The former coach of the Spanish national football team, Javier Clemente, will not take up his position as coach of Iran's national team, after disagreements on the clause of his contract that would have required him to live in Iran.
Clemente said he was prepared to travel to Tehran to coach the team but didn't want to live there. He said he would arrive a week or two before he was due to train the national team.
"We do not want a coach that will train our team by remote control," said the president of the Iranian football federation, Ali Kafashian.
"I do not intend to change my lifestyle," replied Clemente from Madrid.
Instead there was speculation that football legend, Diego Armando Maradona, would be considered as an alternative coach for the national team.
In the past, Maradona has shown his admiration for Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said that he would like to meet him.
Last December Maradona handed Iranian officials an autographed football shirt.
"With all my love for the Iranians," was the dedication that Maradona wrote on the T-shirt...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Iran: Football coach refuses new post based in Tehran
John Moore: poet, professor, primitivist
Anarchy and Ecstacy: Visions of Halcyon Days
The best of the present culture - a culture in the pathological sense only - points beyond itself toward the recovery of primate lifeways. This sequence of speculative and analytical essays constitutes a body of visionary insights -- uncovering beyond ideology a field of infinite potentialities. Anarchy and Ecstasy examines vital issues on the interface between 'fact' and 'fiction', history and myth, and proposes the development of a culture of anarchy: a culture aware of its roots in a genuinely halcyon society -- and confident of its future in a renewed earthly paradise.
- A Sprig of Mistletoe
- Toward a Cultural Ecology of Anarchy
- On Ecdysis
- Bewilderness
- Eversion Mysteries
- Culture and Anarchy
- The Appeal of Anarchy
- Selected Bibliography
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Yoohoo! EU Commission! Are you watching?
Here's some repulsive news from Microsoft, in an article on Yahoo! News titled, "Microsoft pledges cash for IT in developing world" but which I would more accurately, I think, call, "Microsoft Finds New Way To Be Anticompetitive":
Microsoft will spend $235.5 million in schools worldwide over the next five years, part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs to up to 270 million by 2013....The company's educational funding comes with a hitch: "Of course, that includes the fact they [the schools] use Windows," Ayala said....
Microsoft is still working through some of the "technical limitations" that remain in putting XP on the XO, the green PC from the One Laptop Per Child project, Ayala said.
So, to compete with Microsoft, Linux needs to be able to spend 235 million to buy a market? There are also some interesting details on deals being made in Russia, Mexico and Libya...
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FAQ: Questions and Answers
Question: Who can be bound by a court-ordered injunction?
Answer: Rule 65(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides:
Every order granting an injunction and every restraining order…is binding only upon the parties to the action, their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and upon those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of the order by personal service or otherwise.
This means people cannot be held to the terms of a court order they weren't a party to and do not know about. Even if they learn of an unrelated order, they are not bound unless they are working with one of the parties.
Question: What is a preliminary injunction?
Answer: An order by the court requiring the defendant to do or refrain from doing some action pending a full trial on the merits of the lawsuit. Sometimes in intellectual property litigation, the property owner, soon after filing the complaint, will make a motion for a preliminary injunction requiring the defendant to stop doing those things the plaintiff alleges are infringing the plaintiff's intellectual property rights.
Question: What is a temporary restraining order?
Answer: A temporary restraining order (TRO) is an emergency order stopping a party from acting before the court can hold a full hearing. Generally, the TRO lasts only a short time before the other party must seek a preliminary or permanent injunction.
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Hot air on climate change
United Nations leaders would work diligently to map out an agreement by the end of 2009 to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to the impact of climate change and provide the money and technology necessary to do so, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today during its high-level debate entitled "Addressing Climate Change: The United Nations and the World at Work"...
Change is in the air for a low-carbon economy
As environment ministers from some 100 countries meet here Feb. 20-22 for the U.N. Environment Program's Governing Council and Environmental Forum, talks will focus on environmentally friendly "green growth" and ways by which the world can achieve a low-carbon economy.
The employment and development potential of combating climate change is only now being understood as a part of this effort. UNEP has invited the International Labor Organization and the International Trade Union Confederation to contribute to these discussions.
Changes underway are a result of the Kyoto Protocol, but they are also partly being made in anticipation of deeper emission cuts to come. Equally important, the perception of organized labor and industry concerning environmental issues is changing dramatically. Environmental regulation was sometimes viewed with suspicion and concern for business and labor. Now, business sees profits and unions see jobs.
Consider these facts:
A Washington-based consulting firm estimates that the U.S. environmental industry generated more than $340 billion in sales and almost $50 billion in tax revenues in 2005. The 5.3 million workers in the environmental industry outnumber pharmaceutical workers 10 to one.
A British company specializing in improving the energy efficiency of homes was floated on the London Stock Exchange last June and now employs 4,000 people who once worked in nearby, now closed, coal mines.
A study prepared for the German Ministry of Environment estimates that employment in the German environmental technology industries will surpass employment in the automobile industry by 2020.
China has some 1,000 solar thermal energy firms, generating sales of $2.5 billion and employing 600,000 workers in manufacturing and installation.
The Indian city of Delhi is introducing new eco-friendly compressed natural-gas buses, which will create 18,000 new jobs.
These trends seem set to continue. The UNEP's Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative estimates that investment in renewable energy has reached $100 billion worldwide, or 18 percent of new investment in the power sector. The initiative, which involves some 170 financial institutions, also estimates that market financing for clean and renewable energies could reach $1.9 trillion by 2020.
International efforts are now beginning to bear fruit. The Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol could channel $100 billion in funds for investment in carbon offsetting projects such as renewable energy schemes and tree planting. The Bali conference last year agreed to include avoided deforestation in tropical countries into a new climate regime, which could generate new employment opportunities in sustainable management, conservation, and tourism. Several countries, including Costa Rica, Norway, and New Zealand, have pledged carbon neutrality, which in turn will require investment and employment in carbon-friendly sectors...
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