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Novel catalyst at core of new technology aimed at increasing access to potable water
Samira Siahrostami part of international research team producing hydrogen peroxide for on-site, on-demand water treatment
Erin Guiltenane, Faculty of Science
Dr. Samira Siahrostami, PhD, is part of a group of researchers working to make clean water more accessible to everyone. An assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Siahrostami and a team of international researchers have made the scientific and technical breakthroughs that allow hydrogen peroxide to be produced anywhere, on demand, using only water, electricity, and air.
Using a device called an electrolyzer, this new method allows hydrogen peroxide, an environmentally friendly chemical for treating water, to be made on-site and on demand. The device sits in water, can pump in oxygen, catalyze hydrogen peroxide generation and pump out the product diluted in water. Prior to this invention, most hydrogen peroxide had been produced in large infrastructures, which required transportation to the place of use. The new electrolyzer technology can be placed into the water at treatment plants, delivering hydrogen peroxide on-site while also saving energy.
'Thinking outside the box' leads to game-changing discovery
The research collaboration was recently awarded the 2021 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Horizon Prize (John Jeyes Award) by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The team also formed a Denmark-based company, HPNow, which sells commercial electrolyzers for water treatment.
HPNow has locations in more than 15 countries around the world, including its own solar-powered emission-free hydrogen peroxide production plant in Spain.
The award-winning HPNow team.
"While our product is currently being used for water treatment in agricultural applications, my goal is to extend it to remote area water treatments, wastewater treatment, and perhaps even for use in reusable water bottles," Siahrostami says.
Siahrostami's research lab in the Faculty of Science focuses on computational research, modelling catalyst systems to understand the reaction at the atomic level and developing novel catalyst materials. Her role in the award-winning project was developing the state-of-the-art catalyst used for the reaction that produces hydrogen peroxide, which she has been working toward for "about seven years," even pre-dating her arrival at UCalgary.
Siahrostami's novel catalyst has its roots at Technical University of Denmark where she was a postdoctoral fellow and her husband, Mohammedreza Karamad (now a research associate at UCalgary), was working on his PhD.
"At the time, I was researching to find a suitable catalyst to product hydrogen peroxide. I was working on totally different classes of materials. My husband was working at same institution, doing his PhD on a totally different problem, CO2 reduction. We would talk about our work, and I had the idea that the catalyst should possess special atomic arrangements to enhance the hydrogen peroxide selectivity.
"When I talked to him, I realized the catalyst systems he was using could work for my reaction — I tested it out, and it worked perfectly! We then both investigated a larger class of materials with similar atomic properties and proved the viability of the idea. It was one of those stories that illustrates how thinking outside of the box can be lead to innovation. If I didn't have that conversation with my husband back then, the idea would have never come to me.
"It's one of those stories that may happen just once in your life, and it can change your life."
Siahrostami's novel Pd-C catalyst.
Samira Siahrostami
Applications of hydrogen peroxide can help bring positive economic, environmental changes
While most are familiar with hydrogen peroxide as an antiseptic, Siahrostami says that its potential uses are widespread across different industries. Sixty huge production facilities across the world currently produce compressed hydrogen peroxide. HPNow's electrolyzer will help contribute to that production capacity, in a safer manner.
"Hydrogen peroxide is a very unique chemical in the world," she says. "It has a lot of applications. For example, with the current pandemic situation we need hydrogen peroxide more than ever because it helps with sterilization and sanitization.
"I'm particularly interested in wastewater treatment, but we are living in a world with a great need for energy supply. Hydrogen peroxide also can be used as fuel because it has the same amount as hydrogen in its chemical structure as fuel hydrogen."
Hydrogen peroxide, Siahrostami explains, is also a strong chemical oxidant, meaning that it can boost other reactions, such as those requiring an oxidizing agent. She cites methane as an excellent Alberta-based example.
"We're located in an area with a lot of natural gas, of which methane is one of the main components. We also have to compress methane for use in household applications. However, we can convert methane to methanol or formaldehyde which are more valuable chemicals."
Siahrostami hopes to open a branch of HPNow in Calgary, and is actively looking for students to work alongside her to continue researching the applications of hydrogen peroxide.
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Emotional Terrorists: S/he who weaponizes love, trust and the like as tools of internal destruction and external comportment–under the guise of smiles, hugs and blissful normalcy–thereby controlling impulses of protest, self worth and departure as erratic, over-emotional and immature.
Defense is tricky. The Iron Dome system of constant surveillance may protect the heartland from complete obliteration but at the cost of the freedom of the heart itself. There, the terrorist achieves a significant victory: either s/he gains access or no one does, thereby gifting it remote control of the love practice, of the heartland. One could of course work in counter-insurgency; targeted campaigns to preemptively strike terrorist where and before they are birthed. That too has its problems. Long term investment in the fuckery of a past experience with trauma: a marrying of one's psyche to the work and (re)memory of the terror experienced and by extension the terrorist. Furthermore, it encourages stereotyping and isms; arising suspicion within the flesh of a prospective beau/bae because something about them is similar to the one who blew up within you, purposefully. This creates a control and command economy of "loving." Where attempts to control and command love reign, imprisoning love to logic, which is of (power hungry) man and not the divine nature of loving. The cosmos damned.
I cannot advise you of how to avoid an attack or how to defeat an infiltration. I can only say be careful. Because once under siege, once compromised, compromise becomes your greatest weakness. I, too, sing America. Not for another war on terror, but a commitment to a love unbound, unbought, unbiased and unbowed.


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Belarus: Activists, Journalists Jailed as Election Looms
May 22, 2020, 6:33 pm 131 Views
A nearly empty Oktyabrskaya Street in Minsk, Belarus amid coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic precautions on April 05, 2020.
© 2020 Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
(Moscow) – Belarusian authorities have intensified their crackdown on independent activists and journalists, with presidential elections less than three months away, Human Rights Watch said today.
Between May 6 and 13, 2020, the authorities arbitrarily arrested over 120 peaceful protesters, opposition bloggers, journalists, and other critics of the government in 17 cities. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, and the increased risk of virus transmission in closed settings such as detention facilities, courts handed down jail sentences of up to 25 days on charges of "participation in unsanctioned public gatherings."
"The new wave of arbitrary arrests in Belarus is particularly disturbing in light of the Covid-19 pandemic," said Tanya Lokshina, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Belarusian authorities should not be arresting people for peaceful protests, but to expose them to higher risk of a deadly infection is unacceptable."
The Belarusian leadership should act on the calls by the World Health Organization and other expert international bodies such as the UN Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Torture to minimize the number of people in custody during the pandemic.
Belarus, which had 31,523 registered Covid-19 cases as of May 21, hasn't ordered a lockdown, citing its potential economic and social costs.
Those arrested included environmental protestors who oppose construction of a battery factory in Brest; supporters of Sergei Tikhanovsky, a popular blogger who recently announced he would run for president; Youth Block movement activists concerned over human rights and the rule of law in Belarus; and human rights defenders and journalists who reported on peaceful public gatherings.
Human Rights Watch spoke with three activists after their release. One was diagnosed with Covid-19 shortly after his arrest, another fell ill with symptoms during his arrest, and the third was placed in a transport vehicle next to another detainee who was coughing and had no mask. The families of two of the activists did not discover their whereabouts for more than 24 hours.
Sergei Piatrukhin, a video blogger, was arrested when meeting with Tikhanovsky's supporters on May 6, and five days later was sentenced by a court in Brest to 15 days of detention. He told the court that he was running a fever and had other symptoms of a respiratory disease and requested an ambulance. The judge consented, but, defying the court order, law enforcement officials took Piatrukhin to a detention center before the ambulance arrived.
Piatrukhin told Human Rights Watch that he was detained for alleged participation in an unsanctioned public gathering on April 19 against the construction of a battery plant near Brest, from which he live-streamed his blog. He said that on May 6, riot police broke into a house in the village of Ostrov where he was meeting with Tikhanovksy's supporters, arrested him and two of his interlocutors, and drove them to a local police station.
There, the police blindfolded Piatrukhin, took him in a police van to the vicinity of Baranovichi, and transferred him to other police waiting for him. They then took him to a detention center in Brest, where officials finally registered his detention. The unsanctioned gathering that he was charged with participating in was one of a series of regular peaceful protests against the battery plant.
On May 8, a judge ordered Piatrukhin released until his next hearing on May 11. But police detained Piatrukhin as he was leaving the building, and returned him to the temporary detention center. On May 11, after the court sentenced Piatrukhin to 15 days of detention, the authorities took him back to the holding center, though an ambulance had been called for him.
At the detention center, Piatrukhin convinced staff to take his temperature. When they found he had a fever, they called another ambulance, which took Piatrukhin to a hospital. On May 12, Piaturkhin tested positive for Covid-19, and is being treated at the Brest Central Hospital.
Police detained Tikhanovsky on May 6 on the outskirts of Mogilev and detained him based on a 15-day sentence he received in January for alleged participation in an unsanctioned public gathering. On May 18, a different court sentenced Tikhonovsky to 15 days more for meetings with his followers in Orsh and Brest, which the authorities considered unsanctioned public gatherings.
On May 19, in a separate proceeding, the court handed down another 15 days for meetings with his followers in Soligorsk and Miory. Tikhanovsky told reporters that seven more administrative cases against him are pending over meetings with his followers in different towns.
Roman Kislyak, a human rights defender from Brest, was arrested on May 10 while monitoring a peaceful protest against the battery plant. Kislyak said there were about 230 participants, who did not shout slogans or hold posters, but rather fed the pigeons, a local protest tradition. Police detained Kislyak when the protest ended.
The officers took Kislyak in a police bus to a detention center in the nearby town of Kobrin. He was given no reason for his arrest until May 12, when he was taken to a police station in Brest, and given a charge sheet alleging he was at an unsanctioned gathering on April 12.
Between May 10 and May 12, Kislyak's family had no information about his situation or whereabouts. His mother filed a missing persons report with police.
At Kislyak's May 12 hearing, the authorities would not allow his lawyer into the courtroom. Kislyak complained to the judge about that, and about detention center staff taking away his pen, preventing him from drafting a complaint about his arbitrary detention.
The judge postponed the hearing on the merits and told Kislyak he was free to go. However, the police detained him by the building exit and took him to a detention center in Brest. The officers there said he was being detained on "an administrative violation" but provided no more information, and denied his request for a lawyer.
During a second court hearing on May 14, Kislyak found out that he was being charged with participation in an unsanctioned protest on May 3. He asked the court to review footage on his mobile phone to show his whereabouts that day. The judge granted his request, and Kislyak was allowed to return home pending a hearing scheduled for May 19. But he soon fell ill and is self-quarantined at home with respiratory symptoms resembling those of Covid-19.
Ales Asiptsou, a journalist from Mogilev working with the independent BelaPAN information agency, was arrested while covering a protest in Bobruisk on May 9 over President Alexander Lukashenka's plans for a World War II Victory Day parade in Minsk despite the risks from Covid-19.
Asiptsou said that a plainclothes police officer detained him without explanation. They took him to a police station, searched him, and five hours later, at 5:30 p.m., took him to a station in Mogilev. Officers there showed him his detention report, saying he was charged with participation in a meeting with Tikhanovsky, with his followers in Mogilev on May 5, which the authorities considered an "unsanctioned public gathering." Asiptsou had covered the meeting on assignment from BelaPAN.
Police drove him in a small prison vehicle to a temporary holding center, along with a detainee with a bad cough and other respiratory disease symptoms who was not wearing a mask. At the holding center, Apistou was put in a cell alone.
Asiptsou's relatives searched for him for over 24 hours, unable to get information from various authorities about his situation or whereabouts. They eventually located him at the detention center by tracking his cell phone and calling the facility, where officers confirmed they had Asipstou in custody.
On May 12, a court in Mogilev sentenced Asiptsou to 10 ten days of detention. He was released on May 19 and is at home in apparent good health.
Belarusian authorities should respect freedom of assembly, Human Rights Watch said. Under international law everyone has a right to take part in peaceful assemblies, assemblies should be presumed lawful, and no person should be held criminally or administratively liable for participating in a peaceful protest, even if the authorities deem it unlawful.
"Arresting people for participating in or reporting on peaceful gatherings is an unjust penalty even in normal times, and pursuing this practice during a pandemic is simply outrageous," Lokshina said. "Belarus authorities compromised the health of the activists they detained, as well as the health of other detainees and officials around them. The authorities should focus on containing the spread of Covid-19 rather than contributing to it by prosecuting and arbitrarily jailing people."
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Question: Why Isn't Indonesia Considered A Pacific Island?
1 What is the difference between Indonesia and Polynesia?
2 Why is Indonesia not in Oceania?
3 What is considered Pacific Islander?
4 Are Melanesians from Africa?
5 Are Filipinos Polynesian?
6 What race is Moana?
7 What race are Native Hawaiians?
8 What nationality are Native Hawaiians?
9 Why Australia is called Oceania?
10 Why is Indonesia population so high?
11 Is Indonesia a safe country?
12 What ethnicity does Filipino fall under?
13 What does it mean to be a Pacific Islander today?
What is the difference between Indonesia and Polynesia?
No, Indonesia isn't a part of Polynesia as you can see below with a map of the Polynesian Triangle (Polynesia). Indonesia "belongs" to what is called Maritime Southeast Asia. But Indonesia and Polynesia are the home of Austronesian-speaking peoples. We both belong to the same language family.
Why is Indonesia not in Oceania?
Geographically and botanically most of Indonesia is on the Westernside of the Wallace Line. Indonesia has little direct boarder with Oceania and no sea boundary with the Pacific Ocean whichnis where Oceania countries are based.
What is considered Pacific Islander?
Pacific Islanders refer to those whose origins are the original peoples of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Polynesia includes Hawaii (Native Hawaiian), Samoa (Samoan), American Samoa (Samoan), Tokelau (Tokelauan), Tahiti (Tahitian), and Tonga (Tongan).
Are Melanesians from Africa?
Some recent studies suggest that all humans outside of Sub-Saharan Africa have inherited some genes from Neanderthals, and that Melanesians are the only known modern humans whose prehistoric ancestors interbred with the Denisova hominin, sharing 4%–6% of their genome with this ancient cousin of the Neanderthal.
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Are Filipinos Polynesian?
Pacific Islanders are officially specified to be Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Guamanians, Chamorro, Fijian, Tongan, or Marshallese peoples, as well as people of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. A strict definition, none of which includes the Philippines or Filipinos.
What race is Moana?
Although Moana is from the fictional island Motunui some 3,000 years ago, the story and culture of Moana is based on the very real heritage and history of Polynesian islands such as Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti. In fact, once you start looking for ties to Polynesian culture in Moana, it's hard to stop!
What race are Native Hawaiians?
Native Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians (Hawaiian: kānaka ʻōiwi, kānaka maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli), are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands. The traditional name of the Hawaiian people is Kānaka Maoli. Hawaii was settled at least 800 years ago with the voyage of Polynesians from the Society Islands.
What nationality are Native Hawaiians?
Native Hawaiians, also known as Kanaka Maoli, are the indigenous or aboriginal people (and their descendants) of the Hawaiian islands. Their ancestors were the original Polynesians who sailed to Hawai'i and settled the islands around the 5th century AD.
Why Australia is called Oceania?
Australia is the largest landmass on the continent of Australia. Oceania is a region made up of thousands of islands throughout the Central and South Pacific Ocean. The name "Oceania" justly establishes the Pacific Ocean as the defining characteristic of the continent.
Why is Indonesia population so high?
The population of Indonesia has long been known to be in the 4th position of the world and the third in Asia. This population density occurs due to high birth rates and the lack of family planning programs, the number of Indonesian population ranks fourth in the world reached 238 million people.
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Is Indonesia a safe country?
OVERALL RISK: MEDIUM. Indonesia is mostly a safe country to travel to, though it still has its dangers from natural disasters to terrorism and petty theft. Be very cautious on the streets of Indonesia and plan your trip carefully.
What ethnicity does Filipino fall under?
Officially, of course, Filipinos are categorized as Asians and the Philippines as part of Southeast Asia. But describing Filipinos as Pacific Islanders isn't necessarily wrong either. In fact, for a long time, Filipinos were known as Pacific Islanders.
What does it mean to be a Pacific Islander today?
Been a Pacific Islander simple means living a social lifestyle, in which family members, both immediate and extended, works together in a solidified community. Pacific Islanders' societies pursue traditions and conventions. community.


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Ivan Pelizzoli (Bergamo, 18 november 1980) is een voormalig voetbaldoelman uit Italië die zijn loopbaan in 2015 beëindigde bij de Italiaanse club Virtus Entella. Eerder speelde hij onder andere voor AS Roma en Atalanta.

Pelizzoli maakte zijn debuut voor de Italiaanse nationale ploeg in 2003, hij speelde twee officiële interlands. Ook bij de jeugd speelde hij enkele interlands. Hij speelde één interland bij de U-17 en 17 interlands bij de U-21. Hij nam met het Italiaans olympisch voetbalelftal deel aan de Olympische Spelen van 2004 in Athene. Daar won de ploeg onder leiding van bondscoach Claudio Gentile de bronzen medaille door Irak in de troostfinale met 1-0 te verslaan.

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Lijst van spelers van Atalanta Bergamo

Italiaans voetballer
Italiaans olympisch deelnemer

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Class 26: Lace and embroidery, ribbons and braid; buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and needles; artificial flowers.
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Credit: Solar Impulse -Bertrand Piccard taking a selfie while flying over Hawaii in Solar Impulse 2
Profitable ways to protect the planet
Marc Buckley
"If you want to innovate, it's not a question of having new ideas, it's a question of getting rid of old beliefs, and then you have the mind and the heart empty enough to welcome something new."
The words of explorer, Dr Bertrand Piccard, who has demonstrated time and again exactly that. The serial pioneer, whose historic round-the-world trips have come to redefine what is possible for humanity, is my guest today on Inside Ideas.
History-maker
When Bertrand took the controls of the Breitling Orbiter in 1999 with his teammate Brian Jones, he went on to complete the first non-stop around-the-world balloon flight. While in 2016 he successfully co-piloted the first ever round-the-world solar powered flight, with André Borschberg, in the now iconic Solar Impulse plane.
More recently, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Environment, Special Advisor to the European Commission, and Founder and Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation has been on another trip around the world. This time in pursuit of 1000 innovative solutions that can 'protect the environment in a profitable way'.
Earlier this year Bertrand and the Solar Impulse Foundation reached, and surpassed, that target to identify '1000 solutions' that can accelerate the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while also providing the economic gains that policy makers controlling the levers of change demand.
"We now have the proof that enough solutions exist today to make our world more efficient, and sustainable. Therefore, no excuses are left for inaction as decision-makers cannot pretend anymore that ecology is too expensive, hurts the economy, and destroys jobs," Bertrand said.
To help business leaders, investors and other key decision-makers access the innovations they need, the Foundation's Solutions Guide offers a searchable tool for users to discover 'solutions to problems in specific geographical, industrial, or financial settings'. A game-changer for advancing the SDGs, and at such crucial time, as the recent Sustainable Development Report (SDR) reveals progress on the Goals is going backwards for the first time.
Bertrand's lifelong mission to prove the impossible is possible has been fuelled by a mindset that nothing is ever off the table.
"The impossible does not exist in reality. The impossible exists in the mindsets of the people who are sticking to old ways of thinking, and they believe – with their learning, their experience of the past, that something is impossible.
"But if you learn how to change the paradigm, change the way of thinking then you open completely new opportunities that will allow you to make something possible. It's exactly like the first aeroplane. The first aeroplane was made out of wood and cloth, which means that the Egyptians could have flown from the top of their pyramids 5,000 years ago but they did not do it because they believed that it was prohibited by the Gods. And in the beginning of the 20th century you had some explorers who said we don't care about these old rules and they started to fly."
Getting rid of these old beliefs is 'how you can be really progressive, inventive, innovative and successful' Bertrand says.
Dr Piccard's achievements and mindset should inspire us all to believe transformative change is possible. His ideas are not rhetoric, but proven through his own endeavours. So it is a huge honour to welcome Bertrand onto the podcast to find out more about the 1000+ solutions, and the future he imagines is possible for people and planet.
In this article:1000 solutions, Bertrand Piccard, featured, Inside Ideas, Marc Buckley, Solar Impulse Foundation, Sustainable Development Goals
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Marc is Editor-at-Large for Innovators Magazine and host of INSIDE IDEAS, his OnePoint5Media video podcast show. Marc is an official UN SDG Advocate, member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network, Resilient Futurist, and award-winning Global Food Reformist.
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Over the years, the Zwarte Cross or "Black Moto-Cross" festival has grown to become the biggest festival in The Netherlands and the largest motor cross festival in the World with over 152,500 visitors in 2011. The festival is a mixture of motocross sports, music, camping and bizarre stunts. This year's 16th edition of the festival was held from July 20th to 22nd.
The program was full with over one hundred national and international acts performing on twenty stages!
Although there were DJ's, rock/pop and blues bands, it was the Metal stage that got our attention.
Here is a partial list of the heavier bands.
Please enjoy a selection of pic's from this years festival.
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