INTERNATIONAL - EUROPE

"So Europe enters the heart of youth"

In a text published in the supplement "Europa" of the "world" published May 30 (dated May 31), the writer Camille de Toledo argues that lacks an imaginaryEurope. We have launched a call for evidence on Lemonde.fr young Europeans, students or assets, so they detail which, according to them, could restore to a continent that appears often as too distant and technocratic. Here is a selection of their writings:

Young people outraged Spaniards celebrate the first anniversary of their movement, on 12 may, on the square of Puerta del Sol, in Madrid. | REUTERS/PAUL HANNA

ENHANCEMENT of human

• Europe should be our renaissance Garden", by Vincent Tourret, 18 years, Terminal, Grenoble

I hope do not you disappoint, because I write here with my weaknesses, my pulse, my dreams, my joys, all making my youth. I do not have the talent of some, or the inventiveness of others, but your call me stimulated, awakened a torpor, of this "sadness" of the contemporary world and this ideal, so promising yet! : Europe. Today, indeed, it is his side rational and cold prevailed. It is true, but through the workings of the market, compelling needs and complex economy. A whole of rules sacrosanct, unassailable and austere that ultimately stifle us. I understand, I have learned in my classes, I have sometimes enjoyed the amazing combination but... they do give rise in me no emotion and not desires. I see, in his place, that a world narrow, which excludes all the wealth of our societys: its diversity. Europe does more advance because it forgets its Foundation: the will of peoples disputes to develop a common heritage, and not a simple anonymous company! Europe between us, respecting, protecting the cultures that make up. It should not we standardize the principle constitute a homogeneous entity! It must be a meeting for all cultures, and it must create, invent a new, open and tolerant world! Europe must protect ourselves from the fear of the other, to be the garden of our renaissance. Europe, therefore, must be our common culture .

• "Rebuild Europe in the belief the peoples", by Jean-Henri, 30 years, lawyer, Paris

More than an imaginary Europe, it seems to me that is missing an imaginary world and the man. Europe is an example of this failure more than an exception. Under cover-secularism as absolute, capitalism as dogma and a uniform purpose, is in forgot to set and the starting point and purpose. The starting point is - and should remain - the man and his immediate environment, step of soulless and without desire or feeling conglomerates or want to Live together. But the desire for consistency prevents us consider individual and prevents us from to claim us a membership. The aim should be that transcending, if man is the starting point, it cannot be the purpose without what is happen to create an ersatz of society, a non-profit and recreation association. I am not sure that the proliferation of technical standards, the liberalisation of any sector of economic life, the erasure of nation States, the negation of identities and men, contempt of the votes of the people... We offer a path, a path, a desire, a purpose. Destroy Europe which is more that of a few elites and rebuild Europe believing peoples, believing in the nations, believing the story, hoping in the future. Let us remember our national imaginary, like them, share them. Forget Europe which destroyed, forget Europe which régimente, forget Europe that asphyxia, forget Europe who died.

• "Build a social Europe", by Dawn Bush, 21, student

Student at Sciences Po Lille, I studied since October in Italy through the Erasmus programme. At Lille, I followed the specialty "European Affairs"; because I didn't understand about the functioning of the EU. Today, it is more clear, but because I spent a year to study it! Finding: the EU is a very beautiful object, however, complex and still far from these citizens, who, France toItaly, know all the difficulties which tend to away from the European project, considered to be incompetent or irresponsible. So, how "energizing a continent that of to divide ?" In responding to the threats of the future of the Europeans. From Madrid to Athens, Rome and Paris, are Europeans not worried for their future life decency? Build a social Europe, i.e. which sets common guarantees income minimum (Italy itself has no guaranteed inter-professional salary), volume of work, retirement age, decision-making support disease. Also, a Europe where, from one country to the other, students have the same conditions of access to qualifications and training; by equal tuition fees (or the less proportional to the cost of local life), equivalent student housing opportunities. And, dare we throw the stone in the pond: why step imagine a European student allowance? We do not fear tounify our systems, this is what we expect.


CULTURE MUNICIPALITY

• "It should be a European democracy", by l. Seli, high school student

Camille de Toledo spoke of a Europe of culture, of a Europe in the translation. I believe in this European culture open to the world and which is defended by no political and no voice just defend in the media. People need to accept in a common culture to be together. But to recognize in the Europe of the twenty-first^e century, should be a genuine European policy, a European democracy. So that everyone can be feel belong to a common entity, it is necessary that the Europeans can recognise themselves in their politicians European and, by electing. Europe exists, a European culture exists: I feel almost at home in Heraklion, Rome or Berlin. but some are unaware of this common culture. The barrier of the language that refers to Mr. of Toledo is surmountable by better learning of English. So that everyone can recognise themselves in Europe, should be given to all means of travel at least once in his life. I am confident that many concrete measures could give all the feeling of being European. Despite the crisis, despite the differences, I do not think that it is too late; and I believe, that one day, we are all Europeans.

• "Have in common a neutral language", by Cyril Liance, 24 years, Brussels

I would like a more democratic Europe with the existence of transnational lists in the next elections of the European Parliament, to stop to nationalize every time this issue and finally talking about in these elections to a fate common to all Europeans. I would like to a Europe of citizenship with more mobility and Exchange. More coordination and information relating to the employment and training throughout the Union. Put more forward the new possibility of citizen initiative which will allow groups of representative individuals to submit new laws. I would like to a Europe where it is is all; to do this, it is important tohave in common to me a neutral language which would be the second language of all Europeans without calling in question the linguistic diversity of the continent. Esperanto is a particularly simple language and easy, it could easily be the cement of our common citizenship. Finally, I want a Europe of social, ecological and fiscal convergence.

• "Create a European television", by Etienne Demur, 26 years

For me, what is lacking in Europe is paradoxically the proximity. I think that it may have to do without a reconciliation, understanding. The best vector of sharing for me are the television media. With the importance of television in this modern world, follow the same stories, Watch the same programs is also lived as a shared experience and to share with other viewers. If it is possible to make a Franco-German channel, I think that it is quite possible to expand the concept. The art is to do step make off-putting television, but a well targeted TV, especially on the younger generations. One can quite think of programs combining nationalities, games, films in version local or original, the information European, music by styleprograms, country... I am sure that there are many similarities between the youth of the 30 countries.

• "For Europe enters the heart of youth", by Romain Galati, 25 years, Valence (26), chargé de mission European Affairs

For youth, Europe seems to be a given. We grew up without knowing borders, we are accustomed to the single currency, we have friends in school exchanges or internships abroad, Europe etc. However, it is difficult to passionate about youth with Europe. Engaged in the European associations, I am confronted every day with these problems. For me, there are several reasons: first of all, the media bear a heavy responsibility on the image of Europe, which means to speak only when serious crises and in political or economic terms. Then, the political world has a responsibility; by making Europe a scapegoat, citizens are beginning to believe. Finally, Europe also bears responsibility in its difficulty to communicate and to beorganize . for many, Europe remains too complex administrative giant. But Europe is not only politics or the economy. Europe is also culture, citizens Exchange, mobility, languages. Programmes such as Erasmus are a huge success and are very popular with young people. Being able to move from one country to another without borders is also very appreciated. And it is precisely these aspects that should be strengthened so that Europe enters the heart of young people.


EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

• "Institutions we do love Europe", by Cyril Vion

Who of us responds: "I am European"? Not me anyway, even if I love it a cosmopolitan world. I have a ski resort where it is easier to order a beer in English and French, I work in a city where every street corner is a different language. This mixture is an incredibly rich. However, I will dream that I caught the English out of France; I regularly hear in my village of campaign that the Golden are the work of the French... And Yes, the Europe it is if each of his own. I think that it goes through learning the language of the host country and of a broader us. learn at school to discover our neighbours, revisiting the European history, speak other languages! It is institutions we do love Europe and we learn to become a European citizen. The armed forces do more for nothing, create an armEA European! It mutualisera and will reduce unnecessary costs and when poor soldiers fall, it soudera the great Federation. Finally, that the television we love Europe This large depraving of the mass media is undoubtedly the first culprit in the rise of nationalism and of communitarianism.

• "Implementation of a joint civil service", by Rudolph de Bollivier, 35, Saint-Denis of the meeting

A solution I would propose : the establishment of an "Exchange" between all European countries through the youth and seniors. Let me explain: in order to bring together the people, the establishment of a civil service common to all European countries from one to two years (in place of military service) for all the young people coming out of the "General" school cycle regardless of their origins, their skin colors, religions, sexes... With obligation to blend the origins by promo,get missions in all European countries. These young people work on reconstruction missions, reorganisation, supervised by our seniors upstream. Examples: mission of renovation of a neighbourhood in Eastern Europe; Mission agricultural redevelopment in Spain, administrative work or awareness in Greece... Objectives: 1 / acquire a better knowledge of the European countries. 2 / Discover the different European cultures. 3 / Closer to European youth will be the power of tomorrow. 4 / Closer to the people by supervised and organized exchanges. 5 / Educate people by the actions of these promos on the "major projects" European (construction, dangerous building, pollution )...).


INNOVATION

• "Find a pioneer character", by Jean-François Vivicorsi, 26 years, Paris, unemployed

Many Europeans and myself were relatively disappointed the lack of concrete initiatives taken by Europe on its international since its inception. Restore energy, it is first find common objectives which present, Act, identity in Europe. At the diplomatic and military levels, European reflection cell too often had the air of a US branch. At the level of education, the search for competitiveness by Europe led to the "skills" at the expense of the culture. Overlook the Western culture night the Union, because it is cement heritage and peaceful, while ignorance favours the bellicose round. At the economic level, Europe gives the image of a young clumsy Bachelor trying to recite his lessons well in order tohave good grades in international juries. Why step find character pioneer in ecology for example, investing in the research, give the example in the necessary future transformations of the world, reviving the Kyoto agreement with concrete solutions for thefuture ? Only culture and innovation can unite past and future in a truly common European construction.

LIFESTYLE - USA

The future of ‘famine foods,’ unconventional edibles in the garden

By Barbara Damrosch, Published: June 6The Washington Post

They’re called poor people’s foods. Plants foraged by starving folk and scavenged when crops succumb to drought: They’re what you eat just to get by. Many are unusually rich in nutrients, have medicinal value and may even taste good. But because they’re free for the taking they get little respect.
Scientists in fields such as ethnobotany study them and the ways they are eaten. But the true experts are indigenous people all over the world who’ve inherited them as part of their culture.

 

To the rest of us, who rely for our food on an alarmingly few species of plants grown on an industrial scale, these wild edibles are a gardener’s curiosity that may hold the key to a more sustainable way of feeding the world in the years to come.
A treasure house of knowledge about survival plants can be found on the Famine Foods Web site, sponsored by the horticulture department of Purdue University. Browsing through its database, you might be surprised to see a number of foods that are in your yard, such as the leaves of forsythia — eaten in China with oil and salt — or a garden narcissus that the French turn into flour. Will times ever be so bad that you’ll need to nibble the edible leaves of your expensive Japanese maple? Unlikely. But it’s useful to know that a pesky species like shepherd’s purse, a common weed, is a nutritional powerhouse, and that roots from the evil, tree-smothering kudzu vine, steamed and eaten, could someday save your life.
For the most part, though, these names are mysterious and surprising in their numbers. There are well over 1,000 listed, and many more could be discovered by searching beyond the world’s standard fare. It seems that all parts of a plant are tried — leaves, stems, root, seeds, bark — until someone who is as indomitable as the plant itself finds a way to consume it.
In one entry after another, these foods are made tastier by the addition of salt, oils, chile peppers and other condiments. At times they’re blended with staples such as common flours to stretch the supply. Some must be repeatedly soaked and drained, or boiled, to reduce bitterness.
Even more important are the tricks to reduce the toxicity that some foods possess, knowledge that’s in danger of being lost as these plants lose their habitats or fall further into obscurity. As the world’s population expands, we’ll need crops that grow when nothing else will.
Robert L. Freedman, who created and compiled the database and whose “Notes on the Famine Foods Website” gives a fine account of the subject, writes that there is no time to be lost in studying and rescuing both the plants and their lore. “Among these, known famine plant species may provide alternatives to costly Green Revolution approaches to providing staple crops for areas of the world in greatest need of food production self-sufficiency.”
And who knows which among them might someday be culinary darlings? I recall a native poverty food of ours, the eating of which was once so shameful that its remains were quickly buried. It was called the lobster.

Damrosch is a freelance writer and the author of “The Garden Primer.”

Tip of the week
Provide a decorative and useful edge to the vegetable garden with a row of okra plants. Sow seeds now and thin after germination so plants are spaced 18 inches apart. Plants can grow as high as seven feet, depending on variety. Soak seeds overnight before planting to speed germination. Apart from local garden centers, a good source of okra seeds is Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (540-894-9480, www.southernexposure.com).

AIRE LIBRE - ESTONIA

How to plan a garden and make aiaplaani?

24.05.2012 09:15

Eger Ninn

 

 

 

Own garden design should ideally begin with aiaplaani joonistamisest. Thinking about the future, which should be well planted with trees as far, is already a major increase, that also would be a kitchen garden and a nice sunny decades after the place in which to spend time.

According to the Aiakujundaja Mail is aiaplaani making Laanemäe important that young person to speak English garden by planting trees and bushes are designing-imagine a time when the garden by his grandchildren.

«Grandson imestama that interesting should not be why my vanavanaema they planted the trees so here it is. That way he will not taibanud that all Windows are shaded and sunbathing on ju after do not appear and deranged küta, described the House as "Laanemäe, and added that in the case of a hundred-year-old gardens is very representative of the problem, the lack of light, since all are planted.

To draw a Aiaplaani in two ways: either by entering the lines manually or by using a special computer to do so. Start receiving your computer well man suggested to use this option, rather than aiakujundaja because it is easier to change anything on the computer, and the program also has advanced features – for example, it helps to measure precisely the areas below the surface. He suggested one possible option to download, free to use Google Sketchupi.

If you plan to do, you must first measure the garden over. According to majaomanikel, there will often be Laanemäe also houses in geoalusplaanid, where there are already principal dimensions.

They are usually made on a scale of 1: 500 plans, but slightly larger, aiaplaan to a scale of 1: 100. This means that one centimetre corresponds to one of the m in the garden on paper. «It is easily handy and it is good, '' said Laanemäe.

If, on the other hand, it is a very large, over 4000-ruutmeetrise, should be made to the plan on a scale of 1: 200. «Paper or one centimetre is two metres in the garden, he recommended». Otherwise, it would not fit well on the plan.

First of all must be included in the plan as the existing and remaining in the greenhouse, garage, well, bigger stones or large aiavalgustuspostid. «Plan must also be included on the bushes and trees, all major said Laanemäe. «The pealesaamine is more complex, because their location must be measured itself.»

If the fruit is still young, should not simply in their place after aiaplaanis ristikest, but such a plan has to be used to paint the tree crowns, as it never looks like. "If compensation is currently only a small vitsake and does not make the shadow, then 10-15 years after she and her large broad crowns the tree behind the shadow," aiakujundaja explained. After Just arising from the shadows of the garden, it is important to think about the long run.

«Then I know it cannot be planted roses behind a tree or make köögiviljapeenraid, because soon the shadow tree is so large that the plant cannot be light,» explained Laanemäe. «This area simply darken the other. A brighter area is one in which the light and the Sun, and the darker the shadow, which later goes down.»

Next, it must be with your family to think of exactly what is to be done, and a garden of desires of the list. Also recommended to include Aiakujundaja, which is now called the dreams of the money is not, however, in the future, but what I want to see in the garden.

"If a person has since the very soul of roses in shades of white birth in a gazebo, then he could write it anyway, although he now has the money may have only one katusekivile from this, '' acknowledged Laanemäe.

It is recommended that this be done manually by drawing paper with the plan. If all the persistent objects are included in the paper, transparent paper should be taken in the second, which is suitable for both vellum and regular oven paper, copy it, and then start to püsiobjektid and try out different solutions for carrying out the ideas and wishes.

The garden should be distributed in areas like Laanemäe, house down parts of the area, istutusalad area, sillutiskiviala or hard floors, lasteala, köögiviljaala, terrassiala and rest or muruala. "In all these areas has its own border, where one ends and another begins. And what is the boundary line, whether straight, curved, or lainetab, that will one day garden style,» he explained.

"It is important that there is a limit and the limit is always material. Not that that stops and starts as soon as the black lawn soil and I istutan your own plants. In fact we are today still receive a garden that is maintained in terms of hoomatav. Eristuseks areas need to be found, he explained that the material ".
Making a good guess is aiaplaani Laanemäe precisely because that way there is a visual overview of the best garden and making the plan may also occur as thoughts is prevented by circumstances that are not without the requirement to provide for pruugikski now.

«Then you gonna get to ai, I can't do it, because ten years is no longer there in the shadow of the trees cannot move, '' he said.
Initially, with the objective of, for example, can be small trees to plant strawberries as well. «Until the tree begins to bear fruit, then I am already 10 years insofar as berries. At the beginning of the original parts is that it is so but after a rename. But it is the case of while growing and respiration process there in the garden, '' described the specialist.
Obstacles to the murus
Ideally, one should be all the lawn surface supplied niidetav, this means that there are places where, for example, should be taken in addition to the Empire or murukäärid string trimmer. «A good comparison is that if the plan is carried out properly and correctly set up the garden, it should be equal to 1000 square one-hour niitmisega a week. in 2000, it is equal to the square of two hours. It understands how many obstacles are placed in murusse. Each obstacle is on average 2 murus, 5 minutes additional time,» explained Laanemäe niitmisele.
"This means that if, for example, ten I already have, then I niidan obstacle in the murus obstacles 25 minutes alone, without that I would have niitnud in the grass. This is the same place, why is it difficult for your lawn and garden maintenance, and time will go from who are unable to reach, even on top of feet kick procedure terrassi sirgu and enjoying it, that it has a green murulapp, and Furthermore, he recommended "that he has seen in some time, which was a downright handicap to 74 different murus.
Garden style
Ideally, could go home, according to the interior decoration of Laanemäe aiakujunduseks: «it's all in the story of man's own account. Even aiakujundus depends man is very loose and cheerful or rather modest single figure. Even in this context, it should be taken into account that wants to be able to start reading from there by man. "
Garden planning, thought should be given to what purpose is this aial. Whether it's a "show all with pride, šõuaed, or nurgake, in which, rather than in private to calm and enjoy the peace and quiet where you can mõnusal to rest. The so-called Puhkeaed or šõuaed are two completely different things, "said aiakujundaja.
The same is true of plants to color selection – whether a very colourful and contrasting or remain a peaceful green garden-white rather than than the tone. The latter encourages a peaceful mõtisklemist and there, rather than in the garden feel different than the värvikirevas tone in the garden.
«A typical is that we have this time of darkness and the mud so that the colors of the summer garden and the kuhjatakse which again satisfied with its aiaga. Typically, over paisutatakse, which is red. Red is the colour of such keeluvalgusfoor and incentive. Others are rather rahustavad,» explained Laanemäe.
This is a natural process that changes and that the vision of your garden garden becomes part of life – this is the one. «Garden is a living organism and it is perfectly normal that at the beginning of the path to maitsetaimepeenrad one side and when it starts to come apart from the shadow, then moving forward in this side of the päikselisele. "
Even if the young person is completely meaningless to make Garden, is the plan the plan. At the garden has more features, since you can plan varjujooksu themselves. Even if it is very old garden, it's a good idea to make the rescheduling plan. There is compared to the young aiaga – one important restriction is already on top of varjujooks.
When ready, aiaplaan recommended, before the work commences, blackmail Laanemäe consult yet also aiakujundajaga. "It should not go beyond. In the course of the consultation can be better stiilijooned and the taimevaliku flag was set. People do not know and often been does not recognize these plants very well and is a little difficult, create yourself» he explained.