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Students come together to reduce toxins in the environment
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Signs have been mounting for years that triclosan and other chemicals in pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) harm humans, wildlife and the environment.
But that has not stopped manufacturers from using them. Nor has it changed the patterns of prescribing medications to consider the impact that PPCPs have on the environment and human health. It hasn't even changed laws to add these new pollutants for regulation by the EPA or the FDA. So products you buy can contain toxic chemicals and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), which are linked to cancer, birth defects, infertility and other diseases in humans and wildlife.
Penn State Behrend students share information with Chancellor Donald Birx about the campaign and a free app that takes the guesswork out of shopping for safe personal care products, www.ewg.org/skindeep/app/. Credit: Ann Quinn
What has changed is the response, including voluntary steps some hospitals, states and individuals are taking, to tackle these problems. Kaiser Permanente pulled antibacterial soaps with triclosan from its 37 hospitals nationwide in 2010 and switched to traditional soaps and alcohol based hand sanitizers because of scientific evidence that triclosan is causing more harm than good. Minnesota recently banned triclosan in consumer soaps, Illinois banned plastic microbeads used in facial scrubs and other products and Vermont passed the Toxic-Free Families Act. Actions like these are the easiest, least expensive way to protect people and the environment from the harm caused by PPCPs, but they are not enough.
Every person must do his or her part to fix these problems. And that's why after a Pennsylvania Sea Grant presentation atMercyhurst University in 2013, students took action to change individual behavior that would have the most impact — eliminating unnecessary toxic chemicals from products they use. Together with their professor, Anne Zaphiris, and Pennsylvania Sea Grant staff, Marti Martz and Anna McCartney, they completed year one of a social change campaign they created to educate the college community about the issues and ask them to change their purchasing habits. The campaign, now in year two on the Mercyhurst campus, has been expanded to the Penn State Behrend campus to educate and involve students there.
Chemicals like triclosan used in beauty and hygiene products enter wastewater when you bathe or wash your hands. Private septic systems and municipal waste treatment plants can't remove them. These bioactive chemicals persist in the environment; pass through water, soil and air, and bioaccumulate in the food chain.
Mercyhurst University students Amanda Martin, Alyssa Littin and Elissa Reitz with PA Sea Grant Senior Outreach Specialist, Marti Martz share the Fresh Face Forward campaign.
There is proof that this knowledge and small decisions can create significant changes. With pressure from consumer and environmental groups, Johnson & Johnson announced in 2012 that it would eliminate chemicals of concern from baby and adult products, including triclosan, parabens, phthalates and preservatives that release formaldehyde, a known carcinogen. In September 2013, Procter & Gamble announced it would eliminate triclosan and the phthalate DEP from all products by 2014 and Wal-Mart and Target are requesting changes for products they sell.
While many others have yet to take any action these college students are not waiting. They are reading labels and asking questions before making purchases. By choosing to buy products that don't contain toxins they are setting an example for their families, friends and peers. Prevention really is the only strategy.
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Posted on July 18, 2012 July 18, 2012 by Rabbi Barbara Thiede
I don't much like being corrected. Who does? But in my family, it's a constant hazard. I spin stories, my scientifically minded husband and son bring me down to earth. They make claims about something historical, and I gather my authority.
But on Shabbos?
Prepare for a confession.
The sanctuary was returned to order. The def, darboukas and even the cowbell were packed up. My guitars were safely stored in the wayback.
We piled into our sea green (yes, it has the woody panels!) 1978 Country Squire station wagon and turned on the air conditioner. The "we" included my gentle and soft-spoken husband, Ralf, our twenty-year-old accordion-playing son, Erik, and our I-can-sing-harmony-to-anything-you-throw-at-me lay cantor, Angela Hodges.
The clacking of buckling seat belts subsided. The inevitable question arose.
"How was the service?"
"I loved the story," Ralf said.
"I thought the music was right on," Angela said.
"It was good," Erik said.
"But," Erik added, "when you started talking about the Barchu and the unfathomable force that causes the sun to set I started thinking…"
I interrupted. "Don't start in on me. I already know what you're going to say."
"What unfathomable force?" Erik asked. "Gravitation?"
Angela laughed. Ralf chuckled. I despaired.
Erik studies chemistry, which he claims is the use of the obscure in the pursuit of the irrelevant.
"Every time you are home from college," I said, "I start worrying about what you are thinking at services. As soon I started speaking about the Barchu I could hear you in my head. 'It's the rotation of the earth we're talking about, mom."
"Well, it is!" Erik announced.
"When I do spiritual direction," I said calmly, "the persons I work with often denigrate themselves. Sometimes I ask them to tell me whose voice is telling them that they are crazy, or overemotional, or whatever. It is almost always the mother's voice they are hearing."
Erik began laughing.
"But I," I added, "I suffer because it is my son's voice in my head telling me I am nuts." I paused. "You have been doing this since you were about four."
"Yeah," Erik admitted. "I was a shmuck."
"Yeeesss… well no, actually," I said. "You just loved the truth."
"Then I loved the truth." Erik agreed. "Later, I realized there was no such thing as the objective truth. Now I correct people for the heck of it. While we're on the subject, do you remember the question you asked before Ahavat Olam? You asked us to think about what makes us who we are," Erik said. He paused.
"And you thought…" I said.
"A featherless biped with flat nails."
Everyone laughed. Including me.
In case you don't know the story, it is said that Plato once offered up Socrates' definition of a man as a "featherless biped" to students of his academy." In response, the philosopher and all-around snark Diogenes of Sinope plucked all the feathers from a chicken and brought it to Plato, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man." Possibly missing the point, Plato revised his definition to "a featherless biped with flat nails."
Our car conversation moved on to new Spanish-speaking guests at the service. I forgot my Spanish (or rather remembered it), and mispronounced one of our visitor's names. The family origins were in Latin America, not the Iberian peninsula.
"Sorry, folks" I said. "When I studied Spanish I learned the 'c' as a 'th' sound. In fact, over thirty years ago, Ralf was learning Spanish at the same time and he claimed he spoke Castilian Spanish even though he pronounced the 'c' like an 's.' We had a big battle over who spoke Spanish the way they did in Spain."
"So I got the inclination to correct people from somewhere," Erik said. "Hmm."
Everyone but me laughed.
"Oy. Guilty as charged," I said. "I've been hoisted by own petard."
Ralf, who had quietly listened to everything going down, finally spoke up.
"Actually," my gentle husband said, "that's hoist."
TagsAhavat Olam, Barchu, Diogenes, Plato
7 Replies to "To Tell the Truth"
Charlotte Miller says:
This is exactly why I like you! Besides being the superstupendously wonderful person that you are, just hanging around you can only make me a much wittier (or witty to begin with) person. Just remind me to never get in the car with all three of you. I don't think I could keep up!
Rabbi Barbara Thiede says:
Naaa, you'd be just fine. And you know it. 🙂
I am getting my comeuppance from the daughter who has been hearing my voice in her head all her life–only excellence, go faster, etc. We are now two women judging each other on equal terms, still a bit touchy but the hard-won compliment is a reward. I guess turn-about is fair play.
schmidty says:
Sounds so familiar! But such fun to be able to converse like that with family. So many folks do not have that in family conversations ever.
Hope your summer is going well. We are dealing with family and friends who have died or are dying. I guess as you age, this happens more often than you want.
Carol, I am so sorry to hear that the summer has been a rough one. This summer seems to have been filled with end-of-life issues for many people I know.
I hope there is peace to be found in your garden. There, at least, one is given the powerful reminder that everything is in a cycle that really has no ending.
You know, I knew I should've known better than to question Ralf's authority on that whole "hoist" bit, but I thought it sounded so ridiculous that I had to look it up once I got home on Saturday. Naturally, he had us dead to rights.
I have only once stumped him on such things since I met him in 1978. A long, long time ago, I used the word "hornswoggle" and he thought I'd made it up. But that was many decades ago, when I'd been speaking English natively for two decades and he'd be learning the language for less than ten years….
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When it became clear that I wouldn't after all be able to make it to SSWC, I had to decide what to do with my ticket. What easier way to deal with it then to give it away?
It wasn't so easy at all. Not because nobody wanted it, quite the opposite – there were a whole load of people to choose from – but because choosing which one individual would get the ticket was a much tougher thing than i'd ever considered.
I'd set out my terms and conditions for the giveaway on Google+. In short I wanted to give the ticket to someone who hadn't been in the "web" industry for years and would learn from the experience – to give someone a little lift and perhaps help them over the garden wall.
After quite a bit of thought – and a number of changes of mind – I decided the ticket should go to Jessica Muschött, @Karmapriya. Jessica has been involved in the branch previously, but has spent recent years doing voluntary work in India. She's looking at making a comeback in this exciting world of digital communiction. So, She's going to be off to Sweden Social Web Camp 2011 as part of that climb back over the garden wall.
Thanks to everyone who nominated someone, or nominated themselves. Everyone had a good case, and I wish I could send you all. Maybe next year!


Ep 42 – Yearly Game Releases & a New, More Powerful PS4?
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Episode 42. October 25th, 2015. Mike and Andrew bring two good topics to the table for a lengthy discussion. Mike's curious about the pitfalls of yearly releases, specifically focusing on Ubisoft and the Assassin's Creed series. Does yearly releases of games benefit them more than it hurts them? We compare it to the CoD series + Halo as well. Andrew's topic comes from a GameSpot article talking about an interview with an SCE VP talking about the potential for a future "more powerful" PS4. Now that the PS4 (and Xbox One) are more like PCs, the possibility exists to simply release a model with more power. Is this a good idea? We talk about the potential issues and reference the old school consoles that had "expansion" based add-ons (N64 and Sega 32X) and how those affected the platforms.
Shoutout to @TelltaleGames again, just cause Minecraft Story Mode is still awesome.
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Journalist Martin Wolf of the Financial Times shares his new book about the lessons of the economic crisis, "The Shifts and the Shocks."
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Everyone is welcome to join us on Sunday mornings at 10.00am for coffee and refreshments in the Church Cafe area. The service gets going at 10.30.
We have half the Church set out for those people who prefer to continue social distancing.
Sunday services in 2022. In Jan and Feb we will be looking at the account of the early Church given by Luke in the book of Acts. It's fascinating and exciting to read how those first disciples experienced the Holy Spirit, and started the adventure of the Church which we are a part of!
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Leo Strine's Corporate Decline Problem
By J.B. Heaton November 8, 2019 by renholding
Leo E. Strine, Jr. has long had a bully pulpit in corporate law, first on Delaware's Court of Chancery and then as chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. Bully pulpits are good things for the occupants but can be a bit infuriating for those in the congregation. Such is the case with Chief Justice Strine's recent article, "Toward Fair and Sustainable Capitalism."[1]
Strine argues that companies are too beholden to stock markets, fail to make long-term investments, and fail to share gains between shareholders and workers. He provides a list of proposals that are fairly characterized as arguing for a shift of value from shareholders to workers, both in terms of job security and higher compensation. All of these proposals veer far from Delaware's current directive that boards of directors must "maximize the corporation's value over the long-term for its stockholders' benefit." But nothing that Strine suggests can overcome a cold reality: Looking to corporations and their investors to solve society's problems is futile because corporations rarely live long enough or generate enough value to turn Strine's dream into a reality.
Since even before E. Merrick Dodd was at Harvard Law School in the 1930s, there have been those who wanted more from corporations than the products and services they provide. As Professor Dodd put it, "public opinion, which ultimately makes law, has made and is today making substantial strides in the direction of a view of the business corporation as an economic institution which has a social service as well as a profit-making function[.]"[2]
In 1991, Martin Lipton, founder of law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, wrote that "the legal rules, the system of corporate governance, should encourage the ordering of these relationships and interests around the long-term operating success of the corporation. For it is this goal that will ultimately be the most beneficial to the greatest number of corporate constituents, including stockholders, and to our economy and society as a whole."[3]
Compare Strine: "The bottom line is that America's corporations are not playthings. They create jobs, produce goods and services that consumers depend on, affect the environment we live in, and build wealth for human investors to save for retirement and their kids' education. That is, corporations are societally chartered institutions of enormous importance and value. Those who govern them ought to be accountable for the generation of durable wealth for workers, consumers, and human investors."[4]
The problem with this debate is that, even when they try to maximize shareholder value, most corporations – including successful ones – eventually go out of business. Sometimes they simply weaken and then merge into other companies; sometimes, though less frequently, they declare bankruptcy and liquidate. This is nothing new. In 1948, U.S. Steel Corporation was the third largest U.S. industrial firm by total assets. In 2009, after many changes, U.S. Steel was still included in the S&P 500 Index, the most important index of large U.S.-traded firms. In 2014, though, it was removed from the S&P 500 because its stock-market value had fallen too much. By year-end 2018, U.S. Steel barely managed to stay in the Top 1,000 U.S.-publicly-traded firms, coming in 976th.
Still, U.S. Steel was better off than Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the 12th largest U.S. industrial firm by total assets in 1948. Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and liquidated its assets. Many of us of a certain generation grew up with Radio Corporation of America (RCA) televisions. RCA was in the top 100 industrial firms by assets in 1948. In 1986, General Electric acquired RCA and soon liquidated its assets. F.W. Woolworth Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. were nationwide retailers in the top 100 industrial firms by assets in 1948. You likely could not find an adult American in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s who did not recognize both as the names of large U.S. retailers. Then Woolworth closed its stores in 1997. Montgomery Ward filed bankruptcy in 2000 and liquidated in 2001. If you were born after 1990, you may never have heard of either one.
Today's winners are often tomorrow's losers. In 2001, when retailer Montgomery Ward liquidated, Sears Roebuck & Co. was over a century old, with a stock-market value over $15 billion. Sears shareholders earned a whopping 40.1 percent, inclusive of dividends, that year. Less than 20 years later, on October 15, 2018, Sears's successor, Sears Holdings, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, its equity and much of its debt wiped out, its retiree pensions left partly unpaid. In the end, a company that once paid out billions of dollars in excess cash to its shareholders could not even pay the full administrative expenses of its own bankruptcy proceedings. For U.S. firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange between January 1963 and December 1995, only about 6 percent of the firms traded for the entire 33-year period; over 55 percent of the firms delisted. A 2014 study from J.P. Morgan found that, between 1980 and 2014, 320 companies were taken out of the S&P 500 because of business distress. To take just one year, of the 500 firms represented in the year-end 2009 S&P 500, six filed for bankruptcy by late-2019. Many others were removed from the index because their stock-market capitalizations had declined too severely to warrant continued inclusion in the S&P 500.[5]
Recent empirical evidence has demonstrated just how rare long-term corporate success really is, even under current corporate law. In 2018, financial economist Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University published[6] a remarkable discovery: The majority of U.S. publicly listed common stocks since 1926 returned less than the one-month Treasury bill rate over their lives as listed companies, including dividends. But what about the great gains in the stock market? It turns out that just 4 percent of publicly listed U.S. companies accounted for all of the gains of the U.S. stock market from 1926 to 2016. As two economists put it in a colorfully titled article, Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper, "firm death is not an unusual or aberrant phenomenon, but a common feature of a capitalist economy."[7]
The social utopia Chief Justice Strine longs for can never be built on such a shifting foundation. Every major corporation traces its existence to some initial effort to seize a specific, promising profit opportunity. Those early opportunities rarely last. Competitors emerge. Times change. New technologies replace old ones. It is hard to innovate and compete over and again for decades. Despite platitudes to the contrary from both sides of the political spectrum, capitalism presents a choice: (1) allow investors to move capital freely into and away from businesses as shareholder-value maximization dictates, but then bear consequences in the form of lost jobs, failed careers, and destroyed communities along with the starts of new businesses, or (2) restrict the ability of investors to reduce the scale of declining business entities, encourage reinvestment and research in unproductive and obsolete businesses to save jobs and preserve communities and tax bases, but suffer the consequences of stagnated growth, reduced competitiveness, and lower future prosperity for those who would have benefited from easier exit. There is no way between the horns of this dilemma. And since every nation's businesses competes with those from other nations, the second choice is viable only in the shortest of time frames.
The reality of corporate decline means that corporations are simply not good vehicles for implementing social policies like reducing deep poverty, achieving income equality, slowing climate change (unless customers are willing to pay for it), cutting the cost of medicines, or providing basic health care. Corporations will not voluntarily exit harmful industries like tobacco, alcohol, or casinos or stop providing bad financial advice and products, and if they do, others will simply take their places. Capitalism has done more to lift humans out of deep poverty than any other system by far. But that is not its purpose, and there will always be many problems left unsolved in a vibrant capitalist system unless government intervenes efficiently.
No doubt a vibrant capitalist system is cold comfort to a dislocated worker, an officer or director whose business judgment is no longer bearing fruit, or a community ravaged by the close of its largest employer. Strine's sympathy for those who do not share in capitalism's benefits as much as others is clear, but his proposals are just the latest in the on-going – one might argue by this point, tiresome—debate over the proper objective of the business corporation. If we are to make headway on these problems, we must look elsewhere than Chief Justice Strine's proposal, which takes the corporation as he wishes it could be, not the way it is in the dog-eat-dog world of competition outside judicial chambers.
[1] Leo E. Strine, Jr., Toward Fair and Sustainable Capitalism: A Comprehensive Proposal to Help American Workers, Restore Fair Gainsharing between Employees and Shareholders, and Increase American Competitiveness by Reorienting Our Corporate Governance System Toward Sustainable Long-Term Growth and Encouraging Investments in America's Future, available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3461924.
[2] E. Merrick Dodd, Jr., For Whom Are Corporate Managers Trustees?, 45 Harv. L. Rev. 1145, 1148 (1932).
[3] Martin Lipton & Steven A. Rosenblum, A New System of Corporate Governance: The Quinquennial Election of Directors, 58 U. CHI. L. REV. 187, 189 (1991).
[4] At p. 4.
[5] Results for 2009 to 2018 calculated by the writer from data at Bloomberg.
[6] Hendrik Bessembinder, Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? 129 J. Fin. Econ. 440 (2018).
[7] G.P. Baker and R.E. Kennedy, Survivorship and the Economic Grim Reaper, 18 J. L. Econ. & Org. 324, 324 (2002).
This post comes to us from J.B. Heaton, the president of legal and financial consultancy J.B. Heaton, P.C.


Come and find out how you can get funding from the University for a placement during Easter or Summer vacation.
This session will cover how to find a placement and how to apply for a Work Experience Bursary.
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We are a fifth generation farm that has been in farming for 150 years. We as a family and business take great pride in our farming practices as well as the quality of our produce. We grow a wide variety of produce both fruits and vegetables all NON-GMO. We utilize traditional farming styles, which means we are not organic. As the years have been gone by, we have grown our operation from 15 tilled acres to over 1300 acres and have grown from a small lumber/produce farm to a large produce wholesale/retail operation. Our hope is that you will partake in our CSA and as such a part of our farming family.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), A farm Share or partnership is a simple idea in which in theory a Member buys a "share" of a farmer's harvest at the beginning of a growing season. It's a partnership between a community and a farmer and creates a direct famer-to-table relationship.
As a member you provide a pre-season investment in a share of the upcoming produce season. By doing so you share in the risks and rewards of farming. The money investment is used for seeds, equipment, labor and harvesting of the upcoming crops. Iln return the member receives weekly portions of the produce. The spring/summer season is 18 weeks that runs from May 9th through the September 5th. We also offer a fall membership share that will run from September 21st through mid November 2nd.
• Many folks just want to experience truly fresh food and have an appetite for a variety not often available at the local supermarket.
• Many join for their health. Simply visiting the farm can be a stress relief, eating food that is natural and ripe has it's many benefits.
• The concept of supporting local farms is important to the community's rural character.
• To some families it's about interacting with nature, visiting the farm and experiencing life on the farm and helping children learn how their food is grown.
• For some it's about reducing the amount of food miles your food travels.
• The benefit of eating healthy, great tasting fruits and vegetables that are hand selected for ripeness and quality by harvesting them at the peak of ripeness.
• Weekly CSA newsletter that will contain updates from the farm including produce availability, recipes, fun agriculture facts and produce storage and safe food handling.
• Connect with your food. Learn more about your food source and the local growing season.
• Freeze and store your own food for the winter.
• Keep your food dollar within your local economy supporting local agriculture.
Once per week on a predetermined day you will come to one of our two produce stands or farm locations and with the reusable bag provided for you as part of your membership, you will pick out your produce. You will be given a list via email the Sunday before, letting you know what your share will be for that week. In order to avoid any confusion and to provide enough for all to have an equal share and regular selection, the choice on what you will receive in regards to quantity and selection is at our soul discretion and based on the availability of the produce that particular week. No substitutions will be permitted. You can trade with other CSA members, but that will be up to you to arrange. The produce that will be provided for your selection will reflect what is in season locally during that time. While there is not much that we don't grow on our own, we may on occasion partner up with other local farmers on items we don't produce to supplement your weekly selections.
This year Magee Farms is only having one share option. This allows us to provide generous portions on a weekly bases.
You will receive a weekly share of produce for 18 weeks for our Spring/Summer program and 9 weeks for our Fall program(approximately a bushel box worth). This is ideal for most families of average size. from 2-6 people depending on your use of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. It can also be ideal for those that are interested in freezing or storing your produce for the winter months. This is also idea for those that utilize a lot of fruits and vegetables into their every day life through juicing etc.
We will also offer the ability for add-ons to your share options. This will include local Honey, jams and jellies, strawberry products and ciders. If you wish to add any of these onto your orders, they will come at a 5% discount from our usual stand/wholesale price.
Payment in full. By choosing this options you will automatically receive a 5% discount. (this only includes our Full memberships). To recieve the 5% discount you must sign up by September 1st. **Applies only to Spring/Summer Memberships.
Payment in two installments. First half paid at registration and the second portion paid 30 days later via Auto-payment.
We offer two payment methods on both full and half memberships.
18 weeks at $24 ($ 432 season) per week full share option.
Fall share options is September-the beginning of November..
9 weeks at $24 ($216 season) per week for half share option.
Sign up fro Fall Membership MUST be done by September 12th.
We accept CASH, visa, MasterCard, or debt card cards, checks. Paypal via Farmigo is what we use for our primary payment source (can be found on our webpage). Payments are non-refundable. Payments made in installments will automatically deducted upon sign up and again within 30 days of initial payment and you will receive a statement via Email.
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Не́стор Висе́нте Ви́дрио Серра́но (; 22 марта 1989, Гвадалахара) — мексиканский футболист, защитник клуба «Дорадос де Синалоа».

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Клубная
Воспитанник клуба «Атлас». Дебютировал в команде в матче 4-го тура клаусуры 2008 против «Гвадалахары» 9 февраля 2008 года. Первый гол в карьере Нестор Видрио забил в ворота «Керетаро» 31 июля 2010 года.

В начале 2012 года Видрио отправился в годичную аренду в «Пачуку». Впервые сыграл за новую команду 7 января 2012 года в матче первого тура клаусуры против «Сантос Лагуны». В ответном четвертьфинальном матче того же турнира против «Америки» Нестор Видрио забил гол, оказавшийся победным.

В сборной
Нестор Видрио в составе сборной Мексики участвовал в олимпийском футбольном турнире 2012. Защитник провёл на турнире 4 матча. Принимал участие в финальном матче турнира, когда сборная Мексики, обыграв Бразилию, впервые в своей истории стала олимпийским чемпионом по футболу.

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101 Things Everyone Should Know About Judaism: Beliefs, Practices, Customs, And Traditions
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By Richard D. Bank , Janes B. Wiggins. What's the difference between Reform and Orthodox Judaism? What does it mean to keep kosher? And what are mizvot? Compact and comprehensive, 101 Things Everyone Should Know about Judaism touches on all these basics and more. You'll learn all you need to know about this ancient religion and culture-from the significance of the Torah and Talmud, to the importance of holidays and the meaning of religious objects and symbols. You'll also find out about: Major Biblical events that have shaped Jewish history and tradition; Judaism's concept of God, the soul, and the afterlife; The structure of Jewish liturgy and prayer services; The Ten Statements, and other Jewish laws; Practices associated with life milestones; Language, and literature, food, and other cultural elements. Thoughtful and engaging, this portable volume packs in a wealth of fascinating, detailed information that is sure to leave you with a deepened appreciation for this rich tradition. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Adams Media (2005), English, 256 pages.
Richard D. Bank, author of Why Be Jewish and How to Do It, is president of Philadelphia Children's Folkshul, and former vice-chair of the adult board of the Philadelphia Region B'nai B'rith Youth Organization.


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WASHINGTON (CN) - A nonprofit government watchdog claims in court that the Environmental Protection Agency is wrongly withholding documents related to a draft plan to protect drinking water in the event of a nuclear disaster.
In a complaint (pdf) filed in the D.C. District Court on Oct. 24, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says it filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records related to the EPA's "Draft Action for Drinking Water after a Radiological Incident" on Sept. 6, 2016.
According to the complaint, the draft plan proposes changes to the standards for determining when water would be considered safe to drink following a nuclear incident.
But PEER says the draft omits mention of potentially dangerous concentrations of radioactive contaminants that would be allowed in water deemed safe to drink.
The organization says it believes the undisclosed concentrations far exceed what is known to be safe, and it is seeking the requested documents to prove its case and explain its concerns to the public.
PEER says the EPA is stonewalling on producing the requested documents, frustrating its efforts to educate the public about the proposed policy changes in an "arbitrary and capricious" violation of federal law.
It is asking the federal court to order the disclosure of the documents it is seeking.
PEER is represented by Laura Marie Colangelo Dumais, of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in Washington.


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Returning terrorist fighters, a new challenge for Europe
20.05.2017- Almost half of foreign terrorist fighters have come back to Europe. During a press conference on Thursday in Brussels, Mr. Jean-Paul Laborde, Executive Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, outlined the security challenges posed by returning fighters, especially since the latest arrivals are in his opinion "more dangerous than the previous ones".
The flow of foreign terrorist fighters leaving Europe for Syria or Iraq has fallen by 90% in 18 months, notably thanks to preventive measures and cooperation between European countries, however, there are now many returning fighters. Some, better trained and battle hardened, make their way back to the country they initially left; others head to new conflict zones such as Afghanistan.
Jean-Paul Laborde underlined the important of establishing a regional, national and international strategy to prevent terrorist attacks being committed by 'returning' foreign fighters, but to ensure their reintegration. He added that, "we need better cooperation, not just between European countries, but also with countries neighbouring conflict zones".
He made clear that these measures had to respect international conventions, which has not always been the case so far.
Mr Laborde also welcomed the increasing number of countries that have established the "Advanced Passenger Information System" (APIS), used today by about fifty countries around the world.
When asked about terrorism and the Internet, Mr Laborde answered that the question should not be "if such attacks can happen but when they will happen". "One day terrorists will have access to these tools, we must address this threat now and not wait until they are able to carry out an attack using these methods."


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I love your engagement story. So romantic! And your kids have the sweetest little faces. I know what you mean about finding bliss in those simple moments. Lately, my two-year-old's vocabulary has exploded and some of her sayings and expressions just crack me up. Thanks for letting me learn a little more about your life and for playing along!
Thanks! Yes, kids say the funniest things, and I love it when they start adding more and more words. My son told me to "stop singing" over the weekend. Geesh!
I completely could relate to tagging in and out with your husband when taking care of the kids. It is also pretty funny (and surprising) that a spouse doing housework is a turn-on now!! These were fun questions!
Oh the nose wrinkle!! I love it! I absolutely adore your engagement story! That's amazing that he saved all of that stuff and presented it to you at that moment! Perfect move to solidify you saying "yes"!!!! Thank you for tagging me in this! It looks like fun! I will actually have to think about a couple of those answers though. For the life of me I am not remembering how I knew I was pregnant with my first. Hopefully my husband does or I wrote it down in her baby book!
I hope you enjoy answering these questions as much as I did. I also had to ask my husband about a few of the answers, as I THOUGHT he wore a shirt & tie when he proposed, but I couldn't quite remember. Details…details!
Hmm…I'll have to check where Mars is..I haven't heard of it. We are more familiar with the East side of the state. Nice to "meet" ya too!
Oops – I'm sorry, you meant Mars, PA! YES, I do remember where that was when we lived in Pittsburgh. Now we live in Wisconsin, so I made the mistake of thinking there was a Mars, WI. This reply was LONG overdue.


James Gordon says: "The story in this game is its peak. It's quite good, actually. It's about a plague, and well... a plague. It doesn't sound like much, but it really does prove to be involving, and somewhat suspenseful."
overdrive says: "Throughout the early history of console role-playing games, one common failing was that a game's plot and story just weren't up to par with the actual gameplay. You'd be playing a game with a great battle system, good challenge, cool enemies and challenging gameplay — but the storyline would fall under a generic ''save the princess/slay the bad guy who's taking over the world for reasons unknown'' theme and the most in-depth dialogue would be ''Talk to the King.'' "
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Two types of simulation software TRNSYS and Polysun are studied to check their suitability for solar district heating system planning. A reference case, a part of the Vallda Heberg district heating system is modelled in both tools and results are compared with available measured data and with each other. Models are successfully calibrated. TRNSYS and Polysun models have deviations in main key figures compared to the reference case less than 2% and less than 8% respectively. A sensitivity analysis of key parameters shows that the two tools give similar results.


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Turkmenistan: Four-Year Prison Sentence After "Secret Trial"
January 26, 2012 at 3:12
Two months after his arrest, Jehovah's Witness Vladimir Nuryllayev has been given a four-year prison term at a "secret trial" in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabad [Ashgabat] on charges his community insists are fabricated. The court sentenced Nuryllayev on 18 January on charges of "spreading pornography", a court official, who did not give her name, told Forum 18 News Service from Ashgabad on 24 January. "All this has been done because he is a Jehovah's Witness," fellow Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18. "Vladimir is a highly moral and deeply devout person and has nothing to do with pornography." Community members complain that the trial was held in secret, preventing them from attending to support Nuryllayev. An unverified report indicates that a Muslim may have been imprisoned on similar charges for distributing religious discs.
Forum 18 knows of seven other men serving sentences as religious prisoners of conscience, six of them Jehovah's Witness conscientious objectors and one Protestant pastor. Former prisoners have testified that they were beaten and maltreated while in labour camp.
Four-Year Sentence
Judge Iskander Bekturdiyev of Ashgabad's Azatlyk District Court sentenced Nuryllayev on 18 January under Criminal Code Article 164, Part 2, the court official told Forum 18. This Article punishes "production or distribution of pornographic items" more than once or by a group of people. The maximum penalty is five years' imprisonment.
The court official added that the written verdict has already been issued (something Forum 18 has been unable to verify) and that Nuryllayev has ten days in which to appeal if he chooses.
The court official could not say if Nuryllayev was present at the trial or not. He has been held at the detention centre at Yashlyk, 40 kms (25 miles) south-east of Ashgabad, since his arrest on 15 November 2011. Officials indicated after his trial that he is likely to remain there for a further two weeks or so before being transferred to a labour camp.
Religious Literature Confiscated, "Fine", Beating And Arrest
The 39-year-old Nuryllayev is a building worker who earns his living by renovating private homes. He lives in a small Ashgabad flat with his mother and other relatives.
Nuryllayev's prosecution began after a conflict with a member of his family who lives in the same flat. The family member who does not share his faith reportedly went to the police in late September 2011 to tell them he is a Jehovah's Witness and that he kept some religious literature in a cupboard in the flat. The local police officer then arrived and, going straight to the cupboard, confiscated the literature.
On 18 October 2011, the officer ordered Nuryllayev to pay a "fine" of 375 Manats (773 Norwegian Kroner, 101 Euros or 132 US Dollars). Nuryllayev paid the fine the following day, hoping that this would end the case. Although the officer gave him a receipt, neither he nor the receipt indicated what the "fine" was for or what Article of the Code of Administrative Offences it was supposed to relate to.
Two officials who claimed to be from the hyakimlik (local administration) came to Nuryllayev's flat in the evening of 20 October 2011, insisting that they needed to take away his notebook computer. Because they gave no reason or warrant for the seizure, Nuryllayev tried to cling on to it. However, after he wrote down the two officials' names, they got angry and began to beat him, sources told Forum 18.
Nuryllayev's mother, who is incapacitated after an accident, came into the room and saw the blood from her son's injuries, triggering heart problems.
Police came to Nuryllayev's home to arrest him on 15 November 2011, after which he was transferred to Yashlyk.
Fabricated Accusations?
On 16 November 2011, the day after Nuryllayev's arrest, the criminal case under Article 164, Part 2 was opened against him by Azatlyk District Police's Investigation Department with the approval of the District Prosecutor. The investigation was led by Investigator Rejepmurat Kurbanov. The accusation against him was formally lodged on 19 November 2011.
Jehovah's Witnesses allege that the prosecution assertion that Nuryllayev gave a disc containing pornographic material to two named individuals on two separate occasions in Ashgabad – near a market in September 2011 and in a park in October 2011 – was a fabrication. "Vladimir had never seen the two people before," Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18. Moreover, they say the notebook computer was the only computer he had, and the disc drive on it had broken.
Investigator Kurbanov refused absolutely to discuss the way he had conducted the investigation or the Jehovah's Witness claims that the accusation had been fabricated. "It's good to hear from you," he told Forum 18 from Ashgabad on 24 January. But he kept repeating "You must ask your questions of the court," before putting the phone down.
The telephones of the Interior Ministry in Ashgabad were engaged or went unanswered each time Forum 18 called on 24 January.
Muslim Sentenced On Similar Charges?
In early January, as Nuryllayev was awaiting trial, an anonymous message to Radio Liberty's Turkmen Service – seen by Forum 18 – claimed that an unnamed Muslim man had been imprisoned "last year" merely for distributing religious audio and video discs. The message said that officials had used the accusation of distributing pornography to imprison the Muslim. The message asked that the news be brought to the attention of international human rights organisations.
It remains impossible to verify the truth of the message.
http://www.eurasiareview.com
Turkmenistan Pardons More Than 2,000 Prisoners
Turkmen Leader Pardons Hundreds Of Inmates, Including Jehovah's Witnesses
TURKMENISTAN: Two jailed brothers, two second convictions
TURKMENISTAN: First 2020 conscientious objector jailing
UN General Assembly Resolution declaring 2021 as International Year of Peace and Trust
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Labour nationalisation plans will delay move to green energy, says National Grid
Labour's plans to bring energy networks under public ownership will delay efforts to move to green energy, the National Grid has said.
The shadow business secretary will announce on Thursday that the utilities company should be taken out of the hands of private shareholders and transformed through a "green industrial revolution".
Rebecca Long-Bailey said bringing the grid into public ownership was the only way to "decarbonise the economy at the pace needed to secure the planet for our children and grandchildren".
But the proposals have been widely criticised, with the National Grid saying it is the "last thing" needed to help tackle climate change.
Rebecca-Long Bailey will announce the plans during a visit to Salford with Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday (Anna Gowthorpe/PA)
Under the plans, Labour would create a National Energy Agency to replace the National Grid which would own and maintain the transmission infrastructure while overseeing targets for decarbonisation, and protect energy as a "human right".
Regional Energy Agencies (REAs) would replace the existing Distribution Network Operators, and hold a statutory responsibility for decarbonising electricity and heat.
A National Grid spokeswoman said the proposals would delay the progress being made to move to green energy, saying: "National Grid is one of the most reliable networks in the world, we are also at the heart of the decarbonisation agenda.
"These proposals for state-ownership of the energy networks would only serve to delay the huge amount of progress and investment that is already helping to make this country a leader in the move to green energy.
"At a time when there is increased urgency to meet the challenges of climate change the last thing that is needed is the enormous distraction, cost and complexity contained in these plans."
Ms Long-Bailey, who will announce the plans during a visit to Salford with Jeremy Corbyn, said: "Climate change represents a risk to our future, but also an opportunity to gather our resources and transform it through a green industrial revolution.
"That means dramatic, public driven and coordinated action, without which we simply will not be able to tackle climate change.
"So our plans see climate justice and social justice as inseparable. It's an insult and an injustice to our people and our planet for companies operating the grid to rip customers off, line the pockets of the rich and not invest properly in renewable energy.
"Only by taking the grid into public ownership can we decarbonise the economy at the pace needed to secure the planet for our children and grandchildren while ending the rip off, creating good jobs in local communities and making heating and electricity a human right.
"That's why public and collective ownership is a fundamental part of Labour's Green Industrial Revolution."
Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director, said: "As drafted, these proposals amount to hanging a 'closed' sign above the UK, with renationalisation delivering a triple whammy neither citizens nor the country can afford.
"First, Labour's plans would leave individual savers and international investors alike asking the question 'is my money safe?' Loose talk of re-nationalisation is already hitting the pockets of nearly six million pensioners. This will only increase if the plans are delivered.
"Second, much-needed investment is drying up under Labour's threats, which seriously risks hampering efforts to tackle climate change, and puts in doubt the innovation that will deliver a net-zero carbon economy.
A National Grid spokeswoman said the proposals would delay the progress being made to move to green energy (Gareth Fuller/PA)
"Third, these plans would threaten significant improvements in network resilience made since privatisation. No-one wants a return to the frequent power cuts that were a feature of nationalised industries of yesteryear.
"Against the uncertain backdrop of Brexit, the country needs policies focused on powering economic growth in the future, nor revisiting mistakes of the past."
Chris Philp, Conservative vice chairman for policy, also criticised the proposals.
He said: "Corbyn's ideological plan for the state to seize these companies would cost an eye-watering £100 billion and saddle taxpayers with their debts.
"It would leave politicians in Westminster in charge of keeping the lights on and leave customers with nowhere else to turn.
"With no credible plan for how Labour would pay for this, more borrowing and tax hikes would be inevitable.
"Through measures like our energy price cap, the Conservative Government will continue to protect people from unfair bill rises while increasing renewable electricity to a record high."


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Freedom of Religion or Belief: International Conference — [Steve McCabe in the Chair]
Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 9:30 am on 28th June 2022.
Fiona Bruce Conservative, Congleton 9:30 am, 28th June 2022
My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. One aim of the conference is to share best practice on how countries can prevent FORB violations and how they can work together to do so. I am firmly convinced that the recommendations of the Truro review set a standard that it is worth other countries looking at and indeed following. However, no one country has all the answers; we need to work together to build the capacity of FORB defenders and persuade violators of the positive case for change.
Freedom of religion or belief needs to be mainstreamed by Governments globally. It is not a side issue for individuals, communities or countries; Governments need to recognise the importance of including FORB in foreign and other policymaking, or we will face increasing challenges to peace across the world. Legal systems need to be strengthened to ensure that when a country has signed up internationally to FORB principles, such as through article 18 of the universal declaration of human rights, that translates into practice on the ground, so that when a young woman who has been so-called forcibly married—that is, raped—goes into a police station, she can expect justice, not to be turned away.
We will be asking questions such as, what best practice can countries share to promote FORB and prevent its violation? How can we better protect the many women and girls from minority groups who suffer double jeopardy on account of their gender and their beliefs? How can we ensure that victims receive better treatment and effective trauma care? How can we address the lack of religious literacy about FORB among policymakers, which was one of the excellent recommendations in the Truro review? And how can FORB, and the reasons why it matters to everyone and to whole societies, not just those with religious beliefs, be introduced into education syllabi to inform young people and, hopefully, to inspire a whole new generation of FORB champions to spread the word about its importance, just as they have about climate change?
Achieving real change will require international collaboration on FORB, involving not only Governments but civil society organisations, which are so often at the forefront of reporting FORB abusers. That is why civil society engagement with our conference is so critical.
Addressing FORB will require political will and enduring commitment from the highest level of Governments if it is to be effective, and that will need to be backed up by real resources. We need to find ways to prevent violations of FORB from occurring, working with religious communities to do so and to discover flashpoints. We must seek to identify and disarm sources of tension. We need to build resilience and to encourage and foster dialogue.
The international community needs to develop mechanisms to help co-ordinate the increasing number of groups concerned about and working on FORB internationally. How can we better monitor FORB violations? Governments need to develop effective early-warning mechanisms to prevent mass atrocities. Countries need to work together to hold perpetrators of FORB violations to account through targeted sanctions, to ensure more follow the lead of the UK and other countries on human rights-based sanctions. Last month, I held a debate about FORB and digital persecution. We need to look at ways to prevent the misuse of technology and at how to use digital mapping to identify and track FORB violations in order to deliver more targeted interventions.
As we have planned the conference, we have deliberately invited a good number of young people. We need to help, support and inspire the next generation of FORB champions and to provide support for FORB defenders, particularly those persecuted for speaking up for this human right. The next generation need education curricula promoting an understanding of FORB, as do the wider public.
In the months running up to the conference, I and my deputy special envoy, David Burrowes, have toured the UK with a roadshow, speaking to community groups in about 25 towns and cities and raising awareness of FORB. This is a typical reaction:
"I had no idea that this amount of persecution is happening in the world today."
More information about our tour is on the website endthepersecution.uk, including free toolkits for places of worship, schools and communities to help spread the word about FORB and its importance.
We are looking for more countries to sign up in support of FORB, to develop coalitions of the willing. This year, I chair the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance—or IRFBA. I have been pleased to see more countries become members—there are now 36. We work to ensure that FORB is championed across the world and that FORB violations are called out.
The work of IRFBA is strengthening. In the past year we have issued statements on Afghanistan, Myanmar, Ukraine and Nigeria, and in support of the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Ahmadiyya and the Baha'i. Most pleasing has been the action that has followed these statements, such as in Afghanistan. IRFBA helped trigger one of our countries to provide visas for targeted religious minorities, and another country to provide a plane so that 190 people from Afghanistan, threatened on account of their beliefs, were flown out to safety. Many of them would almost certainly be dead now had IRFBA not intervened.
Our IRFBA education working group has informed the ministerial conference session, as has our deep dive into protecting religious heritage. The sight of the hugely significant UNESCO religious sites in Ukraine being destroyed by Russian forces has been appalling and is an affront to the people of Ukraine and the world. We at IRFBA now look forward to being a key vehicle to help deliver on the outcomes of the ministerial conference and to further galvanise multilateral efforts.
Working internationally on FORB, I have come to realise how our Parliament's cross-party work on FORB is pre-eminent across the globe. The UK has a unique, good story to tell about our cross-party work, and the impact of our all-party parliamentary group for international freedom of religion or belief. I have no doubt that the ministerial conference would not be happening next week but for the work of our APPG over the past 10 years. It is now the largest APPG in Parliament, with almost 160 parliamentarians as members. I pay tribute to our current chairs—in the Commons, Jim Shannon, and in the Lords, Baroness Cox.
Next week, in addition to the UK Government hosting the ministerial conference, we will have a superb range of more than 100 FORB fringe events, co-ordinated by the APPG and the growing UK Freedom of Religion or Belief Forum of civil society groups. Some of those fringe events will be in the QEII centre, where the ministerial meeting is being hosted, but others will be in Parliament, elsewhere around Westminster and across the country, with most needing no pass to attend—see the website www.londonforbfringe.com for details. For anyone who cannot travel, the ministerial event will be livestreamed—see the FORB ministerial section on the gov.uk website. Together, let us ensure that the right to FORB is shared across the globe and reaches those parts where freedoms are dimmed or darkened today—places such as China, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and many others.
I will finish where I started, in Ukraine, and with the wording of the statement on Ukraine, which I issued as chair of IRFBA:
"As members of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, we commend the courage, dignity and determination of the people of Ukraine and their leadership. We stand in solidarity with them, including religious communities throughout the country. We condemn Russia's premeditated, unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine, our fellow IRFBA member.
Ukraine is a strong democracy whose diverse population includes Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, non-believers, and members of other religious groups. With its multiplicity of faith perspectives, Ukraine has been a strong and active defender of the human right to freedom of religion or belief, and was one of the earliest countries to commit to membership of the IRFBA and its principles. Its legislation guarantees the equal rights of people of all religions or beliefs.
We denounce President Putin's cynical attempt to misuse, for his own ends, the history and suffering of people during the Holocaust and World War II, including Ukrainian Jews. His baseless claim that Ukraine is a hotbed for neo-Nazism is just one of the many pretexts fabricated for his war of choice. This is not the first time the Kremlin has falsely accused its neighbours of neo-Nazism and fascism as a cover for its own provocations and human rights abuses.
We urge the Kremlin and Russia's military to cease its illegal invasion and respect the safety of the civilian population of Ukraine, including all religious communities, and to respect the individually held human right to freedom of religion or belief at all times.
We call on all Russians, whatever their religion or belief, to stand up for peace."
(Citation: HC Deb, 28 June 2022, c18WH)


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Are you a leader or just a boss?
I often find that many people confuse leadership with positional power. We tend to believe that a person in a position of authority or someone with a title has their position or title due to their leadership qualities. However, in many cases there is no correlation between someone's position and their leadership ability.
Just having a title does not make you a leader, leaderships is about influence. Title only buys you time to exercise true leadership, and in this time your leadership either increases or diminishes and eventually fails. There is a huge difference between being a boss and being a leader…! Consider the following…
The boss drives group members; the leader coaches them.
The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
The boss says 'I'; the leader says 'we.'
The boss assigns the task, the leader sets the pace.
The boss says, 'Get there on time'; the leader gets there ahead of time.
The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.
The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how.
The boss makes work a drudgery; the leader makes it a game.
The boss says, 'Go'; the leader says, 'Let's go.'"
People follow the boss because they have to if they want to keep their jobs. People follow leaders because of who they are and were they are going. Too many leaders today rely on their position to lead. How about you?


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Allegations came to light within the last month of links between former Juventus CEO Beppe Marotta and the mafia; to a greater extent on the role of organized crime within Italian football ultras and curvas. Italian TV show Report, a journalistic show which touches on a different topic each episode, have accused Marotta of contact with the mafia, claiming to have intercepted messages between the Juve boss and Rocco Dominello, the son of a mafia boss, in which Dominello asks for five tickes for the Juve-Madrid match and Marotta obliges.
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EnWave Signs Technology Evaluation and Licence Option Agreement with Fresh Business Consulting S.L.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EnWave Corporation (TSXV:ENW) (FSE:E4U) ("EnWave", or the "Company") announced today that it has signed a Technology Evaluation and License Option Agreement (the "TELOA") with Fresh Business Consulting S.L. ("FBC"), part of a diversified investment and consulting firm headquartered in Spain that has business interests in its home country, the United Kingdom and Peru. The TELOA grants FBC a six-month term to evaluate EnWave's Radiant Energy Vacuum ("REV™") technology for the production of several undisclosed food products in the country of Peru.
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Qashqa Darya (modernament escrit Kashkadarya) és un riu de l'Uzbekistan, que neix a les muntanyes del nord-est de Shar-i Sabz (Xahrisabz) i discurreix cap a l'oest formant una vall fèrtil; perd caudal progressivament i s'asseca al desert al sud de Bukharà, però en cas de pluja intensa el seu final es produeix en un petit llac situat a uns 50 km al sud de la ciutat de Bukharà. El riu dona nom a l'oblast (regió) de Kashkadarya.

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Rius de l'Uzbekistan


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