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The site is back up after a day of being missing. The isp accidently canceled the site and took it down.
We canceled the dive on Saturday. We had some storm activity at the end of the week and the county issued a rain advisory. The surf is still high but there is hope coming. The surf will be calming down at the end of the week. We might be able to dive on saturday.
Last saturday was diver day at the aquarium. Anyone with a certification card got in for free. I got there later in the afternoon and it was still crowded. I was impressed with the otter tank. I remember the otters just sat in a corner and didn't budge. Now they swim along the glass edge and it seems they pose for pictures. | 2019-04-22T17:09:42Z | http://southcoastdivers.com/cgi-bin/blog.pl?func=view&file=20160315071720-Louis.txt |
RT @SFdirewolf: @Woo_Judy Funny, Judy! @swatch should do a product placement on #FreshOffTheBoat 80s and 90s rule!
@Woo_Judy Funny, Judy! @swatch should do a product placement on #FreshOffTheBoat 80s and 90s rule! | 2019-04-19T15:02:00Z | http://brandspotters.com/episodes.aspx?id=4765 |
Behind the scenes featured on Oh My Disney Sketchbook, Disney.com and Disney Pixar videos below.
To support the release of the live action Jungle Book movie, I created these paper scenes for Disney's instagram as it's first and ongoing art series.
Close-up detail shots and rough sketches are below the 4 main images.
For the release of Beauty and the Beast Live Action film in 2017. 270k views on Instagram.
Co-director and animator. Reached over 1 million views in 48 hours on Disney's social media.
Director and animator. Collaborated with motion designer Chenglei Wu.
Oh My Disney Sketchbook "Making Of" videos below.
Behind the scenes photos below.
For the 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast, Disney released the movie from the vault and this was created to help promote the news.
Below is a behind the scenes photo and the initial sketch.
Accumulated over 1 million views on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube within 48 hours.
Stop-Mo: Happy Socks x Snoop Dogg present "The Art Of Inspiration"
My animated Cinema 4D model has served as the base of 3D prints and other video project inserts for Disney Interactive.
For the launch of our rebrand, I was given the opportunity to design and animate the marquee for our All Hands meeting hosted at the El Capitan in Hollywood.
Directed by Ankush Jindal. Shown here is the Chakshoo trailer which includes the chalk style elephant animation I created for the film.
USC Animation Thesis Project 2011: stop-motion, watercolor-on-glass animation about a boy's whimsical chase for his rooster.
Used Dragonframe and an oxberry to downshoot all the mixed media. For the stop-motion, I used a Canon 5D Mark II. To see more of the process, check out the loopy blog. | 2019-04-18T20:32:31Z | http://www.jaxcha.com/work |
If it's really a CD-ROM, then it can't burn disks, which might be why it's not shown by Brasero (which I use from time to time). Although it could really be a CD-RW drive, and you mistyped?
1 - If you use KDE i would recommend K3B, it's a great program never failed me.
K3B is a Qt based application and it might look a bit out of place in Ubuntu GNOME desktop. But from a functionality point of view K3B is far ahead of all its competitors.
Xfburn is a tool to help burning CDs and DVDs.
Nero Linux 4 costs US $19.99 and there is a demo version also, available for free download.
CDRDAO records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents. The CDRDAO application is run from the command line and has no graphical user interface.
There's also like you mentioned Brasero if using Gnome.
+1 for GnomeBaker. And Brasero. | 2019-04-23T04:28:00Z | http://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/35803/cd-burning-software/?answer=35826 |
We’ve just received the above video, an anonymously-edited collection of footage from the general strike in Oakland on November 2, 2011. The 15-minute video includes scenes from the afternoon anti-capitalist march, the subsequent blockading of the Port of Oakland, and the occupation of the Traveler’s Aid Society building in downtown Oakland later that night.
This is a mere snapshot of the events unfolding around Occupy Oakland, which are still ongoing; much remains to be discussed and debated. We’ll present more material on the subject here soon.
In the meantime, suffice it to say—things are heating up. | 2019-04-19T08:24:05Z | https://crimethinc.com/2011/11/07/oakland-general-strike-footage |
This adorable garland is the right eco-friendly touch that will brighten up any room in your home. It will also look adorable year round in any child's room, playroom or for a party of any kind. The best part is you can re-use it time and time again. Comes in many color options. Mix and match sets to create your own design.
The felt balls are placed approximately 2 inches apart. There are no knots between the balls so with a gentle tug you can customize the position of the balls on the garland. The balls will not move unless you move them. | 2019-04-20T00:37:04Z | https://jamesleedean.com/products/felt-garland-multiple-color |
Chest wall resection for non-small cell lung cancer: A case-matched study of postoperative pulmonary function and quality of life.
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Performance of wider parenchymal lung resection than preoperatively planned in patients with low preoperative lung function performance undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery major lung resection.
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The Influence of Reconstructive Technique on Perioperative Pulmonary and Infectious Outcomes Following Chest Wall Resection.
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Kearney DJ, Lee TH, Reilly JJ, DeCamp MM, Sugarbaker DJ. | 2019-04-24T14:06:49Z | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?linkname=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=30867783 |
This exquisite legacy estate is rich in history and breath-taking vistas. Originally designed and built by the Cheek family, heirs of the Maxwell House brand, and refined by Rolland King, Master Developer, this estate is perfect for the connoisseur of life. The Main House features a two-story great room featuring 270° views of surrounding mountains and stream via floor to ceiling windows. The Guest House & Lodge have a full kitchen, wet bar, and large recreation room and stone fireplace. The adjacent 4-car carport connects to the Caretaker’s Cottage. There is also the renovated 1860 circa log cabin, 2 barns with plenty of storage and livestock pens along with a 3-car garage and workshop. Whether watching the mountain fog lift as the sun rises or the nighttime display of fireflies come out on a summer evening. Completed plans and studies of potential single and multi-family development have been drawn as well as a complete topography of the property. This pastoral estate is the perfect place to retire, relax and pause for the beauty tucked in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. See MLS #3349817 for adjacent opportunity. | 2019-04-26T14:05:23Z | https://www.mansionglobal.com/es/listings/739388-183-400-kings-drive-28746 |
Are you an individual who has recently decided that you would like to improve your appearance? If you are interested in doing so, whether it be inside or outside of work, you may be interested in dressing for success. When it comes to dressing for success, a large amount of focus is placed on clothing. For instance, many women search for elegant pants suits or dresses that can be worn to business meetings, job interviews, parties, or just to work in general. Men also do the same, but many tend to focus on business pants suits or dress pants. While it is important that you focus on these clothing pieces and others, you may also want to look beyond the clothing. A good percentage of your focus, if you are interested in dressing for success, should also be placed on accessories.
When it comes to accessories, you will find that you have a number of different options, particularly for women. Clothing accessories that those dressing for success may want to examine include jewelry, hair accessories, belts, shoes, as well as purses or handbags. If you are woman who is interested in dressing for success, you may also want to examine clothing accessories, such as the ones previously listed. Although clothing and clothing accessories are often associated with women, there are number of accessories that men can also benefit from as well, especially those who are looking for success. Men looking to improve their professionalism or appearance in general are urged to examine shoes, jewelry, such as watches, belts, and neckties.
With a little bit of shopping or researching online, you can easily find that men have just as many accessory options as women do. As nice as it is to hear that you should use clothing accessories in your quest to shop for success, you may be curious as to why you should do so. For starters, it is common for many men and women to wear clothing accessories anyways. With that in mind, many men and woman have certain accessories that they like to wear. For instance, women may only own or two handbags and men may only own and regularly wear a couple pairs of shoes. This is more than acceptable, but it is important to take a look at your ensemble as a whole. For instance, a leopard print handbag, although not every successful to begin with, will not match or flow together with a plaid printed business suit, and so forth. When shopping for clothing accessories, in your quest to dress for success, it is important to realize that you do not need to purchase matching accessories for each outfit that you purchase. What you may want to do instead is purchase a number of accessories that are comprised of neutral colors. For instance, a black, brown, or off-white handbag or belt will likely go with a number of different outfits.
The same can be said for shoes, jewelry, and other clothing accessories. If you are interested in not only buying dress for success clothes, but dress for success clothing accessories as well, it may be beneficial to make your purchases at the same time. This will help if you are looking to match all accessories and clothing pieces together. With that mind, your shopping can also be done later. For moneysaving accessories, you may want to consider shopping online. PPPPP Word Count 564 . | 2019-04-21T05:21:23Z | http://whizbiz.com.au/read-article/45108 |
Last month Partners for Conservation was happy to start a new cooperation with ARTEFACT, who will send volunteers to work at Partners for Conservation for a period of twelve months. ARTEFACT is a German non-profit organization, dedicated to the application and dissemination of economically viable, ecologically and socially appropriate technologies for regionally and internationally sustainable development.
ARTEFACT, a centre for sustainable development, has been registered as sending organization with the volunteer program of the German Ministry for Development Cooperation “weltwärts”. Under the funding from the German government, ARTEFACT has started identifying project partners in East Africa for volunteer placements. This represents an opportunity for young German residents that may volunteer in a one year learning scheme with the name “Solivol” in cooperation with partners in East African countries.
It’s actually after both, Partners for Conservation and ARTEFACT, have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding in quality of sending and hosting partners of the Solivol program, that this March 14th, 2017 Mr. Frank Lüschow, ARTEFACT Coordinator, paid a visit to Partners For Conservation Head Quarters.
According to Mr. Frank, the visit was part of his usual and annual visit to old and new hosting partners to discuss various arrangements needed for incoming volunteers. Being a new partner, it was therefore an utmost wish for him to meet our team after the MoU was signed between two organizations and ahead of the arrival of Miss Leonie Zeuner (volunteer) to be hosted by Partners for Conservation during the 2017 placement. In the absence of the Executive Director, who was away for family issues, Mr. Frank met the rest of the team including Hamiisi Ewedde, Emmanuel Biracyaza and Aimable Twizere, who took him through Partners For Conservation background, current status and way-forwards.
Dedicated to the extension and sharing of opportunities in promotion, protection and conservation of biodiversity through education, research, information collection and sharing, development and cultural activities, Partners for Conservation believes in innate capabilities of every human being to promote, protect and conserve the biodiversity. Since its inception, Partners for Conservation has put volunteering and internship development in the heart of its intervention just to serve as a platform for everyone from farmers to businessmen, from children to adults, from illiterates to academicians, from poor to donors, from volunteers to professionals. Such contract with a renowned organization invested in volunteering development is an invaluable step towards our goals.
After a brief presentation about Partners for Conservation and a tour to our demonstration plot and livestock, Mr. Frank Lüschow revealed his impression in regards to what we managed to achieve in such short time since the organization was created and without external funds. He particularly hailed our intervention approach that strengthens education and the climate change program. According to him, there was no better way to express his satisfaction and support other than signing our visitors’ book with this very bright text: “NEVER STOP PLANTING TREES FOR GREEN FUTURE”. As Partners for Conservation, we were extremely delighted by his visit and we will never forget his bright advises recommendations that we will build on to keep our momentum. He expressed his hope as for a long-term and responsible partnership between ARTEFACT and Partners for Conservation. We believe in at as well. | 2019-04-21T20:21:14Z | http://www.notrebio.org/partners-for-conservation-and-artefact-hands-in-hands-for-a-long-term-partnership/ |
Describes the authentication and handler requirements for a client request.
The RequestRestrictions type exposes the following members.
AllowedHandlers The allowed processing and handlers for a client request.
AllowNonSsl When ssl is configured, all requests will be redirected to a secure url unless this is set to true.
Description A brief description of this request restriction and the request paths it applies to.
RequiredAuthentication The required level of authentication for a client request. | 2019-04-23T00:35:42Z | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2012/hh714330%28v%3Dvs.110%29 |
More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change-causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.
The deal reached in Kigali, Rwanda, comes after years of wrangling over HFCs—short for hydrofluorocarbons—and could on its own prevent a 0.5°C (0.9°F) rise in temperature by 2100. Scientists say such an achievement could be crucial to the goal laid out in last year’s Paris Agreement of holding global temperature rise below 2°C (3.6°F) by 2100.
Total global HFC emissions—most commonly from air conditioners and refrigerators—are far less significant contributors to climate change than the aggregate emission of other greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. But HFCs are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound-per-pound basis, making them an obvious target for international efforts to combat climate change.
“Adopting an ambitious amendment to phase down the use and production of hydrofluorocarbons—or HFCs—is likely the single most important step that we could take at this moment to limit the warming of our planet,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in Kigali, in remarks before the passage of the agreement.
This week’s accord formally comes an amendment to the Montreal Protocol, an agreement crafted in 1989 to protect the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol required countries to phase out chlorofluorocarbon—or CFC—from use in refrigerators, air conditioners and other uses because it depleted the ozone layer. Most manufacturers replaced CFC with HFCs—leading to a different, if related problem.
Now, countries party to the agreement will have to follow one of three timetables to peak and then reduce their use of HFCs. Developed countries will need to freeze their HFC production and use in 2019 with immediate reductions to follow immediately after that. Some developing countries, including China, Brazil and more than 100 more, agreed to peak their HFC use in 2024. And other developing countries agreed to freeze use in 2028. That last group includes many countries like India, Pakistan and the Gulf States, where expanded access to air conditioning could save lives due to sweltering heat.
The deal in Kigali builds on momentum from other international efforts this past year aimed at addressing climate change. The Paris Agreement—the most significant accord on the issue—will take effect next month after an intense ratification process that lasted less than a year after negotiations concluded, an unprecedented speed in the often slow-moving world of climate diplomacy. In November, climate negotiators will meet again in Morocco to discuss how to build on the Paris Agreement and ensure its effective implementation.
Countries also agreed last month to a landmark measure, known as the ICAO Agreement, to cap emissions from international air transport. Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry currently total about as much as those of Germany, not a small amount, and experts say that sum will grow as the world becomes even more mobile.
Still many experts say that international efforts have moved too slowly as research continues to highlight the scale and effects of global warming. Scientists say 2016 will top last year as the hottest year on record and, during some months, temperature rise already seemed to veer close to the 2°C benchmark. | 2019-04-23T10:33:18Z | https://theblacksphere.net/2016/10/httptime-com4532377climate-change-kigali-agreement-air-conditioners/ |
I am a self admitted VH1 Junkie. I just can’t get enough of their awesome programming. It’s almost an illness how addicted to VH1 I am. If you aren’t familiar with their shows, I’m sorry to say, but you are missing out. It probably doesn’t help my case that I am also a reality show junkie and VH1 has THE ABSOLUTELY BEST reality shows ever made. Strip Search, Kept, and of course The Surreal Life. I also LOVE all the “I love the 80’s”, “I love the 90’s” shows, and now they have “I Married ….. (Insert a Famous Rock Star Name Here). Today at lunch I watched “I Married Sebastian Bock”. Who knew the guy was married throughout his entire career, and had a baby right when Skid Row made it big?
I am also addicted to all the other Reality TV Shows playing, which some of them I am embarrassed to admit that I actually watch Dancing With The Stars and Hit Me Baby One More Time. Yes, my evenings are wasted away by reality TV. Time to go TIVO the next episode of The Average Joe, before I forget. What the hell, I’ll just set it up for a Season Pass. | 2019-04-25T22:15:52Z | http://appleshell.blogspot.com/2005/06/vh-1-junkie.html |
Okay, I know that the task on day 16 wasn't supposed to be photos, but in order for me to complete something, I needed to work on a task that allowed me to hold my baby while organizing.
My poor kiddos with their nasty cough... ugh! It just kills me to see them like that, I can't wait until they're all better. | 2019-04-19T12:48:00Z | http://www.justbehappylife.com/2012/01/organization-challenge-day-16.html |
Polysaccharide-based hydrogels exhibit unique properties like renewability, biocompatibility and biodegradability, thus making them ideal materials for potential utility in tissue engineering scaffolds, drug delivery vehicles, and water purification devices. In the past decade, salecan, a water-soluble β-1,3-glucan secreted by the Agrobacterium sp. ZX09, has become a vital family of polysaccharides for the construction of hydrogels owing to its biofunctionality and susceptibility to chemical modification. This review systematically summarizes for the first time, the recent progress on hydrogels containing salecan polysaccharides. We reviewed the preparation, properties and applications of various salecan-based hydrogels. Challenges and future prospects are discussed at the end of the review. | 2019-04-25T07:44:50Z | https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/tb/c8tb03312a/unauth |
As managing partner of digital, Alhart leads a 24-person team focused on digital strategy, advanced analytics and data insights, web development, content marketing, social media, and marketing automation. Dixon leads the agency’s workflow process as managing partner of strategic workflow.
As managing partner of studio production, Dixon-Schwabl is responsible for all audio and video productions, along with campaign and promotional videos. Swick Kurz leads the agency’s media team and Frontier Communications account team as managing partner of media and account services. | 2019-04-25T04:13:58Z | https://www.mpnnow.com/news/20190404/dixon-schwabl-expands-leadership-team |
Current and historical gross margin, operating margin and net profit margin for ArcelorMittal (MT) over the last 10 years. Profit margin can be defined as the percentage of revenue that a company retains as income after the deduction of expenses. ArcelorMittal net profit margin as of June 30, 2018 is 6.77%. | 2019-04-18T12:53:41Z | https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MT/arcelormittal/profit-margins |
WASHINGTON, May 21 – Members of the Tennessee United States congressional delegation today called on the administration to provide details on its policy of awarding Medicare contracts to businesses not licensed in Tennessee, a violation of the administration’s bid policy and a violation of Tennessee state law.
Durable medical equipment includes products that are intended for at-home care of sick or injured individuals. The category includes wheelchairs, crutches, blood pressure monitors, and hospital beds.
The letter is signed by Senators Alexander and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Representatives Blackburn, Phil Roe (R-Johnson City), John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Knoxville), Chuck Fleischmann (R- Ooltewah), Scott DesJarlais, (R-Jasper), Jim Cooper (D-Nashville), Diane Black (R-Gallatin), and Steve Cohen (D-Memphis).
We write today to express our concern about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) policy of allowing non-licensed Durable Medical Equipment (DME) providers to win Medicare contracts to supply DME products in Tennessee even though they do not comply with state licensure law. We request your plan of action to ensure all Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee affected by the DME Competitive Bidding Program will have timely access to physician ordered supplies and necessary services.
Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville metropolitan statistical areas are included in the Round 2 expansion of the DME competitive bidding program. We recently received reports that Medicare awarded DME contracts in Tennessee to suppliers not licensed to serve Medicare beneficiaries in the state. CMS clearly states in the “Request for Bids,” a document that spells out the rules for suppliers to initially compete, that “every supplier location is responsible for having all applicable license(s) for each state in which it provides services.” Nonetheless, CMS has awarded contracts to suppliers without a license in Tennessee. Tennessee law requires a physical location in the state as a prerequisite to obtaining a license to provide medical equipment.
Since these bids came from providers not licensed in Tennessee, their ability to serve Medicare beneficiaries skewed the bidding process and should not have been included, nor should their bid prices have been included to determine median pricing for affected product categories. We are concerned that when this program goes into effect on July 1, 2013, there will not be enough licensed companies contracted by Medicare to supply DME products to Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee. Tennesseans need to have timely access to these important life sustaining supplies from a business licensed by the state of Tennessee.
We request your plan of action to ensure that all Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee will have robust options to receive DME when they need it and that all companies supplying Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee will be properly licensed to operate in the state. Please also include the number of companies that were awarded a contract and were licensed in Tennessee at the time of award, the capacity those companies already licensed will be able to serve on July 1st, the number of unlicensed awardees who have a physical presence in Tennessee, and the number of unlicensed companies that bid below the median bid price. We request a reply by June 3, 2013. We are happy to furnish additional information or please feel free to have your staff contact Alicia Hennie in Sen. Alexander’s office at 224-0623 or Keith Studdard with Rep. Blackburn at 225-3469. | 2019-04-22T20:06:43Z | https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=4E6DDF23-59A0-4F9F-ADF2-6E6344791402 |
Below is the list of torrent sites 2018. Torrent websites are platforms where people share their bought software, books, movies, software. Some hackers also develop cracks and keygens for different software and share them through his platform. It is the best place to get all above mention things on unlimited downloading speed.
So now the question is how to download torrent? Answer of this question is that we need a torrent client software. UTorrentBitTorrent and QBitTorrent are popular. You can download these for free by just Google. Use of torrent websites are increasing we decided to list some of best torrent websites where you can get almost everything in your mind.
As it is a file sharing system so downloading speed entirely depends upon Seeders Leecher and Peers. Seeders upload files, leechers are those who download files and peers is basically a BitTorrent client which is running on our computer on the Internet to which other clients connect and transfer data.
The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 but it has been banned many time due to Piracy as torrents are illegal. Due to this it has changed many domains continuously. It is a successful torrents site we can say it king of torrent. Being in the list of best torrent 2017, its traffic never down it is getting billions of traffic on daily bases. You can download torrents file as well as magnet link. This is the first website who started torrent video streaming.
It is a search engine for torrents just like google. It indexes searching files from different torrent website and give results. It has billions of file data in its database. In the end of 2016 torrentz.eu which was the actual site blocked but came back with new domain. It is one of the oldest website for torrents and it has high rank on Alexa.
Kickass torrent is one of the popular torrent website it was founded in 2009 by Artem Vaulin. From 2013 to 2016 it was the No. 1 website but unfortunately the founder was arrested and site banned but the co-workers take site back with new domain and now it is the most popular. It has well categorized library where you can download software books movies etc.
At the end of 2016 suddenly torrent sites shutdown. And then came one the best Torrent site. It is the combination of torrent search engine and torrent site where you can search but it has so much huge database and almost every file movie software you can get here. In such short time, it got 94 rank on Alexa.
Like Torrentz2.eu and kickass, 1337x is the big name in torrent websites list. It is one of the best and popular torrent site. It has huge database and it indexed from many others popular torrent site.
IsoHunt is in out list of top torrent websites because it is one the most popular torrent site which is launched in 2013. Style of this site is remarkable and new. It has polished and modern UI. It has various categories where you can search. You can find Anime, Software, movies, audio and others. It has advanced search options.
We added Torrent Download as a last one in our list It has been there for many years. It has big database. It is one of the old torrent site which has billion of torrents. It has millions of users each month. | 2019-04-25T18:07:59Z | https://www.alychidesigns.com/top-10-popular-torrent-websites/ |
I left the dragon scales in the Filth Factory as one of Berra Evidences. Can you ever go back into the Filth Factory to collect them or is the lower level off limits permanently because of the phoenix egg effect? Do I need the Berra Evidence to finish the game?
I should add I saved over my previous game so I can't go back to before the Filth Factory.
You can't go back and it really doesn't change the game. The only other thing is to alter a zone script to give you the item. | 2019-04-24T14:38:52Z | http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/topic/24662-missed-a-berra-evidence/?tab=comments |
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Flood protection funds need to double to £1bn a year by 2035 to protect the one in six homes at risk of flooding in England, according to two new reports from the Environment Agency published today.
In its Flooding in England report, the organisation has revealed that over 430,000 people in flood risk areas have now signed up to its flood warnings service and is urging those who are not yet subscribed to join. The free service provides vital early warning by SMS, telephone or email, helping to save the lives of those at risk of flooding.
Also publishing a Long Term Investment Strategy for England, the government’s environmental watchdog says that a steady increase in investment will be vital to maintain current levels of protection against rising seas levels, more rapid rates of coastal erosion, and increasingly severe and frequent rainstorms due to climate change. The funding recommendations are based on the latest climate change impact predictions, released yesterda.
The Environment Agency estimates that the annual cost of damage to residential and commercial property from flooding in England, as well as the cost of further disruption, damage to infrastructure and loss of business, could rise from £2.5bn to £4bn by 2035 unless funding for defences is increased.
The Agency has calculated that the damage avoided through its investment proposals could save England £180bn over the next 100 years but accepts that it may be necessary to look at other sources of funding alongside that of central government.
Over the past 10 years, more than 250,000 additional households have benefited from investment in new or improved defences. The organisation has completed 90 flood defence schemes since summer 2007, providing increased protection to over 58,000 properties.
Environment Agency chairman Lord Chris Smith said: “Our 25 year flood and coastal risk Long Term Investment Strategy for England presents some important choices for government, local authorities, developers and others to consider.
“The latest UK climate change data shows that the risk of flooding and coastal erosion will continue to increase in future due to rising sea levels and more frequent and heavy storms, and there are important decisions for us all to take about how to manage these risks to protect people, communities, businesses and the economy in future. | 2019-04-26T09:56:23Z | https://www.newcivilengineer.com/environment-agency-england-needs-1bn-a-year-for-flood-protection/5203772.article |
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Sit back, relax and enjoy Mother’s Day Della Casa where there will be ample food for all. For example, try Adelaide Hills olives and grissini, baked four cheese manicotti with tomato sugo, finishing with Aperol jelly-shots. | 2019-04-24T18:18:09Z | https://www.longviewvineyard.com.au/events/mothers-day-della-casa/ |
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ADRIAN, Michigan - The Wilmington College women's lacrosse team lost in a tough game against Adrian College this evening by a score of 17-3 on Saturday evening.
Playing away from home this evening at Docking Stadium in Adrian, Michigan, Wilmington had a difficult time possessing the ball and stopping the Bulldog attack. Adrian opened up the first half with three straight goals in the first nine minutes of the game. Wilmington was able to answer with back-to-back goals to close the gap to a 3-2 lead for Adrian. The Quaker goals came from Rachel Reinhart, assisted by Hannah Gratsch, and a goal from Becca Petra. Those two goals for the Fightin' Quakers were not enough to keep up with Adrian's offensive firepower. The Bulldogs went on a 5-0 scoring run to end the first half and secure an 8-2 lead.
Wilmington struggled to possess the ball with Adrian causing 19 turnovers in the first half. The Fightin' Quakers were able to limit those turnovers in the second half, but the Bulldog defense was stifling, only allowing one Quaker goal in the second half. Adrian went on a 6-0 scoring run in the second half to push the lead to 14-2, and ultimately seal the victory for the Bulldogs.
Wilmington's offense was led by Petra with two goals on four shots along with Reinhart with one goal on one shot. Defensively, Kara Griffith, Katie Hill, and Kelly Angevine were able to pick up three ground balls each. Goalie, Megan Wieloch had 15 saves on the evening.
Wilmington (1-4) will travel to Hiram College on Wednesday, March 14. The game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. | 2019-04-22T07:07:35Z | http://wilmingtonquakers.com/sports/wlax/2017-18/releases/20180310s7by30 |
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The final talk at the 2015 Oncofertility Conference was delivered by Dr. Brandon Hayes-Lattin, MD, who is the Medical Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Hayes-Lattin gave an informative talk on insurance coverage and fertility preservation. Covering the costs of fertility preservation procedures is an extremely important topic and Dr. Hayes-Lattin's talk addresses these issues in his talk.
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This is the final lecture in the 2015 Oncofertility Consortium Conference Series. We hope you enjoyed all of these fantastic talks.
The 2016 Oncofertility Consortium Conference will be held on November 1-3, 2016 in Chicago, IL. More details will be forthcoming so stay-tuned! Registration will open sometime in early May. | 2019-04-25T16:02:09Z | https://oncofertility.northwestern.edu/blog/2016/05/presentations-2015-conference-brandon-hayes-lattin-md |
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Students enrolled in American InterContinental University's Master of Business Administration in Finance program have the opportunity to learn about strategic management, global financial management, derivatives, and other related topics. If you are interested in learning more about the Master of Business Administration in Finance program, read on.
American InterContinental University's online Master of Business Administration in Finance program is designed to teach you advanced business management topics, such as strategic management, global financial management, and economics for the global manager as well as core courses in the finance field. These core courses include derivatives and financial statement analysis. Currently the online Master of Business Administration in Finance consists of six business courses and two specialization classes.
If you are thinking of applying to AIU Online's Master of Business Administration in Finance program, you should have a strong interest in learning more about the fields of management and finance. You should also have reasonably strong critical thinking and problem solving skills. Applicants to American InterContinental University's program should have already earned a high school diploma or equivalent; some programs may have additional requirements.
If you are considering continuing your graduate study beyond the online Master of Business Administration in Finance program, then you could have the opportunity to enroll in a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration with a specialization in Finance program. This degree program can take up to four years to complete and commonly includes a research dissertation. The dissertation topic is chosen with the help of an advisor in the second year of enrollment. The degree is conferred upon a successful written and oral defense. | 2019-04-18T15:17:45Z | https://learn.org/course-catalog/AIU_Programs_MBA_-_Finance.html |
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Inspirational sentiment and beautiful pictures!
Such wise words. Have a beautiful day, beautiful Ruby!
Great words with the photos.
That is one wonderful quote Ruby. You sure are looking mighty good too. Have a great day, all of you.
Great quote and accompanied by beautiful photos!
Oh Ruby, you always brighten up my day.
Ruby, you are a little ray of sunshine at any time of day. Toodle pip!Bertie.
That sun is getting up later and later here.
You are such a sweetie dear Ruby!
You are so cute sitting in the sun Ruby.
A lovely quote with darling pictures. I love Dickens.
I love Charles Dickens, but never heard that quote before. (Or more likely… heard it and forgot. Can't remember anything these days!) Cute pics, Ruby!
That's my favorite author. Don't we all wish we could function like that. Ruby, you are so stylish as usual. Thanks for sharing.
I love that color on Ruby!! Great pics! Are you all getting snow?
Beautiful photos of Ruby! Love her jacket!
That's a beautiful quote set to beautiful photos. We could use a bit of that warming sunshine after 9 straight days of rain. I know Misha would love it!
You bring those words to light! Shine ON, Ruby!
I am a huge Dickens fan. That is a great quote. The Old Curiosity Shop I believe. And Ruby you personify the words.
Ruby is so cute and that is a great quote to go along with her photos!
Lovely post and pictures of you, Ruby! Happy Valentine's Day to you…hope it was sweet and filled with love!
What a beautiful quote. And beautiful photos to go with it. | 2019-04-26T02:43:50Z | https://www.myrescuedlife.com/2017/02/rise-ruby-rise.html |
The best jobs for work-life balance have been compiled in a new survey based on feedback from employees across a range of industries.
Technology and engineering companies have long had an image problem when it comes to work-life balance: Thought to have hard-driving, intense cultures with all-night hackathons, the jobs have become synonymous with always-on work. And while that may be true in many cases, a new analysis by the careers Web site Glassdoor finds that tech and engineering jobs are among the best-ranked careers for workers who want to find some kind of balance between their professional and personal lives.
On Tuesday, Glassdoor released its list of the 25 jobs that had the highest rating for work-life balance over the past year from workers who filled out reviews on its site. Reviewers rate their jobs on a scale of one to five, with a “one” being dissatisfaction with the amount of balance in their lives and a “five” being something akin to work-life nirvana. | 2019-04-20T02:37:05Z | https://www.workathomemums.com.au/these-are-the-25-jobs-employees-say-have-the-best-work-life-balance/ |
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I am a licensed REALTOR® in South Dakota and Iowa. I specialize in representing my clients in the purchase and sale of single-family residences and income properties. I truly love this area and pride myself on my knowledge of current transactions, school districts, neighborhood information, and related services, including mortgage, insurance and inspection information.
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2016-02-20 · Understand the complex tax rules that cover employee stock options. Skip to main content. Helping the What Is the Tax Rate on Exercising Stock Options?
How to Report Stock Options on Your Tax Return. if you acquire a stock by exercising an option and then sell it at a higher price, you have a taxable gain.
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TAX TREATMENT OF STOCK OPTIONS EMPLOYEE The employer receives a deduction in the same year the employee has taxable income as a result of exercising the option.
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In September 2009, journalist James Ellis took a voluntary redundancy package from his role as deputy features editor and travel editor of Metro, the free morning commuter newspaper in London.
With a generous package in his pocket, he set off to start a new career as a freelance writer and editor and, to keep himself on track, decided to set himself a challenge: to run three miles a day, EVERY day for a year… that’s right, no days off.
With the year over, the challenge was then taken up by Andy Ratcliffe who did a stunning job from September 2010 onwards – effectively becoming co-owner of 1095miles.com.
Since then, others have taken up the challenge and it has now become this running blog where you can find others who have taken up the challenge. | 2019-04-25T10:16:32Z | https://1095miles.com/about-2/ |
A place to let off steam - anything goes - well, almost!
She's very well maintained, Paul. They were a lovely class of ship.
Well worth the visit David, cost 109 euros with a meal and two free drinks. Sailed 10.00hrs. down river turned off Glüstadt on the Elbe and back up for 17.00hrs. Free run of the ship Bridge, ER etc.
Yes, a marvellous ship. Shows what can be done. It's a pity the folk that went to China to bring back either GLENOGLE or GLENFALLOCH for the same purpose were unsuccessful.
A shot of CSD courtesy collection of Sergio and Anton Grimaldi in Genoa. | 2019-04-23T02:42:28Z | http://forums.clydemaritime.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=39905&p=78906 |
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OUI Technology helps companies to make their products and services accessible to the widest group of customers.
It is estimated by WHO that full 15% of population is affected by disabilities which make their life harder. The group of children and seniors who face their own specific obstacles is even bigger.
Every single customer has someone like this in their family, someone about whom they care.
Whether products and services of a company are friendly to such groups of people makes a big difference.
For a healthy customer a product might look like you think it does. But even healthy customers are often affected by situational disability.
Have you ever been struggling to use your smartphone under direct sun, to read small print letters during a shaky car ride or to listen to something in a noisy environment?
Due to environment conditions and other circumstances, all people routinely find themselves in situations which put them into the shoes of a person with a disability.
Therefore adapting products and services to people with disabilities improves the final experience for all customers.
3.6% of customers suffer from vision problems even despite wearing the correct glasses.
There is a great variety of visual problems that different people experience.
Among those are a blurry or shaky image, inability to read small text and to recognise details, over-sensitivity to light (and light backgrounds), difficulty in perception and navigation due to not being able to see the whole but only a tiny portion of it and other problems.
Good non-intrusive ways can usually be found to address such needs and to make a product friendly.
0.6% of customers are blind and experience products in a completely different way which can be either good or bad.
Blind customers use alternative methods of doing things which are based on hearing and touch rather than sight and they often rely on modern assistive technologies for this purpose.
The big difference is whether the particular product in question offers compatibility with such technologies.
This is hardly evident at first sight for a seeing person, but it makes as big difference for a blind person as is between chalk and cheese.
Support for assistive technologies is something that can be added to an existing product.
4% of customers have real trouble understanding written text due to dyslexia.
Dyslexia is not about people who failed to learn how to read and write in school.
Although symptoms vary in different cases, people with dyslexia report troubles in understanding words because letters seem to be swapped in them or lines seem to be moving and waving in front of them when reading longer texts.
Since texts often look different from what they really are, individuals with dyslexia also often have troubles in typing text correctly and other people can easily mistake that for them being uneducated or reckless.
Various non-intrusive improvements can help people with dyslexia greatly – the inclusion of illustrative images, adjustments in the formatting of texts, provision of a spell-checker or auto-filling forms.
Such improvements usually make life easier for all other people as well.
2.5% of customers have trouble operating websites or products due to motor difficulties with their hands.
The most common difficulty is loss of precision in actions performed by hands, for example, touching a product interface at a rigorously defined place or performing a multi-finger gesture. There are also more serious cases such as the inability to use hands at all.
Modern assistive technologies make it possible to operate everyday products such as common mobile applications (think YouTube, Skype, Facebook, ...) even if the person is able to operate only a single switch, e.g. by pressing it with a foot or even just by blinking an eye.
This does not require to rework the product from scratch, but to include rather subtle adaptations to the existing product that make it compatible with these assistive technologies.
5% of customers experience the effects of various types of colour blindness.
Colour blindness is the unability to distinguish between certain colours and their shades, most commonly red and green or blue and yellow. Some people only see in grey.
This makes it difficult to understand colour-coded information, e.g. on charts or when trying to distinguish between red and green underlines in text. Due to the same reasons, contrast also sometimes gets lost and text may become unreadable.
The remedies are not to rely on colour-coding only to convey information, to ensure that contrasts are sufficient or to provide simple alternatives.
OUI Technology works by advising and assisting companies to adjust their products and services in such a way that makes them friendly to everyone. OUI Technology is also ready to employ its software development capacities where needed.
Being known as the company who is friendly to its customers and whose products are easy to use is very important.
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The economy of the disadvantaged is big. It is estimated that billions of pounds revolve in it just in the UK.
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Legal frameworks now demands increasing standards of accessibility for various products and services.
Staying behind means the risk of litigation as well as loosing customers for whom compliance is important.
Such regulations require companies to make reasonable adjustments to their products and services (including websites) to accommodate the needs of people with disabilities. Such regulations also usually require businesses and organisations to act proactively and anticipate the needs of people with disabilities rather than just waiting for complaints to arrive, by which time, it may already be too late to avoid a dispute.
There are also international industry standards which companies are expected to fulfil such as WCAG 2.0 for websites.
We listen to your specific needs and always adjust and tailor our services to your particular situation.
We will take you through the process, assist where needed and help you set up internal processes making sure you keep designing accessible products even in the future.
We usually begin with an analysis of requirements and/or testing of the targeted products and services both against existing accessibility standards and with real disabled testers. We then produce a conscise narrative report with concrete suggestions on how to improve.
We can develop applications and implement technical changes in your services and products directly in our own capacity or we can advise, train and guide your technical staff through the improvements that are needed.
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We provided accessibility audits, bugreports and technical assistance with fixing issues for companies and organisations such as Apple Inc., Mozilla Corp., Wikimedia Foundation or RNIB.
We built an accessible web digital library system with integrated online audiobook playback which is now used by more than a thousand visually impaired people.
We developed a content production system BOOKOO which allowed us to create 100 accessible textbooks for schoolchildren which can be printed in braille, large print as well as read in their accessible form online on modern electronic devices.
We developed this piece of core accessibility infrastructure which handles the presentation of sound and voice messages for blind users on GNU/Linux systems. | 2019-04-26T12:17:40Z | https://oui.technology/about?maximize=0 |
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15th Annual Picnic and Commemoration Service for Violette Szabo G.C.
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Why not join in the service for her on Sunday 28th June, or visit this truly amazing museum, for further details and enquiries, visit:- www.violetteszabomuseum.org.uk or telephone 01981 540477. Opening hours are:- April to October from 11.30 to 1.00 and 2.00 to 5.00, at the address above. | 2019-04-22T12:15:56Z | http://www.sinkgreenfarm.co.uk/news/2015/06/ |
Express Van and Bucket Seats: Found!
Last edited by Altered4x4; September 22nd, 2018 at 5:54 PM.
Altered... I shared this info on another thread (https://chevroletforum.com/forum/exp...express-91938/), but here's the basics that I learned in the process of buying our van.
There are a few up-fitter companies who install custom components for ride-share companies, taxi services, shuttles, etc. SafetyVan and Adrian Steel are a couple that I've learned about (ours is an Adrian Steel van). Every once in a while, one will show up on the used market. Usually just outside of the the 36k warranty (our van had 43k miles when we bought it).
Gator - thanks for the replies.
My wife ended up doing research and she showed me a picture of the same seats that are in your van. She insists on getting a van with those seats due to safety and comfort. The bench seats don't cut it on those accounts. I have found a few locally but they seem to be equipped with the 4.8, which I don't want due to my wish to also have a towing monster.
Going to another name brand (Ford or Nissan) is not really an option since they do not offer the towing or payload the Express offers.
You are experiencing the EXACT SAME problem we had when our search for a full-size van began... We didn't like the idea of the bench seats for comfort and safety, and I was able to find 4 vans with the 4.8L before I found one with the 6.0L. We test drove the Nissan, and I found it to be more comfortable in the front seats than the Chevy (it drives nicer, has a little more pep when you press the gas, nicer dash and options, and has decent towing numbers (though not as good as the chevy)). However, the passenger/cargo space in the Nissan was tight to say the least, it has a pillar in one of the passenger rows that almost makes one of the seats worthless, and there is NO cargo space behind the last seat. In our Express, were able to remove the last row in our van, have room for our family and cargo space for days! Plus, the Nissan cost $16k more than we paid (both were used)!
Hang in there, the custom vans exist... expand your search nation wide and look for deals. that was our process.
Gator- What year is your Express? I know the only big change over the past few years has been the addition of the 6pd trans. I plan to tow about 8K. From your experience with your setup, do you think the 6.0 can handle it?
Our van is a 2016 model, and I think that the 6 spd helps. When we go camping, it's my wife and I and our 5 kids (age 11 and under) plus some camping chairs and a few miscellaneous things in the van. Our travel trailer is about 7000-7500 lbs, and it will pull it 70 mph (the trailer tires are limited to 75mph, I may have exceed that a time or two) on relatively flat roads without much complaining. It has to shift for modest hills and still maintains speed, but big hills will slow her down or make her scream in a higher gear. We haven't really put our rig through the challenge of mountainous or semi-mountainous terrain, mostly just the rolling hills of Alabama where a few get big. All that to say, that yes, I think it will handle 8k lbs just fine.
We have been using a Honda Ridgeline to pull our small pop-up trailer. It has been good to us but we have outgrown both. We also hope to take (or drag) my grandparents along in the future.
Please post pics of your setup when you have some spare time. It sounds like you are where I want to be at with the setup.
I thought that the only factory rear buckets in an express were in the 2002 LT, which was a single year run as gm tried something different. You could get a 6 passenger 3 rows of buckets.....or other combinations.
Other than that, you are looking at an upfitter model, like Starcraft or something.
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Jean, the second of seven children, was born in a tent in a logging camp, on August 1, 1927 in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Arthur and Alpha Ballentine. She married Arlin E. Burton on August 9, 1969 in Orosi, California. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was an excellent cook and was known for her potato flake rolls.
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While exploring Heppner in search of the perfect place for Laurie and Sean’s first look, we discovered just how beautiful the town is from above. So once Laurie was ready, we set out to into the hills. One thing we did not expect was just how windy eastern Oregon is! We got Sean in place and as Laurie stepped out of the car, her veil instantly starting flying!
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During dinner Laurie and Sean were showered with toasts and a very special musical performance by her uncle. The expressions on both Laurie and Sean’s face showed just how much they appreciated all the love that was being shown them.
Once dinner was over it was time for dancing. Their first dance was lit by the warm golden sunset as their family and friends gathered around to watch.
After hours of dancing, singing and laughing, the party began to wind down and Laurie and Sean were whisked away in a limo, still glowing from all of love shown them throughout the day. | 2019-04-21T06:40:06Z | https://blog.kissickweddings.com/oregon-wedding-laurie-sean/ |
The computer glitch could jeopardize thousands of holiday flights.
Are you traveling this holiday season? If you're taking an American Airlines flight on or around Christmas, you might not be—even despite your best efforts. A glitch in the airline's computer system mistakenly allowed all its pilots to take time off during the high season around Christmas, and thousands of flights could be disrupted as a result.
As ABC's Sam Sweeny reports, American Airlines is attempting to rectify the situation by offering time and a half for pilots who agree to fly.
BREAKING: American Airlines says computer glitch allowed all pilots to take vacation over Christmas week. Now union says thousands of flights are in jeopardy of cancellation. Americans says they’re offering 1.5x pay for pilots to fill in and expect to resolve the issue.
Potential flightpocalypse isn't the only potential wide-ranging disruption looming over the coming holiday season. UPS aircraft mechanics, who help ferry the bulk of the holiday Amazon deluge, are threatening a strike due to reductions in healthcare benefits.
It's not too late to just cancel Christmas this year. We'll probably all be better off without the travel and Amazon packages anyway.
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Recently I got boxster 1999, 2.7 l.
Until now, I can only unlock the door from inside by pressing dash button.
2. Pull inner door handle again to open the door.
Is there micro switch or other things in inner door handle which unlock the door?
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The inner door handle is mechanically linked to the door latch by a cable, so the microswitch only comes into play regarding the window drop.
So with two pulls, the door doesn't open? What about the passenger door?
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She’s been in 63 films, 259 television shows and four Broadways shows and veteran actress Jenifer Lewis shows no signs of slowing down.
At 56-years-old, Lewis said she’s finally learned to keep her career in perspective – celebrating the great times and not focusing on the missteps.
The Kinloch, Mo.-bred talent – who was supposed to play Effie White in the original “Dreamgirls” musical but was replaced by Jennifer Holliday – said she’s humbled to have such a storied career.
“As artists we think you’re never going to work again when the job is done. But I do live in the moment. I couldn’t even tell you about the press conference [I did earlier]. If you’re happy in the moment of your life, I don’t care what they say; I don’t care what they write. I’m 56, I don’t give a f—k what yall write about me no more. Why is that? Because I know who I am,” she declared.
Lewis, who has starred in films like “Think Like A Man,” “Hereafter,” “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and both installments of “Sister Act,” said that working with producer/director David E. Talbert in her latest film “Baggage Claim” was a wonderful experience.
Lewis said she didn’t have to audition for the role, but instead met with the filmmaker about the part over a meal.
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“What David gave me in this film was a true arc to my character. Every character has an arc but this meant so much because Catherine came out of the gate so desperate and dysfunctional. When you’re not really paying attention to what you children are saying to you, there’s something deeply wrong, especially from a woman who has been married five times herself,” she explained.
In a candid conversation at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, Lewis also talks about her bipolar disorder, whether her popular film “Jackie’s Back” could become a television series and whether she still has a dream role after all of this time. Listen to the audio from our interview below. “Baggage Claim” is in theaters now.
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Australia has a Gene Technology Act of 2000, implemented by the Gene Technology Regulations of 2001, which would dictate whether the use of modified microorganisms for biofuel production would require a license. The Act and regulations established the Gene Technology Regulator (GTR) as the central office that administers the Act. The GTR plays the key role in assessing, regulating and licensing GMOs and enforcing license conditions. The Gene Technology Act defines gene technology as any technique for the modification of genes or other genetic material, although there is an exception for “homologous recombination” that appears quite narrow.
The most important features of the Gene Technology Regulations are the clarification of procedures for licensing certain uses of GMOs (activities involving GMOs are referred to by the term “Dealings”). The regulations also provide for the establishment of “exempt dealings”, which are a category of dealings with GMOs that have been assessed over time as posing a very low risk. As listed on the GTR website, exempt dealings primarily include contained research activities involving very well understood organisms, and although many industrially-useful host organisms appear on this list, the list does not include any algae or cyanobacteria. Of the dealings requiring a license, a distinction is made between those involving a deliberate release of a GMO into the environment, and those that do not, with the latter being referred to as a DNIR (“dealing not involving release”). Applicants for either type of license are required to submit certain information to the GTR, which is then used to prepare a risk assessment and risk management plan, which forms the basis for the GTR’s decision.
One interesting feature of the Australian Gene Technology Regulations is that, in order to qualify to have confidential information protected in any submitted application, companies must submit a separate application to the GTR to obtain a “declaration that specified information is confidential commercial information”. This application would be submitted and considered by the GTR in parallel with the license application that contains the confidential information, and the application must also specify exactly what information in the license application is claimed as confidential. The needed form can be obtained from the GTR website, but the website does not appear to specify the timeframes for GTR decisions on claims of confidentiality.
“DNIR” Licenses would be required for certain contained uses of GMOs under Australian law. Although most DNIR licenses granted to date cover laboratory research involving potentially pathogenic organisms, the industrial use of a modified microorganism for fuel or chemical production would potentially require a license. However, many common industrial production organisms such as E. coli, S. cerevisiae and others are included on the “exempt list”, so that their use may not require a DNIR license. However, use of modified algae or cyanobacteria for industrial purposes would not be covered by an exemption and would likely require a DNIR license from the GTR. The GTR website has links to the application forms, and the form for application for a DNIR license can be downloaded here. The application form is quite detailed, although the scientific information it requires is similar to the information that would be submitted to the U.S. EPA in a Microbial Commercial Activity Notice, which were summarized in one of my 2010 posts.
Procedures for review of DNIR license applications are specified on the GTR website. All license applications must first be reviewed and approved by an Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). The law and regulations specify requirements for such committees, and it appears that to meet such requirements, applicants would need to use an IBC in Australia. Once submitted the GTR has 90 working days to review the application, and its review may include consultation with outside experts and/or the Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee. A formal Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plan (RARMP) may be needed, , and public involvement may be sought (although these do not seem to be required for DNIR applications as would be for proposals for deliberate releases). Although there do not seem to be any precedents for DNIR licenses granted for industrial manufacturing, it is likely that the process would be fairly straightforward, provided the applicant consulted with the GTR prior to preparing and submitting its application.
The possible use of modified algae or cyanobacteria in an open-pond or similar type of outdoor reactor would likely require a “DIR” (Dealing Involving Release”) license from the GTR. Procedures for review of DIR license applications are, in many respects, similar to that described above for DNIR licenses, and are specified on the GTR website. One major difference is that the GTR is afforded a greater amount of time to review DIR applications – up to 255 working days (essentially one full calendar year) for most applications or 150-170 working days for limited and controlled release applications.
“Limited and controlled releases” is a category created by Article 50A of the Gene Technology Act, that is meant to cover outdoor activities with GMOs for research purposes, in which the applicant intends to implement controls to restrict the dissemination or persistence of the GMO and its genetic material in the environment and to impose limits on the proposed release of the GMO in the activity (“controls” and “limits” are both defined in the Act). The category primarily covers research field tests of agricultural GMOs, and most of the “Limited and Controlled” licenses that have been issued to date have been for field tests of transgenic plants. It appears likely that this category of license would be available for any proposed use of a modified algae in a pilot plant and possibly also in larger demonstration-scale plants.
Regardless of whether the DIR application qualifies as a “limited and controlled” application, it would undergo a rigorous review by the GTR, through what the GTR website calls “a comprehensive, science-based, case-by-case analysis process” as described in Sections 48 – 67 of the Gene Technology Act. The Act also establishes a clear process that the GTR must follow in preparing a the RARMP risk assessment document (which is required for DIR applications) and in making a decision about whether or not to issue a license. In addition, the GTR will notify and solicit opinions about the proposal from a broad range of stakeholders, including the public, state, territorial and local governments, other national agencies including the Ministry of the Environment, and the Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee.
The GTR appears to have little or no experience with license applications for any industrial application resembling an open-pond algae reactor, and so prior consultation with the GTR would be very important. It would also make sense to make use of the “limited and controlled” license process by beginning with an application for a smaller-scale (e.g. pilot-scale) reactor, so that the GTR could assess the potential environmental impact of the technology in a stepwise manner, and so the data and experience from small-scale use can be used in support of larger-scale activities.
The following is a brief summary of aquaculture regulations in Australia and how they may apply to industrial uses of algae or cyanobacteria. This is necessarily a very brief overview, meant to convey general guidance as to what applicants might expect in the country. More detailed information is available at the websites linked below, particularly including the very useful Fact Sheets maintained for individual countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which can all be accessed at http://www.fao.org/fishery/nalo/search/en.
Under the Australian Constitution, responsibility for regulation of aquatic resources is shared by the central Australian Government and the individual state and territory governments. Specifically, each state or territory has primary responsibility for management of land and waters within its their boundaries as well as management of its inland and coastal waters out to the three nautical mile limit. The Australian Government has the responsibility for management of marine waters between the three and two hundred nautical mile limits. However, as summarized in the FAO page for Australia and a 2004 report commissioned by the government, there is no national legislation specific for fisheries or aquaculture, although there may be applicable provisions of general national environmental laws. So the most relevant legislation and regulations will lie with individual state or territorial governments.
As these two references report, all of these regional governments have laws that cover commercial fisheries or aquaculture. However, many of these laws either do not define “aquaculture” or define it more narrowly to apply only to fisheries, and so many of these laws would arguably not apply to industrial uses of algae. However, in South Australia, which is reported to be the state with the largest aquaculture industry, the applicable definition is broad enough to encompass algae. In the South Australia Aquaculture Act (2001, as amended in 2003 and 2005), aquaculture is defined to mean “farming of aquatic organisms for the purposes of trade or business or research, but does not include an activity declared by regulation not to be aquaculture.” Note that “aquatic organism” is defined to mean “an aquatic organism of any species, and includes the reproductive products and body parts of an aquatic organism”. Also, the term “farming of aquatic organisms” means “an organized rearing process involving propagation or regular stocking or feeding of the organisms or protection of the organisms from predators or other similar intervention in the organisms’ natural life cycles”.
In the state of South Australia, aquaculture activities must be licensed by the state government. Licenses are only granted if the area to be used for aquaculture is subject to a lease, which may or may not be controlled by the entity applying for the license.
According to transportpolicy.net, fuel quality in Australia is regulated by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, under the Fuel Quality Standards Act (2000) and the Fuel Quality Standards Regulations (2001). This agency has set both environmental standards and operability standards for fuels, with the standards for diesel and gasoline conforming with international standards such as those of the ASTM. There is also a biodiesel standard that is derived from international standards. Fuel producers and sellers are required to document that their fuels are in compliance with standards, and although the agency’s website calls this “industry self-regulation”, a company’s documentation of compliance are subject to investigation by regulators.
Australia does not appear to have a national ethanol mandate (i.e. there are no minimum ethanol levels) and ethanol content in gasoline is limited to 10%, but there are applicable laws in certain Australian states. The state of New South Wales has a 4% blending mandate, although at one point it was contemplated that this would be raised to 6%. The state of Queensland was to have adopted a 5% mandate, scheduled to take effect in 2010 or 2011, but this has been put on hold due to interest group opposition. Similarly, although there is no national biodiesel mandate, the state of New South Wales maintains a B2 mandate.
This blog entry describes the possible ways in which uses of algae or cyanobacteria for fuel or chemical production might be regulated in China. This entry is one of several posts that provide additional information in support of a poster I’m presenting at the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit on the regulations in various countries around the world that may be applicable to the use of naturally-occurring or genetically modified algae or cyanobacteria in fuel production. These include three general categories of regulation: biotechnology or biosafety regulations, aquaculture regulations, and renewable fuel standards or volume mandates. You can access the poster on my SlideShare site, and please refer back to my September 16 introductory post for links to posts on the regulatory situation in other countries. Although this discussion centers on algae and cyanobacteria, much of the discussion (other than the section on aquaculture) would be applicable to the use of other genetically modified microorganisms for production of fuel or chemicals.
China is a signatory to the Cartagena Protocol, and has implemented a range of biotechnology laws and regulations, with most coming since 2001. Most if not all of these are directed at agricultural biotechnology, in particular to the importation and use of transgenic plants and other agricultural products destined for release into the environment. Although written with a focus on agricultural biotechnology, some of the provisions of the governing law and its regulations potentially cover contained industrial uses, so the following discussion will highlight relevant language potentially applicable both to contained uses and open-environment uses of algae or cyanobacteria in fuel or chemical manufacture.
In particular, initial law and regulations were enacted in 1993 and 1996, respectively, but these provisions were repealed or overruled by new regulations adopted in 2001 and 2002. What is confusing is that the latter documents seem to quite explicitly limit their definitions and applicability to organisms “for use in agricultural production or processing”, and are written with the cycle of agricultural field testing in mind. To an observer outside of China and unfamiliar with its legal system, this begs the question of what law or regulation would cover the use of a modified algae or cyanobacteria, or other microorganism intended for use in an industrial setting, with no application to agriculture. The following discussion will focus on the terms found in the original rules from the 1990s, which perhaps have been superseded by the 2001/2002 rules.
According to Huang and Yang (2011), China’s first biosafety regulation, “Measures for Safety Administration of Genetic Engineering,” was issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in 1993. This regulation consisted of general principles, safety categories, risk evaluation, application and approval, safety control measures, and legal responsibilities. It has been implemented by a series of regulations starting in 1996, mostly all of which pertain to agricultural GMOs, but the following excerpts of the original 1993 law seem to apply to “contained uses”.
Safety class I: genetic engineering work of this class has no threat to human health and ecological environment.
Safety class II: genetic engineering work of this class has low‑level risk to human health and ecological environment.
Safety class III: genetic engineering work of this class has intermediate-level risk to human health and ecological environment.
Safety class IV: genetic engineering work of this class has high‑level risk to human health and ecological environment.
The 1993 law has general provisions in two of its chapters which relate either to (contained) industrial uses or to open-environment uses of GMOs.
3. The “Implementation Regulation” is applicable to agricultural organisms whose genome constitution has been changed by using genetic engineering technologies. The scope of agricultural organism includes plants and animals related to agricultural production, plant-related microorganisms, veterinary microorganisms, aquatic animals and plants.
The applicability of this definition to industrial microorganisms like E. coli or yeast may be ambiguous, but the inclusion of “aquatic animals and plants” may mean that algae or marine cyanobacteria might be covered as well.
Finally, Appendix V of the 1996 regulations provides principles for safety assessments of “Genetic Engineered Organism and Its Products Acquired from Aquatic Animal and Plant,” although the regulations do not specify what types of organisms would be considered “aquatic”.
It is hard to know if, under these initial rules, the jurisdiction of the Agriculture Ministry would extend to non-agricultural industrial uses of microorganisms. The Biosafety Clearing-House web page for China indicates that the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Agriculture are the competent national authorities for implementation of the Cartagena Protocol. The entry for the Environment ministry indicates that its jurisdiction includes “bacteria”, but it is not clear what exactly this ministry’s role may be in such oversight, since most of the regulatory documents available on this site and elsewhere pertain to agricultural activities under the purview of the Ministry of Agriculture. In fact, the 2001/2002 rules make it even more explicit that the Agriculture Ministry has primary responsibility over agricultural GMOs.
Although it seems unclear whether GMOs intended for contained manufacturing would be covered under the current regulations, it does seem clear that import of a GMO into China would require government approval. The relevant agency is the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), and applicants proposing to import a GMO into China must apply in advance to this agency and provide information about the organism as required on the application form.
Applicants wishing to use a GMO in manufacturing in China should therefore make early contact with AQSIQ regarding importation requirements, and also to consult with both the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to understand which agency would have authority over the proposed use, whether a permit application would be needed, and if so what the applicable requirements would be. It is possible that some of the required approvals may take several months, if not 1-2 years in some cases, so early consultation with these agencies, through a Chinese corporate partner or attorney, would be recommended.
Although not explicit, it would be prudent to assume that any proposed open-environment use of a modified algae or cyanobacteria would need to go through the same regulatory procedures as for agricultural microorganisms or plants. These are largely described in the 2002 document “Implementation Regulations on Safety Assessment of Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms”. These regulations require institutions to conduct appropriate safety assessments for submission to an Office of Biosafety Administration (OBA) within the Agriculture Ministry. The regulations also assume that projects will proceed in the stepwise field testing method that is typical for agricultural product development, and approvals would be needed at each successively-larger field use. The Implementation Regulations include a series of detailed appendices describing the necessary components of risk assessments for the different uses potentially covered under the rules.
This is a very, very brief summary of the 67-page 2002 document. Suffice it to say that it is likely that open-pond uses of modified algae would be subject to the regulatory procedures set up in China for review of agricultural field tests and commercialization.
The following is a brief summary of aquaculture regulations in China and how they may apply to industrial uses of algae or cyanobacteria. This is necessarily a very brief overview, meant to convey general guidance as to what applicants might expect in the country. More detailed information is available at the websites linked below, particularly including the very useful Fact Sheets maintained for individual countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which can all be accessed at http://www.fao.org/fishery/nalo/search/en.
The applicable law in China is the Fisheries Law (1986, as amended in 2000), whose goal is to enhance the production, increase, development and reasonable utilization of the nation’s fishery resources. It requires the adoption of policies to promote the simultaneous development of aquaculture, fishing and processing, with special emphasis on aquaculture. The Law is implemented by the Regulation for the Implementation of the Fisheries Law (1987).
Neither the law nor the regulations define “aquaculture”, so their applicability to algae or marine cyanobacteria is not clear. Chapter III, Articles 10-13, of the regulations cover aquaculture, and require “state and collectively-owned units engaged in aquaculture using state-owned water surfaces and tidal flats [to] apply to the people’s governments at or above the county level for licenses”. The regulations also require the protection of “natural spawning, breeding or feeding grounds of fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish and algae” and prohibit their use as aquaculture grounds.
Due to uncertainty over the applicability of these regulations to uses of algae or cyanobacteria, early consultation with local partners or attorneys, or with the applicable government agency, would be recommended.
According to transportpolicy.net, fuel quality standards in China are issued by the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) under the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). There are nationwide standards for gasoline and diesel that generally follow European precedent. There appear to be obligations for fuel producers and sellers to conduct testing to ensure that their fuels comply with the standards.
China does not have an ethanol mandate or a national biodiesel mandate, but reportedly there are ten provinces having an E10 mandate for ethanol.
This blog entry describes the possible ways in which uses of algae or cyanobacteria for fuel or chemical production might be regulated in Japan. This entry is one of several posts that provide additional information in support of a poster I’m presenting at the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit on the regulations in various countries around the world that may be applicable to the use of naturally-occurring or genetically modified algae or cyanobacteria in fuel production. These include three general categories of regulation: biotechnology or biosafety regulations, aquaculture regulations, and renewable fuel standards or volume mandates. You can access the poster on my SlideShare site, and please refer back to my September 16 introductory post for links to posts on the regulatory situation in other countries. Although this discussion centers on algae and cyanobacteria, much of the discussion (other than the section on aquaculture) would be applicable to the use of other genetically modified microorganisms for production of fuel or chemicals.
5. In this Law, “Type 1 Use” shall mean use not subject to taking the measures provided for in the following paragraph.
6. In this Law, “Type 2 Use” shall mean use undertaken with the intention of preventing the dispersal of living modified organisms into the air, water or soil outside facilities, equipment or other structures (hereinafter “Facilities”) in accordance with measures specifying this fact or other measures stipulated in the ordinance of the competent ministries.
Therefore, any proposed use of modified algae or cyanobacteria in contained manufacturing would likely be considered as a Type 2 Use, while open-pond use would be considered as a Type 1 Use. The regulatory requirements for approvals for these two categories of use have been set forth in a series of other regulatory documents, as described below.
The provisions governing Type 2 (Contained) Uses are covered in Chapter 2, Section 2 (Articles 12-15) of Law No. 97. These articles contain general provisions specifying that appropriate containment procedures must be put in place, and specifying procedures to be implemented in the event of an accidental release of an organism.
To implement Law 97, the government adopted “Regulations related to the Enforcement of the Law concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity through Regulations on the Use of Living Modified Organisms”. Article 40(3) of these Regulations specify which “competent ministers” have responsibility for Type 2 Uses, either for R&D or commercial purposes. Jurisdiction for R&D is more clear: under subparagraph (i) of this Article, either the Minister of Education, Science and Technology or the Minister of the Environment would have jurisdiction over Type 2 R&D Uses. Subparagraph (ii) of this Article covers activities other than R&D, and specifies that the competent minister depends on who “has jurisdiction over the undertakings performed by persons who make of the Type 2 Use, along with the Minister of the Environment”. Presumably this means that the Minister with jurisdiction would be the Minister ordinarily responsible for the type of commercial activity to which biotechnology is to be applied, with additional responsibility assigned to the Minister of the Environment. As discussed below, it is possible that uses of modified marine microorganisms (algae or cyanobacteria) would fall under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF).
Japanese regulatory law is structured via a series of hierarchical regulations, such that the procedures applicable to commercial Type 2 Uses are further governed by another document, “The Ministerial Ordinance Providing Containment Measures to Be Taken in the Industrial Use of Type 2 Use of Living Modified Organisms” (there is also an equivalent document for Type 2 R&D Uses). The “Ministerial Ordinance” goes into more specific detail about appropriate containment provisions for microorganisms, plants and animals. For microorganisms, the procedures required for the lowest risk category generally correspond to Good Industrial Large Scale Practice (GILSP). The Ministerial Ordinance also includes the application form needed to be submitted to the competent minister. This is “Form 1”, which asks for information about the LMO and its properties and the measures to be adopted to ensure containment. These data provisions appear to be equivalent to those in place in other countries around the world.
MAFF issued a regulation in 2000 entitled “Guidelines for Application of Recombinant DNA Organisms in Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, The Food Industry and Other Related Industries”. Under this regulation, microalgae are considered to be microorganisms, and the provisions for “production processes using rDNA microorganisms” (i.e. contained uses) are similar to those described above, in that the applicant is responsible for assigning a risk category to the organism and adopting appropriate procedures for the organism’s use. Since these regulations preceded adoption of Law No. 97 in 2003, it is not clear to what extent they are still applicable.
It is not clear whether there have been any Type 2 Use applications in Japan for commercial activities outside of the pharmaceutical field. While the applicable procedures and data requirements appear straightforward, given the intricacies of the Japanese legal and regulatory system, it would naturally be advisable for foreign companies to work with a Japanese partner and/or attorney, and to hold early discussions with the applicable regulatory agencies in advance of any submission.
The provisions governing Type 1 (Non-Contained) Uses are covered in Chapter 2, Section 1 (Articles 4-11) of Law No. 97. These articles contain general provisions pertaining to the procedures to follow to apply for approval for a Type 1 Use and the types of information that needs to be included in any such application. In addition, Article 4(2) of the Law requires that all applicants for Type 1 Uses must “assess the [potential] adverse effect on biological diversity caused by the Type 1 Use,” by completing and submitting to the applicable government ministry a “Biological Diversity Risk Assessment Report”. The Law also provides for the possible consultation with appropriate outside experts. Otherwise, the provisions of the Law relating to the requirements for approvals of Type 1 Uses are quite general, and as is the case with the Type 2 regulations, the more specific provisions are spelled out in the additional documents in the regulatory hierarchy.
In the case of Type 1 Uses, most of the relevant information is included in the “Regulations related to the Enforcement of the Law concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity through Regulations on the Use of Living Modified Organisms” that was discussed above. In fact, this Regulation (in Articles 7 and 8) includes the specific information that is needed to apply for permission for a Type 1 Use application, and includes as an appendix the form needed to make such an application (Form No. 1). These Regulations also specify which “competent ministers” have responsibility for Type 1 Uses. According to Article 40(1), jurisdiction for R&D would fall either to the Minister of Education, Science and Technology or the Minister of the Environment, and for activities other than R&D, the competent minister would be the one “who had jurisdiction over the production or circulation of the living modified organisms”, along with the Minister of the Environment”. These requirements are stated similarly to those for Type 2 Uses discussed above. As mentioned, uses of modified marine microorganisms (algae or cyanobacteria) would likely fall under the jurisdiction of MAFF.
Although the “Regulations related to the Enforcement” includes the application form needed to apply for Type 1 approvals, one additional document includes further information relevant to such applications. This document is “The Guidance of Implementation of Assessment of Adverse Effect on Biological Diversity of Type 1 Use of Living Modified Organisms,” and in Sections 2 and 3 and Tables 1 and 2 of this guidance document, there are detailed lists of the information and data needed to create the “Biological Diversity Risk Assessment Report” that is required under the Law.
Under the MAFF regulation from 2000 discussed above, algae would be considered as microorganisms, and the regulation specifies that “application of rDNA microorganisms in an open system” must proceed in a stepwise manner, with applicants first conducting a safety evaluation in a laboratory, followed by testing in an artificial microcosm before seeking approval for outdoor use. Again, it is not clear to what extent this regulation is still applicable in view of the legislative and regulatory actions which were adopted after its promulgation.
It is likely that most or all the precedents for review and approval of Type 1 Uses of GMOs in Japan have been for field tests of transgenic plants. So it is hard to predict how the regulatory process would proceed for a proposed use of a GMO algae in an open-pond or similar reactor. As always, early consultation with the appropriate regulatory agency and/or Japanese partner(s) or attorneys would be advised.
The following is a brief summary of aquaculture regulations in Japan and how they may apply to industrial uses of algae or cyanobacteria. This is necessarily a very brief overview, meant to convey general guidance as to what applicants might expect in the country. More detailed information is available at the websites linked below, particularly including the very useful Fact Sheets maintained for individual countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which can all be accessed at http://www.fao.org/fishery/nalo/search/en.
According to the FAO page devoted to Japan, the primary law that regulates fishery activities is the Fisheries Law (1949, as revised in 1962), which is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF). However, in practice many responsibilities have been delegated to the prefecture governments. Within MAFF, the Fisheries Agency (FA) would be the primary agency with responsibility for aquaculture. According to the FAO site, there is no legal definition of aquaculture. However, the Fisheries Law defines fishery as “an industry which carries on gathering, taking or culturing of aquatic animals and plants”. It is not clear if this definition would include aquatic microorganisms like algae or marine cyanobacteria.
Marine waters in Japan are divided into a number of sea areas for administrative purposes, and for the most part each sea area corresponds to the maritime zone of one of the coastal prefectures. Presumably, activities within such zones would be governed by the prefecture rather than the central government. As explained in more detail on the FAO page, the Fisheries Law created three principal categories of fishery rights, and of these, the category known as “demarcated fishery rights” are said to be applicable to pond aquaculture activities that occupy a defined and fixed site. To the extent the Fisheries Law applies to algae, it would seem that most potential uses of algae in aquaculture might fall under this category. These rights are granted by the prefecture governments, through the involvement of Fisheries Cooperative Associations (FCAs) which have been created to have responsibility for particular geographical areas and whose membership are local fishermen.
The applicability of these provisions to algae or cyanobacteria are not clear. Consultation with MAFF or with partner institutions in Japan would seem to be advisable before planning activities with modified algae or cyanobacteria in that country.
The regulatory body in Japan with authority over fuels is the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the governing law is the Law on the Quality Control of Gasoline and Other Fuels (the “Fuel Quality Control Law”: Japanese language version available here). According to the Japan transportpolicy.net site for diesel and gasoline, Within METI, the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy is in charge of enforcing the quality of gasoline, diesel and kerosene sold on the market through the authority of the Fuel Quality Control Law, and this law also established mandatory specifications for ten gasoline properties and three diesel properties. Although METI conducts its own fuel sampling and testing, refiners and importers are reportedly required to conduct their own tests of fuel quality.
Japan does not appear to have any ethanol mandate, but there are laws relating to biodiesel. There are two quality standards for biodiesel fuels in Japan: a mandatory standard specified in the Law on the Quality Control of Gasoline and Other Fuels, which allows up to 5% biodiesel, and a voluntary Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS). The Ministry of the Environment apparently has a regulatory role over the biodiesel standards.
This blog entry describes the possible ways in which uses of algae or cyanobacteria for fuel or chemical production might be regulated in Brazil. This entry is one of several posts that provide additional information in support of a poster I’m presenting at the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit on the regulations in various countries around the world that may be applicable to the use of naturally-occurring or genetically modified algae or cyanobacteria in fuel production. These include three general categories of regulation: biotechnology or biosafety regulations, aquaculture regulations, and renewable fuel standards or volume mandates. You can access the poster on my SlideShare site, and please refer back to my September 16 introductory post for links to posts on the regulatory situation in other countries. Although this discussion centers on algae and cyanobacteria, much of the discussion (other than the section on aquaculture) would be applicable to the use of other genetically modified microorganisms for production of fuel or chemicals.
Brazil has ratified the Cartagena Protocol and has been active in oversight over agricultural and industrial biotechnology. Brazil has a national biosafety law (Law No. 11,105 of March 24, 2005, available here in either English or Portuguese). The law creates a national regulatory framework administered by the Biosafety National Technical Committee (Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança, known by its Portuguese acronym CTNBio), and the National Biosafety Council (CNBS), with the involvement of the Ministries of Health, Environment and Agriculture, the Special Secretariat of Agriculture and Fishery, and other agencies. CTNBio is a 27-member committee comprised of technical representatives from across the Brazilian government. The CTNBio website, in Portuguese but with some links to English pages, can be found here.
Regulations implementing Law No. 11,105 were put in place by Decree No. 5591 of November 22, 2005. The Law and its regulations require that companies wishing to conduct commercial activities using GMOs or to test or use GM plants in the environment must seek the approval of CTNBio. Specifically, the Law requires approval for any activities involving the “cultivation, production, handling, transport, transfer, commercialization, import, export, storage, consumption, release and disposal of GMOs and their derivatives for commercial purposes.” Thus, unlike some national regulatory frameworks that are largely restricted to covering outdoor use of GMO plants, it is clear that the Law covers not only contained manufacturing but also the importation of GMO strains into Brazil.
Under the Brazilian framework, all applications for use or importation of GMOs and for the registration of facilities for use with GMOs would be submitted to CTNBio. Decisions would be made by CTNBio, although the Law allows CTNBio to request that the CNBS render a separate decision on commercial requests “with regard to the desirability, suitability in social and economic terms, and the national interest”. The Law also provides for public comment on proposed approvals. Once CTNBio gives a positive decision on an application, the needed authorizations are issued by the applicable government agencies: the Ministry of Agriculture, Farming and Food Supply for activities involving animals, in agriculture, farming, and agroindustry; the Ministry of Health for activities relating to human and pharmacological use, and in household cleaning products and related areas; the Ministry of the Environment for activities with GMOs which are to be released into natural ecosystems, or for GMOs that are judged to potentially be a cause of significant degradation of the environment; and the Special Secretariat for Aquaculture and Fisheries for proposed activities in fishing and aquaculture.
It appears that CTNBio’s review period for all applications under the Law is 120 days, but that the committee can extend the review period by up to 180 days. It is likely that all documents would need to be submitted to CTNBio in Portuguese, although this is not explicitly stated in the regulations. Confidential information would be protected, but it appears that CTNBio must first provide public notice of its intent to protect company confidential information. In addition, institutions using or conducting research on GMOs in Brazil are required to establish internal biosafety committees to oversee this work.
Proposed uses of modified algae or cyanobacteria in contained manufacturing would likely require multiple approvals under the regulations. Not only would the proposed use need to be approved, but any laboratory or manufacturing facilities within Brazil would need to be reviewed and approved by CTNBio, and if the production strains were imported into the country that would likely require its own approval.
There are precedents in Brazil for prior approvals for industrial biotechnology activities. These are two applications that were filed by Amyris for the use of genetically modified strains of S. cerevisiae (yeast) for the production of farnesene for fuel and chemical use. These applications each appear to have been approved by CTNBio within a review period of several months, following submission by the company of a fairly detailed dossier describing the organisms, their construction and proposed use, and a risk assessment of the proposed commercial application. Interestingly, it was determined that, following CTNBio approval, the permit would be issued and administered by the Ministry of Health – there is an explanation in the summary document accompanying this decision, indicating that the decision had to do with the “green” nature of the product. It is not known if this would create a precedent for applications from other industrial biotechnology companies to be treated in the same way.
The provisions of Brazilian law and regulation have been written broadly enough so as to specify the needed procedures for any industrial use of GMOs, whether contained or in the open environment. There is quite a bit of precedent in Brazil for review and approval of environmental use of transgenic plants in agriculture, with applications reviewed by CTNBio as described above. All the “commercial approvals” for outdoor use of GMOs on the CTNBio website are all for transgenic crop plants and none appear to involve modified microorganisms.
A proposal to use genetically modified algae or cyanobacteria in an open-pond reactor would presumably follow a similar regulatory path, although it would seem likely that the Ministry of the Environment would be the entity issuing the permit for an open-pond use, after review and approval by CTNBio. However, it is interesting that the Law explicitly provides for a different governing agency (the Special Secretariat for Aquaculture and Fisheries) for applications involving aquaculture, and it is not clear if this agency would have priority for an application involving modified marine algae. This may depend on whether algae would fall under applicable definitions of “aquaculture” – a question which seems somewhat unclear, as is discussed in the next section.
The following is a brief summary of aquaculture regulations in Brazil and how they may apply to industrial uses of algae or cyanobacteria. This is necessarily a very brief overview, meant to convey general guidance as to what applicants might expect in the country. More detailed information is available at the websites linked below, particularly including the very useful Fact Sheets maintained for individual countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which can all be accessed at http://www.fao.org/fishery/nalo/search/en.
The Special Secretariat for Aquaculture and Fisheries (Secretaria Especial de Aqüicultura e Pesca – SEAP) is the main authority for the management and development of fisheries and aquaculture in Brazil, although there may also be applicable state laws. However, according to Brazil’s FAO summary page, the legislative authority for this oversight is “fragmented” and so it is not always easy to identify the governing definitions. In particular, the federal Fisheries Code apparently does not specifically define aquaculture. But the FAO summary page says that applicable definitions are often found in secondary legislation. For example, Decree No.4,895 of 2003 describes aquaculture as the cultivation or breeding of organisms, whose life cycle develops, in natural conditions, totally or partially in an aquatic environment. Similarly, SEAP Normative Instruction No.3 of 2004 regards aquaculture as the cultivation, breeding or holding in captivity, with commercial purposes, of organisms whose life cycle develops, in natural conditions, totally or partially in an aquatic environment. Based on these definitions, it is possible that commercial cultivation of algae or cyanobacteria in open waterways would fall under national legislation, and would require authorization of some kind from SEAP. Commercial algae projects might also require environmental impact assessments under Brazil’s Environmental Policy Act.
Brazil has the longest-standing national program to promote the use of ethanol in motor vehicle fuel. This national program, which dates back to 1975, not only mandated ethanol use in automotive fuel, but also provided for the infrastructure needed to support such use, including incentives for producing ethanol-powered cars and support for upgrading of gasoline stations to accommodate ethanol use. Until recently, Brazilian law mandated that gasoline have a minimum ethanol content of 25%, but this was reduced to 18-20% in 2010 in response to economic pressures. As of May 2013, the minimum blend percentage of 25% was reinstated.
Brazil also has a mandate for 5% blends of biodiesel (“B5” blends), with the goal of reaching B20 by 2020. This was originated as a mandate for 2% blends that was adopted in 2005, and the current B5 mandate was established in 2009. Current and historical aspects of Brazil’s National Biodiesel Program are summarized in a report available here, and also at the very informative transportpolicy.net Brazil Biofuels page.
Specifications for transportation fuels in Brazil are established by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP—Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis). A summary of the development of the country’s standards for diesel fuel can be found here, and information about biodiesel standards and promotional efforts can be found here. There is also useful information on the transportpolicy.net Brazil Diesel and Gasoline page. As of 2011, ANP was given responsibility for regulating ethanol supplies in fuel, and this agency has set specifications for fuel ethanol.
According to transportpolicy.net, there are no environmental sustainability criteria required to be met by Brazil’s biofuel mandates, nor is there any required consideration of greenhouse gas emission reduction levels or indirect land use change. Perhaps the most significant requirement on fuel producers is that certain testing must be done to ensure that ANP’s fuel specifications are met for any fuel sold in Brazil.
This blog entry describes the possible ways in which uses of algae or cyanobacteria for fuel or chemical production might be regulated in the European Union. This entry is one of several posts that provide additional information in support of a poster I’m presenting at the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit on the regulations in various countries around the world that may be applicable to the use of naturally-occurring or genetically modified algae or cyanobacteria in fuel production. These include three general categories of regulation: biotechnology or biosafety regulations, aquaculture regulations, and renewable fuel standards or volume mandates. You can access the poster on my SlideShare site, and please refer back to my September 16 introductory post for links to posts on the regulatory situation in other countries. Although this discussion centers on algae and cyanobacteria, much of the discussion (other than the section on aquaculture) would be applicable to the use of other genetically modified microorganisms for production of fuel or chemicals.
The discussion of the situation in the European Union is in two parts. This blog entry discusses aquaculture and renewable fuels regulations, and the previous entry discussed biotechnology regulations.
The following is a brief summary of aquaculture regulations in the European Union and how they may apply to industrial uses of algae or cyanobacteria. This is necessarily a very brief overview, meant to convey general guidance as to what applicants might expect in the country. More detailed information is available at the websites linked below, particularly including the very useful Fact Sheets maintained for individual countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which can all be accessed at http://www.fao.org/fishery/nalo/search/en.
The inclusion of “protista” within this definition means that alien or locally absent species of algae would potentially be included. However, since cyanobacteria are prokaryotic, they would not fall within the Protista Kingdom and therefore would arguably not be covered by this definition or this Directive.
Article 6 of the Directive requires member nations to establish procedures by which applicants proposing the introduction of an alien or locally absent species of aquatic organism to obtain a permit from the applicable national regulatory agency. Annex I of the Directive provides guidelines for the information recommended to be submitted to the applicable agency in such permit applications.
In the European Union, the EU-wide directives are meant to be translated into national law in each of the EU member states. There may therefore be some nation-by-nation variability in the specific requirements of these laws, and so it would be advisable for companies contemplating activities in any given EU member state to identify the agency having regulatory authority and to consult with the agency in advance of any introduction of a novel or nonnative strain into the country.
New fuels must meet the requirements of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) to count towards EU renewable target volumes. The RED was put in place to ensure that all the 27 member states of the European Union achieve specified targets for use of renewable fuels and reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across all energy sectors, with specific requirements for the subset of fuels used for transportation. Its companion directive, the FQD, has additional, complementary requirements for GHG reductions within the transport sector. These directives place obligations on EU member states, but also create certain requirements with which developers or producers of renewable fuels must comply in order for their fuels to qualify as “renewable” under the regulations.
The Fuel Quality Directive, EU Directive 2009/30/EC, which amended Directive 98/70/EC, was also adopted on April 23, 2009. It establishes the specifications (standards) for transportation fuels to be used across the EU. The Directive also requires that all fuel suppliers (e.g. oil companies) must meet a 6% reduction of GHG emissions by 2020, relative to 2010 baseline levels, across all fuel categories. This reduction in emissions could be achieved using any low-carbon fuel options, such as hydrogen or electricity, but it is generally expected that the use of biofuels will account for most of the targeted reductions.
Although the obligations in the Directives to meet the specified targets are placed on national governments, these obligations are passed down to the entities that sell fuel to the public, as well as the companies that manufacture or import fuels for eventual sale in the EU. Specifically, there are defined requirements that a fuel and its production pathway must meet in order for the fuel to be considered a “renewable fuel” that qualifies to count towards fulfillment of the targets set in the Directives. The RED specifies that “renewable fuels” are not to be produced from raw materials obtained from land having a “high biodiversity status” or “high carbon content”.
Furthermore, in order for a fuel to be considered as “renewable”, it must show a reduction in GHG emissions over the lifecycle of its production, such that the carbon intensity of the fuel is known and can be applied towards the national targets. The European Commission calculated default carbon intensities for a number of specific biofuel production pathways, which can be found in Annex V of the RED, and these can be used in reporting by regulated entities without providing any additional information to any national government. However, for fuel production pathways not included within this list, carbon intensities must be calculated using acceptable methods for developing life cycle analyses (LCAs).
More importantly, renewable fuels must be produced sustainably: that is, in order for a fuel to be considered as “renewable” under the RED, it must be analyzed and certified to be in compliance with sustainability criteria established in the Directive. The required sustainability analysis incorporates, but goes well beyond, considerations addressed in typical LCAs. There are twelve different factors which must be considered in these analyses, including Local Food Security, Human and Labor Rights, Rural and Social Development, and others including lifecycle GHG emissions. The EU has established a requirement that any proposed scheme or methodology for conducting sustainability analyses under the RED must be certified by the EU before any fuel provider can rely on such a scheme to establish its eligibility. A number of such schemes that have been approved, which are listed here. Fuel producers can conduct these analyses themselves, or have them done by third parties, but in either case the regulations require that the analysis be verified by competent, independent auditors that follow international standards.
Companies that are producing fuels that are included within the “look-up table” within the RED can rely on the carbon intensities specified in the regulations. However, companies developing a new pathway must not only conduct an LCA to establish the carbon intensity but must also have the fuel pathway certified as sustainable.
On October 17, 2012, the European Commission proposed revisions to the RED and the FQD that embody some substantial changes to the EU’s approach to certain biofuels, specifically in proposing to institute incentives for the use of second generation biofuels that are not derived from food crops. This proposal, which has generated significant controversy both within the industry and also from other interested parties, was discussed in a post on my Biofuel Policy Watch blog. After many months of debate and consideration by parliamentary committees, the EU Parliament voted on September 11, 2013 to adopt a revised version of this amendment, which I have described in a new post on Biofuel Policy Watch . This version of the amendment must still be approved by the European Council before it can take effect, which is not expected until sometime in 2014 at the earliest.
The discussion of the situation in the European Union is in two parts. This blog entry discusses biotechnology regulations, and the entry that follows will discuss aquaculture and renewable fuels regulations.
Directive 2009/41/EC, which amended Directive 90/219/EEC and Directive 98/81/EC, on the contained use of genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs). This Directive regulates research and industrial activities involving GMMs under conditions of containment.
Directive 2001/18/EC, which replaced Directive 90/220/EEC, on the deliberate release into the environment of GMOs, which applies to the experimental release of GMOs into the environment, such as in connection with field tests; and the placing on the market of GMOs, for example the cultivation, importation or transformation of GMOs into industrial products, such as the sale of seed to grow GMO plants or the use of products of genetically modified plants in food.
Under the “contained uses” directive, applicants are required to assign a risk level to its organisms, to adopt containment measures appropriate for that risk level, and to notify a designated national agency before beginning operations. However, specific requirements in any given EU nation would be governed by national legislation or regulation adopted in conformance with the EU directive, so that national requirements in any given country may differ from, and may even exceed, the requirements of the EU directive.
‘contained use’ means any activity in which micro-organisms are genetically modified or in which such GMMs [genetically modified microorganisms] are cultured, stored, transported, destroyed, disposed of or used in any other way, and for which specific containment measures are used to limit their contact with, and to provide a high level of safety for, the general population and the environment.
This definition appears to give an applicant proposing to use a GMM in Europe (called a “user” in the directive) a fair amount of leeway in determining that a system or process is “contained”, and what level of containment measures are called for.
Article 4 of the directive requires the user to carry out a risk assessment of the GMM, using considerations set forth in Annex III of the directive. As a result of this assessment, the user would determine which of four containment levels is appropriate for the organism, after which the user would have the requirement to adopt appropriate containment measures in accordance with Annex IV of the directive. These requirements are similar to the U.S. NIH Guidelines and other international biosafety guidelines, and most microorganisms used for fuel or chemical production would qualify to be included within the lowest level of containment, “Containment Level 1”.
Article 6 of the directive requires users to notify the “competent” national authority (i.e., the government agency designated in national legislation as having jurisdiction to enforce the contained use directive) before a facility is to be used with GMMs for the first time. Annex V specifies the information required to be submitted with such notifications, and for Class 1 organisms, the necessary information is fairly minimal.
The EU Contained Use Directive should be viewed as providing general guidance and baseline requirements for member state governments to adopt national regulations for oversight There is at least one recent (and very comprehensive) summary of national legislation under this directive available online – it is a report published in January 2011 by the Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification – it can be downloaded from this site. One example of a national law adopted in conformance with the EU Contained Use Directive is the law adopted in the United Kingdom, described in the portal site accessible here. Briefly, the UK law requires advance notice to the relevant agency before any work with modified microorganisms is to begin, as well as the submission of a risk assessment for the agency’s review.
Article 4 of the Directive establishes that, for any proposed release, the applicant must prepare an environmental risk assessment, including the information specified in Directive, particularly including Annex III. This is a general requirement for any proposed open-environment use of a GMO. The Directive then goes on to specify procedures for review of proposed releases for research purposes (which it calls “deliberate release … for any other purpose than for placing on the market”) in Part B, and procedures for review of applications for commercial use (“placing on the market”) in Part C. In agricultural applications, Part B would apply to all field tests prior to commercialization of a plant or seed product, while Part C would apply to gaining approval for commercialization. For fuel or chemical production, presumably Part B would apply to pilot or even demonstration scale open-pond reactors where no commercial product is produced.
Briefly, under Part B, applicants proposing R&D use or other noncommercial use of a GMO must notify the appropriate national agency and provide a dossier including the environmental risk assessment and a plan to monitor the proposed use in order to identify any potential adverse effects occurring as a result of the use. The competent agency has a defined period of time, generally 90 days, to make its decision, and the agency may provide the public with notice of the proposal and the opportunity to comment. The proposed use can only go forward upon receipt of written consent from the agency having jurisdiction. National governments are required to report to the European Commission and to other member states the approvals it gives for applications under Part B. Although the public and all EU member states have the ability to comment on any such actions, all decision-making authority rests with the applicable agency in the country where the research activity is to take place.
Part C requires applicants to submit notifications to the competent authority in the EU member state where the GMO is to be placed on the market for the first time. In the context of the use of modified microorganisms or algae to produce fuel or chemicals, it may be worth noting that the definition of “placing on the market” is “making available to third parties, whether in return for payment or free of charge,” and that the notification requirement applies “before a GMO or a combination of GMOs as or in products is placed on the market.” One can argue that a GMO used to produce a product is not itself “placed on the market,” but it would be advisable to review the language of applicable national laws, and/or consult with legal counsel, to determine how a proposed use would be regulated in the applicable country. It is hard to imagine that most European countries would allow commercial use of a GMO algae or cyanobacteria, in open-environment production, without following the procedures of Part C of the Directive.
Under Part C, the agency receiving the applicant’s notification dossier has a specified period of time to prepare a formal “assessment report” which includes its decision on whether or not to allow the GMO to be placed on the market. The assessment report is to be provided to the applicant, and then to the European Commission, which will share it with the other EU member states. Decisions on approvals for commercial use, which would apply throughout the EU, are subject to comments and “reasoned objections” from other member states, and the Directive includes provisions for how to deal with any such objections that have been raised. The Directive also requires the national authority to notify the public of each notification it receives and to publish its assessment report. The proposed commercialization cannot take place until there has been written consent from the agency to which the application was made, which presumably will not take place unless any objections arised by other EU member states have been addressed, although all member states have the ability to restrict the sale of the product in its jurisdiction if it becomes aware of data or other information affecting the conclusions of the environmental risk assessment.
As is well known, the European Union has not granted any approvals under this Directive to use any genetically modified plant in commercial agriculture (i.e., for food use) and all such proposals have been controversial to some extent. I’m not aware of any proposed use of a GM microorganism that has progressed to an application for commercial use in Europe, so it is hard to know if any such proposal not involving food or feed use would engender the same level of controversy. As always, companies contemplating such activities should consult with the relevant government agency as far in advance of the proposed use as possible, to be sure all needed information is provided and the necessary procedures are followed.
This blog entry describes the possible ways in which uses of algae or cyanobacteria for fuel or chemical production might be regulated in Canada. This entry is one of several posts that provide additional information in support of a poster I’m presenting at the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit on the regulations in various countries around the world that may be applicable to the use of naturally-occurring or genetically modified algae or cyanobacteria in fuel production. These include three general categories of regulation: biotechnology or biosafety regulations, aquaculture regulations, and renewable fuel standards or volume mandates. You can access the poster on my SlideShare site, and please refer back to my September 16 introductory post for links to posts on the regulatory situation in other countries. Although this discussion centers on algae and cyanobacteria, much of the discussion (other than the section on aquaculture) would be applicable to the use of other genetically modified microorganisms for production of fuel or chemicals.
Canada’s biotechnology regulatory approach resembles that of the U.S., in that existing laws and regulations are used to regulate biotechnology in a product-specific way. Therefore, many products of biotechnology would be regulated in Canada under existing federal laws. In November 1997, Environment Canada (EC) issued biotechnology regulations under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), that are similar in scope and approach to the U.S. EPA’s TSCA biotechnology regulations, and which are meant to cover biotechnology products or microorganisms that are new to commerce in Canada and which are not regulated by other federal agencies. Among products that could fall under this law’s scope would be microbial strains used for biofuel or bio-based chemical production, or for manufacture of enzymes for use in biofuel production. My 2010 post described these regulations in detail, but the following is a brief summary.
EC considers microorganisms as being potentially subject to these “New Substance Notification” (NSN) regulations if they meet the definition of “new substance”. The regulations define “microorganism” (in part) to be “a microscopic organism … classified in the Bacteria, the Archaea, the Protista, which includes protozoa and algae, or the Fungi, which includes yeasts …”. This means that both algae and cyanobacteria (classified as Bacteria) would be covered by the regulations. The law further defines a “new substance” as one intended for introduction into commerce that is not on the Domestic Substance List (DSL) as having been used in commerce in Canada between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 1986. The DSL for microorganisms includes about 70 naturally-occurring species, identified by ATCC accession numbers. Thus, if a microorganism on this list was used in commerce from 1984-86 in a way such that “its entry into the environment was unrestricted”, it is exempt from reporting; but all other microorganisms, regardless of make-up, are subject to reporting. In this way, the Canadian CEPA regulations are broader than those of the U.S. EPA, in subjecting a larger class of microorganisms to regulation, and it is important to note that the regulations are broad enough to include naturally occurring or classically mutated strains, if such strains had never previously been used in commerce.
Under the NSN regulations, any person who manufactures or imports substances subject to notification must provide a notification package to EC, which contains certain information specified in the regulations. EC uses this information to conduct a risk assessment prior to entry into commerce. The required information is generally similar to the information the U.S. EPA requests in MCAN submissions under its TSCA regulations (EPA’s requirements are discussed in my previous blog entries from 2010). Information on the Canadian biotechnology rule is available at the biotechnology home page, and the New Substance regulations themselves can be found here. A Guidelines document that is similar to EPA’s “Points to Consider document” can be accessed here. CEPA published a fact sheet specific for biofuels, which is accessible here.
The New Substance regulations are applicable both to contained uses and environmental uses of new microorganisms. The notification form which is to be used for submissions asks applicants to identify the “notification group” for the proposed use of the microorganism, and specifies the types of data that are needed for each notification group. The notification group “Introduction in a contained facility or for export only” would apply to contained uses of new microorganisms, and for these proposed uses, only the “Schedule 2” data (as summarized in the checklist in Part B of the form) would need to be submitted.
Based on the information currently on the EC website, most of the notifications reviewed and approved to date have been for contained manufacturing uses. These have been described in my 2010 blog post on the Canadian regulations, which includes links to the various decision documents. There do not appear to have been any published decision documents or risk assessments in the time since my earlier blog post. EC’s review focuses on the potential for the proposed use of the microorganism to pose any risks to the environment or to human health.
Proposed use of new strains of algae or cyanobacteria in open ponds would likely trigger a higher level of review by Environment Canada under the NSN regulations. There are several “notification groups” listed on the notification form that would apply to proposed uses of new microorganisms in the open environment. One such group would cover introductions of organisms “anywhere in Canada”, while others would cover only introductions into specified ecozones (one category for ecozones where the microorganism is naturally indigenous, another for ecozones where it is not). There are also notification groups for research field tests or for introductions “in accordance with confinement procedures”. Generally speaking, any notification for a proposed outdoor use of a microorganism would require the submission of the greatest amount of data with the notification, although this would be somewhat relaxed for research uses, or uses under “confinement”. As is the case with contained uses, EC’s review would focus on potential environmental or health risk associated with the proposed use.
A few of the published risk assessments on the EC website appear to have dealt with proposed environmental uses of new microorganisms. Specifically, there are three approved notifications involving either agricultural microorganisms or microorganisms intended for use in bioremediation. It appears that this may be an area where EC has more limited experience than is the case for proposals for contained uses.
The following is a brief summary of aquaculture regulations in Canada and how they may apply to industrial uses of algae or cyanobacteria. This is necessarily a very brief overview, meant to convey general guidance as to what applicants might expect in the country. More detailed information is available at the websites linked below, particularly including the very useful Fact Sheets maintained for individual countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which can all be accessed at http://www.fao.org/fishery/nalo/search/en.
Aquaculture in Canada may be regulated under federal or provincial law. However, according to the FAO summary page for Canadian aquaculture regulations, the actual responsibilities for aquaculture have been delegated by the federal government to provincial governments. According to the FAO site, the provinces are responsible for “aquaculture planning, site leasing, licenses and approvals for aquaculture sites, aquaculture training and education, the collection of statistics, the promotion of fish and aquaculture products, and the management of the industry’s day-to-day operations” among other functions.
The applicable federal law is the Fisheries Act of 1985. Although this Act does not define “aquaculture”, its definition of “marine plant” includes “all benthic and detached algae, marine flowering plants, brown algae, red algae, green algae and phytoplankton”, and so would appear that permits are required under Sections 44 through 46 of the Act for the cultivation or harvesting of algae, but possibly not cyanobacteria. Turning to some of the provinces, the Fisheries Act of 1996 of British Columbia defines aquaculture as “the “growing and cultivation of aquatic plants… or fish, for commercial purposes, in any water environment or in human made containers of water,” and moreover this law has a definition for “aquatic plant” identical to the federal definition of “marine plant”. This implies that algae would be covered under the provision for licenses, which reads “A person must not process fish or aquatic plants, or operate a plant in British Columbia or its coastal waters, unless the person holds a license issued for that purpose under this Part.” The FAO site also describes the Newfoundland Aquaculture Act (1990), which defines aquaculture as “the farming of fish, mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic plants and other aquatic organisms with an intervention in the rearing process to enhance production by regular stocking, feeding, and protection from predation” (emphasis added). Although algae is not mentioned by name, it could be considered to be covered by “other aquatic organisms”.
As the regulations and their applicability to algae or cyanobacteria may vary from province to province, it would be advisable to consult with the applicable provincial government before establishing an industrial algae operation in Canada.
In Canada, there are federal and provincial regulations mandating that fuels contain specified percentages of renewable fuels. The governing federal standards are contained in the Renewable Fuel Regulation, which establishes that, on average, the nation’s gasoline pool must include at least 5% renewable fuels (i.e., ethanol), and the “distillate pool” of diesel fuel and heating oil must include at least 2% renewable fuels. In both cases, there are provinces with the same or higher percentage mandate: Ontario requires 5% renewable content in the gasoline pool, while Saskatchewan and Manitoba require 7.5% and 8.5% renewable content, respectively. For the distillate pool, British Columbia has a 4% requirement while Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba mirror the federal 2% requirement (the federal law includes an exemption for the Eastern provinces).
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The number of coal mining fatalities was under 20 for the fourth straight year after reaching exactly 20 in 2011, 2012 and 2013. By comparison, in 1966, the mining industry counted 233 deaths.
Coal Mines "Fatality Overviews", slide shows regarding fatal accidents, are another part of the Mine Safety and Health Administration's program to share information with the mining community. We encourage you to share these presentations with your supervisors and miners to assist your efforts to prevent similar accidents.
Coal mining accidents resulted in 5,938 immediate deaths in 2005, and 4746 immediate deaths in 2006 in China alone according to the World Wildlife Fund. Coal mining is the most dangerous occupation in China, the death rate for every 100 tons of coal mined is 100 times that of the death rate in the US and 30 times that achieved in South Africa.
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Feb 07, 2019· By Shafiek Tassiem. MIDDELBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - The number of people killed by a gas explosion in an unused coal mine in South Africa's eastern province of Mpumalanga has risen to six, and several others remain trapped, an official at the mine said on Thursday.
The risk for coal-mining accidents in China is one of the highest in the world. According to a 2003 government report, the coal miners' death rate per one million population was about 37 times that of America's coal-mining death rate. 1, 2 However, to date there has been no epidemiologic analysis of nationwide coal-mining accidents reported in the literature.
Jun 04, 2018· The mine hit a "coal and gas outburst" - which is a violent ejection of coal, gas and rock from a coal face in a mine. These types of accidents can cause serious injuries and damage to machinery. The official China News Service (CNS) said 20 people were confirmed dead.
Death toll in China mining accident rises to 21 The death toll in a coal mine roof collapse in northern China has risen to 21 after rescuers found two more miners dead on Sunday, state media reported. | 2019-04-20T14:19:09Z | https://www.o-zon.be/15_03_28_8705_coal-mining-deaths.html |
Mypower are delighted to announce that following a highly competitive tender we have been selected to install solar panels on the Nave roof of Gloucester Cathedral.
Gloucester Cathedral will become the oldest cathedral in the UK, and possibly the world, to install a commercial sized solar PV system on its roof.
The historic grade 1 listed building is famous for hosting the Coronation of King Henry III and for being the final resting place of King Edward II, as well as providing a location for three of the Harry Potter films. Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Cathedral is now undertaking a £6 million development project of which the installation of solar PV is a crucial element. The 40kw solar array will reduce the Cathedral’s energy costs by 25%, helping it deliver the Church of England’s ambitious “Shrinking the Footprint” campaign which aims to reduce its carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
“We put a lot of time, effort and passion into this tender to provide the right design to achieve a beneficial output at the right price, whilst being totally sympathetic to this historic building.
Using a non-penetrating fixing system, designed and manufactured locally by Sunfixings at Bourton on the Water, the panels will sit on top of the lead roof above the great Nave which was built almost 1,000 years ago.
Mypower will begin installing in early October with commissioning of the solar panels 4 weeks later.
We will keep you up to date with the latest developments on here and on our twitter feed – follow us.
Mypower are highly experienced solar PV installers and pride ourselves in the quality of our products and services. Our customers range from food manufacturers to dairy units and now cathedrals! If you would like to know how your business can significantly save money with solar energy please contact us. | 2019-04-18T22:51:02Z | https://www.mypoweruk.com/news/mypower-awarded-contract-for-solar-on-gloucester-cathedral/ |
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You’ll want to set aside this date – Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 (9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.) – to attend the spring edition of the Ward Funeral Homes, complimentary End of Life Care Seminar – Embassy Grand Convention Centre, 8800 Gore Road, Brampton, Ontario.
Ann-Marie J. Golden, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Dr. Ann-Marie Golden joined Fleming Vigna Balmer from Cambridge (UK). Prior to her arrival to Canada she worked at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit as a cognitive scientist. She was a manager of the Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorders. She also worked as a health psychologist in various departments (Oncology, Gynaecology, Paediatrics (Cleft/Lip/Palate), Accident and Emergency, Intensive Care Unit). In addition, she is a mindfulness and compassion facilitator and teacher. Dr. Golden works with children, adults and the elderly who have experienced emotional and cognitive difficulties related to complicated grief, anxiety, depression, trauma and stress that may or may not be related to physical problems.
We look forward to seeing you on May 29th! | 2019-04-24T14:54:03Z | http://widowed.ca/mindfulness-based-approaches-cultivating-compassion/ |
The song was written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and features Fagen on vocals. The song was also a No. 11 hit on the Pop singles chart in 1973. In March 2005, Q magazine placed the song at number 95 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has reportedly said that Elliott Randall's guitar solo on "Reeling In the Years" is his favorite solo of all time. That solo was also ranked the 40th best guitar solo of all time by the readers of Guitar World magazine. | 2019-04-24T18:15:31Z | https://www.larchmusic.co.uk/ourshop/prod_6513440-Reelin-In-The-Years-Brass-Band.html |
Our firm’s approach to an insolvency matter is specialized and holistic; it utilises its expertise in all related fields of law that arise in such cases, such as finance, corporate Law, litigation, arbitration and taxation. By focusing on the issues from all aspects, the firm is able to offer a comprehensive and efficient solution to its clients. The firm has been actively involved in some of the most important restructuring cases after the enactment of the recent amendment to the bankrutcy law. | 2019-04-21T12:21:41Z | http://asyc.com/en/area-de-practica/bankruptcy-restructuring/ |
There is no substitute for hard work (sorry); and I never left any detail unturned. I wasn’t the biggest guy on stage, but I was conditioned (under 3% multiple times, see below) and nailed my posing and presentation. These X-Factors always landed me on the podium. Mike O’Brien won his first fitness model show and attributes his posing and stage presence to what put him in the winners circle – check out what he has to say here >>.
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Protocol includes fat-loss training program, nutritional program/ recommendations, and supplement recommendations.
Variable, just select the number of months that best suites your needs (we can discuss, and incorporate the results of your body-fat% and assessment).
Supplements not included – prices vary depending on required protocol. | 2019-04-21T08:06:47Z | http://www.yourmissinglink.ca/services/physique-competitors/ |
Abstract submission is now closed for all sessions, except for APRU and invited talks. We would like to thank you for your contributions.
For APRU and invited talks, Please submit abstracts by 31 March 2015 using email, spc2015.support@cern.ch. | 2019-04-21T22:15:11Z | https://indico.cern.ch/event/336199/ |
For the home buyers of Delhi NCR who are looking to settle far from the pollution and din, Godrej Nurture is the best choice. The project is located in Sector 150, Noida that is the less polluted area of Delhi NCR. This project is spread over 9 acres and offers 2, 3 and 4 BHK residential apartments. | 2019-04-26T09:51:36Z | http://static.onefdh.com/business/godrej-nurture-sector-150-noida.html |
Signed original colour woodcut with linocut and half tone blocks.
This is a working proof aside from the edition of 35.
Awarded Gold Medal, First International Engraving Biennial, Buenos Aires, 1970.
Exhibited at Oslo 1969, Redfern 1987, Birmingham 1990, Royal Academy 1992. | 2019-04-25T10:36:28Z | https://www.goldmarkart.com/art-for-sale/rip-1 |
[CRM 2016] Error code #0x80040237. Error while solution import. Cannot insert duplicate key.
We were deploying from sandbox to production with one of the solutions. And for no reason, the solution import failed on all attempts with error code #0x80040237. And there was not much description given except – “Cannot insert duplicate key”. This was the error on one of the entities.
First, we followed a post by a friend on the same error. We even removed some data to check if that is the case. But, the import failed again with the same error code and description.
Then, we came across similar question on MSDN. Question was already showing an answer that by removing <CustomControlDefaultConfigs> section from Solution.xml this can be resolved. This issue is already taken care on Dynamics 365. However, CRM 2016 Online, this issue still persists.
Extract your solution zip file.
Open solution.xml file in a text editor.
Search for the <entity></entity> tag for the entity on which your solution import is showing the error.
Find and remove <CustomControlDefaultConfigs> section inside the <entity> section.
Save the solution.xml file and create new zip file from the extracted solution contents.
Import will be successful this time!!
The reason to remove <CustomControlDefaultConfigs> section from solution.xml file is still not known. And there are other option also available like updating sql to resolve this error for on premise deployments. However, CRM Online users do not have any option but to modify solution.xml file.
Access to Microsoft Dynamics CRM has not yet been fully configured for this user. The user needs at least one security role before you can continue.
I was not able to find anything on google/bing for the specific error, but one of the blog I found said the error can be from business rules or other type of processes.
After some research, I came to know that there were multiple Business Rules on the organization which were owned by users who were deactivated and no longer have anything to do with CRM Development.
To resolve this issue, you just need to assign the Business Processes or other workflows to any active user.
Step 1: Use Advanced Find feature to find the processes and their respective owners.
Step 2: Select all results which shows owner who are already disabled.
Step 3: Assign the Business Rules/Processes to your user account or another user who is in active state.
Easiest way to reload the web resource!
But the same code does not work in case of CRM 2016. As the web resource was already loaded when the page was loaded. CRM 2016 treats the same web resource not to be loaded again (may be for better performance!).
Here, I had to pass some parameters. What I have done to modify is added another parameter called “ver” (you can have any other parameter name instead of “ver”) and the value will be rendered from Math.random() method. This way the web browser treats each URL as a new request as Math.random() will return random number each time it will be executed.
If you want to get a parent node of the node you are dragging/dropping in Kendo UI Treeview, you need to use .parentNode() method instead of .parent() method. Mostly these methods are mixed up for when to use them. .parent() returns the array which holds this dataItem. | 2019-04-22T20:08:41Z | https://consultrikin.wordpress.com/ |
In this video, we built the 2019 Mathews Avail from the ground up using our Stage 3 tuning method that we employ on many of customers bows both when new and when being restrung and retuned! We cover many aspects, take questions from viewers on a variety of archery topics and finish with broadhead tuning this new Avail.
About Us: Located in Lepanto in Northeast Arkansas, we make Archery Better by ensuring each bow we sell or service is completely tuned and ready for the hunt. We are a Mathews and PSE dealer, have a 20yd 10 lane indoor range, Tuesday night Target Tuesday team shoot each week, do full repair, restring and services including coaching. We also offer a mail in tuning and repair service.Contact us at 870-475-3337 to set up your appointment! | 2019-04-21T16:44:50Z | https://www.betteroutdoors.net/blogs/news/bow-build-2019-mathews-arsonist-live-bow-build |
Education: Tufts University School of Engineering, B.S.
Education: Hollins College, B.A. & Suffok University M.B.A.
Education: Boston University Questrom School of Business, B.S. | 2019-04-25T12:43:17Z | http://www.timbercreek-capital.com/professionals-1 |
Each month the ‘chivecast focus’ on a figure from the vintage era. The Market Watch includes an update on how the chosen figure for the month fared on eBay. BrisBin / BrisBane Mike scours eBay for these auctions with Skye and Steve relaying the update to the Spacefreaks. | 2019-04-23T23:54:36Z | https://chivecastmarketwatch.wordpress.com/category/figure-of-the-months-sales/ |
I have 2 speakers (JBL Flip 3), and 1 of them is connected to my TV (which does not have Bluetooth), via a digital to analog converter and cables. Can I pair a second speaker without hooking it up to my tv, but instead pairing it with my other speaker via Bluetooth?
The Flip 3 speakers support the JBL Connect app so you should be able to pair them both to the same transmitter and may be able to set one as left and the other as right in the app.
I don't know if one speaker that is wired will work with another in bluetooth though. BT speakers don't usually have transmitters built in but since the app is free give it a try.
I didn't know that they could connect like that. Good info.
You do need the app to get stereo.
Actually, I have only one.. but It should work obviously..
how can i connect my Sony Bravia LCD Digital TV circa 2010 with my Yamaha NX-GX70 speakers circa 2000? | 2019-04-24T11:57:05Z | https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/if-i-have-one-speaker-connected-to-my-tv-with-a-digital-to-analog-converter-can-a-second-speaker-pair-using-bluetooth.447481/ |
Check out the ability bushes for The Division 2’s Demolitionist, Survivalist, and Sharpshooter.
Arekkz Gaming‘s Taylor is on hand to explain how The Division 2’s Specialisations and ability bushes work within the game.
The video breaks down the three Specilisations: Demolitionist, Survivalist, and Sharpshooter, which you’ll be able to try beneath.
Each Specialisation affords a wide range of skills and perks, in addition to particular outfits distinctive to them.
As nicely because the Speciailisations opening up in the long run game, you may read more about what to expect, just like the Black Tusks faction, particular to the endgame, which can be going to be the hardest but. | 2019-04-20T22:44:41Z | https://se7en.ws/the-division-2-end-game-specialisations-and-skill-tree-breakdown/?lang=en |
Great Lakes Gas Prices is updated daily with new data. However, gas price in your selection may change more frequently that we can obtain them. Based on the city/zip code you provide, the lowest price is mobil at $2.979 per gallon in Regular, mobil at $3.199 in Medium, and nexcom great lakes at $3.279 in Premium. Check out the map for location. | 2019-04-20T18:29:36Z | http://www.ohmygas.com/IL-Great-Lakes-Gas-Prices |
Online forms and toll-free numbers can result in a tremendous number of unqualified leads. Let MMG prioritize these leads and get the best ones redirected to the appropriate sales resource in a timely manner. We take inbound sales inquiries and reroute to a local resource, often as a warm transfer. We also make outbound calls as follow up on downloads and completed contact forms. We make your sales force more productive by focusing them on high quality targets and guarding them against those “just looking” contacts. | 2019-04-21T01:08:05Z | http://marketingmg.com/services/generate-qualified-leads/lead-triage |
Play this online hangman game to improve your vocabulary and spelling of French words. Get them right enough times and the words are added to your collection below. Come back any time to continue to build your vocabulary. See the Settings to enable you to move between your devices and keep track of your words. | 2019-04-19T02:16:46Z | https://www.lexisrex.com/French/Beginner-Hangman |
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My flows are slower and include longer holds to allow everyone to connect their breath to their body. I like to offer clients the time and space to be in stillness and to be by and with themselves, because I believe it's a skill and yoga is a wonderful time to practice it. All of it with a hint of playfulness that (hopefully) brings some joy to those practicing.
I have practiced yoga on and off since 2011, but really decided to commit to my practice with Dragonfly since 2015. I completed the 200 hour Dragonfly Teacher Training in the 2017 Summer Intensive series.
Svarga Dvidasana (Birds of Paradise) -- every time I come to this pose, I come from and to a different place, and I love that!
Dragonfly has been a yoga home to me and I truly feel welcome and that it is a family, full of support and room to grow. Every studio is unique but always has the same smiling faces to make sure every person that comes through the door feels seen and comfortable.
I've lived outside of the United States for most of my life, including Taiwan, Singapore, and the UK! | 2019-04-25T10:00:22Z | https://www.dragonflyhotyoga.com/instructors-staff/claire-tseng/ |
Altura total: 102 cm. Largura Total: 40 cm.
Materiais: Cordão de Algodão, Tronco.
O tronco natural será diferente em forma, espessura e cor.
Total height: 102 cm. Total Width: 40 cm.
The driftwood will vary in shape, width, and wood coloring. | 2019-04-19T13:25:12Z | https://www.c-a-s-u-l-o.com/products/massala |
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Hearing aids are easy to lose. Here's how to keep your hearing aids safe, and what to do if you lose your hearing aids.
Both benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and Meniere's disease can both cause bouts of severe dizziness and vertigo, but are the two conditions related?
Some risk factors for hearing loss are understandable—think aging, excessive noise exposure, or traumatic brain injury—but other risks aren’t always so obvious.
With reports of vaping and sudden hearing loss on the rise, what does the evidence say?
Research shows that Viagra and similar drugs increase your risk of sudden hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness.
If you have severe or profound hearing loss, your hearing care professional will likely recommend power or super power hearing aids. Today's power models are small and discreet.
Obesity may increase the risk of other health conditions that are linked to hearing loss, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
Medical science says the jury is still out on CBD, but some tinnitus sufferers say they have all the proof they need.
When you join a Walk4Hearing event, the money you raise will help provide support for people with hearing loss.
Even with normal hearing, taking a hearing test can be mentally draining. The experience helped Healthy Hearing Managing Editor Joy Victory understand why hearing loss should always be treated.
Smoking is a well-established risk factor for hearing loss. Studies have shown that time and again exposure to cigarette smoke--whether directly, secondhand, or even in utero--can have a big impact on a person's hearing health.
Hearing loss and sleep apnea appear strongly linked, according to several studies published in the past few years.
Springtime brings barometric pressure changes, seasonal allergies and wet weather—all of which can impact people who wear hearing aids.
Thanks to a mental process called habituation, you can get to a place where your tinnitus stops bothering you entirely, where your brain just stops paying attention to it and it fades from your awareness.
A new app called Bring Back the Beat helps cochlear implant wearers reconnect with music using a series of focused attention and listening practice games.
People with iron-deficiency anemia are twice as likely to have hearing loss than those without the blood disorder, though researchers are still investigating why.
The viral infection known as mumps can lead to hearing loss. If your child experiences hearing loss after mumps, schedule an appointment with a hearing healthcare professional as soon as possible.
When driving with hearing loss, you'll likely rely on visual cues more. You'll also want to reduce distractions and keep a few other things in mind before you hit the road.
Among children wearing cochlear implants, a study showed that singing and music exposure was linked to better perception of speech in noisy environments, compared to children who don't sing.
In a world where image is everything and communication is a necessary skill, these celebrities with hearing loss are definitely award worthy.
A growing body of research is leading experts to believe that your hearing and your heart are closely connected.
The insights they share at your appointment may help you and your hearing care professional better customize your treatment plan.
It's normal to experience loss of hearing due to aging. While it can be hard to accept that hearing changes with age, knowing why it happens and what to do about it is an important first step to better hearing.
Presbycusis can sneak up on you and affects your ability to hear. If left untreated, this form of age-related hearing loss can cause additional health problems such as anxiety, depression and social isolation. | 2019-04-23T16:39:16Z | https://www.healthyhearing.com/report |
The Homelend ICO is a global peer-to-peer blockchain-based platform for mortgage loan and investments. By establishing a decentralized network, they hope to create an infrastructure that will ease the mortgage application and approval process, while establishing better KYC policies for analyzing and approving loan applicants. In this way they hope to restructure the mortgage loan industry.
Owning housing is unaffordable for most people, especially if they would prefer to make cash payments.
Mortgage interest rates are tax-deductible in some locales, but the option to take out a mortgage may not be possible for some.
There is a great deal of time-wasting bureaucracy involved in the loan application process, which is compounded the fact that it cannot be done online.
Banks often sell mortgages to third parties, therefore making it difficult to discuss and renegotiate terms with their mortgage holders.
Potential buyers with low credit scores are often forced to agree to take out mortgages with high, long-term interest rates (sub-prime loans). This increase the likelihood of their defaulting on the re-payments due to unaffordability, especially when the load issuers fail to do proper due diligence before approving requests.
Many sub-primers often purchase properties for speculative reasons in the hopes of reselling their property later of when they have improved their credit scores, in order to take out a mortgage on another property on improved terms. However, these strategies failed in the United States leading economic collapse in 2008.
The creation of mortgage securities has further exacerbated the bureaucracy and inefficiency of applying for mortgages and negotiating mortgage terms.
Blockchain technology allows for all data to be stored and contracts secured by means of smart contracts, which are encrypted and distributed across a network of nodes when finalized. As this data is very difficult to alter, these smart contracts allow for the simplification of data sharing, access and authentication, as well as for the traceability and transparency of transactions.
The Homelend ICO’s platform will also allow for the automatic verification and reliability of all parties by all parties involved in the mortgage process. One aspect of this includes the platform’s AI technology connecting with accredited information providers and assessing the collected data to establish the applicant’s credit risk.
This will allow potential lenders to be provided with accurate credit information and general profile of the mortgage applicant so that the lender will have an accurate assessment of the potential risks and profits involved in investing their money in a given mortgage loan. This will improve the probability of the borrower being able to return the investment capital, should the mortgage be forfeited.
All information will be encrypted and issued only upon approval by the data-owner.
The smart contracts will underwrite the loan, by recording and distributing all data relating to monetary flows between platform users, thereby ensuring that the transactions are securely stored.
In this way, new investors and individuals to enter the mortgage loan investment industry with decreased risk.
Mortgage applicants will easily be able to confirm the current progress of their mortgage application.
Property value assessments cannot be conducted autonomously and will require the involvement of professional property assessment agents.
The reduced overall number of intermediaries will lower overall fees.
All aspects of the process can be conducted online, thereby eliminating the need for hardcopy documentation. This would save the time involved in submitting documentation, as well as substantially decrease processing fees.
Lenders will have free access to the platform.
Once the borrower is approved and the property is evaluated, the borrower will be expected to pay the gas cost for completing the origination process. The mortgage amount will be tokenized with each token representing a certain percentage of the property’s fiat value and reflecting the risk evaluation of the original application. This is referred to as creating ‘property slices’ in the whitepaper.
This will allow for lenders to invest in a percentage of the loan, rather than having to provide the entire loan amount. Likewise, each lender will receive payments and interest dividends based on there share of the overall mortgage amount invested. Lenders with more capital to invest can select to invest in multiple shares of the same loan, or to diversify their investment portfolios by investing in small percentages of a number of properties. There will be a vesting period of up to thirty days for a mortgage request to be fulfilled, or the collected funds will automatically be returned to each investor.
However, while all property shares will be listed in fiat currencies, the platform users will need to transfer the equivalent amount in fiat currencies, in order that all transactions can be accurately stored and traced via smart contract. The use of cryptocurrencies also accounts for the short window period for potential investment, as cryptocurrencies are known for their high volatility rates.
Auctioning, which will entail lenders offering borrowers either better interest or mortgage point terms than those offered by the previous bidder.
If the capital is raised within the set time-frame, the smart-contracts will automatically transfer the funds to the property’s seller. The seller can choose whether they would prefer to receive the cryptocurrency payments, or whether the platform should liquidate the cryptocurrency to fiat on their behalf. The methodology of this approach will differ based on the legal specifications of each locale. The Homelend platform plans on outsourcing this service initially but hopes to create a protocol for automatically finalizing these legal processes.
All transaction fees and on-platform services and products must be paid in HMD.
Mortgage points paid out at the conclusion of all payments to the lender must be paid to Homelend in HMD to the value of 1% of the mortgage value. | 2019-04-18T22:39:16Z | https://urbancrypto.com/homelend-platform-p2p-financing-and-investment-solution-on-the-blockchain/ |
This is a letter of my appreciation for all your qualities that I should have written long back but never did because our relationship was always about banter and gentle ribbing of each other. You, about anything to do with male chauvinism and me about your obsession with that.
I remember how you came into the lives of two disorganized bachelors who lived in Safdarjung Enclave. Suddenly, things became so much more organized, food quality improved but funnily enough, the neighbor was really intrigued about this odd trio who lived a very unconventional / bohemian existence. Ofcourse, that led to some very funny incidents and we always laughed over that whenever we met.
Amongst your great personal characteristics was your ability to seamlessly integrate with all your acquired relatives from Rajesh Bhayya’s side. You became the glue that kept both sides of the family together and this aspect and your ability to assimilate your self in our religion was also so smooth. Never was this more evident than at all the festivals – be it Holi, Divali or Christmas. It was an open house and ofcourse a full house with a never ending stream relatives and friends and food. You were as much the Christian daughter/sister as the Hindu/Khatri bahu of the Tandon family and the entire extended family. All these festivals will not be the same without you – we will miss you every time and know that you will be around somewhere watching over us.
You were also such a generous host - no matter what the occasion and no matter how little the time, there was always more food than one could finish and some of the best food I have had. Your gifting was legendry as well – you always had a thoughtful gift for everyone, be it a birthday or a festival. Your generosity, your caring nature and large heart knew no bounds. Your smile was infectious and you spread cheer all around you. The Tandon/Farrell house was always full of guests with a lot of frolic and laughter.
Professionally you were an absolute champion of women’s rights – gender discrimination, gender violence, sexual harassment and all issues to do with women’s empowerment. You had the courage of conviction, whether it was leading on these issues in Sonepat, a village I think you adopted, speaking at various forums and training people across the globe on these issues. That took a lot of courage because of the threats you must have undoubtedly faced and that took you to Afghanistan as well, alas your last one!
While PRIA was started by Rajesh bhayya [brother], your contributions to PRIA’s activities were countless – you set up the education initiative – created content, did tie-ups with universities and ran the distance learning program, you did work on panchayati raj, you organized such a successful 25th anniversary of PRIA, you also handled accounts and administration and did so much more. PRIA is so much poorer in your absence and I am sure I speak for all in or connected with PRIA. In your professional pursuits you touched so many lives and that is evident in the innumerable broken hearts you have left behind.
Between all this, you found time to get a PhD as well and raised two very fine children – well mannered, mature and so representing some of your best qualities. You were the sheet anchor not only to your immediate family but also so many other family members, friends and also acquaintances. All in all, as someone said, you were (and forgive me if it sounds chauvinistic) a complete woman – a “woman of substance”.
I will always remember the great time we had together and the laughter we shared. I also know that wherever you are, women’s empowerment is now a burning topic there. Your tireless work will never cease. | 2019-04-21T18:15:58Z | http://marthafarrellfoundation.org/martha_inside_story.php?id=22 |
We have heard so much bad economic news that most people believe it, even though it is not true.The economy has recovered to the point that the economic stimulus is being ended. That would normally be good news. It is strange that it has not been widely disseminated and many people may be unaware of it. You may read a little piece here and there in the paper about it, but it hasn’t seemed to enter the public’s mind. Actually, since it would help the Democrats, great efforts have been made by some money interests and obstructionists to downplay the recovery.
The chart at the right summarizes the recovery in the last five years. Though it was put together by the Occupy Democrats, the numbers seem to be accurate and can be checked. Normally the President would get credit for the recovery, but not so much in this case as it would likely help the Democrats in the next election. The news could probably have been even better except for the missed opportunities caused by obstructionists in Congress. I hope some of them will join the jobless after the next election.
This entry was posted on Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 at 3:29 pm and is filed under National Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-22T20:11:11Z | http://jcmooreonline.com/2014/11/02/the-economic-recovery-in-the-past-five-years-then-and-now/ |
Used-Cincinnati Milacron CMT 45 Counter- Rotating Twin Screw Extruder. Maximum capacity 265 lbs (120 kg/hour). Screw diameter 2 x 1.8" (45 mm), main motor 21 hp (16 kW), 3/480V/50 Hz. | 2019-04-23T19:51:44Z | https://www.aaronequipment.com/usedequipment/plastics-equipment/extruders-twin-screw-counter-rotate/cincinnati-milacron-cmt-45-10351009 |
I was lucky enough to take a tour around CCFE, home of JET and MAST, recently. In the entrance lobby they have a huge picture of the inside of JET - it is fascinating how KSTAR looks so similar and yet somewhat cleaner and more futuristic. I suppose given the physics of what is being done and the time difference in construction that shouldn't be surprising but I still found it striking.
Tokamak Energy has grown significantly in terms of manpower during 2016 from ten people to thirty.
Tokamak Energy is featured in a World Nuclear News article. David Kingham gives a nice summary of the short and long term plans of Tokamak Energy. It will be very interesting to see how their ST-40 spherical tokamak performs once it becomes operational later this year.
A new generation high field spherical tokamak, ST40, is currently under construction at Tokamak Energy Ltd (TE). The main parameters of ST40 are: R0 = 0.4–0.6 m, A = 1.7–2.0, Ipl = 2 MA, Bt = 3 T, κ = 2.5. It will have power supplies based on ultracapacitors, liquid nitrogen-cooled copper magnets, up to 2 MW of neutral beam injected (NBI) power, and a pulse length of ∼3 s when operating at full power. To stabilize the highly elongated plasma, in addition to active vertical control, liquid nitrogen-cooled passive plates will be installed. ST40 is aimed at demonstrating burning plasma condition parameters (nTτE) and may also be suitable for DT operations in future. The main physics and engineering challenges are caused by the high toroidal field, relatively high plasma current, and wall and divertor power loads.
Daniel Clery has written in Science a short (paywalled) article Private fusion machines aim to beat massive global effort covering an overview of Tokamak Energy, General Fusion and Tri Alpha Energy comparing them to ITER http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/360.
Tokamak Energy has published a presentation on their plans in this PDF-document http://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Tokamak_energy-TTP.pdf.
So Tokamak Energy is planning for break even by 2020. Still a while out, but AFAIK it is the closest date for Q>1 of any competitor that has been published recently.
Tokamak Energy has published a set of pictures of their ST40 device as a status update. The structure of the tokamak can be seen quite nicely. Soon they will cover everything with the outer vacuum chamber and connect all services to it. https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/update-construction-of-st40-is-progressing-well/. More details on their future plans are available from this press release: https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/atkins-and-tokamak-energy-join-forces-to-plan-for-next-fusion-reactor/.
In any event, all plasma work is good plasma work!
Hope to see some good science as they press on.
Their approach is interesting as far as Tokamaks go because they hope that their reactors can be relatively small due to the use of high temperature super conductors and spherical tokamaks instead of the more traditional shapes. I am also excited by their quite aggressive schedule. They plan to have a break even campaign in 2020. | 2019-04-21T12:24:37Z | http://talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6057&start=45 |
In The Passionate Mom, Susan takes you on a journey through Nehemiah and into the heart of parenting. Her stories and confessions in every chapter reveal what she has learned: no mom can control her child’s future, but every mom can parent well. There is a plan—a roadmap for how a passionate mom can parent almost any child, confidently. | 2019-04-21T03:14:44Z | https://www.imom.com/book/the-passionate-mom-2/ |
Random Thoughts: HOME IS WHERE THE. . .
My wife and I have been back in the U.S. for just a few days over a month, after spending three months in Israel, the largest period we have spent abroad since our 20's. Sacramento is a wonderful place, especially when spring has sprung as it has the last few days. Terrific weather, greenery everywhere, fresh air, calm atmosphere, pleasant stores. On Monday I went skiing up in the Sierras, just an hour-and-a-half away, with one of our sons and our daughter and her boyfriend. Today they went swimming in the pool at the complex where we live in Sacramento. That's California. Add in family, many close friends, and a community you have been a part of for 52 years and it is hard to beat.
Nonetheless, when a few folks have asked if it felt comfortable to be home or did it take some adjusting, I have not had a quick response. Yes, it is certainly nice to be here. But I was a little confused as to where "home" is these days. I've told people about the amusing little mind games I experienced the first week or two back in Sacramento. Waking up and for a few seconds not quite knowing exactly which apartment I was in. Or, telling your wife you will go pick something up and visualizing the store in the other country. Amusing but not very consequential.
But where is home? Where you grew up, where you have many friends and associates, a string of reference points for your entire life? Where you understand the language, the social nuances, the politics, just about everything? That has to be home.
Or is home the place where your people originated, formed a nation, developed a religion that formed the basis for modern man's thinking about justice? The place that after two thousand years of being outcasts, your people reunited and, through sheer determination and against all odds, re-founded your home and made it a booming, prosperous land? Is it the place that accepts you as a matter of right, that ticks to your clock and functions on your calendar? Where you've been welcomed as part of the project of rebuilding, even if you are doing it on a pretty tentative and transient basis? Where you are playing, or can think you are playing, a sliver of a role in the rebuilding of your homeland?
For me, it is a little hard to know exactly where "home" is these days. But it is a nice problem to have.
--That irritatingly pleasant female pitchman for the oil industry telling you all the good news about drilling for oil right here in the good ole' USA. And it produces jobs too!
--That really stiff and uncomfortable owner/pitchman for TaxMasters, who is your man if you haven't paid taxes in several years. I'm not convinced he really is the best tax accountant you could find, but he looks like he could be your man if you think you might have a physical altercation with the IRS agent.
--Former N.Y. Governor Elliott Spitzer as a TV journalist. The man is a hypocrite, a liar, and a criminal. So CNN gives him a primetime show. Apparently crime and hypocrisy do pay, and they pay quite well.
i say you are a lucky man, alan. and a brave and courageous one. i really envy that you could give up your home and downsize to make you bi continental living work. it just may come to that here as well.
Alan, I do envy you! | 2019-04-20T22:11:38Z | http://www.edelsteinrandomthoughts.com/2011/04/home-is-where.html |
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Academy’s debt for the second time since September 2018. The downgrades reflect Moody’s expectations for continued weak earnings and credit metrics in the near term, driven by a challenging operating environment, the transition of the company’s merchandising assortment, margin pressure from the mix shift to e-commerce and investments needed to improve the store and digital experience.
The NPD Group has signed an agreement with SportsOneSource, LLC (SOS) to acquire assets relating to the company’s SSI Data POS Sports and Outdoor tracking business. SportsOneSource will continue to support the active lifestyle market through its SGB Media publishing properties, including SGB Update, SGB Executive and SGB Today.
Reef, the beach lifestyle brand, announced that it has appointed Mike Jensen as president. Jensen most recently served as general manager and head of brand of DC Shoes.
Helmet maker Bern Helmets has appointed a new executive leadership team and board of advisers that is leading the company’s efforts in driving innovation, operational excellence and future growth.
Puma has promoted Anne-Laure Descours to chief sourcing officer and member of the management board. Puma’s Chief Operating Officer Lars Radoor Sørensen has stepped down to pursue other interests.
Sentry Products Group announced that Steve Hoffa has joined the firm as vice president of sales. Hoffa, formerly with Alpha Guardian (Cannon Safe/GunVault/Stack-On) and BLACKHAWK!, brings 20 years of sales and operations experience to the team.
Snow Peak, the outdoor lifestyle company, announced it has welcomed three new members to its leadership team. Filling the roles of chief financial officer, chief operating officer and senior retail manager, Snow Peak USA is poised to make 2019 a year of major growth.
Iconix Brand Group appointed John T. McClain as the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective February 11.
JD Sports reported same-store sales in the 48 weeks ended January 5 were up 5 percent.
Descente Ltd. reported net earnings slid 26.2 percent in the nine months through December 31 as sales increased 2.0 percent.
Safilo Group S.p.A. reported preliminary net sales in the fourth quarter equaled €249.1 million, up 1.3 percent at constant exchange rates and 1.8 percent at current exchange rates compared to the same period of 2017. The performance of the wholesale business was negative by 4.1 percent at constant exchange rates.
FBI background checks, as adjusted by the NSSF, continued their trend of year-over-year declines, falling 7.8 percent in December to 1.49 million from 1.62 million in December 2017 on an NSSF-adjusted basis.
According to Golf Datatech, golf rounds played in the U.S dropped 7.7 percent in December year-over-year while ending up down 4.8 percent for the year.
Columbia Sportswear filed a $20 million racketeering lawsuit against Seirus Innovative Accessories and Ventex Co., claiming the companies committed fraud and infringed on two of Columbia’s patents.
In response to an online petition demanding Nike recall many of its Air Max 270 models because a script logo on the sole resembles the word Allah in Arabic, Nike said in a statement that it “respects all religions” and any resemblance to the word is accidental.
New Balance released an “In Pursuit” campaign promoting its Fresh Foam cushioning line and celebrating female athletes and their ability to exceed goals.
Adidas signed four female hockey players, Brianna Decker and Kendall Coyne Schofield from the U.S. Women’s National Team and Canada women’s national team members Rebecca Johnston and Renata Fast.
At the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show, Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), Snowsports Industries America (SIA) and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) announced the formation of the Outdoor Business Climate Partnership, an alliance that will provide leadership on advocacy and inspire meaningful action on climate change across the outdoor business sector.
The 41st SHOT Show, owned and operated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), finished its four-day run with many notable successes, including a new record for exhibitors in its Suppliers Showcase and an innovative Pop-Up Preview that proved to be a hit with buyers.
The Running Industry Association (RIA) announced they will host a working show for their members titled, the RIA KICK Show. The inaugural show, to be held in June 2019 in Denver, CO, will feature 26 presenting brands and have space for 96 retail attendees.
Wolverine Worldwide is investing $300,000 in the Outdoor Foundation, the charitable arm of Outdoor Industry Association, to support the Thrive Outside Communities program.
Alterra Mountain Company signed sponsorship deals with The North Face and Smartwool.
Black Diamond Equipment, along with its sister brand Pieps, are named as official supplier and safety partners for the Freeride World Tour for the next three years.
Black Diamond Equipment was named as the exclusive brand partner by Whisper Ridge powder tours in Utah, the largest single-destination heli and cat skiing operation in the world.
Polartec introduced its Eco-Engineering initiative to use recycled and biodegradable materials across its entire product line.
Kohl’s announced a new, strategic collaboration with WW, formerly Weight Watchers, to pilot a variety of health and wellness offerings to help customers and Kohl’s associates on their wellness journeys.
Baden will remain the Official Ball of the Harlem Globetrotters through 2023.
Pocket Outdoor Media, best known for publishing VeloNews, has acquired Bicycle Retailer from Emerald Expositions.
Nike opened its first city-inspired SNKRS pop-up shop in Atlanta on 10th Street NW as well as a separate “Studio of Dreams” Super Bowl Content Studio nearby. | 2019-04-25T00:52:10Z | https://sgbonline.com/aisle-talk-week-of-january-28/ |
If you live in Denver, then it makes practical sense to own a snowblower. Of course, it helps if that snowblower actually works. Just as with any other piece of equipment a snowblower is prone to breakage. The worst thing that can happen is you heading out clear your driveway and have the blower putter out. That’s why it’s always a good thing to check the blower before the first no shows up. If you’re snowblower is ready for the trash heap, then it’s time to give Junk King Denver call. These are the junk removal professionals who can efficiently haul away that old snowblower and any other power tool that has seen better days.
Your garage might actually be a kind of power tool “graveyard.” There could be all manner of broken drills, lawnmowers, compressors and other tools that are beyond repair. The good news is that this is the time of year when all those things can be replaced if you asked Santa! The even better news is that call to Junk King Denver can make for your new tools.
Junk King Denver is going to send over a very capable two-man moving crew to facilitate your junk removal task. This is all the manpower you need to get rid of just about anything from your home. Although loading up those power tools might not require two movers you’re going to get to movers all the same. Perhaps you can put them to use throughout the rest of the house. Is there an old recliner that you want to toss out? What about a bedroom set up in the attic? Maybe there is some exercise equipment or even a piano you’re done with. All of that can be turned over to Junk King Denver for fast and efficient junk removal.
The cost for this service is going to break the household budget. If you were to price this out on your own, then you would end up spending a lot more than Junk King Denver would charge. If you want to find out how fast and affordable Junk King Denver’s services are, then give them a call today. You won’t be disappointed!
This entry was posted in junk removal and tagged Junk King, junk removal, tools on November 30, 2016 by Paul Durant. Last updated August 15, 2017 .
When it comes to holiday decorating do, you take the minimalist approach or go all out? The minimalist approach could mean some strategically placed electric candles on windowsills. It might mean a few white icicle lights hanging along the rainspout. It’s a very classy look. “Going all out” means literally pulling out the stops and hanging up all kinds of bright twinkling lights, inflatables for the front lawn and all manner of Santa Claus statues, reindeers, elves, snowmen and other seasonal favorites scattered throughout the yard and inside the house. Both approaches work and both would benefit from a call to Junk King Denver. These are the junk removal pros that can help you remove your clutter before you start hanging decorations. That can make a huge difference with how your home will look once all the lights go out!
Junk King Denver is good supply you with a very capable moving crew. Of course, with this team of movers it’s just a “one-way ticket” for your junk. They’ll take everything out of the home that you want removed in a single session. Weight is never an issue for this crew. Neither is size. They have often been called upon to get rid of things as cumbersome as a piano or entertainment center where is easy as an old computer monitor. They literally mean no job is too big or too small!
The things you’re tossing out don’t automatically need to be targeted for the trash heap. Instead, certain items could be repurposed by a charity. There are many organizations around Denver that employ residents to help reupholster furniture or fix appliances. This is where your stuff could end up and result in a double benefit. You’re helping folks stay employed and helping those in need with these items.
It might sound like a lot of work to make those extra drop offs but that is something you don’t have to worry about. It’s all included in the flat fee that you’ll be paying Junk King Denver for their complete junk removal package. That is a fee that is always based on space as in how much space for your junk take up on the back of the truck. It’s a very fair pricing approach for this type of service. You shouldn’t hang one strand of holiday lights without hiring Junk King Denver to clear out the clutter first.
This entry was posted in junk removal and tagged decorations, holidays, Junk King, junk removal on November 23, 2016 by Paul Durant. Last updated August 15, 2017 . | 2019-04-24T00:07:36Z | https://www.junk-king.com/locations/denver/2016/11/ |
INFOM will hold an international seminar in May 2019. This is originally a workshop targeted to clinicians qualifications for certificated physician of forest medicine. The INFOM international certificate of completion will be handed to the doctors who will complete this course.
This seminar is not just for doctors, but anyone who are interested in Shinrin-Yoku can also be participated in. The INFOM Seminar certificate of completion for non-doctor is also available on chargeable basis.
*Application for entry and further more information, please contact the secretary.
11:00 Meet at JR Takasaki station. Move to venue by bus.
And other staff will be in charge. | 2019-04-26T02:35:13Z | http://infom.org/symposiums/workshop_2019.html |
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