One year ago, the buzz across the government/technology nexus was focused on a pair of political guessing games. Neophytes mostly engaged in debating over whom the newly-elected President would name to be the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. Grizzled Pentagon veterans and the more sober Silicon Valley types wondered instead who would get the nod as President Obama’s “Cyber Czar.”

The first group had their curiosity satisfied fairly early. A year later, however, the cyber position remains unfilled, even though there’s been enormous activity around the issue of cyber security: international incidents, the establishment of Cyber Command, inter-service rivalries and related budgetary maneuvers, a constant roster of Beltway conferences and task-forces…. Through it all, information-security and network-security professionals kept their heads glued to their screens, working. The work remains, the work of understanding the defensive and offensive realities of the global cyber environment.

Now there’s a definitive guide to that work. One of the brightest of a new generation of cyber professionals is Jeffrey Carr, who has long been known in certain circles for his influential IntelFusion blog. 

He’s just published a great book, Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld (O’Reilly Media, December 2009). You can buy the book here on Amazon and get a sweet deal, or you can buy the book from the publisher O’Reilly Media and bundle in an e-book copy in a variety of formats.

The book covers a dizzying array of topics: the rise of botnets; malware-as-a-service; popular wars fought using civilian networks; fake news sites hijacking real-time feeds; psychological manipulation by cyber means. Jeff is an acknowledged expert, in large part because he’s seen it all through his leadership of GreyLogic and its Project Grey Goose.

I was proud that several months ago Jeff asked me to write the book’s Foreword. I did, and you can read it below. Reading it now will save you time when you receive your copy of the book; Jeff received the very first print copy by FedEx today, so yours is now waiting for you to order, hot off the press. Enjoy!

Foreword to Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld

During his campaign for reelection in 1996, the Internet-savvy President Bill Clinton used the slogan “Building a Bridge to the 21st Century.” It turns out that the bridge is a cyber bridge, and that malevolent actors can disrupt or destroy the bridge, its cyber traffic, and all who rely upon it. And although it is disturbingly clear that the bridge to the 21st century can be taken out, it is even more clear that we don’t always know by whom or why.

Jeffrey Carr’s Inside Cyber Warfare explores why that is so, who the actors are (and their motivations) and the likely future course of cyber warfare in all its manifestations.

In part, this book’s value is the comprehensiveness of its coverage, across the spectrum of militarized or warlike computer network operations (CNO). New students of the field—and there are many, in academia, government, and private industry—will benefit from the clear explication of the divisions between computer network defense, computer network exploitation, and computer network attack. Examples abound of each, described in dispassionate, factual prose more helpful than the sometimes frightening headlines in media coverage.

Experts in the field of cyber warfare and CNO will find that these pages are required reading, for Jeffrey Carr has applied an evidentiary analytical framework to understanding the intricacies that distinguish state and non-state actors and hackers, and the varying but discoverable mosaic of political, economic, and social motivations that incentivize cyber warfare.

I first became aware of Jeffrey Carr and his expertise while serving in the intelligence community, where like others, I relied on his much-read-within-the-Beltway blog Intelfusion. For this book, Carr’s background is ideal: an early career at the world’s leading software and technology company (Microsoft), his entrepreneurial founding of the highly regarded Project Grey Goose (which I have advised), and the activities of his GreyLogic organization. He now adds to that list the title of “authority,” with its imprimatur stamped by virtue of the pages in this book.

Military analysts, pundits, and warfighters alike have known for centuries the Latin adage attributed to “the Roman Sun Tzu,” Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, famous for his “art-of-war” classic from 390 BC, De Re Militari: Si vis pacem, para bellum; if you wish peace, prepare for war. Inside Cyber Warfare is the necessary handbook for a 21st century in which all who hope for the new world of cyber-powered peaceful interactions must prepare for cyber war.

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In 1960, when having milk delivered to your doorstep each morning was more common than it is now, the independent Kent Direct Action Group designed a small pink leaflet. In the centre of the leaflet a cross was cut through the paper. This enabled the leaflet to be slotted over a milk bottle, as shown in this photograph.

How the leaflet might have looked on a milk bottle!

‘Poisoned milk!’ screamed the leaflet. ‘Join CND’.  This alarming and innovative way of spreading the nuclear disarmament message was tried out in Nottingham.  The archives of the Direct Action Committee contain numerous copies of the leaflet.  One of these has been annotated with a green question mark next to the suggestion to ‘Join CND’.   Correspondence with the CND group in Nottingham reveals that they were less than pleased with this campaign tactic and the DAC had to dissociate itself from the Kent activists.

Until the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, countries such as the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France carried out testing of nuclear weapons above ground.  This leaflet highlights widespread fears about the danger to public health of radioactive fallout from these tests passing into the food chain, and especially into the milk supply.

No polish for you today. This is partially because I am wearing a very cool manicure at the moment that I want to keep for longer than a day. And partially because I want to show you some things.

I don’t want to look like I’m gloating….but I do feel lucky (punk).

First up:

My Elfster swap. For those of you who don’t know about this, the lovely Nicole of Magic Maid set up this fun secret santa swap earlier in the year. My poor Elf didn’t realise –  til the parcel was returned to her - that she isn’t allowed to post nail varnish outside of her country (let’s hope and pray other borders don’t cotton on to that one) so the parcel that was originally destined for me was returned.

But, unabashed, my Elf put together another package and sent me these lovely things instead. Chocolate, nail buffer, glitter, body wash, a Hello Kitty make-up bag, and lots and lots of nail art stickers. I can’t wait to try these out!! And also…my Elf remained anonymous in her note and package, so I don’t even know who to say thankyou to. Whoever you are (and I will find out!), THANKYOU! I love everything and am very grateful to the effort you went to!

Second up are the prizes that arrived this week from Nora of Nail of the Week. I was over the moon last week to learn that I’d won her giveaway. If you haven’t checked out her blog yet, you really should. Her photos are fabulous, her writing is informative, and she has a brilliant collection of nail varnishes. This is guaranteed to make a girl happy – look what we have…

Chanel, Dior, OPI Designer Series…and my first CND and Nfu-Oh polishes! Hurrah! Thankyou Nora for being generous enough to part with these beauties!

And, as if that weren’t enough…

Can you guess what it is yet?

Limited edition glitters from Illamasqua! Just look how gorgeous these are. I cannot wait to try these out! I know I should have had these on my Christmas list, but I seriously couldn’t wait that long. I got a sneaky peek of these a good few weeks back but didn’t get to try them. So happy they’re finally here!

Oh and you can’t buy the glitters individually, so I now have a back-up of Baptiste. I am getting closer and closer to holding that blog sale I’ve been thinking of. What do you reckon? Would you be interested if I held a blog sale?

And finally…..if you are interested in purchasing any Nubar polishes (and you know you are!) head to Beauty Shed and enter the code GLAM09 at the checkout, as you’ll get 15% off your first order. What are you waiting for? Happy shopping!

CND came with these polishes this fall, main purpose is layering. Put it over a creme and totally change the look of the polish. I was kinda meh about it at first, but som close-up picture of these layered over a black polish changed my mind.

All of them together, looks kinda boring. But wait…

Violet Shimmer:

Scarlet Shimmer

Crimson Sparkle:

Amethyst Sparkle:

Ice Blue Shimmer

Sapphire Sparkle:

Copper Pearl:

Emerald Shimmer:

Raspberry Sparkle:

Jade Sparkle:

So there you have mine, a little help in finding the ones you want.

I bought mine from Transdesign, you should also try out the cremes from the new collection (new bottles) they are superb one coaters.

Kayla Ewell looks radiantly beautiful on the November cover of Beauty Entertainment Magazine. Inside BE!, you’ll see a bevy of hot new stars, celebs and salon people. To subscribe, visit http://www.saloncity.com or http://www.amazon.com. To view November’s digital edition of BE! click on: Kayla Ewell Stars on BE!’s November 2009 Cover!

Com todo o respeito, ao ilustre Ministro e a Corte Especial, a Norma Geral Tributária é o Código Tributário, sendo que o poder de polícia do Estado deve ser exercido, mas com o devido respeito e dentro da legalidade.

Se uma sociedade empresária está em débito com qualquer das Fazendas Públicas o meio de cobrança dos débitos fiscais é através de ação de execução fiscal, coagir o adquirente de peça isenta de tributo de importação à apresentação de Certidão Negativa de Débito, deixa de ser um incentivo fiscal e sim uma forma coercitiva de arrecadar e fiscalizar tributo.

Entretanto, quem sou eu?

Apenas um ser pensante, atualmente sem emprego, inclusive!?

Mas nem por isso posso deixar de concordar com a notícia abaixo que trata da decisão do STJ, que foi unânime, quanto à exigência de CND para liberar peças de avião importadas com isenção fiscal, veja na íntegra:

“EMPRESA DEVE APRESENTAR CND PARA LIBERAR PEÇAS DE AVIÃO IMPORTADAS COM ISENÇÃO FISCAL

A Primeira Turma do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) manteve decisão do Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região que exigiu a apresentação da Certidão Negativa de Débitos (CND) para a liberação de peças de manutenção de aeronave importadas com isenção fiscal pela Pantanal Linhas Aéreas S/A. No caso, a inspetoria da Receita Federal do aeroporto de Viracopos, em Campinas (SP), exigiu a comprovação da quitação de tributos perante o INSS.

A empresa aérea recorreu ao STJ para assegurar a liberação das peças alegando ter direito à importação das referidas mercadorias isentas de Imposto de Importação (II) e sobre Produtos Industrializados (IPI), independentemente da apresentação de CND para o desembaraço aduaneiro. No recurso, a empresa sustentou que a apreensão de mercadorias caracteriza adoção indevida de meios indiretos de cobrança de débito tributário e viola os princípios do livre exercício do trabalho e da livre iniciativa. Segundo a defesa, trata-se de isenção objetiva de beneficio legal e não de isenção condicionada à apresentação da CND.

Para o relator, ministro Luiz Fux, a exigência da CND é pressuposto para a obtenção de benefício fiscal e desembaraço aduaneiro de mercadoria importada, pois a isenção legal do Imposto de Importação prevista no regramento da Lei n. 8.032/90 sofre condicionamentos especiais para sua concessão, nos termos das disposições trazidas pelas Leis n. 8.036/90, n. 8.212/91 e principalmente no artigo da n. 9.065/95: “A concessão ou reconhecimento de qualquer incentivo ou beneficio fiscal, relativo a tributos e contribuições administrados pela Secretaria da Receita Federal, fica condicionada à comprovação pelo contribuinte, pessoas físicas ou jurídicas, da quitação de tributos e contribuições sociais”.

Assim, pelo princípio da legalidade, a exigência da CND pela autoridade fiscal para comprovar a regularidade tributária e conceder beneficio, ainda que em detrimento do desembaraço aduaneiro, encontra amparo na Norma Geral Tributária, cujo sentido é privilegiar e conferir meios que possibilitem à administração fiscalizar e aplicar o regramento fiscal.

Citando vários precedentes, o ministro ressaltou que a prova de regularidade fiscal é exigida dos interessados para habilitação em licitações, convênios, acordos e ajustes celebrados por órgãos e entidades da administração, bem como para a obtenção de favores creditícios, isenções, subsídios, auxílios, outorga ou concessão de serviços ou quaisquer outros benefícios a serem concedidos. Seu voto foi acompanhado por unanimidade.”

Its 1987 and the Waterboys do a benefit concert for the Green Alliance with the proceeds ‘going to finance a Green Road Show which will tour the country..’
The concert itself was in the Olympic Ballroom, a few of the songs from the forthcoming Fishermans Blues were played. I think The Sawdoctors may have been the support.
A Windscale Fire 30th Anniversary Demo, organised by CND, outside the British Embassy is also advertised.
Not too often Chief Seattle gets quoted in Irish political material either…
Probably a misprint too in “We Greens have a saying ‘THINK GLOBALLY, ACT GLOBALLY’“…. should surely read ‘THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY”

Barunica Catherine Ashton je ušla u povijest kao prvi šef jedinstvene evropske diplomacije, ali joj je ta povijest odlučila malčice zagorčati život još i prije formalnog stupanja na dužnost. Tako ju je prilikom rasprave u Evropskom parlamentu Neil Farage, njen sunarodnjak i zastupnik euroskeptične Stranke nezavisnosti Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva (UKIP) zbog članstva u Kampanji za nuklearno razoružanje (CND), organizaciji koju su za vrijeme hladnog rata, prema njegovim tvrdnjama, financirali Sovjeti kako bi potkopali svoje tadašnje zapadne suparnike. Farage tvrdi da je jednostavno nezamislivo kako bi na čelo najprestižnije i najutjecajnije političke funkcije u suvremenoj Evropi trebala stupiti osoba spremna surađivati s “neprijateljima evropske demokracije”. Optužbama UKIP se, inače, pridružila i Građanska demokratska stranka (ODS) iz Češke, čiji je najpoznatiji član euroskeptički raspoloženi predsjednik Vaclav Klaus.

Iako je CND preko svojih glasnogovornika odmah odbacila te optužbe, ustvrdivši kako je u pitanju recikliranje desničarske propagande iz 1970-ih i 1980-ih, članak u londonskom Timesu navodi da dokumenti koje je dostavila UKIP “postavljaju određena pitanja”.

Ashton, koja na mjesto evropske ministrice vanjskih poslova dolazi s mjesta evropske povjerenice za trgovinu, je bila članicom CND od 1977. godine te početkom 1980-ih služila kao blagajnica organizacije. Dokumenti navode kako je 1983. godine na čelu službene delegacije došla u Nizozemsku kako bi uspostavila suradnju s komunističkom organizacijom Zaustavite neutronsku bombu, odnosno kako je za vrijeme njenog mandata na račune CND-a došlo 176.197 funti “čije se podrijetlo nije moglo ustanoviti”. UKIP tvrdi da je vjerojatno kako su u pitanju donacije sovjetske vlade i KGB-a, a o čemu je još 1980-ih zapadnu javnost izvijestio sovjetski disident Vladimir Bukovski. Mnoge od njegovih optužbi su kasnije potvrđene kada su nakon pada SSSR-a zapadni povjesničari stekli uvid u tajne sovjetske arhive.

Nekadašnji suradnici Ashton je, pak, brane podsjećanjem na to kako su početkom 1980-ih anonimne donacije političkim i nevladinim organizacijama bile “normalna stvar”, odnosno kako je buduća evropska povjerenica pripadala umjerenoj frakciji CND-a koja nije htjela da Velika Britanija napusti NATO.

U svakom slučaju, ako se potvrdi da je u pitanju samo prljavi desničarski trik, to opet ne znači da novo evropsko vodstvo nije – posredno ili neposredno – povezano sa komunistima. Predsjedniku Hermanu van Rompuyu je tako neželjeni publicitet donijela njegova sestra Tine van Rompuy, koja pripada Radničkoj stranci Belgije (WPB), najvećoj komunističkoj partiji u Belgiji.

Baroness Ashton of Upholland’s past came back to haunt her yesterday when the European Union’s new foreign affairs chief was forced to deny taking funds from the Soviet Union during her days as treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Mbt Chapa   MBT 

Lady Ashton, a surprise choice for her post, was challenged to deny that she had contact with Russian sources while she was in charge of its accounts at the height of the Cold War.Mbt walking shoes 

The Times has learnt that concerns about her CND involvement are felt across countries from the former Iron Curtain now in the EU and that MEPs plan to question her about it when she appears before them for the hearing to confirm her in her post.

Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party leader, raised the matter on the floor of the European Parliament yesterday, earning himself a reprimand for referring to Lady Ashton and Herman Van Rompuy, the new European President, as pygmies.MBT  

Mr Farage added: “She was treasurer during a period when CND took very large donations and refused to reveal the sources. Will Baroness Ashton deny that while she was treasurer she took funds from organisations opposed to Western-style democracy? Are we really happy that somebody who will be in charge of our overseas security policy was an activist in an outfit like CND? I do not think she is a fit and proper person to do this job.”

Lady Ashton was not present but her spokesman said: “This was more than 25 years ago. She left the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1983 and has had no involvement in the organisation since then. During her time in the CND she never visited the Soviet Union, had no contact with the Soviet Union and has never accepted any money from Soviet sources. The first time she visited Russia was as EU Trade Commissioner.”

All the candidates for the next European Commission must undergo formal hearings at the European Parliament and the European People’s Party, the main centre-right group, has pledged to reject any who have promoted communism in the past. Lady Ashton has denied being a member of the Communist Party. Mbt Chapa

She is due to have an informal meeting with the MEPs’ Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday and a formal hearing in January, although she starts her new job on Tuesday.

Krisjanis Karins, a centre-right Latvian MEP, said: “Some information has been published that she was involved in this Marxist movement. If this is the case it is disturbing. We are especially concerned how the High Representative for Foreign Affairs will conduct discussions with our eastern neighbour.”

Hynek Fajnon, an MEP for the Czech centre-right ODS party, told the newspaper DNES: “There is no doubt that the Kremlin supported CND activities. If Mrs Ashton as treasurer had played any role in that, it would be a great scandal.”

Kate Hudson, chairwoman of CND, said: “Supporters of nuclear weapons have made such allegations over the years, yet not once have they produced a shred of evidence to support them. In the 1980s Bruce Kent offered £100 to anyone who could prove CND had received money from Moscow — the cheque remains unclaimed.”

Ms Hudson added: “UKIP is merely re-hashing decades-old unsubstantiated allegations which have no basis in fact. UKIP cites figures for a year when hundreds of thousands of people joined some of the largest demonstrations Britain has ever seen, during the course of which countless unrecorded individuals would have made contributions of all sizes — quite the opposite of funds coming from the machinations of a foreign power. CND will be consulting lawyers regarding the allegations made by UKIP.”

This really gets better by the day.  The newly formed European Empire who knows no boundaries, literally, appointed a dubious Belgium politician called Rompuy as the EU’s President and a Labour peer who has never stood for election, ever, the aptly named Baroness Ashton as the EU’s Foreign Minister.  People I have never heard of and would most definitely not voted for are now “leading” the European Project into new territory.

Baroness Ashton questioned over CND and Soviet money

The Telegraph, by Bruno Waterfield and James Kirkup

Baroness Ashton, the new European Union foreign minister, is facing questions over her role in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament amid claims that it may have had financial links to the Soviet Union.

Not only was she once in the CND, calling for Britain’s disarmament, she is an unelected Labour life peer who helped ram the Lisbon Treaty through the House of Lords.  “I spent 76 hours of my life getting the Lisbon Treaty though the House of Lords. I would very much like to see it come into force,” she is on record as saying.

The UK Independence Party has written to Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, asking him to investigate whether Lady Ashton was party to payments allegedly made to CND from the Soviet regime in Moscow.

The letter, based on allegations made by Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Soviet dissident, claimed that it is “very likely” that CND received “unidentified income” from Moscow in the 1980s.

“CND was notoriously secretive about its sources of funding and did not submit its accounts to independent audit; however, after public pressure they were audited for the first time in 1982-1983,” Gerard Batten, a Ukip MEP, wrote.

“It was found that 38 per cent of their annual income (£176,197) could not be traced back to the original donors. The person responsible for this part of CND fund-raising, from anonymous donors. . . was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.”

Only allegations but the financial links between CND and the Communist Party of Great Britain still remain.  And not only that but CND had links with the Communist-linked Labour Party of Old.  Of course, the entire European Union is Government model is a replica of the old Soviet system, democracy only for the chosen, freedom is slavery, that sort of socialist utopia.

Nigel Farage, Ukip’s leader, was officially reprimanded for asking in the European Parliament whether Mr Barroso would to investigate whether Lady Ashton had received money “from enemies of the West”.

He said: “I do not think she is a fit and proper person to do this job.”

Jerzy Buzek, the parliament’s president, has summoned Mr Farage for a meeting where he will be told to “restrain his language and refrain from making improper comments in the chamber” or face disciplinary action.

Lady Ashton’s office declined to discuss CND’s funding in detail. It said that she “left CND in 1983 and had no involvement after that”.

Her spokesman said: “Like many young people in the late 1970s, Catherine Ashton was involved in the big campaigns of the time.

“She never visited the Soviet Union, she had no contacts with the Soviet Union and she never accepted any money from Soviet sources. The first time she ever visited Russia was as trade commissioner. She has never been a member of the Communist Party.”

A CND spokesman described the Ukip claims as “decades-old unsubstantiated allegations”.

Even if Baroness Ashton didn’t know about it, she was in the Commie-infected, Marxist-loving, Labour party so is corrupt by association in my short-sighted (and very much pissed-off) mind.

Yet who to believe in all this.  Lets see.

Motives:  The European Economic Community has become the European Union run by unelected officials who have lied consistently and will continue to do so until the Empire is complete?  Or Soviet Dissidents like Vladimir Bukovsky who is from the USSR and has experienced first hand the horrors of Soviet Style Communism?

Then there is the plausibility of such events occurring.  It is highly likely that Soviet Russia would prefer a Nuke Free Britain.  It would serve their interests.  It is highly likely that the CND, through outside help, would take whatever help was offered in either the misguided hope that Peace would prevail or the perverted desire to see a Communist takeover.

I’ll take my chances with the dissident as the EU has told too many porkies.

Solution:  Treason needs to be re-instated as a hanging offence.  It will get rid of the corrupted and also employ over 20 million people, from the executioners to the undertaker, burger stands and programmes, live entertainment.  All Parties opposed to the Big Three, the Gov’t Cartel, the Three Stooges, Liblabcon, the Corruptibles, the liars, cheats and traitors, time to start spreading the message, NOT YOUR PARTY MESSAGE but by constantly reminding all and sundry of the nefarious activities of the State apparatus in the hands of the Crooked and Corrupted.

My only fear now is that our complete enslavement is not long away, for if the EU flexes it’s muscles now it has control over the whole of Europe, we shall not be allowed to leave peacefully.  What they will pull out of the hat is anyone’s guess but just like the Baroness, it will be for the Greater Good of Europe, or so they will tell us.

We are suffering the death of a thousand pricks and will soon be in the morgue, we need resuscitation fast for if we are to survive as a Nation.  We are constantly fed the fear of death by war, death by disease, death by CO2, and if we’re really naughty, no doubt the hairy runts’ would bring out the scriptures and inform us of our impending doom from the four horsemen of the fucking apocalypse.

Those who can, should.  Next chance you get, take it.  When people have nothing left to lose, they have everything to gain.

Her Telegraph profile can be found here

Da qualche tempo, c’è chi a Savona snobba le altre squadre del proprio girone, insistendo su una presunta nobiltà di rango biancoblù, nettamente superiore a quella delle altre compagini. Chi parla in questi termini, anche se lo fa per una passione che ha naturalmente una forte componente illogica, come tutte le grandi passioni, sbaglia di grosso e sotto diversi aspetti, snobbando, tra le altre, una società, come quella casalese, che ha nella sua storia un percorso, relativamente accidentato, ma sicuramente perlomeno all’altezza di quello del Savona, anzi forse, nei numeri, più importante.

Nella tabella che segue sono considerate e paragonate tutte le partecipazioni a campionati professionistici e non di Savona e Casale, fin dalla loro fondazione. Poiché il calcio italiano ha dato diverse denominazioni alle diverse divisioni, si è scelto di numerarle a seconda del loro livello piuttosto che con un nome specifico, considerando, d’altra parte, le vecchie serie C1 e C2 come fossero entrambe il terzo livello su piano nazionale:

In specifico, si deve aggiungere che:

- quanto al primo dato, il Savona è stato in Prima Categoria (dal 1913 al 1921) e in Prima Divisione (dal 1921 al 1923), mentre il Casale è stato in Prima Categoria (1911-1915, 1919-1921), in Prima Divisione (dal 1921 al 1926), in Divisione Nazionale (dal 1926 al 1929) e in serie A (dal 1930 al 1934);

- quanto al secondo dato, il Savona è stato in Promozione (nella stagione 1912/1913), in Seconda Divisione (dal 1923 al 1926), in Prima Divisione (dal 1926 al 1929) e in serie B (dal 1940 al 1943 e nelle stagioni 1946/1947 e 1966/1967), mentre il Casale è stato in Seconda Categoria (1910/1911) e in serie B (in quattro distinte stagioni: 1929/1930; 1934/1935; 1938/1939; 1946/1947);

- quanto al terzo dato, il Savona è stato in Prima Divisione (dal 1929 al 1935), in serie C (dal 1935 al 1940; dal 1947 al 1952; dal 1959 al 1966; dal 1967 al 1974) e in serie C2 (dal 1978 al 1986; dal 2002 al 2004), mentre il Casale è stato in Terza Categoria (nella stagione 1909/1910), in serie C (1935/1936; 1937/1938; 1939-1943; dal 1947 al 1952; dal 1958 al 1963; dal 1974 al 1978), in serie C1 (dal 1978 al 1981; dal 1989 al 1992) e in serie C2 (dal 1981 al 1984; dal 1986 al 1989; 1992/1993; dal 2004 al 2006);

- quanto al quarto dato, il Savona è stato in IV serie (1952/1953; dal 1957 al 1959), in serie D (dal 1974 al 1978), in Interregionale (dal 1986 al 1988; dal 1989 al 1992), nel CND (dal 1992 al 1998), nella nuova serie D (dal 2000 al 2002; dal 2004 al 2010), mentre il Casale è stato in Prima Divisione (1936/1937), in IV serie (dal 1952 al 1958), in serie D (dal 1963 al 1974), in Interregionale (dal 1984 al 1986), nel CND (dal 1996 al 2000) e nella nuova serie D (dal 2000 al 2004; dal 2006 al 2010);

- quanto al quinto dato, il Savona è stato in Promozione (dal 1953 al 1957), nella nuova Promozione (1988/1989) e in Eccellenza (dal 1998 al 2000), mentre il Casale è stato solo in Eccellenza (dal 1993 al 1996).

Emerge sostanzialmente che il Casale ha fatto, ben più del Savona, la storia del calcio. Che in alcuni momenti del suo percorso abbia vissuto momenti non esaltanti, è naturalmente comprensibile, ma per essere, come molti tifosi savonesi amano raccontarsi, un ameno borgo di poche anime, Casale ha dato allo sport italiano molto, anzi, in proporzione moltissimo.

Non a caso il suo palmarès è nutrito, ben più che quello savonese: ha vinto un campionato di serie A nel 1913-1914, superando in un difficile doppio confronto la Lazio e laureandosi campione d’Italia. Nell’anno precedente, era già arrivato secondo alle finali Nord (sostanzialmente una sorta di finalissima per il titolo, visto che le squadre del Sud partecipavano, al tempo, quasi solo per onore di firma). Ha poi ricevuto, durante la stagione 1969-1970, dalla F.I.G.C. la Stella d’oro al Merito Sportivo e infine, come successe anche al Savona nel 1991, ha vinto nel 1999 (quindi, piuttosto recentemente) la Coppa Italia Dilettanti.

Se, poi, prendiamo in considerazione solo gli anni del secondo dopoguerra, la situazione non sembra molto diversa: Casale e Savona condividono sostanzialmente lo stesso percorso, visti i numeri:

E’ vero che il Casale nel dopoguerra è stato una sola volta in B contro le due savonesi, ma quanto a permanenza in C è stato molto più presente in C1, dove i biancoblù non hanno mai militato. Inoltre, nonostante la radiazione, il Casale è rimasto solo tre anni nella “quinta serie”, mentre il Savona vi ha passato sette stagioni.

Se vogliamo restringere ancora il campo agli ultimi vent’anni, la situazione pende ancora più dalla parte del Casale, a dimostrazione che la nobiltà dei Casalesi non è ristretta ai momenti del calcio epico degli anni Settanta:

Rispetto ai biancoblù, che in questo periodo sono stati habitué della serie D, il Casale ha vissuto per sei stagioni tra C1 e C2, dove il Savona è stato per due anni, al tempo di Piro. E per il Casale non è poco, se si considera che è proprio in questi anni che fallisce e riprende dall’Eccellenza.

Se consideriamo, poi, anche gli ultimi dieci anni, la situazione non cambia di molto:

Perfino in queste ultime stagioni, in effetti, lo score dei Casalesi è, seppure di poco, migliore, visto che non sono scesi sotto la serie D.

Insomma, forse il presente della squadra del Monferrato non è altisonante, ma non è che i tifosi savonesi possano millantare particolari meriti come nel presente, così nel passato. Casale arriverà a contare circa 36000 abitanti, ma nel calcio ha lasciato davvero la sua impronta indelebile.

The above working group, of which SIF was a member, has published its findings. The report can be read on the Scottish Government’s website.

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Very nice. I’ve gotten away from wearing only mauve polishes lately, but I really like this one that I picked up on clearance at Ulta.

Cremes bore me, though, so I added CND Effects Crimson Sparkle. The Effect is very apparent in real life, but I couldn’t seem to get a picture that really captured that very well.

One coat just didn’t do it for me though, so I added another coat of CND! Now it’s perfection, look:

Britain’s newest nuclear powered submarine has set sail for the first time today.

Astute under construction

The vessel, called ‘Astute’, is the first of a new class of attack subs set to be the biggest and most powerful in the fleet.

Defence Equipment and Support Minister Quentin Davies was upbeat about the launch.

“This is a significant milestone for Astute as she sails for the first time.” he said.

“Astute will now begin a set of sea trials ahead of her full acceptance with the Royal Navy next year.”

The MOD’s plan to build a total of seven astute class submarines have drawn criticism from campaigning groups.

John Ainsley, Scottish coordinator for the CND, says the whole program was running over budget.

“The four submarines that are finished and under construction now are already £1.2bn over budget” he said.

“Although they aren’t actually nuclear armed submarines this is of concern to us as it shows just how much money replacing Trident could potentially cost.”

The submarines are built by BAE systems.

Once trials are finished they will be able to circle the entire globe underwater and will never need to be refueled thanks to advanced nuclear technology.

The two top jobs in Europe were decided last night, Cathy Ashton, the former commissioner was appointed as high representative on foreign affairs and security.  If you are wondering who Cathy Ashton is, don’t worry, so is half of Europe.  She was bought into replace Peter “mandy” Mandelson as commissioner for trade! She has never stood for elected office and she has just over a years experience in foreign diplomacy.

It is clear, that this decisions (along with the decision to appoint Herman van Rompuy, PM for Belgium as President of European Council) is the result of the Member States choosing to climb down from the Lisbon Treaty by choosing two individuals who will pose no challenge to Member States autonomy.

Let’s look on the bright side though.  She used to work for CND and she was the former minister for Human Rights in the UK.  Can we expect to see nuclear disarmament and human rights being pushed onto a world stage?

 We will have to wait and see, but I suspect this means we can expect more of the same here in Brussels.

I wore a new shirt the other day that’s such a beautiful shade of blue, I was inspired to make a matching franken!

I used Color Club Naughtycal Navy and a bunch of Wet n Wilds – red, white, and black, and a ton of clear, cause I was going for a jelly effect.

It was quite pretty! But plain colors are just boring so I had to kick it up a notch. Enter CND Ice Blue Shimmer Effect!

Muuuuuuch improved, I actually wore this for two days. Well OK, I mostly wore it for two days because I had no time to change it, bust still, it was very pretty!

Para quem adora esmaltes: Todo mundo sabe que o cinza anda reinando absoluto nas mãos das trend setters, além dos neons que também estão surgindo. Alinne Moraes, Taís Araújo, Carol Dieckmann são algumas das globais que aderiram à moda. Lá fora, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller e Blake Lively também apareceram recentemente com o concreto na mãos.

Aqui no Brasil temos opções para todos os gostos, destacam-se o Ivory da Impala, que é opaco,  e o Tóquio da Risqué, beeeeem metálico.

Vejam as opções gringas!

A report, and pics from the October demo against the proposals to cut up old nuclear submarine reactors in Devonport Dockyard.   TP Tamarians took part in this important demo, and to the absolute astonishment of the Police, did not get arrested! 

http://talkingliberties.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/stop-the-nuclear-dump-plymouth-october-2009/

The 31st of October saw a demonstration through Plymouth against the proposal to cut up old nuclear submarine reactors in the Devonport Dockyard.  It is sheer lunacy to attempt this experimental and highly dangerous work in such close proximity to the homes of some 250,00 people.  It is already bad enough that the Trident submarine are refitted and serviced here, without endangering the environment and the people of the city even further.  Despite the people of Plymouth being against such work, as found in previous consultations, the MOD is going ahead with yet another ‘consultation’, probably until it gets the answer it is looking for.  This demonstration showed that ordinary Plymouthians are not as pliant and gullible as the MOD and Babcock Marine seem to think.  DON’T DUMP ON OUR CITY! (or anyone elses for that matter.)

About 2-300 people gathered in the City Centre at noon and marched through the town. 

After listening to speeches outside the Guildhall, many of those gathered then headed towards Devonport Dockyard to march around the gates, and listen to yet more speeches and calls to action at the Camel’s Head gate.

Those of us based in Plymouth would like to add our great thanks to those who travelled to come to this demonstration.  Special mention must go to Tower Hamlets CND, Southampton CND, Yorkshire CND, Rochdale Peace Group, London CND, the ‘nuclear leeks’ of Kingsbridge Peace Group, Penzance CND, Tavistock Peace Action Group, and the varied groups of trade unionists, particularly from Unison.  Thanks all.

Peace out.

PS – more pics are available on the Plymouth CND Facebook page.

“Within the army, there are no divisions, there is no mutiny,” said Cherif, a besuited civilian.

“If people are thinking of a military insurrection, they are mistaken,” he said. “It’s suicide for anyone who tries it.”

–Idrissa Cherif, Special Advisor to Junta Leader Dadis Camara

 

Guinea will shrug off sanctions: junta aide | Top News | Reuters
By Daniel Magnowski

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s mineral wealth will help it shrug off international sanctions imposed after a lethal crackdown on anti-government protesters, according to a top aide to junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara.

The West African state, the world’s largest exporter of the aluminium ore bauxite, has faced isolation and punitive measures from African neighbours, the EU and ex-colonial power France since what witnesses said was the killing of over 150 protesters by security forces in the capital Conakry on September 28.

The sanctions include arms embargoes, travel bans on junta leaders and the freezing of their international bank accounts, but not trade measures. Camara is under pressure to step down and allow civilian rule — something he has so far resisted.

“Guinea has always run itself on its own funds,” Idrissa Cherif, newly appointed special adviser to Camara, told Reuters in an interview in a hotel suite in Conakry.

“It’s the army which must tell Captain Dadis to leave power, because it’s not you who put him there … Where is the means to tell the army to leave power? It’s practically impossible.”

As well as bauxite and alumina operations run by UC RUSAL and Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee, the world’s biggest single shipper of the aluminium raw material, Guinea produces gold and is a potentially huge source of iron ore.

Analysts say the troubles may give new investors pause for thought before concluding contracts in Guinea, but believe that current players — including minerals firms Rio Tinto and AnglogoldAshanti — are likely to sit tight.

CHINESE “INTERESTED”

Guinea’s trade minister was quoted last month as saying the country was in talks with a group called the China Investment Fund for a $7 billion mining deal, a move that could boost the regime’s finances and weaken the West’s leverage.

However the Chinese government has said it is not involved in any such investment and there has been no confirmation of the talks by the Hong Kong-based fund itself.

Cherif did not confirm any deal, saying only: “The Chinese are very, very interested.”

Camara took power in a coup after the death last December of then President Lansana Conte. Initial hopes he would tackle the corruption of the Conte era turned to mistrust after he delayed an election due this year and refused to rule out running in the poll, now scheduled for January 31.

But appetite among Guineans for taking on Camara’s National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) appears to have been diminished by the September 28 killings, with few interviewed in Conakry in recent days ready for new protests.

Talks between a broad range of Guinean opposition parties and the CNDD under the mediation of Blaise Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, started earlier this month but there has been no sign yet of how a compromise could be achieved.

There have been indications of rifts within Camara’s junta, including a dispute that broke out at his headquarters last month after one military leader sought to have another officer arrested for his part in the killings.

But Cherif rejected suggestions that Camara is vulnerable to a counter-coup and said he would be able to put down any attempt to dislodge him.

“Within the army, there are no divisions, there is no mutiny,” said Cherif, a besuited civilian.

“If people are thinking of a military insurrection, they are mistaken,” he said. “It’s suicide for anyone who tries it.”"

First package I got was my order from 8ty8.  Have ordered from them the last couple of times and am very pleased with this company.

3  China Glaze glitters, 3 OPI Holiday, ORLY Nail Rescue, CND Cuticle Eraser

OPIs: Holiday Glow, Merry Midnight, Sapphire in the Snow

China Glaze glitters: Cosmic, Atlantis, Meteor Shower

My awesome swaps with to lovely girls I got my first Zoya (Harley, left) and a super lemming of mine, OPI Abalone Shell! This will be my next NOTD, check out later for pics.

OK, I had a big long post planned about how CND Effects might be the solution to my recent problems with getting bored with my nailpolish because I have no time to do my nails lately, and how layering most normal glitter topcoats just looks stupid, but then I realized…there, I just said it, so let’s get on with the pictures!

OK no, I can’t do it. I’ve got to ramble for just a bit first.

So yeah, everyone knows by now what the CND Color Effects line is: CND (Creative, the same people who make Solar Oil and Cuticle Eraser) rehauled their whole polish line and came out with 50 (creme) polishes and 15 effects to use for layering. The idea is to create an entire “polish wardrobe” with these 65 polishes. An interesting approach, really, though I’m entirely not interested in the cremes. They’re also quite pricy at $9 for the cremes and $11 for the Effects. Too pricy for me, in fact, but of course that’s retail. I paid half that at Transdesign.

I had assumed that there was a shimmer, a pearl, and a sparkle in each color family, but that’s not at all the case. Apparently there are only 15 Effects, which seems odd to me but also good, because 15? I can and will totally do, considering how much I like the ones I have so far. This is what the Effects are:

Lots of people have done posts on the CND Effects, and I always find it difficult to see much of a difference, and it’s always all confusing which Effect is which. I now understand why: there really isn’t that much of a difference between most of them, and these are impossible to take accurate pictures of. So choosing which Effects to purchase was kind of a crapshoot, but I thought that I would like the sparkles best and the pearls least and bought accordingly.

So, the bottles first:

About the bottles. They are kind of awesome. Unusual, attractive shape? YES! Rubber tops? YES! Flattened brush stem-thingy? YES! Nicely rounded, perfect bristles? YES!

Love.

The polishes in the bottles all basically look the same. I had expected that in the bottles you’d be able to see at least a hint of color, but nope!

The Sparkles:

And the others:

I swatched all of them on a wheel, each Effect on NYC Black, then Wet n Wild Red, then Wet n Wild White. I couldn’t get the Effects to show up very well on my camera, especially over white, but they’re all pretty obvious in person.

Amethyst Sparkle – Seems less dense than the other sparkles, and more subtle.

Jade Sparkle – Seems much more dense than the other sparkles! Much more dense.

Crimson Sparkle – “Crimson” says red to me, but this is pinkish. Pretty though, so I’m cool with that. Medium density.

Gold Pearl – This…is green. Not at all gold. It’s a very frosty pearly finish. I can’t see using this one much, it’s not my kind of finish at all. This gave the most dramatic change of all of the Effects. Brushstrokes galore!

Ice Blue Shimmer – It’s blue, yes, but the end result gives a duochrome effect.

Copper Shimmer – Well, this is copper. Yep, copper. My least favorite.

Final thoughts, as if I haven’t already said enough:

1) I am getting more of these.

2) The Sparkles may look gritty and rough and glittery, but they’re really not, at all. It doesn’t even really seem to be actual glitter.

3) I don’t actually have another, but I’m extremely happy with my purchases.

4) Oh, I thought of another! One coat. I wouldn’t even consider doing more.

5) And just one more thought. These don’t work so well on lighter colors, or even really on anything that can’t be classified as “dark,” in my opinion. I’d love to see CND next come up with some more dramatic Effects that would actually show up on lighter colors. Also: SILVER.