Global events mark magic number on climate change

by The Associated Press
Photos Vincent Jeyan (NOKIA5800,SONYERICSSON K810i-Camera)
NEW YORK October 24, 2009, 11:45 pm ET
Activists held events around the world Saturday to mark the number they say the world needs to reach to prevent disastrous climate change: 350.

The number represents 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere that some scientists say is the safe upper limit. The atmosphere currently reaches about 390 parts per million, according to research by NASA climate scientist James Hanse cited by 350.org.

Hundreds of events highlighted the number in different ways.

In what 350.org founder Bill McKibben called a global game of Scrabble, groups in Australia, Ecuador, India, the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Denmark each spelled out one of the numbers in 350. Hundreds gathered in New York City's Times Square and watched slideshows of the other events on giant screens.

McKibben, an environmentalist and author of "The End of Nature," said the day was unique because it emphasized the science behind a politically complicated topic.

"It was ordinary people rallying around a scientific data point," McKibben said. "Nothing like that has ever happened before."

In Venezuela, volunteers formed a human chain marking the number zero on the beach at Catia La Mar north of Caracas to mark the spot where they said the ocean would reach if global warming is not stopped.


McKibben said volunteers also sent in photos of separate groups forming the numbers 350 around the Dead Sea, in Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territory.

Many of the events referred to the Copenhagen conference scheduled in December that will seek to reach a new global climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on carbon dioxide emissions. It has been billed as a last chance to avoid the impact of catastrophic global that could be felt for generations.

McKibben said there are lessons to be learned from the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. did not join.

"We saw what happened," he said. "Everybody walked away once it was done, and there was no real progress. We need to pick up the pace."
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350.org: http://www.350.org/
UN Conference on Climate Change: http://unfccc.int/

CHURER FEST

Photos Vincent Jeyan (NOKIA5800,SONYERICSSON K800i-Camera)

Who behind the Churer Festival?
The Churer Festival takes place over the last weekend of summer Churer city school as folk festival. The heart of the Bündner transformed capital for three days in a fixed area with great diversity.
Who are the protagonists?
The many visitors and visitors: The Churer Festival can each against 100 ' 000 guests from near and far attract. Many it made the largest event in South-Eastern Switzerland to the popular meeting place for young and old. At Bündner, Churerinnen, people from the region or passers-by enjoy equally.
The clubs
The Churer Festival stands or falls with the use of the participating clubs and organizations, committed with clothes and space operators as provider of culinary delicacies and drinks but also with great dedication of its members to the well-being of guests. The use of clubs aims to generate a financial contribution to the Vereinskasse. To the income of Churer Festival was used already places for long deferred investment or promote junior.
Over 50 associations present at the Churer Festival. But many sports associations are also cultural organisations. Of course must also fairground a Luna Park or the children's paradise not missing.
The authorities
The Churer Festival would be impossible without the support of the city authorities! Many offices work together: preview all the police, factory farms industrial firms or the fire. But the Council brings forward the Churer Festival his great mercy. The importance for the cantonal capital is not underestimated!
Our sponsors
Cooperation with two main and two co-sponsors is very erspriesslich for all. The sponsors express enters the fixed and enriching it with targeted activities. Pleasant side-effect is could reduce charges for the participating clubs thanks to the sponsorship money.
A link to the sponsors is installed on this website.
Residents and shopkeeper
A thanks to certainly all start/inhabitants the old town and the many themselves which can retain limited their business. To live in the fixed cabin or operate its business can be although attractive, but also with some inconvenience. Luckily we must count on a wide acceptance by the old town Association.
The Organizing Committee
A motivated organizing Committee (OK) works in the background to the preparation of the Festival. The interaction of different people with specialist knowledge produces innovative ideas and ensures reliable and high proper preparation and implementation. So that it can mean every year: the Churer celebration went without significant difficulties on the stage!
See the "contact"OK members whose portfolios lists, and E-Mail addresses.""
To issue suggestions to us? Not hesitate to contact us via E-Mail. We take seriously any criticism!
For the OK Churer fixed
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President

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Original Link :-http://www.churerfest.org/

summer in switzerland

Photos by Vincent Jeyan (nokia5800-camera)
at the gateway to Switzerland’s largest holiday region, in Maienfeld, waits Heidi - arguably the most famous girl in Switzerland! She enjoyed her adventures with Peter the goatherd and the old Alp Öhi in the Bündner Herrschaft region. Although the Bündner Herrschaft is the northernmost point of Graubünden, it is the most southerly in terms of its climate. Mist is rare, as the warm Föhn wind blows over vineyards and orchards until late autumn and pushes the Öchsle scale up high, allowing the fruit to ripen for excellent wines. The Chur Rhine Valley is also where Chur is situated – the capital of Graubünden and centre of the region. By using the Rhaetian Railway or the Graubünden Post-Bus you can visit many tourist regions, both smaller and larger, in no time at all.
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The golden Castle
The ?golden castle? is a flowering plant. That was what my mother called the globe flower and not without reason. Most blossoms open themselves to the sun and the light and lure insects with their scent, colour and brightness, so that they can be pollinated. The globe flower, however, makes a thick ball with its petals. No butterfly, no honey-bee, no bumble-bee can get to its fructifying organs. Only a tiny sort of fly succeeds - attracted by what is for it a heady scent - in getting inside the ball of petals. There golden light awaits it, and with the numerous stamens, a rich supply of food. In dark weather, or when it is cold, or at night-time, the flower gives it a pleasant shelter. Thus because of this the tiny fly stays in its castle and involuntarily fructifies the flower.Only when the globe flower starts to wilt does the little insect leave its host and seek new accommodation. The unique form of this flower and its golden colouring have resulted in a whole series of picturesque names for it. In the Bernese Alps it is called Ankeballe, in German-speaking Grisons Popperolle (what is meant here are the wavy locks of a blond-haired child). Globe flowers thrive at an altitude of 700 to 2400 meters. They bloom in June and July. The straight, thin stems grow to a height of between 10 and 70 centimeters. The blossom measures 20 to 40 millimeters in diameter.
The almost round petals protect the numerous stamens on the inside. Globe flowers like damp meadows, grassy ridges, high moorland and the banks of streams. They are to be found not only in the Alps but also in the Appenines, the Pyrenees and even as far afield as Norway. In the area through which our hike passes, they cover wide surfaces. This does not mean that masses of them should be plucked, though! This plant has had to be given protected status in several Swiss cantons.
LINK:-http://www.graubunden.com/en/summer-holiday/resorts-highlights/chur-buendner-herrschaft/chur-buendner-herrschaft.html

Swiss National Day

FIRE WORKS FOR NATIONAL DAY CHUR IN SWITZERLAND
NOKIA5800 phone used for take this photos, Augst first in Chur Photos by:-VincentJeyan

If it’s true that you can judge a country’s image of itself by its National Day, then Switzerland definitely offers a relaxing sight. No military parades and no grandiose speeches on Lebensraum (living space).
On August the first, the whole country gathers in public places around bonfires and listens to speeches about the independence of the country from the Austrian rulers, which started with the Grütli Pact of 1291.

The first of August is celebrated solely in the municipalities. Only one radio and television broadcast of a speech by the President of the Confederation currently in office reminds the Swiss that their cities are united in cantons, which in turn makes the Helvetic Confederation. Thought-provoking words from an eminent cultural or political speaker, songs and music, gymnastic shows and group performances of the Swiss national anthem are the traditional elements of the holiday.
Many municipalities set off fireworks, and these spectacular light shows are often ignited from the mountains and hills. They serve as a reminder of the expulsion of the foreign bailiffs in the 14th century, for the great news was announced in this very way. The children march through the streets at dusk with candle-lit Chinese lanterns. Flags with the arms of the Confederation, the canton and the municipality fly proudly above public and private buildings alike. Even the bakers get involved, decorating their rolls of bread with little Swiss flags. The holiday takes on a whole new dimension at Neuhausen am Rheinfall in the Canton of Schaffhouse, with the illumination of the 25-meter high Rhine waterfalls.

This extravaganza is completed by a great fireworks display that draws throngs of spectators. And, like everywhere else, speeches, songs, music and the national anthem animate the evening.
LINK:-http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/swiss-business-guide/swiss-national-day.html

The birth of the Swiss Confederation

(NOKIA-5800)Photos by:-Vincent Jeyan
The origin of the Swiss Confederation is conventionally regarded as being the oath of mutual support sworn between the three "original cantons" - Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden (now divided into Nidwalden and Obwalden) - in 1291.
They were prompted to do this by the death of the German Emperor, Rudolf of Habsburg, because they feared that his successor might try to take away the rightsand freedoms they had been granted and impose an outside governor.
Similar alliances had been sworn before by the various communities in central Switzerland, but this is the first one whose text has been preserved.
The swearing ceremony took place on the Rütli meadow by Lake Lucerne, which has since become a symbol of Swiss freedom.
The name of William Tell is associated with the events surrounding the Rütli oath. He is supposed to have defied and killed the wicked bailiff, Gessler, whom the Habsburg overlords had installed to manage their affairs and take away the freedoms of the local people. Considerable doubt has been cast on the authenticity of the tale, but it does reflect the concerns of Tell's contemporaries.
Links to other websites http://www.swissworld.org/en/history/middle_ages/the_birth_of_the_swiss_confederation/

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