Java Developer, Scientist, Graduate Java Developer, Java Engineer Job Title: Java Developer, Scientist, Graduate Java Developer, Java Engineer Based: London Salary: £35,000 Benefits: Bonus dependent on performance, health insurance, pension plan Essential PhD in field of complex systems, computer science, applied mathematics, economics or statistics Experienced with Java programming and a solid understanding of Object Orientation Knowledge of agent-based modelling, dynamic scheduling, simulation, optimisation, data mining, learning heuristics or decision support systems. Desirable Design Patterns XML UML Unit Testing Fluency in a European Language You have the opportunity to work in part of a highly intellectual team of developers and on your own in what is a challenging and fast-paced environment, commercialising the science of complexity and complex adaptive systems through market driven software products. If you have experience with decision support tools combining powerful complexity-science based techniques such as Agent-based modelling, dynamic scheduling, simulations, optimisation, data mining, or Learning Heuristics, then your CV will be of particular interest. Buzzwords: Java, Object-Oriented, Object Orientation, OOA/OOP/OOD, UML, XML, Unit Testing, Design Patterns, Agent-based modelling, optimisation, dynamic scheduling, Learning Heuristics, simulation About Idealpeople Idealpeople exist to align industry specialists with client expectations. We’re recruitment experts in the IT, Communications, e-business and New Media Sectors in the UK and Internationally. Contact Dominic.spinelli@idealpeople.net Dominic Spinelli: 01908 565910 Idealpeople are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Find Top Tips for Job Hunters and Hirers at the [a href="www.idealpeopleblog.com"]Idealpeople blog[/a] Take a look at all of Idealpeople's vacancies at [a href="www.idealpeople.net"]www.idealpeople.net[/a]

Quality Assurance [QA] / Tester, London, Java, Unix, SQL web, agile. My client is a leading, multi-award winning online / media company. They are currently looking for a QA / test engineer with experience of testing websites and their underlying technologies. You will want to work, or already have worked, in an agile development environment. You will be able to demonstrate being involved with projects from an early stage, and projects which change over time. Technically, you will have sound Unix skills, some scripting skills, and basic SQL. You will understand how technologies work, not just at the front end, but internally, too. It will be an advantage to have some performance testing experience. Excellent opportunity to gain experience within leading, multi-award winning technical department. Abraxas plc acts as an employment agency/business. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.

Sybase Team Leader with excellent DBA skills is required by a global heavyweight in financial services. You will lead a small Database Support team & be a support member of a virtual team spread across the UK & India. You will work alongside the DBAs in London & India, with the UNIX support & developers. It is expected that you have strong experience as a pure database technologist with ASE. The focus is on ASE version 12.5 onwards. You must have experience of working on UNIX hosts, with development experience. You will not have a System Administrator or Operational background. You must have experience with Oracle and understand the new features of 10g. For further info, incl complete job spec, submit CV or call me directly on 020 7255 5513 for a confidential discussion on this role. Abraxas plc acts as an employment agency/business. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.

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ASP.NET, C#, .NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, XSD, SQL Server, Lead Developer, C# Developer, .NET Developer, Software Developer, Consultant, Technical Consultant, Microsoft, UML, RUP, Web Services, SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, Technical Architecture, Technical Architect, Analysis, Design, Development, e-Business. Our client, a leading consultancy are currently looking for an ASP.NET Lead Developer / Technical Consultant to be based out of their Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire offices. We have an urgent requirement to secure a Consultant with excellent ASP.NET platform experience. Required skills and experience Experience of analysis, design, development and implementation of e-business architectures based on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. Strong development experience with OO languages [including C#]. Technical development skills to include Solid Middle tier development experience including .NET Framework, ASP.NET, XML [XSL, XSD], Strong SQL Server. Experience of formal development/design methodologies i.e. UML, RUP or similar. Good understanding of issues and standards surrounding Web Services, Accessibility and Service Oriented Architecture [SOA]. In addition, you will bring a “can-do” attitude with a passion and general curiosity for technology. This position is commutable from the following areas: Hemel Hempstead, Luton, Bedfordshire, Marlow, Dunstable, St.Albans, Harpenden, Watford, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Maidenhead, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Watford, London Colney, Radlett, Tring. Karl Scrivener Branch Manager Tel: 01908 562585 Idealpeople Ltd Karl.Scrivener@idealpeople.net Idealpeople are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Find Top Tips for Job Hunters and Hirers at the [a href="www.idealpeopleblog.com"]Idealpeople blog[/a] Take a look at all of Idealpeople's vacancies at [a href="www.idealpeople.net"]www.idealpeople.net[/a]

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Letter and paper from Theresa Anderson of the Gaia Foundation: Dear Friends and Colleagues,This year has seen the beginning of what promises to be the next newlarge-scale threat to Africa's food, land, environment and farmers -Biofuels.The reality of Climate Change has now been accepted by worldgovernments and industry, and with it, acceptance that Carbon Dioxide(CO2) from burning fossil fuels is responsible for heating the planet'satmosphere and changing weather patterns.Everyone agrees that CO2 emissions must be reduced, but one of thesolutions proposed is likely to create more social and environmentalproblems, and probably more CO2, than they claim to solve. As Europein particular looks to alternatives to fossil fuels such as oil andcoal, Biofuels from crops such as maize, sugar, soya and palm oil, arebeing promoted as the new "green" solution.However, Europe does not have enough land to grow its fuel needs. Forexample, even if the UK were to turn over all of its land to growingbiofuels instead of food, it would need 4 times the amount of land tomake enough fuel to meet its current needs. Europe is thereforelooking to Africa to provide the land that will grow the fuel.Already, we hear of large-scale biofuels projects mushrooming acrossAfrica, with the supports of governments keen to believe that this isthe economic boom of Africa's future. Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia,South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Benin and other countries are at theforefront of the new Biofuels Boom.However, the negative stories follow these projects just as quickly.Protests, riots and arrests broke out in Uganda last month over thegovernment's plans to degazette Mabira Forest, the largest rainforestarea in the country. The forest was to be handed over and cut down forsugar plantations - some of which would go to producing biofuelethanol. Other news shows that land grabs, deforestation andincreasing food prices come about as a result of growing fuel insteadof food.Using land to grow fuel instead of food, rising grain prices, and thedisplacement of rural communities will lead to greater food insecurityin Africa. Any environmental benefits from using biofuels instead offossil fuels will be cancelled out as forests, peatlands, mangroves andprotected areas are cut down, burned, and converted to farmland. Andthe GM industry intends to use this as an opportunity to promote GMbiofuels, to gain a foothold into Africa where there has beenhard-fought resistance to GM contamination of food.While campaigns in Europe against increased biofuel targets are juststarting up (see www.biofuelwatch.org ), African farmers, communities,civil society and governments also urgently need to wake up and raiseawareness about the threats. We need to act before the land is givenaway, the forests are cut down, and the food priced out of the reach ofthe poor.Best wishes,Teresa**************************************1. Rural Communities Express Dismay: "Land Grabs Fuelled by BiofuelStrategy."Statement from South African Civil Society. Date: March 20072. Biofuels Boom Spurring DeforestationArticle from Inter Press Service. Date: 22 March 2007Stephen Leahyhttp://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=370353. Biofuel Demand Makes Food ExpensiveArticle from BBC. Date: 23 March 2007Nils Blythehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6481029.stm4. The Next Genetic Revolution?Article from The Ecologist. Date: 29 March 2007Robin Maynard and Pat Thomashttp://www.theecologist.org/archive...ntent_id=8315. If We Want to Save the Planet, We Need a Five-Year Freeze onBiofuelsArticle from the Guardian. Date: 27 March 2007George Monbiothttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...3724,00.html 6. Biofuel Crop RejectedArticle from Cape Times. Date: 28 March 2007Melanie Goslinghttp://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=14&art_id=vn20070328014024150C782941****************************************1. Rural Communities Express Dismay: "Land Grabs Fuelled by BiofuelStrategy."Statement from South African Civil Society. Date: March 2007 More than sixty people met in Durban on March 5th 2007, to discuss theSouth African government’s Draft Industrial Biofuels Strategy, which isopen for public comment until the end of March. The undersigned NGOs,individuals, farmer organisations and rural communities fromKwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga who attended theworkshop, express our extreme disquiet and consternation with thestrategy. We believe that both the Biofuels strategy and the associated publicconsultation process are fundamentally flawed. As affected ruralcommunities and organisations, we are astounded that we have not beenproperly informed and consulted about the strategy. What makes it allthe more unforgivable is that the anticipation of a subsidised Biofuelsindustry is precipitating massive “land grabs” of municipal commonagesand traditional communal and tribal land in the former independenthomelands. While the DME pays lip service to developing Biofuels tomeet local energy needs, deals have already been struck for large-scaleplants to export Biofuels to the European Union. In the process ruralfarming communities are coerced into signing over their land for apittance for industrial plantations of canola, maize and soya[1]. We note that the draft strategy aims to contribute to South Africa’sdevelopment goals through job creation, transformation as well asreducing the negative impacts of energy consumption on the environment,but find little detail in the strategy on how this will be achieved.Instead we have found the strategy to be preoccupied with economicinstruments that will facilitate large corporate involvement inBiofuels with trickle down economic benefits to the poor at best, andpotentially disastrous consequences due to the expansion of industrialagriculture into new areas.We call on government to redraft the Biofuels Strategy in its entirety,including full participation of potentially impacted communities sothat a new strategy emerges that emphasises the development needs andpriorities of poor communities, particularly in rural areas.In particular, we suggest that the Biofuels strategy should aim at: • addressing energy poverty within a context of integratedenergy planning and rural development, with the genuine participationof rural communities, particularly women;• adopting an integrated energy planning approach, which mustinclude “true green Biofuels” such as biogas and ethanol gel and soforth;• making an unequivocal commitment to improving publictransport systems with a view to reducing South Africa’s dependence onfossil and now, liquid fuels;• Providing the economic enabling environment fordecentralised, community-owned Biofuels plants based on biodiverse andorganic agricultural production that ensure rural energy and foodsecurity;• Ensuring that economic instruments (subsidies, levyreductions and tax incentives) are targeted specifically to createsmall and cooperative Biofuels enterprises premised on best social andecological practice;• Including strategies to improve infrastructure, training,technical support, marketing and access to the Biofuels market in ruralareas for rural communities; and• Specifically excluding the use of staple food crops, largeindustrial plantations of monocultures, genetically engineeredorganisms and prime agricultural land in the production of Biofuels inSouth Africa.We further call on government to place an immediate moratorium onlarge-scale bio fuels projects and to stop the “land grabs”.SIGNED1 ACUSO Project2 African Centre for Biosafety3 Biowatch4 Buyambo Seed Bank5 Centre for Civil Society (Environmental Justice project),University of KwaZulu-Natal6 Diakonia Council of Churches7 Earthlife Africa eThekwini8 GRAIN9 Intuthuko Yesiziwe10 Institute for Zero Waste in Africa (IZWA)11 Kwa-Ngwanase Farmers Association12 Sigidi Trust - Bizana13 LAMOSA14 Lindizwe Help Group15 OR Tambo Farmers Association16 OR Tambo Youth Farmers Association17 PCD Vreyheid18 Siyakha Project19 Syazama Youth20 Tafuleni Co-op Project21 Timberwatch22 TWIG23 Ubuhle Project, Justice and Peace24 Uvuyo Holdings25 Wildlife and Environmnet Society of South Africa (WESSA)26 Women in Agriculture Rural Development27 Women’s Leadership and Training Project (WLTP)28 Zamukuphila29 Zululand Economic Development AgencyIndividuals: Peter Gilmore - Durban, Atul Padalkar - Durban, MdimadiMathenywa – Makhatini Flats, Fi Mntungwa - Underberg, Penny Zeffertt -KroondalAdditional South African support:1. Ekogaia Foundation2 Farmers Legal Action Group – South Africa3 Safe Food Coalition4 South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA)International support:1. Edmonds Institute2 Gaia Foundation, UK3 Stop BP-BerkeleyFootnotes:[1] For instance in the Eastern Cape, the Provincial Biofuels Task Teamand Eastern Cape Development Corporation, revealed plans to plantcanola on 500,000ha of the most arable non-irrigated commonage andcommunal land in the former Transkei and then process it into bio-fuelat a plant in the East London industrial development zone. R1.5 billionwill be spent on fencing and liming this land to prepare it formonoculture. Furthermore, while local communities forego their existingdiverse food gardens and communal grazing lands, multinationalcompanies like Monsanto will collect on government agriculturalsubsidies through the Massive Food Production Programme by providingseed, chemical inputs and even mechanisation on the farmer’s behalf.The EC Premier’s State of the Province Address for 2007 confirms thatan initial 70,000 ha of irrigated land in the Umzimvubu valley is to beplaced under canola monoculture in the next season.******************************2. Biofuels Boom Spurring DeforestationArticle from Inter Press Service. Date: 22 March 2007Stephen Leahyhttp://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37035Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by theworld's growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, newbiofuels and carbon credits designed to protect the environment.'DEFORESTATION DIESEL'Workers load palm oil fruits onto a lorry at a plantation in KualaLumpur March 13, 2007. Vast tracts of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand and many other countries have been cleared to grow oil palms.REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim (MALAYSIA)The irony here is that the growing eagerness to slow climate change byusing biofuels and planting millions of trees for carbon credits hasresulted in new major causes of deforestation, say activists. And thatis making climate change worse because deforestation puts far moregreenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire world's fleet ofcars, trucks, planes, trains and ships combined."Biofuels are rapidly becoming the main cause of deforestation incountries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil," said Simone Lovera,managing coordinator of the Global Forest Coalition, an environmentalNGO based in Asunción, Paraguay."We call it 'deforestation diesel'," Lovera told IPS.Oil from African palm trees is considered to be one of the best andcheapest sources of biodiesel and energy companies are investingbillions into acquiring or developing oil-palm plantations indeveloping countries. Vast tracts of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand and many other countries have been cleared to grow oil palms.Oil palm has become the world's number one fruit crop, well ahead ofbananas.Biodiesel offers many environmental benefits over diesel frompetroleum, including reductions in air pollutants, but the enormousglobal thirst means millions more hectares could be converted intomonocultures of oil palm.Getting accurate numbers on how much forest is being lost is verydifficult.The FAO's State of the World's Forests 2007 released last week reportsthat globally, net forest loss is 20,000 hectares per day -- equivalentto an area twice the size of Paris. However, that number includesplantation forests, which masks the actual extent of tropicaldeforestation, about 40,000 hectares (ha) per day, says Matti Palo, aforest economics expert who is affiliated with the TropicalAgricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in CostaRica."The half a million ha per year deforestation of Mexico is covered bythe increase of forests in the U.S., for example," Palo told IPS.National governments provide all the statistics, and countries likeCanada do not produce anything reliable, he said. Canada has claimed nonet change in its forests for 15 years despite being the largestproducer of pulp and paper."Canada has a moral responsibility to tell the rest of the world whatkind of changes have taken place there," he said.Plantation forests are nothing like natural or native forests. Moreakin to a field of maize, plantation forests are hostile environmentsto nearly every animal, bird and even insects. Such forests have beenshown to have a negative impact on the water cycle because non-native,fast-growing trees use high volumes of water. Pesticides are alsocommonly used to suppress competing growth from other plants and toprevent disease outbreaks, also impacting water quality.Plantation forests also offer very few employment opportunities,resulting in a net loss of jobs."Plantation forests are a tremendous disaster for biodiversity andlocal people," Lovera said.Even if farmland or savanna are only used for oil palm or otherplantations, it often forces the local people off the land and intonearby forests, including national parks, which they clear to growcrops, pasture animals and collect firewood. That has been the patternwith pulp and timber plantation forests in much of the world, saysLovera.Ethanol is other major biofuel, which is made from maize, sugar caneor other crops. As prices for biofuels climb, more land is cleared togrow the crops. U.S. farmers are switching from soy to maize to meetthe ethanol demand. That is having a knock on effect of pushing up soyprices, which is driving the conversion of the Amazon rainforest intosoy, she says.Meanwhile rich countries are starting to plant trees to offset theiremissions of carbon dioxide, called carbon sequestration. Most of thisplanting is taking place in the South in the form of plantations, whichare just the latest threat to existing forests."Europe's carbon credit market could be disastrous," Lovera said.The multi-billion-euro European carbon market does not permit the useof reforestation projects for carbon credits. But there has been atremendous surge in private companies offering such credits for treeplanting projects. Very little of this money goes to small landholders, she says.Plantation forests also contain much less carbon, notes Palo, citing arecent study that showed carbon content of plantation forests in someAsian tropical countries was only 45 percent of that in the respectivenatural forests.Nor has the world community been able to properly account for thevalue of the enormous volumes of carbon stored in existing forests.One recent estimate found that the northern Boreal forest provided 250billion dollars a year in ecosystem services such as absorbing carbonemissions from the atmosphere and cleaning water.The good news is that deforestation, even in remote areas, is easilystopped. All it takes is access to some low-cost satellite imagery andgovernments that actually want to slow or halt deforestation.Costa Rica has nearly eliminated deforestation by making it illegal toconvert forest into farmland, says Lovera.Paraguay enacted similar laws in 2004, and then regularly checkedsatellite images of its forests, sending forestry officials and policeto enforce the law where it was being violated."Deforestation has been reduced by 85 percent in less than two yearsin the eastern part of the country," Lovera noted.The other part of the solution is to give control over forests to thelocal people. This community or model forest concept has proved to besustainable in many parts of the world. India recently passed a billreturning the bulk of its forests back to local communities formanagement, she said.However, economic interests pushing deforestation in countries likeBrazil and Indonesia are so powerful, there may eventually be littlenatural forest left."Governments are beginning to realize that their natural forests haveenormous value left standing," Lovera said. "A moratorium or ban ondeforestation is the only way to stop this."This story is part of a series of features on sustainable developmentby IPS and IFEJ - International Federation of EnvironmentalJournalists.© 2007 IPS - Inter Press Service**************************************3. Biofuel Demand Makes Food ExpensiveArticle from BBC. Date: 23 March 2007Nils Blythehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6481029.stm

ANALYST - MORSE DIAGONAL WISDOM EDRM - NORTH LONDON, needed with scanning systems experience. A full job spec is available and all cvs by email in the forst instance. Abraxas plc acts as an employment agency/business. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.

Client Side Developer who is familiar with all relevant W3C standards with skills in HTML, CSS, & JavaScript, is required by a hugely popular, multi award winning household name & leader in the News & Media market to develop their hugely innovative websites. This is a four month contract role [initially]. My client works in a pure agile environment. They are based in Central London. You must have good templating experience. You will work on a range of exciting new projects, working closely with Graphic Designers, & Developers to produce lean, beautifully structured compliant HTML, CSS and JavaScript solutions. Workload is increasing and the team needs to expand to keep on top. You will actively participate in the layout and styling strategy for the entire web site. They are a fantastic company to work & adopt a very friendly environment! Please have an online portfolio available on request. One weeks notice max!! For further info incl full job spec, submit CV or call me directly on 020 7255 5513 for a confidential discussion on this role. Abraxas plc acts as an employment agency/business. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.

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