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One of the most distinguished golf professionals in Hawaii, Ashworth has more than 25 years of experience in the golf industry and has received many accolades, including 2008 Golf Professional of the Year from the PGA Aloha Section. He is the District 11 Director for the PGA of America, representing the Aloha, Northern California and Southern California Sections. His term is scheduled to run through 2018.
A native of Spokane, Washington, Ashworth discovered his passion for golf at a young age through his father, who served as a golf course superintendent for 30 years. A graduate of the University of Washington, Ashworth began working at the University’s driving range as the youngest golf instructor ever hired. In 1993, Ashworth accepted the position of Assistant Golf Professional at McCormick Woods Golf Course in Port Orchard, Washington, and was promoted to Head Golf Professional in 1997 when he received his PGA membership. Ashworth came to Hawaii in 2001 as the Head Golf Professional at Ko Olina Golf Club on Oahu.
A member and past president of the PGA Aloha Section and the Hawaii Alliance for Golf, Ashworth also has been honoured with the prestigious Bill Strausbaugh Award in 2009 and 2012, the Horton Smith Award, and most recently the Resort Merchandiser of the Year 2013 for the PGA of America’s Aloha Section. He was honoured by previous employers as Head Golf Professional of the Year for Billy Casper Golf in 2005 and Marriott Golf Professional of the Year in 2009.
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Leaving a successful 12-year career in the financial services industry, Kendric Kimizuka followed his passion for golf to become one of Hawaii’s leading club professionals. At Manele Golf Course, he manages golf operations and tournament operations, and oversees the instruction program.
Kimizuka’s career change started in 2002 when he attended the San Diego Golf Academy, where he earned his degree in golf management. His work on the islands began in 2004 at Kaanapali Golf Resort before he moved on to Kauai Lagoons Golf Club, where he was a staff professional from 2008 through 2013. The PGA of America’s Aloha Section named Kimizuka Assistant Professional of the Year in 2009.
Kimizuka, who has a degree in finance from the University of Hawaii Manoa, is a past co-chair of the Children’s Miracle Network Golf Tournament, which benefits the only full-service pediatric hospital in the state, and has worked with the Hawaii State Junior Golf Association.
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Born and raised in Hawaii, Seril Shimizu combines his love of golf and the outdoors in his work, overseeing all golf course maintenance at Manele. A member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and theHawaii Golf Course Superintendents Association, Shimizu has a Masters of Science in agriculture from Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo as well as a degree in turfgrass management.
Prior to joining Four Seasons Resorts, Shimizu worked for Makelei Golf Club in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii, as well as The Club at Kukuiula-Koloa, on the Island of Kauai. Shimizu lives in Lanai City and enjoys fishing, diving and hunting.
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Suspect wouldn't pull over during chase, wanted to finish smoking joint
By Ingrid Kelley
Stravansky Nycassio Hinds.
MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. (WJBK) - A bizarre Macomb County chase as police pulled over a man who said he didn't stop sooner, because he wanted to finish smoking a joint.
Just after 5:30 pm on Sunday, Michigan State Police in a hot pursuit of this motorist, 36-year-old Stravansky Nycassio Hinds
The pursuit starts on M-53 near 30 Mile Road in Washington Township.
"This particular individual had a couple of things," said Lt. Michael Shaw. "He was driving in the left lane of a two lane highway which is illegal - you have to stay to the right, and he had improper plate which got trooper's attention."
Shelby Township Police got wind of the pursuit and joined in.
"We had heard information across the radio that state police was involved in pursuit on M-53 and our officers took a position to assist with it," said Shelby Township Deputy Police Chief Mark Coil.
As law enforcement officials work together, they closed in on the Clinton Township man and tell him to get out of the vehicle.
"This individual decided to tell our troopers that he knew he had an extraditable warrant out of Florida," Shaw said. "He wanted to make phone calls to his family, he wanted to finish his marijuana joint before he went to jail."
Police say they searched the vehicle and based on what they found inside, they believe he was not only a danger to himself, but everyone else on the road.
"We did find marijuana, some liquor and different things," Shaw said. "Part of it is kind of humorous, (but) he was impaired and he was definitely a danger to others."
Police say Hinds was arraigned on Monday on several charges including impaired driving and fleeing police.
He is currently in the Macomb County Jail and is awaiting extradition back to Florida on drug charges.
"He's got about 6 other warrants from other municipalities in Michigan," Shaw said. "We have to take care of ours and then Florida has a hold on him because they want him back."
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Former Duncanville teacher arrested for sex with student
A former Duncanville High School teacher is in jail for an alleged improper relationship with a student.
In a police affidavit, a student claims when he was 15 years old he and Elizabeth Ramsey had sex multiple times.
The school district says Ramsey taught at the school from 2009 to this past year, before leaving for another job.
Duncanville ISD says it did not know about the allegations while she was a teacher.
Ramsey's been charged for improper relationship and the sexual assault of a child.
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2016 deadly year for drivers, pedestrians on Minnesota roads
(KMSP) - 2016 was a deadly year for both drivers and pedestrians on Minnesota’s roads.
The Minnesota State Patrol says 397 people lost their lives in traffic accidents last year, according to a preliminary report. That number is down from the 411 traffic deaths in 2015, but it is expected to increase as final crash data is evaluated.
The 397 deaths included 362 drivers, 53 motorcyclists, seven bicyclists and 60 pedestrians.
The number of pedestrian deaths was up from 41 in 2015. This is the highest number of pedestrian deaths in the state since 1991 and a 50 percent increase in fatalities in the past five years, the State Patrol says.
To ensure the safety of pedestrians, the State Patrol says drivers must treat every corner as a crosswalk and stop for pedestrians crossing at all corners and crosswalks, whether marked or unmarked.
Authorities also advise pedestrians to only cross at a corner, marked crosswalk or where a traffic light is present and to never cross in the middle of the road or walk down an interstate.
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Andrew Freedman
Lewis Koski
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© 2018 by Freedman & Koski.
Illinois Legalization Demand and Sources of Supply
A half-banked industry -- new cannabis businesses need access to financial service
Government has lost its credibility to talk pot
Colorado's Cannabis Laws Need To Allow More Investment Dollars
Making Medical Marijuana Medical
The FDA just opened the door to transforming marijuana policy
Cannabis 2.0: How technology firms are impacting cannabis regulations.
Cannabis chaos — Sessions has no exit strategy for his war on drugs
Just say no to D.A.R.E — starting a better conversation about youth drug prevention
Nevada should snuff out pot distributor mandate
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared in The Washington Post on June 27, 2018.
John Hudak is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and senior adviser at the cannabis policy consulting firm Freedman & Koski. He is the author of “Marijuana: A Short History.”
The Food and Drug Administration did something entirely routine and completely unprecedented Monday: It approved a drug called Epidiolex.
What makes this move historic? For the first time, the agency approved a cannabis-based medicine. The FDA has previously approved a synthetic cannabis medicine, but Epidiolex is different; it is manufactured from plant matter, a chemical compound in the cannabis plant called cannabidiol, or CBD.
The approval of Epidiolex, manufactured by GW Pharmaceuticals, flies in the face of decades of political rhetoric, public policy and the legal standards underpinning cannabis prohibition. With this decision, public officials can dramatically change the manner in which the U.S. government engages with cannabis. The question remains: Will the government take this potentially transformational opportunity?
This marks the first time the FDA has admitted that cannabis has medical value, specifically to treat serious epilepsy disorders. Under 1970’s Controlled Substances Act, the cannabis plant and its products have been labeled Schedule I substances, making them illegal in all circumstances. As part of that designation, Congress (not scientific or medical experts) determined that cannabis has no accepted medical use; cannot be used safely, even under medical supervision; and has high abuse potential. Approving Epidiolex directly refutes the legal basis for the absolute prohibition of cannabis in the United States.
That said, the approval of Epidiolex does not legalize medical cannabis, nor does it authorize the 30 statesthat have approved medical cannabis programs. In fact, it doesn’t even legalize CBD. The law continues to hold the vast majority of those substances illegal (the only exception being products developed from industrial hemp, as per the 2014 farm bill).
Despite this approval — the FDA’s finding that the drug is safe and effective — Epidiolex remains a Schedule I substance. Another action is still required. To bring this product to market, the FDA, in conjunction with the Justice Department, must take another historic step: rescheduling a cannabis-based compound.
Since the 1970s, federal regulators have denied rescheduling petitions for cannabis. The decision to approve this drug effectively forces their hand on rescheduling. And given GW Pharmaceuticals’ assessment of the drug’s abuse potential — demonstrating it to be low — Epidiolex may be rescheduled from Schedule I to Schedule III or IV.
This historic drug approval, however, came after a long and sometimes bureaucratic road for the drugmaker. GW Pharmaceuticals is a British firm, which is fitting, given that the barriers to conducting research into the medical efficacy of cannabis are so numerous in the United States. A combination of bureaucracy and politics has meant that researchers abroad are beating U.S. researchers in studying this plant. In fact, most of the cannabis that GW uses for research is grown by a private British firm. That’s not surprising, as research-grade cannabis in the United States typically leaves scientists unsatisfied.
Under our current system, cannabis used in research is typically supplied by a single domestic source: a farm at the University of Mississippi. That monopolistic control over the supply was ostensibly broken in 2016 when the Drug Enforcement Administration signaled that it was open to expanding the number of domestic producers. However, since that time and despite dozens of applications from legitimate institutions, the Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions has refused to approve a single one.
This political and bureaucratic hurdle signals something broader in American policy when it comes to cannabis: Despite the FDA’s statement Monday that it will “continue to support rigorous scientific research on the potential medical uses of marijuana-derived products,” other entities within the government constantly and purposefully stand in the way.
Given the expansion of state-level medical cannabis programs, the federal government should strongly encourage such research. In approving Epidiolex, the FDA has signaled to the rest of the government — specifically the DEA — that cannabis-based medicines can have medical value and can be regulated for safe medical use in this country.
This moment of liberation is long overdue, and the Justice Department should see this historic step as an invitation to stop letting politics guide the department’s choices on federal cannabis policy. Now is the time for the government to join the legions of medical and scientific realists who believe that cannabis has medical potential. When federal regulators stand in the way of high-quality, serious research, they are standing between patients and treatments that could improve or save lives. Epidiolex must mark the beginning of a new policy conversation that breaks down the numerous barriers facing medical cannabis research.
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3 Reasons Why Activation is a Game-Changer
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By Tony Holler
Football coaches are full of slogans. Recently I spoke to a former athlete who played football in the Big Ten. The idea of “creating toughness” through abusive coaching still lives. An entire culture of small-minded football coaches exist, even at some of our most prestigious universities. “I have a drawer full of football propaganda t-shirts. All-In. Courage. Passion. Relentless. We talked a lot about mental toughness.” In ancient Greece, Spartan boys were forced to endure beatings to make them strong warriors. Some football coaches continue this archaic practice. My former athlete, along with his teammates, were subjected punitive conditioning, punitive hitting drills, and other forms of creative abuse.
I continue to search for happy & healthy sports programs. Happy and healthy kids perform well. Too many programs produce misery as they attempt to create toughness. I may be on a quest for an unrealistic athletic utopia but my Quixotic journey continues.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. — Gautama Buddha
My journey began many years ago. Being the son of a teacher and coach combined with my innate ability to over-think made me a strange student. Evaluation of my teachers and their methods often overshadowed the subject matter. I have total recall of my former teachers and coaches. On the other hand, I can’t remember the phone numbers of my children.
I am told that I love praise. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, but I’m probably guilty as charged. To this day, I love encouragers. My favorite teachers and coaches treated me with respect and believed in me. I hated punishment. I still do. In a previous life, I must have died in a Spartan beating.
My track program attempts to be the best of all worlds. We train smarter, not harder. Practices are short. Athletes work hard by choice, not by demand. We cherish winning but we celebrate individual improvement. We make track & field into a team sport. My program is not alone. Many enlightened coaches have chosen to abandon the old ways. I wrote about one of those programs last summer in “Sprint-Based Football“.
In a perfect world, a teacher or coach should be a beacon of light. Kids, win or lose, should have a terrific experience. Students should go home with stories about the classroom. Athletes should look forward to practice. Many programs have other objectives. Too many football locker rooms should take down their silly slogans and just tell the truth.
My journey has led me to a football team in LaGrange, Illinois. Nazareth Academy is a private, Catholic high school of less than 800 students. With the IHSA multiplier, Nazareth plays football in Class 6A in an 8-class system. The team is coached by Tim Racki. Racki won four consecutive state titles at Addison Driscoll in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. His overall record at Addison Driscoll was 76-13. Nazareth is presently 13-0 and will play Lemont (13-0) for the 6A state title at 1:00 Saturday, November 29th, at the University of Illinois.
Talent is the key to winning. Athletes win games. If given the choice, I will always take the team with the most athletes. FBS teams award 85 scholarships, FCS teams offer only 63 scholarships. Alabama would be a 40-point favorite over Alabama State. Why? Alabama has 85 highly ranked recruits. Alabama State has 63 lesser-ranked recruits. Enough said.
However, when the levels of athleticism is similar, other things come into play.
For the past several weeks I’ve studied something that should be of interest to all of you. I have written three articles on the subject, the introductory “Hamstrings, Activation, and Speed“, the follow-up “Speed Never Sleeps“, and “You Only Know What You Know“. The last article was written as a summary of everything I learned in a 20-hour “Be-Activated” seminar with Douglas Heel of Cape Town, South Africa. The first two articles were written as an outsider looking in. The third was written from the inside.
Douglas Heel working on Bartlett coach Eric Kramer.
Nazareth is the home of the only football team in the country who has adopted the teachings of Douglas Heel and has fully installed “Be-Activated”. When I say fully installed, I am not exaggerating. Activation is central to Nazareth football. When I first asked coach Tim Racki about Activation, he replied without hesitation, “It’s a difference-maker”.
Let’s get one thing straight right now, “Be-Activated” is not MAT (Muscle Activation Techniques). MAT has been made famous by Greg Roskopf and his famous patient, Peyton Manning. In addition, “Be-Activated” is not ART (Active Release Technique). There is no business model for “Be-Activated”. I am not a part of some advertising campaign, pyramid scheme, or religious cult.
Some of you will question my excitement. Some of you will question my lack of skepticism. People can think what they want, but I am a science guy who doesn’t believe in ghosts, demons, or zombies. I don’t believe in jinxes, karma, or fate. I teach my students, “there’s no magic, there’s only science and illusion”. I have a very sensitive “bullshit meter” and live by Mark Twain’s advice, “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect”.
I did not drink the Kool Aid. I did not pledge my life to a religious doctrine. I am not trying to sell you anything. What I am sharing will not make me a dime. “Be-Activated” is something that can change a football team and maybe change your life. That’s all. Ha.
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Football coaches are all too familiar with the Steinbeck idiom “the best laid plans of mice and men”. Football teams all over the country are decimated by injuries. Seasons filled with championship dreams often end with a sad whimper. Most football teams regress during the season. I am a track coach. At least in football, guys get taped up and play. Track athletes who are 5% reduced by an injury go from first to last. There is no margin for error in track & field. Rest, recovery, and health dwarfs whatever can be accomplished in practice.
The typical football team has a trainer or two at every practice. Trainers typically tape ankles and diagnose injuries. They apply ice. They do concussion protocol. Without injuries, trainers have very little to do. Trainers react to injuries. Activation is proactive, not reactive.
2014 ESCC MVP, Juilan Love, is shown here with an activation stick before practice. Julian is activating the psoas. The entire team activates themselves during this period. Pre-practice and pregame team-activation is warmup, activation, focus, and breathing all wrapped into one 15-minute session.
Team activation lasts 15-18 minutes. Here Dex Kelly is using a stick to activate his quads. Ryan Kramer is in the background. The slogan on the activation stick reads “ACTIVATE & DOMINATE”.
In Nazareth’s 13th game, only one player on a roster of 53 was injured and unable to play. 98% of the Nazareth’s roster was activated and healthy. In 9 of Nazareth’s 13 games, no more than TWO players were out of competition. In each playoff game, 52 of 53 players were ready to go. 46 of Nazareth’s 53 players played in all 13 games.
The seven-year injury data is compelling. “Be-Activated” was first implemented three years ago. Prior to activation, the entire Nazareth football program averaged 73 injuries per year. Injuries are defined as something causing a player to miss at least one practice or one game. A season-ending injury is considered one injury. One missed practice is considered one injury. Since activation, injuries have been reduced by 45%. In 2008, there were 87 injuries, in 2014’s extended season, there has been only 31. The number of combined fractures and surgeries have been reduced from 9.0 per year to 1.5 per year. I realize this is just one team, but 83% reduction in fractures and surgeries is significant.
Concussions may end football as we know it. Boxing was on top of the world when I grew up. Not anymore. At Nazareth, concussions have been reduced by 28%. From 2008-2011 Nazareth averaged 13.3 concussions per year. Since activation, the yearly average has dropped to 9.3. This year Nazareth’s program had eight concussions, but only ONE of those concussions involved a varsity player. Wow. Activated muscles supporting the head may have a positive effect on limiting concussions.
The green bars indicate injury stats after activation had been implemented in 2012. As with all programs, activation has improved since since implementation. The lighter-colored companion bars indicate the combined number of concussions, fractures, and/or surgeries per year. The total number of severe injuries in the past two seasons, entire program, was only 17. In 2010, the number of severe injures was 30. In 2011, the number was 22.
How does activation decrease injuries and increase the speed of recovery? When muscles are working in sync, in sequence, and fully activated, the body moves correctly. Too many simple-minded people treat a hamstring injury by treating the hamstring. To prevent hamstring injuries, the same people try to make the hamstring bigger and stronger. Athletic movements are sequenced chain-reactions. Weak links in the chain and improper sequencing leads to injuries. When the same compensation patterns are reinforced, injuries linger and recur.
In addition to activation, it is important to note that Nazareth typically practices for less than two hours. Team activation is a part of that two-hour practice. Practices usually include nine 10-minute segments. Nazareth never tackles to the ground in practice. Enlightened college and professional coaches are moving away from excessive contact in practice and limiting time on the field. In my mind, this makes sense.
When activated, players immediately feel ready to perform. Obviously the word “feel” leaves everyone wondering, “is this a placebo effect?”.
One of the critical points in the process is the testing before and after activation. The ability of a muscle to function correctly is measurable. I can not take you through the entire process but take my word for it, a non-functioning glute can easily be diagnosed. An activated glute is measurable.
Sequencing must happen from Zone One outward to Zone Two and from Zone Two to Zone Three. If the sequencing does not originate with the psoas, all bets are off. I will not rewrite my last article here but the psoas and diaphragm basically function as the same unit. The diaphragm expands the lungs downward, the psoas connects the lower vertebrae to the femur and functions as a hip flexor. The reciprocal muscle to the psoas is the glute. The diaphragm, psoas, and glute make up Zone One.
This is what breathing looks like. Notice the lower abdomen of 6’1″ 196-pound Jordan Brooks. Also, notice Jordan’s FOCUS.
It’s impossible for coaches to prove points with scientific data from massive studies. We rely on anecdotal evidence and the art of coaching. Chris Korfist’s last article, “Is Your Squat Making You Slower and Wrecking Your Vertical Jump“, showed seven guys who look like they might be the leaders of the philosophy club. York’s group of sprinters were amazing.
Chris Korfist, with an emphasis on activation, produced a 4×1 team that finished only .02 behind our state champion, Edwardsville. York’s B-team ran 42.40 and their A-team ran 41.48. Anecdotal evidence? Yes. York won the team state title. When you consider the fact that Chris Korfist worked weekly with the IHSA Cross Country State Champs, Hinsdale Central, your interest in activation should be heightened. When you find out that Chris Korfist activates Nazareth football players, you might want to keep reading. To quote Stephen Stills, “There’s somethin’ happenin’ here”.
I have only completed the “Level 1 Workshop”, so I’m just a beginner. Last week, my junior sprinter, DeVaughn Hrobowksi was activated for the first time. DeVaughn ran 0.96 in the 10-meter fly. I have timed thousands of 10-meter flys in the past six years. DeVaughn set our school record without having a sprint workout in the past six months. Last year we had only one recorded time below 1.00 … just one, 0.99. The year before, we had none. We do fly-tens over 100 times per week. Anecdotal evidence? Yes.
Activation must be experienced to be understood. Dr. Tom Nelson believes activation must start with the head coach. From my experience, those who experience Be-Activated “get it”. Those on the outside looking-in are skeptics. My last article was titled, “You Only Know What You Know”. Those who speak against activation only know what they know, and they don’t know activation.
Impressive to see the sprint coach of the track state champs working on Dex Kelly before the Lake Forest game. Notice that Dex Kelly is rather uncomfortable.
Focus and Awareness
Am I the only coach who believed adrenaline was a good thing? Pregame motivational speeches stimulate natural performance enhancers, right? The threat of losing makes everyone play harder. If players know they will be punished for poor performance, they will fight like hell. Fear is a powerful drug, right? Isn’t fight or flight central to the competitor in all of us?
Track is a strange sport. We run meets all year with a handful of people in the stands. Sometimes I joke that I coach a team of orphans. Parents routinely boycott track meets. The cold, wet, and windy weather of the Chicago area may be the reason. The fact that track is considered by many to be a recreational activity may also be a factor. Running our final contest in front of 20,000 people is a paradigm shift for everyone competing in the state meet. I always tell my kids, “90% of all state qualifiers will not run their best at the state meet. Train wrecks are everywhere.” My advice is to detach and stay relaxed, no need to get excited, just stay focused on doing your job. Usain Bolt was in his own world when he set Olympic records in Beijing. Bolt was oblivious to the billions of people watching his race. He was in a zone.
Football is different. We have to prepare players for high-speed collisions. With the exception of the quarterback, everyone should “play like their hair’s on fire”. I’ve witnessed the prototypical pregame locker room. I’ve experienced the yelling and the banging on lockers. Players work themselves into a frenzy. I once coached a running back who nearly overdosed on energy drinks before a game. If you agree with this nonsense, you need a weekend with Douglas Heel.
Activation is a connection between mind and body. Adrenaline interferes with that connection. Activation moves the body towards the parasympathetic, not the sympathetic. The sympathetic is all about fight or flight. Freeze is the third f-word in the description. Flight, flight or freeze is exactly what happens to those track athletes at the IHSA State Meet. Athletes who stay connected mind, body, and spirit, … they are the exceptions. The exceptions set records.
I recently heard someone speak of Tom Brady’s unique ability “to turn excitement into focus”. While others are intentionally trying to lose themselves, players like Tom Brady find themselves. Activation helps athletes to find certainty, purpose, and confidence. Have you ever been “in the zone”? I once made seven consecutive perimeter shots in a college basketball game. The rim seemed huge. What if there was a drug that could put you “in the zone”? Activation may be the key. “The Zone” is also described as “Flow” by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. Would any coach reject this?
I first observed Chris Korfist doing activation about one year ago. I completed a 20-hour seminar in October. Douglas Heel personally activated me. After my personal experience, I needed to see activation in a group setting. Dr. Tom Nelson D.O., the Nazareth team doctor, invited me to visit. Tim Racki is the head coach, but Dr. Tom Nelson may be the soul of the team. The authenticity of Dr. Nelson is unique. I have not encountered many people in my life with a larger life-force, spiritual energy, charisma, etc. The activation work done at Nazareth Academy is greatly enhanced by the presence of Dr. Nelson.
Dr. Nelson activating 6’6″ 275-pound highly-recruited offensive tackle Jack Shutack before the Lake Forest game.
Alone, Dr. Nelson would not be effective. Tim Racki is the key. The head football coach is critical to activation. Without 100% buy-in, activation will wither on the vine. Even if the team doctor, trainers, and coaches are gung-ho, activation will be a joke if the team remains skeptical. This is not the case at Nazareth. I witnessed a commitment to activation equal to the commitment to win games. I know this seems bizarre, and it is. Imagine this … it’s halftime and the team takes their seats. Fire and brimstone? Blocking assignments? Defensive adjustments? None of the above. Dr. Nelson leads the team in breathing.
Halftime of the Lake Forest game … I’ve been in thousands of locker rooms with dozens of coaches. I’ve never experienced this. Dr. Nelson is leading the team in breathing. All-ESCC RB Nolan Dean and All-ESCC linebacker Dex Kelly both have their eyes closed, 100% focused. You can see their lower belly expanded. Powerful stuff.
Breathing is the key. Correct breathing that expands the lower abdomen, relaxes the body, and allows the deepest muscle in the human body, the psoas, to function correctly. Athletes are brought back to a sense of focus and awareness. Flow is rekindled. Players individually regroup and get back into “the zone”. In addition, the breathing is done together. I tingle when I write this. Together. Is there a more powerful word? Together is coaching Nirvana. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
Relaxation will allow us to play faster with more awareness. — Tim Racki
When I learned about this focus on breathing, I was skeptical. I expected breathing to be mentioned a few times during warmups. Maybe after a fumble or interception some Zen-like coach would calm a kid down by telling him to breathe. When I attended my first practice I witnessed activations done by Dr. Nelson and the Nazareth trainer, Andrew Wyman. The team activation session resembled a non-talking totally focused warmup. Self-activation was a part of that session. Players were instructed to breathe and they did this together. Assistant coaches assisted only with hydration, no talk. In matter of fact, the previous day, Coach Racki got upset with his assistants for talking to players during activation. Tim Racki can be a hard-nosed taskmaster. You definitely want to stay on Racki’s good side. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
Coach Racki is activated and in control. I loved his pregame statement, “If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today? Win and advance!”
When I attended my first game, I experienced everything but the team mass at 9:00 am. From 10 am to 11 am, Dr. Nelson and Freelap’s Chris Korfist activated player after player. Picture acupuncture done with fingers. Picture a hybrid of surgery and massage. Dr. Nelson and Chris Korfist talked to every kid as they were activated on tables. The words were spoken softly, calmly, and confidently. Players were encouraged. I love the word encourage … “to give courage”. Players want to be activated. The pain is intense but every kid wants it. Players believe in activation because it works. Before the St. Francis game the following week, Dr. Nelson and Chris Korfist were joined by Dr. Eric Janota, D.O.
At 11:00 am players went to a beautiful auditorium. In total darkness, Coach Racki took the team through visualization. I lost count after I heard “breathe” 100 times. Later in the visualization, background music increased the effect. There was no talk of winning and losing. No one spoke. Total focus. Eyes closed. Total darkness. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. The last segment of visualization was a loud football music video full of incredible plays and big hits. One was from Mississippi State who ironically got beat later that afternoon. At the end, the lights went on and Coach Racki barked, “Activation at 12:10”.
At 12:10, I saw no passes thrown, no plays reviewed, and no footballs. Instead I saw activation sticks. After I heard “breathe” for the thousandth time, I realized I was experiencing something special, something unique, “a difference maker”. A strange thing occurred to me, I had not considered Nazareth losing to Lake Forest. Winning and losing never crossed my mind. I had been swept away by the “flow”. Like the players, I was “in the zone”. Dr. Nelson asked me, “What would you give to play one more game?” and I almost teared up.
The players took the game field for a short warm-up. The temperatures were below freezing but no one was cold. Nazareth beat a good Lake Forest team 54-24.
#36 Devonte Dunn is a 6’2″ 260-pound sophomore. This is how activated players play.
Game number 13 was more of the same with Nazareth winning 56-28 over Wheaton St. Francis. Nazareth scored 28 points before St. Francis made a first down.
215-pound running back Nolan Dean has nearly 2000 rushing for the year. 6’3″ 255-pound All-ESCC Pat Kilcommons leads the way.
Julian Love was the ESCC MVP. In the first half against St. Francis, Love scored four touchdowns, three different ways: two touchdown receptions, one interception return, and a 95-yard kick-off return. The week before, Love returned a punt for a touchdown. Love ran track last year as a sophomore, running 22.86 in the 200 meters. Julian Love has been offered by Illinois.
In my introduction I said some bad things about Spartans. However, I loved the 1998 book “Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield.
Spartans routinely beat their sons and forced them to endure unimaginable hardships. In addition, babies deemed weak or imperfect were left to die of exposure or sold into slavery. Despite the repulsive acts of the militaristic Spartans, the Spartans fought well and fought together. “Gates of Fire”, later to be made into a cartoon-like movie “300”, told the story of the Battle of Thermopylae. Like all history, the truth is shrouded in mythology. Even if the story is nothing but a fable, I use it every year to teach athletes a valuable lesson.
Nazareth Academy is 13-0 and will play for the Illinois Class 6A State Championship on Saturday, November 29th. Their opponent is 13-0 Lemont. Predicting the outcome is impossible. There will be a battle, that’s all we know.
The Nazareth football team has given me a gift. They have allowed me into their tight-knit group to understand activation. Coach Racki has given me total access to all things Nazareth. In return, I would like to share with the Nazareth football team a story I tell my teams every year. I tell the story of the 300 Spartans.
When the Persians brought 100,000 warriors to conquer Greece, they had to enter through a narrow passage called Thermopylae. In an attempt to slow down the Persians, the Spartans chose a group of 300 warriors to delay their advance. The best warriors were not chosen. Instead, the 300 warriors with the strongest wives were chosen. You see, the mission was a suicide mission. All of the warriors’ children would become fatherless.
Your football game next week is not a suicide mission, but the outcome is anyone’s guess. The Spartans understood their fate and had no illusion of victory. However, they went into battle with their heads held high, full of confidence. The confidence had nothing to do with the outcome, their confidence was due to readiness and training. More important, they believed in each other. On their shields was the Greek symbol for unity, lambda. Confidence, certainty, awareness, focus, and togetherness … brothers breathing as one.
As in all mythology, the exact words are in question but I like the following interpretation. When representatives of Xerxes, the Persian king, were negotiating for free passage through Thermopylae, the leader of the Spartans, King Leonidas, refused to negotiate. Xerxes sent the message, “We will blacken the sky with our arrows.” And to this, a Spartan officer named Dienekes, responded, “Then we will fight you in the dark”.
As a coach, I’ve always believed excellence is our mission and winning is our objective. Every game, we lay it all on the line. We compete like there is no tomorrow. We should not fear losing. We are never certain of the final result, but are certain of our training and we will fight as one. The game is just a game, but the significance of that game is beyond the understanding of those never experiencing battle.
Somewhere in our DNA, we long to be a part of something, to stand together, and to fight as brothers.
Control what you can control. Be fearless. Be certain. Be activated.
Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
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Chris Korfist says
What Thomas Paine’s Common Sense did for the American Revolution, this may do for football.
Douglas Heel will be in Chicago Feb. 7/8 for a level 1.
david brewer says
Where can the activation sticks be purchased? Great article. I have been a fan of Chris Korfist and Dan Fichter since the inno-sport days.
Tony Holler says
Dr. Tom Nelson from the article above designed the activation sticks. Email me at tony.holler@yahoo.com and I will get you connected with Dr. Nelson.
Mike Steadman says
I too had the honor to spend two inspiring day’s with Coach Racki, his coaches the men and one of their secret weapons Doctor Tom Nelson. Activation is incorporated into the players lives as well as Christ’s message. That combination will make any team a powerful force to be reckoned with.. Best of luck in winning state! I wont be too surprised if they dominate and win.
Trey Bates says
Is there anyone in Texas that does “Be-Activated”?
I have not heard of anyone from Texas who does “Be-Activated”, but I will check this out for you. The people using “Be-Activated” include doctors, chiropractors, Pilates instructors, yoga instructors, coaches, athletic trainers, personal trainers, and everyday people. Nazareth Academy, to my knowledge, is the only football team in the U.S. who has implemented the program. Douglas Heel is making another trip to Chicago February 7th and 8th (Level-1 Seminar). He will also do a Level-2 February 14th and 15th. I will be attending the latter.
Maura gates says
Tony – Great write-up on “Be-Activated”
I have had the honor of participating in these seminars of Douglas Heel – have implemented the practice w/ my clients w/ tremendous results! Worth every minute of your time & commitment!
I have yet to hear anything negative about “Be-Activated” … with the exception of those who have never attended a workshop, never been activated, never met Chris Korfist, etc. “You only know what you know.”
Troy Lange says
is there a resource for this that can be purchased or similar? I’m in Australia so I won’t have any hope of seeing Doug probably ever!
You can follow Douglas Heel on twitter @DouglasHeel. You can ask him questions about upcoming visits to Australia. You can also visit his website, DouglasHeel.com.
Andrea Link says
Hi Troy Lange,
Douglas will be in Australia next spring! He will be speaking at Filex 2015 http://www.filex.com.au/nigels-welcome and a selection of Level 1 courses are being planned as we speak. All details will go here on his diary here http://www.douglasheel.com/diary/ as soon as they are confirmed- Be careful what you wish for- it might come true:0)
Zoe Queally says
I love “be activated” it has totally changed my practice for the better. Doug Heel courses are amazing. My patients at least are total fans 🙂
The season ended well for Nazareth as they dominated 13-0 Lemont, cruising to a 26-7 victory.
Nazareth was almost beaten by the flu. 19 players and 2 coaches were on the “sick bus” for the trip to Champaign on Friday. 2 more players and 2 more coaches got sick Friday night before the Saturday game. The hotel resembled a MASH unit.
Dr. Tom Nelson again proved to be the team MVP. Six players were IV recipients and recovered by game-time.
Here is the game summary from the Chicago Tribune … http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/highschool/ct-spt-1130-prep-football-6a-lemont-nazareth-20141129-story.html
Did the first Be-Activated seminar in Chicago (2 or 3 years ago). It was awesome, however, I realized after reading this article, I was under-emphazing the breathing (diaphragm) part of activation. It definitely makes a difference.
I am sure Naz coaches and of course Dr Tom have already addressed this – after being engaged and commited to this different methodology “Be – Activated” – how do these men move forward into college athletics knowing these future teams are not participating in “Be – Activated” – yet?
In addition, “Be – Activated” incorporates into everyday life….sure would be interesting to be able to follow these men in their future to note: academic achievement in college, stress management, and health history.
Maura,
This is a fascinating question. Like you, I want to know how these kids will grow into their college careers. Hopefully “Be-Activated” will become a part of all college programs. There is no down-side. It’s win-win in all regards.
On another note, Julian Love may be a 1st round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. Only a junior, his highlight tape is freaky. He could play for the Bears right now!
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/2503921/highlights/167801382
Ray Ogren says
The study that implies that “Be Activated” reduced injury in Nazareth High School football team is unscientific . Correlating that the decrease in injuries for those year was a result as “Be Activated” cannot be said. There are to many other factors that can contribute to a decrease in injury. To state that Be Activated is the reason is at best a leap of faith.
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Charge will be scratched in Valpo manicure case if customer stays out of trouble for 6 months
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VALPARAISO — The Valparaiso woman who attracted national attention after allegedly walking out of a nail salon without paying and then attempting to drive away with an employee clinging to her BMW will have her criminal charge dropped if she remains out of trouble for six months, her attorney said.
Charley Fowler, 29, on Thursday entered into what is known as a pretrial deferment on the single misdemeanor theft count, attorney Jesse Harper said. "The circulation of this sensationalized story has undermined my name, character, reputation and everything I have worked so hard for," Fowler said in a prepared statement. "As a consumer I believed you had the right to dispute a service in which you are unsatisfied and causes harm; never did I have the intent to steal from this business," she said. "Prolonging this traumatic experience by going to trial seems illogical, and instead I will be donating those funds to endcyberbullying.org, an organization that combats public shaming and the detrimental impact cyberbullying has on individuals."
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The incident occurred just before noon June 16 at the Diamond Nails & Spa, 2505 LaPorte Ave. in Valparaiso. Fowler is accused by Valparaiso police of walking out of the business without paying a $30 bill after voicing her displeasure with a manicure. While salon employees told police they offered to redo the manicure and Fowler declined, attorney Bob Harper said Fowler was too busy to stay and said she would return the following day.
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Monday 2/26/2018: Sneak Peek at the Week; Weird, Watery Neptune in the News
Some of my Facebook friends are reporting a bit of stress this morning. And indeed, the stress of a potential power play and/or emotional catharsis is reflected by today’s nurturing Cancer Moon in a face off with ruthless Pluto, exact at 8:11 AM ET. What needs to be released so that something else might thrive? The mood expands — for better or for worse — as lunch approaches, courtesy of a harmony between the Moon and Jupiter. Note the potential for a flash of illumination, a twist or other upset to the status quo around 4:51 PM ET, as rebel Uranus challenges the emotional security-seeking Cancer Moon. From then until 11:42 PM ET, the Moon will be void of course, suggesting a time to not make a mountain out of a molehill. Chill and focus on routine concerns, preferably those close to home. Roll with whatever twists and flakes may disrupt your efforts to move forward in a straight line. If you are new to this forecast and not familiar with the term “void of course Moon,” here’s the 411.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY are sponsored by the Moon in drama queen Leo. Great for party, a show or for issuing royal edicts. Emotions are on the rise, as the Moon is waxing to fullness in Virgo on THURSDAY at 7:51 PM ET. Before we get to Thursday, however, we have a busy few days of communication flows and challenges, as well as a chance to pour your heart out. In the case of the latter, on TUESDAY Venus in intuitive Pisces will be in harmony with powerbroker Pluto in Capricorn.
But wait, there’s more. Mercury (the way we need to think and communicate) pulls focus on WEDNESDAY, challenging a righteously opinionated, boundary-pushing Mars in Sagittarius, exact at 6:56 PM ET. An outburst energy for those walking and talking. Keep an eye on P45, as that Mars will be sitting on his opinionated Sag Moon, opposing his blah blah blah Gemini Sun. Provoked much? If you have a planet or angle around 20 degrees of Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo or Pisces, you may also feel a wee bit provoked. Count to ten before you lash out. And that includes the horoscope of the United States, too. Transiting Mars in Sag will connect with Mars and Neptune in the USA horoscope. Assertion, anger, scandal, vision, dreams, drugs, oil, fantasy — watch the headlines — and expect the debate over gun control to continue.
Later on Wednesday, Mercury will be in harmony with Pluto at 11:40 PM ET. Should be a fine day for investigative reporters. Mercury-Pluto patterns excel at digging up dirt. The Leo Moon goes void at 6:13 PM ET on Wednesday; chill until 12:57 AM ET on THURSDAY, when the Moon enter Virgo to clean up the mess.
THURSDAY features the aforementioned Full Moon. In Virgo, its mission is to refine, organize and make things perfect. A lovely harmony between Venus and Jupiter, exact at 6:22 AM ET, gets that day off to an amiable — dare I say generous — start. Another easy flow between Mercury and Jupiter, exact FRIDAY at 8:05 AM ET, facilitates big news in publishing, legal affairs and other systems of collective beliefs. By then we’ll be seeing manifestations of rose-colored glasses to the max. Why? Because on SUNDAY the Pisces Sun makes its annual meet-up with visionary Neptune, and Mercury meets up with Venus. The two together scream “idealism!!” — to be expressed prominently in matters of women, money, art and social expression the following week. Watch how those themes will be reflected in the Academy Awards.
What are your plans for a dreamy weekend escape? Moon goes void at 6:50 PM ET on FRIDAY; West Coasters can skip out early.
Don’t know where your planets are? Why not make an appointment for a personal consultation? Really, there’s too much going on in the cosmos to remain clueless about how it likely to impact YOU. Now is the time to plan a strategy for the rest of 2018 — and beyond.
In the aftermath of the Never-Ending Uranus-Pluto Square of 2011-2016, autocrats rule. Now it’s President Xi of China joining the Men Who Would Be King Club. Yesterday the Communist Party announced it was abolishing constitutional terms limits. And why not, on a day with Sun (leaders) in harmony with Saturn (authority, structure), with the Cancer Moon about to be challenged by power-grabbing Pluto? Xi’s birth date is unconfirmed, though it is reportedly June 15, 1953. That would make him another double-talking Gemini whose horoscope was under a streamlining squeeze all last year, as Saturn opposed his Sun. Moon in either regal Leo or Cancer. Mars at 0 Cancer — the prominent Aries Point. We can watch for prominent initiatives from him next week.
Also — the American Dream is still alive for those currently threatened by the destruction of DACA. SCOTUS refusedto hear the P45 Administration’s argument on why it should be permitted to strip Dreamers of their protected homeland status.
Back in 2009, when I began writing this forecast (!!!), the original conceit was to see if awareness of planetary patterns could be used to anticipate the headlines in the “paper of record,” a.k.a., the New York Times. With Neptune pulling so much focus, I would expect a truckload of stories involving fish, water, oil, drugs, glamour, fanatics, scandal, film, illusion, spirits, victims, pacifists, lies — to name a few. Here are some examples from Sunday’s edition:
On the front page — a special report — The Drowning Coast.
Next up: Despite an Ethics Order, Cuomo Took $890K from Appointees
In Russia, Bringing Home the Children Raised by ISIS
Why Your Pharmacist Can’t Tell You That $20 Prescription Could Cost Only $8
European Ex-Officials Deny Being Paid by Manafort to Lobby for Ukraine
In the Business Section — front page profile of Linda McMahon, illusionist extraordinaire (“It did not matter that the venue…was not as TV viewers were told…”)
Why These Goldfish are 70 Percent Organic
Catching Forgeries and Aiding Justice
Sports Sunday — Raw Octopus That Quivers? Don’t Mind If I Do — on the front page! Of the SPORTS section?!
Sunday Styles — front page — actress Heather Graham’s new film is called “Half Magic.” It’s a rom-com about sexism (Venus in Pisces square Mars in Sag) in Hollywood (Neptune).
“Rehearsals Follow Rehab” — profile of cabaret singer Luann de Lesseps
Arts & Leisure — front page — “Spellbound” — about next month’s Broadway debut of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
Metropolitan — front page — “A Murder, A Conviction and Doubt” (“…the case remains muddled and a jailed man remains in limbo.”)
Week in Review — front page — “Am I Going Blind?” (“…my eyesight is in jeopardy. But I see some things more clearly than ever”)
“What Poisons Are in Your Body?” — this one links to an app called the Detox Me Action Kit — check it out and change your life for the better
Ghosts, monsters and other supernatural stories are discussed in more than one piece in the NYT Book Review
The cover story of the NYT Sunday Magazine — Is Google Too Powerful — doesn’t seem to fit the Neptune theme — until you realize it’s about how smaller companies are being totally wiped out
The back page of the Magazine features cinematographer Rachel Morrison
Travel Section — front page — “A Weird and Fragile Louisiana Beauty” Opening sentence: “If New Orleans is an aging beauty queen drunk on the fumes of her glorious past, Plaquemines Parish, to the southeast, is plain old sloshed — not to mention saturated, striated, slivered and surrounded by water. “
Obituaries — Sridevi Kapoor, Bollywood’s First Female Superstar, Dies at 54 She drowned in a hotel bathtub.
What do you think? Coincidence or conspiracy? Next Sunday I expect we’ll have more of the same, with Neptune pulling focus in planetary patterns.
Thank you for reading this forecast.
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Astro-logical Forecast for Saturday 11/19/2016 & Then Some: Neptune Direct; the Bubble Bursts
Happy day driven by Moon in rip-roarin’ drama king Leo! Life is a cabaret, old chum. Let the razzle-dazzle, royal edicts begin! Nebulous Neptune colors it all rose, engaged as it is with the personal planets: Mercury and Venus — as noted in Monday’s forecast. Themes of idealism, illusion and lies — for starters — certainly they are all over the news, which we will get to in a minute. Neptune — as you may recall — turns direct tonight at 11:39PM ET. You’re more personally affected by the uptick in idealism, dreaminess, bewilderment and/or potential ego wipeout if you have a planet or other significant point in your horoscope around 8-11 degrees of Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius and Gemini.
Generally speaking, planetary patterns facilitate a need for a beautiful escape. Pay attention to your dreams now and over the next day or so. Neptune pulling focus suggests a flow of information on the “dogwhistle channel,” which finally breaks through to the conscious mind. Note the symbols and signs. Note also the potential for a ruthless effort at consolidating power and control, suggested by the Sun’s passage through the last few degrees of Scorpio.
No Moon void this weekend is apt for shopping impulses. It’s not too early to be thinking of holiday gifts — someone you love would be thrilled to have a gift certificate for a personal consultation about their horoscope — and with the Moon void at 8:52AM ET on Black Friday, I’m not convinced those deals you scoop up during that Moon void will please. Shop now!
The Sun enters Sagittarius at 4:23PM ET on Monday. No sleeping in.
And now, the news — most all of it related to Neptune: oceans, oil, ships, fraud, water, fantasy…
Dutch warships at the bottom of the Java Sea are missing — believed to have been sold as scrap metal. An untapped oil field three times larger than North Dakota’s Bakken has been discovered in Texas. The Arctic Ocean is now off-limits for oil drilling — for now — says the Obama Administration. J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them premiered in London. In Slovenia, water was declared a constitutional right, not a market commodity. In Miami, Monday’s Supermoon was followed by record-breaking “king tides.”
Meanwhile, JP Morgan settled a bribery case — in which it was accused of hiring the children of Chinese leaders “to win business in the fast-growing nation.” Late Friday, another case was settled — this one a class action suit alleging fraud on the part of Trump University. You may recall Donald Trump tweeting earlier this year that he would never settle — on principle. You may also recall a post here last week noting that the November 28th start date for the trial was on a Moon void that was also dead, suggesting a high flake factor, twist and/or a back-room negotiation. JP Morgan settled its bribery case for $264 million. The president-elect settled his for $25 million. Such a deal.
If you missed the Trump U fraud settlement, perhaps it’s because social media is now all abuzz with news that Mike Pence went to see “Hamilton” on Broadway last night, and he was mostly booed by the audience (some did applaud). At the end of the show, the cast addressed Pence, thanking him for attending the performance and adding — with the idealistic social expression we might expect with Neptune pulling such strong focus this week:
“We, sir — we — are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” he said. “We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.”
The president-elect took to Twitter to demand the cast apologize.
Which brings me to the bubble that is showing signs of bursting. And this is one of the bubbles suggested by Saturn (reality, control, authority) in Sagittarius (opinion, publishing, collective belief) square Neptune (surreal, lies, faith) in Pisces (victims, feelings, faith). This was the major planetary pattern of late 2015 until just about now.
The bubble that is bursting is fake news, now that Saturn and Neptune are moving away from each other. Alas, too little, too late. This story cites seven fake stories — most of which I saw posted on various FB pages — that were circulating before the election. This Washington Post interview with fake-news writer Paul Horner is a must must must-read — here’s an excerpt:
You mentioned Trump, and you’ve probably heard the argument, or the concern, that fake news somehow helped him get elected. What do you make of that?
My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.
Here’s an interview with another fake news profiteer. Another must-read: “Blue Feed, Red Feed: See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook Side-by-Side.” — if you ever needed proof that our polarized nation is living in separate bubbles. Here’s a YouTube video about it. And then there’s this: “Bursting the Fakebook Bubble: We Asked Voters on the Left and Voters on the Right to Swap Feeds.”
This week, Mark Zuckerberg announced a new “push against fake news,” after being called out by President Obama. We shall see. And we will be writing of other bubbles bursting in future forecasts.
UPDATE — posted on 12/7/2016 — but written on Nov 22 or so — MORE NEWS!Still more fallout from nebulous Neptune turning direct — real vs. unreal — also reflected in Beth Owlsdaughter’s always-in-sync Tarot Card of the Week. This week’s Card is the Page of Swords. He sounds a lot like Mercury in sloppy Sagittarius, coupled with the potential witchy-bitchiness of Venus with Pluto. Fascinating.
Today’s forecast was subtitled “The Bubble Bursts.” One of the SNL sketches generating buzz on Sunday was this one about liberals living in a bubble. Dear liberals, you must visit the Washington Times — Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite paper. There you will find headlines proclaiming that Donald Trump is looking “very presidential;” and that unarmed protestors at Standing Rock who were blasted with water cannons (in 25 degree temperatures), teargassed and shot at with rubber bullets were “rioting.” No mention at all of the 21-year-old woman who may well lose her arm after being hit with a concussion grenade thrown by a law enforcement officer — and paid for with your tax dollars. It’s a different world in Washington Times land — and here are a few other conservative websites to peruse, courtesy of this helpful article from The Guardian. Get out of the bubble — whichever one you’re living in. With the Sun in Sagittarius, you can afford to explore foreign territory.
Meanwhile, the NYT published a case study of how a fake news story went viral. Also fake: a story about a DC-based pizza joint, Hillary Clinton and pedophiles. But that hasn’t stopped the owner and employees of Comet Pizza from receiving death threats. Not fake — but no less surreal: a video and tweets of clean-cut members of a white nationalist group raising their right arms in a Nazi salute at a dinner gathering in a DC restaurant on November 18th.
Today, the president-elect disavowed white nationalist groups in a meeting with staffers at the New York Times. That meeting — which was canceled via Twitter and then happened anyway — is described by NYT columnist Frank Bruni here. It’s an apt profile of a person with heavy love, love-me-do Leo and dualistic Gemini and Sagittarius ingredients.
Totally serious — thank you, Mercury (thinking) meeting up with Saturn (control): AppNexus is blocking Breitbart.com, alleging evidence of hate speech. This will cut into Breitbart’s revenue stream.
True item about a fake product: there is no evidence of actual aloe vera in the aloe vera gels sold at CVS and Wal-Mart.
November 19th, 2016 | Tags: mercury square neptune nov 2016, neptune direct november 2016, Neptune in the news, saturn square neptune fake news, trump university court date nov 29 astrology, venus sextile neptune nov 2016 | | Leave a comment
Astro-logical Forecast for Wednesday 5/27/2015: Curiouser and Curiouser…
An exact meet-up between action hero Mars and mental Mercury at 6:37 AM ET suggests an urge to multitask and translate sharp words into fast action. Well guess what? The nitpicky Virgo Moon is void of course and Mercury is retrograde. Be especially mindful in your travels this morning. Chill, check your facts, make sure what you heard is actually what was said — and appreciate that a void Moon suggests crises that crop up are often much ado about nothing.
Moon doesn’t get into gear until 5:42PM ET, when it enters people-pleasing Libra, seeking to restore balance and harmony to any hypercritical situation. Patterns are relatively quiet until Friday, save for the building tension between Mercury and nebulous Neptune, which we last experienced on May 9th. What were you thinking about around then?
You know there’s really something to planetary patterns when your astrologer writes about how surreal the headlines might be…and then you read Serious NYT Economist Paul Krugman’s column. Yesterday he referenced one of the wackiest (and wisest) books ever written, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Coincidence or conspiracy?
Let’s keep talking about Neptune, because it’s everywhere this week (as noted in yesterday’s forecast). Neptune refers to intangibles and illusions, such as photography, television and film. On Monday famed documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away. As a photographer, we’d expect Neptune to be strongly emphasized in her horoscope (March 20, 1940 in Philadelphia) — and it is. We see Mercury opposed by Neptune and Venus-Mars-Uranus trine Neptune, suggesting vision, aesthetics and compassion (Venus is in Pisces), the latter of which she was especially known. Here are some of her photographs.
Another photographer making headlines is very much alive and raking in the dough. Richard Prince uses what some might call the sleazier side of Neptune. Is Neptune strong in his horoscope? Mr. Prince was born on Aug 6, 1949. Ooh — look — Neptune is square to Mars and recently supercharged by transiting Uranus and Pluto. His Capricorn Moon, which knows oh-so-well how to put things and people to good use, might be in touch with Neptune, too — we’d have to have a birth time to know for sure.
Mr. Prince’s latest exhibit consists of photos lifted from Instagram — without permission from the original photographers — and they are selling for up to $90K per print. Which might be a strong argument for posting your pix on Snapchat, where the images will disappear. Snapchat just announced plans for an IPO, btw…
Boundaries — or lack thereof — are another Neptune theme. Neptune dissolves whatever it touches. This is why its influence can be so bewildering. In the material world, we like to have boundaries. They define structure and structure can make us feel secure. Saturn is structure. Where would you be without Saturn? Living a field, for sure – there would be no structure over your head.
Neptune dissolves Saturn — or, on the plus side, can give structure a vision.
Oh geez, Louise. This story just hit the wires:
A federal judge has thrown out evidence collected by FBI agents who posed as Internet repairmen to get into Las Vegas Strip hotel rooms last summer during an investigation into illegal bookmaking…
In this case (which gets weirder with every paragraph), Saturn struck back — giving nebulous Neptune a hard, cold reality smackdown. Got that?
Have I mentioned recently that Mercury retrogrades are an excellent time to REconnect and/or REview your life with your astrologer? Here’s the 411 on personal consultations.
Thank you for reading this forecast — and sharing it with your friends.
May 27th, 2015 | Tags: mary ellen marks horoscope, Neptune in the news, neptune meaning keywords, Neptune square Mercury, richard prince astro horoscope, saturn and structure | | Leave a comment
Astro-logical Forecast for Monday 2/21/2011
Those of you taking this Presidents’ Day off, rejoice. You’ve managed to escape a Monday AM at the office that suggests a slightly rude awakening after a potentially lovely, escapist weekend. Expressing feelings may be challenged by the audience’s insistence that it be presented in a certain form — in triplicate and in blue or black ink only, if you please. Then again, that challenge may not stand a chance against unconventional status-quo disrupting Uranus running wild again today. More news from Wisconsin and the Middle East? With Mercury (mind, travel, communication) entering intangible, dreamy, intuitive Pisces at 3:53PM EST…followed by Mars (action) in Pisces Tuesday in 8:06PM, I’m not sure how realistic that challenge can be. Many may still have their heads in the clouds, basking in the rosy glow of Sunday’s triple meet-up between Mars, Mercury and nebulous Neptune. So if you’re not at the office, enjoy the holiday and indulge in a dream or two…
How’s this for a perfectly timed Neptunian headline: “Ecstasy Does Not Wreck the Mind, Study Claims” http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/19/ecstasy-harm-brain-new-study…or this one: “Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?scp=1&sq=dubious&st=cse “Ecstasy” and “dubious” are just a few of the keywords one could expect on a day with a strong influence from Neptune (which rules the sign Pisces, btw).
February 20th, 2011 | Tags: Mars, Mercury in Pisces, Middle East protests and astrology, Neptune, Neptune in the news, peregrine Uranus, Wisconsin protests | | Leave a comment
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Writer Helen Oyeyemi's Haunting Tale Of Beauty, Horror, & Race
By Rochelle Spencer (@rochellespencer)
If you’re a woman who has ever squeezed her feet into high heels, spent a Saturday in the hot, chemically scented air of a beauty parlor, or had hot wax poured then ripped off some of her more sensitive areas, then you’ll immediately recognize the theme of Helen Oyeyemi’s novel boy, snow,bird: beauty and horror are all intertwined. The literary critic Wolfgang Kayser once described how the grotesque the images that repel and repulse us grow even more horrifying when juxtaposed with the sublime, those images we exalt. It’s no coincidence that Oyeyemi does the same.
In her retelling of Snow White, Oyeyemi exposes the undercurrents of racism and terror ripping through the familiar fairytale the frostily beautiful queens of her narrative inflict emotional pain in a landscape inundated with images of rats and spiders, fear and tragedy. Oyeyemi’s contemporary setting, juxtaposing African and African American folklore, and references to western psychology and contemporary media mark her novel as a masterwork of AfroSurrealist horror fiction.
Oyeyemi sets boy, snow, bird in a real and recognizable world, but her melding the Grimms Brothers’ stories with African and African American folktales including allusions to Anansi the Spider (a legendary trickster figure in African folktales) and black folk heroes Annie Christmas and John the Conqueror) create a surreal effect. In addition to referencing folklore, boy, snow, bird abounds with references to psychology. She uses Freud’s theories about the uncanny to special effects in television and film. There are references to the television shows such as Bewitched and The Twilight Zone. Boy, one of the novel’s central characters, has the surname Novak, a reference to Kim Novak, the actress of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The result of these references? Oyeyemi forces us to understand that race is based on what we think we see, even as our eyes willfully deceive us. As readers, we begin to view race and beauty as optical illusions.
Along with an interest in folklore, psychology, and contemporary media, boy, snow, bird pushes to the forefront another AfroSurrealist obsession: the role of beauty in our lives. Snow, one of Oyeyemi’s main characters, is black but “appears” white; her Eurocentric beauty makes her both recognized and feared. Snow is often rejected, dismissed, as is Bird, Snow’s equally beautiful mother. For instance, Snow describes that when people look closely at her, they are frightened and view her as a vampire; they think of “clinics and ice baths” (208). Based on the reactions of those around them, we can assume not only that there is something monstrous about Snow and Bird’s beauty but there is something unsettling about all beauty, a point Oyeyemi herself makes in a 2012 interview:
[O]ne of my biggest problems with Snow White is the way everyone just believes what the mirror says. A more modern heroine, say post 1920s, would be asking a few questions about the fairest of them all statement. For instance, on what criteria is the mirror basing this judgment, and what’s the source of the mirror’s authority?
Like other AfroSurrealists, Oyeyemi investigates the strange and uncanny, as her allusions to cinema and folklore forces her readers to question many of society’s accepted notions about beauty, horror, and race.
Hendrix, Jenny. “Best Books of 2014: Helen Oyeyemi.” Kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Media LLC. 17
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Kayser, Wolfgang. The Grotesque in Art and Literature . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1963. Print.
Oyeyemi, Helen. boy, snow, bird . New York: Penguin, 2014.
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Putting KeysAugust 6, 2019
How to make the putts you've been giving yourself all season
Keely Levins
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Amongst your group, you've probably determined an acceptable distance at which putts are gimmes at least most of the time—you don't even wait for someone to say, That's good. Even when you're playing alone, you probably give yourself any putts within four feet of the cup. That's great—many of us do. It's helpful for pace of play, and nobody wants to lose a little match over an even smaller putt.
Where it becomes an issue is when you're suddenly in a position where you have to putt everything out.
Maybe it's a club championship or a qualifier, but all of a sudden those unmissable short putts you haven't attempted all season start to become missable. The scariest part: once you see one miss, there's a tendency to start missing more of them. To help you avoid this disastrous fate, we talked to one of our Best Young Teachers, Tasha Browner of El Caballero Country Club in Tarzania, Calif.
"When finishing out those crucial putts, we want to address a common problem that begins as a mental mistake and leads to a physical one," says Browner. "When we have those short putts, the desire to make the putt outweighs the process of making a good stroke. Golfers tend to stop rocking their shoulders, and they steer the ball in the hole with just hands. This directly leads to problems with clubface direction and speed."
To remedy these issues, Browner has three drills and tips that will help.
1. The Push Drill
This drill is exactly what it sounds like. Set up to the ball with your putter, and your thought should be to just push the ball toward the hole. Don't take any backswing. "This drill forces the golfer to move their body as a unit to finish the stroke and not just with your hands," says Browner.
2. Tip: Use Visual Aids
Set up in front of a mirror (you can do this in your house). Or set up on the putting green in a spot where you can see your shadow, and start making strokes. Browner says to focus on making sure they're complete strokes. "Watch how your shoulders and arms move together into the finish," says Browner. "Sense what body parts are engaged, and tap into that when you play. This rehearsal can help eradicate that handsy stroke."
3. Tip: Practice Pressure
Aimlessly putting around the practice green isn't going to help you when you're in a match, grinding over a four-footer for bogey to halve the hole. Instead, Browner says to simulate pressure-filled scenarios when you practice. "For example, don’t let yourself leave the green until you've made five consecutive four-footers in a row," says Browner. "Any form of pressure that you can add will help you feel more at ease in those situations on the course."
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Christmas Has Come Early This Year!
This week I continued with my box listing assignment, steadily working through the collections, creating excel sheets and describing all the items. I was examining a box relating to the ‘Save Our Pool’ period of the Baths history, when I came across a number of Christmas Cards.
Xmas Card Selection
These cards serve as a reminder of the fantastically creative approach of Save Our Pool activists downs the years. The cards were commissioned by the Govanhill Baths Community Trust in 2008 to raise money and awareness for the cause. Local primary school classes were encouraged to submit designs, the very best being chosen to be printed and sold in the area. I think you’ll agree the designs are fantastic!
Moreover, the children who created these wonderful designs epitomize the diverse community which the Baths serve, being of South Asian, Middle Eastern, Scottish and Eastern European heritage.
When people think of archives, they most likely would think of old manuscripts, or weighty, dusty tomes. However, these Xmas decorations richly deserve their place in the Govanhill Baths Archive, documenting as they do the nature of the local area and the actions that people have taken in order to protect their community.
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What’s On Spring 2016
Spring is just around the corner and between a jam-packed programme, a new fundraising campaign, and community consultations, we’ll be keeping ourselves busy.
Regular workshops and courses, informal gatherings, and cultural events are all part of our programme this season.
With knitting, cooking, theatre, drama, yoga, upcycling and even angling, there’s a great variety to suit different age groups, interests, and budgets. Courses get added all the time, so drop in to hear about other ongoing activities.
Following on from the highly successful This Is Not A Fashion Show of 2014, Rags to Riches will again be turning the big pool into a catwalk on 14 May for an evening of upcycled fashion. We will also be hosting screenings in association with the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, theatre productions as part of the Southside Fringe Festival and a whole host of one-off and regular events. To see everything on offer, look at the PDF of the programme, or visit our online calendar.
With a new team member dedicated to working with the community in Govanhill, the next few months will be filled with opportunities for all community members to get involved and help us develop the Baths to work for you. The Baths belong to all of us, and we will depend on your advice and help as we get ever closer to reopening. If you have any ideas now on the best way to reach your community, email Katie at outreach@govanhillbaths.com to get in touch. Watch this space!
WE WILL SWIM AGAIN FOR A’ THAT
The Govanhill Baths Community Trust are proud to announce that after 14 years of determined campaigning the historic baths refurbishment will begin in 2017!
The total investment to restore and refurbish our beloved building stands at £4.1 million, from sources including the Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland, Glasgow City Council and many many donors and hardworking volunteers who have helped us achieve so much.
We are almost there, but we still £200K more to reach our target. We know we can do it.
During 2016, there will be many ways to help us reach this target including taking part in “I am a Govanhill Swimmer”, Sponsor a Tile, attending a production of The Steamie, and The International Light Show.
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Comedy Festival at the Baths
As part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2016, Govanhill Baths Community Trust will be presenting a programme of movies and plays in association with Govanhill Theatre and Southside Film Festival.
We kick off the laughs on with The Southside Comedy Film Festival on Friday 12th March, screening Zoolander. On Saturday 13th March there is a matinee double bill featuring the Marx Brother’s classic Duck Soup and Howard Hawk’s His Girl Friday. The film festival finale is on the saturday with Mel Brook’s laugh-a-minute western Blazing Saddles
From March 22nd through to 26th Govanhill Theatre present Paula Vogel’s twist on ‘Othello’, Desdemona a Play About a Handkerchief directed by Bruce Downie.
Tickets for these and all events at the Glasgow International Comedy festival are available at www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com or from the ticket hotline 0844 873 7353
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Archiving at Govanhill – Some Challenges
This week I’d like to introduce some of the challenges that we face in trying to run and preserve the archive here at Govanhill.
Govanhill Baths Exterior
Though the building is spectacular architecturally, an Edwardian municipal bathhouse is far from a conventional archive space. Our archival collections are stored in the former ‘Ladies Hot Baths’, on the upper floor of the building, with our ‘office’ being kept in a cubicle!
As renovations are an ongoing process, this part of the building is currently without heating , so it can get pretty chilly. Moreover, the roof is somewhat insecure and so conditions are at times damp. The fluctuation in temperature and moisture is a particular concern, as stability of climate is key when attempting to secure the long term preservation of paper records.
What’s more, due to broken windows I’ve even had the pleasure of being visited by local pigeons whilst sorting through materials!
Despite these challenges I believe that the archive at Govanhill is a great example of how community projects can flourish in even the most tricky of circumstances. We have decent storage in the form of two large shelving units and protect the items through the use of watertight plastic boxes. The shelves are then covered by a tarpaulin to protect them from the worst of Glasgow’s weather. We also have a number of ‘standard archival boxes’, which meet international regulations. Within each of our boxes are ‘Silica gel’ pouches, which combat moisture.
These materials were procured by our chief archivist Paula Larkin, with the help from a grant provided by the ‘Heritage Lottery Fund’. It was this endowment – gifted as part of the Bath’s centenary celebrations in 2014 – that allowed for the archive to be established. Though not a large sum, this money has provided a decent and stable facility for the keeping an archival collection.
The heritage money also allowed Paula to buy a laptop and scanner, which will hopefully in the future allow us to digitize our collections so that more people can have access to them!
It goes to show that with ingenuity and a few modest resources local groups can safely store precious items. At Govanhill we’re able to secure items to a professional standard and keep them close to the people who care about them most.
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Songs From the Govanhill Baths Archive – A Follow Up Blog
Morning all! As promised, if a little late, here’s one of the tunes from ‘The Song Factory’ album mentioned in last weeks blog. It’s a rendition of ‘The Wild Rover’ re-imagined by Alistair Hulett as ‘The Bold Swimmer’.
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Alistair was a key figure in the Save Our Pool campaign, using his talents as a singer and songwriter to raise awareness of the cause. There’s barely a song on the album which he didn’t have something to do with! Alistair was a gifted musician and political activist who sadly passed away in 2010. He had a long and distinguished career which spanned five decades, writing music which encompassed the best of folk, punk and rockabilly. I don’t have room here to do justice to the man’s achievements, but please do take a look at his website.
http://www.alistairhulett.com/
Alistair Hulett
During the early occupation of the Baths, Alastair’s songs played an important role. Every Wednesday, in order to commemorate the start of the occupation, the 21st of March 2001, people would gather outside of the Baths and sing campaign tunes. These musical demonstrations helped the movement gather momentum, not to mention raising the spirits of the activists inside!
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Ecclesiastical geographies
Church bureaucrats divide the world into dioceses. The process throws into prominence places that figure little in the secular world. Bishops preside over territories like Gor, Ombi and Sodor. hidden europe takes a look at some unusual geographical titles of European bishops.
When a Berlin friend told us a month or two back that a mutual acquaintance, a Catholic priest called Matthias Heinrich, had just been appointed as Bishop of Thibaris, we turned to our atlases to find out which part of the world Father Matthias was bound for. Thibaris, it turns out, is an archaeological site in central Tunisia, dashing our hopes that the Berlin priest might henceforth be presiding over affairs at an ancient and resplendent cathedral. In time, we discovered that the newly consecrated bishop would not be leaving Berlin at all, but that Thibaris is merely a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church — a title bestowed on a bishop who does not have his own diocese to look after. One wonders whether, were there by some remote chance a lone Catholic still living in Thibaris, she or he might have some right to appeal to the pastoral authority of the new bishop, whose daytime job is now as an auxiliary to Berlin’s long standing archbishop, Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky.
Enthralled by this little nugget of ecclesiastical geography, we set about our researches and now find that Europe, North Africa and the Middle East are awash with titular sees — named after places that figured, often only parenthetically, in early Christian history, but which have long since slipped out of the ecclesiastical limelight. For example, the late Polish Pope (Jean Paul II), was for five years Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków and for that spell held the titular see of Ombi, a wee spot in Egypt’s Nile valley just north of the border with Sudan (now known as Kom Ombo). The late Pope’s sole visit to Egypt was in February 2000, and Kom Ombo did not figure on the papal itinerary.
This is just an excerpt. If you are a subscriber to hidden europe magazine, you can log in to read the full text online. Of course you can also read the full article in the print edition of hidden europe 27.
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Home / Bollywood / Kriti Sanon to play a surrogate mother in Dinesh Vijan’s next?
Kriti Sanon to play a surrogate mother in Dinesh Vijan’s next?
A report suggests Kriti Sanon has given her nod to Dinesh Vijan’s next project that deals with surrogacy.
bollywood Updated: Apr 26, 2019 16:14 IST
Kriti Sanon with producer Dinesh Vijan. (IANS)
Actor Kriti Sanon is all set to unite with producer Dinesh Vijan for the third time for a film about surrogacy that is expected to release in 2020.
Confirming the news, a source told Pinkvilla, “Kriti has been approached for a concept driven film by Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films. She’s a usual favourite with the banner and now, they are repeating her yet again for another movie they are planning. It’s something completely different from what she has done in the past.”
Revealing more about the film, the source said, “It’s a film that will revolve around surrogacy. When she was offered the movie, she loved the script and has given her verbal yes to the film already. It’s a challenging part, since it will completely revolve around her character, who’s the central protagonist.”
Also read: Avengers Endgame movie review: A pinnacle of superhero storytelling, Marvel’s latest is a triumphant tear-jerker
Kriti and Dinesh have worked together in Raabta and Luka Chuppi. While Raabta could not impress the audience at the box office, Luka Chuppi crossed the Rs 100 crore mark at the domestic box office. Kriti had also performed a special dance number, Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe in Dinesh’s Stree.
After Luka Chuppi, which came out in March, Kriti has three more films lined up for release this year. She will be seen alongside Diljit Dosanjh in romantic comedy Arjun Patiala and is currently dubbing for the film. The film is scheduled to release on July 19. She will also star in multi-starrer comedy Housefull 4 that stars Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Bobby Deol, Kriti Kharbanda, Pooja Hegde and many others. The film is slated for an October release.
Kriti also plays the female lead in Ashutosh Gowariker’s period drama Panipat. The actor will be seen as Parvati Bai in the film that stars Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Mohnish Bahl in prominent roles.
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Damien Leith reprises his Catch The Wind – Songs Of A Generation album for a special show at Lizottes this March
Catch The Wind – The Encore Tour Revisiting Damien’s classic album a decade after its release
It’s hard to be believe that it has been just over a decade since Damien Leith released his sophomore album Catch The Wind – Songs Of A Generation. The album was another stepping stone in Damien’s career and centred on the music that inspired him growing up – and continued to inspire him as a musician. Featuring songs from artists such as John Denver, Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens to name a few, it was hugely successful, resonated with audiences young and old and spawned three hugely successful tours that saw Damien play to sold-out venues around Australia.
In 2018, to mark the 10th anniversary of the album, Damien took those songs back out on the road for a special run of shows – Catch The Wind – The Encore Tour. The tour was embraced by audiences, and Damien has added one final Catch The Wind show by popular demand, returning to Lizottes this March to share the great repertoire of songs with audiences. Music lovers are certainly in for a treat! The Catch The Wind tour was an excuse to play the songs that he loves so much and celebrate the artists he admires. With beautiful renditions of tracks such as Vincent, Annie’s Song, If, Everybody’s Talking, Baby I Love Your Way, and the inspired title-track, Catch The Wind, the tour is jam-packed with hits.
Damien says those folk classics are still as pertinent today as when they were first penned and there was something special about them that appeals to music fans. “All those artists wrote from the heart and quite often about issues that affected their lives,” he says. “Many of those issues still exist today. The 60s and 70s was definitely my era of music – what I love about many of those songs that were written is that they centre around the lyrics and story. There’s normally a message that the artists want to convey and its not clouded over by production, in fact, quite often its raw and exposed.”
Catch The Wind – Songs Of A Generation went platinum for Damien, an impressive achievement for his second studio album. Since he won Australian Idol more than a decade ago, he has continued to release music, write original material, tour consistently, as well as write books, children’s stories and DJ. It has been an illustrious career and Damien is grateful for the support his fans have shown throughout the years. “I’ve been so fortunate,” he says. “In a business that is forever changing, to be here still doing what I love 10 years later is amazing. I have fond memories of when Catch The Wind was released, I wasn’t sure how it would be received, but it ended up being a huge success. Obviously, I’m not the only one who loves these songs.”
The Catch The Wind show will also feature songs from Damien’s recent album Gospel, which showcases tracks from Elvis Presley’s Gospel career. “I’ve recently toured an Elvis Gospel concert and many of the songs originate from the 60s and 70s,” he says. “So, I think the tone will suit perfectly with the folk classics. Audiences are in for a treat, there won’t be a song that they won’t know and I’ve no doubt we’ll have people singing along throughout.”
Tickets to Damien Leith’s Catch The Wind show at Lizottes are on sale now.
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Ads From the Past
The Art Of Speed 2
Steve Magnantewriter
Many car-magazine readers still aren't hip to the fact that without advertisers, there's no way to pay for the rest of the magazine, let alone the paper and the ink. Newsstand sales and subscriptions are nice bonuses, but the major revenue comes from faithful advertisers hoping that exposure to readers will lead to sales.
With the passage of time, everything takes on an extra level of interest. Today's car-magazine reader enjoys learning about what came before. Witness the exploding interest in the world of nostalgia drag racing and the history of hot rodding. Well, guess what? Thumbing through vintage magazines in search of information on the cars, races, and personalities of that era also offers a second look at the advertisements of the day.
Let's explore some neat ones from the past and evaluate how, in those pre-Internet days, vendors went about the task of attracting business. Remember, manufacturers' websites didn't exist, so the pressure was intense to provide enough information to spur a phone call or postal inquiry from prospective customers.
Zoom used the technique of forced perspective (courtesy of a wide-angle lens) to create this attention-grabbing layout in 1970. A leader in street-and-strip gears, clutches, and pressure plates, Zoom employed clever print advertising to establish a strong brand identity. Another successful tactic was the purple paint on its stamped-steel pressure-plate covers. The same vivid shade was also used in the company logo (though not seen in this black-and-white ad). Of interest is how the Top Fuel dragster depicted in this October 1970 ad is a front-engine job. In the wake of his historic March 1970 accident, Don Garlits led the movement to rear-engine diggers. Incidentally, Zoom components played no role in the transmission failure that severed Garlits' Swamp Rat 13 dragster—and right foot—in half. The failed "Garlitsdrive" two-speed was entirely of Big's own making.
The early 1970s saw an upswing in the use of cartoons and illustrations. Often capable of conveying moods and energies absent in photography, stylized cartoon renderings have their place in this exciting, youth-oriented realm. This 1973 ad for Mickey Thompson tires predates the M/T ET Street line of DOT-approved rubber by more than a decade but carries the same message: If you want your car to hook, you need soft-compound tires. Marketed under the Pure Stock brand, the ad copy says these 9-inch-wide skins are "...tough enough to be driven daily and then to the strip to be wailed on."
The NHRA Pro Stock division was in its fourth year when this artistic Hooker Headers ad appeared in September 1973. Intentionally under-exposed, the grainy image of Dyno Don Nicholson's 1973 Pinto Pro Stocker and Webster's dictionary definition of the word "pacemaker" add intrigue and spur curiosity. Though Don's name has been obscured from the Pinto's doors, his NHRA competition number (755) is clearly evident. This element serves as a subliminal reward from Hooker to in-the-know viewers—Don's Pinto won three consecutive national events in 1973 (AHRA Winternationals, NHRA Winternationals, NHRA Gatornationals), so there's a touch of reverse psychology here. The Hooker Headers red-heart logo is also barely recognizable, while Sig Erson cams, Accel, Mr. Gasket, and Lee filters logos are more legible than Hooker's own. This seemingly counterintuitive detail may be intended to conjure a sympathetic response on the part of the viewer/customer.
Durachrome combined hand-drawn and photographed elements in this 1969 ad for its Dura-Mag II and Mag-Slot one-piece aluminum wheels. A Los Angelesbased company, Durachrome catered to two distinct markets in the 1960s—the muscle-car set and the hot VW crowd—and offered dress-up items for both. One of its smartest sponsorships was Warren Gunter's Durachrome Bug, a fiberglass flip-top Beetle powered by a blown-nitro Rat. Oddly, Gunter's 7-second bug wasn't equipped with Durachrome wheels. It rolled on Halibrand 12-spokes and custom-made 16-inch-diameter, four-slot aluminum dish wheels.
Though first known for its line of street-and-strip soft compound tires, Casler entered the header market in 1970 (Hooker had acquired the Casler name in 1969). This ad artfully takes the viewer on a subliminal journey. The running man seems to have been racing through parched, arid land in his 1969 Camaro Z/28 (note the trunk stripes). He spots a set of Casler headers and can't stop fast enough (note the still-open door). Like water to a dying man, he urgently sprints toward the promise of life—Casler headers. We just hope he's OK with the fact the big-block pipes depicted won't fit the 302 in his Z/28.
The Cragar S/S is the most iconic two-piece custom wheel offering of all time. When this Bell Auto Parts ad appeared in late 1965, the all-chrome S/S had been on the market for a year and had inspired numerous copy cats. In return, Bell/Cragar Industries honcho Roy Richter launched the satin-finished version (depicted above the traditional chrome S/S). Not to be confused with the Cragar G/T, the satin finish S/S wheel used the same cast-aluminum center hat as the normal S/S. The only difference was surface treatment, which sought to emulate the dull but serious look of magnesium racing wheels.
Bet you didn't know this popular five-spoke wheel wasn't always marketed as the Keystone Klassic. As this 1965 ad proves, it was originally introduced as the Kustomag. A key detail separating Keystone wheels from most five-spoke competitors is the subtle scallop cast into the sides of the spokes. When coated with semi-matte black paint, the recesses and hubs give the Kustomag (and later Klassic variants) a sinister yet classy vibe. Better still, the blacked-out surface draws extra attention to the chrome lug nuts. In nearly continuous production since 1965, minimal changes have been made to the chrome-steel hoop and die-cast aluminum center hat. Rather, Keystone has concentrated on updating the center cap and surface finish of the spokes. Typically pitted and faded from age, somebody needs to re-pop the original-style "simple K" center cap seen here. When added to a modern Klassic, the wheel is transformed, and major retro points result.
This humble Torq-Thrust ad from 1965 signaled a major change in strategy for American Racing Equipment (ARE). Since its birth in 1956 under the guidance of Romeo Palamides, ARE had focused on the production of magnesium wheels for race applications. While magnesium is half the weight of aluminum, it's more brittle in nature, making it less desirable for street use, where sudden shocks can result in fractures. By adding the aluminum alternative depicted here, the Torq-Thrust met the street-oriented (read heavy) Cragar S/S and Keystone Kustomag head-on. Incidentally, when properly designed and heat-treated, magnesium wheels are perfectly safe for street use—just ask the owner of any recent ZO6 Corvette.
This 1970 ad for Crank Shaft Company (CSC) may not win awards for creativity but proves that a simple layout can be very effective. Combining hand-cropped rear-three-quarter images of two winning drag machines engages the eye before leading the viewer to bold-face type touting their win records and the benefits of CSC products. John Elliot's 1968 428CJ Mustang stands out, not just for the fact it was the first Canadian entry to win a National event, but for its astonishing graphics. Though this image doesn't convey how the vertical black-and-white tail stripes and bright-orange nose combine for massive eye appeal, it's a true one-plus-one-equals-three design.
Here's a visual pun we can all get behind. While most of the drag-racing world was focused on sticky rear tires for traction, the late Dick Moroso, a successful Modified Production drag racer, knew "it's what's up front that counts." This 1970 quarter-page shingle playfully hypes Dick's line of low-mass tubeless front tires for heavy, full-body drag cars. At the time, Moroso Performance Sales was but two years old.
Your author recently interviewed the lead designer for the Dodge SRT and Viper product lines. You know what he did for fun as a kid? He built model cars. Bet you did, too. Or maybe you still do. Regardless, this 1973 full-page bleat for Revell's line of flip-top Funny Cars probably inspired a million kids to get into hot cars. The ad copy poses the question: "What's so great about 1/25th of a Funny Car?"—a reference to the fact the cars are 125 the size of the real thing. Revell also produced many of these cars in 116 scale, with rubber drag slicks and vinyl spark-plug wires.
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Playstation Pro 1TB with Red Dead Redemption 2 + Call of Duty Black Ops 4 (plus £10 Argos Voucher) - £379.99 @ Argos
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old_mikefield
leechris8227/10/2018 21:36
Is this game any good?
Nah, it's crap. There's hardly been any promotion for it, and hardly anyone is even talking about it. £15 by Christmas, guaranteed.
rudy691
slannmage28/10/2018 08:10
Played Red Dead 2 last night, it’s so boring, it isn’t like GTA, it’s so sl …Played Red Dead 2 last night, it’s so boring, it isn’t like GTA, it’s so slow and everything is really cumbersome. The long animations to do anything, the clunky controls and how I played 2 hours and didn’t even get to the world yet... got bored and put it on eBay. Black Ops 4 is great because it’s Battle Royale mode is so fast and polished.... but it’s not quite on the level of PUBG for me.
if 'wrong' could be a person, it would be you
It's okay, check out this video of it if you're undecided.
youtu.be/K7a…Q6g
coolio28
Sercombe28/10/2018 08:16
Good deal if it was an X
lol PS4 Pro deal and you ask for an Xbox X.
GTFOH
leechris82
kovacsadam89
Mark434 h, 40 m ago
It's okay, check out this video of it if you're …It's okay, check out this video of it if you're undecided.https://youtu.be/K7atfiCsQ6g
At first I thought it was just the hype.
But it's true.
DonkeyKonk
Is this the sequel to Shawshank Redemption ?
N7SciFiNerd
Think very has a better deal red dead plus pro for 315 if your in no hurry for black ops it will most likely drop alot before Xmas
DaveNovell
N7SciFiNerd3 m ago
Think very has a better deal red dead plus pro for 315 if your in no hurry …Think very has a better deal red dead plus pro for 315 if your in no hurry for black ops it will most likely drop alot before Xmas
I'd have to agree with this, the very deal is better even if you buy black ops right now for £50. Personally I'd wait for Nectar points double up & get it for £25 if you use Sainsbury's
Sercombe
coolio2825 s ago
lol PS4 Pro deal and you ask for an Xbox X. GTFOH
slannmage
Played Red Dead 2 last night, it’s so boring, it isn’t like GTA, it’s so slow and everything is really cumbersome. The long animations to do anything, the clunky controls and how I played 2 hours and didn’t even get to the world yet... got bored and put it on eBay.
Black Ops 4 is great because it’s Battle Royale mode is so fast and polished.... but it’s not quite on the level of PUBG for me.
E55k
Call of duty 4 is complete crap, Haven’t played redemption yet so can’t comment on that
randomnut
If you’re looking to get a new console at the moment rdr2 is a blurry, muddy mess on the Pro. The pro is a very capable machine so it has to surely be something they can patch out later so I’m not knocking the console, the devs have screwed something up.
if you’re in the market for a new console for this game then it looks absolutely stunning in 4K on the One X so seriously consider that.
In time I think they will be able to close the gap because the Pro is capable of a lot more than the current mess of an image rdr2 is putting out on PS4 in comparison.
that being said. This is a good deal, so heat from me anyway.
of course its nothing like gta its not meant to be,
game of the year so far
lol its not like
JmeBud
randomnut9 m ago
If you’re looking to get a new console at the moment rdr2 is a blurry, m …If you’re looking to get a new console at the moment rdr2 is a blurry, muddy mess on the Pro. The pro is a very capable machine so it has to surely be something they can patch out later so I’m not knocking the console, the devs have screwed something up.if you’re in the market for a new console for this game then it looks absolutely stunning in 4K on the One X so seriously consider that.In time I think they will be able to close the gap because the Pro is capable of a lot more than the current mess of an image rdr2 is putting out on PS4 in comparison.that being said. This is a good deal, so heat from me anyway.
It's pretty bad on the normal PS4. Really slow frame rates when you get into the towns.
Yeah Digital Foundry did the comparisons , Forbes outlines in this article.
forbes.com/sit…on/
Probably sounds like a rocket taking off playing this on a PS4. Get an X.
michael_mattinson
N7SciFiNerd28/10/2018 07:51
got a link bud ? or is this with 10% off on first order ?
Edited by: "michael_mattinson" 28th Oct 2018
Spooooooooooooon
Nick6628/10/2018 09:17
Maybe on a launch pro (7016), but it doesn’t on the later models (7116
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One X is better than Pro ?
ImperialWookie
Spooooooooooooon28/10/2018 09:35
Blatant lie, had the launch and the 71xx series, all of them are jet engines.
The new 72xx series launched with the red dead bundle is a bit better, but far from whisper quiet.
adfadfadf5 m ago
Hardware wise yes, and in the case of this game definitely.
ImperialWookie6 m ago
Blatant lie, had the launch and the 71xx series, all of them are jet …Blatant lie, had the launch and the 71xx series, all of them are jet engines. The new 72xx series launched with the red dead bundle is a bit better, but far from whisper quiet.
Blatant lies a bit harsh, I did side by side tests and the older model was TWICE the volume of the newer mode under load
Edited by: "Spooooooooooooon" 28th Oct 2018
Josh_millen
randomnut28/10/2018 08:53
The X looks good and all but it has a very small selection of games. The pro has tons of exclusives to play and these games are some of the best this generation. I am playing RDR2 on the pro and it does look blurry at 4k (Looks like a 1080p image)
Josh_millen28/10/2018 10:02
The X looks good and all but it has a very small selection of games. The …The X looks good and all but it has a very small selection of games. The pro has tons of exclusives to play and these games are some of the best this generation. I am playing RDR2 on the pro and it does look blurry at 4k (Looks like a 1080p image)
Wouldn’t say it has a small selection of games, all new games over the past year have had to have X support and many earlier games got subsequent X support patches. The availability of X enhanced games is very good now. Also considering there are some 360 games that are running in 4K, such as the original red dead redemption which looks amazing and holds up very well even today with the 4K update. PS4 does obviously have some excellent exclusives though.
I am am holding out hope that they can patch the rdr2 issues out on the PS4 pro though, it’s not really fair to the players paying top dollar for this game and the poor result appears to be down to their poor effort on it rather than any limitations of the console.
Edited by: "randomnut" 28th Oct 2018
You'd be better off saving the £30 and just not bothering with CoD in my opinion.
E55k1 h, 32 m ago
Call of duty 4 is complete crap, Haven’t played redemption yet so can’t com …Call of duty 4 is complete crap, Haven’t played redemption yet so can’t comment on that
Everyone says this who doesn’t know what Bsttle Royale is, this version is Battle Royale and it’s great. Everyone I know has dropped Fortnite and gone to that.
Wouldn’t say it has a small selection of games, all new games over the p …Wouldn’t say it has a small selection of games, all new games over the past year have had to have X support and many earlier games got subsequent X support patches. The availability of X enhanced games is very good now. Also considering there are some 360 games that are running in 4K, such as the original red dead redemption which looks amazing and holds up very well even today with the 4K update. PS4 does obviously have some excellent exclusives though.I am am holding out hope that they can patch the rdr2 issues out on the PS4 pro though, it’s not really fair to the players paying top dollar for this game and the poor result appears to be down to their poor effort on it rather than any limitations of the console.
It doesn't actually bother me too much, it does still look great and most of all the gameplay is amazing 😁 not interested in it's online though. If Xbox have the better exclusives I will switch to them again. I had the OG xbox one at launch for dead rising 3 and forza (Still use it for 360 games)
I don’t think people care, I mean playing Red Dead on the Xbox One X, then on a PS4, both on 4K TVs.... no one noticed a difference. You can look closely and pick out faults.... but it’s like picking between cameras in all the high end phones today, they all look good enough.
However the CPU in the Pro is like 200mhz slower, and this is a CPU limited game... plus who knows how much CPU each console dedicates to the system. I’m gonna guess the Xbox One is more efficient here because it’s Microsoft.
With those new Samsung 8K TVs with their amazing upscalers, I bet the PS4 version looks better than a Pro and Xbox one x on them. So many variables...
Not to mention Sony have exclusives and Microsoft don’t really, even then you can play their few games on PC. And for whatever reason Microsoft don’t use Mixed reality on the X, but Sony have VR...
I don’t think anyone is angry, media sites like to spread BS.
master_briggsy_92
Best to wait till black friday for a console
michael_mattinson1 h, 18 m ago
It was 10% off first order however there was another code on the main site if you spent over 300 you get 30 off was for a limited time
I don’t think people care, I mean playing Red Dead on the Xbox One X, then …I don’t think people care, I mean playing Red Dead on the Xbox One X, then on a PS4, both on 4K TVs.... no one noticed a difference. You can look closely and pick out faults....
Its not like that at all though. The differences between X and Pro isn’t minimal like it is between most multi platform games. The botched checkerboarding in the Pro version has resulted in a seriously sub par experience which is really blurry and muddy. It is something that rockstar should be working on as a priority. If they fix their code then Pro should look a lot closer to the X than it does now, it’s not a lack of power in the pro that’s an issue because other multi platform games look a lot closer than the versions of rdr do currently. Rockstar has botched the PS4 pro version as it stands, but it ought to be fixable.
repocr4
I don’t think people care, I mean playing Red Dead on the Xbox One X, then …I don’t think people care, I mean playing Red Dead on the Xbox One X, then on a PS4, both on 4K TVs.... no one noticed a difference. You can look closely and pick out faults.... but it’s like picking between cameras in all the high end phones today, they all look good enough. However the CPU in the Pro is like 200mhz slower, and this is a CPU limited game... plus who knows how much CPU each console dedicates to the system. I’m gonna guess the Xbox One is more efficient here because it’s Microsoft. With those new Samsung 8K TVs with their amazing upscalers, I bet the PS4 version looks better than a Pro and Xbox one x on them. So many variables...Not to mention Sony have exclusives and Microsoft don’t really, even then you can play their few games on PC. And for whatever reason Microsoft don’t use Mixed reality on the X, but Sony have VR... I don’t think anyone is angry, media sites like to spread BS.
The truth is that for major publishers, they have to give parity to both consoles. So while the X may well be 'faster' and more powerful, games have to run basically the same on both. You may see minor differences but PS4 games were slightly weakened so that original XB1 consoles could keep up and the reverse is true now for any multi-platform games.
They only really put their foot down on exclusives.
rudy6916 h, 23 m ago
If 'not getting the obvious joke' was a person...
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reddragon105
So horses are slower than cars? Got it.
DonkeyKonk28/10/2018 07:43
No, because The Shawshank Redemption starts in 1947 and this is set in 1899. So it's a prequel.
There are two different types of fan in the PS4 - Delta fans are the ones that sound like a rocket, Nidec fans are significantly quieter - so it depends on what you get. I used to have a fat PS4 with a Delta fan and it was just distractingly loud until I swapped it for a Nidec fan myself. The Pros still have the two types of fan, where one is louder, but nowhere near as loud as the fat. It's worth noting that these RDR2 console bundles include a new revision of PS4 Pro which is quieter still, and is supposed to not suffer from the coil whine issue that some have.
Yeah, I think he was referring to exclusives. If you look at the list of games that you can only play on each console, then the Xbox's list is pretty short - basically Halo and Sunset Overdrive, and maybe Forza and Recore unless you count the fact that you can also get them on PC - whereas the PS4 has a much longer list and it's a pretty strong lineup. But there's no doubt the Xbox One X has that bit of extra power which makes it easier for it to hit 4K 60fps, making it better for third party games.
So basically, if you've got both, you're better off getting games on the X where possible; if you've got an X you've got the power but are missing out on the PS4's exclusives, but if you've got a PS4 Pro you're just missing out on a few Microsoft games plus a few extra pixels and FPS here and there - except, apparently, with RDR2, which sounds like it has a bad upscaling algorithm which hopefully can be improved with a patch.
repocr438 m ago
The truth is that for major publishers, they have to give parity to both …The truth is that for major publishers, they have to give parity to both consoles. So while the X may well be 'faster' and more powerful, games have to run basically the same on both. You may see minor differences but PS4 games were slightly weakened so that original XB1 consoles could keep up and the reverse is true now for any multi-platform games.They only really put their foot down on exclusives.
I think the real truth is the slow AMD CPU from 2012 designed for low powered laptops. The clock speed was upped in the Pro and X, but it’s not even as good as a 970 I7 lol. It’s the biggest thing holding the consoles back right now, why you see the Xbox One X delivering 30 FPS when a PC could do 60 with a similar GPU.
reddragon10528/10/2018 15:23
I think he was referring to exclusives. If you look at the list of games …I think he was referring to exclusives. If you look at the list of games that you can only play on each console, then the Xbox's list is pretty short - basically Halo and Sunset Overdrive, and maybe Forza and Recore unless you count the fact that you can also get them on PC - whereas the PS4 has a much longer list and it's a pretty strong lineup. But there's no doubt the Xbox One X has that bit of extra power which makes it easier for it to hit 4K 60fps, making it better for third party games.So basically, if you've got both, you're better off getting games on the X where possible; if you've got an X you've got the power but are missing out on the PS4's exclusives, but if you've got a PS4 Pro you're just missing out on a few Microsoft games plus a few extra pixels and FPS here and there - except, apparently, with RDR2, which sounds like it has a bad upscaling algorithm which hopefully can be improved with a patch.
Yep, and that's why I'd get a PS4 Pro if I was going to get either.
Anyway, I love how every one of these deals turns into a PS4 Pro versus Xbox One X debate. Lets face, what we need is a PC version and then this game can be enjoyed properly, both will suck in comparison.
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Top 10 Majestic Classic Muscle Cars In America
Published by admin on May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018
Being more powerful as some of the modern monsters doesn’t mean being as cool as the Classic Muscle Cars.
1. Pontiac GTO
2. Dodge Daytona/Plymouth Superbird
3. Dodge Charger
4. Chevrolet Chevelle SS
5. Buick GSX
6. Oldsmobile 442
7. Plymouth Road Runner
8. Ford Torino
9. Chevrolet Nova SS
1963 is the year when the American muscle car category was created and produced. It was with the decision that chief John Z. DeLorean made to refresh, brighten and give life to General Motors brand.
What DeLorean did was dropping Pontiac’s 389 cubic-inch big-block V8 engine into its intermediate body Tempest only to defy a GM corporate restriction. The new name of this car was the already introduced name by Ferrari the1964 GTO.
The Detroit manufacturers answered with a quick production of their own muscle car. Where the increased engine displacement and power to numbers that previously had been hard to imagine.
These cars were more massive huger, more capacious, larger, more dominant and impressive than the pony car category triggered by the presentation of the Ford Mustang Cars like the Mustang, Camaro, and Firebird.
This was so because these new cars had a longer wheelbase and tremendous sizable mass gave the rear wheels better traction on take-off. The things and situations that calmed down the contest finally were the rising prices of the gas and of the insurance costs as well and not to forget the government pollution restrictions.
We created the list of the 10 greatest classic muscle cars in America.
Is being declared the best because it was the first original muscle car. The first 389 GTO of 1964 and the last real big block GTO of 1973. The Pontiac Ventura – based GTO in 1974 was a small block but not one of the real original cars.
The revolutionary, cutting-edge, avant-garde GTO encouraged admiration, amazement, gratitude, and recognition. Even the drivers of the rival brands showed the same appreciation and admiration for this original muscle car.
The 1965-70 Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird, Daytona’s twin were certainly cars with the most fearless, courageous, daring performance. The Chrysler’s famed 426 Hemi or the 440 Wedge were employed by the Daytona and Plymouth Superbird. The monsters – the names Hemi and Wedge suggest the shape, the form, the outline of the disturbance chambers of the engine.
They wanted to produce a controlled, finite number of special cars to approve the cars’ aerodynamic bodies for Nascar racing. So they created the most remarkable, the most monumental, catchy and mind-blowing silhouette to every turn out of the car factory.
This car has a special place in pop culture history. Its place was sealed when the car was chosen by the movie producers to make its appearances in the “Fast and Furious” movies and “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV shows. What time it was already known to be outstanding, famed, splashy.
However, movies and TV helped this car to be recognized as distinguished. What this car is remarkable for also is the mighty powerful Chrysler V8 engines under the hood.
Apparently, Chevy’s lack of ideas for names was obvious when they suggested the Chevelle. Nonetheless, for names when they came up with the Chevelle. Nevertheless, with Chevrolet’s 396 and 454 big block engines under the hood, made the 1968-’72 Chevelle SS serious, deep, severe challenger and competitor which drag and crept towards the racing scene.
Each and every of the GM sectors and branches wanted to compete in the muscle car wars. That was also the case with the gorgeous, fancy luxurious Buick brand which got in and joined the battle with the creation of the GSX.
By using a 455 cubic-inch big block the company Regal produced the new version to answer, meet the need for best performance at muscle car wars from 1970-’72.
The popularity of modern alphanumeric car names was foreseen by this GM’s Oldsmobile when they produced the 1968 – ’71 model with high performances. The number 442 shows the car’s characteristics and highlighted the four-barrel carburetor, 4-speed transmission, and dual exhaust.
To the 400 or 455 Oldsmobile with big-block V8 under the hood, the 442 was and is a real rival when it comes to the racing line.
The ultimate budget muscle car. Road Runner is created based on the popular cartoon where the Road Runner bird outruns the bullets and the TNT blasts of the ugly Coyote.
The standard steel wheels and “dog dish” partial hub cups are to blame for the missing convenience and comfort. But the scope of the block engines from the standard 383 to the 440 makes it able and capable of supporting the speed promise on the bumpers.
Ford wasn’t aside from, they certainly took part in the muscle car wars. Ford’s Fairlane and Torino intermediates only started the confrontation and the fight and it was nothing more than that until 1970.
Eventually, when the 1970-’71 Torino Cobra with the 429 Cobra Jet and Superior Cobra Jet engines have introduced the confrontation became more serious. The greatness and honor lasted a short time only because Ford, in 1972, moved to the bigger, heavier Gran Torino.
Being a little bit slower did not make it less famous. It earned its fame on “Starsky and Hutch’ movie and became an icon
Although it was smaller The Nova could run with the bigger and stronger muscle cars as a result of its 396 big block engine.
10. AMC Rebel Machine
The lack of money and finance and not the lack of philosophy was the main reason American Motors took less part in the muscle car wars. AMC, in the end, suggested the Rebel Machine in 1970. They used their 390 big block engine and the paint scheme was patriotic: red, white and blue.
We love these Classic Muscle Cars.
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Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management/ Programme Director, BA Business and Management (Part-Time)
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Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
Hull University Business School
Organisational Behaviour and HRM
Biography Outputs Research/PhD
Dr Geetha P Karunanayake joined the University of Hull as a full time academic in September 2012.
She teaches a wide range of modules in organisational behaviour and HRM to undergraduates and postgraduates, in addition to supervising research students.
Geetha has 12 years of higher education teaching experience at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.She was a part time tutor in Hull University Business School while completing her PhD in Management, Identity as Discursive Practice: Historical, Social-Cultural and Political Interactions in Understanding Workers' Identities in Tea Plantations in Sri Lanka.
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Working within hyphen-spaces in ethnographic research : implications for research identities and practice
Karunanayake, G., & Cunliffe, A. Working within hyphen-spaces in ethnographic research : implications for research identities and practice. Organizational Research Methods, 16(3), 364-392. doi:10.1177/1094428113489353
Geetha’s research interests lies in identity scholarship, leadership and cross cultural issues in management. She is particularly interested in critical management practices and incorporates sociology into organizational research in exploring how social realities are constructed in work places through social interactions and discourses. She would like to remain active in promoting social constructionist perspectives, ethnography and in encouraging researchers to become reflexive in the research process.
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Hit-and-run driver writes off cars in 5am crash in St George's Road
The car careered down the street and spun into three cars, damaging them significantly
Sophie CorcoranReporter
Residents in a west Hull street woke up in the early hours of Saturday morning to find their cars ruined after a speeding vehicle collided into them.
Three cars in St George's Road, off Anlaby Road, were left completely written off on Saturday, August 18 when the speeding Mini hurtled down the street at 5am before smashing into a speed bump and careering into the cars parked up.
A man allegedely left the car and the scene.
Lauren Bond, 22, was staying at her grandparents on Friday night when the incident happened.
She said: "Someone said he was limping as he went away.
"I don't sleep well and I was awake watching Netflix and heard a massive bang.
The cars were left in a state
"My motorbike almost got stolen the other week and I thought it might be that so I legged it downstairs and saw loads of people on the street.
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Among the cars ruined was her grandad's, Arthur Freeman, 69.
The car careered down the road into the other vehicles
He said: "It is absolutely ridiculous. The road is 20 miles per hour but I've seen people coming down here at at least 100 miles per hour before. We get people coming and knocking wing mirrors off.
"Stuff like this happens a lot."
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Mr Freeman has lived on St George's Road for 48 years.
He said: "You get people coming down on their mopeds and motorbikes all the time. It is ridiculous.
Police were called to the scene
"I've called my insurance and I've got to wait until Monday for someone to come and get it and bring me a courtesy car.
"We need one as my wife is in a wheelchair and we need to get about.
"One guy had his car hit exactly a year ago and it has happened again."
Lauren said: "The police said they are looking into it."
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Looking for a unique renovation project? This disused Victorian water tower is packed with potential
Andreia Shelley March 8, 2017 5:49 pm
Bring a piece of history into the modern day, and turn this striking property into a one-of-a-kind family home
If you love a big project, this Grade II listed Victorian water tower in Norfolk might be just the thing to get you pumped up. Built in 1881, it has long stood unused and is now ready for the right owner to turn it into a beautiful home.
Looking at the pictures, it’s clear that the tower requires a complete overhaul. It has never been a home and needs to be completely repurposed. But anyone gazing at the sturdy exterior can see the glorious potential oozing out of every intricately laid brick.
The current owners have sought full planning permission so that the buyer can transform the function of the building into a residence, complete with four bedrooms, a double-height entrance foyer and a top-floor living room with views. Plans for a lift are also approved, which is a bonus for anyone not keen on negotiating four floors of stairs.
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One of only two surviving water towers of its type in Norfolk, the property offers the opportunity to develop a truly unique home. Not only that, it is completely detached, with plenty of space around it… which offers plenty of potential for planting a fabulous garden.
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Zhang, Min, Guoqing Tang and Yan Zhang. "Factors Influencing Mobile Search Engine Users' Continuance Behavior Under the Context of Service Harm Crisis Event." IJMHCI 10.3 (2018): 30-48. Web. 29 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/IJMHCI.2018070103
Zhang, M., Tang, G., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Factors Influencing Mobile Search Engine Users' Continuance Behavior Under the Context of Service Harm Crisis Event. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), 10(3), 30-48. doi:10.4018/IJMHCI.2018070103
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Factors Influencing Mobile Search Engine Users' Continuance Behavior Under the Context of Service Harm Crisis Event
Min Zhang (School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China), Guoqing Tang (Wuhan University, Wuhan, China) and Yan Zhang (School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Source Title: International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) 10(3)
DOI: 10.4018/IJMHCI.2018070103
Post-adoption behavior has become one of the research hotspots in recent years. The purpose of this article is to research mobile search engine user's usage behaviour under the context of service harm crisis. Hypotheses and theoretical model are proposed by integrating expectation confirmation model of IS continuance, technology acceptance model, perceived risk theory, attribution theory and habit theory. The results indicated that continuance intention along with satisfaction and habit are important determinants of continuance behaviour. Perceived usefulness, perceived risk and continuance attitude have significant effect on continuance intention while attitude has the strongest effect. Confirmation promotes perceived usefulness, satisfaction and perceived ease of use which has an indirectly significant influence on satisfaction via perceived usefulness. Attribution of responsibilities has been found to have positive effect on perceived risk. Implications and contributions are provided.
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With the thriving development of global Internet technology and the advent of information era, people are in urgent need of improving the efficiency of requiring information. Reading newspapers and books in the library, as traditional ways to get information, often took a lot of unnecessary time. The emergence of search engine just appeals to the trend of the epoch, which can provide people with a faster, more intelligent and efficient online way to get information. According to the 41th “Chinese Statistical Report on Internet Development” released by China Internet Network Information, by the end of the last quarter of 2017, the scale of China's search engines users reached 772 million (CNNIC, 2017). Search engine plays a critical role in disseminating information and becomes the second largest Internet application.
The term search engine often refers to well-known commercial Web search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Baidu (Marin et al., 2017). It’s essentially an information system which using certain strategies and specific programs to gather correlative information from innumerable data, and then organizing and processing them to provide users with retrieval service. In other word, it can automatically present the eligible relevant items on user s’ searching interface when they enter keywords for query. Search engines are dedicated to help people search for information quickly and accurately and are used by millions of people per second around the world nowadays. There is fierce competition in the market of mobile search engine, thus, users’ continuance usage has undoubted become a key factor for service providers to get success.
Product-harm crisis, which is considered to be one of the management problems that relatively difficult to solve, was defined as an occasional and well-known incident about a product as it is deficient or dangerous to customers. It was predicted that the product-harm cases would become a serious problem and its frequency would continue to accelerate (Dawar and Pillutla, 2000). Product-harm crisis may have serious effects on enterprises, such as reducing the customers’ perception, damaging the corporate reputation, destroying the corporate brand, leading to product recalls with high costs and ultimately losing the market shares (Van et al., 2007). We extend this concept to the Internet service area, regard service harm crisis as an occasionally incident that been wildly spread between users about an online application has done great harm to its users or has some defects which may put them in danger. Given to mobile search engines such as Google are among the most frequently visited Web sites, they have become attractive options for online advertising and target marketing (Ji et al., 2016). Therefore, we suspect that the biggest hidden risk that make mobile search engines may cause service harm crisis to users is the correctness and accuracy of online advertising information.
To the best of our knowledge, there are few articles on the continuance usage of mobile search engine users in the context of service harm crisis. We attempt to fill this research gap to analysis factors influencing mobile search engine user s’ continuance behavior under the context of service harm crisis event. Building on the expectation-confirmation model of information system continuance(ECM-ISC) and technology acceptance model(TAM), we incorporated factors affected by the negative situation such as perceived risk and attribution of responsibility and habit into the research model that may influence user s’ continuance behavior of search engine. Our research can not only help mobile search engine service providers to prevent and handle business crisis, but also provide other internet enterprises with practical and valuable comments and suggestions on warning, intervention and remediation to reduce their users’ loss.
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Terms: sovereignty, illegal trade
Recognizing also the increasing desire for the prohibition of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal in other States, especially developing countries,
Terms: developing country
Convinced that hazardous wastes and other wastes should, as far as is compatible with environmentally sound and efficient management, be disposed of in the State where they were generated,
Terms: waste disposal, hazardous waste
Aware also that transboundary movements of such wastes from the State of their generation to any other State should be permitted only when conducted under conditions which do not endanger human health and the environment, and under conditions in conformity with the provisions of this Convention,
Considering that enhanced control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes will act as an incentive for their environmentally sound management and for the reduction of the volume of such transboundary movement,
Terms: 健全环境管理, illegal trade
Convinced that States should take measures for the proper exchange of information on and control of the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes from and to those States,
Terms: 宣传运动
Noting that a number of international and regional agreements have addressed the issue of protection and preservation of the environment with regard to the transit of dangerous goods,
Terms: 国际合作, 协同增效, illegal trade
Taking into account the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972), the Cairo Guidelines and Principles for the Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous Wastes adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) by decision 14/30 of 17 June 1987, the Recommendations of the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (formulated in 1957 and updated biennially), relevant recommendations, declarations, instruments and regulations adopted within the United Nations system and the work and studies done within other international and regional organizations,
Terms: 国际合作, 协同增效
Mindful of the spirit, principles, aims and functions of the World Charter for Nature adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations at its thirty-seventh session (1982) as the rule of ethics in respect of the protection of the human environment and the conservation of natural resources,
Terms: conservation, 协同增效
Affirming that States are responsible for the fulfilment of their international obligations concerning the protection of human health and protection and preservation of the environment, and are liable in accordance with international law,
Recognizing that in the case of a material breach of the provisions of this Convention or any protocol thereto the relevant international law of treaties shall apply,
Terms: international agreement, 议事规则
Aware of the need to continue the development and implementation of environmentally sound low-waste technologies, recycling options, good house-keeping and management systems with a view to reducing to a minimum the generation of hazardous wastes and other wastes,
Terms: 健全环境管理
Aware also of the growing international concern about the need for stringent control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes, and of the need as far as possible to reduce such movement to a minimum,
Concerned about the problem of illegal transboundary traffic in hazardous wastes and other wastes,
Terms: illegal trade
Taking into account also the limited capabilities of the developing countries to manage hazardous wastes and other wastes,
Recognizing the need to promote the transfer of technology for the sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes produced locally, particularly to the developing countries in accordance with the spirit of the Cairo Guidelines and decision 14/16 of the Governing Council of UNEP on Promotion of the transfer of environmental protection technology,
Terms: technology transfer
Recognizing also that hazardous wastes and other wastes should be transported in accordance with relevant international conventions and recommendations,
Terms: 协同增效
Convinced also that the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes should be permitted only when the transport and the ultimate disposal of such wastes is environmentally sound, and
Determined to protect, by strict control, human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from the generation and management of hazardous wastes and other wastes,
Terms: health
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1. Scope of the Convention
Terms: hazardous waste, waste
1. The following wastes that are subject to transboundary movement shall be “hazardous wastes” for the purposes of this Convention:
(a) Wastes that belong to any category contained in Annex I, unless they do not possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III; and
(b) Wastes that are not covered under paragraph (a) but are defined as, or are considered to be, hazardous wastes by the domestic legislation of the Party of export, import or transit.
2. Wastes that belong to any category contained in Annex II that are subject to transboundary movement shall be “other wastes” for the purposes of this Convention.
3. Wastes which, as a result of being radioactive, are subject to other international control systems, including international instruments, applying specifically to radioactive materials, are excluded from the scope of this Convention.
4. Wastes which derive from the normal operations of a ship, the discharge of which is covered by another international instrument, are excluded from the scope of this Convention.
Article 2. Definitions
For the purposes of this Convention:
1. “Wastes” are substances or objects which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of by the provisions of national law;
2. “Management” means the collection, transport and disposal of hazardous wastes or other wastes, including after-care of disposal sites;
Terms: chemical, waste management
3. “Transboundary movement” means any movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes from an area under the national jurisdiction of one State to or through an area under the national jurisdiction of another State or to or through an area not under the national jurisdiction of any State, provided at least two States are involved in the movement;
4. “Disposal” means any operation specified in Annex IV to this Convention;
5. “Approved site or facility” means a site or facility for the disposal of hazardous wastes or other wastes which is authorized or permitted to operate for this purpose by a relevant authority of the State where the site or facility is located;
6. “Competent authority” means one governmental authority designated by a Party to be responsible, within such geographical areas as the Party may think fit, for receiving the notification of a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes, and any information related to it, and for responding to such a notification, as provided in Article 6;
Terms: 国家联络点
7. “Focal point” means the entity of a Party referred to in Article 5 responsible for receiving and submitting information as provided for in Articles 13 and 16;
8. “Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes or other wastes” means taking all practicable steps to ensure that hazardous wastes or other wastes are managed in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such wastes;
9. “Area under the national jurisdiction of a State” means any land, marine area or airspace within which a State exercises administrative and regulatory responsibility in accordance with international law in regard to the protection of human health or the environment;
Terms: sovereignty
10. “State of export” means a Party from which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes is planned to be initiated or is initiated;
Terms: export
11. “State of import” means a Party to which a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes is planned or takes place for the purpose of disposal therein or for the purpose of loading prior to disposal in an area not under the national jurisdiction of any State;
Terms: import
12. “State of transit” means any State, other than the State of export or import, through which a movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes is planned or takes place;
13. “States concerned” means Parties which are States of export or import, or transit States, whether or not Parties;
14. “Person” means any natural or legal person;
15. “Exporter” means any person under the jurisdiction of the State of export who arranges for hazardous wastes or other wastes to be exported;
16. “Importer” means any person under the jurisdiction of the State of import who arranges for hazardous wastes or other wastes to be imported;
17. “Carrier” means any person who carries out the transport of hazardous wastes or other wastes;
Terms: 运输
18. “Generator” means any person whose activity produces hazardous wastes or other wastes or, if that person is not known, the person who is in possession and/or control of those wastes;
Terms: private sector, trade
19. “Disposer” means any person to whom hazardous wastes or other wastes are shipped and who carries out the disposal of such wastes;
20. “Political and/or economic integration organization” means an organization constituted by sovereign States to which its member States have transferred competence in respect of matters governed by this Convention and which has been duly authorized, in accordance with its internal procedures, to sign, ratify, accept, approve, formally confirm or accede to it;
21. “Illegal traffic” means any transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes as specified in Article 9.
Article 3. National Definitions of Hazardous Wastes
目标2目标6目标11目标12Target 12.4Target 12.8目标14目标16Target 16.6目标17Target 17.14
1. Each Party shall, within six months of becoming a Party to this Convention, inform the Secretariat of the Convention of the wastes, other than those listed in Annexes I and II, considered or defined as hazardous under its national legislation and of any requirements concerning transboundary movement procedures applicable to such wastes.
Target 12.4Target 16.6Target 17.14
Terms: 宣传运动, 秘书处
2. Each Party shall subsequently inform the Secretariat of any significant changes to the information it has provided pursuant to paragraph 1.
3. The Secretariat shall forthwith inform all Parties of the information it has received pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2.
4. Parties shall be responsible for making the information transmitted to them by the Secretariat under paragraph 3 available to their exporters.
Target 12.4Target 12.8Target 16.6Target 17.14
Article 4. General Obligations
Target 2.4Target 6.3Target 11.6Target 12.4Target 12.5Target 12.8Target 14.1Target 16.6Target 16.7Target 17.14Target 17.15Target 17.16
1. (a) Parties exercising their right to prohibit the import of hazardous wastes or other wastes for disposal shall inform the other Parties of their decision pursuant to Article 13.
Terms: import, 宣传运动
(b) Parties shall prohibit or shall not permit the export of hazardous wastes and other wastes to the Parties which have prohibited the import of such wastes, when notified pursuant to subparagraph (a) above.
Target 12.4Target 12.5Target 16.7
(c) Parties shall prohibit or shall not permit the export of hazardous wastes and other wastes if the State of import does not consent in writing to the specific import, in the case where that State of import has not prohibited the import of such wastes.
Terms: export, prior informed consent
2. Each Party shall take the appropriate measures to:
Target 2.4Target 6.3Target 11.6Target 12.4Target 12.5Target 14.1
(a) Ensure that the generation of hazardous wastes and other wastes within it is reduced to a minimum, taking into account social, technological and economic aspects;
Terms: 废物预防
(b) Ensure the availability of adequate disposal facilities, for the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes, that shall be located, to the extent possible, within it, whatever the place of their disposal;
Terms: waste disposal, hazardous waste, 健全环境管理
(c) Ensure that persons involved in the management of hazardous wastes or other wastes within it take such steps as are necessary to prevent pollution due to hazardous wastes and other wastes arising from such management and, if such pollution occurs, to minimize the consequences thereof for human health and the environment;
(d) Ensure that the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes is reduced to the minimum consistent with the environmentally sound and efficient management of such wastes, and is conducted in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such movement;
Terms: 健全环境管理, waste export, 废物预防
(e) Not allow the export of hazardous wastes or other wastes to a State or group of States belonging to an economic and/or political integration organization that are Parties, particularly developing countries, which have prohibited by their legislation all imports, or if it has reason to believe that the wastes in question will not be managed in an environmentally sound manner, according to criteria to be decided on by the Parties at their first meeting;
(f) Require that information about a proposed transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes be provided to the States concerned, according to Annex V A, to state clearly the effects of the proposed movement on human health and the environment;
(g) Prevent the import of hazardous wastes and other wastes if it has reason to believe that the wastes in question will not be managed in an environmentally sound manner;
(h) Co-operate in activities with other Parties and interested organizations, directly and through the Secretariat, including the dissemination of information on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes, in order to improve the environmentally sound management of such wastes and to achieve the prevention of illegal traffic.
Target 12.4Target 16.6Target 17.14Target 17.16
Terms: 国际合作
3. The Parties consider that illegal traffic in hazardous wastes or other wastes is criminal.
Terms: illegal trade, 国家法律, 国家战略
4. Each Party shall take appropriate legal, administrative and other measures to implement and enforce the provisions of this Convention, including measures to prevent and punish conduct in contravention of the Convention.
Terms: enforcement, 国家法律
5. A Party shall not permit hazardous wastes or other wastes to be exported to a non-Party or to be imported from a non-Party.
Terms: export, import, 非缔约方
6. The Parties agree not to allow the export of hazardous wastes or other wastes for disposal within the area south of 60° South latitude, whether or not such wastes are subject to transboundary movement.
Terms: waste disposal, hazardous waste, export
7. Furthermore, each Party shall:
(a) Prohibit all persons under its national jurisdiction from transporting or disposing of hazardous wastes or other wastes unless such persons are authorized or allowed to perform such types of operations;
Terms: waste disposal, hazardous waste, 国家法律, 运输
(b) Require that hazardous wastes and other wastes that are to be the subject of a transboundary movement be packaged, labelled, and transported in conformity with generally accepted and recognized international rules and standards in the field of packaging, labelling, and transport, and that due account is taken of relevant internationally recognized practices;
Terms: labelling, 最佳做法
(c) Require that hazardous wastes and other wastes be accompanied by a movement document from the point at which a transboundary movement commences to the point of disposal.
Terms: 许可证
8. Each Party shall require that hazardous wastes or other wastes, to be exported, are managed in an environmentally sound manner in the State of import or elsewhere. Technical guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes subject to this Convention shall be decided by the Parties at their first meeting.
Target 12.4Target 17.14
Terms: 健全环境管理, 最佳做法
9. Parties shall take the appropriate measures to ensure that the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes only be allowed if:
Terms: 豁免
(a) The State of export does not have the technical capacity and the necessary facilities, capacity or suitable disposal sites in order to dispose of the wastes in question in an environmentally sound and efficient manner; or
Terms: 豁免, technology, illegal trade
(b) The wastes in question are required as a raw material for recycling or recovery industries in the State of import; or
(c) The transboundary movement in question is in accordance with other criteria to be decided by the Parties, provided those criteria do not differ from the objectives of this Convention.
10. The obligation under this Convention of States in which hazardous wastes and other wastes are generated to require that those wastes are managed in an environmentally sound manner may not under any circumstances be transferred to the States of import or transit.
11. Nothing in this Convention shall prevent a Party from imposing additional requirements that are consistent with the provisions of this Convention, and are in accordance with the rules of international law, in order better to protect human health and the environment.
Terms: 实施
12. Nothing in this Convention shall affect in any way the sovereignty of States over their territorial sea established in accordance with international law, and the sovereign rights and the jurisdiction which States have in their exclusive economic zones and their continental shelves in accordance with international law, and the exercise by ships and aircraft of all States of navigational rights and freedoms as provided for in international law and as reflected in relevant international instruments.
Target 17.15
Terms: 协同增效, sovereignty, international agreement, 议事规则
13. Parties shall undertake to review periodically the possibilities for the reduction of the amount and/or the pollution potential of hazardous wastes and other wastes which are exported to other States, in particular to developing countries.
Article 5. Designation of Competent Authorities and Focal Point
目标12Target 12.4Indicator 12.4.1
To facilitate the implementation of this Convention, the Parties shall:
Target 12.4Indicator 12.4.1
1. Designate or establish one or more competent authorities and one focal point. One competent authority shall be designated to receive the notification in case of a State of transit.
2. Inform the Secretariat, within three months of the date of the entry into force of this Convention for them, which agencies they have designated as their focal point and their competent authorities.
3. Inform the Secretariat, within one month of the date of decision, of any changes regarding the designation made by them under paragraph 2 above.
Article 6. Transboundary Movement between Parties
目标12Target 12.4Target 12.8目标16Target 16.6目标17Target 17.15
Terms: 通知义务, prior informed consent, illegal trade
1. The State of export shall notify, or shall require the generator or exporter to notify, in writing, through the channel of the competent authority of the State of export, the competent authority of the States concerned of any proposed transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes. Such notification shall contain the declarations and information specified in Annex V A, written in a language acceptable to the State of import. Only one notification needs to be sent to each State concerned.
Target 12.4Target 16.6
Terms: 通知义务
2. The State of import shall respond to the notifier in writing, consenting to the movement with or without conditions, denying permission for the movement, or requesting additional information. A copy of the final response of the State of import shall be sent to the competent authorities of the States concerned which are Parties.
3. The State of export shall not allow the generator or exporter to commence the transboundary movement until it has received written confirmation that:
(a) The notifier has received the written consent of the State of import; and
(b) The notifier has received from the State of import confirmation of the existence of a contract between the exporter and the disposer specifying environmentally sound management of the wastes in question.
4. Each State of transit which is a Party shall promptly acknowledge to the notifier receipt of the notification. It may subsequently respond to the notifier in writing, within 60 days, consenting to the movement with or without conditions, denying permission for the movement, or requesting additional information. The State of export shall not allow the transboundary movement to commence until it has received the written consent of the State of transit. However, if at any time a Party decides not to require prior written consent, either generally or under specific conditions, for transit transboundary movements of hazardous wastes or other wastes, or modifies its requirements in this respect, it shall forthwith inform the other Parties of its decision pursuant to Article 13. In this latter case, if no response is received by the State of export within 60 days of the receipt of a given notification by the State of transit, the State of export may allow the export to proceed through the State of transit.
Terms: prior informed consent
5. In the case of a transboundary movement of wastes where the wastes are legally defined as or considered to be hazardous wastes only:
(a) By the State of export, the requirements of paragraph 9 of this Article that apply to the importer or disposer and the State of import shall apply mutatis mutandis to the exporter and State of export, respectively;
Terms: export, import
(b) By the State of import, or by the States of import and transit which are Parties, the requirements of paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 6 of this Article that apply to the exporter and State of export shall apply mutatis mutandis to the importer or disposer and State of import, respectively; or
(c) By any State of transit which is a Party, the provisions of paragraph 4 shall apply to such State.
6. The State of export may, subject to the written consent of the States concerned, allow the generator or the exporter to use a general notification where hazardous wastes or other wastes having the same physical and chemical characteristics are shipped regularly to the same disposer via the same customs office of exit of the State of export via the same customs office of entry of the State of import, and, in the case of transit, via the same customs office of entry and exit of the State or States of transit.
7. The States concerned may make their written consent to the use of the general notification referred to in paragraph 6 subject to the supply of certain information, such as the exact quantities or periodical lists of hazardous wastes or other wastes to be shipped.
8. The general notification and written consent referred to in paragraphs 6 and 7 may cover multiple shipments of hazardous wastes or other wastes during a maximum period of 12 months.
9. The Parties shall require that each person who takes charge of a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes sign the movement document either upon delivery or receipt of the wastes in question. They shall also require that the disposer inform both the exporter and the competent authority of the State of export of receipt by the disposer of the wastes in question and, in due course, of the completion of disposal as specified in the notification. If no such information is received within the State of export, the competent authority of the State of export or the exporter shall so notify the State of import.
Terms: 宣传运动, 许可证
10. The notification and response required by this Article shall be transmitted to the competent authority of the Parties concerned or to such governmental authority as may be appropriate in the case of non-Parties.
11. Any transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes shall be covered by insurance, bond or other guarantee as may be required by the State of import or any State of transit which is a Party.
Terms: 最佳做法
Article 7. Transboundary Movement from a Party through States which are not Parties
Terms: 非缔约方
Paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the Convention shall apply mutatis mutandis to transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes from a Party through a State or States which are not Parties.
Article 8. Duty to Re-import
目标12Target 12.4目标16Target 16.6
When a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes to which the consent of the States concerned has been given, subject to the provisions of this Convention, cannot be completed in accordance with the terms of the contract, the State of export shall ensure that the wastes in question are taken back into the State of export, by the exporter, if alternative arrangements cannot be made for their disposal in an environmentally sound manner, within 90 days from the time that the importing State informed the State of export and the Secretariat, or such other period of time as the States concerned agree. To this end, the State of export and any Party of transit shall not oppose, hinder or prevent the return of those wastes to the State of export.
Article 9. Illegal Traffic
Target 3.d目标3目标12Target 12.4目标16Target 16.6目标17Target 17.15
1. For the purpose of this Convention, any transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes:
(a) without notification pursuant to the provisions of this Convention to all States concerned; or
(b) without the consent pursuant to the provisions of this Convention of a State concerned; or
(c) with consent obtained from States concerned through falsification, misrepresentation or fraud; or
(d) that does not conform in a material way with the documents; or
(e) that results in deliberate disposal (e.g. dumping) of hazardous wastes or other wastes in contravention of this Convention and of general principles of international law, shall be deemed to be illegal traffic.
2. In case of a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes deemed to be illegal traffic as the result of conduct on the part of the exporter or generator, the State of export shall ensure that the wastes in question are:
(a) taken back by the exporter or the generator or, if necessary, by itself into the State of export, or, if impracticable,
(b) are otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this Convention,
within 30 days from the time the State of export has been informed about the illegal traffic or such other period of time as States concerned may agree. To this end the Parties concerned shall not oppose, hinder or prevent the return of those wastes to the State of export.
3. In the case of a transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes deemed to be illegal traffic as the result of conduct on the part of the importer or disposer, the State of import shall ensure that the wastes in question are disposed of in an environmentally sound manner by the importer or disposer or, if necessary, by itself within 30 days from the time the illegal traffic has come to the attention of the State of import or such other period of time as the States concerned may agree. To this end, the Parties concerned shall co-operate, as necessary, in the disposal of the wastes in an environmentally sound manner.
4. In cases where the responsibility for the illegal traffic cannot be assigned either to the exporter or generator or to the importer or disposer, the Parties concerned or other Parties, as appropriate, shall ensure, through co-operation, that the wastes in question are disposed of as soon as possible in an environmentally sound manner either in the State of export or the State of import or elsewhere as appropriate.
5. Each Party shall introduce appropriate national/domestic legislation to prevent and punish illegal traffic. The Parties shall co-operate with a view to achieving the objects of this Article.
Terms: 国家法律
Article 10. International Co-operation
Target 3.d目标3Target 12.a目标12Target 12.4Target 12.5Target 12.8目标11Target 11.6目标16Target 16.10Target 16.6目标17Target 17.14Target 17.16Target 17.18Target 17.4Target 17.6Target 17.7Target 17.9
Terms: 双边协定, international agreement, 国际合作
1. The Parties shall co-operate with each other in order to improve and achieve environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes.
Target 3.dTarget 12.4Target 17.16Target 17.6Target 17.7
2. To this end, the Parties shall:
(a) Upon request, make available information, whether on a bilateral or multilateral basis, with a view to promoting the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes, including harmonization of technical standards and practices for the adequate management of hazardous wastes and other wastes;
Target 3.dTarget 12.4Target 16.6Target 17.14Target 17.16Target 17.6
Terms: 最佳做法, technology transfer, 宣传运动
(b) Co-operate in monitoring the effects of the management of hazardous wastes on human health and the environment;
Target 3.dTarget 12.4Target 17.16
Terms: health, monitoring, evaluation
(c) Co-operate, subject to their national laws, regulations and policies, in the development and implementation of new environmentally sound low-waste technologies and the improvement of existing technologies with a view to eliminating, as far as practicable, the generation of hazardous wastes and other wastes and achieving more effective and efficient methods of ensuring their management in an environmentally sound manner, including the study of the economic, social and environmental effects of the adoption of such new or improved technologies;
Target 3.dTarget 11.6Target 12.4Target 12.5Target 17.16
Terms: 国家战略, 国家法律, 转型经济体, technology
(d) Co-operate actively, subject to their national laws, regulations and policies, in the transfer of technology and management systems related to the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes. They shall also co-operate in developing the technical capacity among Parties, especially those which may need and request technical assistance in this field;
Target 3.dTarget 12.aTarget 12.4Target 17.16Target 17.18Target 17.7Target 17.9
Terms: 能力建设, technology transfer
(e) Co-operate in developing appropriate technical guidelines and/or codes of practice.
Target 3.dTarget 12.4Target 17.4
Terms: 能力建设
3. The Parties shall employ appropriate means to co-operate in order to assist developing countries in the implementation of subparagraphs a, b, c and d of paragraph 2 of Article 4.
Target 3.dTarget 12.4Target 17.16Target 17.18Target 17.7Target 17.9
Terms: technology transfer, 能力建设
4. Taking into account the needs of developing countries, co-operation between Parties and the competent international organizations is encouraged to promote, inter alia, public awareness, the development of sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes and the adoption of new low-waste technologies.
Target 3.dTarget 12.4Target 12.8Target 16.10Target 17.14
Terms: chemical, waste management, public awareness
Article 11. Bilateral, Multilateral and Regional Agreements
目标12Target 12.4目标16Target 16.6目标17Target 17.14
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4 paragraph 5, Parties may enter into bilateral, multilateral, or regional agreements or arrangements regarding transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes with Parties or non-Parties provided that such agreements or arrangements do not derogate from the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes as required by this Convention. These agreements or arrangements shall stipulate provisions which are not less environmentally sound than those provided for by this Convention in particular taking into account the interests of developing countries.
2. Parties shall notify the Secretariat of any bilateral, multilateral or regional agreements or arrangements referred to in paragraph 1 and those which they have entered into prior to the entry into force of this Convention for them, for the purpose of controlling transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes which take place entirely among the Parties to such agreements. The provisions of this Convention shall not affect transboundary movements which take place pursuant to such agreements provided that such agreements are compatible with the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes and other wastes as required by this Convention.
Article 12. Consultations on Liability
Terms: consultation, 国际合作, liability
The Parties shall co-operate with a view to adopting, as soon as practicable, a protocol setting out appropriate rules and procedures in the field of liability and compensation for damage resulting from the transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous wastes and other wastes.
Article13. Transmission of Information
目标12Target 12.4Indicator 12.4.1Indicator 12.4.2目标16Target 16.6目标17Target 17.14
Terms: 国家报告
1. The Parties shall, whenever it comes to their knowledge, ensure that, in the case of an accident occurring during the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes or their disposal, which are likely to present risks to human health and the environment in other States, those States are immediately informed.
2. The Parties shall inform each other, through the Secretariat, of:
(a) Changes regarding the designation of competent authorities and/or focal points, pursuant to Article 5;
(b) Changes in their national definition of hazardous wastes, pursuant to Article 3;
and, as soon as possible,
(d) Decisions taken by them to limit or ban the export of hazardous wastes or other wastes;
(c) Decisions made by them not to consent totally or partially to the import of hazardous wastes or other wastes for disposal within the area under their national jurisdiction;
(e) Any other information required pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article.
3. The Parties, consistent with national laws and regulations, shall transmit, through the Secretariat, to the Conference of the Parties established under Article 15, before the end of each calendar year, a report on the previous calendar year, containing the following information:
Target 12.4Indicator 12.4.1Indicator 12.4.2
(a) Competent authorities and focal points that have been designated by them pursuant to Article 5;
(b) Information regarding transboundary movements of hazardous wastes or other wastes in which they have been involved, including:
(i) The amount of hazardous wastes and other wastes exported, their category, characteristics, destination, any transit country and disposal method as stated on the response to notification;
(ii) The amount of hazardous wastes and other wastes imported, their category, characteristics, origin, and disposal methods;
(iii) Disposals which did not proceed as intended;
(iv) Efforts to achieve a reduction of the amount of hazardous wastes or other wastes subject to transboundary movement;
(c) Information on the measures adopted by them in implementation of this Convention;
(d) Information on available qualified statistics which have been compiled by them on the effects on human health and the environment of the generation, transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes or other wastes;
(e) Information concerning bilateral, multilateral and regional agreements and arrangements entered into pursuant to Article 11 of this Convention;
(f) Information on accidents occurring during the transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous wastes and other wastes and on the measures undertaken to deal with them;
(g) Information on disposal options operated within the area of their national jurisdiction;
(h) Information on measures undertaken for development of technologies for the reduction and/or elimination of production of hazardous wastes and other wastes; and
(i) Such other matters as the Conference of the Parties shall deem relevant.
4. The Parties, consistent with national laws and regulations, shall ensure that copies of each notification concerning any given transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes, and the response to it, are sent to the Secretariat when a Party considers that its environment may be affected by that transboundary movement has requested that this should be done.
Article 14. Financial Aspects
Target 3.d目标3目标12Target 12.4目标17Target 17.16
Terms: 财务机制
1. The Parties agree that, according to the specific needs of different regions and subregions, regional or sub-regional centres for training and technology transfers regarding the management of hazardous wastes and other wastes and the minimization of their generation should be established. The Parties shall decide on the establishment of appropriate funding mechanisms of a voluntary nature.
Terms: 能力建设, 国际合作, technology transfer
2. The Parties shall consider the establishment of a revolving fund to assist on an interim basis in case of emergency situations to minimize damage from accidents arising from transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes or during the disposal of those wastes.
Terms: 预算, disaster, 基金
Article 15. Conference of the Parties
Terms: 缔约方大会
1. A Conference of the Parties is hereby established. The first meeting of the Conference of the Parties shall be convened by the Executive Director of UNEP not later than one year after the entry into force of this Convention. Thereafter, ordinary meetings of the Conference of the Parties shall be held at regular intervals to be determined by the Conference at its first meeting.
2. Extraordinary meetings of the Conference of the Parties shall be held at such other times as may be deemed necessary by the Conference, or at the written request of any Party, provided that, within six months of the request being communicated to them by the Secretariat, it is supported by at least one third of the Parties.
Terms: 缔约方特别大会
3. The Conference of the Parties shall by consensus agree upon and adopt rules of procedure for itself and for any subsidiary body it may establish, as well as financial rules to determine in particular the financial participation of the Parties under this Convention.
Terms: 议事规则
4. The Parties at their first meeting shall consider any additional measures needed to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities with respect to the protection and the preservation of the marine environment in the context of this Convention.
Terms: 沿海湿地, marine resources conservation, 国家战略
5. The Conference of the Parties shall keep under continuous review and evaluation the effective implementation of this Convention, and, in addition, shall:
(a) Promote the harmonization of appropriate policies, strategies and measures for minimizing harm to human health and the environment by hazardous wastes and other wastes;
(b) Consider and adopt, as required, amendments to this Convention and its annexes, taking into consideration, inter alia, available scientific, technical, economic and environmental information;
Terms: 修正程序, 附属机构, 咨询机构, science, technology
(c) Consider and undertake any additional action that may be required for the achievement of the purposes of this Convention in the light of experience gained in its operation and in the operation of the agreements and arrangements envisaged in Article 11;
(d) Consider and adopt protocols as required; and
Terms: protocol
(e) Establish such subsidiary bodies as are deemed necessary for the implementation of this Convention.
Terms: 附属机构
6. The United Nations, its specialized agencies, as well as any State not Party to this Convention, may be represented as observers at meetings of the Conference of the Parties. Any other body or agency, whether national or international, governmental or non-governmental, qualified in fields relating to hazardous wastes or other wastes which has informed the Secretariat of its wish to be represented as an observer at a meeting of the Conference of the Parties, may be admitted unless at least one third of the Parties present object. The admission and participation of observers shall be subject to the rules of procedure adopted by the Conference of the Parties.
目标11Target 11.4
Terms: 观察员
7. The Conference of the Parties shall undertake three years after the entry into force of this Convention, and at least every six years thereafter, an evaluation of its effectiveness and, if deemed necessary, to consider the adoption of a complete or partial ban of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes in light of the latest scientific, environmental, technical and economic information.
Terms: evaluation
Article 16. Secretariat
Terms: 秘书处
1. The functions of the Secretariat shall be:
(a) To arrange for and service meetings provided for in Articles 15 and 17;
(b) To prepare and transmit reports based upon information received in accordance with Articles 3, 4, 6, 11 and 13 as well as upon information derived from meetings of subsidiary bodies established under Article 15 as well as upon, as appropriate, information provided by relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental entities;
Terms: 报告
(c) To prepare reports on its activities carried out in implementation of its functions under this Convention and present them to the Conference of the Parties;
(d) To ensure the necessary coordination with relevant international bodies, and in particular to enter into such administrative and contractual arrangements as may be required for the effective discharge of its function;
Terms: 协同增效, 国际合作
(e) To communicate with focal points and competent authorities established by the Parties in accordance with Article 5 of this Convention;
(f) To compile information concerning authorized national sites and facilities of Parties available for the disposal of their hazardous wastes and other wastes and to circulate this information among Parties;
(g) To receive and convey information from and to Parties on:
Terms: 能力建设, technology
- sources of technical assistance and training;
- available technical and scientific know-how;
sources of advice and expertise; and
availability of resources
with a view to assisting them, upon request, in such areas as:
the handling of the notification system of this Convention;
the management of hazardous wastes and other wastes;
environmentally sound technologies relating to hazardous wastes and other wastes; such as low- and non-waste technology;
the assessment of disposal capabilities and sites;
the monitoring of hazardous wastes and other wastes; and
emergency responses;
(h) To provide Parties, upon request, with information on consultants or consulting firms having the necessary technical competence in the field, which can assist them to examine a notification for a transboundary movement, the concurrence of a shipment of hazardous wastes or other wastes with the relevant notification, and/or the fact that the proposed disposal facilities for hazardous wastes or other wastes are environmentally sound, when they have reason to believe that the wastes in question will not be managed in an environmentally sound manner. Any such examination would not be at the expense of the Secretariat;
(i) To assist Parties upon request in their identification of cases of illegal traffic and to circulate immediately to the Parties concerned any information it has received regarding illegal traffic;
(j) To co-operate with Parties and with relevant and competent international organizations and agencies in the provision of experts and equipment for the purpose of rapid assistance to States in the event of an emergency situation; and
Terms: disaster
(k) To perform such other functions relevant to the purposes of this Convention as may be determined by the Conference of the Parties.
2. The secretariat functions will be carried out on an interim basis by UNEP until the completion of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties held pursuant to Article 15.
3. At its first meeting, the Conference of the Parties shall designate the Secretariat from among those existing competent intergovernmental organizations which have signified their willingness to carry out the secretariat functions under this Convention. At this meeting, the Conference of the Parties shall also evaluate the implementation by the interim Secretariat of the functions assigned to it, in particular under paragraph 1 above, and decide upon the structures appropriate for those functions.
Article 17. Amendment of the Convention
Terms: 修正程序
1. Any Party may propose amendments to this Convention and any Party to a protocol may propose amendments to that protocol. Such amendments shall take due account, inter alia, of relevant scientific and technical considerations.
2. Amendments to this Convention shall be adopted at a meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Amendments to any protocol shall be adopted at a meeting of the Parties to the protocol in question. The text of any proposed amendment to this Convention or to any protocol, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol, shall be communicated to the Parties by the Secretariat at least six months before the meeting at which it is proposed for adoption. The Secretariat shall also communicate proposed amendments to the Signatories to this Convention for information.
3. The Parties shall make every effort to reach agreement on any proposed amendment to this Convention by consensus. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement reached, the amendment shall as a last resort be adopted by a three-fourths majority vote of the Parties present and voting at the meeting, and shall be submitted by the Depositary to all Parties for ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance.
4. The procedure mentioned in paragraph 3 above shall apply to amendments to any protocol, except that a two-thirds majority of the Parties to that protocol present and voting at the meeting shall suffice for their adoption.
5. Instruments of ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance of amendments shall be deposited with the Depositary. Amendments adopted in accordance with paragraphs 3 or 4 above shall enter into force between Parties having accepted them on the ninetieth day after the receipt by the Depositary of their instrument of ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance by at least three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them or by at least two thirds of the Parties to the protocol concerned who accepted them, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol. The amendments shall enter into force for any other Party on the ninetieth day after that Party deposits its instrument of ratification, approval, formal confirmation or acceptance of the amendments.
6. For the purpose of this Article, “Parties present and voting” means Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote.
Article 18. Adoption and Amendment of Annexes
Terms: عتماد, 修正, 附件
1. The annexes to this Convention or to any protocol shall form an integral part of this Convention or of such protocol, as the case may be and, unless expressly provided otherwise, a reference to this Convention or its protocols constitutes at the same time a reference to any annexes thereto. Such annexes shall be restricted to scientific, technical and administrative matters.
2. Except as may be otherwise provided in any protocol with respect to its annexes, the following procedure shall apply to the proposal, adoption and entry into force of additional annexes to this Convention or of annexes to a protocol:
(a) Annexes to this Convention and its protocols shall be proposed and adopted according to the procedure laid down in Article 17, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4;
(b) Any Party that is unable to accept an additional annex to this Convention or an annex to any protocol to which it is party shall so notify the Depositary, in writing, within six months from the date of the communication of the adoption by the Depositary. The Depositary shall without delay notify all Parties of any such notification received. A Party may at any time substitute an acceptance for a previous declaration of objection and the annexes shall thereupon enter into force for that Party;
Terms: 保存人
(c) On the expiry of six months from the date of the circulation of the communication by the Depositary, the annex shall become effective for all Parties to this Convention or to any protocol concerned, which have not submitted a notification in accordance with the provision of subparagraph (b) above.
3. The proposal, adoption and entry into force of amendments to annexes to this Convention or to any protocol shall be subject to the same procedure as for the proposal, adoption and entry into force of annexes to the Convention or annexes to a protocol. Annexes and amendments thereto shall take due account, inter alia, of relevant scientific and technical considerations.
4. If an additional annex or an amendment to an annex involves an amendment to this Convention or to any protocol, the additional annex or amended annex shall not enter into force until such time the amendment to this Convention or to the protocol enters into force.
Article 19. Verification
Any Party which has reason to believe that another Party is acting or has acted in breach of its obligations under this Convention may inform the Secretariat thereof, and in such an event, shall simultaneously and immediately inform, directly or through the Secretariat, the Party against whom the allegations are made. All relevant information should be submitted by the Secretariat to the Parties.
Terms: 遵约, enforcement
Article 20. Settlement of Disputes
Terms: 仲裁, 解决争端, litigation, 谈判
1. In case of a dispute between Parties as to the interpretation or application of, or compliance with, this Convention or any protocol thereto, they shall seek a settlement of the dispute through negotiation or any other peaceful means of their own choice.
2. If the Parties concerned cannot settle their dispute through the means mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the dispute, if the Parties to the dispute agree, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice or to arbitration under the conditions set out in Annex VI on Arbitration. However, failure to reach common agreement on submission of the dispute to the International Court of Justice or to arbitration shall not absolve the Parties from the responsibility of continuing to seek to resolve it by the means referred to in paragraph 1.
3. When ratifying, accepting, approving, formally confirming or acceding to this Convention, or at any time thereafter, a State or political and/or economic integration organization may declare that it recognizes as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any Party accepting the same obligation:
(a) submission of the dispute to the International Court of Justice; and/or
(b) arbitration in accordance with the procedures set out in Annex VI.
Such declaration shall be notified in writing to the Secretariat which shall communicate it to the Parties.
Article 21. Signature
Terms: 签署
This Convention shall be open for signature by States, by Namibia, represented by the United Nations Council for Namibia, and by political and/or economic integration organizations, in Basel on 22 March 1989, at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland in Berne from 23 March 1989 to 30 June 1989 and at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 1 July 1989 to 22 March 1990.
Article 22. Ratification, Acceptance, Formal Confirmation or Approval
Terms: 接受, 批准
1. This Convention shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by States and by Namibia, represented by the United Nations Council for Namibia, and to formal confirmation or approval by political and/or economic integration organizations. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, formal confirmation, or approval shall be deposited with the Depositary.
2. Any organization referred to in paragraph 1 above which becomes a Party to this Convention without any of its member States being a Party shall be bound by all the obligations under the Convention. In the case of such organizations, one or more of whose member States is a Party to the Convention, the organization and its member States shall decide on their respective responsibilities for the performance of their obligations under the Convention. In such cases, the organization and the member States shall not be entitled to exercise rights under the Convention concurrently.
3. In their instruments of formal confirmation or approval, the organizations referred to in paragraph 1 above shall declare the extent of their competence with respect to the matters governed by the Convention. These organizations shall also inform the Depositary, who will inform the Parties of any substantial modification in the extent of their competence.
Article 23. Accession
Terms: 加入
1. This Convention shall be open for accession by States, by Namibia, represented by the United Nations Council for Namibia, and by political and/or economic integration organizations from the day after the date on which the Convention is closed for signature. The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.
2. In their instruments of accession, the organizations referred to in paragraph 1 above shall declare the extent of their competence with respect to the matters governed by the Convention. These organizations shall also inform the Depositary of any substantial modification in the extent of their competence.
3. The provisions of Article 22, paragraph 2, shall apply to political and/or economic integration organizations which accede to this Convention.
Article 24. Right to Vote
Terms: voting
1. Except as provided for in paragraph 2 below, each Contracting Party to this Convention shall have one vote.
2. Political and/or economic integration organizations, in matters within their competence, in accordance with Article 22, paragraph 3, and Article 23, paragraph 2, shall exercise their right to vote with a number of votes equal to the number of their member States which are Parties to the Convention or the relevant protocol. Such organizations shall not exercise their right to vote if their member States exercise theirs, and vice versa.
Article 25. Entry into Force
Terms: 接受, 加入, 生效, 缔约方
1. This Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, formal confirmation, approval or accession.
2. For each State or political and/or economic integration organization which ratifies, accepts, approves or formally confirms this Convention or accedes thereto after the date of the deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval, formal confirmation or accession, it shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit by such State or political and/or economic integration organization of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval, formal confirmation or accession.
3. For the purpose of paragraphs 1 and 2 above, any instrument deposited by a political and/or economic integration organization shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by member States of such organization.
Article 26. Reservations and Declarations
Terms: 保留
1. No reservation or exception may be made to this Convention.
2. Paragraph 1 of this Article does not preclude a State or political and/or economic integration organization, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving, formally confirming or acceding to this Convention, from making declarations or statements, however phrased or named, with a view, inter alia, to the harmonization of its laws and regulations with the provisions of this Convention, provided that such declarations or statements do not purport to exclude or to modify the legal effects of the provisions of the Convention in their application to that State.
Terms: 生效, 批准, 签署
Article 27. Withdrawal
Terms: 退出
1. At any time after three years from the date on which this Convention has entered into force for a Party, that Party may withdraw from the Convention by giving written notification to the Depositary.
2. Withdrawal shall be effective one year from receipt of notification by the Depositary, or on such later date as may be specified in the notification.
Article 28. Depositary
The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall be the Depositary of this Convention and of any protocol thereto.
Terms: 保存人, 生效, 秘书处
Article 29. Authentic Texts
The original Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts of this Convention are equally authentic.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorized to that effect, have signed this Convention. Done at Basel on the 22 day of March 1989
Annex I. Categories of Wastes to be Controlled
Terms: waste management
Waste Streams
Y1 Clinical wastes from medical care in hospitals, medical centers and clinics
Y2 Wastes from the production and preparation of pharmaceutical products
Y3 Waste pharmaceuticals, drugs and medicines
Y4 Wastes from the production, formulation and use of biocides and phytopharmaceuticals
Y5 Wastes from the manufacture, formulation and use of wood preserving chemicals
Y6 Wastes from the production, formulation and use of organic solvents
Y7 Wastes from heat treatment and tempering operations containing cyanides
Y8 Waste mineral oils unfit for their originally intended use
Y9 Waste oils/water, hydrocarbons/water mixtures, emulsions
Y10 Waste substances and articles containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and/or polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) and/or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)
Y11 Waste tarry residues arising from refining, distillation and any pyrolytic treatment
Y12 Wastes from production, formulation and use of inks, dyes, pigments, paints, lacquers, varnish
Y13 Wastes from production, formulation and use of resins, latex, plasticizers, glues/adhesives
Y14 Waste chemical substances arising from research and development or teaching activities which are not identified and/or are new and whose effects on man and/or the environment are not known
Y15 Wastes of an explosive nature not subject to other legislation
Y16 Wastes from production, formulation and use of photographic chemicals and processing materials
Y17 Wastes resulting from surface treatment of metals and plastics
Y18 Residues arising from industrial waste disposal operations
Wastes having as constituents:
Y19 Metal carbonyls
Y20 Beryllium; beryllium compounds
Y21 Hexavalent chromium compounds
Y22 Copper compounds
Y23 Zinc compounds
Y24 Arsenic; arsenic compounds
Y25 Selenium; selenium compounds
Y26 Cadmium; cadmium compounds
Y27 Antimony; antimony compounds
Y28 Tellurium; tellurium compounds
Y29 Mercury; mercury compounds
Y30 Thallium; thallium compounds
Y31 Lead; lead compounds
Y32 Inorganic fluorine compounds excluding calcium fluoride
Y33 Inorganic cyanides
Y34 Acidic solutions or acids in solid form
Y35 Basic solutions or bases in solid form
Y36 Asbestos (dust and fibres)
Y37 Organic phosphorus compounds
Y38 Organic cyanides
Y39 Phenols; phenol compounds including chlorophenols
Y40 Ethers
Y41 Halogenated organic solvents
Y42 Organic solvents excluding halogenated solvents
Y43 Any congenor of polychlorinated dibenzo-furan
Y44 Any congenor of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
Y45 Organohalogen compounds other than substances referred to in this Annex (e.g. Y39, Y41, Y42, Y43, Y44)
(a) To facilitate the application of this Convention, and subject to paragraphs (b), (c) and (d), wastes listed in Annex VIII are characterized as hazardous pursuant to Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention, and wastes listed in Annex IX are not covered by Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention. (b) Designation of a waste on Annex VIII does not preclude, in a particular case, the use of Annex III to demonstrate that a waste is not hazardous pursuant to Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention. (c) Designation of a waste on Annex IX does not preclude, in a particular case, characterization of such a waste as hazardous pursuant to Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention if it contains Annex I material to an extent causing it to exhibit an Annex III characteristic. (d) Annexes VIII and IX do not affect the application of Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention for the purpose of characterization of wastes.[1] [1] The amendment whereby paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) were added to the end of Annex I entered into force on 6 November 1998, six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.77.1998 of 6 May 1998 (reflecting Decision IV/9, adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fourth meeting).
Annex II. Categories of Wastes Requiring Special Consideration
Terms: domestic waste
Wastes collected from households
Residues arising from the incineration of household wastes
Annex III. List of Hazardous Characteristics
Terms: hazardous waste
UN Class[1]
An explosive substance or waste is a solid or liquid substance or waste (or mixture of substances or wastes) which is in itself capable by chemical reaction of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as to cause damage to the surroundings.
The word “flammable” has the same meaning as “inflammable”. Flammable liquids are liquids, or mixtures of liquids, or liquids containing solids in solution or suspension (for example, paints, varnishes, lacquers, etc., but not including substances or wastes otherwise classified on account of their dangerous characteristics) which give off a flammable vapour at temperatures of not more than 60.5ºC, closed-cup test, or not more than 65.6ºC, open-cup test. (Since the results of open-cup tests and of closed-cup tests are not strictly comparable and even individual results by the same test are often variable, regulations varying from the above figures to make allowance for such differences would be within the spirit of this definition.)
H4.1
Solids, or waste solids, other than those classed as explosives, which under conditions encountered in transport are readily combustible, or may cause or contribute to fire through friction.
Substances or wastes liable to spontaneous combustion
Substances or wastes which are liable to spontaneous heating under normal conditions encountered in transport, or to heating up on contact with air, and being then liable to catch fire.
Substances or wastes which, in contact with water emit flammable gases
Substances or wastes which, by interaction with water, are liable to become spontaneously flammable or to give off flammable gases in dangerous quantities.
Oxidizing
Substances or wastes which, while in themselves not necessarily combustible, may, generally by yielding oxygen cause, or contribute to, the combustion of other materials.
Organic substances or wastes which contain the bivalent-o-o-structure are thermally unstable substances which may undergo exothermic self-accelerating decomposition.
Poisonous (Acute)
Substances or wastes liable either to cause death or serious injury or to harm human health if swallowed or inhaled or by skin contact.
Infectious substances
Substances or wastes containing viable micro organisms or their toxins which are known or suspected to cause disease in animals or humans.
Corrosives
Substances or wastes which, by chemical action, will cause severe damage when in contact with living tissue, or, in the case of leakage, will materially damage, or even destroy, other goods or the means of transport; they may also cause other hazards.
Liberation of toxic gases in contact with air or water
Substances or wastes which, by interaction with air or water, are liable to give off toxic gases in dangerous quantities.
Toxic (Delayed or chronic)
Substances or wastes which, if they are inhaled or ingested or if they penetrate the skin, may involve delayed or chronic effects, including carcinogenicity.
Ecotoxic
Substances or wastes which if released present or may present immediate or delayed adverse impacts to the environment by means of bioaccumulation and/or toxic effects upon biotic systems.
Capable, by any means, after disposal, of yielding another material, e.g., leachate, which possesses any of the characteristics listed above.
The potential hazards posed by certain types of wastes are not yet fully documented; tests to define quantitatively these hazards do not exist. Further research is necessary in order to develop means to characterise potential hazards posed to man and/or the environment by these wastes. Standardized tests have been derived with respect to pure substances and materials. Many countries have developed national tests which can be applied to materials listed in Annex I, in order to decide if these materials exhibit any of the characteristics listed in this Annex.
Annex IV. Disposal Operations
Terms: recycling, waste disposal, waste treatment
A. OPERATIONS WHICH DO NOT LEAD TO THE POSSIBILITY OF RESOURCE RECOVERY, RECYCLING, RECLAMATION, DIRECT RE-USE OR ALTERNATIVE USES
Section A encompasses all such disposal operations which occur in practice.
Deposit into or onto land, (e.g., landfill, etc.)
Land treatment, (e.g., biodegradation of liquid or sludgy discards in soils, etc.)
Deep injection, (e.g., injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes of naturally occurring repositories, etc.)
Surface impoundment, (e.g., placement of liquid or sludge discards into pits, ponds or lagoons, etc.)
Specially engineered landfill, (e.g., placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc.)
Release into a water body except seas/oceans
Release into seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion
Biological treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations in Section A
Physico chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Annex which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations in Section A, (e.g., evaporation, drying, calcination, neutralization, precipitation, etc.)
Incineration on land
Incineration at sea
Permanent storage (e.g., emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.)
Blending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations in Section A
Repackaging prior to submission to any of the operations in Section A
Storage pending any of the operations in Section A
B. Operations which may lead to resource recovery, recycling reclamation, direct re-use or alternative uses
Section B encompasses all such operations with respect to materials legally defined as or considered to be hazardous wastes and which otherwise would have been destined for operations included in Section A
Use as a fuel (other than in direct incineration) or other means to generate energy
Solvent reclamation/regeneration
Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents
Recycling/reclamation of metals and metal compounds
Recycling/reclamation of other inorganic materials
Regeneration of acids or bases
Recovery of components used for pollution abatement
Recovery of components from catalysts
Used oil re-refining or other reuses of previously used oil
Land treatment resulting in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement
Uses of residual materials obtained from any of the operations numbered R1-R10
Exchange of wastes for submission to any of the operations numbered R1-R11
Accumulation of material intended for any operation in Section B
Annex V A. Information to be Provided on Notification
1. Reason for waste export
2. Exporter of the waste 1/
3. Generator(s) of the waste and site of generation 1/
4. Disposer of the waste and actual site of disposal 1/
5. Intended carrier(s) of the waste or their agents, if known 1/
6. Country of export of the waste
Competent authority 2/
7. Expected countries of transit
8. Country of import of the waste
9. General or single notification
10. Projected date(s) of shipment(s) and period of time over which waste is to be exported and proposed itinerary (including point of entry and exit)3/
11. Means of transport envisaged (road, rail, sea, air, inland waters)
12. Information relating to insurance 4/
13. Designation and physical description of the waste including Y number and UN number and its composition 5/ and information on any special handling requirements including emergency provisions in case of accidents
14. Type of packaging envisaged (e.g. bulk, drummed, tanker)
15. Estimated quantity in weight/volume 6/
16. Process by which the waste is generated 7/
17. For wastes listed in Annex I, classifications from Annex III: hazardous characteristic, H number, and UN class
18. Method of disposal as per Annex IV
19. Declaration by the generator and exporter that the information is correct
20. Information transmitted (including technical description of the plant) to the exporter or generator from the disposer of the waste upon which the latter has based his assessment that there was no reason to believe that the wastes will not be managed in an environmentally sound manner in accordance with the laws and regulations of the country of import
21. Information concerning the contract between the exporter and disposer.
1/ Full name and address, telephone, telex or telefax number and the name, address, telephone, telex or telefax number of the person to be contacted.
2/ Full name and address, telephone, telex or telefax number.
3/ In the case of a general notification covering several shipments, either the expected dates of each shipment or, if this is not known, the expected frequency of the shipments will be required.
4/ Information to be provided on relevant insurance requirements and how they are met by exporter, carrier and disposer.
5/ The nature and the concentration of the most hazardous components, in terms of toxicity and other dangers presented by the waste both in handling and in relation to the proposed disposal method.
6/ In the case of a general notification covering several shipments, both the estimated total quantity and the estimated quantities for each individual shipment will be required.
7/ Insofar as this is necessary to assess the hazard and determine the appropriateness of the proposed disposal operation.
Annex V B. Information to be Provided on the Movement Document
Terms: labelling
4. Carrier(s) of the waste 1/ or his agent(s)
5. Subject of general or single notification
6. The date the transboundary movement started and date(s) and signature on receipt by each person who takes charge of the waste
7. Means of transport (road, rail, inland waterway, sea, air) including countries of export, transit and import, also point of entry and exit where these have been designated
8. General description of the waste (physical state, proper UN shipping name and class, UN number, Y number and H number as applicable)
9. Information on special handling requirements including emergency provision in case of accidents
10. Type and number of packages
11. Quantity in weight/volume
12. Declaration by the generator or exporter that the information is correct
13. Declaration by the generator or exporter indicating no objection from the competent authorities of all States concerned which are Parties
14. Certification by disposer of receipt at designated disposal facility and indication of method of disposal and of the approximate date of disposal.
The information required on the movement document shall where possible be integrated in one document with that required under transport rules. Where this is not possible the information should complement rather than duplicate that required under the transport rules. The movement document shall carry instructions as to who is to provide information and fill-out any form.
1/ Full name and address, telephone, telex or telefax number and the name, address, telephone, telex or telefax number of the person to be contacted in case of emergency.
Annex VI. Arbitration
Terms: 仲裁, 解决争端
Unless the agreement referred to in Article 20 of the Convention provides otherwise, the arbitration procedure shall be conducted in accordance with Articles 2 to 10 below.
The claimant Party shall notify the Secretariat that the Parties have agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration pursuant to paragraph 2 or paragraph 3 of Article 20 and include, in particular, the Articles of the Convention the interpretation or application of which are at issue. The Secretariat shall forward the information thus received to all Parties to the Convention.
The arbitral tribunal shall consist of three members. Each of the Parties to the dispute shall appoint an arbitrator, and the two arbitrators so appointed shall designate by common agreement the third arbitrator, who shall be the chairman of the tribunal. The latter shall not be a national of one of the Parties to the dispute, nor have his usual place of residence in the territory of one of these Parties, nor be employed by any of them, nor have dealt with the case in any other capacity.
1.If the chairman of the arbitral tribunal has not been designated within two months of the appointment of the second arbitrator, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall, at the request of either Party, designate him within a further two months period.
2. If one of the Parties to the dispute does not appoint an arbitrator within two months of the receipt of the request, the other Party may inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations who shall designate the chairman of the arbitral tribunal within a further two months’ period. Upon designation, the chairman of the arbitral tribunal shall request the Party which has not appointed an arbitrator to do so within two months. After such period, he shall inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall make this appointment within a further two months’ period.
1.The arbitral tribunal shall render its decision in accordance with international law and in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.
2. Any arbitral tribunal constituted under the provisions of this Annex shall draw up its own rules of procedure.
1.The decisions of the arbitral tribunal both on procedure and on substance, shall be taken by majority vote of its members.
2. The tribunal may take all appropriate measures in order to establish the facts. It may, at the request of one of the Parties, recommend essential interim measures of protection.
3. The Parties to the dispute shall provide all facilities necessary for the effective conduct of the proceedings.
4. The absence or default of a Party in the dispute shall not constitute an impediment to the proceedings.
The tribunal may hear and determine counter-claims arising directly out of the subject-matter of the dispute.
Unless the arbitral tribunal determines otherwise because of the particular circumstances of the case, the expenses of the tribunal, including the remuneration of its members, shall be borne by the Parties to the dispute in equal shares. The tribunal shall keep a record of all its expenses, and shall furnish a final statement thereof to the Parties.
Any Party that has an interest of a legal nature in the subject-matter of the dispute which may be affected by the decision in the case, may intervene in the proceedings with the consent of the tribunal.
1.The tribunal shall render its award within five months of the date on which it is established unless it finds it necessary to extend the time-limit for a period which should not exceed five months.
2.The award of the arbitral tribunal shall be accompanied by a statement of reasons. It shall be final and binding upon the Parties to the dispute.
3. Any dispute which may arise between the Parties concerning the interpretation or execution of the award may be submitted by either Party to the arbitral tribunal which made the award or, if the latter cannot be seized thereof, to another tribunal constituted for this purpose in the same manner as the first.
Annex VII
[not yet entered into force]6
6 Annex VII is an integral part of the Amendment adopted by the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties in 1995 in its Decision III/1. The amendment is not yet in force. The relevant part of Decision III/1 provides as follows:
… 3. Decides to adopt the following amendment to the Convention:
‘Annex VII
Parties and other States which are members of OECD, EC, Liechtenstein.”’
Annex VIII. List A
Terms: 附录, hazardous waste
Wastes contained in this Annex are characterized as hazardous under Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention, and their designation on this Annex does not preclude the use of Annex III to demonstrate that a waste is not hazardous.
A1 Metal and metal-bearing wastes
Metal wastes and waste consisting of alloys of any of the following:
• Antimony
• Arsenic
• Beryllium
• Cadmium
• Lead
• Mercury
• Selenium
• Tellurium
• Thallium
but excluding such wastes specifically listed on list B.
Waste having as constituents or contaminants, excluding metal waste in massive form, any of the following:
• Antimony; antimony compounds
• Beryllium; beryllium compounds
• Cadmium; cadmium compounds
• Lead; lead compounds
• Selenium; selenium compounds
• Tellurium; tellurium compounds
Wastes having as constituents or contaminants any of the following:
• Arsenic; arsenic compounds
• Mercury; mercury compounds
• Thallium; thallium compounds
Wastes having as constituents any of the following:
• Metal carbonyls
• Hexavalent chromium compounds
Galvanic sludges
Waste liquors from the pickling of metals
Leaching residues from zinc processing, dust and sludges such as jarosite, hematite, etc.
Waste zinc residues not included on list B, containing lead and cadmium in concentrations sufficient to exhibit Annex III characteristics
Ashes from the incineration of insulated copper wire
Dusts and residues from gas cleaning systems of copper smelters
Spent electrolytic solutions from copper electrorefining and electrowinning operations
Waste sludges, excluding anode slimes, from electrolyte purification systems in copper electrorefining and electrowinning operations
Spent etching solutions containing dissolved copper
Waste cupric chloride and copper cyanide catalysts
Precious metal ash from incineration of printed circuit boards not included on list B[1]
Waste lead-acid batteries, whole or crushed
Unsorted waste batteries excluding mixtures of only list B batteries. Waste batteries not specified on list B containing Annex I constituents to an extent to render them hazardous
Waste electrical and electronic assemblies or scrap[2] containing components such as accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass and PCB-capacitors, or contaminated with Annex I constituents (e.g., cadmium, mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyl) to an extent that they possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III (note the related entry on list B B1110)[3]
Waste metal cables coated or insulated with plastics containing or contaminated with coal tar, PCB[4], lead, cadmium, other organohalogen compounds or other Annex I constituents to an extent that they exhibit Annex III characteristics.
A2 Wastes containing principally inorganic constituents, which may contain metals and organic materials
Glass waste from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glasses
Waste inorganic fluorine compounds in the form of liquids or sludges but excluding such wastes specified on list B
Waste catalysts but excluding such wastes specified on list B
Waste gypsum arising from chemical industry processes, when containing Annex I constituents to the extent that it exhibits an Annex III hazardous characteristic (note the related entry on list B B2080)
Waste asbestos (dusts and fibres)
Coal-fired power plant fly-ash containing Annex I substances in concentrations sufficient to exhibit Annex III characteristics (note the related entry on list B B2050)
A3 Wastes containing principally organic constituents, which may contain metals and inorganic materials
Waste from the production or processing of petroleum coke and bitumen
Waste mineral oils unfit for their originally intended use
Wastes that contain, consist of or are contaminated with leaded anti-knock compound sludges
Waste thermal (heat transfer) fluids
Wastes from production, formulation and use of resins, latex, plasticizers, glues/adhesives excluding such wastes specified on list B (note the related entry on list B B4020)
Waste nitrocellulose
Waste phenols, phenol compounds including chlorophenol in the form of liquids or sludges
Waste ethers not including those specified on list B
Waste leather dust, ash, sludges and flours when containing hexavalent chromium compounds or biocides (note the related entry on list B B3100)
Waste paring and other waste of leather or of composition leather not suitable for the manufacture of leather articles containing hexavalent chromium compounds or biocides (note the related entry on list B B3090)
Fellmongery wastes containing hexavalent chromium compounds or biocides or infectious substances (note the related entry on list B B3110)
Fluff - light fraction from shredding
Waste organic phosphorous compounds
Waste non-halogenated organic solvents but excluding such wastes specified on list B
Waste halogenated organic solvents
Waste halogenated or unhalogenated non-aqueous distillation residues arising from organic solvent recovery operations
Wastes arising from the production of aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbons (such as chloromethane, dichloro-ethane, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, allyl chloride and epichlorhydrin)
Wastes, substances and articles containing, consisting of or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), polychlorinated terphenyl (PCT), polychlorinated naphthalene (PCN) or polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), or any other polybrominated analogues of these compounds, at a concentration level of 50 mg/kg or more[5]
Waste tarry residues (excluding asphalt cements) arising from refining, distillation and any pyrolitic treatment of organic materials
Bituminous material (asphalt waste) from road construction and maintenance, containing tar (note the related entry on list B, B2130)
A4 Wastes which may contain either inorganic or organic constituents
Wastes from the production, preparation and use of pharmaceutical products but excluding such wastes specified on list B
Clinical and related wastes; that is wastes arising from medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, or similar practices, and wastes generated in hospitals or other facilities during the investigation or treatment of patients, or research projects
Wastes from the production, formulation and use of biocides and phytopharmaceuticals, including waste pesticides and herbicides which are off-specification, outdated,[6]or unfit for their originally intended use
Wastes from the manufacture, formulation and use of wood-preserving chemicals[7]
Wastes that contain, consist of or are contaminated with any of the following:
• Inorganic cyanides, excepting precious-metal-bearing residues in solid form containing traces of inorganic cyanides
• Organic cyanides
Waste oils/water, hydrocarbons/water mixtures, emulsions
Wastes from the production, formulation and use of inks, dyes, pigments, paints, lacquers, varnish excluding any such waste specified on list B (note the related entry on list B B4010)
Wastes of an explosive nature (but excluding such wastes specified on list B)
Waste acidic or basic solutions, other than those specified in the corresponding entry on list B (note the related entry on list B B2120)
Wastes from industrial pollution control devices for cleaning of industrial off-gases but excluding such wastes specified on list B
• Any congenor of polychlorinated dibenzo-furan
• Any congenor of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
Wastes that contain, consist of or are contaminated with peroxides
Waste packages and containers containing Annex I substances in concentrations sufficient to exhibit Annex III hazard characteristics
Waste consisting of or containing off specification or outdated[8]chemicals corresponding to Annex I categories and exhibiting Annex III hazard characteristics
Waste chemical substances arising from research and development or teaching activities which are not identified and/or are new and whose effects on human health and/or the environment are not known
Spent activated carbon not included on list B (note the related entry on list B B2060)
7 The amendment whereby Annex VIII was added to the Convention entered into force on 6 November 1998, six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.77.1998 of 6 May 1998 (reflecting Decision IV/9 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fourth meeting). The amendment to Annex VIII whereby new entries were added entered into force on 20 November 2003 (depositary notification C.N.1314.2003), six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.399.2003 of 20 May 2003 (reflecting Decision VI/35 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting). The amendment to Annex VIII whereby one new entry was added entered into force on 8 October 2005 (depositary notification C.N.1044.2005), six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.263.2005 of 8 April 2005 (re-issued on 13 June 2005, reflecting Decision VII/19 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its seventh meeting). The present text includes all amendments.
8 Note that mirror entry on list B (B1160) does not specify exceptions
9 This entry does not include scrap assemblies from electric power generation.
10 PCBs are at a concentration level of 50 mg/kg or more.
[15] “Outdated” means unused within the period recommended by the manufacturer.
Annex IX. List B
Wastes contained in the Annex will not be wastes covered by Article 1, paragraph 1 (a), of this Convention unless they contain Annex I material to an extent causing them to exhibit an Annex III characteristic.
B1 Metal and metal-bearing wastes
Metal and metal-alloy wastes in metallic, non-dispersible form:
• Precious metals (gold, silver, the platinum group, but not mercury)
• Iron and steel scrap
• Copper scrap
• Nickel scrap
• Aluminium scrap
• Zinc scrap
• Tin scrap
• Tungsten scrap
• Molybdenum scrap
• Tantalum scrap
• Magnesium scrap
• Cobalt scrap
• Bismuth scrap
• Titanium scrap
• Zirconium scrap
• Manganese scrap
• Germanium scrap
• Vanadium scrap
• Scrap of hafnium, indium, niobium, rhenium and gallium
• Thorium scrap
• Rare earths scrap
• Chromium scrap
Clean, uncontaminated metal scrap, including alloys, in bulk finished form (sheet, plate, beams, rods, etc), of:
• Antimony scrap
• Beryllium scrap
• Cadmium scrap
• Lead scrap (but excluding lead-acid batteries)
• Selenium scrap
• Tellurium scrap
Refractory metals containing residues
Molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, tantalum, niobium and rhenium metal and metal alloy wastes in metallic dispersible form (metal powder), excluding such wastes as specified in list A under entry A1050, Galvanic sludges
Scrap assemblies from electrical power generation not contaminated with lubricating oil, PCB or PCT to an extent to render them hazardous
Mixed non-ferrous metal, heavy fraction scrap, not containing Annex I materials in concentrations sufficient to exhibit Annex III characteristics[1]
Waste selenium and tellurium in metallic elemental form including powder
Waste of copper and copper alloys in dispersible form, unless they contain Annex I constituents to an extent that they exhibit Annex III characteristics
Zinc ash and residues including zinc alloys residues in dispersible form unless containing Annex I constituents in concentration such as to exhibit Annex III characteristics[2]
Waste batteries conforming to a specification, excluding those made with lead, cadmium or mercury
Metal-bearing wastes arising from melting, smelting and refining of metals:
• Hard zinc spelter
• Zinc-containing drosses:
- Galvanizing slab zinc top dross (>90% Zn)
- Galvanizing slab zinc bottom dross (>92% Zn)
- Zinc die casting dross (>85% Zn)
- Hot dip galvanizers slab zinc dross (batch)(>92% Zn)
- Zinc skimmings
• Aluminium skimmings (or skims) excluding salt slag
• Slags from copper processing for further processing or refining not containing arsenic, lead or cadmium to an extent that they exhibit Annex III hazard characteristics
• Wastes of refractory linings, including crucibles, originating from copper smelting
• Slags from precious metals processing for further refining
• Tantalum-bearing tin slags with less than 0.5% tin
Electrical and electronic assemblies:
• Electronic assemblies consisting only of metals or alloys
• Waste electrical and electronic assemblies or scrap[3](including printed circuit boards) not containing components such as accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass and PCB-capacitors, or not contaminated with Annex I constituents (e.g., cadmium, mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyl) or from which these have been removed, to an extent that they do not possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III (note the related entry on list A A1180)
• Electrical and electronic assemblies (including printed circuit boards, electronic components and wires) destined for direct reuse,[4] and not for recycling or final disposal[5]
Waste metal cables coated or insulated with plastics, not included in list A A1190, excluding those destined for Annex IVA operations or any other disposal operations involving, at any stage, uncontrolled thermal processes, such as open-burning.
Spent catalysts excluding liquids used as catalysts, containing any of:
Transition metals, excluding waste catalysts (spent catalysts, liquid used catalysts or other catalysts) on list A:
Lanthanides (rare earth metals):
Cleaned spent precious-metal-bearing catalysts
Precious-metal-bearing residues in solid form which contain traces of inorganic cyanides
Precious metals and alloy wastes (gold, silver, the platinum group, but not mercury) in a dispersible, non-liquid form with appropriate packaging and labelling
Precious-metal ash from the incineration of printed circuit boards (note the related entry on list A A1150)
Precious-metal ash from the incineration of photographic film
Waste photographic film containing silver halides and metallic silver
Waste photographic paper containing silver halides and metallic silver
Granulated slag arising from the manufacture of iron and steel
Slag arising from the manufacture of iron and steel including slags as a source of TiO2 and vanadium
Slag from zinc production, chemically stabilized, having a high iron content (above 20%) and processed according to industrial specifications (e.g., DIN 4301) mainly for construction
Mill scaling arising from the manufacture of iron and steel
Copper oxide mill-scale
Waste end-of-life motor vehicles, containing neither liquids nor other hazardous components
B2 Wastes containing principally inorganic constituents, which may contain metals and organic materials
Wastes from mining operations in non-dispersible form:
• Natural graphite waste
• Slate waste, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise
• Mica waste
• Leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite waste
• Feldspar waste
• Fluorspar waste
• Silica wastes in solid form excluding those used in foundry operations
Glass waste in non-dispersible form:
• Cullet and other waste and scrap of glass except for glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glasses
Ceramic wastes in non-dispersible form:
• Cermet wastes and scrap (metal ceramic composites)
• Ceramic based fibres not elsewhere specified or included
Other wastes containing principally inorganic constituents:
• Partially refined calcium sulphate produced from flue-gas desulphurization (FGD)
• Waste gypsum wallboard or plasterboard arising from the demolition of buildings
• Slag from copper production, chemically stabilized, having a high iron content (above 20%) and processed according to industrial specifications (e.g., DIN 4301 and DIN 8201) mainly for construction and abrasive applications
• Sulphur in solid form
• Limestone from the production of calcium cyanamide (having a pH less than 9)
• Sodium, potassium, calcium chlorides
• Carborundum (silicon carbide)
• Broken concrete
• Lithium-tantalum and lithium-niobium containing glass scraps
Coal-fired power plant fly-ash, not included on list A (note the related entry on list A A2060)
Spent activated carbon not containing any Annex I constituents to an extent they exhibit Annex III characteristics, for example, carbon resulting from the treatment of potable water and processes of the food industry and vitamin production (note the related entry on list A A4160)
Calcium fluoride sludge
Waste gypsum arising from chemical industry processes not included on list A (note the related entry on list A A2040)
Waste anode butts from steel or aluminium production made of petroleum coke or bitumen and cleaned to normal industry specifications (excluding anode butts from chlor alkali electrolyses and from metallurgical industry)
Waste hydrates of aluminium and waste alumina and residues from alumina production excluding such materials used for gas cleaning, flocculation or filtration processes
Bauxite residue (“red mud”) (pH moderated to less than 11.5)
Waste acidic or basic solutions with a pH greater than 2 and less than 11.5, which are not corrosive or otherwise hazardous (note the related entry on list A A4090)
Bituminous material (asphalt waste) from road construction and maintenance, not containing tar[6] (note the related entry on list A, A3200)
B3 Wastes containing principally organic constituents, which may contain metals and inorganic materials
Solid plastic waste:
The following plastic or mixed plastic materials, provided they are not mixed with other wastes and are prepared to a specification:
• Scrap plastic of non-halogenated polymers and co-polymers, including but not limited to the following[7]
- ethylene
- styrene
- polypropylene
- polyethylene terephthalate
- acrylonitrile
- butadiene
- polyacetals
- polyamides
- polybutylene terephthalate
- polycarbonates
- polyethers
- polyphenylene sulphides
- acrylic polymers
- alkanes C10-C13 (plasticiser)
- polyurethane (not containing CFCs)
- polysiloxanes
- polymethyl methacrylate
- polyvinyl alcohol
- polyvinyl butyral
- polyvinyl acetate
• Cured waste resins or condensation products including the following:
- urea formaldehyde resins
- phenol formaldehyde resins
- melamine formaldehyde resins
- epoxy resins
- alkyd resins
• The following fluorinated polymer wastes[8]
- perfluoroethylene/propylene (FEP)
- perfluoro alkoxyl alkane
- tetrafluoroethylene/per fluoro vinyl ether (PFA)
- tetrafluoroethylene/per fluoro methylvinyl ether (MFA)
- polyvinylfluoride (PVF)
- polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF)
Paper, paperboard and paper product wastes
The following materials, provided they are not mixed with hazardous wastes:
Waste and scrap of paper or paperboard of:
• unbleached paper or paperboard or of corrugated paper or paperboard
• other paper or paperboard, made mainly of bleached chemical pulp, not coloured in the mass
• paper or paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp (for example, newspapers, journals and similar printed matter)
• other, including but not limited to 1) laminated paperboard 2) unsorted scrap
The following waste from the pre-treatment of composite packaging for liquids, not containing Annex I materials in concentrations sufficient to exhibit Annex III characteristics:
Non-separable plastic fraction
Non-separable plastic-aluminium fraction
Self-adhesive label laminate waste containing raw materials used in label material production
Textile wastes
The following materials, provided they are not mixed with other wastes and are prepared to a specification:
• Silk waste (including cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock)
- not carded or combed
• Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garnetted stock
- noils of wool or of fine animal hair
- other waste of wool or of fine animal hair
- waste of coarse animal hair
• Cotton waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)
- yarn waste (including thread waste)
- garnetted stock
• Flax tow and waste
• Tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) of true hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)
• Tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) of jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp and ramie)
• Tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) of sisal and other textile fibres of the genus Agave
• Tow, noils and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) of coconut
• Tow, noils and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) of abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee)
• Tow, noils and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock) of ramie and other vegetable textile fibres, not elsewhere specified or included
• Waste (including noils, yarn waste and garnetted stock) of man-made fibres
- of synthetic fibres
- of artificial fibres
• Worn clothing and other worn textile articles
• Used rags, scrap twine, cordage, rope and cables and worn out articles of twine, cordage, rope or cables of textile materials
- sorted
Waste textile floor coverings, carpets
The following materials, provided they are not mixed with other wastes:
• Waste and scrap of hard rubber (e.g., ebonite)
• Other rubber wastes (excluding such wastes specified elsewhere)
Untreated cork and wood waste:
• Wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms
• Cork waste: crushed, granulated or ground cork
Wastes arising from agro-food industries provided it is not infectious:
• Wine lees
• Dried and sterilized vegetable waste, residues and byproducts, whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included
• Degras: residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes
• Waste of bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised
• Fish waste
• Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste
• Other wastes from the agro-food industry excluding by-products which meet national and international requirements and standards for human or animal consumption
Waste edible fats and oils of animal or vegetable origin (e.g. frying oils), provided they do not exhibit an Annex III characteristic
The following wastes:
• Waste of human hair
• Waste straw
• Deactivated fungus mycelium from penicillin production to be used as animal feed
Waste parings and scrap of rubber
Paring and other wastes of leather or of composition leather not suitable for the manufacture of leather articles, excluding leather sludges, not containing hexavalent chromium compounds and biocides (note the related entry on list A A3100)
Leather dust, ash, sludges or flours not containing hexavalent chromium compounds or biocides (note the related entry on list A A3090)
Fellmongery wastes not containing hexavalent chromium compounds or biocides or infectious substances (note the related entry on list A A3110)
Wastes consisting of food dyes
Waste polymer ethers and waste non-hazardous monomer ethers incapable of forming peroxides
Waste pneumatic tyres, excluding those destined for Annex IVA operations
B4 Wastes which may contain either inorganic or organic constituents
Wastes consisting mainly of water-based/latex paints, inks and hardened varnishes not containing organic solvents, heavy metals or biocides to an extent to render them hazardous (note the related entry on list A A4070)
Wastes from production, formulation and use of resins, latex, plasticizers, glues/adhesives, not listed on list A, free of solvents and other contaminants to an extent that they do not exhibit Annex III characteristics, e.g., water-based, or glues based on casein, starch, dextrin, cellulose ethers, polyvinyl alcohols (note the related entry on list A A3050)
Used single-use cameras, with batteries not included on list A
16 The amendment whereby Annex IX was added to the Convention entered into force on 6 November 1998, six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.77.1998 (reflecting Decision IV/9 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fourth meeting). The amendment to Annex IX whereby new entries were added entered into force on 20 November 2003 (depositary notification C.N.1314.2003), six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.399.2003 of 20 May 2003 (reflecting Decision VI/35 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting). The amendment to Annex IX whereby one entry was added entered into force on 8 October 2005 (depositary notification C.N.1044.2005) six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N.263.2005 of 8 April 2005 (re-issued on 13 June 2005, reflecting Decision VII/19 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its seventh meeting). The amendment to Annex IX whereby new entries where added entered into force on 27 May 2014 (depositary notification C.N. 304.2014) six months following the issuance of depositary notification C.N. 965.2013 of 26 November 2013 (reflecting decision BC-11/6 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its eleventh meeting). The present text includes all amendments.
17 Note that even where low level contamination with Annex I materials initially exists, subsequent processes, including recycling processes, may result in separated fractions containing significantly enhanced concentrations of those Annex I materials.
18 The status of zinc ash is currently under review and there is a recommendation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that zinc ashes should not be dangerous goods.
19 This entry does not include scrap from electrical power generation.
20 Reuse can include repair, refurbishment or upgrading, but not major reassembly.
21 In some countries these materials destined for direct re-use are not considered wastes.
22 The concentration level of Benzol (a) pyrene should not be 50mg/kg or more.
23 It is understood that such scraps are completely polymerized
24 Post-consumer wastes are excluded from this entry:
- Wastes shall not be mixed
- Problems arising from open-burning practices to be considered
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Wetland Wonders
By Heather Jobst on July 30, 2018 in Blog
Ray and Patti Hamilton love discovering mother nature’s gems, spending hours identifying remnant prairies, wetlands, savannas and cold air slopes throughout Iowa. Over the years, their love led them to protect several of these gems across the state. When their friend Jeff Nekola mentioned a high-quality fen wetland in Fayette County could be coming up for purchase, Ray and Patti quickly agreed this rare property was one of those gems that needed to be protected.
We all know a wetland when we see it. The lily-packed pond perfect for catching frogs. The marsh surrounded by cattails where you like to hunt ducks. The soggy spot in the pasture that never seems to dry up, that spot in the field that floods out every year. Wetlands once covered upwards of 6 million acres of Iowa. Today, there are less than 5% of those original, high-quality wetlands remaining.
Fens — a specific type of wetland — are one of the more unusual habitats in Iowa, with roughly 300 known fens scattered throughout the state. At first sight, a fen resembles that part of the pasture that is perpetually flooded and well-loved. With water soaked ground, the grasses and flowers present in fens are concentrated in sporadic earthy mounds surrounded by puddles of water.
Found mostly in northwest and north central Iowa, fens are different from other wetlands in that they’re fed by groundwater, instead of rain or other sources. Comprised of soil made of partially decomposed plant material, or “peat,” fens can be saturated year-round. Unevenly rising hummocky mounds of dirt are a classic characteristic of a fen landscape, and can be bouncy, giving the feeling of walking on a waterbed. The water chemistry of fens is special, limiting the occurrence of certain plants while others flourish and can be found only in a fen environment.
“Fens have some of the most uncommon and unique plant communities in Iowa,” said Brian Fankhauser, INHF blufflands director. “Because of their wet nature, many of them have been spared the plow. They provide a small oasis for rare plants adapted to the soil chemistry associated with fens.”
After years of ownership and restoration work on the Fayette County fen, Ray, Patti and Jeff realized they needed to think about protecting the longevity of the fen’s future. Their time and energy to devote to care of these gems was waning.
“This fen is a nice gemstone — a diamond,” said Ray. “We knew it was a natural thing to protect this fen, but the next step is what comes after our ownership.”
Ray and Patti decided to donate their portion of the 29-acre fen property to INHF to ensure this diamond forever shines. “We know it needs a high degree of oversight and care in the long run,” said Ray. “Having INHF here for long term responsibility of management and protection is the critical last step in protection.”
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Explore Iowa's Fens
Silver Lake Fen
Silver Lake Fen in Dickinson County is an easily-accessible preserve on the southwest shore of Silver Lake. The fen supports a diverse plant and animal community including orchids, snails and over 100 plant species.
Forever Fen
Forever Fen, located a mile west of Beeds Lake State Park in Franklin County, is home to a wide variety of plant and animal species, some of which are Species of Greatest Conservation Need. Visitors can observe wildlife and go on nature walks near the fen.
Hartley Heritage Fen
Visitors to Hartley Heritage Fen in Jasper County can learn more about fens and restoration through a variety of educational programs and prairie hikes throughout the year. The site is also an excellent place to view wildlife such as deer, pheasants and a variety of birds and butterflies.
All three fens were protected through INHF.
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District Superintendent Mr. Andy Larson
Address PO BOX 720 TOLONO IL 61880 (217) 485-6510
Percentage of students who experienced at least one transfer in or out of the school between the first school day of October and the last school day of the year, not including graduates.
A school's student mobility rate is the percentage of students who experienced at least one transfer in or out of the school between the first school day of October and the last school day of the year, not including graduates.
Prior to 2017, a school’s student mobility rate reported the total incidents of students transferring in or out which caused a duplicate count for students who transferred in or out more than once during the year.
This graph shows the student mobility rate at this school. District and state data is included for comparison.
To see mobility rates by demographic groups, click on By Demographics.
Students may change schools for a variety of reasons such as a family move, a transfer to a school that better serves the student's needs, or a period of homelessness. Continual student turnover is shown to be academically and socially disruptive to both ongoing and transferring students.
Student Mobility (Education Week)
The Unexplored Consequences of Student Mobility
Student Mobility Packs Problems (Illinois School Board Journal)
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Assumption Turned Upside Down
Home News Assumption Turned Upside Down
Political correctness boosts creativity in male-female work teams, research shows
Anti-PC haters, take note. You might be wrong.
Political correctness doesn’t crush creativity, it fuels idea sharing, research shows.
If you think Americans are pushed to speak the language of close-minded social idealists at the expense of free speech, new research led by a Cornell ILR School professor might make you cringe.
Political correctness loathed by some as censorship awash in leftist philosophy, actually boosts the creativity of mixed-sex work teams, according to findings being published in Administrative Science Quarterly.
"Our work challenges the widespread assumption that true creativity requires a kind of anarchy in which people are permitted to speak their minds, whatever the consequence," ILR Professor Jack Goncalo said in an interview.
For the increasingly diverse workplace, the research justifies PC beyond moral grounds as a practical foundation for creativity and potential profitmaking, he said.
The research is detailed in the article, "Stifling or Liberating? How Being Political Correct Influences Creativity in Mixed-Sex Work Groups" with Jennifer Chatman, University of California, Berkeley; Michelle Duguid, Washington University, and Jessica Kennedy, Vanderbilt University.
In two experiments with a total of 582 participants, groups of three were randomly instructed to be "politically correct" or "polite." Some groups didn't receive any instructions.
All were then asked to spend 10 minutes brainstorming business ideas. Creativity was measured by counting the number of ideas generated and by coding them for novelty.
Contrary to the widely held notion that being PC has a generally stifling effect, the results showed that a PC norm actually boosted the creative output of mixed-sex groups.
These results highlight a paradoxical consequence of the PC norm: A term that has been used to undermine expectations to censor offensive language as a threat to free speech actually provides a normative foundation upon which demographically heterogeneous work groups can freely exchange creative ideas, Goncalo said.
"PC facilitates idea expression by reducing the uncertainty that people tend to experience while interacting with the opposite sex," he said.
"The PC norm, by establishing a clear guideline for how to behave appropriately in mixed-sex groups, made both men and women more comfortable sharing their creative ideas."
What the research findings mean for the state gender relations, though, is troubling, Goncalo said.
"The fact that men and women still experience a high level of uncertainty while working together and that a norm as restrictive as PC provided a safer environment for free expression means we still have a lot of work to do."
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ADMISSION NOTICE 2008-09 To B.E (BITS, PILANI – DUBAI)
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BITS, PILANI – DUBAI
ADMISSION NOTICE 2008-09 TO FOLLOWING COURSES:-
(1) B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science
(2) B.E. (Hons.) Electrical & Electronics Engineering
(3) B.E. (Hons.) Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
(4) B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering
(5) B.E. (Hons.) Chemical Engineering
(6) B.E. (Hons.) Biotechnology
ELIGIBILITY:-
Admission to BITS, Pilani - Dubai (BPD) is based entirely on the candidates merit, his/her preferences, facilities available and availability of seats in the discipline preferred. The merit position of the candidate for admission will be based only on the overall aggregate secured by the candidate in the Qualifying Examination and not based on any entrance test. While these programmes are planned specially to cater to the educational requirements of the residents of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, candidates from other countries are also eligible to apply. Admissions are open to all nationalities.
Eligibility Criteria for Admission:-
(1) Candidates must have passed the requisite Qualifying Examination, which is the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination of Ministry of Education, UAE or Senior School Certificate Examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, India, or its equivalent from any recognized State, National or International boards with a minimum 60% overall aggregate* of marks.
(2) For all six programmes, candidates must have studied and passed Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics subjects in their Qualifying Examination and must have a minimum aggregate of 60% in Physics, Chemistry & Maths subjects. If instead of marks any letter grades or GPA are awarded (or any other form of evaluation), their equivalences in marks will be decided by BITS, Pilani- Dubai.
(3 )However candidates who have studied Physics, Chemistry and Biology (in place of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) in the Qualifying Examination and have a minimum overall aggregate of 60% and a minimum aggregate of 60% in Physics, Chemistry and Biology subjects are eligible to apply, only for B.E.(Hons.) Biotechnology Programme. These candidates have to register for Remedial Maths course before taking other Maths courses in the curriculum.
(4) Since English is the medium of instruction at BPD, good proficiency in English is essential for admission Moreover, as per the requirements of the Ministry of Higher Education, Govt. of UAE, all candidates desirous of admission including those who have studied in English medium must have secured a TOEFL Score of 500 in paper based test or 61 in internet based test or have an IELTS Score of 5. **
* Aggregate: Aggregate is the total marks of all subjects in the Qualifying Examination, considered essential by the Board / University for passing the examination. The Aggregate must compulsorily contain the required subjects, namely, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. . The Candidate's position in the merit list will be based only on this aggregate marks secured by him/her.
**Candidates who could not appear for their TOEFL / IELTS tests due to non-availability of test dates before the submission of application but otherwise meet all the other BPD admission requirements will be offered "Provisional Admission". The Provisional admission will be confirmed upon the submission of the TOEFL/IELTS scorecard with the required score, on or before 24th August 2008. If the candidate fails to meet the TOEFL / IELTS requirement within the specified time indicated, the admission will stand cancelled.
Please note that in respect of all candidates, admitted and registered, the TOEFL / IELTS exam/test fee paid by the candidates to the testing center will be subsequently adjusted against the semester tuition fee on producing the fee receipt of the same. Also, candidates who have secured a TOEFL score of 600 and above (PBT) and 100 and above (iBT) or an IELTS score of 8 and above will be eligible for a concession of 5% on one semester’s tuition fee.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:-
(1)The application must be filled-up neatly and legibly.
(2) The filled-in application form must be accompanied by the following documents and fees.
(a) Copy of marksheet of the Qualifying Examination, such as General Secondary Education Certificate of Ministry of Education, UAE or Senior School Certificate of CBSE, New Delhi, India or its equivalent. (Please refer Equivalency Table attached as Annexure - 2 with this bulletin for equivalences applicable to you. If your high school board is not found in the equivalency table, clarification can be sought through email)
(b) Copy of the Birth Certificate or any other document such as the 10th Grade Certificate for proof of date of birth.
(c) Passport copy (first 3 pages and last 2 pages). Candidates, who do not possess a valid Passport at the time of sending the Application, must enclose a declaration along with the Application, that they will fax the required Passport pages on or before 10th August, 2008
(d) Candidates applying under the GCC category must submit the passport copy of the parent residing in the GCC country with valid Residence Visa Stamp.
(e) TOEFL/IELTS Score Report (For all candidates including those who have studied in English Medium Schools.)
(f) Application Fee: Candidates from GCC and countries other than India should send Arab Emirates Dirhams (AED) 150.00 only by Cash/Cheque / Crossed Demand Draft, drawn in favour of ETA-Network of Education and Training, payable at Dubai. Candidates from India should attach an Application Fee of Rs. 2000.00 by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani on UCO Bank, Vidya Vihar, Pilani (Code: 0150) or on State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, Pilani (Code: 1398). Application received without this fee will not be considered.
(3) The completed Application Form along with all the above enclosures must be submitted in person or sent by courier to "The Admissions Office, BITS, Pilani - Dubai, Dubai International Academic City, P.O. Box 500022, Dubai, United Arab Emirates on or before 18th June, 2008 by GCC Candidates and on or before 6th July, 2008 by NON-GCC candidates.
(4) On receipt of the Application, a unique Application Number will be allotted and informed to the candidate. In all subsequent correspondence with the Institute, the candidate must quote this Application Number. Failure to do this may make it difficult to connect all the correspondence together and may result in non-admission.
Incomplete Application will be rejected.
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IMPORTANT DATES IN THE ADMISSION PROCESS
Important dates in the admission process for GCC Candidates
a) Last date for receipt of Applications
18th June, 2008 - 5.00 pm
b) Announcement of Admission List & Dispatch of Admission Offer Letters to
selected candidates
19th June , 2008
c) Last date for receipt of acceptance of Admission Offer along with required
documents, admission fee and first semester tuition fee from selected candidates
3rd July, 2008 – 5.00 pm
d) Last date for receiving late applications
24rd August, 2008 – 5.00 pm
e) Finalization of Admission List
f) Orientation & Registration of Courses
g) Commencement of Classes
Important dates in the admission process for Non-GCC Candidates
6th July, 2008 – 5.00 pm
b) Announcement of Admission List & Dispatch of Admission Offer Letters to selected candidates
8th July, 2008
c) Last date for receipt of acceptance of Admission Offer along with required documents, admission fee and first semester tuition fee from selected candidates
3rd August, 2008 – 5.00 pm
24th August, 2008 – 5.00 pm
CONTACT INFORMATION:-
BITS Pilani - Dubai
Dubai International Academic City
P. O. Box No. - 500022
Telephone: +9714 4200 700
Admission Office (Direct) : +9714 4200 811
Fax: +9714 - 4200 555
Email Address: - admission@bitsdubai.com
Admission 2008 To AME COURSE (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING (IIAE))
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING (IIAE)
Admission 2008 To AME COURSE
DURTION 3 Years
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING
(Approved by D.G.C.A. Govt. of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation for ME course)
A-191, Mahipalpur Extn., Road No.4, Lane No.8, NH-8 New Delhi-110037
Tel: 011-30627411-12, 26784543, 9312438831, Telefax: 011-30627410
Email: mail@iiae.in or SMS IIAE to 57333
Visit: www.iiae.in
Applications are invited for 3 year AME COURSE
from 10+2 pass & appearing candidates with min, 50% marks in PCM for 2008 session.
Top Ranking Institute for ME Course
All classrooms & workshops are equipped with latest teaching & training aids confirming aviation standards.
Fleet of two 50 seater heavy transport Aircraft Fokker F-27 & AVRO HS 748.
Exposure to R&D facility in State-of-Art Laboratories equipped with world class computer aided equipments & test facilities.
Direct Admission Category
10+2 Candidates securing 70% and above marks in PCM group.
PROSPECTUS AND ADMISSION FORM:
For more details prospectus and admission form may be obtained in person on payment of Rs.500/- by cash/DD or by registered post on payment of Rs.550/- by DD in favour of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, payable at New Delhi.
ADMISSION OPEN To Become a Commercial Pilot (SKY WINGS AVIATION)
SKY WINGS AVIATION
Become a Commercial Pilot
Spot Admission/Interactive seminar
6th April Hotel TRJ, Rail Head Complex, Jammu
9th April Hotel Sekhno Grand, Namdev Chowk, Jalandhar
Min. 10+2 with Physics & Maths
DURATION:-
6 to 8 months.
CONTACT ADDRESS:-
Sky Wings Educationals Pvt. Ltd.
SCO. 171-172, Second Floor,
Sector 8-C, Madhya Marg,
Chandigarh-160 008
email: response@flyskywings.com
Website: www.flyskywings.com
Mobile: +91 98143-62649, +91 92165-62649
ADMISSION NOTICE (2008-10) PGDM (APEEJAY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT )
APEEJAY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Dwarka, New Delhi
ADMISSION NOTICE (2008-10)to the following Courses:-
(1) PGDM (Full Time) Post Graduate Diploma in Management
(2) PGDM-CRM(Full Time) courses in Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
(3) PGDM-IM (Full Time) courses in Insurance Management
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:-
Bachelor's Degree (Or Equivalent) with at least 50% Marks (45% Marks for SC/ST/disabled person) from a reognised University. Candidates appearing for the final bachelor's exam can also apply.
ADMISSION PROCESS:-
(1) PGDM: CAT Score + GD & PI.
(2) PGDM (CRM) &
(3) PGDM (IM): MAT Score + GD & PI.
GD/PI DATES:-
(1) PGDM: April 5, 2008
(2) PGDM (CRM) April 12, 2008
(3) PGDM (IN) April 12,2008
Sector VIII, Institutional Area, Dwarka
Near CRPF Camp
Dwarka- 110075
Phone: 011-2536 3979, 2536 3980, 2536 4523
Fax: 011- 2536 3985
E-mail: asm.dwk.del@apj.edu
Meeting timings - Director, Registrar, Programme Directors, Faculty etc.
Monday - Friday (09:30 AM to 05:00 PM)
ADMISSION NOTICE 2008 To M.Sc. in International Business ,B.Sc.(Hons.)in Hotel Mgt, BBA (Institute for International Management & Technology (IIMT))
Institute for International Management & Technology (IIMT)
(OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, UK)
ADMISSION NOTICE 2008 TO THE FOLLOWING COURSES:-
(1) M.Sc. in International Business - 1 Year Full Time
(2) B.Sc.(Hons.)in Hotel and Restaurant Management-4 Year Full Time
(3) Bachelor of Retail Management - 3 Year Full Time
(4) Bachelor of Business Administration -BBA (Hons)- 3 Year Full Time
(5) Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA (Hons)- 4 Year Full Time
SELECTION PROCESS:-
A second class UK honours degree or equivalent overseas degree from a recognised institution or equivalent professional or other qualification.
Students who have completed, to a satisfactory level of performance, a pre-master foundation course approved by the University may be eligible for admission: plus.
Applicants whose first language is not English, must also demonstrate that their level of English is high enough to study at Postgraduate level, by achieving a score in a recognised test such as:
(1) British Council IELTS: normally minimum level 6.0 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in the reading and writing components.
(2) TOEFL minimum score of 575 paper-based or 232 computer-based and ideally at least 4.5 in the TWE option.
(3) 15 years of education with English as a medium of instruction. (In all such cases the English language test of IIMT-OBU needs to be taken and passed with a minimum of 6.0 points).
All applicants will have to go through a compulsory screening interview based on which admission decisions are made.
Admission to the BSc (Hons.) Degree programme is open to students who have passed or are appearing for the class XII examination under the CBSE, Council of Indian School Certificate Examination or any other equivalent Board in India or abroad, with English as a medium of instruction.
Admission to the programme is based on:
(1) Marks obtained in class XII examination or equivalent (A minimum average of 50% in best of 4 subjects is required for admission to the programme).
(2) Objective type written test comprising of English, General Awareness and Quantitative Aptitude followed by personal interviews.
Admission to the BBA (Hons.) Degree programme is open to students who have passed or are appearing for the class XII examination under the CBSE, Council of Indian School Certificate Examination or any other equivalent Board in India or abroad, with English as a medium of instruction.
(4)Bachelor of Business Administration -BBA (Hons)- 3 Year Full Time
Admission to the BBA (Hons.) Degree programme is open to students who have passed or are appearing for the class XII examination under the CBSE, Council of Indian School Certificate Examination or any other equivalent Board in India or abroad, with English as a medium of instruction
HOW TO APPLY:-
Application Form and Prospectus
Prospectus and application form can be obtained from the address listed below on payment of Rs. 700 in cash or by mail through a demand draft of Rs. 750 drawn in favor of Institute for International Management & Technology payable at Gurgaon. (Please specify the programme you are applying for admission to). There is one single prospectus and application form for all BBA programmes and a separate prospectus and application form for the hospitality programme.
The form can also be downloaded from this website and sent along with a draft of Rs. 750 drawn in favor of Institute for International Management & Technology payable at Gurgaon or you can obtain the form from the specified AXIS Bank branches listed on payment of Rs 700 in cash.
EXAM DATE:-
Institute for International Management and Technology
#336 Udyog Vihar, Phase IV, Gurgaon - 122 001, Haryana
Tel.: 0124-2397783, 4014165
Email: admissions@iimtobu.ac.in
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Month of Mercy
Eed Al- Fitr
Our Salaf
The Relationship of the Salaf with the Quran in Ramadan
Publish date:07/07/2018
Section:Our Salaf
Dear brothers and sisters,
Let us emulate two actions of the Salaf (righteous predecessors) that were the cause of numerous blessings in Ramadan:
a) Reciting the Quran more frequently.
b) Weeping during recitation or when listening to the Quran in submissiveness to Allah.
a) Reciting the Quran more frequently: The month of Ramadan is the month of the Quran. A Muslim should therefore increase his recitation of the Quran during this month. The Salaf used to pay particular attention to the Book of Allah. The angel Jibreel (Gabriel) used to review the Quran with the Prophet during Ramadan. ‘Uthmaan ibn ‘Affaan used to complete reciting the Quran once each day. Some of the Salaf also completed the Quran in their voluntary night prayer every three nights. Others completed it every seven nights, while some others completed it every ten nights. They used to recite the Quran during prayers and at other times.
During Ramadan, Ash-Shaafi‘i completed reciting the Quran sixty times, excluding prayer times. Qataadah regularly completed the Quran within seven nights, while during Ramadan, he completed it every three nights, but in the last ten days of Ramadan, he completed it every night. When Ramadan came, Az-Zuhri left studying the Hadeeth and teaching and he concentrated on reciting the Quran. When Ramadan came, Sufyaan Ath-Thawri left all other acts of worship and concentrated on the Quran.
Ibn Rajab said, "It was reported from the Prophet that the Quran may not be completed in less than three days by those who recite it regularly. As for the blessed times such as Ramadan, especially during the nights of seeking Laylat-ul-Qadr or when in holy places such as Makkah for those not inhabiting it, it is recommended that the recitation of the Quran be increased in order to benefit from the blessings of the time and place. This is the opinion of Ahmad, Is-haaq and other prominent scholars. As we indicated earlier, the actions of other scholars also support this view.”
b) Weeping during the recitation of the Quran: It was not reported from the Salaf that they chanted the Quran like poetry without pondering and reflecting on its meanings; rather, they were moved by the words of Allah The Almighty, and they in turn changed the hearts of others with it. ‘Abdullaah ibn Mas‘ood narrated, "The Messenger of Allah said to me: 'Recite (the Quran) to me.' I said, 'How shall I recite it to you while it was revealed to you?' He said: 'I like to hear it from others.' So I recited the Soorah of An-Nisaa’ till I reached the verse (which means): {How (will it be) then, when We bring from each nation a witness and We bring you (O Muhammad) as a witness against these people?} [Quran 4:41] So the Prophet (may Allah exalt his mention) said: 'Stop.' I turned to him and found him shedding tears." [Al-Bukhari]
Abu Hurayrah narrated, "When the verse in which Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {Then at this statement do you wonder? And you laugh and do not weep.} [Quran 53:59-60] was revealed, the people of Suffah (poor people who resided in the courtyard of the Prophet's mosque) wept until tears ran down their cheeks. When the Prophet heard their weeping, he wept with them and his weeping made us weep. The Messenger of Allah said: "The person who weeps in humility to Allah will not enter Hell." [Al-Bayhaqi]
It was narrated that Ibn ‘Umar recited the Chapter Al-Mutaffifeen until he reached the verse in which Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds?} [Quran 83:6] He wept until he fell to the ground and could not move on to the next verse.
Muzaahim ibn Zufar related, "Sufyan Ath-Thawri lead us in the Maghrib prayer, and when he reached the verse in which Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {It is You we worship and You we ask for help.} [Quran 1:5] he wept and this disrupted his recitation. So he started from Alhamdulillah (the first verse of the Chapter) again."
It was narrated that Ibraaheem ibn Al-Ash‘ath said, "One night, I heard Fudhayl reciting and repeating the verse from the Chapter Muhammad in which Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {And We will surely test you until We make evident those who strive among you [for the cause of Allah] and the patient, and We will test your affairs.} [Quran 47:31] He kept on (repeating) the words of Allah, 'And We will test your affairs', then he would say, 'And You will test our affairs? If You test our affairs, You will disgrace us and expose our secrets. Indeed, if You do that, You will destroy us and punish us,' and he would weep."
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Securing the Energy Union: five pillars and five regions
Gerald Stang
Dimitar Bechev, Eamonn Butler, Zuzanna Nowak, Simone Tagliapietra, Kirsten Westphal
This Report examines the energy challenges facing the different regions of Europe, investigating shared priorities and common projects, as well as barriers to integration and cooperation. A series of chapters devoted to distinct regions examines what role the Energy Union can play to help address their energy challenges, including those related to energy security and relations with external suppliers.
Preventing terrorism in the south
Annelies Pauwels
To step up the fight against terrorism, the EU is looking to forge closer ties with strategic countries in its Southern Neighbourhood. The Union’s initiatives to set up counter-terrorism dialogues in the region have, however, been met with a hesitant response. How can the EU overcome different interpretations of what effective counter-terrorism should look like?
The internal-external nexus: re-bordering Europe
The EU previously envisaged expanding its border-free travel area to create a single space across its neighbouring regions. Now it is witnessing the reappearance of geopolitical blocs and zones. What is the EU doing in the face of the need for a new border diplomacy?
Women in Daesh: jihadist ‘cheerleaders’, active operatives?
Julia Lisiecka, Florence Gaub
This Brief examines the overlooked role of the women in the organisation, and argues they are every bit as dangerous as their male counterparts. But how should European security forces address this issue?
App and coming: an ‘Uber migration’?
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World Wide Webs: who governs the diasporas?
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Migrant groups are influential actors in the international arena. Globally, diaspora communities and governments alike are capitalising on this state of affairs, as demonstrated by the fact that diaspora lobbying is on the rise and governments are seeking to instrumentalise their expatriates. This Alert looks at how the EU finds itself increasingly exposed to foreign states’ interference through its migrant/diaspora communities.
Military coups: a very short introduction
This Brief seeks to explain why (and when) coups happen. What conditions are needed to persuade the military to attempt to topple a government? And what elements increase the likelihood of success or failure?
Shaping (not just surviving) the future of energy
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Europeans migrating abroad – and back
Marco Funk
EU citizens are increasingly migrating abroad as developing countries become more attractive destinations. Diaspora communities are becoming more important, while the emergence of more circular, bi-directional migratory patterns presents an opportunity to turn ‘brain drain’ into ‘brain exchange’
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Gerald Stang, Massimo Pellegrino
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Pierre Minard
With the UEFA European Championship 2016 having kicked off in France last month, this Alert looks at the unprecedented collaborative efforts of France and its international partners to combat the terrorist threat facing the tournament.
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'Risky' legacy government IT
Sep 18, 2013 Channel Talk, Government and Finance Comments (0)
UK systems integrator, affini, has commented on the National Audit Office (NAO) finding that ninety per cent of the UK central government's revenue-generating services, worth £480 billion, are running on legacy IT. The NAO warns that this exposes the government to an array of risks, including hardware or application failure; increased costs through vendor lock-in and new cyber threats.
New data centre opens for business
Sep 18, 2013 Power and UPS, Government and Finance Comments (0)
M247, the Manchester-based Internet Infrastructure firm, has announced that its second carrier neutral data centre is now fully open for business.
Canon launches user-friendly network scanner with advanced connectivity for streamlined information sharing
Sep 12, 2013 Document Management Hardware, Government and Finance Comments (0)
Canon UK has launched the imageFORMULA ScanFront 330, a compact and intuitive network scanner for fast, easy and secure document scanning and processing.
Exponential-e makes it even easier to resell IT services with launch of new Partner Portal
Sep 12, 2013 Channel News, Government and Finance Comments (0)
Technology enabler Exponential-e has announced the launch of its new Partner Portal, a dedicated online portal equipping Partners with the knowledge and tools to be as successful as possible when reselling and incorporating Exponential-e services into their own service portfolio.
Transport for London adopts Ipswitch File Transfer for secure managed file sharing practices
Sep 03, 2013 Document Management Software, Government and Finance Comments (0)
Ipswitch File Transfer, a provider of secure Managed File Transfer solutions has won a contract with Transport for London (TfL), to help govern and secure business information workflow between employees, customers and external partners working together to manage the city's transport systems.
Avnet Services EMEA signs partnership with Network 2 Supplies (N2S) to promote ethical best practice and manage risk from IT asset disposal
Avnet Services EMEA, the global IT solutions distributor and an operating group of Avnet, Inc., has announced a strategic partnership with N2S to deploy its UNITY Estate Management solution.
Bitdefender launches new Antivirus solution for Mac
Aug 28, 2013 Security, Government and Finance Comments (0)
Bitdefender, provider of antivirus solutions, has launched a new security solution to enhance protection for Mac users worldwide.
Discrete deployment terms unfit for the hybrid world, warns Claranet
Aug 21, 2013 Channel Talk, Government and Finance Comments (0)
In a hybrid world, in which any combination of cloud services may be consumed by a single customer, rigid definitions of cloud deployment models may serve to hinder rather than promote innovation, Claranet warns.
BYOD adds complexity to Windows migration
Many businesses are already struggling to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 or 8 before Microsoft ends its support for the old operating system.
Risk of 'data dumping' during transition to Government Security Classifications Policy (GSCP)
Auriga Consulting Ltd (Auriga), the data, ICT and security consultancy, has warned that public and private sector organisations could resort to reclassification in haste, or 'data dumping', in a bid to comply with the new Government Security Classifications Policy (GSCP).
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At least 15 dead in Sri Lanka gunfight as police find bomb-making kits at militants' safehouse
Video report by ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edward
At least 15 people have died after Sri Lankan security forces carried out a raid on a safehouse used by the militants linked to the Easter Sunday bombings.
A shoot-out began on Friday night after police tipped off soldiers about a suspected safe house near the eastern Sri Lankan town of Sammanthurai.
At least three explosives were set off and multiple shots fired.
Police say six children are among the dead and at least three others were injured in the melee.
Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said some of the dead will likely be militants who blew themselves up. One civilian is known to have died in the attack.
A four-year-old girl injured in the safehouse raid is taken to hospital. Credit: AP
The government on Saturday formally banned two extremist groups purportedly linked to the attacks.
The ban on National Thawheed Jammath, or NTJ, and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem, or JMI, allows officials to confiscate their property.
Police curfews are in affect around areas of east Sri Lanka and Catholic leaders have cancelled Sunday Masses indefinitely.
Muslims have also been warned to stay home amid fears there could be further attacks.
ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edward has the latest from Colombo, Sri Lanka
Security forces revealed they found explosives, detonators, "suicide kits", military uniforms. The discovery of a so-called Islamic State flag also gives the strongest indication yet that the group responsible for the nine bombings on Sunday is linked to the international terror organisation.
Following a tip-off from intelligence services, Mr Gunasekara said officers found 150 sticks of blasting gelatin and 100,000 small metal balls, as well as a van and clothing thought to have been used by those involved in the Easter attack.
Huge amounts of bomb-making material, including thousands of ball bearings, plastic explosives, chemicals and trigger devices which could be made into suicide vests were discovered in a house in Sammanthurai, sparking fears the Easter Sunday bombings could have been just the start of a massive terror campaign.
Some of the bomb making materials discovered. Credit: APTN
Despite Friday's raid, police say militants are still at large and have access to explosives, leading to increased security at places of worship across the country.
The grim discoveries come just hours after Sunday Masses were cancelled until further notice.
The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said church officials had seen a leaked security document describing Catholic churches and other denominations as major targets for attackers.
Police are providing patrols to protect Muslims who are fearful of reprisal attacks. Credit: AP
He also asked the faithful to stay at home for their own safety.
"We don't want repetitions," said the cardinal in cancelling the services.
Cardinal Ranjith also appealed for financial support to rebuild the lives of affected people and reconstruct the churches targeted in the so-called Islamic State-claimed suicide bombings, which killed over 250 people on Sunday.
On Friday, authorities urged Muslims not to hold congregational prayers over fears they might be targeted.
However, several mosques did hold prayers under the protection of security forces.
Police are also providing patrols to protect Muslims who are fearful of reprisal attacks in the wake of the atrocity.
Local militants with ties to the so-called Islamic State group conducted a series of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday at churches and luxury hotels in and around Colombo and in the distant seaside village of Batticaloa, as well as three related bombings.
Sri Lankan police officers patrol a neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Credit: AP
Sri Lanka has remained on edge since the deadly attacks as authorities have pursued suspects with possible access to explosives.
Earlier on Friday, police confirmed the militant group’s leader, Mohamed Zahran, died in the suicide bombing at the Shangri-La Hotel, one of six hotels and churches attacked.
Zahran appeared in an Islamic State video claiming responsibility for the coordinated assault, and authorities in both Sri Lanka and Australia confirmed links between IS and the attack.
Australia's Prime Minister said it had been confirmed that the Sri Lanka attackers were supported by the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility for the massacre.
The group has distributed a video of Zahran and others pledging allegiance to the withered caliphate.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena told reporters that about 140 people had been identified as having links to the Islamic State group, and that the government has the capability "to completely control" IS activities in the country.
A Sri Lankan Army soldier stands guard in front St Anthony’s Church. Credit: AP
"We will completely control this and create a free and peaceful environment for people to live," he said.
Police said investigators had determined that the attackers' military training was provided by someone they called "Army Mohideen," and that weapons training had taken place overseas and at some locations in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province.
Police also said they arrested the operator of a copper factory who had helped Mohideen make improvised explosive devices and purchase empty cartridges sold by the Sri Lankan military as scrap copper.
A Sri Lankan catholic priest stands near broken glass in front St Anthony’s Church in Colombo. Credit: Manish Swarup/AP
Mr Sirisena blamed Sri Lanka's defense secretary, who resigned Thursday, and police chief, who he said would soon step down, for failing to share information from international intelligence agencies about the plot.
hops that should be open remain with their shutters down and streets that would normally be packed appear deserted.
Security warnings of potentially more attacks have spread fear and road blocks remain in place as police stop and search motorists and motorbike riders around the capital Colombo.
Security officials are still hunting for suspects and explosives that are unaccounted for.
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How BNZ gets tips for its banking 'stores' from retailers such as Gap and Michael Hill in order to try and stay ahead of the competition
23rd Oct 12, 4:54pm
Inside a BNZ 'store'.
BNZ is looking to retailers such as US clothing group Gap and Michael Hill Jeweller for tips on how to improve its branches, or stores as they're called within the bank, as studying what other banks do would only see it gain parity, says Andy Symons, BNZ's director of retail banking, rather than be an innovator.
During a visit to BNZ's Newmarket, Auckland branch and partner centre, Symons told interest.co.nz that when you have a bank "store" on the High Street you need to create a customer experience that's as energetic and compelling as any other store on the street. To this end, Symons said during a recent trip to the United States he caught up with some Gap executives as part of an ongoing drive to adapt and evolve BNZ's network of 178 stores, or branches, to an ever changing world.
"We got to a point two or three years ago where we felt if we kept studying other banks, we would only ever achieve parity," said Symons.
This has led to talks with a lot of retailers.
"We've looked across all sorts of different categories. We've looked at supermarkets and how they operate, we've looked at pharmacists how they operate, we have in the past spoken to people like Michael Hill Jeweller, we've talked to the telcos about the retail outlets they set up."
"(And) further afield, three or four weeks ago I was in the States and took the opportunity to meet with some of the leadership team from Gap. Talking to Gap was not just talking about retailing in store, but talking about how they are managing the evolution of people being able to buy Gap clothing and Gap goods online as well as in store and how you manage to build consistent experiences across both of those different ways of buying Gap stuff," said Symons.
That said, one group of bank executives Symons and his team have taken time to talk to are those from Wells Fargo, the US bank renowned for its ability to cross sell, or sell additional products to existing customers.
'The staff wouldn't be sitting out the back with the door closed in a great retail shop'
Meanwhile, Symons said BNZ's branches have been "deliberately rebadged."
"We call them stores and our managers are store managers."
Tellers are no longer behind counters and screens or bars.
"They're in an open planned format so they can come out, walk over to the door, greet the customer, approach a customer who may be looking like they need some help, actually stand shoulder to shoulder with an older customer who might be hard of hearing, all of those kinds of things that you'd expect from any good retailer," Symons said.
Bankers walking around the "store" is an important aspect to the new world of retail banking, he argues.
"You wouldn't expect to walk into a great retailer and see everybody sitting out the back with the door closed. You'd expect them to be on the floor tidying up shelves, refolding sweaters, whatever, ready to talk and engage with customers who might need some help."
'Banking is becoming a digital world'
Only about 7% of BNZ's retail banking transactions are now done in its branches, which Symons said are evolving into a place where customers come to get help or advice, and talk through more complex issues.
"Right now, and in the foreseeable future, we still see customers doing an awful lot of research online, an awful lot of transactional and simple product stuff both online and using their mobile device, but still coming into the store to talk to us person to person when they're getting to the end of a home loan decision, or wanting to talk about life insurance needs, general insurance needs, or consumer investment needs."
"(But) we agree that banking is increasingly becoming a digital world," Symons added. (See: Will bank branches go the way of the dinosaur or are they becoming a driver of buying decisions, financial playgrounds and spas?)
"We see the role of the store and the people in our network in those stores evolving to be much more around help, advice and guidance than around transactional stuff."
BNZ also has 33 partners centres around the country designed for use by small and medium sized business owners, which feature full boardroom facilities. Symons maintains BNZ, in New Zealand, has pioneered several concepts its rivals have since copied in their retail networks including its open bank format and use of video to connect customers anywhere in New Zealand with bank specialists through video conferencing. It has also "co-located" within branches with the likes of Air New Zealand Holidays.
Given the rapid changes going on in retail banking, Symons suggests no one knows exactly what it will look like in 10 years time. Therefore BNZ is striving for adaptability and agility.
"That includes managing the relationship between mobile phone and online apps, the contact centres and stores, and rebalancing investment and resources between those different channels as needed," he said.
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Power hike: Eskom awaits results of hearing
Companies / 8 February 2016, 07:30am / Siseko Njobeni
Electricity pylons carry power from Cape Town's Koeberg nuclear power plant. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings (SOUTH AFRICA ENERGY BUSINESS)
Johannesburg - Power utility Eskom will know in a matter of weeks whether its attempt to recover R22.8 billion for cost recovery and revenue adjustments is successful.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa) hearings on Eskom’s regulatory clearing account (RCA) ended on Friday and the regulator will make a decision on February 25.
The RCA application is a cost recovery mechanism that seeks to reconcile the tariffs Nersa awarded Eskom on the basis of a range of forecasts and what materialised, as reflected in the utility’s financial statements.
The power utility’s application is based on the 2013/14 financial statements.
During the public hearings last week, Eskom was pinned for squeezing consumers for more money in an already weak economy.
The mining sector, which is a major consumer of power, told the hearings that the application was not affordable in the current economic climate.
In addition, high electricity tariffs are an ever present risk to the inflation outlook. In its justification, Eskom pointed to increases in costs “due to a changing environment and assumptions” after Nersa’s last tariff determination. But the power utility has found little sympathy from its customers.
“Eskom’s financial sustainability is inextricably linked to the financial well-being of its customers. Eskom’s customer base will be compromised if their viability is undermined by electricity which is not reliable, predictable and competitive,” Business Unity South Africa chairman of the standing committee on economic and trade policy Martin Kingston said on Friday.
Kingston said higher electricity prices rendered businesses uncompetitive.
In fact, he said electricity had regressed to 2007/08 levels, an indication of fewer business consumers.
“Consequently, consumers will pay higher unit costs for electricity, leading to pressures on business and the prospect of further reduction in demand.
“This constitutes a vicious cycle that needs to be urgently arrested. Weak demand is likely to persist until 2018/2019, resulting in similar variances in revenue and, therefore, the potential for ever increasing tariffs with this methodology,” Kingston said.
Lower electricity sales are among the main reasons for Eskom’s application. Other main drivers of the applications are costs associated with the running of the open-cycle gas turbines (OCGT).
Eskom has told Nersa it used the OCGT plants extensively in order to avoid load shedding.
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Major companies and business organisations begged Nersa to reject the application, citing the negative effect a further price hike will have on jobs, labour costs, reduced capital investment and productivity.
Sibanye Gold senior vice-president for technical services, Peter Turner, said the company’s margins were already under pressure from rising costs and declining production. Sibanye consumes 1.6 percent (481 megawatts) of Eskom’s electricity output.
Turner said Sibanye Gold’s power costs last year were R3.1 billion. Over the past 10 years, electricity as a percentage of Sibanye’s cost base had increased.
“Ensuring the sustainability of, and unlocking value from South African gold resources, will require stable and reliable supply and affordable input costs,” Turner said.
The Aluminium Federation of SA executive director Mark Krieg said electricity tariffs had increased by 250 percent since 2006/07.
The price escalation of above inflation and load shedding have negatively affected the aluminium industry.
“This affects electricity price predictability and certainty. This is required to encourage investment in a period of low economic growth. The aluminium industry is energy intensive. It relies on a reliable affordable electricity supply,” Krieg said.
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By amber_helsel September 4, 2014
Story on the 48 Hour Film Project by Jordan Sudduth
Nearly 200 filmmaking cast and crew participated Aug. 15-17 in the resurrected Mississippi competition of the 48 Hour Film Project—an international organization that promotes independent filmmaking through awareness and competitions. With a required character, prop, line of dialogue and genre, each of the 15 teams set out to produce (write, film, edit and musically score) a short film, between four and seven minutes in duration, within a 48-hour timeframe.
While it may sound easy to some, that is simply not the case. The process is grueling, adrenalin inducing and a test of skill for all involved.
With the recently wrapped “The Hollars,” which John Krasinski of “The Office” directed and starred in, and the soon-to-film “Dixieland” and “By Way of Helena,” which stars Woody Harrelson and Liam Hemsworth, the Mississippi film industry continues to be on the move. With the increasing awareness of what our state has to offer, both independent and major filmmakers and their proponents are garnering more attention than ever.
Official judges for the 48 Hour competition included film-industry professionals who either live in or have strong Mississippi ties. The unveiling of the judges will take place at the premiere.
Whether you are a film buff or just someone interested in something new, this is a great event to support not only the these 15 participating teams, but the Mississippi film industry.
The premiere screening of all 15 films is Sept. 4 at the Malco Grandview Theatre (221 Grand View Blvd., Madison, 601-898-7823). The event starts at 7 p.m. and costs $10 per individual. After the screening, the filmmakers will host a Q&A session, and audience members can vote for their top-three favorite films. For more information, visit http://48hourfilm.com/en/mississippi/">48hourfilm.com/mississippi and http://www.filmmississippi.org/">filmmississippi.org.
Jordan Sudduth organized this year's 48 Hour Film Project.
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Slide Articulations - Getting a Good Tone (Guitar Lesson)
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Slide Articulations - Getting a Good Tone
Getting a good tone when playing slide is less about amps and guitars and more about fingers - specifically your picking hand fingers. In this lesson, Ariel demonstrates the different tones you can achieve with a pick and without.
Taught by Ariel Posen in Speaking with the Slide seriesLength: 4:55Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
Lesson 19_Slide Articulation - Getting a Good Tone
Speaking with the Slide
Imagine being able to speak with your guitar as you would with your voice! In "Speaking with the Slide", world renown slide player Ariel Posen will help you develop your slide playing to do just that - speak with your guitar as you would sing with your voice.
Speaking With the Slide: Series Introduction
If you could choose one technique to replicate the human voice on your guitar, it would be slide guitar. The long rich history of slide is rooted in just that: making your guitar sound like a human voice....
The Nuts and Bolts of Slide Guitar
First, there are a few things that need to be addressed before we even play a note using the slide. In this lesson, Ariel gives us his take on selecting a slide, string gauge, guitar setup and other practical...
Proper Hand Technique
So much of getting the slide to sound great is born out of good hand technique. From muting and the "sandwich" technique, to bar placement on the strings, Ariel puts you in the best situation to succeed...
The Major Scale - Standard Tuning
Playing slide is not about re-learning your instrument, it's about integrating certain techniques with your existing knowledge. In this lesson, we start down the path of that integration, with learning...
The Minor Scale - Standard Tuning
Now Ariel takes a look at the minor scale in standard tuning, both horizontally and vertically.
The Minor Pentatonic Scale - Standard Tuning
On to the scale that is a must have for slide and non-slide players: the minor pentatonic scale in standard tuning.
The Major Pentatonic Scale - Standard Tuning
Now the last standard tuning scale that we're going to drill - the major pentatonic scale.
Intro to Open Tuning
Ariel now turns our attention to open E tuning. Because of the tuning intervals, this tuning allows us to stack scale notes and chords within the same fret, thus giving us simpler slide positioning and...
The Major Scale - Open Tuning
This part of the course focuses on becoming as comfortable and familiar as possible with our scales in open E tuning. Remember that our hand positioning has changed, so be sure to refer to the tablature...
The Minor Scale - Open Tuning
Now on to the minor scale in open E tuning. Remember, the practicing and repetitions are a very important element to get us to the desired comfort level with these scales!
The Minor Pentatonic Scale - Open Tuning
The minor pentatonic scale is perhaps the most familiar scale that we all know in standard tuning. Ariel's goal in this lesson is to get you just as familiar with this scale in open E tuning!
The Major Pentatonic Scale - Open Tuning
And finally, we use this lesson to drill the major pentatonic scale in open E tuning. Remember to refer to the tab if you're unsure of the note positions on the fretboard.
Playing Behind the Slide
Now that we've learned all of our primary scales using the slide, it's time to look a technique designed to add back in some of the freedom of playing with our fingers: playing behind the slide. Being...
Playing Behind the Slide - Scales
In this lesson, Ariel shows us what it takes to play certain scales "behind the slide".
Playing Behind the Slide - Chords
One thing that playing behind the slide allows us to do is to expand our chord vocabulary while using the slide. It takes us out of having to only use vertical slide positions in the same fret. Ariel...
Double Stops
The concept of playing two notes at a time in a melodic line (double stops), is certainly not a new concept. We've all done when playing "regular" guitar. Here, Ariel shows us how to incorporate double...
Play What You Already Know
So often when we put a slide on our finger we feel like we have to totally re-invent the way we play guitar. Ariel is here to tell us that this is not so! In this lesson we learn how to incorporate the...
Slide Articulations - Intonation
Now we begin to look at the subtleties of playing slide guitar - the articulations. Perhaps the most important articulation is intonation. The very voice and character that you play with is greatly affected...
Getting a good tone when playing slide is less about amps and guitars and more about fingers - specifically your picking hand fingers. In this lesson, Ariel demonstrates the different tones you can achieve...
Slide Articulations - Dynamics
Playing with dynamics is a concept that applies to all types of guitar playing, but perhaps even more with slide. After all, having a big piece of metal or glass on your finger can make it a challenge...
Slide Articulations - Vibrato
Vibrato is a technique that not only gives character to your guitar playing, it conveys your personality on the guitar, giving voice to your emotion and state of mind. Vibrato can be subtle, or it can...
Bass Notes With the Slide
Expanding on the idea of making good use of our other fingers while also using the slide, Ariel shows us the idea of using our "free" fingers to play bass notes, while the slide accentuates chords above...
Licks and Tricks in Standard Tuning
When we think of slide guitar, it's not a stretch to think of other instruments like lap steel and pedal steel, which are just a "stone's throw" away, musically speaking. In this lesson, Ariel shows us...
Licks and Tricks in Open Tuning
Now Ariel looks at the same licks in open E tuning. Although they are basically the same, they have a much different flavor. You'll have a chance to practice the licks, and hear what they sound like in...
Droning the Low Strings
Droning certain notes while playing with the slide over the top of them is a favorite technique of slide players. It allows you to create mood and color in a very simple way. Ariel starts the droning...
Droning the High Strings
While droning the bottom strings and playing high string lends itself more to a "solo" guitar approach, droning the high strings lends itself to being used in the context of a full band situation. Here,...
Three String Drone
Up until now, we've only droned two strings at once. In this lesson, Ariel uses the top three strings to drone. Given that we are in open E tuning, that gives us an E chord to drone over (E, B and G#),...
Note Relationships and Playing What's in Your Head
The way we see notes in our heads dictates a lot in our playing and note choice. Sometimes it's easy to get wrapped up in the letter names of the notes, but most of us know that makes choosing notes in...
Improvising Comfortably in Open Tuning
Now it's time to pull together all the things that we've been working on, and let those things serve us in our quest to improvise a solo. Remember all that time you spent practicing the scales with the...
Improvising Comfortably in Standard Tuning
The differences between standard and open tuning are subtle, but there are "flavor" differences that we can hear. Ariel now demonstrates a slightly different flavored solo in standard tuning.
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Narita International Airport
Narita International Airport 成田国際空港
1-1 Furugome, Narita-shi, Chiba-ken
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Japan's global gateway offers an array of goods, food and free cultural events
Narita International Airport (NRT) is where most visitors get their first taste of Japan. It's a modern, convenient, and well laid-out airport with plenty to see and do. Its two main terminals offer shops, restaurants, relaxing waiting areas, observation decks, and activities to keep you entertained.
The observation decks, where you can relax and watch the planes come in
World-class shopping and restaurants
Kabuki Gate, which offers a taste of traditional Japanese culture
Given that it's Tokyo's main international hub, there are a number of ways to get to and from Narita Airport.
The most common way to access Narita is by catching Japan Railway's Narita Express (NEX), which make stops at a number of major stations including Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Tokyo. A one-way trip takes around an hour.
If you're traveling by local train you can catch the JR Sobu Line (Rapid Service) from Tokyo Station. Keisei operates several lines-Skyliner, Morningliner, and Eveningliner, which all connect to the Yamanote line.
There are also a number of alternatives including privately run limousine bus services that typically depart from Tokyo Station or larger hotels.
World-class shopping
The shops at NRT offer goods for travelers as well as snacks, souvenirs, and other fun stuff. There are electronics stores, bookstores, Japanese craft stores, anime- and manga-themed shops, and convenience stores.
The airport has a number of well-known fashion brands like Uniqlo, Birkenstock, Muji To Go, Hello Kitty Japan, Cath Kidston, and Samantha Vega.
Indulge your sweet-tooth
Narita International Airport is a convenient place to buy souvenirs on your way home and it offers a great deal of variety. Popular gifts include green tea Kit Kats and Pocky, chocolates and cakes, tea, hand towels, traditional dolls, Japanese fans, as well as Hello Kitty and Pokemon gifts.
NRT's observation decks
One of Narita International Airport's main attractions is the observation decks. The two main terminals have free observation decks where you can relax and watch the airplanes take off and land. There are benches facing the runways and outdoor tables, as well as nearby convenience stores offering snacks and drinks.
Eating at Narita International Airport
Restaurants at the airport include traditional Japanese food, pasta, Chinese cuisine, Indian food, ramen and fast food. There are bars and cafes serving drinks and snacks. There is a wide range of choices from fine Japanese dining to cheap fast food, ready to satisfy all tastes.
Discover Japanese culture
While all airports offer food, shopping and relaxation, Narita International Airport also offers a taste of traditional Japanese culture. Its Kabuki Gate hosts free events throughout the year like tea ceremony demonstrations, calligraphy demonstrations, and musical performances. It displays kabuki costumes and other cultural artifacts all year round.
Explore even further with Narico
One unique feature of Narita International Airport is its Narico app. Narico is like Siri, but she's designed just for NRT. Ask Narico and she'll tell you what services the airport offers and where to find them. Narico is in English and available for both Android and iOS.
Near Narita International Airport
Narita International Airport Narita-shi, Chiba-ken
Shinshoji Temple Narita-shi, Chiba-ken
Sawara Katori-gun, Chiba-ken
Sakura Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken
National Museum Of Japanese History Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken
Suigo Sawara Aquatic Botanical Garden Katori-shi, Chiba-ken
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Reduction in cholesterol and low density lipoprotein synthesis after portacaval shunt surgery in a patient with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
D W Bilheimer, J L Goldstein, S M Grundy, and M S Brown
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First published December 1, 1975 - More info
Published in Volume 56, Issue 6 on December 1, 1975
J Clin Invest. 1975;56(6):1420–1430. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI108223.
First published December 1, 1975 - Version history
The turnover of 125I-labeled low density lipoprotein (LDL) and the total body balance of cholestrol were studied in a 6-yr-old girl with the homozygous form of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) before and after the surgical creation of an end-to-side portacaval shunt. The results were compared with those of similar studies simultaneously performed in untreated patients with the heterozygous form of FH and with the results of earlier studies performed on normolipidemic subjects. Before shunt surgery, the rate of synthesis of LDL in the FH homozygote (mg/kg per day) was fourfold higher than in normolipidemic subjects and twofold higher than in her heterozygous mother. The fractional catabolic rate for LDL in the homozygote was decreased to 33% of normal control values. The rate of cholesterol synthesis, estimated by chemical sterol balance, was higher in the FH homozygote than in two FH heterozygotes of similar age studied simultaneously. When considered in relation to the markedly elevated level of plasma cholesterol, the observed rate of cholesterol synthesis in the FH homozygote was inappropriately elevated. Bile acid production was normal in all three children. 5 mo after shunt surgery, the rate of LDL synthesis in the homozygote had declined by 48% as compared with the preoperative value, and this caused a 39% drop in the plasma LDL cholesterol level despite a 17% reduction in the fractional catabolic rate of the lipoprotein. The rate of cholesterol synthesis fell by 62% as compared with the preoperative value. The findings of an inappropriately elevated rate of production of both cholesterol and LDL as well as a reduced fractional catabolic rate for the lipoprotein in the untreated FH homozygote are consistent with results of studies in cultured fibroblasts indicating that the primary genetic defect in FH involves a deficiency in a cell-surface receptor for LDL that regulates both cholesterol synthesis and LDL degradation. Although the mechanism for the decline in production of cholesterol and LDL after portacaval shunt surgery is unknown, it was observed that these changes were associated with marked increases in the plasma concentrations of bile acids and glucagon.
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Carboxyterminal peptide fragments of the beta subunit are urinary products of the metabolism of desialylated human choriogonadotropin.
S Amr, C Rosa, S Birken, R Canfield, and B Nisula
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First published July 1, 1985 - More info
Published in Volume 76, Issue 1 on July 1, 1985
J Clin Invest. 1985;76(1):350–356. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI111968.
First published July 1, 1985 - Version history
Previous investigations of patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia have shown that their urines often contain carboxyterminal peptide (CTP) fragments of the choriogonadotropin (hCG) beta-subunit as well as forms of hCG deficient in sialic acid. In order to determine whether beta-CTP fragments are among the urinary products of the peripheral degradation of desialylated hCG (as-hCG), using a continuous infusion technique, we gave highly purified as-hCG to humans. Six healthy subjects were given a loading dose of 0.8 mg of as-hCG followed by an infusion of the same preparation. An overall mean infusion rate of 62.9 micrograms/min was maintained for 6 h, and the mean serum concentration of as-hCG achieved during the infusion was 72.1 ng/ml. In all six subjects, beta-CTP fragments were the predominant immunoreactive forms of as-hCG in urine obtained during the infusion. In contrast, the urine of subjects infused with hCG has been shown to contain hCG itself, but nil beta-CTP fragments or as-hCG. After the as-hCG infusion was stopped, the excretion of the beta-CTP fragments in urine declined rapidly. There were no beta-CTP fragments detectable in sera obtained during the infusion or in sera incubated with as-hCG at 37 degrees C. After incubation with as-hCG for 4 h, the urine of normal subjects contained small amounts of beta-CTP fragments; however, the apparent proteolytic activity was too low to account for either the quantity of beta-CTP fragments produced during the infusion or the extremely low levels of as-hCG in the urine. These data demonstrate the existence in humans of a peripheral metabolic pathway that cleaves beta-CTP fragments from as-hCG and allows their excretion in urine. Thus, the frequent presence of beta-CTP fragments in the urines of patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasia can be accounted for in part by the metabolism of the forms of hCG that bear an altered carbohydrate structure, which are prevalent in this disease.
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ADO DEN HAAG v WILLEM II
Eredivisie Match Previews
Fri 3119:00
AZ Alkmaar v Waalwijk
Feyenoord v FC Emmen
Twente v S.Rotterdam
Den Haag v Vitesse
PEC Zwolle v Groningen
Sun 215:45
Ajax v PSV
Willem II v Heracles
VVV Venlo v Utrecht
Fortuna Sittard v Heerenveen
AZ Alkmaar v Waalwijk - Fri 31, 19:00Feyenoord v FC Emmen - Sat 1, 18:45Twente v S.Rotterdam - Sat 1, 18:45Den Haag v Vitesse - Sat 1, 17:30PEC Zwolle v Groningen - Sat 1, 19:45Ajax v PSV - Sun 2, 15:45Willem II v Heracles - Sun 2, 11:15VVV Venlo v Utrecht - Sun 2, 13:30Fortuna Sittard v Heerenveen - Sun 2, 13:30
ADO Den Haag Willem II Tips, Predictions and Odds
ADO Den Haag host Willem II in matchday 14 of the Eredivisie on Saturday 23rd November, 7:45pm. The hosts currently sit in 15th place in the table having drawn against Willem II 3-3 last time out, while the visitors are in 6th after their 3-3 draw against ADO Den Haag.
ADO Den Haag have a 38% chance of beating Willem II
Den Haag has won 35% of their last 20 home league games and Willem II has lost 45% of their last 20 away league games.
The last time Willem II won away in the league was 2 games ago against Twente. The last time Den Haag lost a home league game was 2 matches ago against Ajax.
Den Haag last kept a clean sheet at home 4 games ago, and have kept 6 clean sheets in their last 20 home games. Willem II last failed to score away in the league 1 games ago and have missed the net in 3 of their last 20 away league games.
Of the 7 league games Den Haag has won at home, they scored first 6 times. Of the 9 away games Willem II has lost, they conceded first 8 times.
Den Haag have won 7, drawn 6 and lost 7 of their last 20 home games
Willem II have won 11, drawn 2 and lost 7 of their last 20 away games
Den Haag v Willem II 10 game form stats.
Den Haag have scored 2 goals or more in 9 of their last 20 home games. Willem II have conceded at least 2 goals in 14 of their last 20 away games.
Den Haag have conceded 1 goal or less in 11 of their last 20 home league games. Willem II have scored 1 goal or less in 9 of their last 20 away league games
55% of Den Haag's last 20 home league games have ended with Both teams scoring. They won 2, drew 5 and lost 4 of those games.
65% of Willem II's last 20 away league games ended with both teams scoring, they won 5, drew 6 and lost 2 of those games.
The last time Den Haag failed to score at home in the league was a 0-2 loss to Ajax in October this year.
The last time Willem II kept a clean sheet away in the league was in a 1-0 win against Twente in October this year.
In Den Haag's last 20 home games both teams have scored 12 times, and both teams have not scored 8 times.
In Willem II's last 20 away games both teams have scored 13 times, and both teams have not scored 7 times.
Den Haag's last 20 home league games have averaged 3.3 goals a game. Willem II's last 20 away league games have averaged 3.7 goals a game.
Den Haag have scored on average at home in the league 1.7 goals a game and conceded on average 1.6 goals.
Willem II have scored on average away in the league 1.7 goals a game and conceded on average 2 goals
In Den Haag's last 20 home games there have been over 2.5 goals 11 times, and under 2.5 goals 9 times.
In Willem II's last 20 away games there have been over 2.5 goals 12 times, and under 2.5 goals 8 times.
ADO Den Haag drew their last Eredivisie match 3-3. Willem II drew their's 3-3.
ADO Den Haag 3-3 Willem II
ADO Den Haag's last match was in the Eredivisie against Willem II on Saturday 23rd November. They drew the game 3-3 with 2 goals from Tomas Necid and a goal from John Goossens.
ADO Den Haag's last starting line-up was:
GLK: Luuk Koopmans
DEF: Muringen Dehninio, Shaquille Pinas, Tom Beugelsdijk, Aaron Meijers
MID: Danny Bakker, John Goossens, Lex Immers
FWD: Crysencio Summerville, Tomas Necid, Elson Hooi
In the Eredivisie this season, this ADO Den Haag XI has played 109 matches and scored 12 goals.
This Eredivisie line-up has 584 all-time Eredivisie appearances and 54 goals.
Willem II's last match was in the Eredivisie against ADO Den Haag on Saturday 23rd November. They drew the game 3-3 with 2 goals from Vangelis Pavlidis and a goal from Freek Heerkens.
Willem II's last starting line-up was:
GLK: Timon Wellenreuther
DEF: Freek Heerkens, Sebastian Holmen, Jordens Peters, Miquel Nelom
MID: Dries Saddiki, Pol Llonch, Mats Kohlert
FWD: Che Nunnely, Mike Tresor Ndayishimiye, Vangelis Pavlidis
In the Eredivisie this season, this Willem II XI has played 136 matches and scored 16 goals.
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New CCG allocations: straw men laid to rest but deeper questions remain?
NHS England have set out their thinking on how the bulk of NHS money will get to where it needs to be, and on what basis, through allocations to CCGs – David Buck shares his thoughts on this decision.
By David Buck - 17 December 2013
The National Intermediate Care Audit: key to understanding integrated care for older people
We can’t deal with the emergency care crisis at the front door of the hospital without addressing the situation at the back door – there are still too many patients who could be sent home within 0 – 2 days but who would not be able to access community support in time, says David Oliver.
By David Oliver - 3 December 2013
Carry on prescribing: who is responsible for co-ordinating patients’ medication?
People are now taking more drugs than ever before, but who is responsible for ensuring each patient’s prescriptions are appropriate?
By Duncan Hockey - 29 November 2013
The Integration Transformation Fund: the foundation of a genuinely integrated system or just another brick in the wall?
Expectations for the Integrated Transformation Fund are high, but will it actually help to deliver integrated care when the system is so under pressure?
By Richard Humphries - 31 October 2013
Achieving equitable outcomes between mental and physical health: how can we make change happen?
The poor health outcomes of people with co-existing mental and physical conditions represent one of the greatest inequalities in health. What needs to happen to change this?
By Helen Gilburt - 30 October 2013
IT systems – an overlooked cog in the integration machine?
Being able to measure impact and to exchange information are two of the key elements of seamless care co-ordination. So how can current IT systems be improved to help achieve this more effectively?
By Veronika Thiel - 24 October 2013
What are we spending on the English NHS?
Although politicians say the NHS has been protected financially, this is only relative to real cuts in other areas of government and, crucially, not in terms of the demands on health care, says John Appleby.
By John Appleby - 22 October 2013
Why aren’t care homes higher on the agenda in the health debate?
So much of our effort is spent trying to extend life that our ageing society should be a success story, a cause for celebration. Why then aren’t care homes firmly on the agenda in political debates on the NHS?
By Duncan Hockey - 9 October 2013
Making integrated care happen: a marathon not a sprint
The path to joined-up care is a marathon not a sprint. In his latest blog, Chris Ham looks at what remains to be done to convert aspirations into practice.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 25 September 2013
On the right track? How HealthPathways are improving care in Canterbury, New Zealand
How have HealthPathways improved referral management, communication between health professionals and quality outcomes in Canterbury, New Zealand? Nick Timmins looks at the evidence in his new blog post.
By Nicholas Timmins - 12 September 2013
Ageing: opportunity or challenge?
To secure the opportunities of the ‘gift of longer life’ we have to think differently about how we organise and fund our health and care services for an ageing population.
By Richard Humphries - 14 August 2013
What does good co-ordinated care look like?
The first of our co-ordinated care case studies highlight a number of components needed for good, joined-up care. But the challenge will be to make this care a reality for patients throughout the country.
By Lara Sonola - 8 August 2013
What happened to the extra NHS billions?
Three years ago the coalition government's first Spending Review promised to ring fence the budget for the English NHS and to increase spending in real terms each year to 2014/15. So what has actually happened to NHS spending?
By John Appleby - 27 June 2013
What next for health and social care in England?
Chris Ham introduces our Commission on the future of health and social care in England, explaining that the divison between the NHS and social care established in 1948 is no longer fit for purpose.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 18 June 2013
Managing expectations in health services: over-promising and under-delivering?
In his latest blog post, David Oliver argues that new NHS initiatives should be tested for a longer period of time in order to deliver better outcomes across the board.
By David Oliver - 14 June 2013
Health care innovations in the United States: what lessons are there for the NHS?
How do US organisations provide high-quality person-centred care? And what lessons can be drawn for the NHS, local authorities and the third sector?
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 3 June 2013
Making the goal of integrated care a reality?
It is the actions of the staff working in and with the health and social care organisations that will make the goal of integrated care a reality, says Nicola Walsh.
By Nicola Walsh - 23 May 2013
Beyond Dilnot: the need for wider reform
The new Care Bill is a breakthrough for social care funding, as for the first time, there will be a limit on how much people have to pay for their care. But there are still dangers in the proposed system.
By Richard Humphries - 21 May 2013
The NHS in 2013: no place for the faint hearted
The NHS reforms in England will have major implications for all involved in the system, none more so than providers.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 April 2013
Nick Clegg or Nigel Farage: who should NHS leaders model themselves on?
Should NHS leaders be more like Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg or Nigel Farage, Leader of the UK Independence Party?
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 21 March 2013
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Zoo Lake: Even though Zoo Lake is generally busy with joggers, skateboarders, children and amblers, you can still find a number of quiet spots to enjoy a secluded, undisturbed picnic.
Thokoza Park: Incorporating Moroka Dam, this park has reclaimed its pristine status of being a prime attraction of Rockville in Soweto. The park covers 4,5 hectares.
Rhodes Park: This modestly sized park is truly great in creative stature. A marvellous mix of stepping stones and railway sleepers leads you through the park - along the lanes, over the waterfalls, through thickets and past beautiful ponds.
Florida Lake: There are masses of waterfowl on the lake and the adjacent bird sanctuary ensures excellent bird watching.
The Wilds: Meandering footpaths and walkways lead you through this beautiful area with its abundance of indigenous shrubs, plants and trees.
Kloofendal Nature Reserve: Kloofendal is a cultural heritage and ecotourism facility. In the Roodepoort suburb of Kloofendal, the 150 hectare reserve was one of the first nature reserves in Joburg and offers urbanites a retreat from city life.
Rietfontein Nature Reserve is about 24km north of the city in the small suburb of Paulshof. This 25 hectare indigenous green space with its quartzite koppie evokes in all visitors a feeling of being in the country.
Melville Koppies: Follow a footpath through nature leading to a hilltop with panoramic views, see a variety of plants, birds, small mammals and snakes, be exposed to historical sites - all while staying in Joburg.
Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, 11km south of Joburg city centre, is a 680 hectare nature reserve, known as "Stone River Mountain".
Joubert Park is the city’s oldest park, granted by the Volksraad in 1887, and named after the town's first mining commissioner sent to investigate the claims of gold rush fortune seekers.
Unlike Rome, a beautiful community park can be built in a day - and yet last a lifetime. Johannesburg City Parks’ Xtreme Park Makeover project turns dusty, derelict land into a green haven in just 24 hours.
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All hands on deck for Zoo and Zoo Lake blitz operation
City of Johannesburg Press Statement by Cllr Margaret Arnolds
Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development
Media Statement Saturday,
The Executive Mayor of the City of Joburg, Cllr Geoff Makhubo and the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development, Cllr Margaret Arnolds conducted an oversight visit and led a seasonal blitz operation at the Joburg Zoo on Saturday, 18 January 2020 from 7am.
The atmosphere prior to commencement, which kickstarted by triggering a countdown clock, saw teams from across the entity in green, blue, brown and orange overalls gather at the Zoo, with a host of specialised vehicles and equipment.
The Executive Mayor, Councillor Geoff Makhubo commended the team for working even in the rain to make sure service shortfalls are speedily addressed. He challenged the teams to do more and confirmed that he will be present in all regions, including the Inner City to ensure that basic concerns are tackled.
The successful operation dealt with issues within the Zoo, along the outside perimeter and at Zoo Lake. This included resolving electrical and plumbing concerns, reinstating fences, installing new flushing mechanisms in the ablution facilities, removing damaged signs inside and outside the Zoo and focusing on tree and lawn maintenance.
“Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) the entity responsible for designated open spaces including the Joburg Zoo, public parks, street trees and nature reserves, is working in all regions, to tackle the seasonal backlogs in horticultural services, after the intense rains. This blitz operation is not limited to the Zoo,” said MMC Arnolds.
Proactive plans were developed by JCPZ that included internal operations and external contractors to address the seasonal overgrowth, however the delayed rains had a knock-on effect on schedules over the festive season, where staffing is limited due to the holidays and plans are further disrupted due to the erratic rains.
This is a seasonal issue which has warranted JCPZ utilizing its limited resources over the weekend, to speedily resolve all backlogs.
The mayoral delegation included visits to the various enclosures within the Joburg Zoo, focusing on animal wellbeing. The oversight visit comes on the heels of the NSPCAs inspection on 7 January, which gave the zoo a clean bill of health.
MMC Arnolds, who entered the Otter enclosure to inspect the quality of water and then visited the three elephants bathing in their new pond, reassured residents that JCPZ, is working hard to make certain designated spaces are maintained and that our animals well taken care off.
Residents who are unsure of which departments are responsible for neglected open spaces and verge maintenance are urged to call 011 375 5555 to register their requests.
MMC Arnolds also took the time to thank the many residents who are maintaining and managing sidewalks that fall under the JRA mandate. Arnolds commented that, “the City sincerely appreciates every resident that has taken the time to maintain and beautify areas adjacent to their homes which builds happy neighbourhoods and healthy families”.
Issued on behalf of MMC Margaret Arnolds
Jenny Moodley
Spokesperson: Johannes
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Don’t mess with Mzanzi, let’s keep our parks and city litter-free
Date: Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Joburg is abuzz this time of the year. The weather is good, the festive fever is high and everyone has a skip in their step. Summer breezes in, with long days and warm nights, the perfect recipe to be spending outdoors in any of the parks in Mzanzi.
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ), the custodians of greening in the city has prepared the parks for all its users this summer. Lawns are lush and green, trees provide the perfect spot for picnics and braais and there is ample space for children to run around and enjoy the safe play equipment. With over 2 300 parks and approximately 10 000 hectares of green nature experiences, Joburgers are spoilt for choice this silly season.
But what happens after a day of fun in the park? Do you leave your litter strewn all over your park, or do you choose to leave your picnic site spotless? Sadly, JCPZ has had to use its already stretched resources to pick up piles of litter, especially after a public holiday or weekend.
Just as concerning are the number of users that visit the zoo, who are still not disposing the litter in the bins provided. This can be fatal for the animals if a packet or container is ingested by an animal.
To increase awareness, City Parks and Zoo is enhancing its anti-littering awareness campaign to impress on park and Zoo users’ the need to value the environment and to encourage positive use. JCPZ is urging users to take ownership, and to properly dispose or recycle all litter.
Litter is an eyesore; impacts on the health of our loved ones as it attracts pests like rodents, mosquitoes and cockroaches; impacts on economic growth; takes away our civic pride; attracts further littering and dampens community spirit, leaving one with a sense of hopelessness.
The City of Joburg spends billions of Rands annually in its efforts to keep our city clean. The environmental impact is dire as well, as rubbish dumped in wetlands, lakes and rivers running through green spaces, has an adverse effect on the city’s biodiversity.
As more people will be flocking to parks this holiday, JCPZ urges residents not to litter in parks and to please obey all park safety by-laws. Transgressions can be reported to the Joburg Emergency Call Centre on 011 375 5911 or to the rangers on 011 472 6539.
“The cost to remove illegally disposed of litter and rubble, invariably takes away from the city using these much needed resources to build a more vibrant Joburg. City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) as the custodians of parks and open spaces, will have litter-picking staff and emergency teams in place over the festive season, however the onus is on users to keep these spaces clean and vibrant” stated Bryne Maduka, the Managing Director of Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo.
Noeleen Mattera
Stakeholder, PR & Media Relations
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo
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JCPZ bags Best State-Owned Entity Award at this year’s Vision 2030 Awards 2019
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ), the custodians of nature conservation and greening champions in the City of Johannesburg, was last night awarded the coveted ‘Best State-Owned Entity’ at the Vision 2030 Awards for the year 2019!
In line with the mandate of the National Development Plan 2030, the annual Vision 2030 Awards recognize the strides made by organisations and individuals alike from all sectors, which have impacted positively on the lives of ordinary South Africans.
Through their commitment, passion and active participation in delivering services to the people, these awards aim to inspire fellow citizens to be positive change agents.
JCPZ, as an entity wholly owned by the City of Joburg, has remained consistent and steadfast in its mandate to improve the quality of life of residents and visitors to parks, nature reserves, protected areas and public open spaces.
Its developmental stance on the backdrop of a growing portfolio with large scale social challenges, has seen it interrogate new revenue streams and engage more meaningfully with its stakeholders - including business, residents and the media to redress disparities.
This is underpinned by strict fiscal management with two successive clean audit outcomes and various peer recognition awards, including being presented with the prestigious national Arbour City Award for the year 2019/20.
The call to ACT NOW, to address environmental concerns resonates in the National Development Plans 2030 Goals, on all levels and JCPZ has heeded the clarion call to action!
JCPZ has over the years, provided platforms for young entrepreneurs in the Inner City, rolled out Closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitored ablution facilities and secured resourced resident associations to maintain visible presence in area based parks. This alleviates the pressure on law enforcement agencies while the local security presence acts as a deterrent to opportunistic crime and provides a sense of pride and ownership to residents.
The Johannesburg Zoo’s visitor numbers have increased to over 500 000 thousand a year. The facility acts as a gateway for environmental education and caters for many marginalised schools that will unlikely afford or enjoy the Big 5 experience outside Joburg.
Joburg Zoo continues to spearhead a number of breeding programmes aimed at increasing and preserving endangered species such as the rare Wattled Crane, which is one of the rarest of crane species in the world. The recent success story of Joburg Zoo’s Amphibian Conservation breeding Project of the Pickersgill Reed Frog, which is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN’s) Red List of Threatened Species, was successfully bred and released into its natural habitat.
JCPZ has generated an average of over R70m in free editorial coverage, stemming from participatory and visible community activations and park development programmes.
Greening continues in new low cost housing developments such as Riverside with lined sapling trees, which will over years, grow into fully fledged tree canopies, complementing the area as well as offsetting the City’s carbon footprint.
Other accolades awarded to JCPZ is the Transformation Award 2019, and six awards scooped at the 2019 South African Landscape Institute (SALI) for various park developments.
“On behalf of the City, I would like to congratulate JCPZ on being presented with such a high ranking and prestigious award. The efforts, commitment and passion of every JCPZ employee in making our City a green and liveable one, speaks to their dedication to both the environment, and to the people of Johannsburg. Well done to the team, may you continue serving our residents with pride”, stated the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development in the City of Joburg, Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba.
Issued by Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba
Member of Mayoral Committee for Community Development
City of Joburg
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Visit one of JCPZ’s flagship parks this summer!
City of Johannesburg Media Advisory by
MMC for Community Development, Cllr Nonhlanhla Sifumba
It’s time to step out of the winter blues and into your park. Summer is here and what better way to spend a lazy afternoon on stretches of green lawns, shady trees and crisp fresh air.
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, the champions of greening and open spaces in the City of Joburg, offers residents state of the art parks this summer. We continue to roll out liveable green open spaces, providing memorable experiences of the great outdoors.
Here are a few parks in your area to choose from:
Diepsloot Park is a favourite for residents living in and around this park. Quite large in size, the park offers users the popular free-to-use outdoor Quite large in size, the park offers users the popular free-to-use outdoor gym, swings, slides, round-abouts, a mini soccer field, a place reserved for indigenous games and park furniture. The shady trees are a sure winner for those long summer days where residents can bring along a blankie and picnic on the grassy lawns. The park is situated at King Senzangakhona Drive, Diepsloot West.
Ivory Park, also popular with its users is spacious and full of life. The park boasts park benches, picnic and braai facilities, a state-of-the-art children's play area with rubberised surfaces, an outdoor gym, fitness track, and mini-soccer pitch. This park has big open spaces for gatherings, screenings and amenities for corporate events. Find your park on Ho Chi Min Street, Ivory Park Ext 8.
Mayibuye Park offers residents ample space for relaxing under relatively large trees with a mini soccer field, modern play equipment and a braai area. Visit your park on Bhokoda Street, a stone's throw from Mayibuye Primary School, Midrand. The park can be found on Corner Edmond Shezi and Ngwingwi Streets, Mayibuye.
Alberts Farm Conservancy is one of the jewels of Joburg and is the second-biggest green lung in our City. The Park is perfect for runners, cyclists and those who prefer to walk. It is common for the avid kite flyers, with large shady trees for picnicking. With its spectacular view of Joburg, its ridges draw many nature trails on early crisp mornings. The wetland and marshy areas are home to approximately 130 species of birds, indigenous shrubs and plants. The fresh spring water and stream bring tranquillity to users. The park also hosts park runs every Saturday morning. Visit this nook at 8th Street in Greymont.
Sophiatown Xtreme Park is a fully fledged park in a densely populated area in Westdene, and is ideally situated and accessible to all living in the area. It boasts paved pathways, landscaped lawns and trees, a mini-soccer field and a fenced play area with modern play equipment. Residents regularly pack picnic blankies with family and friends on lazy afternoons. The park also offers a free-to-use gym, park furniture, benches, braai area and bins. The park can be found on 76 Gold St, Sophiatown.
Westdene Dam and Park, a tranquil haven for the peace seeking users, is ideal for picnicking, taking a stroll and enjoying the dam. With large shady trees and landscaped lawns, the dam also boasts recently installed free-to-gym equipment and state of the art play equipment for the little ones. The dam and park are securely fenced for added security. Visit the park on 14 Lewes Road, Westdene.
Delta Park is a lush, green 13-hectare lung in the North of Joburg, between Victory Park, Craighall and Blairgowrie. The park is expansive for those who love long walks or taking a run or just a stroll with their dogs. The massive trees provide tranquility and a peaceful nook away from the buzzing City. The Florence Bloom Bird Sanctuary is a 7.5-hectare space within Delta Park and is one of the oldest bird sanctuaries in the City. The sanctuary is securely fenced and boasts over 250 species of birds. Bird watchers pride themselves in spotting bishops, weavers, owls and the scarce kingfisher.
Emmarentia Dam and Johannesburg Botanical Garden are beautifully connected with both providing residents with stretches of lawn, trees for picnicking and ample space for dog walkers, joggers or those who prefer a bike ride. The overlooking dam and home to many ducks, geese and other bird species, brings a sense of peace to all its visitors. Popular for its water sports such as canoeing, boat sailing and rowing, the dam area is abuzz with avid members of canoe and rowing clubs.
The Johannesburg Botanical Gardens is an 81-hectare green haven. The large, grassy open spaces with trees is also popular for hosting concerts and kite-flying competitions. An ideal space for runners, picnicking and dog walking, the Bot Gardens boast themed gardens such as the Herb Garden, the Hedge Garden, the Succulent Garden, the Shakespeare Garden, the Rose Garden, the Chapel Garden and the Arboretum (a collection composed exclusively of trees). The Herb Garden contains aromatic plants, which have medicinal benefits, culinary uses and cosmetic purposes. The Hedge Garden consists of 58 species of hedges, and the Succulent Garden, which may be visited only by appointment, is planted with more than 2 500 species of succulent. The Arboretum has a variety of indigenous and exotic trees, including Californian Redwoods, Silver Birches and English oaks. The Shakespeare Garden features herbs which the English playwright referred to in his works. Adjacent to the Shakespeare Garden is the beautiful terraced Rose Gardens which is planted with over 4500 rose bushes. To the east of the Rose Garden is the Chapel Garden, which is often used by bridal parties for wedding photography. Visit the Emmarentia Dam and Johannesburg Botanical Gardens in Thomas Bowler, Orange and The Braids roads. The park is open from 6am – 6pm. Braaing and open fires are not permitted.
Zoo Lake Another popular green haven for its users, Zoo Lake is strewn with beautiful lawns, trees aged over 110 years and ample space for easy breathing, is great for picnicking relaxing outdoors.
The park is located just off Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview and right across the road from Johannesburg Zoo. Park users have an array of activities to entertain themselves, from play equipment, an option of paddling your boat across the man-made lake or doing what South Africans do best, braaing - at designated areas.
The Zoo Lake hosts the much-anticipated annual Jazz on the Lake on the first Sunday of every September. The park is home away from home for many visitors over weekends and public holidays. For sports enthusiasts, the well-maintained basketball courts, Zoo Lake sports club, a mini-soccer area and the much adored Zoo Lake swimming pool are ideal for those hot summer days. Children can enjoy a stroll along the lake while feeding the ducks or enjoy the day on the jungle gyms and play equipment, while joggers and dog-walkers enjoy ample space in the park. Zoo Lake has become a meeting place of South African diversity and was rated the number 1 picnic spot in Joburg in The Star Reader’s Choice Awards in 2018.
Melville Koppies Nature Reserve, commonly known as Melville Koppies is a ridge approximately 6km from the City centre and close to the trendy and popular 7th Avenue in Melville. An official World Heritage Site, Melville Koppies is of historical significance as it was discovered that people lived there since the Stone Age, about 2.9 billion years ago. This conservation area, with its rocky footpaths, leads to the most beautiful panoramic views one can experience in the City. It boasts a variety of plants, birdlife, insects, snakes and other smaller animals. The greenstone rock, one of the oldest rocks on earth, can be found on the top of the koppies. Melville Koppies is popular for its hiking clubs and trail walking. Visit the Koppies on 4 Judith Street, Emmarentia, Johannesburg.
Thokoza Park is a favourite for the residents of Soweto. Its lush green lawns, large decade old trees, paved footpaths and modern playground equipment and the Moroka Dam running through it, is a 4.5-hectare space popularly enjoyed by all. Thokoza Park is perfectly set for summer picnics, family braais and spending time in the great outdoors. The lawns are pristine with park benches, bins and enough shaded trees for a lazy afternoon with family and friends. Children can enjoy frolicking in the park, feeding the ducks or exploring nature across from busy streets.
Thokoza Park’s main attraction is the large mural of Tata Nelson Mandela where the great leader planted a tree in 2008, in celebration of Arbor Month. Today, the Celtis Africana, or white stinkwood, stands strong and tall at almost 8 metres and has been declared a Champion Tree and a Heritage Site by the Gauteng Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (PHRA-G). The tree is protected and may not be cut, distributed or damaged sold or transported without permission from the department. This milestone places Thokoza Park and Soweto on the tourist map. With secure parking and ablution facilities, Thokoza Park is the place to enjoy the long summer days ahead. Visit the park at 1682 Ntuli Street, Moroka, Soweto.
Dorothy Nyembe Park is a vast 26-hectare green space named after Dorothy Nyembe, one of the struggle's heroines - a political activist and women's rights campaigner born in 1931 and who died in Umlazi in 1998. This park in Mofolo North in Soweto stands out with its unusual sculpted tall figurines with outstretched arms, welcoming all who visit it. An environmental education centre is home to learners from various schools in Soweto. The surrounding dams, sports facilities, trees and lawns are ideal nooks for the residents in the area. Dorothy Nyembe Park scooped the prestigious United Nations Liveable Communities Award in the natural build project category, taking gold at the awards. Visit your park off Roodepoort Road onto Main Road in Mofolo North in Soweto.
Mofolo Park is popular for its music concerts, jazz festivals, carnivals, markets and the like. Its ancient proscenium arch stage covered in rainbow colours is the perfect venue for the arts, exhibitions and local plays. The park is also known for evening concerts when good weather permits where visitors bring along their camp chairs, picnic baskets and braais. The park boasts a soccer field, ablution facilities and play equipment for the young ones. Bring along your family and friends for a day in the park, find it at 1209 Mzilikazi Street, Mofolo Central in Soweto Smaller pocket parks namely Pimville and Pennyville Park, equally boast green spaces for their residents.
Pimville Park has ample shady trees for picnics, landscaped lawns, park furniture, mini soccer field, a basketball court, bins and a fence around the park.
Pennyville Park has swings, a mini soccer field, seating places, water taps, an irrigation system, traditional games spots, pathways and landscaped picnic areas.
For more parks in your area, please visit: http://www.jhbcityparks.com “Joburg City Parks and Zoo, as the custodians of parks and open spaces, oversees more than 2 343 parks in Joburg. These parks serve as an environmental green lung, providing residents with green open spaces to relax and enjoy the outdoors. We urge users to take care of their parks and own them,” stated the MMC for Community Development, Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba.
Although City Parks and Zoo works hard to make our parks safe, opportunistic crime exists, and we encourage all to be vigilant and involved.
Below are a few tips to ensure that your visits to Johannesburg parks are safe and enjoyable:
PLEASE DON'T
Break plants, trees or park equipment.
Start a fire in a restricted area.
Take your dog off its leash.
Be disrespectful towards other park users.
Adhere to signage in the parks.
Stay alert.
Report any wrongdoing in your park.
Respect your local surroundings.
Watch the weather.
Remember that safety is a personal responsibility.
Visit parks in group if possible.
Talking on your mobile phone in a public place makes you vulnerable.
Residents are urged to obey all park safety by-laws and to report transgressions to the Joburg Emergency Call Centre on 011 375 5911.
Parks go a long way in building social harmony within communities, while developing civic ownership, where people are drawn to supporting, caring and protecting one another.
Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba
Arbor Month 2019: 2 000 trees planted in 2 hours in Riverside View
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) is proud of the difference it made in celebration of Arbor Day by planting 2 000 trees in 2 hours in Riverside View, Fourways, Region A.
Planting 2 000 trees in a limited time is hard physical labour and required many hands, but JCPZ employees rocked up to the site on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 and pulled it off in a great team effort.
It was extremely hot on the day and that served as motivation for the tree planters – knowing that the young trees they were planting will, in a view years’ time, provide much needed shade for the Riverside View community in summer.
The trees will also change the face of Riverside View by welcoming residents and visitors to a green area where the streets are lined with trees. Not to mention other benefits trees provide, like absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in the environment!
JCPZ thanks its employees, the community and partner Valumax for their assistance in this project, without whom the mission would not have been accomplished.
The City of Joburg kicked off Arbor Month on 1 September 2019 by accepting the Arbor City Award 2019 from the National Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, and this mammoth project reconfirmed that Joburg is worthy of this prestigious award.
JCPZ planted a further 1 260 in different areas in Joburg during Arbor Month.
Joburg uses Arbor City win to call on residents to plant trees
No embargo, 5 September 2019
The City of Joburg has scooped the prestigious National Arbor City Award for 2019. The announcement was made by the Deputy Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Ms Maggie Sotyu in Port Elizabeth on Sunday, 1 September to launch National Arbor Month in the country. The Arbor City Award with the first prize of R300K will be used to purchase seeds, saplings and trees to grow Joburg’s manmade forest and to address greening disparities in the city.
The national awards have grown to become one of the most toughest competitions in the country and it is a huge honour for the City of Joburg to be presented with the award for the 4th time in its 18-year history. The award recognizes local and metropolitan cities that have excelled on all levels of sustainable development. It interrogates policies, inter-governmental planning, capital development programmes, makes comparisons with visible implementation on the ground and then assesses monitoring mechanisms-- towards the creation of vibrant, sustainable and livable cities.
The adjudicators were particularly pleased with Johannesburg City Parks and Zoos (JCPZs) handling of the Polyphagus Shothole Borer (PSHB) infestation in the City. “JCPZ saved hundreds of trees on the backdrop of calls and unending social media pressure to remove all infested trees. In the absence of proper research and an approved chemical solution to treat infested trees, JCPZ only removed dead infested trees. Many of the trees albeit infested, are not displaying symptoms of fusarium dieback at this stage”, advised JCPZs Arboriculturist, Ms Adelaide Chokoe.
Chokoe, who has commenced her Ph.D focusing on the PSHB, also received an award for her outstanding contribution to greening in the City of Joburg by the Deputy Minikster of DEFF at the awards ceremony.
“To be recognized by the highest level of government is testament to the collective expertise, passion and commitment of every employee at JCPZ and within the City, who are consciously working to protect Joburg’s manmade forest”, stated the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development in the City of Joburg, Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba.
Recently Rwanda, Ethiopia and India have brought together business and communities to plant millions of trees in their respective countries. The benefits of planting just one tree are far reaching. Every tree works as a natural filtration system and consists of at least 50% carbon captured from the air; acts as a conduit to foster national pride and ownership and helps creates aesthetically pleasing and economically vibrant suburbs.
It is time to restore that sense of urgency to accelerate tree planting in the City. We have an ageing tree canopy, with many species reaching its full life expectancy and as a result these trees have become more prone to opportunistic diseases and the effect of inclement weather.
Arbor month in September is therefore a vital springboard for schools, resident-associations, business, government and the media to work as an integrated unit, to get our hands dirty for a good cause, by planting trees across the City.
Every region in the City will be hosting a tree planting ceremony and JCPZ calls on all companies to offset their carbon footprint, by planting trees, as well. Please forward the number of trees, the species and the area where you will be planting, to trees@jhbcityparks.com. For a detailed list of preferred tree species visit www.jhbcityparks.com.
Issued on behalf of
Spokesperson: Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo
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This Year, Art In The Loop Turns Downtown Kansas City Into One Big Playground
By Libby Hanssen • Jun 15, 2018
As part of Art in the Loop, Megan Karson's creation known as The Stranger On The Train prepares to board a downtown streetcar.
Libby Hanssen / KCUR 89.3
When you see a stranger on public transit, what's your usual reaction? Do you make eye contact, even small talk, or studiously ignore them and play Pokémon Go on your phone?
Traveling with Megan Karson's The Stranger on the Train, reactions are a little different. When The Stranger trundles onto the #801 at the Kansas City Streetcar stop at Union Station, passengers stare, then laugh, at the surprising addition to their ride.
"Hey guys, come here!" Lucy, age 3, yells to her siblings, who are scoping out the operator’s controls. "You need to see this!"
The Stranger, a large soft-sculpture monster, has a friendly, outsized grin and wide staring eyes. Each fingernail is painted gold, and its grayish violet fur hosts an array of toothy barnacles. Children pet it, hug it, and wrap up in its four oversized arms; adults chuckle at the sight of it, then whip out their phones to take pictures. (Though some adults feign a blind eye.)
Karson, a Kansas City-based multidisciplinary artist, has created these imaginative multi-eyed, multi-armed, toothy monsters for years, but this is her biggest so far, commissioned for this year's Art in the Loop, a summer series of musical performances and visual art installations designed to present emerging artists in the public art realm.
“I typically try to create monsters that are a mixture of scary and inviting to get a wide range of reactions,” Karson told KCUR in an email. “So often, I feel as though people enter a public environment and don’t interact with the other people that also occupy the space. The Stranger is hoping to momentarily break down that wall and create a little more room for playfulness and imagination.”
Art in the Loop centers its programming along the streetcar line on Main Street, with additional installations and events at the Kansas City Public Library, West Terrace Park and The Box Gallery.
At The Box Gallery, a London Tube-style map shows locations of Art in the Loop installations.
Credit Libby Hanssen / KCUR 89.3
"We want to present these creative opportunities for the people who live, work and play downtown,” says Ann Holliday, Art in the Loop’s program director. Now in its fifth year, the project is a partnership of the Downtown Council, Kansas City Streetcar and the City of Kansas City. This year’s theme is #KCPlays.
“Come out, hear the music, see some art work, let's make this a fun place to live," Holliday said outside the Box Gallery, during the Art in the Loop’s opening reception on June 1.
At 1000 Walnut, the Box Gallery houses a teaser selection of pieces related to the installations positioned throughout downtown, with a wall-sized London Tube-esque map showing where the art is located, including a yellow line that runs out of the gallery, down the corridor and into Softlab, Art in the Loop's first studio residency, featuring quilting artist Olivia Clanton.
Along with enlivening downtown, Art in the Loop serves as an entry point for artists exploring outdoor public art, Holliday said, as well as bringing different artists together to collaborate.
"That's what we like. Meet somebody. Do something different. Test things out," she said.
At the gallery, visitors can interact with some of the projects, such as Sunyoung Cheong's "Wearable Play,” or pick up "KC Word Plays!" game booklets with KC-centric word puzzles, as well as an Art in the Loop Scavenger Hunt BINGO card, a social media-friendly challenge to find the different installations.
For the opening reception, looping cellist Daniel Yung performed in a busy passageway during the lunchtime rush, evoking the iconic busker image from vibrant cities worldwide.
Art in the Loop includes concerts most Wednesdays and some Fridays throughout the series, with performances in West Terrace Park in June and along the streetcar line in July and August.
The musical acts include Afro-Caribbean, Americana folk, Western swing, British rock, jazz and gospel.
Hammerhedd, a trio of brothers ages 16, 14, and 11, went viral two years ago after shredding thrash metal covers on the Plaza; this summer they perform at the 14th Street streetcar stop on July 18. Some of the more mobile acts actually perform on the streetcar.
On August’s First Friday, Art in the Loop partners with the Kansas City Public Library for family friendly events during Arts Starts at the Library, including a performance from Twin Strangers and workshops with Cheong and “Passing Notes” David Alpert, writing notes to leave in library books.
“It’s about vitality, and making downtown the kind of space and attracting the kind of people who are interested in creativity,” Holliday said.
Along with a cadre of new artists, some are returning to the series.
Last year, hip-hop artist They Call Me Sauce performed at the Central Library. August 22, Sauce hits the Streetcar line with his distinctive rhymes and positive message. Visual artist Monica Dixon created "Cloud Canopy" for City Market Park last season, and now her “Celestial Heap” graces the ceiling of the #801.
Even the streetcars themselves feature art. Amy Kligman made the #802 into “Party Car,” adorning its vinyl wrapped exterior with festive imagery of cacophonic streamers, sprinkles and confetti.
Besides performances, Art in the Loop also features stationary artwork such as Stephen Proski's 'Night People,' at the streetcar shelter at 19th and Main.
Some streetcar shelters host stationary works, such as Stephen Proski’s "Night People" at 19th & Main, Alicen Lundberg and Kriss Young Miller's "KC Word Plays!" word search at 10th & Main, and Daniel Chase’s video installation, "Running Idle," which flashes up on the KCity Post kiosks.
Other events are more performance art, specifically the “Alter: Pop-Up pARTy” at Union Station on August 24, and Stone Lion Puppets performances on July 11 and August 8.
Throughout the series, Art in the Loop is designed to offer something different for commuters and something surprising for tourists.
“Now with the streetcar, there’s retired people who come down here, there’s young children, there’s a much more active community and the art and the music give people a mode … to engage with each other,” said Holliday.
On a Kansas City Streetcar, a child interacts with Megan Karson's The Stranger On The Train.
Which brings us back to The Stranger.
Interns Rachael Love and Isaiah Jackson escort The Stranger during its lunchtime Streetcar sojourns and around town. During the ride, little kids poke, prod and high-five the monster, while bemused adults interrogate Love and Jackson.
"It’s a good way to talk to people about the program," Love says as she hands out fliers and BINGO cards.
One passenger rides the streetcar with his niece and nephew, visiting from Arkansas; another is riding with her kids and her father-in-law, in town from Santa Fe, checking out the model trains at Union Station and then lunching at the River Market.
"My goal is to make (The Stranger) a Kansas City icon,” says Love.
One young admirer blows kisses to The Stranger as she gets off the Streetcar. A few stops later, The Stranger and its escorts depart.
"Bye, Stranger" shouts an amused rider.
"Bye!" responds Love, brightly.
"Bye, Stranger!" choruses the rest of the car's occupants as the doors closed, heading down the line.
Art in the Loop runs until September 1. For more information and a calendar of events, visit artintheloop.com.
KCUR contributor Libby Hanssen writes the culture blog Proust Eats A Sandwich. Follow her on Twitter, @libbyhanssen.
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Attention Riders: Enjoy The Art At Kansas City's Streetcar Stops Before It Goes Away
By Julie Denesha • Jul 25, 2016
Julie Denesha / KCUR 89.3FM
Kansas City's new streetcar line presents hazards for bicyclists, but an artist named Don Wilkison, who calls himself m.o.i., for the Minister of Information, hopes his "Rail-Bike-Rail" installation will help them navigate this new environment.
Street Performers; Friends With Your Ex; How To Eclipse In KC
By Gina Kaufmann & Matthew Long-Middleton • Aug 14, 2017
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Performing in public for unsuspecting audiences . . . You've seen it in big cities on street corners and on subways, but what about here in KC? We tap into the local scene.
Are you friends with your ex? We'll talk to a KU researcher about why.
Plus, advice on where to watch the solar eclipse in and around Kansas City.
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Reuters: Mali says has no remaining Ebola cases as last patient recovers
“Mali has no remaining cases of the Ebola virus as the last patient in the country has recovered and left hospital, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday. Six people have died of Ebola in Mali, while two others have recovered…” (Diallo et al., 12/11).
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Induction of Fas-Mediated Apoptosis by Interferon-γ is Dependent on Granulosa Cell Differentiation and Follicular Maturation in the Rat Ovary
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Dev Reprod 2016; 20(4):315-329
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Hye-Jeong Lee1, Ji Young Kim2, Ji Eun Park3, Yong-Dal Yoon4, Benjamin K. Tsang5,†, Jong-Min Kim3,†
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1Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan 602-714, Korea
2Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul 152-703, Republic of Korea
3Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan 602-714, Korea
4Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1Y 4E9
†Corresponding Author : Benjamin K. Tsang, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1Y 4E9. Tel. : +1-613-798-5555 (ext. 72926), E-mail : btsang@ohri.ca, Jong-Min Kim, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan 602-714, Korea. Tel. : +82-51-240-2792, E-mail : jmkim7@dau.ac.kr
Copyright © 2016 The Korean Society of Developmental Biology. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received: Oct 21, 2016 ; Revised: Nov 20, 2016 ; Accepted: Dec 13, 2016
Published Online: Dec 31, 2016
Fas ligand (FasL) and its receptor Fas have been implicated in granulosa cell apoptosis during follicular atresia. Although interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) is believed to be involved in the regulation Fas expression in differentiated granulosa or granulosa-luteal cells, the expression of this cytokine and its role in the regulation of the granulosa cell Fas/FasL system and apoptosis during follicular maturation have not been thoroughly investigated. In the present study, we have examined the presence of IFN-γ in ovarian follicles at different stage of development by immunohistochemistry and related their relative intensities with follicular expression of Fas and FasL, and with differences in granulosa cell sensitivity to Fas activation by exogenous agonistic Anti-Fas monoclonal antibody (Fas mAb). Although IFN-γ immunostaining was detectable in oocyte and granulosa cells in antral follicles, most intense immunoreactivity for the cytokine was observed in these cells of preantral follicles. Intense immunoreactivity for IFN-γ was most evident in granulosa cells of atretic early antral follicles where increased Fas and FasL expression and apoptosis were also observed. Whereas low concentrations of IFN-γ (10-100 U/mL) significantly increased Fas expression in undifferentiated granulosa cells (from preantral or very early antral follicles) in vitro, very higher concentrations (≥ 1,000 U/mL) were required to up-regulate of Fas in differentiated cells isolated from eCG-primed (antral) follicles. Addition of agonistic Fas mAb to cultures of granulosa cells at the two stages of differentiation and pretreated with IFN-γ (100 U/mL) elicited morphological and biochemical apoptotic features which were more prominent in cells not previously exposed to the gonadotropin in vivo. These findings suggested that IFN-γ is an important physiologic intra-ovarian regulator of follicular atresia and plays a pivotal role in regulation of expression of Fas receptor and subsequent apoptotic response in undifferentiated (or poorly differentiated) granulosa cells at an early (penultimate) stage of follicular development.
Keywords: Interferon-γ; Fas; Apoptosis; Granulosa cells; Ovary
Ovarian follicular fate (i.e. development/ovulation versus atresia) in the mammals is determined by the fate of the cells within the follicles and is regulated by complex interactions of endocrine (gonadotropin and steroid hormones) and locally produced (growth factors and cytokines) factors (Hirshfield, 1991). Although follicular atresia can occur at all the stages of follicular development, a high incidence of granulosa cell apoptosis, a well recognized cellular basis for this degenerative process, is predominantly observed at the early antral stage of follicular development during the ovarian cycle (Kim et al., 1998).
Fas antigen (Fas), a member of the TNF receptor family, and its ligand Fas ligand (FasL), have been identified as cell death mediator and factor, respectively in a variety of cell types (WatanabeFukunaga et al., 1992; Suda et al., 1993). Their involvement in the induction of granulosa and luteal cell apoptosis has been demonstrated in several mammalian species (Quirk et al., 1995; Hakuno et al., 1996; Kondo et al., 1996; Kim et al., 1998). Fas and FasL expression is up-regulated in granulosa cells undergoing apoptosis during early stage of follicular development (Kim et al., 1998) and p53-mediated granulosa cell apoptosis is associated with the activation of Fas/FasL system during follicular atresia (Kim et al., 1999). In addition, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is an important negative regulator of the Fas/FasL system and a key cell survival factor during the follicular development and the role of the Fas/FasL system in granulosa cell apoptosis appears more prominent at early than at late stages of follicular maturation.
Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) is a member of a family of heterogeneous regulatory proteins having antiviral, immunomodulatory, antiproliferative, and cytodifferentiation regulatory activities (Pestka et al., 1987). It increases adrenal steroidogenesis (Blalock and Harp, 1981), increases iodide uptake by thyroid cells (Friedman et al., 1982), and suppresses hCG-induced testosterone production by Leydig cells (Orava et al., 1989). At physiological concentrations, IFN-γ inhibits granulosa cell differentiation and steroidogenesis (Gorospe et al., 1988; Xiao and Findlay, 1992). In addition, IFN-γ increases Fas mRNA expression in mouse lymphoma cells and BAM3 cells (WatanabeFukunaga et al., 1992) and Fas content in human granulosa / luteal cells (Quirk et al., 1995). Apoptosis in ovarian surface epithelial cells is mediated by increased Fas expression induced by IFN-γ (Quirk et al., 1997). Moreover, IFN-γ induces Fas-mediated apoptosis in differrentiated mouse granulosa cells which could be potentiated by the presence of TNFα (Quirk et al., 1998). Although the importance of IFN-γ in undifferentiated or poorly differentiated granulosa cells is well established, the presence of this cytokine in the ovary throughout follicular development has not been investigated. In addition, the regulation of Fas system in undifferentiated granulosa cells by IFN-γ, subsequent Fas-mediated apoptotic response as well as their modulation by gonadotropin in vivo remain unclear.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of IFN-γ in regulation of Fas expression and apoptosis in granulosa cells at different stages of follicular development and granulosa cell differentiation in vitro. In addition, we assessed the presence of IFN-γ in the ovary during follicular maturation and studied the relationship between the presence of IFN-γ, Fas/FasL system and apoptosis in vivo.
1. Materials
[α32P]-ddATP and dNTPs were obtained from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (Piscataway, NJ). Horse radish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody was purchased from Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercule, CA). Rabbit anti-rat interferon-γ (IFN-γ) was obtained from Biosource International (Camarillo, CA). Biotinylated 16-dUTP, In situ cell death detection (Fluorescein) kit, proteinase-K and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) were purchased from Boehringer-Mannheim (Indianapolis, IN). Recombinant rat IFN-γ was from Genzyme (Cambridge, MA). Fetal bovine serum (FBS), minimal essential medium (MEM), non-essential amino acids (NAA), penicillin and streptomycin were from Gibco/BRL (Burlington, ON, Canada). FITC-conjugated mouse anti-hamster IgG, hamster anti-mouse Fas monoclonal antibody (Clone Jo2) and hamster IgG were obtained from PharMingen (San Diego, CA). Avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) reverse transcriptase, oligo(dT)15 primer, rRNasin ribonucleotide inhibitor and Taq DNA polymerase were from Promega (Madison, WI). Rabbit IgG, rabbit peroxidase kits, rabbit polyclonal anti-mouse Fas (sc-716) and anti-rat FasL (sc-834) antibodies, and neutralization peptides (Fas; sc-716P, FasL; sc-834P) were from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA). Agarose, bovine serum albumin (BSA; fraction V), diethylstilbesterol (DES), equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG), methyl green, normal goat serum, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) and veronal acetate were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St Louis, MO).
2. Animals and tissue/cell preparations
To obtain ovaries consisting mainly of follicles synchronized at the preantral / early antral and medium / large antral stages in immature (21-23 days old) Sprague-Dawley rats (Charles River Canada; Quebec, Canada or SamTako Bio-Korea; Osan, Korea), DES (1mg/day, sc, for 3 consecutive days and sacrificed 24 hr after last injection) and eCG (15 IU, ip and sacrificed 48 hr thereafter) were administered, respectively. The animals were fed Pro Lab RMH 4018 (Agway Inc., C.G., Syracuse, NY) and water ad libitum. A 14 h light:10 h dark photo-cycle was maintained with lights-on at 0600 h. All procedures were performed in accordance with protocols approved by the Dong-A University Animal Care and Use Committee. Following removal of connective tissues, the ovaries were washed in PBS (pH 7.4) to remove excess blood and were either immediately fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin (pH 7.4) for histological processing or used for granulosa cell isolation by follicle puncture (Rao et al., 1991).
3. Granulosa cell culture
Granulosa cells (2.5×106) from ovaries of DES- and eCG-primed rats were plated for 6 hr (5% CO2, 37℃) in 60 mm Falcon plastic culture dishes (Becton Dickins, Lincoln Park, NJ) in MEM supplemented with 2% FBS, 1X NAA, penicillin (100 U/mL) and streptomycin (100 μg/mL). The medium was then replaced with MEM supplemented with 0.1% BSA, 1X NAA, penicillin (100 U/mL) and streptomycin (100 μg/mL) in subsequent culture. Non-viable (floating) cells were removed at this medium-replacement step.
For induction of Fas mRNA and protein expression, granulosa cells were cultured in the presence of recombinant rat IFN-γ (0-1,000 U/mL of the medium) for 18 hr. Floating and attached cells harvested by centrifugation and trypsinization respectively, were combined and washed with ice-cold PBS, pending protein and RNA extraction, and flowcytometric analysis. For immunocytochemistry and TUNEL, sterilized cover glasses (22×22 mm) were added onto the bottom of the culture dishes prior to cell plating. At the end of the culture period, the cover glasses were removed, washed briefly with ice-cold PBS and processed for immunocytochemistry.
To assess the influence of IFN-γ on Fas expression and subsequent granulosa cell apoptotic response, cells pretreated for 18 hr with / without the cytokine were incubated for an additional 6 h with either agonistic Fas monoclonal antibody (hamster anti-mouse Fas mAb, IgG; 1 μg/mL) or hamster IgG (control; 1 μg/mL). The effect of the treatment was assessed by phase-contrast microscopy, TUNEL and DNA fragmentation analysis.
4. Immunolocalization of IFN-γ, Fas and FasL
Paraffin embedded whole ovarian sections (4-5 µm) were used for IFN-γ, Fas and FasL immunohistochemistry. The deparaffinized and hydrated sections were quenched in H2O2 (0.3%; 30 min) and rinsed thoroughly with PBS (3×15 min). The sections were blocked with normal goat serum in PBS [1.5%; room temperature (RT), 1 hr], and then incubated (RT, 45 min) with rabbit polyclonal anti-rat IFN-γ (0.8 μg/mL) or rabbit polyclonal anti-mouse Fas (0.3 μg/mL), or rabbit polyclonal anti-rat FasL antibodies (0.3 μg/mL) in PBS containing normal goat serum (1.5%). The sections were incubated at RT with biotin-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:200; 1 hr), avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (Santa Cruz rabbit peroxidase kit; 1 hr) and DAB solution (1-5 min), with nuclei lightly counterstained with hematoxylin. For negative controls, rabbit IgG (1 μg/mL) instead of the primary antibodies was added to the reaction. In this experiment, antibody specificity was confirmed by antibody preabsorption test, using recombinant rat IFN-γ (2-3 µg) and Fas and FasL neutralizing peptides (1 µg) in the respective primary antibody reaction.
For localization of Fas protein in cultured granulosa cells, the cells were fixed for 10 min in ice-cold paraformaldehyde in PBS (2%; pH 7.4). After several washes with PBS, the cells were incubated (20 min) in PBS containing normal goat serum (10%) to suppress nonspecific IgG binding, washed with PBS (3×5 min) and incubated for 1h with rabbit anti-mouse antibody [0.1 µg/mL in PBS containing normal goat serum (1.5%)]. Following a PBS wash, the cells were incubated (30 min in the dark) with fluorescein-conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody [1 µg/mL PBS with normal goat serum (1.5%)], mounted with 90% glycerol in PBS and observed under fluorescence microscope.
5. In situ localization of apoptotic cells: Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL)
The TUNEL method of Gavrieli et al. (1992) was used to localize apoptotic cells in paraffin whole ovarian sections mounted on positively charged slides (ProbeOn Plus; Fisher Scientific Ltd, Ottawa, ON). Briefly, the sections were deparaffinized, hydrated, treated with proteinase-K (10 μg/mL., 30 min.; 37℃). Endogenous peroxidase activity was removed by immersing the sections in methanol containing H2O2 (0.3%, 30 min., RT). The sections were soaked in the TdT buffer [Tris-HCl (25 mM), sodium cacodylate (200 mM), cobalt chloride (5 mM), BSA (250 μg/mL), pH 6.6; 15 min), incubated in 50 μL of TdT buffer containing TdT (10 U) and biotinylated 16-dUTP (1 nmol) [60 min., 37℃], reacted with avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (Santa Cruz rabbit peroxidase kit; 30 min) and subsequently with DAB solution (1-5 min), as per manufacturer’s instruction. If required, the nuclei were counterstained with methyl green (5%; in 0.1 M veronal acetate, pH 4.0). TdT enzyme or biotinylated 16-dUTP in the labelling reaction were omitted in the negative control slides. For in situ detection of apoptosis in cultured cells, cells were fixed (10 min, 0℃) in fresh paraformaldehyde (4% in PBS) and an In situ cell death detection (Fluorescein) kit (Boehringer Mannheim; Quebec, Canada) was used, as per manufacturer’s instructions.
6. DNA extraction and radiolabeled fragmentation analysis
Total DNA was extracted from cultured granulosa cells (floating cells + trypsinized attached cells) according to the modified procedure of Gross-Bellard et al. (1973), as previously described (Li et al., 1998). For biochemical assessment of DNA fragmentation, DNA was radiolabeled at the 3’-ends according to an established method (Tilly et al., 1993). Briefly, one microgram of DNA was incubated (37℃; 60 min) with 50 μL of the labelling buffer [Tris-HCl (25 mM), sodium cacodylate (200 mM), cobalt chloride (5 mM), BSA (250 μg/mL), pH 6.6] containing terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT; 25 U) and [α32P]-ddATP (5 mCi, 3,000 Ci/mmol). The labeled DNA were resolved on 1.8% agarose gel (3.5 h, 60 V) in TAE buffer. The gel was dried and subsequently exposed to X-ray film at -70℃.
7. Total RNA extraction, reverse-transcription (RT) and polymerase-chain reaction (PCR)
Total RNA was isolated from cultured granulosa cells using the Qiagen RNeasy Mini RNA isolation kit (Valencia, CA). Briefly, the cells attached to the culture dishes were lyzed with lysis solution (buffer RLT) provided by the manufacturer, and the lysate was passed through the Qiagen QIA shredder (Valencia, CA). To ensure the extracted RNA for PCR was free of DNA, samples were repeatedly treated with DNase.
Two micrograms of total RNA was reverse-transcribed (42℃, 15 min) with oligo (dT)15 primers (0.5 µg/µg RNA) and Avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) reverse transcriptase (15 U/µg RNA) in a 20 µL reaction mixture containing 10X reverse transcription buffer [Tris-HCl (100 mM) (pH 8.8), KCl (500 mM), Triton X-100 (1%)], MgCl2 (25 mM), dNTP mixture (10 mM) and rRNasin ribonucleotide inhibitor (2 U). The reaction was terminated by inactivating the reverse transcriptase (heating at 99℃, 5 min).
Gene-specific oligonucleotide primers (46.1% GC content) were designed based on published rat Fas cDNA sequence [22; GenBank Accession No. D26112] and synthesized using a Beckman Oligo 1000M DNA synthesizer (Fullerton, CA). Primers for rat β-actin (Nudel et al., 1983) were obtained from Clontech (Palo Alto, CA). The primers used for PCR amplification for Fas were 5'-TGCACCTCGTGTGGACTTGAAG-3'[479-500; forward primer] and 5'-CCAGTCTTCCCGTGAGATTGATAC-3' [888-865; reverse primer]. Polymerase chain reactions were carried out with a PCT-100 Programmable Thermal Controller (MJ Research, Inc., Watertown, MA). The PCR reaction mixture included the oligonucleotide primers (5 pmol each), and Taq DNA polymerase (0.5 U) for each reaction. The total volume was brought up to 50 µL with 1X PCR buffer [Tris-HCl (50 mM), KCl (20 mM), MgCl2 (3 mM), DMSO (0.5%)] and dNTP (20 µM). Amplification was carried out for 35 cycles under the annealing temperature of 60℃ (45 sec), primer extention at 72℃ (1 min) and denaturation at 94℃ (30 sec). The amplified DNA was electrophoresed on 2% agarose gel, and the gel was stained with ethidium bromide for visualization under UV light. At initial stage of this experiment, the amplified Fas product was confirmed by Southern hybridization (Sambrook et al., 1989), using the rat Fas cDNA probe. The intensities of the bands were densitometrically scanned and each Fas amplified product was normalized by β-actin.
8. Flow cytometric analysis of Fas proteins in granulosa cells
Harvested granulosa cells (2×107 cells) were resuspend in ice-cold wash buffer [NaN3 (0.1%), FBS (0.5%) in PBS] and centrifuged (500 ×g; 5 min, 4℃). The cells were immediately incubated in primary antibody solution [hamster anti-mouse Fas (0.5 µg/mL) in wash buffer)] at 4℃ for 30 min., washed (500 ×g, 2×5 min in wash buffer), and incubated (30 min., 4℃ in dark), with FITC-conjugated mouse anti-hamster IgG (1.0 µg/mL). The cells were then washed twice with the wash buffer, filtered through a 35 μm nylon mesh to remove cell clumps and aliquoted for appropriate cell concentration (final concentration, 1×106 cells in 500 µL) for flow cytometric analysis (Coulter Epics Profile II, Hialeah, FL). Ten thousand cells were counted in duplicates and analyzed by FACScan. As negative controls, nonspecific binding in flowcytogram was determined in the absence of primary antibody.
PCR and flowcytometry data presented herein were expressed as the mean±SEM of three separate experiments. Statistical analyses were performed by one-way ANOVA. Signicant differences between treatment groups were determined by the Tukey test. Statistical significance was inferred at p<0.05.
1. Localization of IFN-γ in different stages of follicular development
The presence and relative abundance of IFN-γ protein in the follicles during development were screened by immunohistochemistry, using a rat specific IFN-γ antibody (Fig. 1). Most of follicular cells from preantral follicles (Fig. 1a) exhibit immunoreactivity for IFN-γ, however, the intense and aggregated signals were detected in granulosa cells (arrows) as well as oocyte (including its nucleus). In contrast to its intense immunoreactivity in the cytoplasm, the nuclei of oocytes of secondary and tertiary preantral follicles showed considerably lower immunostaining. This pattern, however, was reversed with follicular matura-tion. In non-treated or DES-treated immature rats (Fig. 1b), granulosa cells in preantral follicles exhibited immunopositivity for IFN-γ, although with lesser intensity and aggregated characteristics than those in primordial and early stage of preantral follicles. The intensity of immunereactivity observed in granulosa cells of medium (Fig. 1c) and large (Fig. 1d) antral follicles was much less than that seen in the preantral follicles. Generally, the immunereactivity in theca cells was minimal in the antral follicles.
Fig. 1. Immunolocalization of IFN-γ in ovarian follicles at different developmental stages obtained from DES-treated (a and b), and eCG-treated (c and d) immature rats. a, secondary (preantral) follicles; b, preantral follicle; c, medium antral follicle; d, large antral follicle. GC, granulosa cells; TC, theca cells; IT, interstitial cells; CC, cumulus cells; O, oocyte; N nucleus; AT, antrum. Arrows indicate intense and aggregated immunoreactivity for IFN-γ. Magnification: 400×. Scare bar: 50 µm.
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2. Modulation of Fas expression in undifferentiated and differentiated granulosa cells by IFN-γ
Based upon the immunohistochemical evidence for the presence of INF-γ at different stage of follicular development in vivo (Fig. 1), the potential role of IFN-γ in the regulation of Fas mRNA and protein in relatively undifferentiated (DES-primed) and differentiated (eCG-primed) granulosa cells was investigated in vitro, using RT-PCR (Fig. 2), immunocytochemistry and flowcytometry (Fig. 3). In cultured DES-primed granulosa cells, IFN-γ up-regulated Fas mRNA in a concentration-dependent manner (Fig. 2). High concentration (>100 U/mL) of IFN-γ (1,000 U/mL) resulted in the loss of effectiveness of the cytokine in inducing Fas mRNA and protein expression (Fig. 2).
Fig. 2. Increased expression of Fas mRNA by IFN-γ (0-1,000 U/mL) in cultured granulosa cells from DES- and eCG-primed immature rats. A, Analysis of Fas mRNA expression by RT-PCR; B, Densitometric quantification of Fas mRNA expression obtained from panel A. *, p<0.05; ***, p< 0.001; ###, p<0.001 vs. control group (0 U/mL).
Fig. 3. Fas protein expression and localization in cultured granulosa cells from DES- and eCG-primed immature rats in respond to IFN-γ (0-1,000 U/mL). Insert in each flowcytogram shows representative fluorescence microphotograph of Fas immunocytochemistry (arrows and arrowheads indicate immunoreactivity in cytoplasm and membrane, respectively. Magnification: ×1,000). Numbers 1 and 2 in each flowcytogram indicate nonspecific (partially overlapped with low intensity of Fas-positive portion) and specific Fas-positive (high fluorescence intensity) portion, respectively.
Although cultured eCG-primed granulosa cells also expressed Fas mRNA, its abundance was considerably lower than that in DES-primed cells. In addition, while Fas mRNA also increased in a concentration-dependent manner in the presence of IFN-γ, significantly higher concentrations of the cytokine (100-1,000 U/mL, p<0.01) were required to elicit a significant increase in Fas expression than those in DES-primed cells (Fig. 2). The Fas protein was localized in the DES- and eCG-primed granulosa cells after IFN-γ treatment and the expression levels were subjected to Fas antibody-conjugated immuno-flowcytometric analysis (Fig. 3). As shown in the inserts within each representative flowcytogram (Fig. 3), Fas protein was localized in both the cellular membrane (arrow head) and the cytoplasm [peri-nuclear region (arrow)]. In addition, intense and aggregated immuno-fluorescence was observed in both DES- (Fig. 3b and 3c) and eCG-primed (Fig. 3) granulosa cells after IFN-γ exposure. Whereas a significant population of the control group in the DES-primed granulosa cells exhibited the high intensity of immunofluorescence for endogenous Fas immunoreactivity [Fig. 3a, portion 2 (18±4.3%)], the eCG-primed control granulosa cells showed relatively smaller population with high immunofluorescence intensity for Fas [Fig. 3d, portion 2 (4±3.5%)]. IFN-γ treatment (100 U/mL) of DES-primed granulosa cells significantly increased high intensity (33±7.5%) portion of Fas immunofluorescene (Fig. 3b), as also confirmed by immunocytochemistry (Fig. 3b, inert). However, treatment with high concentration of IFN-γ (1,000 U/mL) resulted in a lower number of cells exhibiting immunofluorescence positivity for Fas in high intensity (25±2.3%) portion than those with 100 U/mL but higher than that of the control group. In eCG-primed cells, however, only small increases in immunofluorescence were detected with IFN-γ at concentrations of 100 and 1,000 U/mL when compared to controls (Fig. 3e and 3f).
3. Effect of Fas mAb on rat granulosa cells with/ without pretreatment with IFN-γ
The functional role of IFN-γ-induced Fas expression in induction of apoptosis were tested in undifferentiated (DES-primed) and differentiated (Ecg-primed) granulosa cells in vitro was determined by assessing their the ability to undergo apoptosis following a challenge with an agonistic effect of Fas mAb. While typical cellular morphology and apoptosis in DES-primed granulosa cells are illustrated in Fig. 4, differences in these features between DES- and eCG-primed groups are summarized in Table 1. In DES-primed (undifferentiated) granulosa cells, IFN-γ had minimal effects on cellular morphology (Fig. 4b) and apoptotic characteristics (Fig. 4f) compared to control (IgG treatment; Fig. 4a & 4e). However, addition of Fas mAb to the cell cultures resulted in the appearance of apoptotic cellular morphology and characteristics (Fig. 4c & 4g), which could be enhanced with pretreatment with IFN-γ (Fig. 4d & 4h). In eCG-primed (differentiated) granulosa cells, however, IFN-γ pretreatment failed to potentiate the pro-apoptotic effects of agonistic Fas mAb, which were observed prominently in DES-primed cells (Table 1).
Fig. 4. Influence of IFN-γ pretreatment (100 U/mL) on apoptotic response induced by agonistic Fas mAb (1 µg/mL) in cultured granulosa cells from DES-primed immature rat ovaries. Left and right panels illustrate cellular morphology (phase-contrast microscopy) and in situ apoptotic cell detection (TUNEL), respectively. a and e, control group [IFN-γ vehicle (medium) (24 hr) + IgG (6 hr)]; b and f, IFN-γ group [IFN-γ (24 hr) + IgG (6 hr)]; c and g, Fas mAb group [IFN-γ vehicle (medium) (24 hr) + Fas mAb (6 hr)]; d and h, IFN-γ and Fas mAb group [IFN-γ (24 hr) + Fas mAb (6 hr)]. Arrows (in left panel) indicate membrane blebbing. Arrowheads in left and right panels indicate floating cells and TUNEL-positive cells, respecttively. Magnification: 400×. Inserts in right panels show representative apoptotic DNA fragmentation pattern in each treatment group.
Table 1. Comparison of summerized apoptotic features in rat granulosa cells from DES- and eCG-primed ovaries cultured with IFN-γ and Fas mAb
Origin of cells
Cell floating(phase contrast)
Membrane blebbing(phase contrast)
DES-primed IgG - - -
IFN-γ - - +
Fas mAb +++ ++ +++
IFN-γ+Fas mAb ++++ ++++ ++++
eCG -primed IgG - - -
IFN-γ - - -
Fas mAb ++ ++ ++
IFN-γ+Fas mAb +++ ++ +++
-: rare, +: occasional, ++: frequent, +++: extensive, ++++: very extensive
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4. Colocalization of IFN-γ, Fas, FasL and apoptosis in very early antral follicles
To further examine the colocalization of IFN-γ, Fas and FasL expression and occurrence of apoptosis in vivo, follicles at very early stage of antral formation (estimated between preantral and early antral stages) were analyzed serially by immunohistochemistry and in situ TUNEL method (Fig. 5). Immunoreactivity for IFN-γ was distributed in the granulosa but not the thecal layers (Fig. 5a). Likewise, the most intense and aggregated form of Fas immuno-positive signals were detected in the loosely attached granulosa cells (Fig. 5b). Although FasL immunoreactivity could be colocalized in Fas-positive cells, he most aggregated and intense (arrows) immunoreactivity was present in granulosa cells mainly lining the antrum (Fig. 5c). Similarly, apoptotic (TUNEL-positive) granulosa cells were also detected in antral granulosa cells (Fig. 5d; arrows) which also exhibited most intense immunoreactivity for FasL.
Fig. 5. Immunolocalization of IFN-γ, Fas and FasL proteins and in situ detection of apoptosis (TUNEL) on adjacent sections of an atretic very early antral follicle. a, IFN-γ; b, Fas; c, FasL; d, TUNEL. GC, TC and IT represent granulosa cells, theca cells and interstitial cells, respectively. Arrows indicate intense immunostaining or extremely apoptotic granulosa cells. Magnification: 400×. Scare bar: 50 µm.
In the present study, we have localized rat IFN-γ in the rat ovary during the follicular development and tested its role on granulosa cell death via induction of the Fas/FasL system in granulosa cells at different stage of differentiation. We have found that the responsiveness of granulosa cells to IFN-γ in terms of Fas receptor expression was significantly compromised with follicular maturation. The immunoreactivity of IFN-γ was most intense in early stages of folliculogenesis, such as in preantral follicles. Up-regulation of Fas by IFN-γ and the subsequent increased responsiveness to an apoptotic death signal (e.g. Fas activation by agonistic Fas mAb) were more evident in granulosa cells from the preantral follicles than those from antral follicles previously exposed to gonadotropins.
The importance of intraovarian interaction between immune cells (lymphocytes and macrophages) and granulosa cells in ovarian physiology via the synthesis and actions of cytokines (e.g.TNFα and IL) has been studied extensively (Adashi, 1992; Terranova et al., 1993). Although the modulatory roles of IFN-γ in granulosa cell differentiation and steroidogenesis have been demonstrated in vitro (Gorospe et al., 1998; Xiao and Findlay, 1992), the cellular source of IFN-γ in the ovary is still unclear. IFN-γ is detectable in the follicular fluids (Grasso et al., 1988) and lymphocytes present in the ovary have been suggested to be an important contributor to the follicular IFN-γ (Adashi, 1992). Immune cells (lymphocytes / macrophages) are believed to be mainly present in atretic antral follicles (Best et al., 1996), inflammated post-ovulatory follicles and corpus luteum (Brannstrom et al., 1994a; Brannstrom et al., 1994b) where they remove damaged and dead cells by secreting cytotoxic cytokines and phagocytosis. The presence of immune cells during early stage of follicular development has not been reported and the possibility that immune cells are the only the source of IFN-γ in preantral follicles cannot be excluded. In this study, IFN-γ was localized predominantly in granulosa cells and oocytes throughout the follicular development but more abundantly in those at the early follicular (preantral) stage. It has been demonstrated that TNF-α and Fas ligand are expressed in granulosa cells and oocytes (Chen et al., 1998; Kim et al., 1998). Although we have not studied IFN-γ gene expression in ovarian cells in the current study, it is possible that oocytes and granulosa cells in the preantral follicles may be an important source of IFN-γ in the ovary and that this cytokine plays an autocrine and/or paracrine role in regulating the expression and actions of other cytokines involved in cell removal process in the degrading follicles.
IFN-γ is an important modulator of granulosa cell differentiation during the early stage of follicular development (Gorospe et al., 1988; Xiao and Findlay, 1992), although its functional role in differentiated granulosa cells in late follicular development (i.e., preovulatory follicles) remains to be further established. Granulosa cell apoptosis is frequently observed in early antral (penultimate) stage of follicular development, it is only assumed that up-regulation of Fas receptor by IFN-γ in granulosa cells of preantral follicles is prerequisite for FasL ligation and that the latter could be activated by intra-ovarian factor(s) following antrum formation. It has been suggested that IFN-γ facilitate apoptosis in luteinized granulosa cells by decreasing endogenous IGF activity via stimulation of IGFBPs rather than of Fas activation (Cataldo et al., 1998). However, the concentrations of IFN-γ used in above studies could have been pharmacological and cytotoxic to the cells. Quirk et al (1995) demonstrated Fas-mediated apoptosis in human granulosa-luteal cells and suggested that IFN-γ up-regulates Fas mRNA and protein expression and that pretreatment of cells with IFN-γ alone or in combination with hCG facilitates Fas mAb-induced cytotoxicity. Therefore, it is unlikely that the physiological concentration of IFN-γ could induce Fas expression in fully differentiated luteinized (or luteinizing) granulosa cells. Recently, Quirk et al (1998) showed that combined IFN-γ and TNFα treatment was more effective in inducing Fas expression and potentiating Fas mAb-induced apoptosis in cultured granulosa cells (mostly from large preovulatory follicles in eCG-primed mice) than by either IFN-γ or TNFα alone. The results suggest that the mechanism(s) of induction of apoptosis and responsiveness against apoptotic insult (e.g. IFN-γ) in differentiated granulosa cells might be much more complex and resistant than those of undifferentiated granulsoa cells, as also seen in the present study.
The possible mediatory role of the Fas/FasL system in granulosa and luteal cell apoptosis during follicular atresia and luteal regression, respectively have been investigated in several mammalian species (Quirk et al., 1995; Hakuno et al., 1996; Kondo et al., 1996; Kim et al., 1998; Roughton et al., 1999). Previous reports have demonstrated that increased granulosa cell Fas and FasL protein content is associated with apoptosis at the penultimate (early) stage of follicular development in vivo (Kim et al., 1998), and that p53-mediated granulosa cell apoptosis involves the activation of the Fas/FasL system (Kim et al., 1999). These studies also suggested that FSH is a key inhibitory factor on granulosa cell death as well as the involvement of the Fas/FasL system in follicular atresia. The nature of the regulation of Fas receptor expression throughout the follicular development, however, remains unclear. Although the regulation of Fas receptor expression by IFN-γ has been demonstrated in human granulosa-luteal cells in vitro (Quirk et al., 1995), the potential regulatory role of IFN-γ in Fas mRNA and protein expression in undifferentiated granulosa cells during early stages of folliculogenesis has not been thoroughly investigated. In the present studies, we have studied the possible role of IFN-γ in the regulation of granulsoa cell Fas expression during follicular development. While increased Fas expression in granulsoa cells from preantral or early antral follicles could be induced with low concentrations of IFN-γ (10-100 U/mL), higher concentrations (≥1,000 U/mL) were required in eCG-primed cells. Our present immuno-flowcytometric analysis also confirmed that undifferentiated (DES-primed) granulsoa cells were more responsive to IFN-γ in the induction of Fas receptor than cells pretreated with gonadotropin. These findings are not only consistent with the studies by Quirk et al (1995) which showed increased expression of Fas protein in gonadotropin-primed human granulosa cells following exposure to very high concentration (> 10,000 U/mL) of IFN-γ in vitro, but extended their observations to suggest a role for the cytokine in the ovary at physiological concentrations.
It is well established that FSH is an important cell survival factor in the mammalian ovarian follicle (Chun et al., 1996; Boone et al., 1997). Whereas stimulation of immature rats with eCG resulted in suppressed basal granulosa cell Fas/FasL levels and apoptosis, decreased atresia and enhanced follicular growth, withdrawal of gonadotropic support with the injection of a neutralizing antibody in vivo during early antral development led to increased granulosa cell Fas/FasL expression and apoptotic cell death, and eventual follicular demise (Kim et al., 1998). In the present studies, we have demonstrated that while IFN-γ effectively up-regulated Fas expression in granulosa cells from preantral and early antral follicles and sensitized them to the pro-apoptotic action of agonistic Fas antibody, cells isolated from large antral follicles previously exposed to the gonadotropin in vivo were more differentiated but less responsive to IFN-γ. These findings suggest that the anti-apoptotic role of FSH in the granulosa cells may in part involve its modulatory influence on IFN-γ action, and are consistent with the concept that ovarian follicles beyond the “penultimate” stage of development are protected physiologically from pro-apoptotic insult and destined to ovulate (Chun et al., 1996; Boone et al., 1997). The mechanism(s) by which the gonadotropin modulates IFN-γ-induced Fas expression granulosa cells is unclear. It has been demonstrated that Fas expression is regulated by the newly identified Fas-regulatory gene TDAG51, the expression of which is PKC-dependent (Wang et al., 1998). Since IFN-γ, like TNFα (Sancho Tello and Terranova, 1991) and IL-3 (Farrar et al., 1985), appears capable of activating PKC (Ostrowski et al., 1988), it is possible that the reduced responsiveness of differentiated granulosa cells to IFN-γ might be due to PKA activation by FSH. In addition, activation of PKA pathway is known to inhibit PKC-dependent mechanism(s) in a variety of biological systems including the granulosa cell (Shinohara et al., 1985). In this context, differential responsiveness of granulosa cells at different cytodifferentiation to IFN-γ may be related to possible interactions between signal transduction pathways of IFN-γ and gonadotropin. It is possible that the efficient Fas gene expression in undifferentiated granulosa cells may involve activation of PKC pathway by IFN-γ.
Fas receptor signaling is a complex process and continues to capture considerable attention and research efforts. Fas activation initiated by ligation and oligomerrization results in recruitment of FADD (Fasassociated death domain-containing protein) (Chinnaiyan et al., 1995). FADD then activates procaspase8 (Muzio et al., 1996), which appears to be the first step of a proteolytic cascade that activates other caspases such as caspases3, 6, and 7 (Hirata et al., 1998). In the present studies, IFN-γ significantly increased the population of granulosa cells exhibiting high fluorescence intensity of Fas immunoreactivity. While this increase might merely represent an increase in the cell population with enhanced Fas expression, it is tempting to speculate that the high intensity of fluorescence reflects the oligomerization of Fas receptor proteins, and that Fas oligomerization in response to IFN-γ in undifferentiated granulsoa cells may be more efficient and functional than in differentiated granulosa cells. Whether this indeed is the case requires further investigation and confirmation. In this context, intense and aggregated immunoreactive Fas protein has consistently been detected in cytoplasm as well as cellular membrane of cultured granulosa cells of the present study. These results support our previous observation suggesting the presence of aggregated Fas immunostaining in the granulosa cells of atretic early antral follicles in the ovary (Kim et al., 1998). Moreover, recent studies have indicated that Fas is also localized in the peri-nuclear region of the cytoplasm and that Fas-trafficking from Golgi apparatus to membrane is P53-dependent and required for Fas-mediated apoptosis (Bennett et al., 1998). In light of our recent demonstration of the role of p53 in the regulation of Fas expression in rat granulosa cells (Kim et al., 1999) and their intense Fas immunostaining following IFN-γ challenge, investigations into whether this cytokine plays a role in Fas trafficking in the granulosa cell would provide important clues on the cellular mechanism involved in the control of Fas-mediated granulsoa cell apoptosis during early folliculogenesis.
In summary, we have demonstrated that IFN-γ plays a pivotal role in regulating granulosa cell differentiation and apoptosis by potentiating Fas function, a process modulated by gonadotropin (i.e. FSH). The role of IFN-γ is most prominent in undifferentiated granulosa cells during early stage of follicular development.
This study was supported by the Dong-A University Research Fund.
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Job losses may be on menu as clouds gather around restaurant chain.
Blakcpool's Prezzo restaurant
Tim Gavell
Published: 11:55 Wednesday 28 February 2018
Around a third of Prezzo restaurants could be set to close as its parent company orders a restructuring, it has been reported.
The Italian pizza and pasta chain is said to be preparing to is set to unveil plans to close 100 restaurants in the move, which would also see the closure of all of its Chimichanga Mexican style food outlets.
It has not yet been announced which restaurants are to shut their doors but the firm has premises at the Capitol Centre Preston, in Victoria Street, Blackpool, St Annes Road West, St Annes and the Teanlowe Centre Poulton.
The restaurants' private equity firm owner, TPG Capital of the USA, is said to be poised to launch a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) "in the next few days" as it looks to restructure finances.
The Prezzo chain founded by the Kaye family in 2000 before being sold on to current owner TPG Capital in 2015 for £304m .
It has reportedly has appointed consultants at Alix Partners to oversee a financial restructuring.
This year many restaurant chains have reported difficulties with rising costs of ingredients thanks to the drop in the pound following the Brexit vote, rising labour costs plus high rents and business rates allied to over-capacity in the market as consumers' budgets tighten.
Jamie's Italian and Byron Hamburger have been two big names reporting trouble and entering into a CVA.
The news completes a bad day on the high street at big names Toys R Us and Maplin also announced they had gone into administration threatening thousands of jobs.
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Climate-Change Rant from Young Girl Has People Asking About Her Parents
Greta Thunberg's rants have gotten angrier — she's lashing out at older generations, demonizing people for ruining the planet and leaving death and destruction on the shoulders of today's youth
By Wayne Dupree
Each video message from young Swedish climate-change activist Greta Thunberg seems odder than the last, in my view.
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This child appears to be indoctrinated to the point of brainwashing, in my opinion.
It’s sad and concerning — and it’s starting to feel like abuse to more than a few people.
No child should be made to feel like the entire planet will dissolve into nothingness if he or she doesn’t do something to fix it.
Should abortion be banned in the U.S.?
Can you imagine carrying that type of burden on your young shoulders?
Sadly, this young girl is the latest pawn in the Left’s favorite game: using kids to push their twisted agenda.
Thunberg splashed onto the scene with her doomsday rants.
16-year-old environmental activist @GretaThunberg stares down @realDonaldTrump as he arrives at the United Nations. https://t.co/AwgZbZHmZL pic.twitter.com/zxx5zUlyef
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 23, 2019
As we venture deeper down the climate-change wormhole, Greta Thunberg’s rants have gotten angrier; she’s now lashing out at older generations, demonizing them for ruining the planet and leaving death and destruction on the shoulders of today’s youth.
Yet, ironically, Greta Thunberg isn’t berating China, India or Africa, specifically — and they’re the three biggest pollution and carbon offenders.
The rants from this child are becoming so disturbing that people are asking, “Where are this girl’s parents?”
“Adolescent climate-change protester Greta Thunberg has stage parents, literally. Her mother sang opera internationally until the teenager convinced her to quit due to greenhouse gas emissions from flying, and her father and grandfather both gained fame through acting and directing,” noted an opinion piece late last month in the Washington Examiner.
“Now they’ve pivoted into the parental act of every stage parent looking to secure the next generation of fame … For all that conservatives have rightly griped at the performative pointlessness of Thunberg’s schtick, and for all that liberals have rightly griped that a waning but still significant segment of conservatives deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change, the biggest travesty lost in the hype about the Swedish activist who recently sailed to American shores is that her parents, the media, and the climate alarmist Left are basically engaging in child abuse.”
In this latest video, you can see how upset the child gets by the end.
Why are grown adults placing children with issues on a world stage like this?
Greta Thunberg at U.N.: "You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. Young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you." https://t.co/5ZPcsQ1Bbr pic.twitter.com/58gwYMqBQV
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 23, 2019
This poor child is the spokesperson for a so-called “dying planet,” and by the looks of things, she’s growing increasingly incapable of handling the pressure.
“Thunberg began suffering from depression as a child, by her own admission, in part because she learned about climate change at age eight,” noted the Washington Examiner piece from late August. “She was later diagnosed with autism and obsessive compulsive disorder and gradually became despondent as she obsessed over her fear of climate change. She developed mutism and an eating disorder so severe that she once went two months without food, and she stopped going to school. Her only sibling, a sister named Beata, also suffers from Asperger’s and OCD, as well as ADHD.”
“Now tell me, does it seem healthy to place a child with this many mental illnesses under the spotlight of public scrutiny, with a sole focus on the very phenomenon and associated alarmism that triggered her in the first place?”
We wish someone with common sense and common decency would step in.
A version of this piece originally appeared in WayneDupree.com; this article is used by permission.
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On Friday, 01 February 2019, this year's All Star Game of German Handball took place in the Porsche Arena Stuttgart. For the German National Team and the All Stars, who were chosen online by fans and coaches from the "stärkste Liga der Welt", the match in Stuttgart was the first appearance after the World Championships in Denmark and Germany.
Programm All Star Game 2019
As part of the All Star Game, the LIQUI MOLY HBL offers fans an entertaining supporting programme for young and old. In addition to the main game, which is played between the German National Team and an All Star selection of the DKB Handball Bundesliga, there is an attractive foreplay. Furthermore, there will be many mascots of the LIQUI MOLY HBL in the Stuttgart Porsche-Arena on this day. There will also be an autograph session with the players. All in all, visitors can look forward to a colourful handball day for the whole family.
16:00 h: Admission of spectators
16:20: A-Jugend-Bundesliga: TV Bittenfeld vs. FRISCH AUF! Göppingen
16:45 - 17:45: Autograph session with the All Stars
19:00: All Star Team vs. German National Team
Impressionen des All Star Game 2019
In LIQUI MOLY HBL's All Star Game, the German men's national team plays against a selection of the best players from LIQUI MOLY HBL. This is made up of German and foreign players who compete in the clubs of the German House of Lords. While the German national team is nominated by the national coach, the All Stars field is made up of players who have previously been selected in an online election by the fans and coaches of the first league. Approximately 200,000 fans last took part in this election. The All Star Game has a great entertainment character. On the fringes of the family-friendly event, various honours are presented, such as for successes at world or European championships.
The All Star Team 2019
Keeper:
Mikael Appelgren (Rhein-Neckar Löwen)
Benjamin Buric (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)
Johannes Bitter (TVB 1898 Stuttgart)*
Left Wing:
Bjarki Mar Elisson (Füchse Berlin)**
Hampus Wanne (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)
Marcel Schiller (FRISCH AUF! Göppingen)*
Left Back:
Fabian van Olphen (TBV Lemgo Lippe)**
Nikola Bilyk (THW Kiel)
Jacob Holm (Füchse Berlin)**
Central Back:
Andy Schmid (Rhein-Neckar Löwen)
Michael Kraus (TVB 1898 Stuttgart)
Dalibor Doder (TSV GWD Minden)**
Right Back:
Holger Glandorf (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)
Alexander Petersson (Rhein-Neckar Löwen)
Albin Lagergren (SC Magdeburg)*
Right Win:
Marius Steinhauser (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)**
Robert Weber (SC Magdeburg)*
Timo Kastening (TSV Hannover-Burgdorf)**
Pivot:
Johannes Golla (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)
Zeljko Musa (SC Magdeburg)
Moritz Preuss (VfL Gummersbach)*
Nikolaj Jacobsen (Rhein-Neckar Löwen)
Maik Machulla (SG Flensburg-Handewitt)*
*= Player was nominated by the selection of the coaches.
**= Player joined the team due to injury.
The idea for a Handball-All Star Game was born in the year 2000. The All Star Game was supposed to end the Bundesliga season after the American model. Since 2000 the first three editions took place in Münster and received such a great response that from 2003 to 2005 they moved to the Volkswagen Halle in Braunschweig. From 2006 to 2010 the All Star Game took place in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin. The Arena Leipzig was the venue from 2011 to 2014. In 2015 the Arena Nürnberger Versicherung hosted the event for the first time before returning to Leipzig in 2017. In 2019, the popular LIQUI MOLY HBL event celebrated its premiere in the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart. The All Star Game is preferably awarded to cities with handball potential.
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Kyogle Recycles
Council has developed the ‘Kyogle Recycles’ factsheet to help residents understand and participate in Council’s recycling program. Kyogle Recycles can be accessed by clicking here.
The current kerbside collection service contractor is Solo Resource Recovery. Residents with a kerbside collection service can place household recyclables only in the recycling side of their split bin, which are transported to Chinderah in the Tweed Shire for sorting at a materials recovery facility (MRF). For further information about household recyclables, please access the recycling fact sheets below.
Steel and aluminium
Changes at Woodenbong Landfill
Over the past 18 months the NSW EPA has been talking to Council about the future of the Woodenbong landfill under the new Waste Regulation and other environmental legislation. Council was recently successful in gaining approximately $320,000 in funding from the NSW Environmental Trust to cap the landfill and build a new transfer station at the site. The new transfer station will allow for easy and safe drop-off of small waste loads for subsequent transport to the Kyogle landfill.
Council hopes that there will be minimal disruption for residents. If you would like further information regarding the landfill-to-transfer station project, please call Council’s Planning and Environment Department on 6632 1611.
New Vehicle Flowpath at Kyogle Landfill
Kyogle Council has introduced a new designated flow path for vehicles at the Kyogle landfill.
The new flow path, together with the recently constructed weighbridge, new recycling centre and internal roads, allow Council to comply with the State Government’s Waste Regulation which require it to keep detailed waste management records.
To comply with the regulation, Council will weigh skip bins before the contents are either disposed of to landfill or moved on for processing/recycling.
Council does not intend to weigh individual small vehicle loads as this would result in unnecessary delays for customers.
Customers dropping off rubbish only or recycling only will have to complete a ‘loop’ of the site, while customers with mixed loads (rubbish and recycling) will have to complete a ‘figure 8’ of the site. Customers in small vehicles will still pay based on vehicle type.
Residents are asked when visiting the site in the near future to take their time and follow the advice of staff.
To assist customers with the new arrangements Council has developed flow path plans, which may be accessed below, or viewed in the foyer of Council’s administration building.
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Landfill Activities
Kyogle Council currently operates two landfill sites at Kyogle and Woodenbong and two waste transfer stations at Bonalbo and Mallanganee. At present the Kyogle Landfill site receives up to 95% of all waste generated by the Kyogle community including that waste received by the Mallanganee and Bonalbo Waste Transfer Stations while the remainder is received at the Woodenbong Landfill. An active recycling program is continuing to reduce the quantity of waste received at these facilities.
Please note: Council’s landfills and transfer stations are CLOSED on ALL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS and Council’s union picnic day.
Kyogle Garbage Depot
Runnymede Road, Kyogle, NSW, 2474: phone (02) 6632 3002
Monday to Friday 7.30am- 12 noon
Saturday & Sunday 9am-4pm
Bonalbo Transfer Station
Woodenbong Road, Bonalbo, NSW, 2469: phone (02) 6665 1428
Mallanganee Transfer Station
Bruxner Highway, Mallanganee, NSW, 2469: phone (02) 6664 5246
Woodenbong Garbage Depot
Mt Lindesay Highway, Woodenbong, NSW, 2476: phone (02) 6635 1500
Illegal dumping is the disposal of waste on private or public land where no licence or approval exists to accept such waste. It varies from small bags of rubbish in an urban environment to larger scale dumping of materials in isolated areas, such as bushland. The illegal dumping of waste has many social, financial and environmental implications for local councils. Kyogle Council spends considerable funds each year cleaning up and disposing of illegally dumped waste.
What are the fines for Illegal Dumping?
– $750 on–the-spot fines for individuals
– maximum on-the-spot fine of $1500 for individuals
– $1,500 on-the-spot fines for businesses
– maximum on-the-spot fine of $5,000 for businesses.
Report Illegal Dumping
The community’s help in reporting information relating to illegally dumped materials is important. Every reasonable attempt will be made by local authorities to locate the owner of the illegally dumped materials.
By phone: Call Kyogle Council (02) 6632 1611
Online: www.illegaldumping.com.au/report.html
Environmental Costs of Illegal Dumping
Illegal dumping poses a direct threat to the surrounding environment and to human health. Illegally dumped materials can be hazardous, for example asbestos and chemicals create a risk of soil and water contamination, fire and toxicity. Dumping of weeds and garden waste can destroy local bushland by reducing biodiversity and hindering revegetation. Illegally dumped items are also a lost resource that could otherwise be recycled, particularly organic material, fridges, car bodies and tyres.
For further information on Illegal Dumping
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REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS WITH DISPOSAL OF COAL COMBUSTION WASTES (CCW) AT MINES
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
WITH DISPOSAL OF COAL COMBUSTION WASTES (CCW) AT MINES
Kentucky Resources Council, Inc.
In the interests of full disclosure, I am Director of a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, the Kentucky Resources Council, which has for 20 years provided legal and technical assistance without charge to low-income individuals and communities on air, waste, water, and resource extraction issues. I joke that no one calls us when they're having a good day, and because of that, my perspective tends to be somewhat jaundiced. In mining and coal waste disposal matters, KRC represents people living downhill, downwind and downstream.
Before presenting in brief my concerns, let me apologize that I will not be able to stay for questions ? the state Public Service Commission has scheduled a siting hearing on a proposed coal-fired merchant power plant this morning, and I am obligated to be there.
Lisa Evans will present a national perspective on coal combustion waste issues I have been asked to give the regional perspective concerning the regulation of disposal and beneficial reuse of coal combustion wastes. My perspective, from 31 years of mining-related advocacy on behalf of communities and injured homeowners, and from 23 years as an attorney representing injured parties in a number of coal waste-related cases, is straightforward and simple.
If you want to encourage reuse of coal combustion wastes then you should embrace uniform, comprehensive and appropriate standards for the characterization and management of coal combustion wastes for reuse and disposal.
USEPA must cease its flirtation with issuing guidance and instead assert regulatory authority over the disposal of coal combustion wastes and over beneficial reuse of such wastes, developing minimum standards for the states to adopt in order to level the playing field. EPA must take the lead since it, rather than OSM is the appropriate agency to develop national minimum standards and assure state implementation of standards for disposal and other land application of coal combustion wastes in mine pits and backfill.
EPA MUST LIVE UP TO ITS COMMITMENT TO REGULATE CCW
In the absence of EPA stepping in and completing the commitment it made some years ago to avoid Subtitle C hazardous waste regulation by assuring proper application of Subtitle D solid waste regulations to coal combustion wastes, we have had, among the very competitive coal producing States, a very predictable one-downsmanship in the area of environmental quality and environmental protection when it comes to the management of these wastes. The under-regulation of CCW, particularly of the beneficial use of these wastes, is a problem. In Kentucky, where we have a fairly decent regulatory framework for the regulation of co-disposal of coal waste at mine sites, we have, as do many of the States, a superficial "drive-by" permitting of coal combustion waste beneficial reuse. The potential toxicity and the fate and transport of constituents of concern is not given the sort of attention that it should have in light of the intended end uses and disposal or beneficial reuse of these materials.
Why embrace comprehensive regulation of CCW beneficial reuse and disposal? The lack of comprehensive regulation engenders a suspicion from the host communities. For example, we had a situation where one of the major industrial entities in Jefferson County had been disposing its boiler waste (a CCW) by delivering the ash to a company who commingled the ash with spent concrete waste and disposed of the mixture in a dry cavern in Louisville, where it was being used to elevate the floor of the former mine for document storage. The coal company who was supplying the fuel underbid that process in order to secure market share. The coal company was trying to offer a package of selling the coal and providing the service of hauling the ash back a situation not atypical in this current market. In order to make the contract viable, the coal company proposed to dispose of the CCW as roadbed material at a farm in a nearby county and to use the material for agricultural application. The use of this material for agriculture is one area where EPA had expressed significant concern in its recent analysis because of the levels of arsenic. In this instance, we were fortunate that the county had zoning and planning powers and denied the application. The material is now going back into the cavern where it is properly managed in terms of the fate and transport potential of the constituents of concern in the waste.
As Jeff Stant and Lisa Evans will address, sufficient evidence exists of contamination from disposal of coal combustion wastes to warrant promulgation by EPA of national management standards.
The uneven and inadequate state regulation of disposal of coal combustion wastes, including a failure of states to require adequate background characterization of geologic and hydrogeologic conditions relative to the disposal of these wastes, and the haphazard characterization of the fate and transport of these wastes under proposed disposal and "reuse" conditions, is the inevitable product of the failure of USEPA to establish a federal floor of regulation of coal combustion wastes.
The problem is that the short-term interests of those that are managing or disposing of the wastes are not necessarily consistent with the long term interests of either the host communities or the generators of these materials. It is of interest to note that, when we were negotiating Kentuckys bill on this issue, most of the in-State utilities had no desire to let the coal mining industry manage their wastes. They said they would manage their wastes and the long term liabilities connected with them in contained facilities or on-site rather than allow them to be commingled with backfill materials at coal mines.
FEDEERAL REGULATION NEEDED INSTEAD OF GUIDELINES
Unfortunately I have to depart from the position of the Jeff Conrad and the Interstate Mining Compact Commission that guidelines at the national level rather than regulations are an appropriate solution. The failure of EPA to promulgate regulations establishing minimum standards for coal combustion waste disposal, including "beneficial" uses of coal combustion wastes and the disposal of coal combustion wastes at mine sites, and the proposal to instead issue "guidance" raises a number of concerns.
First, a lack of federal minimum standards results in uneven state standards and under-regulation of wastes that typically exceed drinking water standards for a number of metals. Kentucky, for example, has more rigorous standard for mine filling, but extremely weak controls on beneficial reuse and disposal in "ash ponds." The lack of federal minimum standards has and will continue to result in one-downsmanship and a "race to the bottom" among the coal states, as companies desirous of securing market share from the purchaser of the lion's share of their output, the utility industry, offer to backhaul and dispose of coal combustion wastes as a package deal;
Second, issuance of national guidance is insufficient to assure proper management of these wastes, since many states have "no more stringent" provisions that would prevent states from extending regulatory authority over disposal of the wastes to incorporate federal guidance, since states can adopt and impose only those standards that have been adopted by regulation at the federal level. Also, some states cannot under state law impose substantive requirements based on "policies."
Third, the lack of minimum standards penalizes utilities who manage wastes under higher standards relative to their brethren who allow disposal of coal wastes by the coal industry either for "beneficial" uses or as mine fill.
Fourth, the lack of standards heightens conflicts between host communities and the utility and coal industry due to concerns with under-regulation of the coal combustion wastes relative to their potential to leach metals and other constituents at levels posing environmental or health risks.
Finally, the failure of EPA to assert federal leadership in establishing up-front baseline standards for management of the disposal of coal combustion wastes invites significant judicial intrusion into the field, and implicates the disposers, transporters and generators in a web of liability that is as open-ended as are the state management programs themselves.
THE ROLE OF EPA AND SMCRA
With respect to disposal of coal combustion wastes in mining areas, KRC must respectfully part ways with Kimery, who by now is wondering why he invited me. KRC believes that SMCRA is not the appropriate vehicle for management of co-disposal at coal mines. OSM's authority under SMCRA is not sufficient, standing alone to manage coal mine co-disposal, and was not intended to supplant EPA's responsibility under RCRA for management of such wastes.
Disposal of coal combustion wastes is of particular concern at coal mines.The available evidence suggests that disposal of coal combustion wastes in mine pits or other workings may be of particular concern, due to a number of factors: the increase in surface area available for leaching of elements resulting from fracturing of overburden and confining layers; higher total dissolved solids levels in mine spoils that compete for sorption sites on solids with toxic elements released from the buried ash; direct communication between surface and underground mine workings and aquifers through stress-relief fracture systems and subsidence-induced fracture flow; the dependence of residents of coal-bearing regions on private, groundwater supplies and the significant potential for contamination of those supplies; and the presence of site conditions conducive to creation of acid or toxic-forming material that can solubilize constituents of concern from the waste.
The information concerning the leaching potential of these wastes, the vulnerability of coalfield groundwater resources, and the documented cases of damage are sufficient to allow for immediate action by USEPA and control such wastes where co-disposed in coal mines. Coal combustion wastes containing leachable metals at levels well above accepted drinking water standards for safe potability of water, yet are in some states being placed indiscriminately in unlined backfills of coal mining operations in direct communication with groundwaters, and without proper characterization, isolation, management, closure, financial responsibility, monitoring and post-closure corrective action requirements attendant to such wastes.
It must be acknowledged and understood that the "driver" concerning the disposal of coal combustion wastes backhauled and disposed of in mine workings (including both underground mine voids and more commonly, in surface mine backfills or spoil/mine waste fills) is not the inherently preferential beneficial attributes of the wastes relative to other backfill materials, or the lack of alternative locations available to utilities and non-utility customers for coal combustion waste disposal. It is the coal industry seeking to improve its position by offering backhauling and disposal as a service or incentive in order to attract buyers for their coal in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Many areas in which mining occurs are those in which individuals and small community water systems rely on groundwater for domestic and other beneficial uses, including irrigation, livestock, commercial and institutional uses. The dependence of residents of coal-bearing regions on private, groundwater supplies and the significant potential for contamination of those supplies due to groundwater regimes characterized by highly transmissive secondary (fracture) permeability make the supplies highly vulnerable to contamination and disruption from mining.
Potential impact on utility consumers of passed-through costs of future remediation of areas where such wastes are underregulated and disposal contaminates land or water resources.
What is needed to properly regulate CCW disposal at mines? Such controls should include a prohibition on open-end dumping of coal combustion wastes in mine backfill, characterization of the waste, a requirement for controlled placement in a discrete, properly engineered and lined land disposal facility, groundwater monitoring, leachate collection, closure and post-closure care, and financial responsibility.
When EPA determined that issuance of regulations under Subtitle C of RCRA was not necessary to adequately manage the environmental risks associated with disposal of coal combustion wastes, it premised that determination on the assumption that the environmental performance standards and protections of Subtitle D would be extended to the management of that industrial waste stream.
EPA's failure to implement that commitment and to promulgate regulations establishing minimum standards for characterization and management of the waste streams associated with combustion of coal has had significant adverse environmental consequences; consequences which will continue absent fulfillment of that commitment by EPA.
My experience in litigating cases involving coal combustion waste management, both in disposal at mine sites, and disposal through so-called "beneficial uses," has convinced me that national standards and accountability to adopt, administer and enforce those standards under RCRA is essential to assure that the wastes are managed to prevent environmental and public health impacts. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is not the appropriate vehicle to regulate these wastes. SMCRA was neither intended nor designed to handle these materials. You would need a significant overhaul of SMCRA in the way you characterize and manage CCW in order to make this program fit.
A number of provisions of SMCRA are implicated in any proposal for disposal of CCW at a minesite. For example, no CCW can lawfully be placed in a location where it would displace spoil and cause more material to be disposed of in a hollow fill, because such additional spoil displacement would violate the requirement that all spoil generated by the mine be returned to the mined area except excess spoil.
Additionally, the requirement for contemporaneous reclamation would be offended by any delay in reclamation associated with disposal of coal combustion wastes in active mining and reclamation areas. Placement of coal combustion wastes in backfill without proper barriers to prevent migration to groundwater and to prevent saturation of the waste from infiltration of rainfall or groundwater, would also violate provisions of the law addressing protection of the hydrologic balance and prevention of off-site damage, through isolation of acid- or toxic-forming materials from surface or groundwater.
Congress did not direct that SMCRA take the lead in disposal of CCW, they directed EPA to take the lead. SMCRA's mandates are supplemental to but are not designed to supplant RCRA and EPA's role in standard-setting. Current SMCRA regulations do not fully address issues of proper characterization of, and long-term management of CCWs, and would need modification to fully account for the use of the mined area for waste disposal.
SMCRA does not contain a requirement that the chemical, physical, and radiological characteristics of the non-coal wastes be assessed, nor the fate and transport mechanics of those wastes;
The groundwater monitoring requirements are not designed to identify the presence of and migration of constituents of concern from disposal areas; and do not test for the full panoply of constituents needed to assess the presence of CCW constituents. The groundwater system in many coal fields is particularly vulnerable to contamination because of the high transmissivity of the fracture-dominated aquifer system, and because of the high degree of interconnection of aquifers through subsidence-induced deformation of strata above underground coal seams.
The duration of monitoring and bonding for coal mines is far too short relative to the timeframe needed to demonstrate that the disposed wastes have been properly isolated to prevent
off-site contamination.
Issues concerning right-of-entry and responsibility for contamination could be complex since SMCRA's enforcement, insurance, bonding and right-of-entry provisions are focused on mining regulation.
To satisfy the surface coal mining regulatory program obligations under federal and state law of protecting the hydrologic balance on and off the mine site, a broad array of metals and any other constituents identified through chemical characterization of the composition of the coal combustion waste, would need to be imposed as monitoring parameters for on-going groundwater and surface water monitoring. Each of the 17 potentially toxic elements are commonly present in CCW: aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, vanadium, and zinc, other metals present, radionuclides, and in the case of fluidized bed combustion (FBC) wastes, volatile and semi-volatile elements would need to be assessed.
The placement of groundwater monitoring wells would need to be sufficient to detect leachate generation and movement off-site at the bench elevation and through fracture systems, for strip mine bench disposal, and along and below the seam for pit disposal. Monitoring parameters and well location must be altered to detect contamination at the waste boundary, necessitating continuous monitoring wells along the area where the waste is disposed. Blending of mine wastes with spoil constitutes open dumping that is prohibited under state and federal law.
Disposal of coal combustion waste on a mine site, where a part of a surface coal mining operation, would need to be subject to all of the procedural protections, including demonstration of the right to enter and conduct such disposal activities, and all enforcement procedures of the federal Act and state regulatory program attach.
Long term site maintenance and groundwater monitoring after mining bond release would need to be addressed.
Separate approval by the landowner and local government for disposal of the material. No CCW should be allowed on an active Title V permit absent public notice and a public comment period. There is a concern that CCW disposal is added to a mine permit by minor modification, and OSM could clarify that, at a minimum, inclusion of non-coal waste disposal of any kind on a minesite is a major modification.
Finally, financial responsibility requirements would need to be addressed, since the performance bond guarantees only reclamation under Title V and is not calculated nor liable for on of off-site damage and reclamation needed to address the CCW disposal. Separate bonding, insurance, and long-term financial responsibility is needed.
In sum, the placement of uncontrolled and unconsolidated deposits of coal combustion waste in mine backfills, valley or hollow fills, or underground mine voids, is irresponsible. The groundwater system in many coal fields is particularly vulnerable to contamination because of the high transmissivity of the fracture-dominated aquifer system, and because of the high degree of interconnection of aquifers through subsidence-induced deformation of strata above underground coal seams. Ample hydrologic evidence is available to suggest that further co-disposal of coal combustion wastes should be prohibited pending development of sufficient standards for the characterization, management, placement and monitoring of such disposal, and that EPA should move promptly to develop such standards.
A program developed under RCRA Section 3004(x) should, among other things, provide for:
separation and proper disposal of other fossil fuel-related wastes, such as FBC wastes, that may contain residual unburned organics not associated with typical coal ash. Greater scrutiny is warranted for FBC waste, which as noted in the Boulding Report presents a higher potential for leaching elements of concern; and wastes generated through the firing of hazardous waste fuels and waste oils with or without coal, and those which are fired or co-fired with waste tires and refuse-derived fuel. Each of these categories adds constituents to the combustion process which may significantly increase the hazards of improper disposal of the waste, including a range of products of incomplete combustion of chlorinated and other synthetic organic compounds that warrant extensive analysis, characterization and careful management beyond that necessary for coal combustion waste.
Clarification should also be provided that coal combustion wastes do not include utility wastes such as metal and boiler cleaning wastes, nor other wastes generated from power plants beyond those directly resulting from combustion of coal and control of emissions from the combustion process.
All coal combustion wastes to be screened for radionuclides and managed as low-level radioactive wastes in accordance with the applicable state and federal laws, where those wastes exhibit activity that is above background levels. Coal combustion waste which contains elevated radionuclides is properly classified as technologically-enhanced low-level radioactive waste.
No disposal should be allowed absent the complete characterization of the waste stream(s) proposed for land disposal, and assurance that the engineering design of the disposal facility will assure compliance with the environmental performance standards (including no contamination of aquifers above drinking water standards and no increase in groundwater of any constituents above background levels of those contaminants). Whenever possible the chemical and physical composition of the actual waste stream that will be produced by the combustion process at the utility from which the waste will be generated, should be used for testing.
In order to properly design a facility for disposal of coal combustion waste, the full extent of the characteristics of the waste must be known, and the leachate potential must be established by use of appropriate modeling of the disposal site, the amount of rainfall infiltration, the pH of the waste and associated materials through which the rainfall will pass, and a hydrogeologic investigation into the location, extent, and characteristics of the surface and groundwater systems at the site.
Groundwater monitoring must be sufficient to allow for prompt detection of leachate migration at the waste site (and not the mine) boundary. Monitoring parameters and well locations must be such that they are appropriate to the area in which the waste is disposed.
Finally, blending of mine wastes with spoil in the backfill, rather than controlled placement of the wastes in a designed facility, should be treated as prohibited open dumping.
I end where I began. If you want to encourage the beneficial reuse of CCW, make sure that the characterization is sufficient to address the long term concerns of leaching and mobility of organic and inorganic materials from the waste. In particular, as the composition of the waste changes when we impose stricter controls on airborne emissions, we will of necessity change the composition and potentially increase leachate toxicities. The best way to improve the beneficial utilization is to approve adequate comprehensive safeguards so that we will not be undercut in the market place by those more interested in short term economic gain rather than the long term public interest.
Tom FitzGerald is the Director of the Kentucky Resources Council, Inc. a non-profit environmental advocacy organization providing free legal, strategic, and policy assistance to individuals, organizations, and communities concerning environmental quality and resource extraction issues. He holds numerous appointments on State and National environmental advisory organizations. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kentucky, College of Law, is an adjunct professor of energy and environmental law at the University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law, and has authored numerous articles on the citizen perspective of environmental issues related to coal mining and reclamation.
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West Kelowna motorcyclist awarded $132K for traffic accident
Supreme Court of British Columbia finds pickup truck driver liable for motorcylist’s injuries
Sep. 19, 2019 6:00 a.m.
A West Kelowna man was awarded $132,000 by the Supreme Court of British Columbia for injuries he sustained during a motorcycle accident in 2016.
According to the judgment, a pickup truck was turning left from Hunter Avenue onto Enterprise Way back on June 16, 2016, when the driver suddenly stopped in the middle of his turn after noticing a motorcyclist quickly approaching in the other direction.
The driver of the pickup truck claimed he did not block the entire lane allowing the motorcylist to get around him, however the 40-year-old motorcyclist was forced to take evasive action and laid down his motorcycle before sliding into the truck.
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The motorcyclist was taken to hospital with stiffness in his neck and back as well as pain in his right arm and a cut to his elbow. The crash forced the rider to take three months off work and attend more than a dozen physiotherapy sessions.
The judge concluded that whether the truck blocked the entire lane or not, the actions of the driver caused the motorcyclist to take evasive action in order to try to avoid the collision and was therefore responsible for the accident.
The judge awarded the motorcyclist a total of $132,000, including $60,000 for non-pecuniary damages.
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Behind its laid-back image, Coachella aggressively protects its trademark
The crowd reacts as Gucci Mane opens his set at the 2017 festival.
Lady Gaga performs at the 2017 Coachella.
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A Coachella attendee launches himself from a pushup into the “dab” while dancing at the 2017 festival.
Lorde performs at the 2017 festival.
Marilou Stoltenberg, 33, of Hermosa Beach, holds an umbrella while riding on the shoulders of Justin Thompson, 37, of Long Beach, at the 2017 festival.
Hinds guitarist/vocalist Carlotta Cosials onstage at Coachella 2017.
Coachella attendees dance as they are sprayed with mist at the 2017 festival.
Cellist Tina Guo onstage with Hans Zimmer at the 2017 festival.
Sunset in the Chiaozza Garden at the 2017 festival.
Members of the performance art group The Narrators plant plastic pink flamingos at the Do Lab at the 2017 festival.
Fans hold up Canadian hip hop artist Tory Lanez as he wades into the crowd at the 2017 festival.
Travis Scott onstage at the 2017 festival.
Singer Thom Yorke of Radiohead raises his arm into the air above the crowd at the 2017 festival.
By Randall RobertsStaff Writer
What do Whole Foods and Sean “Diddy” Combs have in common? They both recently learned not to mess with the suffix “chella.”
A few weeks before this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, the Palm Desert Whole Foods announced an upcoming concert and tasting event that it dubbed Wholechella.
Soon after, the store had heard from festival lawyers. “We had to change the name,” said Christy Jeziorski, the Palm Desert location’s marketing manager. They went with the Pre-Fest Beer Garden.
Not long after, rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs was forced to change the name of his upcoming Bermuda Dunes bash. Originally dubbed “Combschella,” it will now be known as Combs Fest.
Like rap festival Hoodchella and movie festival Filmchella before them, Wholechella and Combschella found themselves the focus of attorneys who handle the powerful and particular trademark enforcement of festival promoter Goldenvoice, which owns the rights to the use of the word Coachella.
You could call them Lawyachella, but then you’d hear from them yourself.
The legal actions are in stark contrast to the laid-back marketing messages Coachella conveys. “The live-music experience — it’s tribal. It’s communal,” DJ Jason Bentley says in one Coachella promo, painting the festival as an oasis of freedom that supports carefree, youthful rebellion.
However communal it may seem, Coachella has increasingly protected its brand with the firepower of litigious billion-dollar businesses such as Disney and the “Harry Potter” franchise.
Trademarks aren’t the only properties Goldenvoice is guarding. It’s also protecting its turf. Earlier this month an Oregon concert promoter sued the company’s owner, AEG, and its subsidiaries over Coachella’s efforts to enforce a so-called “radius clause.”
The clause, part of an artist’s contract for Coachella participation, prohibits acts from playing music festivals or themed events inside a five-state radius around California from December to May. As a result, a Portland, Ore., event called the “Soul’d Out Music Festival” lost out on a few crucial bookings, including R&B star SZA.
Portland is more than 1,000 miles from Indio.
Frustrated with the restrictions, Soul’d Out organizers Nicholas Harris and Haytham Abdulhadi hired lawyers who allege that Goldenvoice has violated antitrust laws by, according to the suit, “unreasonably restricting price and cost of competition among live concert venues.”
In an email, Harris said that Soul’d Out was directly told by booking agents that their artists “were not able or willing to perform at our event this year because of contractual restrictions imposed by Coachella.”
Adding that his company is “passionate about bringing great concert experiences to the public and feel very strongly about the future trajectory of the industry,” Harris said Soul’d Out filed suit against AEG “in the interest of the music-consuming public and the independent promoters who are struggling against the rapid consolidation and corporatization of our industry.”
In addition to suits brought against Hoodchella and Filmchella regarding the use of “chella,” Goldenvoice has, in the past two years, filed claims against at least four other outlets that attempted to use either the suffix or the full name including energy company Phillips 66 and clothing retailer Urban Outfitters.
The moves are part of Goldenvoice’s avowed efforts to “extensively police unauthorized use of the Coachella Marks,” as its attorneys wrote in one suit. The company, the suit against Hoodchella read, has sent what it called “countless cease and desist letters, and made countless telephone calls” to combat misuse or unauthorized use of its trademarks. (Representatives for Goldenvoice declined to comment.)
A similar communication was made to Whole Foods, according to Jeziorski. Facing possible litigation from a well-financed adversary, Whole Foods’ Palm Desert location opted to stand down.
Whole Foods Market’s beer garden ad required revision to avoid infringing on the Coachella trademark.
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The revised ad for Whole Foods Market’s pre-festival event.
But how can a company own the trademark on a place? Unlike distinctive trademarks with invented names Microsoft or Google, Coachella is a point on a map. Specifically, a township in the Coachella Valley, which has been the region’s name since long before Goldenvoice started a music festival in Indio.
It all has to do with the festival’s success, says intellectual property attorney Allen Grodsky. When an event or brand embeds itself into the fabric of culture as Coachella has, it accrues what in intellectual property terms is called “secondary meaning.”
“When you say the word ‘Coachella’ to people, they don’t really think of that area of the country,” Grodsky explained. “They think of the festival, so it’s acquired secondary meaning. As a result, you can get a trademark in it.”
The same is true of other distinctively named festivals such as Lollapalooza. When the alcohol brand Four Loko sought to introduce a drink called Lokopalooza, Lollapalooza successfully prevented it. Festivals that attach “palooza” to their names may also hear from Lollapalooza’s lawyers.
As Goldenvoice attorneys argued in one complaint, Coachella’s trademarks “are highly distinctive, famous, and serve uniquely to identify [Goldenvoice’s] products and services.” Through the festival’s success and ubiquity, it continues, “these marks have become assets of incalculable value as symbols of [Goldenvoice’s] products and services.”
In its 2017 suit against Robert Simms and the Palm Springs film festival he dubbed Filmchella, attorneys for Goldenvoice stressed that the company had no objection to Simms and company holding a festival of their own, regardless, as the suit reads, “of whether it features movies, films, music, or otherwise.”
Goldenvoice, it added, appreciated the enthusiasm shown by the organizers. It simply wanted them “to use a distinctive name of their own that does not infringe or trade on the goodwill of” the famous Coachella marks.
Such piggy-backers aren’t the only ones who have faced legal action. In early 2016, Goldenvoice attorneys alleged that Phillips 66 was “engaged in an extensive advertising campaign using the Coachella marks to promote Phillips 66 Co.'s gas stations.”
Its mistake: holding a sweepstakes to give away Coachella passes despite a prohibition on such contests in the festival’s terms of service. Included with each pass, the terms bar wristbands from being “sold, transferred, or used for any form of commercial or trade purposes,” including sweepstakes.
In 2016, Goldenvoice sued Urban Outfitters and its brand Free People, alleging that it sold clothes specifically marketed to would-be festival attendees, including a “Bella Coachella” line of clothes and a “Coachella Valley Tunic.”
Given that Goldenvoice has in years past developed sponsorship relationships with clothiers including H&M, the Free People collection created an impression that it was approved by Goldenvoice, which it was not.
“You can’t confuse people into believing you’re affiliated with that trademark, Grodsky said.
There are limits however, he added. If a mechanic wanted to open Coachella Auto Repair in the area, “it would be a terrible lawsuit for Coachella the festival, because nobody is going to confuse those two things.”
At the Palm Springs General Store, which specializes in souvenirs including T-shirts, co-owner Amy Lockwood doesn’t sell clothes with Coachella Valley written on it.
“The only two things we sell with ‘Coachella Valley’ on it are shot glasses and magnets,” she said, “and they haven’t come after us for those.”
For tips, records, snapshots and stories on Los Angeles music culture, follow Randall Roberts on Twitter and Instagram: @liledit. Email: randall.roberts@latimes.com.
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Randall Roberts is a staff writer covering music and pens the weekly California Sounds column for the Los Angeles Times.
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Four Hours: There’s a New England town hiding in SoCal
Visitors to Marina del Rey can take a beginner stand-up paddleboard lesson with Tim Sanford, owner of Paddle Method.
By Stacey Leasca
Marina del Rey may be nestled between two neighborhoods that seem to get most of the attention — quirky Venice and the tech landscape of Playa del Rey — but it’s not in any danger of being overshadowed: It’s an ideal spot for a half-day getaway that conveniently takes you right to the water’s edge.
(Lou Spirito For The Times)
As the largest man-made small-craft harbor in North America, Marina del Rey is an aquatic playground. Head over early to beat the crowds and to hit the calm, cool sea.
9 a.m. Book a beginner stand-up paddle-board lesson with Tim Sanford, owner of Paddle Method. Each hour-long lesson begins on the sand at Mother’s Beach, at 4135 Admiralty Way.
Students take beginners lessons from Tim Sanford, right, of Paddle Method: Stand Up Paddle Board LA in Marina del Rey.
“This is the best time to come, because the wind hasn’t picked up and there are fewer people,” Sanford said as he readied a 10-foot board. “The water is like glass.”
During the lesson, the certified World Paddle Assn. instructor introduces students to the basics of kneeling, standing and walking on a paddle board. Then, it’s time to get in the water and show off your skills. Don’t worry, falling off means only that you get wet.
10 a.m. After your lesson, walk across the street to grab a caffeine boost at Buna at 552 Washington Blvd. Forgo your usual coffee and get something exciting instead like the Buna Miel, which comes with espresso, honey, cinnamon and the steamed milk of your choice.
Beginners learn the ways of the paddle board from Tim Sanford of Paddle Method: Stand Up Paddle Board LA in Marina del Rey.
A paddle boarder takes equipment rented from Paddle Method: Stand Up Paddle Board LA for a morning spin around Marina del Rey.
Visitors explore Fisherman’s Village in Marina del Rey.
Strolling around Fisherman’s Village in Marina del Rey.
The ArtSea Festival in Marina del Rey.
Kayakers paddle past pinnipeds sunning on a dock in Marina del Rey.
Paddleboarders check out Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey.
Jorge Daniel Nunez sells handmade T-shirts at the ArtSea Festival in Marina del Rey.
Get a feel for the area at the Marina del Rey Historical Assn. museum in Marina del Rey.
A seagull finds a lofty perch at Fisherman’s Village in Marina del Rey.
A boater cruises past pinnipeds sunning on a dock in Marina del Rey.
10:15 a.m. Around here, there’s only one appropriate way to get around: a scooter. With so many options, including Bird, Lime and probably others we have yet to hear about, you’re bound to find a few around. Pick your brand, download its app and hop on for a ride around the marina to Fisherman’s Village at 13755 Fiji Way. No scooter for you? Lyft or Uber (or enjoy the waterfront view on a walk that will take about 30 minutes.) If you’re visiting after June 20, you have an even better option: Take a water taxi straight from Mother’s Beach to Fisherman’s Village for just $1.50.
10:30 a.m. Fisherman’s Village is a place that time — and developers — have forgotten. Yes, it’s kitschy, but that’s what makes it so worth the visit. More reminiscent of Maine than California, the tiny strip offers several restaurants and cafes, including a tasty ice cream shop.
A pair of kayakers paddle past pinnipeds sunning on a dock in Marina del Rey.
(Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
The village is best for taking Instagram-worthy photos, thanks to the vibrant buildings and a plentiful seal population seemingly ready and willing to take selfies. If you find yourself there on a Saturday, there’s a farmers market, and there’s live music on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the spring and summer.
11:30 a.m. Stop at the Marina del Rey Historical Society. It’s a stellar opportunity to learn more about the history of the marina. Inside, visitors can peruse historical photos, a presentation, books and memorabilia. Best of all, it’s free.
11:45 a.m. It’s time to find another flock of Birds to unlock. Hop on and scoot your way back for lunch at Salt, at 13534 Bali Way.
Noon Not only does Salt offer some of the tastiest dishes this side of the 405 but it’s also home to the best views of the marina. When making your reservation, ask for a table on the far end of the deck to get unobstructed views of the boats passing by. Since you’re on the water and you’ve worked up a solid appetite, go ahead and order the fish and chips. You’ve earned it.
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Stacey Leasca is a former social media editor at the Los Angeles Times.
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Write With Me at Tinker Mountain, aka The Awesomest Grownup Writing Camp–I Mean Workshop–Ever
Were you a camper as a child? I went to a few day camps when I was little: I remember Brownie camp, where we made Sit Upons. Back in the day, ours weren’t nearly so colorful.
Duct tape? Seriously? No fun in that. Punching holes with dangerous awls + sewing were the best parts!
I also remember being dropped off at a “nature camp” for a few days in a row at some point. We did crafts and I got a lot of bug bites.
Googly eyes weren’t all that available in the dark ages when I was crafting w/ pine cones.
I didn’t go to overnight camp until I was sixteen, which was kind of weird. It was sponsored by the Future Business Leaders of America. You’d think that future business leaders would camp out a a swanky hotel and practice sitting in overheated conference rooms drinking stale coffee, right? No. We were lent the accommodations of the Future Farmers of America, which were wooden barracks on a mosquito-infested campground with camp toilets in a hidden region of central Kentucky. Or it might have been Nicaragua. It’s all hazy now. But I do remember (more) bug bites, and awkward canoeing “adventures.”
It was nothing like this. Not at all. But we did have to wear life jackets.
I certainly won’t say I regretted any of those adventures. Kids are resilient and flexible. And it’s good to get them outside, especially if they’re bookish sorts who have gone a little myopic because of poor lighting during late-night reading, and have bruises from walking into things when they have their nose in a book.
People like that don’t grow up to be river guides or Martha Stewart. Some of them grow up to be writers. Early in my career, I attended a lot of writing workshops–in fact, I met my husband at the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky. (Yes, he was my teacher. Go ahead and giggle. We don’t mind. 😊)
These days we both teach at the Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop held at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. My husband taught at Hollins for eight years, and both of our children were born in Roanoke, so it’s always a bit like going home for us. But it’s not just the place that is special–the faculty and students are dear to us as well. We’ve built wonderful relationships over the years, and build new ones every time we go back.
It’s a lot like a writers’ camp, though the accommodations are way better, and the food is outstanding. After workshops and individual conferences during most days, there are readings or other events every night. And after the official events, attendees gather in smaller groups and share their work or play music or talk into the night (after getting their homework done, of course!)
Workshops are small, with anywhere from five to ten or so writers. They meet in the morning for three hours, then after lunch there are craft seminars that anyone can attend. Here are full descriptions of the workshops. There is something for pretty much every writer: I’ll be teaching a Mystery/Suspense workshop, and my husband, Pinckney, will be teaching Plotting and Storytelling (he is a master–his classes are always popular). There are two different poetry workshops, one advanced novel class, a class on daily writing, and one on memoir. Plus, there are two more advanced workshops: one with a professional editor on writing for readers, and one led by an agent to help participants navigate submitting and making their writing appealing to buyers in the industry.
And it all takes place in one of the most beautiful settings in the country. You’re surrounded by some of the oldest mountains on earth on a campus that’s welcoming and full of history. A serious writing camp for grownups. What could be better?
The link below has all the details, but you can also drop me an email via the Contact button on my site, and I’ll be happy to answer any questions I can.
What: Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop
Where: Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
When: June 11-16, 2017
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New Writing night for Stroke Association awareness
The Conquer Stroke New Writing night will be live at ‘The Y’, Leicester thanks to Keith Large.
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Loughborough director Clare Devine pictured on the right next to Keith Large and award-winning actress Shelley Draper.
A LOUGHBOROUGH man is putting on a night of new writing at the Y Theatre in Leicester on Sunday, March 20 to raise awareness for the Stroke Association.
He said: “The event will feature work by several Leicestershire writers and include two short plays from the past of mine ‘The Garage’ and ‘Under The Radar’ that have been successes in Hull and London and is an opportunity to bring them to a local audience.
“There will be a special guest appearance by Jeff Stewart who used to play Reg Hollis in the ITV drama ‘The Bill’. Jeff you’ve featured before starring in plays of mine in the past. The night will be compered by ITV Central Weather presenter Lucy Kite and several plays will be directed by Loughborough director Clare Devine.
“Apart from knowing family and friends who have suffered strokes we also want to put on the event because of the amount of Stroke survivors (1.2 million) in the UK and help highlight the marvellous work of the Stroke association who run over 400 Life After Stroke Services in communities across the UK supporting Stroke survivors.”
Alexa Wigfield, regional fund-raiser at the Stroke Association, said: “With around 152,000 strokes a year in the UK – that’s around one every three and a half minutes - it is vital that we have people who can raise funds for people affected by stroke.
“We’re incredibly grateful to Keith for organising the Conquer Stroke New Writing Night and would encourage local residents to come along and support the evening. The funds raised through the event will go a long way in helping us continue to offer support to stroke survivors and their families.”
For more details visit http://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/y-theatre-whats-on-details.php?listing=1557
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Najib makes another bid to postpone SRC trial
Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak today filed a judicial review application against the Federal Court’s refusal to grant him an order to stay the trial of his corruption cases involving SRC International Sdn Bhd funds.
The matter was disclosed by one of Najib’s lawyers, Harvinderjit Singh, when the former premier’s corruption case involving 1MDB funds of RM2.28 billion, was mentioned before High Court Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah in Kuala Lumpur today.
He said the application was filed at the Federal Court this morning, but no date was set for case management.
On March 27, Federal Court seven-man panel, led by Chief Justice Richard Malanjum, lifted the stay of proceedings order granted by the Court of Appeal to Najib, which he filed on Feb 8, to temporarily stall the trial pending disposal of his appeals over his interlocutory matters.
Earlier, senior prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram informed the court that the prosecution had received the reply from Chief Judge of Malaya Zaharah Ibrahim for their application letter dated March 29 to have priority given to the SRC case rather than to the 1MDB case.
“We received her reply today, in which she stated that the decision to put the (1MDB) case on hold is at the discretion of the court,” he said.
As such, Justice Collin decided that the trial of Najib’s 1MDB case would begin in the first month of May, depending on the schedule of the SRC case, which will begin on Wednesday.
The 1MDB case trial was initially slated for April 15 to May 3.
On Sept 20, 2018, Najib was charged with four counts under the MACC Act and 21 counts for money laundering involving 1MDB funds amounting to RM2.28 billion.
He was alleged to have committed the offences at AmIslamic Bank Bhd in Jalan Raja Chulan, Bukit Ceylon, between 2011 and 2014.
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Man, 89, who stabbed his wife to death 'because she's been a bad woman' ordered to stay in hospital for treatment
It was 'the last act of a failing marriage' - his family told the court they are bereft
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Arthur Heywood, left, and wife Barbara (Image: M.E.N.)
An 89-year-old man who stabbed his wife to death after 59 years of marriage will be detained in hospital to undergo treatment.
A judge imposed a hospital order on Arthur Heywood, after deeming it was necessary 'for the protection of the public from serious harm'.
It comes as the court heard that the Heywood family have been left 'absolutely bereft' following the death of 80-year-old Barbara Heywood.
Prosecutors said the killing was the 'last act of a failing marriage'.
Heywood was deemed unfit to be a defendant in a conventional criminal trial, because he suffers from dementia.
Arthur Heywood
But in a 'trial of the facts', a jury ruled that Heywood did kill his wife by repeatedly stabbing her to death.
After Heywood killed her, he told a 999 operator: "I've shoved a knife in her because she's been a bad woman. I just want you to take her away."
Manchester Crown Court heard that there were 'significant tensions' between the pair by the time of Mrs Heywood's death, at their home on Ramsay Avenue in Farnworth, Bolton, on March 27.
On Tuesday, Judge Alan Conrad QC said: "It's clear that the defendant Mr Heywood is suffering from a mental disorder of a nature and that makes it appropriate that he is detained in a hospital for medical treatment.
"He was and remains seriously mentally ill, suffering from dementia."
The judge imposed a hospital order, for Heywood to continue to receive treatment.
Heywood can only be discharged from treatment if the authorities give their permission.
The judge also paid tribute to the 'great courage' of a paramedic at the scene, who went into the house unaware of what he may face.
Speaking to the Heywood family, who were in court for the hearing, the judge added: "I extend my sympathy for the ordeal that they have been through since this tragedy happened earlier this year.
Ramsay Avenue in Farnworth, where Arthur Heywood and his wife Barbara lived together (Image: Google Maps)
"They have conducted themselves throughout these proceedings with great dignity."
In a statement read to the court by prosecutor Rob Hall, the couple's daughter Yvonne said: "As a family we have been left absolutely bereft, totally shocked by the tragic death of our mother.
"Nobody deserves to have their life taken away at any cost, or in the way our father did."
The trial heard that around the time of her death, Heywood was beginning to show signs of the 'progressive dementia' he suffers from now.
Mrs Heywood was also ill and reliant on painkillers, used a wheelchair and depended on Mr Heywood for her care.
The couple, who have three children, married in March 1960 and their 59th wedding anniversary fell the day before Mrs Heywood died.
There had been problems between the two for 'many years' but 'the cracks in the marriage were really starting to show', prosecutor Mr Hall said.
In February Heywood spent a few weeks in hospital.
During that time Mrs Heywood had arranged for his 'beloved' dog to be cared for elsewhere, a 'further grievance' for him, Mr Hall said.
Prosecutors said Mrs Heywood became 'rather fixated' in the belief that 'Heywood had a lot of money in savings that she wanted to gain access to'.
After Heywood was discharged from hospital, 'such was the state of their relationship' Mrs Heywood didn't want her husband to return home, jurors were told.
However, he did return home and 'stubbornly insisted upon caring for Mrs Heywood', Mr Hall said.
They were visited by support carers over the next few days, but Mr Hall said 'no-one expected the events that would follow only days later'.
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Manchester United Megastore not printing Pogba shirts
Manchester United Paul Pogba kits will sell like hotcakes when his transfer is announced but the Megastore is rejecting requests.
Manchester United Megastore staff members are rejecting fans' requests to print Paul Pogba 's name on the back of the new Adidas shirt.
United are expected to announce the world record signing of Pogba after it is understood they agreed to sign him for a world record fee from Juventus, however the Old Trafford store is refusing to print 'Pogba 6' shirts.
Fans can, however, order the shirt via the online store. Some fans tend to personalise replicas with family names and that privilege appears to extend to 'Pogba 6'.
Mourinho vetoed a move for Miralem Pjanic earlier in the summer to prioritise signing Pogba. Pjanic moved to Juventus from Roma in a move which has worked to United's advantage.
Pogba was understood to prefer a move to Real Madrid but Raiola advised him to rejoin United. Zinedine Zidane lobbied Real president Florentino Perez to sign Pogba but the Champions League winners were reluctant to match United's fee.
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United are understood to have agreed personal terms with Raiola in early July and are thought to have reached a breakthrough in negotiations with Juventus over Raiola's commission last week.
United have already clinched the signings of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and Mourinho confirmed M.E.N. Sport's story in May he wanted to strengthen four positions during his maiden press conference.
"We made a nucleus of four priorities, four positions, priorities," he explained. "To give a certain balance to the squad, to give a certain push in terms of quality, and the qualities that I need, that I want, as we know especially with the ones with more vision."
Pogba made seven substitute appearances for United
Mourinho outlined his desire to have his fourth signing in before next week's Premier League opener at Bournemouth.
"We are going to sign one more player that's for sure," Mourinho said ahead of Wayne Rooney's testimonial. "I don't want to speak about Paul because he's a Juventus player and I don't like other managers to speak about my players and I don't speak about their players.
"The reality is we’re going to sign one more player, the market closes, as you know, August 31.
"So, we have plenty of time to do that but I would like to do that before the Premier League starts."
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MCSC, PEO LS to hold industry briefing in June December 23, 2013 — Marine Corps Systems Command and Program Executive Officer Land Systems have tentatively scheduled the biennial Advanced Planning Briefing to Industry for June 4-6, 2014, at the Marriott Waterside Hotel in Norfolk, Va. The APBI is the only exposition and conference focused solely on Marine Corps acquisition; critical requirements for innovation and sustainment; platform acquisition priorities and program manager assessments. MORE
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A Female Cabinet Member's Warning for the Incoming Administration
Obama's Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, has some advice for Trump's inner circle.
By Colleen Leahey McKeegan
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Penny Pritzker has had a rough few months. As the current United States Secretary of Commerce, Secretary Pritzker and her team played an integral role in the completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a pact between 12 nations that aimed to lower tariffs and bolster labor force standards like wages and working conditions around the world. The election put the deal in the crosshairs, derailing U.S. involvement as presidential candidates and many others booed global trade negotiations of all kinds.
She's now in a unique position: part of the outgoing class of Obama picks, with three years of cabinet experience under her belt, Pritzker is preparing to watch her work dismantled by Trump and his team.
"Frankly, I wouldn't want to backslide from where we are now," Pritzker told Marie Claire on a call this week. She says that the Obama administration has added 15.6 million jobs since 2010 ("800,000 in manufacturing"), lowered carbon emissions, and insured a record number of Americans, to name a few of its accomplishments. "So my advice to the Trump administration is: Don't backslide. America's competitiveness depends on remaining open for business. We have to be able to sell our goods abroad and make sure we continue to attract foreign investment."
"Don't backslide."
And what of the nationalist sentiments this election brought to the fore? Large numbers of Americans—on both sides of party lines—unleashed their voices to oppose multi-country trade deals for fear that their jobs have been (or will be) outsourced to countries with less expensive talent. That's frustrating for Pritzker, who believes the United States' trade and commercial powers can be as powerful as the country's military power in helping America lead globally. "TPP is about lowering barriers," she says. That includes financial barriers like tariffs, as well as non-financial barriers like assuring companies can ship goods into a country and allowing for the free flow of data between borders. This helps U.S. companies stay competitive against state-owned enterprises, Pritzker explains.
Pritzker with President Obama and Vice President Biden in March
"Look at what's happened since the election," she says. "China has already declared it's going to pursue a trade agreement with regional countries, without the standards that protect smaller businesses and employees. If we withdraw from global agreements, it will undercut our competitiveness. Growth will slow. We can't take access to those markets for granted, and we can't take those jobs for granted."
To tackle these challenges, Pritzker encourages breaking down silos. "No one person can have a holistic picture of all the potential issues," she explains of her time working collaboratively with President Obama, colleagues, and advisory councils.
In fact, if the election has sparked your own interest in political involvement, Pritzker says that applications to join federal advisory councils are public. "You can see all the lists online and apply to participate," she says.
How's that for taking things into your own hands?
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Professor Yoshika Sekine's Slideshow PATM study
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The MEBO Research community around the world is most grateful to researcher Professor Yoshika Sekine, for carrying out a much needed study into PATM and for publishing a paper on his findings (in Japanese). In addition, we are most grateful to Professor Sekine and his colleague, Dr. Yasuhiro Konishi, M.D., of the Konishi Clinic in Japan for presenting a classic case of PATM in the Japanese TV show "World Astonishing News", as noted in a post in this blog, "Japanese Study: Elevated petrochemicals in PATM". This research discusses the petrochemicals found in skin gas analysis of sufferers of this syndrome. You have provided our international community with information we can now use in our Raising Awareness Campaign, and for this, we are profoundly grateful!
‘An exploratory study on “people allergic to me” syndrome based on measurement of trace gases released from skin surface and microbial species in nasal cavity of a patient’
There exist some people who claim his/her body odor provokes allergy-like reactions of people in their near vicinity, which include sneezing, runny nose, cough, itchy eyes, and red eyes. Such a diathesis, called “people allergic to me (PATM)”, has been gradually recognized in other countries. However, the term “PATM” has been hardly heard in Japan, and there have been no reports focusing on PATM in academic journals so far. After receiving a request for advice from a male subject, we conducted a medical interview, measurement of trace gases released from human skin surface, measurement of volatile chemicals from the subject’s underwear, and microbiological test of the nasal cavity of the patient. The results showed that greater amounts of chemicals, such as toluene and xylene, were detected in skin-gas samples from the subject than in those from a control subject. Moreover, some chemicals, such as hexane, propionaldehyde, and toluene, which showed relatively high levels of emission from the subject’s skin, were also detected in the underwear of the subject. The microbial species that was isolated from the nasal cavity of the subject with the highest abundance was Staphylococcus epidermidis (Bacilli; Bacillales), which is known as a resident skin flora. In addition, Arthrobacter phenanthrenivorans (Actinobacteria; Micrococcales), which releases a ditch-like smell, was cultured on isolation medium, and its presence might have a relationship with the PATM condition. Furthermore, Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (Basidiomycota; Sporidiales), which is a fungus that is known to cause red water scale in bathrooms/washrooms, was isolated from the nasal cavity of the subject. To the best of our knowledge, the isolation of this latter species from the human nasal cavity has not previously been reported. Taken together, there is a possibility that PATM is not a product of patients’ imagination but represents a genuine disease that has yet-to-be-investigated.
KAWAKAMI, Yuji & SEKINE, Yoshika & KIMURA, Keita & TODAKA, Michihito & ODA, Hisayuki. (2018). An exploratory study on "people allergic to me" syndrome based on measurement of trace gases released from skin surface and microbial species in nasal cavity of a patient. Indoor Environment. 21. 19-30. 10.7879/siej.21.19.
Online link to the full publication: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324134401_An_exploratory_study_on_people_allergic_to_me_syndrome_based_on_measurement_of_trace_gases_released_from_skin_surface_and_microbial_species_in_nasal_cavity_of_a_patient
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Home>Issue Watch>House Energy & Commerce OKs Broadband Bills
House Energy & Commerce OKs Broadband Bills
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 11-21-19
Wrapping up a long two days, the House Energy & Commerce Committee approved a handful of bipartisan broadband and tech-related bills on a variety of topics, from broadband mapping and network security to freeing up spectrum.
There were a handful of amendments adopted without opposition as the legislators tried to wrap up the proceedings expeditiously. Bills being favorably reported for a vote in the full House were:
H.R. 4229, the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act or the Broadband DATA Act;
H.R. 4227, the Mapping Accuracy Promotion Services Act (MAPS Act);
H.R. 5000, the Studying How to Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019 (SHARE Act);
H.R. 4998, the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019;
H.R. 4461, the Network Security Information Sharing Act of 2019;
H.R. 2881, the Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2019;
H.R. 4500, the Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2019;
H. Res. 575, regarding Prague 5G security conference; and
H.R. 4779, which extends the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers Beyond Borders Act of 2006. » Read More
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News Corp to finalise acquisition of APN’s Australian Regional Media
The transaction is valued at $36.6m
News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller has welcomed the Australian Consumer Competition Commission’s (ACCC) decision not to oppose News Corp Australia’s acquisition of APN Australia’s regional publishing business in Queensland and northern NSW. The transaction is valued at $36.6m.
The ACCC decision not to oppose the acquisition of APN’s Australian Regional Media (ARM) will see News Corp Australia’s publishing portfolio expand to include an additional 12 daily newspapers, 60 community newspapers and non-daily publications, plus more than 30 regional news websites and mobile sites.
Miller said: “The decision to invest in ARM shows News Corp Australia’s commitment to the news media and publishing, to our regional and community audiences and to the growth regions of Queensland and Northeast New South Wales.
“As a former CEO of APN, I know these businesses and these teams well and appreciate the significant value they will bring to our company. I look forward to what we can achieve together by combining our collective expertise.”
The 12 daily newspaper and 60 smaller publications in the portfolio reach 1.6 million people across print, online and mobile. The daily newspaper titles in the ARM group are the Daily Mercury, Mackay, theMorning Bulletin, Rockhampton, the Observer, Gladstone, the News Mail, Bundaberg, the Fraser Coast Chronicle, the Gympie Times, the Sunshine Coast Daily, QT, The Queensland Times, Ipswich, Warwick Daily News, The Northern Star, Lismore, the Daily Examiner, Grafton and The Chronicle, Toowoomba.
The acquisition remains subject to the Foreign Investment Review Board for approval. Once this is achieved, the integrated operating model is expected to be in place by the end of the month.
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Continuity of Christian practices in Kent, c.410-597: a historical and archaeological review
by Sandra Alvarez
Clay, John
York Medieval Yearbook, ISSUE No. 2, (2003)
With its wealth of Roman remains, its pro ximity to the Continent and its comparatively early historical documents, Kent may be considered as one of the brighter corners of Dark Age Britain. Yet this brightness is only relative. The story of the passage of Roman Kent to English kingdom resembles a thin soup , a mixture of ambiguity and cautious conjecture. New pieces of evidence have been dropped in now and then, and various flavours have been tried, but only the most general consensus has been reached as to what actually happened in Kent between the days of Emperor Honorius and Pope Gregory I.
Click here to read this article from York Medieval Yearbook
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Home World Mena region North Africa Algeria New head for Algeria’s Western Mediterranean Zinc joint venture
New head for Algeria’s Western Mediterranean Zinc joint venture
05 December 2007 4:49 PM By Meed
The Algerian/Australian joint venture company Western Mediterranean Zinc (WMZ) has appointed a new director general to develop its zinc project near Bejaia in the northeast.
Kamal Baziz was made director general at a WMZ board meeting in Algiers on 4 December. His appointment is effective from 1 December. Baziz has been technical manager at WMZ for 18 months. He previously spent 14 years as a geologist for UK-based GMA Resources on the development of a gold mining project in the Hoggar area of southern Algeria. He has given up his position as a geology lecturer at Bejaia University in order to take up the role.
WMZ is developing a world-scale zinc prospect at Oued Amizour, 12 kilometres from Bejaia. A total of 24 holes have been drilled, and scoping studies are due for completion by the end of December. Australian mining company Terramin holds a 65 per cent interest in WMZ, with state mining company Entreprise Nationale des Produits Miniers Non-Ferreux et des Substances Utiles (ENOF) holding 32.5 per cent and state-owned exploration company Office National de la Recherche Geologique & Miniere (ORGM) the remaining 2.5 per cent
The previous director general, Belkacem Touahri, left WMZ when his contract expired at the end of October. Kevin Moriarty, executive chairman of Terramin Australia, was acting director general in the interim period.
Dominique Petroons has also been appointed as WMZ technical manager. A Swiss national, Petroons is a geologist with extensive experience in managing drilling programmes elsewhere in Africa. She joins WMZ from international aid organisation the Red Cross, where she was working on water drilling programmes.
The company is also looking to employ someone to take overall charge of the project. The new appointee will travel between Algeria and Australia, liaising between the project teams. “We haven’t determined whether this will be a local hire or an international hire,” says Andrew Robertson, general manager of operations. “We are looking to employ the best person.”
WMZ is set to move into new offices in January. The team is currently based at two locations, at the Cristal Hotel in Bejaia and near the exploration site on a compound owned by ORGM. The newly-constructed, dedicated building will include both office space and facilities for data logging of rock core samples extracted during drilling operations. The total number of logging sheds will be increased to four from the two in use.
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Mutual Love of Prunes is One Bond I Have with Gabriella
The Prune Soufflé that my mother used to make from her 1940s edition of the ‘Joy of Cooking’
It was May, 2004, during a glitzy dinner celebrating that year’s James Beard Awards at a mid-Manhattan hotel.
Gabriella Gershenson, at that time a fledgling food writer living in New York, was seated next to me. I discovered that I and this soft-spoken young woman with thick, wavy black hair and a winning smile were kindred souls.
Soon we were discussing our shared passion: little-known ethnic food finds tucked away on the culinary road less travelled. She told me about her specialty: “Food not served by a waiter.”
Two days later, we were strolling through New York’s Chinatown, Chelsea and the Lower East Side. Most of the spots we visited still exist: Donut Plant, Kossar’s Bialys, Russ & Daughters, Fried Dumpling, Vegetarian Dim Sum House among them. I wrote a column about that rewarding day in the Toronto Star where I was the food editor and columnist. (I resigned in 2007 and am now a freelance Food Sleuth specializing in podcasts and blog posts like this one.)
In addition to an appetite for intrepid food sleuthing, Gabriella and I have these things in common: Her Jewish family’s roots are in Riga, Latvia; she was born in the U.S. shortly after they emigrated in 1975. My refugee family on my mother’s side came to North America in 1939 but also suffered death and destruction during the Holocaust in Riga, Latvia. (See Gabriella’s 2011 article in Saveur about re-visiting her Latvian roots.)
Gabriella studied at McGill and spent time living in Montreal – she loves that city. My dad was born and raised in Montreal, my parents met at McGill and I was born in Montreal. I too have a fondness for that place.
Last but not least, we both share a quirky love of prunes – a much-maligned fruit.
Gabriella and I move in the same professional world and have kept loosely in touch and know many of our peers in food journalism. I reached out recently when I planned to spend a week in the Big Apple including a birthday lunch at the exquisite Le Bernardin. She agreed to come to our hotel the day after that to record a podcast. It was heartwarming to catch up.
Today, 14 years later, Gabriella sports longer hair, is married and has an impressive body of work.
Based in New York, she is a food writer and editor who has worked at Rachael Ray Every Day, Saveur and Time Out New York. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. She does radio (Heritage Radio, CBC), TV (Food Network) and moderates talks on food. You can find her on Twitter as @gabiwrites.
Here’s the memorable Prune Soufflé my mum used to make inspired by the chat with my kindred soul. It’s followed by the Epicurious recipe that Gabriella often makes for stuffed zucchini. Both are delicious. (Btw, Gabriella included David Leibovitz’s recipe for Cherry Gateau Basque in one of her articles. I made it and took the glorious result to my communal office – to rave reviews.)
Prune Soufflé
This is from my mother’s edition of the 1940s (maybe the first) edition of the Joy of Cooking from which she learned to cook. The prune mixture makes a little more than you need – you can freeze the remainder or fold it into yogurt or vanilla ice cream. Other recipes – including this one in a later edition of the Joy of Cooking – say to cook a soufflé at a higher temperature but I find that this works perfectly.
1 lb/500 g prunes
¼ cup granulated sugar
½ sliced lemon
In shallow bowl, cover with prunes with hot water about 30 minutes to 1 hour. Transfer mixture to saucepan; add sugar, lemon and cinnamon stick. Bring to a simmer; cook about 30 minutes. Mash or blend in food processor until small chunks remain. Reserve a little more than 1 cup; save the rest of another, add to granola and yogurt for a breakfast dish or mix with a little brandy and fold into vanilla ice cream.
⅛ tsp salt
Beat egg whites and salt in medium-large bowl until foamy. Add cream of tartar; beat until stiff peaks form. Fold in prune purée mixture.
Transfer mixture to 9-inch soufflé dish. Bake in oven about 1 hour or until firm. Serve hot, warm or cold with custard sauce, yogurt or vanilla ice cream.
Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini
I used a mixture of medium-to-large green and yellow zucchini for this delicious dish Gabriella makes often. It’s from Epicurious.
6 medium zucchini (6 to 8 oz each)
½ cup long-grain rice
¾ lb/375 g ground beef or lamb (not lean)
1 tsp ground allspice
¾ tsp ground black pepper
2 cups canned diced tomatoes (including juice)
Hollow out each zucchini, working from both ends with a small melon-ball cutter or an apple corer, removing all seeds and leaving shells about ⅓ inch thick. Discard pulp and seeds.
Wash rice in several changes of cold water in a bowl until water runs almost clear, then drain in a sieve.
Heat oil in a deep 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. Add onion, stirring, and cook until golden, 6 to 8 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute, then remove skillet from heat.
Transfer ¼ cup onion mixture to medium bowl; cool slightly. Add rice, ground beef, allspice, 1½ teaspoons salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper; mix well with your hands. Stuff zucchini shells with mixture, being careful not to pack tightly (rice will expand during cooking).
Add tomatoes with juice, stock, remaining ½ teaspoon salt, and remaining ¼ teaspoon pepper to onion in skillet; bring to a simmer. Place stuffed zucchini in tomato mixture in skillet; simmer, covered, until rice is cooked through, 1 to 1¼ hours (cut 1 zucchini in half crosswise to check).
Transfer zucchini to a plate; bring sauce to a boil and simmer, stirring, until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Return zucchini to sauce. Squeeze lemon over dish before serving.
Makes about 6 servings.
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I Discovered Brilliant Anthony Bourdain Many Years Ago
My Lovely Late Mum Ruth Made a Mean Beef Stroganoff
Harvest Time: ‘Tis the Season to Veg Out with Peperonata
Eco-Eatery is London Hot-Spot
Greek Salad and Whole Roasted Cauliflower are Tops in “The Last Schmaltz”
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MASTER CRAFTSMAN CERTIFICATE - March 2019
I was extemeley honoured to accept a master craftsmans certificate in stonemasonry by the "Worshipul Company of Masons" at a ceramony in the carpenters Hall in the city of London on the 11th of March 2019. This presigious award was presented by the Lord Mayor & the Master of the Masons Guild. The award is given by the ancient Masons livery guild & nominees are judged by a panel of their peers appointed by the city & guilds institue & the stone federation of Great Britain. It is the highest award that a stonemason can recieve for their craft in the UK and I am extreamley proud to have been considered deserving of it!
Read more about it in this article by Trudi Davidson on Hull-Live. Link below
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/watch-stonemason-carves-intricate-grotesques-2620136
MASONS CHOICE AWARD - 2018 YORK STONE CARVING FESTIVAL
More than 60 Stone Carvers from across the world took part in York Minsters 3rd Stone Carving Festival 17-19 August 2018. Participents were given 16hrs to carve a stone with the theme of "all creatures great & small" all 60+ stones were auctioned off to the public to raise funds for the ongoing restoration works at the minster.
ANDLEE mallets were among the official sponsors giving away 4 mallets as prizes for each of the different categories. I also entered the carving competition & won the prize for Mason's choice, a vote was taken from all the carvers for best carving & I was delighted when my stone "rat catcher" won!
My design was based on an existing carved capital from 1903 in Barcelona, with the addition of a crafty looking cat.
CONGRATULATIONS ALSO TO
Adam Beaumont - Peoples Choice Award
Henrik Storksen - Mason's Choice Apprentice Award
Richard Bossons - The Worshipful Company of Mason's Award (He was using an ANDLEE too!)
Lewis Morrison - Masonic Mason's Award
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By Kit O'Connell Kit O'Connell @KitOConnell
Nestle brand Arrowhead water bottlers. (Screenshot)
SACRAMENTO, California — Activists are preparing to disrupt business at a Nestlé bottled water plant for a third time as the corporation continues to bottle millions of gallons of water in California amid an historic drought.
Scheduled for Dec. 4, the protest marks the third time the “Crunch Nestlé Alliance” will target the corporation’s bottling plant for direct action. The group carried out similar temporary blockades of business in October 2014 and March 2015 at the Nestlé Waters bottling facility in Sacramento, California. Dan Bacher, reporting on the March 20 action for the citizen journalism site Indybay, claimed the group “effectively [shut] down the company’s operations for the day” by blocking both entrances to the plant from 5 a.m. until 1 p.m.
According to a story published by Bacher on Nov. 10 on YubaNet.com, a local news site devoted to the Sierra Nevada region of Central California, activists are expanding their efforts for the upcoming event to also protest at the nearby Alhambra Water Company. Still, Nestlé, who the alliance called “The Grinch Who Stole Our Water,” remains the main target.
Climate activists seem determined to keep fighting the corporation, despite Nestlé’s attempts at “greenwashing” their water use. Corporate CEO Paul Grimwood attempted to defend the company’s bottling practices in a Nov. 4 interview with Fortune’s Erika Fry:
“Let’s be honest, everyone in California is concerned about the drought. We recently gave out 8,500 drought kits—one kit to each employee. Everybody has got to play their part, but we at Nestle think we need to set a standard as well for bigger business.”
Grimwood did admit that “everybody has the right to good quality food and good clean water,” part of a confusing trend in which the company’s corporate leaders have alternately argued that water is and is not a human right.
Lawsuit launched against Nestlé’s ‘illegal’ bottling
In October, three California environmental groups filed suit against Nestlé, arguing that the corporation is illegally bottling water from the drought-stricken San Bernardino Forest. According to a statement from the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups involved in the lawsuit:
“In 2014 alone an estimated 28 million gallons were piped away from the forest to be bottled and sold under Nestlé’s Arrowhead brand of bottled water. The permit expired in 1988, but the piping system remains in active use, siphoning about 68,000 gallons of water a day out of the forest last year.”
Activists also accuse state and federal officials of deliberately ignoring Nestlé’s illegal but profitable bottling operations. The Crunch Nestlé Alliance previously targeted the Sacramento home of California Gov. Jerry Brown for protests, while Eddie Kurtz, executive director of the California-based Courage Campaign Institute, another group involved in the lawsuit, noted:
“The U.S. Forest Service has been enabling Nestlé’s illegal bottling in the San Bernardino National Forest for 27 years, and it has to stop. Our government won’t stand up to them, so we’re taking matters into our own hands.”
In contrast to the seemingly permissive attitudes of California officials, on Nov. 9 Oregon Gov. Kate Brown called for greater public scrutiny over Nestlé’s plans to bottle water in the state’s Columbia River Gorge amid similar dry conditions plaguing the Pacific Northwest.
El Niño not enough to bring relief
Cracks in the dry bed of the Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, Calif. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Although El Niño, the cyclical weather pattern that periodically brings warm, wet weather to North America, is predicted to drench Central California next year, climate experts worry it won’t be enough to end the historic drought. Despite the predicted rainfall, new statewide water restrictions will go into effect in 2016.
Brian K. Sullivan, a weather reporter for Bloomberg Business, reported that the state’s meteorologists are anxiously measuring snowfall in the mountainous region of the state crucial to replenishing California’s aquifer. He quoted one expert, who warned that much more is needed to end the drought:
“‘Since it has been dry for so long, people get excited,’ said Rob Hartman, hydrologist in charge of the California Nevada River Forecast Center in Sacramento. ‘We have had some small storms that left a sprinkle of snow in the mountains. We are still waiting for winter to arrive. We are not ahead of schedule by any means.’”
Watch: Who Is Sucking Water Out Of California Without A Permit?
Redacted’s Karavani Aims Her Water Cannon at Nestle and Its Poland Spring Water Fraud
With Oil, Water and Iran as Targets, US on Brink of Recognizing Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights
With Water Scarce & UN Food Aid Cut, Israeli Bev Co SodaStream Opens New Gaza Plant
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Mirantis Expands in Europe to Help Accelerate OpenStack Adoption
Mirantis, the number one pure-play OpenStack vendor, is expanding its European operations to help support increasing global demand for OpenStack solutions, and to drive further market growth for its flexible, commercially-supported OpenStack distribution and professional services.
The company, headquartered in Mountain View, California, has opened an office in Amsterdam to supplement its existing centres in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. This will enable Mirantis to capitalise on the fast-growing interest in vendor-agnostic OpenStack environments in Europe, and to further enhance support for partners and customers.
Adrian Ionel, CEO of Mirantis, said “Enterprises are increasingly turning to the OpenStack open-source platform to drive their public and private clouds. By expanding our presence in Europe, we can further accelerate the agility and scalability benefits the OpenStack ecosystem delivers, and help customers succeed with their deployments. No other OpenStack distribution offers customers the same range of options or extensibility as Mirantis OpenStack.”
Renski is featured in a webcast on Thursday 6 March at 14:00 GMT: ‘Cloud Computing, Open Source, OpenStack: What’s Eating the IT World Anyway?’ with European cloud computing strategist John Rhoton and Mirantis expert Nick Chase. The webcast will look at how OpenStack is shaping the future of IT, and how organisations can take advantage of the technology. For full details, go to: http://online.mirantis.com/openstack-and-the-future-of-it-webcast-1
“At SAP Ventures, we’ve long seen that cloud is essential to giving enterprises the flexibility, choice, and control needed to drive innovation and agility into their businesses,” said Jai Das, Managing Partner at SAP Ventures. “Mirantis has demonstrated leadership and a proven track record in ensuring enterprise customers can build a more agile, scalable, cost-effective cloud with OpenStack, and we know first-hand the tremendous benefits open source and cloud can deliver to the European marketplace.”
Mirantis is the leading provider of OpenStack software solutions, and also offers professional services and training. Its commercially-supported Mirantis OpenStack distribution gives enterprises planning private or public cloud deployments the widest choice of supported operating systems, hypervisors and storage back-ends, with world-class support and services. The Mirantis OpenStack distribution integrates core OpenStack components, essential related OpenStack projects, and 3rd-party plug-ins, in a single integrated package. Customers get the latest innovations from the open source community along with the testing and reliability expected of enterprise software.
Mirantis offers training and certification programs; its Bootcamp for OpenStack has served well over 1000 students from over 400 companies worldwide; a session is offered in London March 5-7. A leading contributor to community and open source, Mirantis is the only pure-play OpenStack vendor among the top five contributors to the OpenStack Havana release cycle, is a founding board member of the OpenStack foundation, and employs more than 400 OpenStack infrastructure experts worldwide.
To find out more about Mirantis OpenStack, visit software.mirantis.com
About Mirantis
Mirantis is the number one pure-play OpenStack company. Mirantis delivers all the software, services, training and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other company to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale.
Among the top five companies worldwide in contributing open source software to OpenStack, Mirantis has helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds at companies such as Cisco WebEx, Comcast, Dell, The Gap, NASA, NTT Docomo, PayPal, and Sprint. Mirantis is venture-backed by Intel, Dell, and WestSummit Capital.
For more information, visit www.mirantis.com or follow us on Twitter at @MirantisIT
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Mirantis helps enterprises and telcos address key challenges with running Kubernetes on-premises with pure open source software. The company employs a unique build-operate-transfer delivery model to bring its flagship product, Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP), to customers. MCP features full-stack enterprise support for Kubernetes and OpenStack and helps companies run optimized hybrid environments supporting traditional and distributed microservices-based applications in production at scale.
To date, Mirantis has helped more than 200 enterprises and service providers build and operate some of the largest open clouds in the world. Its customers include iconic brands such as Adobe, Comcast, Reliance Jio, State Farm, STC, Vodafone, Volkswagen, and Wells Fargo. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
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Charged With Possession of Methamphetamine in Mercer County
Methamphetamine (a.k.a. meth or crystal) is an extremely addictive stimulant that is typically ingested by smoking or snorting. This Schedule II controlled dangerous substance (“CDS”) is illegal to possess or distribute in any quantity. If you were arrested and charged with a meth offense in Mercer County, including Hamilton, East Windsor, Princeton, Ewing, Trenton, you absolutely need to hire a qualified lawyer at your earliest convenience. The team of seasoned defense attorneys at the Marshall Law Firm possesses over 100 years of collective experience defending CDS charges including those facing a methamphetamine/meth offense at the County Courthouse in Trenton. An attorney at the firm, including our several former prosecutors, is ready to assist you 24/7 in a free initial consultation. Call 609–683–8102 to speak to one of our lawyers now.
Charged With Possession of Crystal Meth in Trenton New Jersey
Every possession of methamphetamine offense filed in Mercer County is dealt with in Trenton New Jersey. The reason is because Trenton is where the Mercer County Superior Court is located and this is the only court with jurisdiction to adjudicate a third degree crime for possessing crystal meth. It is unlawful to possess methamphetamine actually or constructively under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10a(1). An individual convicted of meth possession faces the following penalties at the time of sentencing in Trenton:
Fine of up to $35,000
Imprisonment for up to 5 Years
VCCO of $50
Safe Neighborhood Fund of $75
Court Costs of $33
A Term of Probation
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An offense for methamphetamine distribution can come in the form of a crime of the third degree, second degree or first degree, depending on the quantity involved. Selling, distributing or possession with intent to distribute less than one-half once of meth is a third degree crime under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5a(9)(b) that is punishable by a fine of up to $75,000 and up to 5 years in prison. Distribution of at least one-half ounce but less than five ounces of methamphetamine is a second degree crime that carries 5-10 years in prison and a fine of up to $150,000. It is a first degree crime under 2C:35-5a(8) to distribute, sell or possess with the intent to distribute five ounces or more of crystal meth. The penalties for first degree methamphetamine distribution results in a maximum fine of $300,000 and 10-20 years in state prison. There is also a 6-24 month suspension of driving privileges that must be imposed.
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Hamilton Township is the most populated municipality in Mercer County so it naturally makes sense that methamphetamine charges arise there from time to time. If you were arrested for some form of meth offense anywhere in Mercer County, including Lawrence Township, Hopewell Township, West Windsor, Robbinsville or Hightstown, an attorney at the Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall is prepared to provide the sound guidance you need.
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Rethinking investment policies, revenue sources
Our failure to invest in infrastructure is slowing us down, stifling our economy and making Illinois less competitive than our neighbors.
Illinois has a $43 billion transportation deficit
Years of declining investment have left Illinois’ roads, rails and bridges in poor shape. We must invest $43 billion to rebuild and improve our state’s transportation network. Doing nothing will actually cost us more: From damaged vehicles to lost time, our crumbling infrastructure is taking money out of our pockets and slowing down our state’s economy.
The Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) consulted experts around the state to determine that meeting Illinois’ transportation deficit requires an investment of $43 billion over 10 years, or an average of $4.3 billion each year for 10 years. That’s less than we’re already wasting on extra repairs to vehicles as a result of poor road conditions, time lost to congestion and delays, and loss of jobs and investment to neighboring states. Rebuilding our infrastructure will cost less than continuing to suffer.
A regular investment of $4.3 billion each year for the next 10 years will fill the gap so we can make the fixes we need today, plus allow for sensible expansion to accommodate tomorrow. Any less is insufficient to meet the maintenance backlog. Waiting will only increase our costs and put us further behind our neighboring states, who are already taking action to invest more in infrastructure. We must act in 2017.
We're in this mess because we've invested less and less
Since it was last raised in 1991, the purchasing power of the state’s fixed per-gallon gas tax has declined by more than 40 percent—reducing the average Illinoisan’s contribution from the equivalent of $160 to under $100 per year (in 2013 dollars). In turn, transportation spending has fallen by 40 percent, from 13 percent of state spending in 1991 to eight percent in 2014. Meanwhile, the portion of our roads in good condition has fallen from the standard of 90 percent to only 79 percent in 2015. Without action, this will decline to 62 percent by 2021. Transit systems in Northeastern Illinois have also fallen behind dramatically. RTA estimates that only about 67 percent of the region’s transit network is in a state of good repair. At existing levels of funding, the share of buses trains and infrastructure in a state of good repair will decrease to 63 % by 2035 (Bridge The Gap: Capital Investment Needs of the RTA Region, February 2017). The bottom line is that if we keep investing at the same rate, conditions are going to get worse each year.
In the past we’ve relied on large but infrequent capital bills to patch together funding. We are still paying off bonds for the last two capital bills. We cannot afford to do this again. The resulting boom-and-bust cycle was unpredictable and ultimately inefficient. To allow us to return our infrastructure to good condition and accommodate growth, we need a substantial, regular, reliable source of additional revenue.
We need sustainable, reliable funding
+ $0.30/gal
gas tax + 50%
To start catching up on our maintenance backlog and adequately plan for the future, Illinois needs a sustainable, reliable revenue source that can raise an additional $2.7 billion in revenue each year (on top of existing federal and state sources). Of this $2.7 billion, about half can be used for pay-as-you-go spending, with the other half to support $25 billion in bonds over the 10 years, meeting the $43 billion need. (After the first ten years, the continued revenue will fully support the repayment of the bonds over their 25 year life. We assume a five percent interest rate.)
This is equivalent to a $0.30/gal increase in state motor fuel taxes and a 50 percent increase in vehicle registration fees. The tax and fees should be indexed to the consumer price index to keep pace with inflation. To acknowledge the effect of these increases on lower- and middle-income Illinoisans, the state earned income tax credit should double to 20 percent of the federal amount.
In the long term, MPC recognizes the need to shift toward a user fee that is not tied to fuel purchases. We must begin exploring a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee today so that we can have full implementation by 2025.
We must prioritize projects to invest smartly
Effectively distributing an additional $43 billion investment requires diligent planning and prioritization. Luckily, we already have statewide, regional and local plans that identify bridges to rebuild, roads to repave, and transit lines to upgrade. In terms of maintenance, we know what we need to fix. We simply need the money to do it.
To ensure we receive the maximum return on investments in major, transformative projects, state funding should prioritize infrastructure that meets performance-based criteria. When decision makers are more accountable and the decision-making process is more transparent, taxpayers know where their dollars are being invested and are more likely to support new revenue sources.
In Illinois, transportation spending is not tied by law to statewide goals or performance measures, nor are agencies required to coordinate to achieve the highest return on an investment. MPC is a strong advocate for a statewide, data-based approach that prioritizes the most effective, accountable and transparent investments. Simultaneously, we are advocating for new revenue options to allow Illinois to invest in transportation improvements that commuters and businesses desperately need.
A step in the right direction was Illinois announcement of its new performance-based approach for capacity investments in May 2017; the criteria are shown below:
Applying a merit-based process for prioritizing transportation projects in Illinois will provide:
Accountability: Given Illinois’ fiscal state, it is critical to reap the highest value for every taxpayer dollar spent. Merit-based budgeting would achieve this by requiring all projects that vie for capital funding to be weighed against criteria based on statewide goals.
Transparency: A statewide, data-rich, outcomes-based approach to prioritizing infrastructure investments will make it clearer to Illinois taxpayers why their tax dollars are being funneled toward a specific project.
Strong return on investment: Setting forth a process for prioritizing projects will ensure taxpayers receive the best return on their investment. Strategically investing precious tax dollars rather than spending them will improve quality of life, clean the air and generate much-needed economic development.
A more level playing field: A more open and honest way of making capital investment decisions in Illinois means all communities’ projects would be measured against the same yardstick: The “have-nots” will have as good a chance to compete as the “have-lots.”
Now we just need funds to allow us to invest in new capacity projects – so we can apply this performance based process to determine which road, bridge, bus and rail investments will give us the best results for the money.
Investing more would actually cost us less
to invest +$43 billion
40 cents per day
$147 per year
The additional gas tax and the increase in vehicle registration fees described above would cost the average person $12.25 each month, or $147 each year. That’s 40 cents a day. The average Illinois household spends more than $10,000 a year on transportation. For a fraction more, we can have a system that works. Each month it’s the cost of one lunch, or a Netflix subscription.
Or, we can continue to waste $3.7 billion every year on extra car repairs from poor roads—that’s $450 per driver. Chicagoland commuters lose 111 hours every year sitting in traffic, according to the latest figures from TomTom. MPC has estimated the annual cost of traffic congestion at $7.3 billion. Train commuters lose a combined 800,000 hours every year to delays that could be prevented with simple fixes, including finishing the CREATE program. What’s the cost of that lost time? Certainly more than $12.25 each month.
Federal revenue options
The federal government plays an essential role in funding transportation capital investments in Illinois and in other states. The Chicago region's 5-year public transit capital plan, for example, is overwhelmingly reliant on grants from the federal government. The 2015 federal transportation authorization, however, did not increase funding for transportation significantly. Moreover, it relies on a transfer of general fund dollars rather than revenue from the motor fuel tax, which has not been increased at the federal level since 1993.
Tapping into new revenue sources is necessary to fund the federal contribution to transportation capital funding. The following options are reliable and sustainable:
Increase the federal motor fuel tax and index it to inflationto ensure that this revenue source remains steady over time.
Implement a vehicle miles traveled taxto account for the decreasing returns of a per-gallon motor fuel tax as vehicle efficiency increases.
Allow tolling of existing roads.Federal law limits states' and regions' abilities to use congestion pricing—a powerful tool to manage vehicular traffic while improving transportation options—by failing to reauthorize several programs and by effectively prohibiting states from tolling existing Interstate lanes.
Restore selection criteria to TIFIA. MAP-21 unfortunately eliminated one of the greatest strengths of a competitive loan fund known as the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA): project selection criteria. MPC supports reinstating these criteria to ensure TIFIA loans support only the most innovative nationally or regionally significant projects.
Illinois and regional revenue options
In addition to the revenue options MPC is proposing in response to Illinois' $43 billion state transportation infrastructure shortfall, several additional sources are available to fund transportation at the state and regional level. These sources would provide an essential augmentation of revenues to pay for road, bridge and transit maintenance and construction.
Broaden the sales tax base to include services,which should be accompanied by a reduction in the overall rate. This would make Illinois more competitive with neighboring states, which have a broader sales tax base but a lower rate.
Implement additional Transit Facility Improvement Areas,a type of financing district along transit corridors. Increases in property tax revenues that result from transportation investments are used to fund the infrastructure. State and City legislation enabling this mechanism was approved in 2016 and it was used for Phase I of the CTA Red_Purple Line Modernization. However it is limited to use on four specific projects. Broadening the eligibility would enable wider use on transit projects.
Expand variable-priced parking in neighborhoods throughout the region so that parking supply is more closely matched to demand. Variable-priced parking reduces congestion by allowing people to find parking spaces more easily and encouraging them to try other modes of transportation, such as walking, biking and transit. In 2016 the City began implementing surge pricing for 1,100 spaces around Wrigley Field during ballgames and concerts. This strategy should be expanded in areas and at times when parking demand high to balance supply and demand, and to generate revenue for improvements to the transportation system.
Expand the use of congestion pricing on the existing system, in order to ensure congestion-free travel options are available along the region's major highways. New lanes on I-55, the Stevenson Expressway, could be the region's first step in this direction. The 16 miles of SmartRoad on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) have been set up with gantries so that the infrastructure is ready to implement congestion pricing on certain lanes when needed.
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2016 Election Poll Results: Vast Majority of Young Voters Say Donald Trump Is Racist
By Emily C. Singer
More than two-thirds of voters ages 18 to 30 say Donald Trump is a racist, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Every demographic of young voter tracked in the poll — black, Asian, Latino and white — see the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a racist, according to the survey, which was conducted by GenForward and commissioned by the University of Chicago's Black Youth Project and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Young Latino voters led the different racial groups in saying Trump is racist, with 81% holding that view. They were followed by young Asian voters, 78% of whom said Trump is racist, and young black voters, 77% of whom said Trump is racist.
Fifty-eight percent of young white voters also said Trump is racist.
Given those results, it's unsurprising that the vast majority of voters ages 18 to 30 had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, according to the poll.
Three-quarters of young voters view Trump unfavorably, and only 21% said he was qualified to be president, the poll found.
Yet while young voters took a dim view of Trump, they also view presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton unfavorably.
More than half, or 54%, of young voters have an unfavorable opinion of Clinton, according to the survey.
Still, she leads Trump 38% to 17% among young voters, according to the poll.
Clinton's low number in a match-up against Trump is largely thanks to the hesitance of young Bernie Sanders supporters, only 51% of whom said they will vote for her in November.
But Clinton's campaign hopes that number will grow, especially after Sanders' endorsement on Tuesday.
The poll was conducted from June 14 to June 27 — when Sanders was still an active candidate.
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Illegal fireworks dumped in wheelie bin
Trading standards manager Stephen Thomson with just some of the illegal fireworks.
Kevin Quinn
Published: 11:57 Monday 23 October 2017
Illegal fireworks worth more than £1,500, including three feet long rockets, have been found abandoned in a wheelie bin on a Midlothian industrial estate.
Midlothian Council’s trading standards officers became involved after police were called out to Dalhousie Industrial Estate, near Newtongrange, when a member of the public reported the fly-tipping recently.
Midlothian’s cabinet member for trading standards, Councillor Russell Imrie (Lab)said: “Police removed a crate and a wheelie bin packed full of pretty serious fireworks that are now illegal for retailers to store and sell.
“If they had been found and set off by local children, I dread to think what could have happened in the wrong hands, certainly there was potential for injuries.”
Since July 2017 after a five year ‘phasing out’ period, registered retailers can no longer sell or store fireworks with the British Standard mark BS7114.
Trading standards officers believe the fireworks were probably dumped by a shop keeper outwith Midlothian who didn’t want to pay for the fireworks to be disposed of safely.
Cllr Imrie added: “Our officers are working hard to keep illegal fireworks out of the wrong hands. We’ve heard tales of people being offered fireworks as prizes on social media sites.
“If anyone is offered fireworks on this basis then please don’t accept them.
“Remember, a legally sold firework will always carry the CE mark of conformity. If it doesn’t then don’t buy it. Instead contact our trading standards team on 0131 271 3549.”
Chief Inspector Kenny Simpson, local area commander for Midlothian said: “Fireworks have the potential to be extremely dangerous if used or stored inappropriately and illegal fireworks that do not meet British safety standards amplify that risk considerably.
“As a result of this joint activity, a significant quantity of illegal fireworks were recovered in an area, where young people could have easily accessed them and this is totally unacceptable.
“We are continuing with our inquiries to identify whoever is responsible for dumping these items and anyone with information can contact us via 101.”
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Club Electric Avenue
Downtown - Golden Square Mile
With its electric and energetic décor inspired by the 80s, Electric Avenue takes nightlife enthusiasts on a musical journey through the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The centrepiece of the club is undoubtedly its “Saturday Night Fever” dance floor, the only one of its kind in Canada. All in all, the perfect setting for unforgettable memories.
Thu, Fri, Sat, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Closed: Dec 24.
Open on Sundays on holiday weekends.
1476 A Crescent Street
Montréal, QC H3G 2B6
info@clubsmontreal.com
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Comcast and CBS Sports Digital Partner To Launch Fantasy Football Experience On Xfinity X1
PHILADELPHIA – September 7, 2017 – Comcast announced a new partnership with CBS Sports Digital that will put fantasy football scores and stats on the same screen as the games themselves, offering Xfinity X1 customers a new way to experience live sports on the television. Starting today, they can access their CBS Sports Fantasy Football league online directly on their TV, allowing for easy navigation between live games and highlights while keeping an eye on their fantasy team’s performance, all on one screen.
“This new integration between Comcast and CBS Sports Digital is nirvana for fantasy football fans,” said Preston Smalley, Vice President of Product Management for Apps, Sports and Content, Comcast Cable. “Until now, the millions of people in the U.S. who play fantasy sports would track their team’s progress on a separate device splitting their attention from the live play on TV. By putting everything on the same screen, we’ve created an experience that’s immersive, informative and complete.”
The integrated online experience provides viewers with access to detailed stats and analysis on their fantasy team’s standing, info on how key players are performing, game trends, and real-time updates on that week’s head-to-head matchup. To get started, CBS Sports Fantasy Football players can launch the new experience directly within the X1 sports app or by simply saying “show me my fantasy football team” or “my fantasy football team” – as well as a variety of other voice commands – into their X1 voice remote. When opened on X1, the CBS Sports Fantasy Football experience will appear on the right-hand side of the TV, resizing the live video on the screen to ensure you don’t miss any of the action.
“We’re excited to offer our fantasy players this enhanced experience on Xfinity X1,” said Jeffrey Gerttula, Senior Vice President and General Manager, CBS Sports Digital. “The integration plays right into our focus on offering custom leagues and features for serious fantasy players, who can now seamlessly track their teams while watching games on the same screen.”
For more information on the sports viewing experience on X1, including the new integration of CBS Sports Fantasy Football, visit https://www.xfinity.com/sports.
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CBS Sports Digital covers the full spectrum of sports, from preps to pros, and provides premium content across all digital screens. A division of CBS Interactive, CBS Sports Digital was the fastest-growing top-10 digital sports property of 2016, according to comScore. With a focus on serving fans live coverage every day, CBS Sports Digital offers exclusive access to the biggest sports events, live and on-demand video, in-depth analysis, breaking news, scores and statistics, and a wide range of fantasy games and advice. CBS interactive, a division of CBS Corporation, is the world’s largest publisher of premium digital content and a perennial top 10 internet company.
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Chapter 15 This Is Our Wedding Room
Lingering through her soul, the familiar scent of the warm man invaded her incessantly, just like how it was in her dreams. Once again, she saw the wicked smile from the mischievous face, so familiar and unforgettable. Scared, Cassandra extended her quivering hand to cover Rufus' lips. The sexy, thin lips which always left her wanting for more, were so soft and enticing. She gestured him worriedly to stay still and be silent.
The sound of footsteps drew closer and gradually faded away. It was then that Cassandra's racing heart began to calm down.
She was so nervous and terrified that she completely ignored the awkward way how she held Rufus. Their bodies were so pressed together and their faces almost touched. It was only after she regained her senses that she realized how inappropriate it was to be that close to him.
The awkwardness was heightened when she realized that she was covering his mouth with her bare hand. It was as if a sharp needle hung between them slowly vanished, and was replaced by the soft touch from her smooth and delicate hand. His deep eyes once again found the path towards the alluring face of the woman. He was not missing any details of the interesting expressions on her face.
"I think he's gone,"
the woman confirmed as she walked away from Rufus and pressed her ear against the door to listen.
It was quiet and not a single sound could be heard from outside. Lionel should be back to his room by now. Heaving a deep sigh of relief, she pulled down her weary hand over Rufus' face, releasing her tension. But, that was not the end of her agony. All the while her attention was focused on the man outside the room, and apparently, she had forgotten that there was another man inside, who was equally hard to deal with.
With his typical playful smile, he fixed his eyes at the woman.
She, however, didn't notice that. Cautiously, she opened the door slightly and peeked her head out like a thief. The silence in the corridor reaffirmed her assumptions and soothed her mood.
"He's gone. Absolutely gone. Whew! That was scary,"
she murmured softly as she gently patted her chest to relieve the tension. Oblivious to the presence of another man, she was ready to leave.
The instant she opened the door, the man who had remained silent and cooperative throughout the incident, abruptly slammed the door and pushed her against it.
Out of her natural reflexes, she screamed out because of the sudden change of mood. Abruptly, she realized that she was too loud. Consciously covering her own mouth with her hand to avoid making more unsolicited screams, she gazed at the rude man. Confusion welled up in her eyes.
"What do you think are you doing?"
the woman asked in anger, deliberately keeping her voice low. 'Now Lionel has left. Why wouldn't he let me go?' she asked herself.
"What am I doing? I just helped you out. Don't you think that you should pay me back?"
The mischievous man teased with a sly grin on his face, which made the lady blush in shyness.
"Oh, well, Rufus, thank you so much. But it's already late. I won't disturb you anymore. Goo…Good night,"
Cassandra stuttered as she could no longer hold his intense gaze and diverted her eyes aside. Her voice was almost as low
“Let's go and register our marriage on your birthday!”
Marrying Daniel should have been her best birthday gift, but everything was ruined the moment when she caught him sleeping with another woman on the day before her birthday.
“He’s going to marry that woman! She... was my best friend!"
and soft as a whisper.
Her timid reaction aroused the man's infatuations, which elevated to the point that he wanted to grab her tight and gave her a long and wild kiss.
"So you owe me one for this. I'll take back what you owe next time,"
the man asserted. A wicked smile crept on his cheek as he slowly let go of the woman. It was no surprise, actually, that he didn't continue with the inappropriate and outrageous plan on his mind, considering he was a man with self-control, and not to mention that he was in this place, the Tang family house.
He knew, better than anyone else, what the consequences of his actions would be. It would do no good other than creating a disaster.
Unwilling to stay longer, the fretted woman didn't even wait for the man to finish his sentence and ran out of the room like a prisoner having a chance to break out.
To him, the action of the panicky woman was so hilarious. He couldn't help smiling. He smiled despite being hurt inside, and without knowing it he enjoyed the confusing emotions. Alone in the room, he felt strange of himself and turned the smile on his face into a frown.
He had the best-laid plans. But Cassandra, a distraction, just ran into his plan without any prior notice. What scared him right now was that he enjoyed whatever was happening between Cassandra and him. 'This woman is indeed cute and innocent, even irresistible, but she's still part of the Tang family!' he thought.
Meanwhile, in Cassandra's room, she was so relieved as soon as the door shut, which signaled her separation from the outside world. Her tired and drained body slumped to the floor. She didn't even have the extra energy to turn on the light that was within her reach.
'If not for my swift action, I would have been caught flirting with my brother-in-law!' she thought.
'Pooh! Pooh! Pooh! It has nothing to do with flirting!' she quickly assured herself and shook her head.
It was a total mess for the brain as she was imagining and anticipating things. She heaved a sigh of fatigue and remorse, her hand rubbing her own hair with worry. 'Why Rufus was the person I had the one-night stand with?' she asked, blaming herself.
It was completely dark in the room. As Cassandra was still mourning for her pitiful fate, the light was suddenly turned on, which scared her. She sprang up and looked around warily.
Soon, her cautious eyes found their target. It was Lionel, sitting elegantly and comfortably on the sofa, crossing his arms. The man eyed her with his usual coldness and indifference.
"It's late. Where have you been?"
inquired the man. Cassandra was stunned to see her husband in her bedroom. That was so unusual and unexpected. The question from him made her heart skip a little.
"You…Why are you in my room?"
she said, answering his question with another question.
At that instant, Lionel stood up from the sofa and walked towards her direction. He faced Cassandra, with no intentions of hiding the intense hatred he had for her. The expression of his disgusted face turned even colder.
Raising up his hand, he lifted her chin and slightly raised her pale head. He ridiculed her saying, "Your room? Hey, Cassandra, let me remind you this is our wedding room. It's our room."
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About Back-Scattering Interferometry technology
Back Scattering Interferometry (BSI) is a label-free, free-solution technology that employs novel, conformation-sensitive detection to characterize complex drug targets — small molecule interactions in a native-like environment. BSI has significant advantages over conventional methods for membrane preparations and other complex protein targets including allosteric target-compound direct binding assays with radiolabel sensitivity.
Back-Scattering Interferometry (BSI) is a free-solution, label-free molecular interaction assay technology that is based upon a highly sensitive micro-scale interferometer (see figure to right). At the heart of the interferometer is a microfluidic chip which receives samples for analysis.
BSI molecular binding measurements are performed on mixtures of target and ligand (or drug target and lead compound) that have been incubated to achieve equilibrium. Both target and ligand have their own specific refractive index signature, which is measured as the mean polarizability of the sample as probed in the microfluidic channel. When ligand and target bind, they create a new and unique species, which translates as a discernable change in measured refractive index. Upon binding many targets undergo conformational change, which serves as the primary origin of the BSI signal.
Binding assays are established to achieve target saturation without ligand depletion. Hence assays typically employ a sparing amount of target in the presence of excess ligand. Following incubation,
samples are read in the BSI instrument, and binding maximum and
associated equilibrium dissociation constant are derived.
Select the tabs below to delve deeper into the BSI technology story.
History of BSI
Conformational Change
How BSI Works
BSI Signal Processing
Setting up the BSI Assay
History of BSI Technology
Back-Scattering Interferometry (BSI) was invented by Professor Darryl J. Bornhop of Vanderbilt University in the 1990’s, and was first used as a highly sensitive refractive index detector for micro-separation techniques such as capillary liquid chromatography (1) and capillary electrophoresis (2 and 3). Dr. Bornhop then began to apply BSI technology to the study of molecular interactions during his tenure at Texas Tech University as well as with his group at Vanderbilt University. During this period, he looked at the interaction of various ligands to immobilized protein targets (4 and 5), as has been conventionally performed using a variety of wave-guide based biosensor technologies such as Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy. Dr. Bornhop later expanded the application of BSI to the revolutionary study of free solution molecular interactions (6), and the age of BSI label-free and tether-free analysis of molecular interaction was born!
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Molecular Conformational Change
The molecular mechanism responsible for the BSI signal is changes in measured mean polarizability arising from molecular conformational change. Studies performed by MSI as well as the Bornhop Group at Vanderbilt University have confirmed this model.
Calmodulin Binding Study
Work performed by MSI scientists have positively correlated observed BSI signal strength to ab initio modeling and empirical investigation for relative change in conformation for the apo- and holo-Calmodulin system. As shown in Figure 1, the interaction of Ca+2 with apo-Calmodulin to yield holo-Calmoldulin results in a measured BSI signal of approximately 400 millipiexels. When holo-Calmodulin was further challenged with a small molecule, Trifluoroperazine (TFP) (see Figure 2), or a large peptide, M13 (see Figure 3), measured signal strength positively correlated with previously reported change in conformation (1-4).
1. Komeiji Y, Ueno Y, & Uebayasi M (2002) Molecular dynamics simulations revealed Ca(2+)-dependent conformational change of Calmodulin. FEBS letters 521(1-3):133-139.
2. Shen X, et al. (2008) The secondary structure of calcineurin regulatory region and conformational change induced by calcium/calmodulin binding. The Journal of biological chemistry 283(17):11407-11413.
3. Trajkovic S, Zhang X, Daunert S, & Cai Y (2011) Atomic force microscopy study of the conformational change in immobilized calmodulin. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 27(17):10793-10799.
4. Vandonselaar M, Hickie RA, Quail JW, & Delbaere LT (1994) Trifluoperazine-induced conformational change in Ca(2+)-calmodulin. Nature structural biology 1(11):795-801.
Bovine Serum Albumin pH Titration Study
BSA is a soft, globular protein that undergoes pH dependent conformational change. BSA molecular volume was studied by densimetry (Biophys J. 2006, 91(9), p 3397-3404). As shown in the accompanying figure (blue dots), at acidic pH, BSA exists in a compact conformer. As pH is increased to 4.8, BSA assumes a fully open conformation. Upon subsequent titration to pH 7, BSA assumes another conformation which is slightly smaller in molecular footprint when compared to its maximum size. As can be seen, BSI tracks these pH-dependent conformational changes (green squares), further substantiating the relationship between BSI signal and molecular conformation.
BSI tracks pH-dependent conformational changes of serum albumin consistent with molecular volume measurements from densimetry.(Biophys J 2006, 91(9) p3397-3404)
The BACE 1 Study
MSI scientists work with a client to study the interaction of various ligands to Beta Secretase 1 (BACE 1).
Three client lead compounds (A, B, and C) as well as the Elan peptide were studied for their binding behavior with BACE1. X-ray crystallographic data provided by the client indicated that a distal flap (green) differentially responded to ligand binding in the target site (red). For lead compounds B and C, the distal flap would open, thus increasing the radius of gyration and solvent addressable surface area of this enzyme. Conversely, binding of the Elan peptide and Lead A resulted in the contraction of the distal flap along with concomitant reduction in BACE footprint. BSI measurement of these interactions indicated a positive change in mean polarizability for those ligands which caused the flap to open and a negative change for those which closed the flap, further substantiating the ability to measure changes in protein conformation.
The Back-Scattering Interferometer
The Back-Scattering Interferometer is elegantly simple. The BSI device consists of a light source (HeNe laser), an object (the microchip), and a detector (CCD Array). At the heart of the system is the microchip. The microchip receives coherent light from a HeNe laser. Light impinges upon a channel. As light passes into the channel, combinations of reflection and refraction at the air-chip interfaces (front and back) as well as fluid-chip interfaces creates constructive and destructive interference fringe patterns in the back-scattered direction. These fringes are collected by a mirror and directed to strike a video camera (CCD array) that images the fringes as shown in Figure 1. When molecules combine, the resultant complex causes a constitutive change in molecular mean polarizability that is measured in the detection zone as a phase shift in many of the frequencies that comprise the interference pattern. Monitoring the change in phase as a function of ligand concentration allows equilibrium Kd measurements to be performed on the BSI instrument even in complex biological or chemical matrices.
When molecular complexes form, they cause a measurable change in mean polarizability within the channel, which in turn causes the fringes to shift their position (move to the left or move to the right; see figure above). A proprietary algorithm is applied to determine minute changes in fringe position among the various frequencies which comprise the fringe array. The output of the system is a time dependent plot of fringe position that is translated into binding response.
The BSI chip is essentially a flow cell, in which previous samples are displaced with subsequent injections. Unlike many other bio-sensing techniques, with BSI there is no need for surface regeneration, as each measurement is truly performed in free solution. As illustrated in Figure 2, each sample injection-read cycle is completed in about 30 seconds. The amplitude of these plots is related to abundance of the binding complex, enabling end-point, equilibrium dissociation constant determination.
Free solution BSI Kd determinations are performed in end-point fashion, with target and ligand pre-incubated to establish equilibrium. Target and ligand concentrations are established to initiate pseudo-first order binding conditions, for which the target is typically held at sparing concentration and the ligand in excess to insure against depletion during the binding process.
The concentration of target can range from pM to uM depending on the Kd of the ligand – target equilibrium. A series of range-finding experiments are launched to establish the optimal concentration of the target, which is ideally established to be about one-tenth of the system’s Kd. Usually, the analyte concentration ranges from one-fifth to 10 times the concentration of the system Kd. The figure above illustrates the RI change for a constant target A (light blue trace, constant RI), the increase in RI as ligand B is increased (red trace) as a control and finally, the hyperbolic binding isotherm RI curve for the equilibrium AB complex after mixing and equilibration of A and B (dark blue trace). In practice, control B is run simultaneously in a reference channel with complex AB run in the analytical channel. The difference is plotted as AB-B against an offset of A. A single site binding isotherm model is fitted to the AB curve to determine the binding maximum or Bmax. Kd is then established as ½ Bmax.
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The Pink Tower
Catherine McTamaney
No Montessori early childhood classroom would be complete without the Pink Tower, one of the original materials designed by Dr. Montessori herself. For the child, the tower offers an intriguing challenge: build the ten cubes as high as you can make them without the tower crumbling. This is more difficult than it looks! While that largest cube, at a full 10cm cubed, is easy to manage and difficult to tumble, that tiny 1cm cube requires much more precision.
Within the tower, like in so many other Montessori materials, there are hidden benefits, lessons to be internalized through trial and error. For example, the tower helps to develop hand and eye coordination, as children manage the varying weights and dimensions of the ten cubes. You may see teachers presenting the tower by showing the child how to lift each cube from the top, the position from which the weight of the cube is most noticeable. Children experience the difference in weight that just a small change in dimension can create. Further, the tower supports children's visual discrimination, as they choose which block to place next in the sequence. While the distinction between the largest and smallest cubes is immediately apparent, the distinction between sequential cubes are more nuanced. While adults may immediately notice the quirky proportions of an inaccurately built tower, the youngest children might initially only attend to whether the tower stands, building in their ability to notice the proportions of the tower only after extended use.
The Pink Tower also contributes to the foundation for the Base Ten number system by working in dimensions of diminishing tenths. Each cube is 1 centimeter smaller all around than the next largest cube, from the one-centimeter-cubed smallest cube to the ten-centimeter-cubed largest cube. This simple ratio is repeated throughout the Sensorial materials and helps the child to prepare for the mathematic operations. As the child's precision grows, the Pink Tower can be combined with other sensorial materials to expand the challenge, or built with one or two edges aligned for more difficulty, or built with alternating centers of gravity to explore the distribution of force. Meanwhile, as a material that requires the child to carry each cube, one by one by one, from the shelf to the mat and back again, it establishes a sense of order, an ability to concentrate and an opportunity to practice gross motor control in the classroom.
Finally, since the tower will not stand unless the child has organized all these components with accuracy, it serves as its own control of error, allowing the child, with his or her ever-increasing attention to detail, to notice independently when the tower has been constructed well.Plus, the simple beauty of the pink cubes provides a balanced aesthetic that inspires many children to observe their own work. No wonder it's a favorite! Over a hundred years after it was first introduced, the Pink Tower has earned its place as a center of the Sensorial materials and a well-loved didactic component of the classroom.
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NBC Fantasizes About Oprah Running in 2020, Touts Her Efforts in GA
By Nicholas Fondacaro | November 1, 2018 12:11 AM EDT
The 2018 midterms were less than a week away and the liberal media were already looking forward to the 2020 Presidential election and dreaming about the candidates they would back against President Trump. During Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, they were fantasizing about Oprah Winfrey going toe-to-toe Trump and touting her efforts to get Democrats elected in 2018.
Anchor Lester Holt began the segment by boasting about “the Oprah factor” taking hold in the Georgia gubernatorial race. “Hitting the trail trying to elect this country's first African-American woman governor. It's got a lot of people asking is Oprah also reconsidering a potential run for president,” he wondered. “Apparently, those very close to her are keeping up the pressure.”
“[O]ff the sidelines and entering the 2018 fray,” touted NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker at the start of her report. “The queen of talk now poised to lend her voice and star power to Stacy Abrams, the Georgia Democrat running to become the country's first female African-American governor.”
Welker followed up by gushing about Oprah’s past electoral efforts for Democratic candidates:
WELKER: The media mogul has largely stayed out of politics, making a brief but big splash in 2007 with her endorsement candidate Barack Obama.
WINFREY: I believe the now is the time for somebody like Barack Obama.
WELKER: Also backing Hillary Clinton in 2016…
“[B]ut now, Oprah is generating the buzz of a potential presidential run,” Welker continued, citing Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes and calling it a “barnburner”.
Despite how “Winfrey was quick to dismiss speculation about whether she’d challenge President Trump in 2020,” Welker seemed almost optimistic the legendary TV personality could be convinced to launch a campaign. She regaled viewers with a story about how CBS This Morning co-host was pushing her friend to run:
Winfrey telling The New York Times her best friend Gayle King is urging her to do it. Winfrey saying she told King, “you of all people are supposed to care about my life.” King replying, “the country is bigger than your life.”
This wasn’t the first time the liberal media has been infatuated with the possibility of backing THE Oprah Winfrey in 2020 against the President. This year alone has seen several occasions. Even as early as January. And before Wednesday night, they talked about it back in July. It’s an obsession for them.
The transcript below, click "expand" to read:
NBC Nightly News
LESTER HOLT: From that, let's talk about the Oprah factor and her surprise announcement of her own last-minute campaign push. Hitting the trail trying to elect this country's first African-American woman governor. It's got a lot of people asking is Oprah also reconsidering a potential run for president? Apparently, those very close to her are keeping up the pressure. With more, here is NBC's Kristen Welker.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN WELKER: Tonight, Oprah, off the sidelines and entering the 2018 fray.
OPRAH WINFREY: Vote!
WELKER: The queen of talk now poised to lend her voice and star power to Stacy Abrams, the Georgia Democrat running to become the country's first female African-American governor. Abram is locked in a tight race with Republican Brian Kemp. The media mogul has largely stayed out of politics, making a brief but big splash in 2007 with her endorsement candidate Barack Obama.
WELKER: Also backing Hillary Clinton in 2016, but now Oprah is generating the buzz of a potential presidential run after this barnburner of a speech at the Golden Globes.
WINFREY: That a new day is on the horizon!
WELKER: Winfrey was quick to dismiss speculation about whether she’d challenge President Trump in 2020, telling British Vogue, “I would not be able to do it. It's not a clean business. It would kill me.” But in an article out today, Winfrey telling The New York Times her best friend Gayle King is urging her to do it. Winfrey saying she told King, “you of all people are supposed to care about my life.” King replying, “the country is bigger than your life.”
[Cuts back to live]
Oprah is not the only high profile name campaigning in that race. President Trump and former President Obama will also stump in Georgia. Lester?
HOLT: Kristen Welker, thanks.
NB Daily Campaigns & Elections 2020 Presidential 2018 Governors Political Groups Liberals & Democrats Broadcast Television NBC NBC Nightly News Video Gayle King Lester Holt Kristen Welker Oprah Winfrey Donald Trump
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Problematic Pot Use Rises in States With Legal Marijuana
Marijuana Dispensary manager in Merlin, Ore., stocks the shelves with product. (Timothy Bullard/AP)
Thursday, 14 November 2019 10:28 AM
States that legalized recreational marijuana have seen an increase in problematic pot use among teens and adults aged 26 and older, a new study finds.
The researchers compared marijuana use in Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon -- the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana -- before and after legalization. The investigators also compared trends in those states with states that did not legalize recreational marijuana.
"There are, indeed, important social benefits that legalizing marijuana can provide, particularly around issues of equity in criminal justice," said lead author Magdalena Cerda. She's director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy at NYU Langone Health, in New York City.
However, "our findings suggest that as more states move toward legalizing marijuana for recreational use, we also need to think about investing in substance use prevention and treatment to prevent unintended harms -- particularly among adolescents," Cerda added in an NYU news release.
The study authors examined marijuana use and frequent use (more than 20 days) in the past month, and problematic marijuana use (also called "cannabis use disorder") over the past year. Signs of problematic use include increased tolerance, repeated attempts to control use or quit, spending a lot of time using, social problems due to use, and ignoring other activities in order to use.
The rate of problematic use among teens aged 12 to 17 rose from 2.18% to 2.72% after legalization, and was 25% higher than in non-recreational states. But there was no change in rates of past-month or frequent use.
Among adults 26 or older, past-month marijuana use after legalization was 26% higher than in non-recreational states. Past-month frequent use rose by 23% and past-year problematic use rose by 37%.
Among young adults aged 18 to 25, there was no increase in past-month, frequent or problematic marijuana use after legalization, according to the study. The findings were published online Nov. 13 in JAMA Psychiatry.
According to study senior author Dr. Silvia Martins, "Cannabis use disorder in adolescence is associated with long-term adverse health, economic and social consequences." She is an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in New York City.
"Given our findings on problematic use across age groups, legalization efforts should coincide with prevention and treatment," Martins said in the news release.
"The general public should be informed about both benefits and potential harms of marijuana products to make informed decisions," Martins added.
Recreational marijuana use is legal in 11 states and Washington, D.C. Medical marijuana use is legal in 33 states, the study authors noted.
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Author: Sarah Sheldon
Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize a wide array of industries, from pharmaceuticals and materials research to finance and logistics, by offering a fundamentally different way of processing information using quantum mechanical systems. The promise of quantum computing lies in its ability to store and process information in quantum bits (qubits), which are notoriously fragile (i.e., they can lose their information easily through interactions with their environment). It is also exceedingly difficult to simultaneously isolate a quantum system from noise and to control it precisely.
The idea of quantum computing first arose in the context of quantum simulation. Richard Feynman (1982) proposed that to properly simulate quantum systems, one must use a quantum computer, but quantum computing was considered impractical because of the inability to control qubits without errors.
Quantum computers are made up of individual qubits that are coupled to noisy environments (stray electromagnetic fields or material defects that can exchange energy with qubits). Unlike classical computers, they cannot rely on redundancy to prevent errors. Additionally, the state of a qubit can be a linear superposition of ∣0⟩ and ∣1⟩ and so any error correction must preserve the qubit’s additional phase information (Gottesman 2009).
The field of quantum computing was advanced by discoveries of quantum error correction (QEC) codes in the 1990s (Laflamme et al. 1996; Shor 1995; Steane 1996). These codes, along with others since developed, work by encoding a logical qubit (a fault-tolerant qubit that is fully error corrected) into the space of many physical qubits (the underlying noisy physical systems). Shor’s error correction code, also called the repetition code, works by encoding a logical qubit into nine physical qubits using the following definitions of the logical states:
A bit flip can then be detected and corrected based on “majority voting,” i.e., the state ∣100⟩+∣011⟩ with an error on the leftmost qubit is returned to ∣000⟩+∣111⟩ Similarly, phase flips are detected based on sign changes between the groupings of three qubits.
Surface Code
Quantum error correction codes include stabilizer codes, whose many variants each have different requirements for numbers of qubits and error thresholds.
One typical example of a stabilizer code is the surface code (Bravyi and Kitaev 1998), a topological code defined on a 2D lattice of qubits that is currently popular for those designing hardware around a QEC code architecture. The advantage of the surface code is that it has a relatively high error threshold (the level of errors that can be corrected) and requires only nearest neighbor connectivity.
Recent experiments have demonstrated various building blocks of the surface code architecture (Corcoles et al. 2015; Kelly et al. 2015; Riste et al. 2015; Takita et al. 2016). The number of physical qubits needed to build a logical qubit depends on the type of errors and the error rates present on the physical level. In Shor’s QEC code, the logical qubit consists of nine physical qubits (one data qubit and eight ancillae) and corrects for both phase and bit flip errors on the data qubit. Errors can also occur in the ancilla qubits as well as the data qubit; encoding into a larger number of physical qubits is necessary to correct for those second-order errors.
In the surface code framework, the smallest logical qubit that corrects for both phase (Z) and bit flip (X) errors needs 17 physical qubits. A fully fault-tolerant quantum computer based on the surface code assuming realistic error rates is predicted to require millions of physical qubits.
Figure 1(a) shows a schematic for a single logical qubit in a variation called the rotated surface code. The depicted logical qubit is built out of 49 physical qubits on a 5 × 5 square grid (representing 25 data qubits on the vertices and 24 ancilla qubits on the faces) and is tolerant to up to two general errors; a larger number of qubits would be needed to correct for additional errors using the rotated surface code architecture. Errors are detected by encoding the parity of the data qubits on the four vertices of each square onto the ancilla qubits on each face using the quantum circuits from figure 1(b). An error on the data qubit will flip the parity of the neighboring ancilla qubits, allowing the error to be triangulated through ancilla qubit measurements. A logical bit flip gate is performed by individual bit flip gates along the logical X boundaries (indicated in red). Likewise, phase gates along the Z boundaries (in blue) accomplish a logical phase flip. During computation, the physical qubits are initialized as eigenstates of both X and Z stabilizers, operators like XXXX and ZZZZ that track bit flip parity and phase flip parity respectively, and are maintained in these states by X and Z parity checks performed by the circuits, as shown in figure 1(b).
Hybrid Quantum Computing
Quantum computing devices are now available through cloud services both freely to the public and as commercial offerings, including up to 20-qubit devices on superconducting qubit platforms. While these devices mark significant advances in the field of quantum computing and may be referred to as “quantum computers,” they are far from the ultimate goal of fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. They are noisy and contain small enough numbers of qubits that they can still be simulated classically (although they are quickly approaching the limits of classical simulation).
Near-term devices pose an interesting problem, however: once devices have enough qubits and can perform long enough depth circuits that they cannot be classically simulated but do not have error correction, can they do anything useful? While development of fault-tolerant quantum algorithms remains a vigorous area of active research, the availability of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices is stimulating new efforts to find applications that do not require fault tolerance. These applications may include quantum chemistry -(Kandala et al. 2017; Yung et al. 2014), optimization, and machine learning.
Recent experiments have demonstrated hybrid quantum-classical algorithms such as variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) (Farhi et al. 2014; McClean et al. 2016). These experiments are less sensitive to gate errors because they involve a classical optimization step. The procedure is to prepare a trial state on the quantum processor and then measure some observables (how the state is prepared and which observables are measured depends on the problem being solved); then, based on those observables, the state preparation parameters are updated on a classical computer and run again until a minimum value is achieved. For example, Kandala and colleagues (2017) use VQE to find the ground state energy of small molecules.
In chemistry experiments, a fermionic Hamiltonian is mapped to qubits (Bravyi et al. 2017; Kandala et al. 2017). The trial state is prepared by applying a sequence of alternating single qubit gates and entangling steps, where each single-qubit gate is parameterized by three phases that determine the single qubit rotation caused by the gate. Then the observables that correspond to the qubit Hamiltonian are measured and the energy for that state is calculated. The classical computer updates the phase parameters according to a minimization algorithm (simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation for this work; Spall 1992), and the cycle repeats until a minimum energy is found. The process is depicted in figure 2.
This approach is called hybrid quantum computing or approximate quantum computing. In addition to having inherently looser requirements on error rates thanks to the optimization process, these experiments can be further improved by techniques like error mitigation (Kandala et al. 2018), which works when the errors all scale with the length of the gates applied during the experiment. One can run the original experiment once and then repeat with all operations slowed down. The repeated experiment will have larger errors, but the two sets of data can be used to extrapolate to the zero-noise limit via Richardson (1911) extrapolation.
The outlook for quantum computing involves pursuing both long- and near-term goals. Fault-tolerant universal quantum computing will require improving physical qubits to meet error correction thresholds, building devices with logical qubits, and developing new codes with less stringent requirements on numbers of physical qubits or error rates. In the meantime, there is hope that hybrid quantum-classical approaches such as the chemistry experiment described above will demonstrate a quantum advantage long before fault-tolerant devices are available.
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About the Author:Sarah Sheldon is a research staff member in quantum computing at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
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S148 class fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy, Chilean Navy and Egyptian Navy
S148 class in service with Armada de Chile.
Photo: Armada de Chile
The S148 class is a type of Fast Attack Craft (FAC) built in 1972-1974 for the Bundesmarine (German Federal Navy) (later German Navy - Deutsche Marine) which serve today in the navies of Greece (Hellenic Navy), Chile (Armada de Chile) and Egypt (Egyptian Navy). The class is a design of Lürssen in Germany but some of them were built in France by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie in Cherbourg (CMN) due to political reasons of that time as the initial plan was some of them to be purchased by Israeli Navy. In total 20 crafts were built and served with German Federal Navy of which six (6) were transferred to Greece the period 1994-1995 and 2000, six (6) to Chile the period 1997-1998 and five (5) to Egypt in 2002 while the remaining three (3) were scrapped. The class is the older class of FACs in service with the three navies and it is about to be decommissioned and to be replaced by modern vessels; currently in Hellenic Navy they serve three (3) boats which will be replaced after the commissioning of more of Roussen class FACs and in Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) they serve two (2). It is not known the number of craft that serve with the Egyptian Navy but it is believed that serve around three (3) with plans the vessels to be replaced in the near future as well.
P75 Maridakis of Hellenic Navy in Itea island. Photo: http://karteria1.blogspot.gr
P72 Votsis of Hellenic Navy at Symi island. Photo: Hellenic Navy
The general characteristics of the class is a displacement of 265tons, length of 47 meters, a maximum speed of 36 knots while the range is 1,600n.m. with cruising speed of 15 knots. The crew is 30 people. The class is armed with the popular OTO Melara Compatto 3in (76.2mm) fully automatic gun installed forward of the bridge. This gun can hit air and surface targets at a distance of 16 km and 12 km respectively having a rate of fire of 85 rounds per minute and weight of shell greater than 6 kg.
Modified photo of an S148 class fast attack craft of the Chilean Navy. High resolution image here.
The Type 520R of P73 Pezopoulos.
Photo: Kostas Panitsidis, redstar.gr
MG3 machine gun on a Greek S148
All the boats have a secondary gun, a (standard) 40mm/L70 Breda-Bofors gun on on a Type 564 naval mount, which has been updated to the Type 520R naval mount while the boats entered in service with the new owners of them or they were modernized while they were in German service. The new mount has an increased rate of fire (from 240rds/min has been increased to 300rds/min), high elevation and training speed, higher accuracy, new digital servo systems and possibility of remote control together with an easily operable gyro stabilized local control device. In remote control, the mounting operates unmanned and completely automatically thus ensuring quick intervention. The Greek vessels have also mountings for MG3 machine guns. The rate of fire is 1,000-1,300 rounds per minute and the effective firing range is close to 1km.
The 3in gun of the craft. Photo: Kapa Paratiriths
The aft 40mm gun of the craft. Photo: Kapa Paratiriths
The gun mount is fitted with an automatic feeding device for 144 rounds on the training platform. It is very easy to distinguish the new mount from the fiberglass cupola with a transparent cover around the gunner's station. The gun has an effective range of about 2.5-3km while the maximum horizontal range is about 12km.
Modified photo of an S148 class fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy equipped with Harpoon launchers. For a high resolution image click here.
Modified photo of an S148 class fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy equipped with Exocet launchers. For a high resolution image click here.
The Exocet launchers of the retired
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P76 Tournas. Photo: Hellenic Navy
Each boat is equipped with two twin launchers, either for Exocet missiles either for Harpoon. All the boats in the class except one that serves with the Hellenic Navy carry two twin launchers for the French made Aerospatiale (from 2001-present, MBDA) MM38 Exocet surface-to-surface missiles (SSM) which have a range of 42 km and a speed of 0.93 Mach carrying a warhead of 165 kg. The Exocet family of anti-ship missiles have deadly capabilities due to the sea-skimming operation of the missile, i.e. the ability of the missile to fly few meters from the height of the sea (about two meters) in order to minimize the recognition of rival radar and infrared seekers and subsequent interception of the missile from the air defense of the target. The Falklands war demonstrated the ability of the missile to destroy or to take out of service large vessels.
P-72 Votsis of HN launches an MM38 Exocet. Photo: Hellenic Navy
The missile guidance is inertial in mid-flight until turns on active radar late in its flight (active guidance) to the corresponding trigger point for the detection and locking of its target. In order to minimize the recognition from rival radar and infrared seekers and the subsequent attack of the projectile from the air defense around the target, the system maintains a very low altitude during ingress, staying 1–2m above the sea surface (sea-skimming) while the speed is high approaching 0.9 Mach. Due to the effect of the radar horizon, this means that the target may not detect an incoming attack until the missile is only 6,000m from impact and thus it leaves little time for reaction of the target’s CIWS. The missile has low signature and it has enhanced target discrimination and ECCM making it very difficult to be intercepted.
Modified photo of an S148 class fast attack craft of the Egyptian Navy. For a high resolution image click here.
The third boat (P75 Maridakis) that serves with the Hellenic Navy is equipped with four Boeing RGM-84C Harpoon anti-ship missiles in two Mk141 launchers amidships. These missiles have a range greater than 120km, sub-sonic of speed of 860km/h (Mach 0.9) and they carry a warhead of 221kg. Harpoon missile is an all-weather, over-the-horizon SSM, developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas that has a low-level, sea-skimming cruise trajectory, active radar guidance and it is capable to perform the so-called pop-up manoeuver which it is a rapid climb of the missile to about 1,800m before diving on the locked target. The missile is operated by 30 countries with more than 7,000 missiles have been delivered by Boeing.
P73 Pezopoulos with her Exocet launchers. Photo: Kapa Paratiriths
P75 Maridakis with her Harpoon launchers. Photo: Hellenic Navy
Comparison between
Pollux and Castor
In the electronic equipment of the Hellenic Navy boats it includes a Thomson-CSF TRS 3220 Pollux Fire Control System (FCS) that is an X-band fire control radar for the Thomson-CSF Vega II weapons control and tactical data system (for missiles). Pollux is mainly used in gun control applications. It makes use of a 'fast' conical scan pattern and is circularly polarized. Pollux can acquire and track a target of 2m2 at 16n.m. The Chilean and Egyptian boats (and two of the retired HN boats, Tournas and Sakipis) have the improved Castor II (Thomson-CSF TRS 3203), which is a monopulse radar and it was conceived to replace the monoscan Pollux in the Vega system in order to track fluctuating targets more accurately. Castor radar can control gunfire by displaying both target and shell splashes and it can be used for search scanning the horizon at constant elevation. The dish antenna is stabilized. Maximum acquisition and tracking range is about 30km. Castor II substitutes a Cassegrain antenna for the dish of Pollux (and Castor I).
P75 Maridakis with the old (open) naval mount and the older
DR2000 ESM on the mast. Photo: Hellenic Navy
S148 class FACM in German service
An S148 FACM after its modernization
with Castor and Octopus EW
The Thomson TRS 3030 Triton (TRS 3050 Triton G the Chilean boats) is the air/surface surveillance and target indication 2D radar onboard. Triton can detect 2m2 air target at 30-45km. Accuracy in range is 30m. The S148 class boats are also equipped with two Panda optical fire control systems that have an onboard ballistic computer. Once the target has been acquired the operator measures its angular velocity by tracking. The navigation radar is a Decca 1226C while in some boats there is still the older SMA 3RM 20 radar or other boats, like the Egyptian ones, have the old SMA radar but also a newer navigation radar, perhaps a Raytheon model, and in that way they are equipped with two navigation radars.
Photo of the retirement in 2011 of P76 Tournas (left), P77 Sakipis (centre) and P74 Vlahavas (right). Notice that the
two first vessels are equipped with Castor II FCS while Vlahavas with Pollux. Photo: Hellenic Navy
In the photo former admiral of HN, A. Panagopoulos using a Panda optical director.
Photo: Athanasios Panagopoulos
Triton radar and at the top
the DR3000 ESM. Photo: HN
DR3000 ESM atop of the mast
of a Roussen class FACM of HN
Another modernization that has taken place for the ships in Hellenic Navy service, except the new secondary gun mounts, it is the installation of the DR3000SLW Electronic Support Measures (ESM) system which equips the majority of Greek warships, replacing in that way the previous model DR2000 that did not fulfill the expectations of HN. The Chilean Navy ships have been fitted with decoy launchers of Rafael which were added to the existent Wegmann Wolke/Hot Dog decoy launchers that were fitted on the boats in German service. The Chilean boats are equipped with either the Thomson-CSF DR2000S ESM or perhaps another ESM suite of Israeli origin (Rafael).
Egyptian Navy S148 class FACM with Octopus EW and Castor radar
Egyptian S148 class FACM
The boats that still serve with the Egyptian Navy are equipped with the OCTOPUS Electronic Warfare suite that includes a jammer in a cylindrical dome and a direction finding antenna atop the main mast. The Octopus EW system was installed on ten boats the period 1990-1992 while they were serving in the German Navy, just some months prior the decommissioning of the first two boats of the class. These boats also include in their equipment (retrofitted between 1982-1984) with a Passiv-Aktiv-Lage-Informationssystem (PALIS).
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Manolis 4 November 2014 at 10:21
Is it wrong to say that the 250t Chilean S-148 FAC's , though first constructed for the Baltic Sea , actually now perform oceanic escort and patroling duties in the Pacific?
What about continouing our dialog for the previous ESM model DR2000 that did not fulfill the expectations of HN? (I wrote that its major problem was the single antenna).
D-Mitch 4 November 2014 at 23:27
I could say that "no, it is not". Indeed the ships had / have very good performance operating in very rough weather conditions in comparison with other vessels in the same category, so I would say that the ships can operate in oceanic duties well. The following video, where the boat are in German service, proves that I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65BGaYcAMo
Now about the ESM DR 2000 & DR 3000, I know that the second one has increased performance and sensitivity in comparison with the earlier model, it offers easier data analysis and as newer model has increased also library capacity of modes. I am aware of the problem of the single antenna. Something more I do not know, if you do know, please share it with us!
Also you mentioned once the early retirement of the boats equipped with Castor which is improved model in comparison with Pollux. I do not know the answer, do you have an answer on that? Why for example HN did not use the Castor antennas to modernize other vessels etc.? Logistics and support probably?
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Please, no guns on NC campuses
The News & Observer noted on January 15 that state legislators plan to revisit the question of allowing holders of concealed weapons permits working at state colleges to bring handguns to their classes.
What a terrible idea!
1. Most U.S. campuses prohibit guns. The overwhelming majority of the more than 4,300 colleges and universities in the United States wisely prohibit students, faculty and visitors from carrying concealed handguns on campus.
2. Mistakes are likely. The Violence Policy Center reminds us that when police officers fire their weapons, they sometimes make fatal mistakes in deciding when deadly force is justified. Teachers will not likely perform any better. Moreover, the close quarters of a classroom may make it even more difficult for teachers to effectively use deadly force against an assailant. There is no credible evidence to suggest that the presence of students carrying concealed weapons would reduce violence on our campuses.
3. Administrative costs. It also would be a huge burden for school districts, individual schools, and teachers to ensure that firearms are not lost or stolen:
4. Faculty and Students don’t want guns on campus. The Kansas City Star has noted that polling of faculty and students has consistently shown widespread opposition to guns on campuses. Professors worry that a student upset by a grade could become a lethal threat. Resident assistants shudder to consider trying to manage routine disputes between students when someone might be armed.
5. Suicide risk would increase: Student body organizations have wisely raised the prospect of increased suicides as the stresses of the college years mix with alcohol and ready access to a handgun.
6. Workplace homicides are more likely. A North Carolina study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that workplaces allowing workers to carry firearms and other weapons at work were 5-7 times more likely to be the site of an on-the-job homicide compared to workplaces that prohibited workers from carrying weapons. This study confirms that just as residents of households with guns are more likely to become a victim of a homicide in the home, workers who work in places that allow guns are more likely to be killed while at work.
7. Prevention is key. The focus should remain on preventing guns from getting into schools, rather than relying on teachers or other education professionals to prevail in a shoot-out.
These arguments are backed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who have released a study that argues the campus-carry movement is based on flawed assumptions about the relationship between civilian gun use, violent crime and mass shootings, including several killings on college campuses. The higher likelihood for college-aged people to engage in reckless behavior — binge drinking, drug use, fighting, suicide — heightens the danger, they said.
"Increasing gun availability in campus environments could make far more common acts of aggression, recklessness or self-harm more deadly and, thus, have a deleterious impact on the safety of students, faculty and staff," they wrote in a report published by the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
These days, it's hard to get college presidents, students and campus police to agree on much. But on this issue the message is clear: Bullets and backpacks don't mix. Clearly, a terrible idea!
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From Largest US Retailer to Possible Bankruptcy, Sears Lines Up Emergency Financing for Potential Filing
Sears' CEO Eddie Lampert has kept the company afloat through financial maneuvering and pouring his own money into the company
By Lauren Hirsch | Lauren Thomas | CNBC • Published on October 10, 2018 at 10:52 am
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Sears Holdings has contacted banks in recent days to arrange the financing necessary to file for bankruptcy, sources told CNBC
A bankruptcy filing would cap years of efforts by CEO Eddie Lampert to keep the company afloat by steadily stripping out assets
This year, Lampert proposed a restructuring through his hedge fund after flagging that Sears had an impeding debt payment it may not reach
Sears Holdings has contacted banks in recent days to arrange the financing necessary to file for bankruptcy after 125 years in business, people familiar with the situation told CNBC.
The stock plummeted 32 percent, to 40 cents a share, in Wednesday's premarket trading after the report.
The so-called "debtor-in-possession" loan, which companies need to have enough liquidity to keep running the business during bankruptcy, is the clearest sign yet that the department store chain may finally file after years of losses. Sears has a $134 million debt payment due Monday that it previously said it may not be able to cover.
A bankruptcy filing is not yet definite and still could be averted. Sears' CEO Eddie Lampert has kept the company afloat through financial maneuvering and pouring his own money into the company. He may again choose to do so.
His hedge fund, ESL Investments, has also proposed a restructuring, and he has offered to buy some of Sears' remaining key assets through his hedge fund. It is unclear whether Sears' lenders will agree to it.
Lampert, who has a controlling ownership stake in Sears, personally owns some 31 percent of the retailer's shares outstanding, according to FactSet. His hedge fund ESL Investments owns about 19 percent.
As it weighs bankruptcy, Sears has been working with advisors including Lazard and M-III Partners, according to the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. It has been working with M-III for more than two years, the sources said.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Sears hired M-III Partners to prepare for a bankruptcy filing that could come as soon as this week.
Representatives from Sears and M-III did not respond to CNBC's request for comment.
Lampert, a hedge fund manager called "the next Warren Buffett," bought Sears in 2004. A year later, he merged it with Kmart, in which he had a controlling stake.
Both department stores were already struggling with the rise of new competition, but Lampert believed he could revive the business in part by taking advantage of its lucrative real estate.
The challenges though, proved greater than expected. And the timing was bad — a few years before the Great Recession — which drove down sales of new home products like washers and dryers. The rise of the online shopping brought it a new giant with which it struggled to compete. Sears' 140,000-square-foot stores were monstrous as foot-traffic declined.
The retailer's last profitable year was in 2010. Analysts say Sears would need to generate more than $1 billion a year to keep running, as its sales continue to erode.
Sears has been survival mode for more than a decade. Since its merger with Kmart, Sears has spun off Lands' End, sold the Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker and closed hundreds of stores, 250 of which he put into a real estate investment trust offshoot known as Seritage.
Efforts to keep the company alive by selling its best assets to pay down debt have left it with little money to reinvest in its stores. They have also left shelves progressively barren, as key vendors, wary of Sears' future, have demanded tighter payment terms.
"That failure has manifested itself in lost customers, lost market share, and a brand that has become tarnished and increasingly irrelevant," GlobalData Retail Managing Director Neil Saunders told CNBC late Tuesday. "The firm simply has no reason to exist."
It is also grappling with an underfunded pension. In 2015, it reached a final agreement with PBGC a federal government oversight organization that guarantees individuals' pension that acts as a parachute if a company goes bankrupt. As part of the deal, Sears gave the PBGC a lien on many of its most valuable remaining assets. That deal also thereby lessened Sears' ability to pour all of its proceeds back into reviving the company.
Sears lost $508 million during the second quarter as sales tumbled at a double-digit pace. Its adjusted loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization widened to $112 million, compared with a loss of $66 million during the same quarter a year earlier. Sales at stores open at least 12 months also fell 3.9 percent during the second quarter, which ended Aug. 4.
ESL in August made a bid to buy the storied Kenmore appliance brand and home improvement division, as one more attempt to put money into the company. Sears appointed a special committee earlier this year to balance out the potential conflict of interest inherent in ESL's bid.
The committee has frustrated Lampert with its slow pace, sources familiar with the situation have told CNBC. It has refused to approve Lampert's rescue plan, worried about opening the company up to litigation, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Industry experts have suggested Sears may have made itself vulnerable to lawsuits by its strategy of selling its valuable assets to pay down its debt, instead of putting more money towards rehabilitating the company or paying down its pension.
When those efforts stalled, ESL last month asked Sears' creditors to agree to restructure their debt in a detailed presentation that highlighted the risks it was facing. With so few key assets left, however, the retailer has little to offer its lenders by way of collateral.
Lampert sounded the alarms in a Sept. 13 blog post, saying Sears needed to restructure its debt or sell off some assets if it wanted to continue as a "going concern."
"It is imperative that the company reduce debt, adjust its debt maturity profile and eliminate the associated cash interest obligations," he wrote. "We continue to believe that it is in the best interests of all our stakeholders to accomplish this as a going concern, rather than alternatives that could result in significant reductions in value."
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Volleyball as Nepal’s National Sport- An Overview
Involvement of private sectors is essential for the development of sports, says Nepal Olympic Committee President Jeevan Ram Shrestha
May 23, 2017 was one of the greatest days for the global sports and for Nepal, in specific.
While it was Dandi Biyo the national sport of Nepal until the day, the country’s then ruling government took a historic decision that enthralled the global sports community. In an exciting decision, the erstwhile Government of Nepal officially declared Volleyball as the Nepal’s national sport replacing Dandi Biyo.
Nepal is one of the few countries to officially declare Volleyball as the national sport!
How It Started?
The discussion over volleyball as Nepali national sport began three years before 2017, wherein, the Ministry for Youth and Sports had initiated discussions and sought public suggestions.
Though volleyball has come under consideration for national sport status many times in the Nepali cabinet, the decision took its real form only when the Nepal Volleyball Association (NVA) stepped up with its demands.
NVA demanded the government to make volleyball as the national sport citing reasons such as less space required to play the game (as it requires only a less area and can be played on any kind of land) and economic feasibility.
Upon the official declaration in 2017, the Ministry said that the government’s decision was majorly dependent on the recommendations by the stakeholders of Nepal sports fraternity.
Why Only Volleyball?
At the time when volleyball was proposed for the national sport status, other sports like cricket and football were also in the race with much hype among the Nepali youth.
However, volleyball has drawn special attention because of its easily-playable nature across terrains.
“Every sport has its own specialty and importance, but to be the national sport it has to be hugely popular and should have strong organization. Volleyball has completed the minimum requirement to become national sport. It can be played anywhere in country, in any terrains, in a low cost. So, it fully deserved to be the national sport,” says NVA’s General Secretary Jitendra Bahadur Chand.
National Men’s Volleyball team skipper Em Rana had also lauded the government’s decision saying, “Volleyball is very much popular in the country and played in every part including the Himalayan region, the hills and the Tarai. So, this decision makes sense.”
National Women’s Volleyball team skipper Manju Gurung said, “Majority of the population grow up playing volleyball. It doesn’t need big space for playing so we can play it everywhere. Not only players but the whole nation is happy about the government’s decision of making volleyball as the national sport.”
NVA has been on high alert since the time of announcement and has come a long way in the journey. A month after the official declaration in June 2017, NVA announced its annual calendar with a list of 27 volleyball events stating youth development and strengthening of the existing team as key focus areas.
“School and college events are the platforms where we can identify potential players,” NVA said in a statement.
Adding to the financial strength of the sport, NVA had also added Mayor Cup as part of its calendar to draw budget from the local administration.
“We had organized volleyball festival in 2016 including some 10 schools of the valley. That was a huge success and we have decided to organize such event in all the five development regions to create a volleyball-friendly environment across the country,” NVA General Secretary Jitendra Bahadur Chand said in a statement.
To take the spirit ahead, NVA also has announced plans to unite associations in around 75 districts of the country for an event to commemorate the National Volleyball Day.
Today, NVA stands as the face of Nepal from representing it at the National Sports Council nationally and at the Asian Volleyball Confederation and the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, globally.
Major Strides So Far
As part of its journey, NVA has signed some key important agreements and MoUs with national and international organizations for the overall development of national volleyball. Here are some of the key steps the association has taken for the development and promotion of volleyball as national sport of Nepal:
NVA National Club Volleyball Championship: Kickstarting 2018 on a positive note, NVA signed an agreement with Nepal Satellite Telecom (NST) Pvt. Ltd. for the NVA National Club Volleyball Championship. Under the deal, NST has promised Rs 2 million for two editions of the championship over the two years.
NVA Award: On January 20, 2018, NVA announced NVA Award, the first award announced after the announcement of volleyball as national sport. The award, co-sponsored by City Travels and Tours Pvt. Ltd. is a three-year agreement under which NVA will receive a grant of Rs 1.5 million in three years. The association stands for the recognition of emerging and best players, coaches and teams in both men and women categories. “We are also honoring 40 organizations who have contributed in the development of volleyball,” says NVA General Secretary Jitendra Bahadur Chand.
FNCCI Cup National Volleyball Tournament: One such notable one was the pact signed with the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) on January 21, 2018 for the FNCCI Cup National Volleyball Tournament, which is often termed as the biggest sponsorship agreement in the history of Nepali Volleyball.
The agreement proposed plans to conduct three editions of the tournament across the country at the district, provincial and national levels.
As part of the agreement, FNCCI promised NVA of giving the highest-ever sponsorship grant of Rs 12 million per year to organize the men’s and women’s volleyball tournaments.
“We will definitely extend the agreement in coming years as we have made a vision of developing the sport,” says FNCCI Vice-president Umesh Lal Shrestha.
FNCCI President Bhawani Rana is also hopeful of reaching out to Nepali citizens through volleyball. “We had other options in football and cricket, but we chose volleyball as the sport can be played in every part of the country. We want to encourage local people as we want to fulfill our social responsibilities besides focusing on economic growth of the country. And, we also want to provide opportunity to the local talents,” Rana said in a statement.
Secretary at the Ministry of Youth and Sports Mahesh Prasad Dahal is also hopeful that the special programs like this would promote volleyball from the grassroot levels and find new talents.
“The government is making its plans for infrastructure development and such events will provide much-needed exposure to the talented players in remote places of the country,” says Prasad Dahal.
Meanwhile, Nepal Olympic Committee President Jeevan Ram Shrestha says, “Involvement of private sectors is essential for the development of sports and the sponsorship agreement by the umbrella organization is the biggest step towards prosperity. The agreement will be supportive in the development of volleyball and it will also spread positive message to the business community.”
There are many other key strides that have been taken over the period for the overall development of volleyball as Nepal’s national sport.
Taking the Sport Further
NVA has been very rigid about needed infrastructure development to develop the sport nationally.
“We will not make false promise of constructing international-standard covered hall within a year or two. It’s the duty of government to provide us with the land so that we can start the construction works. We have submitted the proposal to the National Sports Council, Ministry of Youth and Sports and Ministry of Finance and we are waiting for their response,” says Chand.
For a strong national volleyball team, NVA had announced its plans to bring in a foreign coach from the Netherlands and has also approached the World Volleyball Federation in this regard.
“We are in talks with World Volleyball Federation and the Netherlands Volleyball Association and we are hopeful of bringing in the Dutch coach,” NVA said in a statement.
Some of the key national and international tournaments that gave a due recognition to Nepali volleyball both in men’s and women’s categories include: Men’s National Volleyball League, Women’s National Basketball League, Men’s Asian Central Zone Volleyball, 4th International Women’s Volleyball Championship, South Asian Women’s Volleyball Championship, among various others.
Apart from those for recognition and awards, Nepali volleyball was also played in many cases for social causes. One such was the match played by Ropla girls for fight against child marriages, among others.
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Building an MVP Website with Conversion Optimization
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"It's about smart learning."
Once the domain of Silicon Valley startups, the "build small, iterate quickly" mantra at the heart of the minimum viable product (MVP) concept is slowly taking root in mainstream business. Companies of all sizes across industries are using the concept to drive intrapreneurial innovation and in an effort to become more nimble and adaptable. This is especially true for firms whose market share is threatened by new entrants touting a disruptive business model.
Coined by consultant Frank Robinson nearly 30 years ago in 1987, the minimum viable product term and concept have only really gained popularity over the past decade. That gain is largely thanks to Stanford professor and serial entrepreneur Steve Blank and his Customer Development Methodology, which codified a product growth strategy grounded in customer discovery and customer validation.
The concept of an MVP is more about process than about an actual product. Blank says that today, the minimum viable product is about smart learning. It's a process based on interactions, iterations and understanding your customers' needs, pain points and the validity of your value proposition.
The MVP Website and Proactive Execution
Applying an approach that incorporates the process of customer validation, a check against assumptions and iterative building based on results and feedback can help you stay proactive as you execute your marketing plan. One area where the MVP fits particularly well is with your website and your Inbound marketing efforts, given that they're so closely tied together.
As a lead generation tool and conversion point for customers, your website provides you with the opportunity to validate and improve upon many things that you might have traditionally designed on assumption or identified as concerns much later, after the build was complete.
The concept of the MVP and the concept of Conversion Optimization share many tenets. The primary difference between the two is that Conversion Optimization is a methodology that combines the risk-minimizing and user-validation aspects of an MVP with the execution of Inbound marketing. In this case, the MVP is known as a launch pad website.
Launch Pad Websites as your MVP
The idea of a launch pad website in the Inbound world is easily and often mistaken for something that isn't fully functional, is only partially built and is largely "incomplete." An MVP in any industry suffers from some of the same misconceptions. If you're cutting out things in order to get to market faster, then you're not creating an MVP, you're just taking a shortcut that may or may not work out.
A true launch pad website is fully featured, will have better aesthetics than your old site and provide an improved user experience. The only thing that's minimally viable about it is that at the time of launch it only includes the highest-converting assets and areas which have historically shown the largest impact on your business.
While building your launch pad site, start to strategically plan for the short- and long-term future. Define assumptions and growth goals and prioritize website features and assets you believe will be impactful.
Once you're live, follow a recurring monthly process of testing against your assumptions by building out features and content based on their priority and measuring the results against your original hypothesis. Over time, your "MVP website" is going to take shape into a custom-made lead generation tool that speaks to your users because it was designed, in part, by your users. There's certainly nothing minimal about that.
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Home of the Week: Shoalnook Cabins
For anyone seeking an escape from the modern world, Shoalnook Cabins in Galena may be exactly what you desire.
Home of the Week: Shoalnook Cabins For anyone seeking an escape from the modern world, Shoalnook Cabins in Galena may be exactly what you desire. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://sgfnow.co/1XiKYBJ
Jan Peterson, For the News-Leader Published 10:55 a.m. CT Feb. 10, 2016
The Shoalnook Cabins owned by Marsha and James Whitford in Galena, Missouri Bruce E. Stidham/For the News-Leader
The Shoalnook Cabins owned by Marsha and James Whitford in Galena, Missouri(Photo: Bruce E. Stidham/For the News-Leader)Buy Photo
Owned by Marsha and James Whitford, the four log cabins perched on a slight rise overlooking the James River offer every comfort and few intrusions from the outside world — no phones, no TVs. Although, wireless Internet access is available for those who can’t completely pull the plug.
James says he and wife Marsha found the cabins one day about three years ago while taking what they intended to be a day trip through the area. “We love to pick a spot on the map that has blue (indicating water) … and get on the motorcycle and take off,” he says.
“We stumbled on this place and noticed an overgrown ‘for sale’ sign,” James says. The couple asked if they could book a cabin and started talking about the possibility of buying Shoalnook.
The discussion continued until about a year ago, when the Whitfords decided to buy the cabins, a home nearby and the roughly 25 acres on which they all sit.
After 16 years of working with and sheltering homeless people through the Joplin mission they founded, Watered Gardens Gospel Rescue Mission, Marsha says she was ready for a new challenge.
James continues to direct the mission and commute between Joplin and Galena while Marsha has made Shoalnook her focus.
Marsha says the cabins, which were built around 2007, were in good shape but in need of redecorating.
“It was just funny when we stayed here the first time,” Marsha says. “It was like walking into my grandma’s living room.”
After taking ownership, Marsha set to work revamping the cabins’ décor. She built furniture, including tables and chairs, and created art to hang on the walls. Rocks she’d gathered along the riverfront soon were transformed into artful displays to hang on the walls.
“She has a vision for it,” James says.
Each cabin can sleep up to eight people and features a full kitchen filled with everything a cook might need, a full bath, linens, heat and air and a charcoal grill outside.
Located just two blocks from Galena’s historic “Y Bridge,” the cabins are particularly popular for anglers and floaters, but Marsha says families and groups often book all four cabins for get-togethers or retreats.
One group booked the cabins for a wedding that took place on the bridge.
And they often get repeat guests. “Even last summer, we had a couple that hadn’t been here before and they came three times last year,” Marsha says.
While all the cabins are neatly appointed and amply comfortable, Marsha says she still has some ideas for improvements.
“Once we really get our bearings about what we’re doing here … we’d really like to invest and put in hot tubs and maybe a fireplace,” she says.
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Each Sunday this month, we are featuring ideas for treating yourself to a mid-winter break, whether it’s a romantic getaway in celebration of Valentine’s Day or a simply a retreat from hard work, short days and chilly weather.
Today, we explore Shoalnook Cabins, on the banks of the James River in Galena. Here’s what you need to know:
Where: 310 7th St., Galena
Rates: $125 for a single night; $100 a night for two or more nights; weeklong rental (six nights), $500; rental of all four cabins for groups includes use of kayaks. A 20 percent winter discount is available through Feb. 28.
Info: shoalnook.com or on Facebook
For reservations, go to shoalnook.com or call 470-222-4671.
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Industrial washing machine install at Haydens Bakery
Greater speed of equipment cleaning and an important divider between dirty and clean production areas – the Oliver Douglas Panamatic 700 now installed at Wiltshire-based craft bakers, Haydens Bakery, has become a key focus for all production operations. The self-contained unit allows a wide range of equipment, from pots and utensils to machine parts, to be cleaned and, vitally, at a speed that can match Haydens’ 24/7 manufacturing processes – itself a clear reflection of the company’s success.
“The Panamatic industrial washing machine has been specified with a load/unload door on each side,” explains Paul Careless, Sales Manager at Oliver Douglas. “The customer can, therefore, fill the tray – which simply slides out onto the waist height door – with dirty items and then unload it on the opposite side. This effectively represents a clear line between the two areas and has helped the customer enhance the important separation of production environments.”
Sited in the pot wash area, the all stainless steel Panamatic has been specified to reflect both the range of the equipment and size of some of the items that require washing. Rotating spray arms deliver the wash and rinse solutions with, vitally, a production cycle lasting as little as two minutes.
“We manufacture some 80 different product ranges such as tarts, crumbles, buns and doughnuts for many of the leading high street retailers,” says Tracy Penny, Hygiene Manager at Haydens Bakery. “This sees some 211,000 sales units produced each day so the demand on the Panamatic is self-evident as it is a channel that is at the heart of the vast majority of our production operations.” She points out that the unit is typically ‘on call’ for 22 hours in every 24.
A further advantage of the Oliver Douglas facility links the cleaning quality to manpower deployment. “Prior to the installation, we used effective but clearly slower handwashing operations,” continues Tracy Penny. “Now we can be assured that the cleaning routines are not only consistent within a shorter time frame, but also enable operators to become involved in alternative tasks.”
With more than 40 years’ experience, Haydens Bakery has developed its reputation on the basis of product range, innovation and production quality. Central to all of these principles are optimised cleaning processes and both the customer and Oliver Douglas are confident that the use of the Panamatic at the production facility in Devizes will make an ongoing contribution to this excellent track record.
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