Gmail
Openoffice was progressing more slowly than it should have. A lot of good contributions ended up in an infinite state of non-acceptance. That said, Openoffice is still a wonderful thing. But LibreOffice is even better.
give apache some time and openoffice will rebound. it has taken considerable time and effort to migrate a project of this magnitude over to apache's infrastructure. i expect things to pick up after the initial apache release (which is the upcoming 3.4).. so 3.5 or 4 or whatever the one after that will be.
You mean give IBM some time. Apache has a mild interest, but it's not exactly their main focus, and they haven't exactly got huge resources to spare. At this point, community interest is probably at an all time low. If Oo rebounds, it's going to be because IBM wants to keep Symphony proprietary, and has plenty of money and resources to throw at Symphony's open-source core. I don't see any other way for Oo to climb out of the pit that's been dug for it.
But backing from IBM is definitely nothing to sneeze
Seems like a lot of duplication of effort in maintaining both OpenOffice and LibreOffice and the community would be better off picking one.
For the moment the "community" has decided to maintain both projects. Is that ok with you?
Yeah, it would be great if the president would appoint an official Open Source Software czar and he could just order the "community" which projects were viable and which should be abandoned as inefficient, because the government is always right you know.
The original article is equally puzzled:
"One of the most curious things about the OpenOffice.org brand, is the loyalty that users have to it, despite the 3.3 feature freeze being twenty-two months ago, having lost much of its development community, and having had no new release since January 2011 - users are still downloading this increasingly old and creaky release at top speed."
I don't know whether I would be downloading OpenOffice for a new install. But I'm still running OO. Not out of "loyalty" but s
I don't know whether I would be downloading OpenOffice for a new install. But I'm still running OO. Not out of "loyalty" but simply because it works. And if you rely on it, "things that work" have a very strong argument for not fiddling with it. At least on a computer you really need.
Good point. My experience with the likes of one of those Linux hacker-happy products is break, break, break, and spent lots of time fixing thing and loosing time and money (gratuitous ABI breakage ? - F. Y. very much, "hackers"
I use a pre-fork version of OO on a daily basis. The only thing keeping me from "upgrading" to LO is a (perhaps unjustified) fear of bloat.
I have LibreOffice downloaded, but only use it once every few months...so I haven't followed too closely (or really care too much about how efficient it is). But I thought one of the first things the LibreOffice team planned to do was remove the Java dependency everyone had been complaining about for years for causing bloat and slowing things down.
I could never totally figure out why OpenOffice, which for years was not Java based, added Java as a dependency.
It seemed like a massive dependency for a relatively minor set of features. Plus then every computer ended up getting the Java update notifications and at one point somehow a lot of users ended up with a Yahoo toolbar or something as part of a "security update"!
No fun.
The LibO download size may look bloated, but that's because their default download includes all the languages rather than having separate installers for each language. I switched to LibO 3.5 recently and my install uses ~75MB less space than my OpenOffice 3.3 install did.
The trouble is that one man's bloat is another man's absolutely essential feature.
Adding features is not necessarily a good thing.
I generally agree with what you have to say. May I subscribe to your news letter?
However, adding features while improving the underlying code organization is always a good thing.
>"Adding features is not necessarily a good thing."
YOU are insightful. It *can* be a good thing, but it can also be a BAD thing. It all depends.
Quite frankly, there are some things that LibreOffice team is going after that somewhat scare me. It might not be such a bad thing to have a more conservative OpenOffice around. Our organization greatly depends on OpenOffice now, and although we can and will appreciate new features, we are more concerned about usability, stability, performance, bug fixes, and
Adding features is not necessarily a good thing.
No, but adding a feature which would beat or rival the competition (Word) is surely A Good Thing.
But neither OO nor LO appears interested in using named styles professionally. The absence of a style margin (à la Word) is so glaring an omission that it makes Word the de facto interface for editing with styles. The inability of OO/LO to show all styles at a glance is what forces me to recommend Word to clients who need to edit their authors' documents. When I raised this with some OO/LO people they were
I'd like to see AOO succeed. But its leadership dooms it. As I've said before [slashdot.org]:
Rob Weir, who is basically running the show and who seems like a perfectly reasonable person from his blog, acts like a caustic, sarcastic, and poorly socialized adolescent in communicating with other developers. He's alienating people right and left. People have tried to get him to stop, but he either ignores it or just acts like it's those he's offended who are to blame for any unpleasantness.
He's not the only one either. Few people who aren't on the IBM payroll want to contribute to a project with that kind of leadership. People from the open source community in general and from the LibO camp in particular are reluctant to do anything to cooperate with Weir and co. By the time AOO actually gets a release out it will likely be too late to revitalize any interest in the project.
I wasn't quoting myself "as a source" - instead of just repeating myself I was acknowledging that I've said it before, and I linked to my previous post because it included more details for people who were interested. For sources, most of what Rob Weir says on the AOO incubator dev list [apache.org] will show my point. I haven't followed it in the last few months but when I was reading it frequently stuff like this [apache.org] was going on all the time
Number of features is the Dr. Strangelove "mineshaft gap" of the software world. Microsoft Word: 1000+ features. Seriously. Google Document: maybe 50? Which is expanding marketshare? Microsoft's barely-tolerated "ribbon" UI was a direct response to Too Many Features.
How about user count as a metric of success?
Meeks is the architect of the original Novell fork of OpenOffice, whose penchant for rabble rousing led to the LibreOffice fork. His meditations on feature differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice are cherry picked and biased.
Consider; LibreOffice lags behind Microsoft Office in features as well. So should LO shut down? and Microsoft Office 2007 "lags behind" Office 2010 in features. Does that mean Office 2007 was a mistake? OpenOffice has more features than Abiword. So maybe we should take A
Try importing a SVG file in OpenOffice and LibreOffice, or just doing some serious editing. Then you will see how biased the review by Meeks is. He's just protecting his job.
Try importing a SVG file in OpenOffice and LibreOffice, or just doing some serious editing. Then you will see how biased the review by Meeks is. He's just protecting his job.
The project contributer figures are from ohloh, and show ten times as many developers on LibreOffice as OpenOffice. Do you think ohloh is biased?
Actually, I do think the Ohloh numbers are biased. A project that uses distributed version control, like LibreOffice, and accepts patches from contributors that way will show one result, but another, like Apache, that uses Subversion and accepts patches via email, will see something else.
Essentially, depending on your patch policy you may not have any non-core contributors acknowledged in your version control.
So the Apache Open Office tools don't fully support outside contributors. I see.
And of course, that makes your wonder. If LibreOffice truly has 300 developers, and has been working on this code base for 18 months, and started with all the Go-OO code, as well as all the unintegrated Oracle patches and the OOo 3.4 beta, then what the hell have they been doing?
With that starting point, that amount of lead time, and 300 developers, they should be rocking our world with their dazzling features. 300 frickin' developers and the best they have is, "uh, I turned a modal dialog for word counts
300 frickin' developers and the best they have is, "uh, I turned a modal dialog for word counts into a modeless dialog". Really? That is an embarrassment.
Give them some time to improve. They started with a large complicated, bloated and bug-ridden codebase. Many developers are new to the project, and they can't be super productive from day one.
My Linux provider dumped LibreOffice onto my laptop as an alleged "security" fix. It claimed to be full of fixes. But the little things, like broken horizontal scroll bars in Calc, graphs that wouldn't update and a Base that corrupted the database I had used without any problems for several years, were rather a nuisance. The corruption recurred each time I restored from backup, and did not occur with OO on another system, so I can, fairly safely, presume that it wasn't a one-off.
With AOO's recent release, I
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you kno i hope neji doesnt die but i actually want one of the chunnins to die. It would make the story soo good and a very good reason for me to flame at sasuke even more. Then those sadistic sasuke lovers cant say shit to protect him. AHAHAHAHAHA (Evil Chuckle......well more than a chuckle)
|2003-12-07, 20:39
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I think Neji will be saved by Shino and his dad. That would be cool, and the best way to Neji survive. He can't, by normal ways, win against the Jounin-level strenght Kidoumaru. But Shino's dad can whoop spidey's ass, since he's a kicking-ass Jounin probably stronger than Kakashi.
That would be cool. A spider vs. bug fight.
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|2003-12-07, 21:00
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ok lets make offical bets, not for money though cuz i think thats against the rules maybe.
you can only pick one, "How will this fight end":
1.neji dies, spider man lives
2.neji dies while killing spiderman
3.they pull a choji: neji kills spider man, but they dont show wether neji is dead or not.
4.choji comes to neji's rescue
5.some one else comes to neji's resuce
6.spiderman leaves, but neji is alive (most likely disabled with like a leg blown off)
7.spiderman's head blows up when neji touches his string that is attached to spiderman's mouth and pushes all his chakra in the the string.
8.neji uses a new technique like super sayian, eats a pill, self-destructs, whatever, that will most likly cost him his life.
9.neji runs away
10.spiderman runs away
And there is no other, you cant pick "other". thats why i made some of the choices vauge and broad
Oh, and 7 is my pick
|2003-12-07, 22:23
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merely a ghost
I pick 5, and I bet these "other people" are Shino and his dad.
And -|(aGe-BuNsHiN-, they didn't mention Shino's dad's a Jounin, but this is obvious. All Genins fathers are Jounins right now, just see Nara Shikato, Akimichi Chomaru, Hyuga Hiashi and Yamanaka Inoshi. And since the Genins dads have more experience than Kakashi, Gai, Asuma and others, they're pretty much stronger than the "actual Jounin generation" of the Leaf.
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Um, spiders eat bugs...
As for P3psi's post, I'm gonna vote for number 3. Neji will win, but we will have no idea if he is dead or not.
|2003-12-07, 23:25
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merely a ghost
So we can discard Shino and his dad saving Neji.
But Shika's dad is out there! He could come for the rescue! I still have my bet on 5
|2003-12-07, 23:39
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Location: Away from the dreaded spoon
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Lol Vicious i guess you could expect that Lord Akira will come to Neji rescue before anyone else cause i'll really be surprised if someone save Neji's ass. Like i said earlier he'll win on his own or he'll die. I'll take the Neji will blow arachnodude head from pepsi's choices but i personally would like to see arachnodude win against Neji and get back to Sasuke but only when it's him vs Naruto. It would make an interesting scenario.
|2003-12-07, 23:57
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Location: San Francisco
Age: 35
I vote for 7 (neji pulls a trick against spiderman)
wouldn't be surprised by 2 (both die)
would be somewhat surprised by 4 (chouji saves the day)
Number 3 (neji wins, we don't know if he is alive or dead) would make me go 'man, is EVERY fight going to end like this?'
|2003-12-08, 00:44
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Neji will die. It's obvious the author doesn't like him very much. First he's a bit of a prick, and he roughs up one of the cute girls in a fight and finally he has a nazi symbol on his head. I mean of all the symbols, the swastika is pretty bad. As for the fight, neji will die unless he can think of something.. I noticed he was asking himself what naruto would do. His wounds aren't something he can just lay down and survive if someone doesn't come to help (if he manages to win one way or another dbz style)
|2003-12-08, 05:51
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I think Neji is going to use the thread attached to the arrow to send chakra back thru and block off chakra flows in spiderboys body, or something to that effect. Since the thread is an extension of his body and the chakra is flowing thru it. Should be like Neji being up close and hitting his arm or leg.
But man, Neji's taken a crapload of damage. The first hole is almost baseball sized and thru his shoulder. Infact there's so little bone/flesh above the wound I wouldn't be surprised if it collapses down. He could lose the arm if he survives.
Oddly enuf I think the second arrow is actually less of a problem. If it missed organs (like it looks like it did) I think that can be healed. It's kinda like getting shot in that region and we've seen plenty of characters survive gunshots like that in movies/tv.
|2003-12-08, 06:08
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Location: The dog gossips too much.
|2003-12-08, 06:39
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my prediction is (i hope it does not happen) that neji well purposely take the arrow and send his remaining chakra back to spiderman then spiderman will die and neji will fall down then the cursed seal will disappear, then we will know what happened to choji (died)
although i wish that someone will come to rescue the day
i really liked that team and i hope that none of them will die
|2003-12-08, 07:57
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Location: Stanford, CA
I feel that because a lotta ppl are prolly ignorant about the "supposed swastika", mebbe that's why the Japanese animators gave Neji an "Xbox symbol" instead now.. sigh... ^_^ ;
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Also maybe like i read somewhere else that he will lose the seal if shino and his dad come to save the day like if hes dying.
As far as choji he's dead he fufilled his purpose in the naruto series. They made their point on how not to count someone out because of their weight and worth that everyone is equally as important as long as you try hard enough.
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Hope for effective new malaria treatment
A research project carried out jointly by chemists at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and biological scientists at the Institut Pasteur/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France have opened the door to a promising new treatment for malaria. The researchers have successfully identified a new means to eradicate blood-borne Plasmodium parasites that cause the disease. Their research was supported in part by a European Research Council (ERC) grant.
Malaria causes up to 3 million deaths each year, particularly afflicting vulnerable people such as children under the age of five, and pregnant women. It is predominantly prevalent in tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In addition, 102 cases were reported in Europe by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2011. Although treatments for malaria are currently available, the Plasmodium parasite is rapidly becoming resistant to the most common drugs, and new strategies to tackle the disease are desperately needed.
The collaborating research groups have identified a potential new malaria drug consisting of molecules that interfere with parasite histone methyltransferases, enzymes crucial to the parasite's growth and viability during the blood stage of its lifecycle. The new drugs rapidly kill parasites in culture, and are also able to greatly reduce parasite infection in mice in a single day. These results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in October.
Dr Matthew Fuchter from Imperial College London spoke about the importance of finding new treatments, and the new weakness in the parasite that both teams discovered: 'Plasmodium falciparum causes 90 per cent of malaria deaths, and its ability to resist current therapies is spreading dramatically. Whilst many new drugs are in development, a significant proportion are minor alterations, working in the same way as current ones, and therefore may only be effective in the short term. We believe we may have identified the parasite's "Achilles' Heel", using a molecule that disrupts many vital processes for its survival and development.'
The research teams have successfully identified two chemical compounds that affect Plasmodium falciparum's ability to carry out transcription, the key process that translates genetic code into proteins. Unlike the majority of antimalarial drugs, these compounds are able to kill the parasite during the 48-hour blood borne period of its complex life cycle, when it is growing and differentiating.
'One particularly exciting aspect of this discovery is this new molecule's ability to rapidly kill off all traces of the parasite, acting at least as fast as the best currently available antimalarial drug,' noted the principle investigators of this study. Initial tests in the Arthur Scherf laboratory at the Institut Pasteur also showed the molecules were able to kill strains of Plasmodium that have developed a resistance to current treatments, although the scientists say more experiments are needed to confirm these results. The group hopes to refine these molecules, which would improve their effectiveness, and it aims for this to be a viable strategy for treating malaria in humans. The scientists hope it will lead to the development of an effective malaria cure within the next 10 years.
Their research was partly funded by an ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Professor Arthur Scherf at the Institut Pasteur in 2009 for the project PLASMOESCAPE.
Their research also received support from the New York Pasteur Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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|Resources » Zionism » Zionism General
|Author: Haim Hayet
The World Zionist Congress opens on the seventeenth of June, 2002… and there is no way of predicting what the situation will be in either the Middle East or in the World. What is clear, is that if the Congress does not involve serious ideological debate on relevant Zionism, those who claim the World Zionist Organisation and our National Zionist Institutions are obselete will gain the upper hand by default. There is a vital need to re-examine our expressions of Zionism and ensure that our ongoing Zionist goals, actions and ideals are meeting the demands and challenges of the 21st Century. A vital need to rejuvenate and revitalize the Zionist Movement.
It would be a shame indeed if the Zionist National Liberation Movement of the Jewish People becomes extinct due to a lack of vision and leadership. This Movement engendered a revolution among a dispersed nation. It created the State of Israel, by far our most laudable undertaking, and did not fail in its objectives. But the task is far from complete, for Israeli society leaves a great deal to be desired. We are not yet entirely free, since no people who dominates another can really be itself "liberated." These are not easy times. The world is in a state of shock. One tragedy after another has occurred, and we in Israel, who, just a year ago, believed that we were but a short distance away from the long desired peace, are once again submerged in a cycle of violence that is bleeding both peoples. It leads to no solution; it merely makes the hatred more deeply rooted. And it fosters religious fundamentalism, put simply, fanaticism, on both sides.
Last Saturday night I attended a mass demonstration in Yitzhak Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, in commemoration the sixth anniversary of Prime Minister Rabin's assassination. Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by bullets fired by an extremist, fundamentalist Jewish terrorist, who was inspired by the inciteful speeches of various political, spiritual and religious leaders. The assassination cut short the processes that were designed to transform the concept of peace from an idealized vision to a tangible reality.
The tens of thousands of people, including the outstanding presence of Israeli youth, who came together in Rabin Square, did not unite to merely cry over our losses, to condemn this horrendous crime -and its instigators -, or merely to canonize the image of Rabin. Rather, we were all there to reaffirm the will of a significant number of the Israeli people to return to peace negotiations, and to discover a way out of a dead-end situation. We want to terminate the ever-expanding and deepening feelings of hatred, of suffering and of a vicious cycle of violence, bloodshed and death. And we must accomplish this before the tide becomes too great to reverse, and before the horrible consequences for both peoples.
All of us yearn for peace – this is the relevance of Zionism today. Real Peace is the prime strategic goal, and the indisputable interest of, the State of Israel. Peace must be seen as one of the basic challenges facing today's Jewish and Zionist world. Only peace with our neighbors will allow us to create a genuinely free society in Israel. The conflict, with its accompanying violence, intolerance, distrust, and including our domination of another people, the occupation of the territories, is what is diminishing our strength, and corrupting our essence. The conflict is endangering the continuity of the entire Zionist enterprise.
The Zionism of Herzl, Nordau, Borochov and our other founding fathers envisioned the creation of a Jewish National Home in which national redemption went hand in hand with the issues of social and economic justice. Those thinkers saw Zionism not only as an ideology that hoped to improve the political plight of the Jewish people, but also as an attempt to forge, in Eretz Israel, an exemplary society firmly rooted on principles of justice and social equality. Herzl, who was neither a socialist nor a socialist sympathizer, describes this precisely in his utopian novel "Altneuland", the old-new land, in which the protagonists are both Arabs and Jews. If the conflict continues and absorbs most of our resources, it will overwhelm Israel's economy. Such a scenario will not leave us any possibility of narrowing Israel's enormous socio-economic gap, which is, by the way, the largest in the Western world. And if we cannot resolve our social ills, if we cannot become an exemplary society, then the Zionism which has in one sense already triumphed, will be seen as not really having finished the task which it set out to do. And Zionism will run the risk of having its continuity questioned.
Part of maintaining the ongoing relevance of our Zionism is to ensure, it answers to the demands and challenges we face today. As I have stated previously, all of us want peace. The question lies in how we go about achieving it. From my vantage point, there are a number of steps that must be taken on the road to achieving peace.
I believe the solution is to end our occupation of Judea and Samaria. Although we must assure a solid Jewish majority in the State of Israel, it is in our best interests to establish a Palestinian state.
The vast majority of the Israeli people would in no way accept the right to return of Palestinian refugees to Israel proper. This would be a negation of the Jewish People's right to self-determination and their right to a nation state.
The thorny matter of Jerusalem must be left for a future time, perhaps till the final stage, when we have somewhat advanced in our political relations, and after we have begun to surmount the barriers of hate, suspicion, fear, and mourning.
Obviously things do not depend solely upon us….there are two actors in this play, remember. Peace is also in the Palestinians' strategic interest.
Arafat must return to the route of peaceful negotiations, and reject violence. The second Intifada, more than a year of uprising, has not led to any tangible benefits for the Palestinian people. It has, however, undermined the foundations of the stance of the Israeli left, and weakened the Palestinians' legitimate demands for self-determination.
Terrorism, deaths and repression do not, in and of themselves, bring solutions. They only bring about more deaths, more reprisals, more war and more sorrow.
Since the outset of the Oslo Peace Process, both sides have committed major errors. It is conceivable that today, neither one of us, Israelis or Palestinians, are politically mature enough to solve our problems on our own. We need the active aid of our friends: both sides have got to be led, with no equivocations, by the United States and Europe to a cessation of hostilities, to cease the mutual killing and to reinitiate a dialogue based in the Clinton initiative. Peace in the Middle East is in the strategic interest of the Western World.
It is my hope that, by the time of the next World Zionist Congress, we may alter our discourse and speak about Israeli society, about co-operation between ourselves and our neighbors, of human solidarity and comraderie and friendship.
A thinking Zionism, one which all World Jewry has a stake in, continues to be a vibrant and relevant concept. Amongst its many achievements, the establishment of the State of Israel and the building up of the State of Israel – including the establishment of a strong economy, a strong army, social supports, and Israeli culture – are feathers in the Zionist Movement's cap. We need to continue to envision, and to realize Zionist ideals, and we must continue to find dynamic expressions of Zionism. The next step is to ensure that the State of Israel is an exemplary society… a strong and just society with liberty for all. Israel has always occupied a central role in the heart's and actions of World Jewry – let us ensure that her centrality is because of her actions and not the centrality of rhetoric and slogans. Everyone is involved in the process of making Israel a "light unto the nations".
The final point I wish to raise is the concept of Jewish Continuity: Education, Culture, and Language: The Jewish people must again have one common language and this should be, not precisely English, but Hebrew. The current economic crisis, the result of globalization, in regions like Latin America has caused a severe impoverishment of so many of our Jewish communities, has left Jewish education and cultural creation terribly damaged. It is our responsibility in the Zionist movement to aid the communities of the Jewish world in these all-important areas, together with the co-operation of the government of Israel. Your very presence here today is an indication of your ongoing commitment to Israel and to Jewry… Israeli's cherish this connection, and in particular, cherish the most personal of contributions, Aliyah. Whether it is you or members of your families and communities, aliyah is the crowning movement of a process that has fostered in the individual the desire to be part of the daily reality of the State of Israel. I urge you all to continue your commitment to Israel and to Zionism actively in whichever spheres are the most relevant for you as individuals. And I challenge you to create relevance where you think vision is lacking.
Hatikvah, the Hope, our national anthem, is the theme of the Zionist Movement. It is the hope that we must renew and innovate, we must not consign ourselves to a dark tunnel with no light at the end…because peace can, and will be, realized. To be a free people in our land – li'hyot am chofshi beartzenu - in our land, in our Jewish State, a state that should be an example of social justice, equality, and peace for all its citizens.
Todah Rabah….I thank you all very much.
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Missing man found
Update Tuesday 11:50 a.m.:
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Third post of the day…maybe some kind of record.
Furcal, SS
Lugo, LF
Garciaparra, 1B
Kent, 2B
Drew, RF
Betemit, 3B
Martin, C
Repko, CF
Lowe, P
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I am glad to see Ethier getting a day off. Let's keep rolling and win another series. Dontrelle will be tough but we can wear him down and do some damage with the weak bull pen.
LUGO, LUGO, LUGO!!!!! Don't get me wrong I like him on this team and he was a great addition, BUT he is not outstanding.. IMO a better combo would be Ethier in LF and Lugo in CF. Repko is just not the best option right now. I know some of you love Lugo, but he is hitting 240ish since coming to the team..
I guess I am just asking for opinions why Grady should play him everyday. I want someone to convince me why Little should, what I feel make room for him everyday.
{And yes I know he is trying to get a righthanded lineup in there against Dontrelle and Ethier needs a day off}
Am I wrong in feeling Little is bending over backwards for Lugo?
i heard a rumor that the dodgers are gonna go after Daisuke Matsuzaka in the offseason, Matsuzaka who was the mvp of the world baseball classic pitches for the seibu lions.. i dont know about getting him, because he has thrown a lot of pitches alreasdy, and hes only 25.. i would rather go after barry zito… well, today lets go make it 5 in a row!
The reason Lugo plays everyday , is because they've only lost once since they got him and Betemit. No reason to fix what ain't broke. Besides he's a great defensive player.
The E-Kid needs some R&R. Glad to see a little flip flop with Drew and Kent. Kent has had some frustrating ABs lately, he's due for a donger. Most importantly, nobody should have anyhing to complain about these days. It's time to break away from the pack of the NL West losers.
You guys owe me a Coke, I believe I correctly predicted tonight's lineups!! No one else here believed Lugo would start in LF and Ethier given a rare day off!!! An all righty order usually isn't as effective against hard throwin lefties as you'd think but let's hope tonight is different and we get 5 in a row!
I like tonight's lineup. The only change may have been to start Saenz at 3rd, but i know with Lowe pitching, we are going for defense. I like giving Ethier the night off. I think he's started every game since the All Star break
I can see your concern with Lugo "thebigluna" but I have to agree, if it's working don't fix it !! I think most if not all of these guys are focused at one thing and that's the post season. Also, It's a good night to give Ethier a day off, he's earned it !!
Go Dodgers !!
Ever since we got Lugo I liked the idea of him batting second over Lofton, equally impressive offensively, especially on the bases, but with Lugo being much better defensively. However, our offensive was sluggish with him there last time with a similar lineup, our only loss in 15 games, generating a total of 1 run. Let's hope he's just as aggressive running the bases as he was last time in that spot, but with more successful results. Not bad to have Ethier and Saenz available when we need them as pinch hitters. Five in a row sounds great to me. Go Doders!
Don't worry about Lugo, the bat will be there…. were trying to get him in the line up because (rightfully so) Grady et.al are aware that over the last 400 games (in 3+ years) he has put up productive offensive numbers and they are not worried about the 13 games with the Dodgers, where he has put up so-so numbers so far. That's baseball. You can't worry about short term sub par hitting. Hey, look at Furcal in April? He was hitting .100 something 13 games into this career in Blue and look what a stud he has been since say the beginning of May. Arguably the teams MVP at this point. You can't bench/set line ups based on a guy having a couple bad games.
there's also rumors going around that we are going after Zito & Schmidt.
Repko is due for a big game.
skunkspot, although I didn't assign Lugo a spot in the Manic Monday blog I did say Lugo would be in. I didn't think Repko would. I expected Lofton to play again so was expecting OF of Drew, Lofton, Lugo. Lofton looked good last night. Lugo will play big time. Can play anywhere and his bat will come alive. No doubt Ned wants him in as he did make a trade for him but I don't think Ned interfers with the lineup. How could he with the present run? Grady has to get some credit for that as his lineups have worked. I think the team, as they say in hockey, has acquired some grinders to go along with its own grinders. Lugo is a grinder.
Great points!!! And they have all have came to mind lately.
I guess the best suggestion is if it aint broke…..
Anyway here is to Lugo proving me wrong tonight!!!
How great is the Dodgers problem that I am inciting debate over playing time for what I feel is finally a solid 25 man, not to mention 40 man roster. Next winter and spring training will be great to watch the position battles with the KIDS and Vets…..
i love the way grady is using julio lugo.. when they got him i said that he would be a tony phillips, billy hall type of player. a guy that plays everyday at a diffrent spot, and how great is it to see my kids continue to surprise us.. its great..lets get 5!
It's been really great being able to listen to Vin Scully again this year. I'd imagine he knows a thing or two about baseball… everyone agree on that? I thought so! lol…
So with that said, I can remember at least five times now that he's mentioned the fact that Julio Lugo is still getting used to the National League pitchers and that his hitting should improve before the year is out. I only hope he doesn't put too much pressure on himself to perform, because he is a good talent.
Ray did you notice that Kuo has had three good starts in a row at Las Vegas and Jhonny Nunez is lights out at Gulf Coast and was the Dodger minor league pitcher of the month? I recall Patriotacts including Kuo in his projected rotation down the road.
Ok KSspark
How long would you estimate the length of time would be till Lugo adjusts? A month? I will hold of my judgement till then.
I can see the point, Loney made that adjustment..
i did see that kuo is looking like the cant miss prospect he was in 1999, and its great to see.. as for jhonny nunez, hes been terrific, hes been stealing the spotlight from clayton kershaw, and kershaw has been amazing… also keep an eye on jonathan meloan, he might come up this year to provide depth to our bullpen..
I love watching the minor league players too. The great thing about all four pitchers you mentioned has been the K-BB ratio – excellent in each case.
WTH happened to minor league prospect Chen Fenn Chen (sp?) the Korean outfielder??? Was he a Dodger flameout like Billy Ashley or Karim Garcia??
BTW Neds ties with the Giants will land us Schmidt next year!! Maddux will certainly be interested in a return if he can be part of this staff:
I have to give Lugo major props for his attitude since he came to this team. He has handled playing every position except his natural SS like a professional. I think his team first attitude has helped keep this team on track during this streak.
I would also like to formally retract any criticism I made earlier of these trades. Great job Ned.
chin feng chen left the organization, and signed a lucrative deal in his native country of taiwan… i actually thought that this guy would be a good player, boy was i wrong…
Ethier's 24, he doesn't need a rest. Ethier in left, Repko in Center, and Lugo in right.
Down with Drew.
Do we really need another 0 for 4 night with 2 k's and 6 left on?
Drew needs to go!!!!!
Does anyone know if we have put Drew on waivers. Undoubtedly he will clear and we can hope some team will be desperate enough to take him in a trade. Since we are stuck with Drew, I don't see why they don't bat him 7th or 8th. Batting him 5th is absurd. Put Martin in the 5 hole.
Did you watch yesterdays game randy? Ethier looked tired in every at bat Schmidt had his number for sure but he wasn't adjusting just kinna going thru the moves. I'm really glad the team has the depth to provide a breather to anyone on the team when they need it it will help us through the stretch and let them have Power for the post Season. Don't want anyone in the lineup to get soo tired that they make a bad call and get hurt thats Dodgers of old. We have a Huge opportunity with this team as it stands to make the series with alittle luck on our side and a little less on the opps side. StL is lookin bad, Swept by Tracy….Mets lost D Sanchez… Detroit just got swept and the Yankees always Blow it in the Series!!! 88′ was shocking Maybe 06′ will feature Nomar and Kent Hobbling round the Bases!Believe in the DODGERS!!!!
Drew is going to be around for a while. I think we expect more because he has a big contract and is fragile. However, we might just as well take what he can give –
RBI – first, Runs – third, BB – second, 2B – third, AB – second, OBP – third. Perhaps should not be in a power slot but can contribute. I'm happy with Martin batting eighth. Takes a pressure off him so he can continue to learn his position at the major league level. Game time close. Go Dodgers.
I saw the game yesterday, you're right Fisher that Ethier didn't look his best. You have to agree though that Ethier at "not his best" is better then Drew now-a-days.
The only reason to keep Drew is for his contract year. Also known as the only year Drew tries.
Alright he's not going 0 for.
Good timly hitting Drew.
3-1 Dodgers in the 7th, wow we are playing great quality baseball
Great win, Cararra makes me neverous though
Great win tonight! Nomar and Lugo!!
BigLuna… you'll note that Lugo had three hits tonight. All against a team that the Devil Rays play due to inter-league play, so Lugo's had some experience with this teams' pitchers. We'll see how the other two nights play out.
I like Cararra 1 inn a night hes not the closer. I've seen grady throw him 2 inns twice this year and he always starts coughing up hits after 5 outs.He struckout 3 and finished it up and got the save that should have gone to JB or Saito for their inn.I believe in Gio for the 7th or 8th inn always in a 2 run lead or better to get the job done and still have the lead.He's not perfect but he is consistant.Errors never help anyone either.
On to the radar Gun.. did anyone else notice several times of mid to upper 50's pitches from willis? Was there a problem with the Gun or what? Looked like he was hitting lo to High 80's + on most pitches to me never saw anything that looked like a marshmellow.
Great Game Team LUGO LUGO LUGO
what a Player he is! Nomar Looked like he is getting his stroke back too! Great Team effort and Win!
Lookout NL Pedro is Down,Reds Lost Mercker. and The DODGERS are now tied for second best record in the NL with the Cards………..Keep it Goin BLUE!!!!!
Great play by the Dodgers at current. I wonder if the team are playing above potential right now, but on the other hand I don't really think so … I expected this team to be quite good this year, which is why it appalled me so much when, after a good start, they were quite bad for a while.
Willis took a two-hit shutout and a 1-0 lead into the sixth before Julio Lugo beat out an infield hit with one out. Garciaparra drove the next pitch into the pavilion seats in left-center for his 13th home run and a 2-1 lead.
"When a guy is pitching that well, you're not going to get too many opportunities to capitalize on things," Garciaparra said. "I was trying to make contact and keep that inning alive. I was looking for a pitch I could drive. I think what really got us going was Lugo hustling and getting to first."
What a Class act he is……NOMAR !!!
1) Derek Lowe has terrible career numbers for July, but August is his month. Is there any reason for this at all? Either way, he has posted games scores of 68, 66, and tonight's 65 for the month of August. Nice to see him get the job done.
2) The Marlins had 10 innings, in essence, to try to get more than the Dodgers could in 8 because of the errors. Derek Lowe and Gio Carrara should be commended.
3) I actually feel pretty comfortable with Gio out there. He strikes people out, and he doesn't give up too many long balls. I will admit that had that been an actual base hit instead of a bad throw on a bunted ball, I would have taken him out after that. Resting the bullpen, especially Saito, was worthwhile, though.
4) As much as it's nice to be surprised, it's very nice to have your go-to guy, Nomar, come through and drive in the runs you need.
5) Quote of the night:
A Dodger Thoughts commenter watching the game on TV noted that Vin Scully described the first pitch fastball Willis tried to get by Nomar was "like trying to sneak a lambchop by a wolf."
doesn't Matsuzaka throw the "gyro ball" ? If he does (or if that rumor is true) then he'll be worth every penny…more so than anyone else. That pitch is just about unhittable.
anyways… I was at the game tonight, and it was a great win!
If you dont know what the GyroBall is, click the link below. On the page itself there are some video links (under the definition) to the 2 guys who are known to throw it.
I might get down on him a bit for playing under 100% but the guy has alot of class.Never paid any attension to him as a BoSox but saw him in the Show 2 Guys a girl and a pizza place and then thought he was just a Fluke. Then Last year or the year before read that he dove off his balcony in Boston Harbor while playing for the Cubs and saved 2 women who fell or jumped while wanting to be saved into Boston Harbor and thought what a Great guy he is then I read what he said tonight and it just exceptlifies that he walks the walk and talks the talk and is a Really great person!
If Nomar can stay within himself to produce and play consistantly as a ballplayer for the next 6-7 years I'd say the Dodgers would be fools to let him walk. But is a ballclub and I would be nervous to Planout that far in advance no matter how noble that player might be. It is a business after all.At the Same Time if Nomar could give 140-150 Games a year and hit in the .300 range with 20 or so Homers and leg it out for a few SB and score while helping to bring the next decade of Dodgers around I'd Give Him a 3+3 Contract.3 Years 33M 11M across Buyouts of 1M after 3 14M After 3 with 1.5M buyouts ea yr.and to Follow it up if retired as a Dodger I'd Follow it up with 10-20 loge seat per homegame going to an LA Youth BB organizations of his choice with his association with the club if he wants to coach beyond that.
I don't run the dodgers and I don't know the bottom line but Nomar is a Class act and he came from LA.He is a Star and if he continues to produce and contribute the way he has I am More then happy to put my Dollars forth to see him for years to come.
Bottomline I hate losers and am tired of rooting for losers! I Like what we Have Lets Go Get Sum DODGERS!!!!
Yeah throw that junk to Saenz…..
Betemit looks lost right handed, a Lugo-Betemit 3B platoon is in the making…. Nice to win a game without needing Brox, Tomko, and Saito- those 3 have been huge for us, and a little rest is well deserved. Keep it going BLUE!
Saenz ****** last night but maybe if he got 2-4 cracks at Willis he connect whereas Betemit should be platooning.
Josh usealy post the line up around 3ish it's now 3:57pm & no line up? our winning ways keeps him busy I guess.
I'm going to the game tonight so I've been on the site 20 times since 3pm myself looking for the lineup.
Go Dodgers !!
Lucky Gary. I miss being able to go to Dodger Stadium. Have fun!


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I just got down reading The Scorch Trials and so far i love this trilogy, but I have to wait till October 2011 until the last book of the trilogy comes out!!! Thats a looong time... Anyways if youve read this book or have any questions feel free to ask.
The Maze Runner/The Scorch Trials
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Gallery: Couches for You, Couches for Me
Earlier today, my dog decided to bury her new, raw marrow bone in between the cushions of my couch. I'm sure that made perfect sense in her mind — not having a yard to dig up, she wedged the bloody, fatty knob deep into the crevice of her adopted bed.
As one does.
And so, here I am, thinking about new couches. I'm probably not going to buy one — rather, I'm going to disinfect the one I have and hope for the best (if you have "health hazard" or other disparaging comments about that, I don't give a fuck, just to put that out there), but even so, if I were to replace my couch because of it's recent befouling, here are some I may have considered:


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The Hives, best known for their trademark black and white uniforms, blistering live performances, and hits like "Hate to Say I Told You So" and "Main Offender" apparently know their punk history as well. Last weekend they performed at Rock am Ring (Rock in the Ring) and Rock im Park (Rock in the Park) Germany's largest music festival and one of the world's largest with over 85,000 people attending this year. The Hives performance was live broadcast on MTV Germany and included a killer cover of Zero Boys' "Civilizations Dying" from their album Vicious Circle (reissued by Secretly Canadian last year). Check out the video after the jump and see vintage footage of Indiana's punk legends Zero Boys performing the original at the Pizza Castle in Indianapolis circa 1981.
The Hives Covering "Civilizations Dying" at Rock am Ring 2010
The Zero Boys "Civilizations Dying" live at the Pizza Castle, Indianapolis, IN 1981


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Life is not easy for people living in the Sixaola River watershed on the Caribbean side of the Costa Rica—Panama border. But help is at hand from IUCN and partners.
Communities are poor, isolated and have limited job opportunities. They are faced with a daily threat of extreme weather—heavy rain and strong winds that bring landslides, floods, soil erosion and widespread damage to houses and crops. And climate change is only making matters worse.
IUCN and partners are talking to people, identifying specific threats and working out ways of dealing with them. The focus is on boosting the resilience of these communities by restoring natural ecosystems such as forests which supply many goods and services, not least food and protection. IUCN is also working with local authorities to introduce sustainable ways of managing the area's water supplies.
"As part of the project, community members plant tree saplings to reforest the watershed, as well as diversify their crop plantations in order to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change," explains Ariel Amoroso, IUCN Project Coordinator.
The project, supported by IUCN Member 'Corredor Biológico Talamanca Caribe', has been underway for a year and is already starting to show success on the ground, particularly in raising awareness of the impacts of climate change and improving cooperation between different water users in the two countries. People are starting to realise that cooperation and finding common ground among many different interest groups is critical to a more secure future for all.
Last year the project was featured on CNN which has been a great help in communicating the work, at both the local and global level.
The project is funded by ICI-BMU and implemented by IUCN's Regional Office for Meso America and the Environmental Law Commission.
For more information, please contact Pedro Cordero: email@example.com
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Proponents behind the movement to alter the Illinois Constitution to take legislative map-drawing power out of the hands of the majority party continue to collect signatures in order to have the measure on the November ballot.
Among these supporters are 106th District State Representative Josh Harms (R-Watseka), who says that the status quo is something that must be addressed.
"Anytime you can take control from us (lawmakers), and give it to the people is good," said Harms. "That's basically what this is doing."
Currently, the ruling party in Illinois has the ability to redraw legislative maps, something that most recently, Harms points out, Democrats have been guilty of – especially Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago).
"You're going to get a better representation of the district if we could take that map-drawing ability away from Michael Madigan, and give it to independent entities," said Harms. "It would be great for the people."
Michael Kolenc, the campaign manager for Yes for Independent Maps, the organization spearheading the effort to change how these maps are drawn in Illinois, says that this proposal will ensure a more balanced approach that doesn't favor either major party.
According to Kolenc, the effort in Illinois mirrors the one that took place in California in 2008. The proposal, if passed by the voters in November, would create an 11-person commission consisting of four Republicans, four Democrats and three non-affiliated members of the public.
What makes this commission unique – especially when compared to the current system – is that any member of the public can apply to be part of the commission, granted they meet several guidelines.
No one holding state office, state employees, lobbyists at either the state or federal level or anyone with a state contract (or anyone under the roof of someone who fits one of these categories) may hold a position on the commission. Furthermore, for the subsequent decade after serving on the commission, these 11 individuals are barred from running for a state elected office or from being appointed to a position in the executive branch, according to Kolenc.
The original pool of applicants will be narrowed down to 100 by the auditor general before legislative leaders from both the House and the Senate will come in and they each get to eliminate five people each, which actually led to less partisanship in California.
"Republicans crossed out five of the most partisan Democrats each and Democrats did the same thing with Republicans," said Kolenc. "So now we have a party of 80 people less partisan than the original pool."
A lottery system is then employed, resulting in the selection of two Democrats, two Republicans and three non-affiliated individuals. Three of the people must be from Cook County, where over five million people reside, with one more coming from each of the state's other judicial districts, bringing the total to seven people of the necessary 11.
The state legislative leaders then come back into the process, choosing the final four people and resulting in the final tally for the commission. To make any map changes, two Republicans, two Democrats and two non-affiliated members of the commission must approve the proposal.
Despite poor weather of late, the organization remains optimistic that they will hit their goal of 300,000 signatures throughout the state by early this spring, thus ensuring the measure's presence on the November ballot in Illinois.
"With this independent commission, we'll put faith back in the process," said Kolenc. "We want to put faith back in the map-drawing system."
Harms backs proposal to change map-drawing
Proponents behind the movement to alter the Illinois Constitution to take legislative map-drawing power out of the hands of the majority party continue to collect signatures in order to have the measure on the November ballot.