Sandy Hook, NJ – Today, nearly 4,000 volunteers hit the beaches to participate in Clean Ocean Action's 30thAnnual Spring Beach Sweeps at over 70 sites from Essex County to Cape May County. Volunteers removed and catalogued each piece of debris, helping to document ongoing pollution issues. Spirited crowds were reported up and down the coast.
The first Beach Sweep started in 1985 with only 75 volunteers in Sandy Hook. This year we had 1000 volunteers at Sandy Hook alone. For three decades volunteers make their way to the coast, bays, and waterways, twice a year, to clean up debris. Dedicated volunteers traveled from all over New Jersey as well as New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland to participate in the Beach Sweeps this year. Many volunteers came from school and church groups, family teams, local businesses, corporate and grassroots organizations, and more. All with personal ties to the Shore and some with decades of Sweeps participation.
The data recorded today will be combined with data collected in the fall at the October 24th Beach Sweeps, then analyzed and presented in an annual report produced by Clean Ocean Action. The Beach Sweeps annual report identifies pollution problems and educates citizens on the quantities and types of marine debris. Legislators will receive the cumulative data and use it to implement stricter litter bans and enforce laws to protect the marine environment.
"Our pristine beaches in Atlantic County are the heart of our region's tourism. I'm proud to support Clean Ocean Action for their hard work in continuing to bring to light the need to preserve our environment and care for our ocean. I'd like to thank the 30 years' worth of Beach Sweeps volunteers and I hope this fantastic program continues for 30 more," said Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo, who attended the Brigantine Beach Sweep location.
"Our beautiful beaches are at the cornerstone of our region's environment and economy. I'd like to thank the volunteers for their work beautifying the Missouri Avenue beach as well as Clean Ocean Action for celebrating its 30th year conducting Beach Sweeps," Senator Jim Whelan, who attended the Atlantic City Beach Sweep location.
Clean Ocean Action Beach Captains, lead volunteers who direct the entire group of participants at each Beach Sweeps location, are essential to the program's success. They are the heart and soul of Beach Sweeps.
"I am honored to have had the opportunity to work with Clean Ocean Action over the past year. This is my last beach sweep in which I will have such a leadership role, but it has inspired me to continue my involvement in Clean Ocean Action in the future," said Erin O'Neil, volunteer and student at the Marine Academy of Science and Technology. "I look forward to future beach sweeps and getting to clean the beaches, which will provide a new perspective for me. I hope to continue to be an advocate for a marine debris-free environment in the years to come as well as inspire others to do the same.
Selected totals from Sandy Hook included: 6265 food/candy wrappers, 8289 plastic pieces, 3126 straws/stirrers, 2301 foam pieces, 1339 store/shopping bags, and 1680 beverage/soda bottles.
"Participating in the Beach Sweeps with children is an amazing way to show and teach respect and love. We show our love for each other by being together and we show our respect for the Earth by helping to keep it clean. Our communities grow stronger. Ideal Beach in North Middletown looks forward to uniting for COA's Beach Sweeps each spring and fall. Its reward is pride in ourselves and our neighborhood. It gives me an opportunity as Beach Captain to share what I've learned along the way and to show my love and respect to all who come to clean our great little beach," said Lisa Cordova, Beach Captain for Ideal Beach in Middletown.
In addition to logging standard debris counts for various plastics, glass and lumber items, Sweeps participants also logged the strange objects that make their way to the beach from various nonpoint sources. Some of the ridiculous items catalogued today included a yoga mat, underwear, dog dentures, teddy bear, a Valentine's Day stuffed heart, tire, seahorse, and sand hit by lighting glass.
With gratitude, Clean Ocean Action thanks Aveda and Bank of America for their 2015 Beach Sweeps Statewide Sponsorship. The Spring Beach Sweeps are made possible by support from many generous sponsors.
"Wakefern Food Corp/ShopRite is pleased with our 15+ year partnership with Clean Ocean Action (COA). As an environmentally and community oriented business, ShopRite respects when an organization can bring about effective change by involving more and more community member volunteers each year. The COA Beach Sweeps event brings about the improvement of an important ecological habitat, and when groups of like-minded people come together to solve a problem or improve their environment, they can make a difference and accomplish what an individual could not do alone. We are proud to be a part of it!" Suzanne Forbes, Corporate Communications, Environmental Affairs Administrator, Wakefern Food Corporation.
The 2014 Clean Ocean Action Beach Sweeps Annual Report can be downloaded here at cleanoceanaction.org.
Clean Ocean Action's mission is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast. Clean Ocean Action will identify the sources of pollution and mount an attack on each by using research, public education and citizen action to convince public officials to enact and enforce measures which will clean up and protect the Atlantic Ocean.


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Confidential Shipping Data May Not Be Treated Confidentially At U.S. Ports of Entry
Information that your business believes is confidential, including foreign product sources and distribution, is not necessarily treated confidentially at U.S. ports of entry.
If your business imports or exports products into or out of the United States, then you may be aware of the role that the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plays in tracking information about foreign shipments. Among its various tasks, CBP is charged with collecting information about shipments passing through U.S. ports of entry. Data viewed by many businesses as confidential, including identification of the shipper, the consignee, the type of shipped goods, the amount of goods in a shipment, plus trademarks and product numbers associated with goods, among other information, is contained on the vessel manifests that accompany each shipment into and out of the U.S.
Many businesses that rely on foreign shipping either to distribute their products overseas or to obtain foreign generated raw materials or finished goods might be surprised to learn how easy it is to obtain foreign shipping information from the CBP. While a business may take significant steps to protect its product sourcing and distribution information from disclosure, including to competitors, the CBP conveniently provides this sensitive shipping information to the media. It is surprising how easy this critical information, perhaps erroneously believed to be confidential, can be obtained by a direct competitor.
The Code of Federal Regulations (at 19 CFR 103.31) explains that the CBP permits accredited representatives of the press to inspect and copy shipping vessel manifests. Information concerning the name and address of the shipper, character of the cargo, number of packages and gross weight of the shipment, the name and address of the consignee, and trademarks and part numbers of the cargo is available for inspection. All of this information is potentially available for copying on inbound manifests. On outbound manifests, the CFR prohibits copying of the consignee's name, cargo marks and numbers, although examination of this information is permitted.
Shipping information may be obtained from the CBP either from individual vessel manifests or on magnetic tape through CBP's Automated Manifest System, containing compiled information from all U.S. ports. The tapes provide updated data within twenty four hours and are available from the CBP for a particular date or by ongoing subscription.
One common media acquirer – and publisher – of foreign shipping data is the PIERS unit of The Journal of Commerce (http://www.piers.com/). PIERS claims to collect more than 15 million bill of lading records annually. PIERS explains that it obtains import waterborne data from the CBP, outbound waterborne data from its reporters located at all 88 U.S. ports of entry, and additional shipping data from customs services of certain foreign countries.
There are other publishers of foreign shipping data, including Zepol Corporation (http://www.zepol.com/) and Panjiva, Inc. (http://panjiva.com/). While PIERS, Zepol and Panjiva are fee-based subscription services, they each provide tantalizing information about shipments free of charge. In preparing this article, I used the Panjiva service to look up a certain well-known commercial aircraft manufacturer and obtained a list of its overseas component parts suppliers. I searched under the name of a famous cola and obtained a list of overseas suppliers and distributors. I also conducted a search under my law firm's name and learned of a recent shipment of European wooden furniture to my firm's San Francisco office.
For shippers who cower at the prospect of sensitive shipping data published to their competitors, all hope is not lost. The CBP permits shippers to petition the CBP for confidential treatment of certain shipping information. An importer or consignee may request confidential treatment on inward manifests of its name, address, identifying marks and numbers, together with the name and address of its shipper. On outward manifests, confidential treatment can be requested of a shipper's name and address (note that the consignee's name, and product marks and numbers, cannot be copied off outbound manifests, but they can be examined by reporters). A request for confidential treatment can cover information contained in both the vessel manifests and the CBP's magnetic tapes.
The particular form of the request for confidential treatment is not difficult to prepare and submit to the CBP. Specific information to be included in the request, and the procedure for submitting the request, are available in 19 CFR 103.31(d). While a request for confidential treatment, once granted, will not prevent the inspection of vessel manifests by reporters, the approved request will prevent the publication by the press of the confidential information for two years. The request may be renewed for additional two-year intervals.
Resolve now to confirm the foreign sourcing and foreign distribution of your business' goods. If this information should be treated confidentially, then consider requesting confidential treatment of this information by the CBP.
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but never do I fear anything.
These are the opening lines of the opening poem "The Touch Ahead" of this poetry collection from a demographic author who has diligently pressed out mastery. These lines are assurance of hope from a poet who has praises and revile for Africa and her political systems. Here, Africa would be the dwelling place where darkness suffices but he, an African would fear zilch and despite all odds, his eyes are open to greatness - Optimism full of light.
Nsah Mala new collection of poems is artistically and creatively impressive – an extraordinary feat despite the fact that the poems were written in different locations from Mbankolo, Perpignan, Bayreuth, St Andrews, Njinagwa, Bambili, Messa-Si, to Dakar yet the poems work together so well having accomplished every lines and stanzas making a whole strong and edifying collection. Nsah Mala groups the poem into two sections of thematic choice – Ragtag: Back and Forth and Constimocracy: In and Out taking the liberty to speak in writing, printing his voice on the state of Democracy in Africa. The result is a tensed evocative collection that expresses the heartfelt of the author.
I watched an electrifying dance.
passing it through dancing apparel.
erupting mountains when they dance.
A campaign perspective was employed and the message was also conveyed in 'Safety Kiss page 42'.
on faces but turns into dung.
Democracy is objected to crazy demonstrations of our African Leaders, It's constitutional modification democracy! Napkins of demoncrazy.
If you tear or burn a piece of cloth: treason.
Swindle sums, mutilate constitutions: reason.
but is transferred from fathers to sons.
and throw all who raise brows in prisons.
How do we read constimocrazic thermometers?
limitless mandates, repression of opposition, imprisonments.
Executions and torture top dictatorship speedometers.
Such are desirable; let's call them fertile dictators.
They're so rare! Rare like gold! You need examples?
Don't ask why we're still in black, mourning Gaddafi.
Economically barren dictators are worst; bloody parasites!
They flood our continent. Slogan machines. Want some?
Hmm! Hmm! No me oh! Better ask the Monetary Fund!
You remember Libya? You remember Syria?
No interests no wars? No wars no interests? Interests.
No interests no allies? No allies no interests? Interests.
No interest no killings? No killings no interests? Interests.
No interests no action? No action no interests? Interests.
No interests no world? No world no interests? Interests.
From poems such as 'The Refugees', 'Against Extremists', 'Wedding in Prison', 'From Chief to Thief', 'To Those Sent Against Their Own Blood', 'Orphans with Parents' etc the poets unarguably raised an unrestrained exuberance through poetry going back and forth in recognition of the essence of historical standpoint and in and out of the present day reality towards a change in the African society.
Nsah Mala 'CONSTIMOCRAZY: Malafricanising Democracy', a poetry collection beyond the ordinary that speaks of the relevance in today concerns. The Cameroon-born writer is no doubt a fine contemporary African poet who has written the political essence of his generation.
Tola Ijalusi is a Nigerian Creative Writer, Poet, and Reviewer. His works appears on various online journals and magazine such as Kalahari Review, Dissident Voice, Indian Periodical, New Ink Review, BlackBoy Magazine and elsewhere. His poems have been published in anthologies such as Peace Is Possible, Muse For World Peace II, Muse For World Peace III, The Sun Will Rise Again, Best New African Poets Anthology 2016 and Best New African Poets Anthology 2017. He is a recipient of PIN Excellence Award 2016. He is the Managing Editor of PAROUSIA Magazine, An Online Christian Arts and Literary Magazine. He tweets @Ijalusi234 and blogs at mrijalusi.wordpress.com.


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BADIANO, Juan
BADIANO, Juan (1484 - circa 1552) Wikipedia
CRUZ, Martin De La
EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 - )
The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940.
The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another native, Juan Badiano, around the time of the Spanish Conquest, the work is the earliest extant medical treatise written by a native American, and the earliest herbal written in the Americas. Fine color reproductions.
Subjects: BOTANY › Botanical Illustration, BOTANY › Ethnobotany, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, Latin American Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines
ÁVILA BLOMBERG, Alejandro de elmuseoreimimaginado.com
CLAYTON, Martin (1967 - ) Wikipedia
GUERRINI, Luigi
POZZO, Cassiano dal (1588 - 1657) Wikipedia
Flora: The Aztec herbal. Edited by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Ávila. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History (HMPMB 8))
Brussels: Brepols, 2009.
"This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo's copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New World. The original codex was presented to Cassiano's patron, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, during a papal legation to Spain in 1626, and was copied on the Cardinal's return to Rome for Cassiano's fellow members of the Accademia dei Lincei, who at that time were completing their own vast illustrated natural history of Central America.
"Cassiano's copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus is preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle together with the larger surviving part of his 'Paper Museum', an encyclopaedic collection of prints and drawings of antiquities, architecture and natural history subjects, acquired by George III in 1762.
"Each folio of the Windsor manuscript is reproduced in colour together with full comparative illustrations of the Codex Cruz-Badianus. The Latin text is transcribed with a parallel English translation, and each of the 184 drawings of plants is analysed. The catalogue is preceded by general introductions to the Paper Museum and to the natural history drawings, and by two thematic essays: Luigi Guerrini discusses the Windsor copy in the context of the Lincei's researches into the natural history of the New World; and Alejandro de Ávila reviews the current state of research into the original Codex Cruz-Badianus, including the fieldwork and linguistic researches in Mexico that are changing our understanding of the manuscript" (publisher).
Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines


In the long and tireless quest for wisdom, I would like to highlight a new factor to be taken into account.
Linguistic relativity is a theory that combines different fields of knowledge, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, neurology and pedagogy. This theory enunciates the following postulate: how we perceive reality and how we think it is influenced by language structures, i.e. how we verbalize the objects and concepts we handle mentally.
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf developed this theory in the 1940s. Many empirical studies have been conducted in populations that speak different languages, comparing how the different perception of reality can be influenced by the language used.
Particularly interesting are the analyses on how the perception of colors varies based on the native language spoken. Based on the book "Basic Color Terms, Their Universality and Evolution" by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay (you can read it here), interesting conclusions have been drawn: Lenneberg and Roberts (1955) found that the Zuni Indians, who use the same word to refer to yellow and orange, have great difficulty distinguishing both colors.
If we don't have a word to define a risk, it will be very difficult for us to perceive it, and even more to assess it correctly, and very complicated for us to agree on a way to manage it.
Let's imagine we have a cow on a green field. David Hume, the father of empiricism, would have asserted that if we close our eyes, we will not be able to claim for certain that the cow exists. According to the linguistic relativity theory, we can assert that if we don't have a word to identify the cow, we possibly won't even see it, or we may confuse it with the happy overweight farmer.
From the point of view of risk management, the great challenge is first to identify the sources of our potential losses. And we can attribute our successes and failures to causes very different from the real ones.
But we do have a powerful ally: technology. Technology connects us and brings us nearer, it enables us to share experiences with people around the world. We therefore perceive the fears, aspirations, experiences and considerations of different people from very diverse origins, which enriches us considerably. This broader perspective can help us perceive more clearly the risks we face.
And this communication on the technological platform occurs, preferably, in English. For better or for worse, we use the same language structure. We standardize knowledge, and if we think that this single language can limit our view of reality, precisely because of linguistic relativity, we should bear in mind that more and more people are interconnected, trying to translate their own experiences and perceptions into a language that is not their mother tongue, thus enriching both languages.
If technology brings us nearer and enables us to share experiences, we can move toward a risk management model that is commonly shared, standardized and enriched by peripheral views, and improved and driven by a concept that is now becoming known and developed: Collective Intelligence.


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Japan Amateur Boxing Federation denies financial fraud allegations
The Japan Amateur Boxing Federation has responded to allegations of fraud, including the misuse of federal grant money, saying "a lot of" the accusations made by regional federation executives and former boxers are false.
On its website late Monday evening, the JABF apologized for disappointing fans, athletes and sports officials following media reports about the complaint against the governing body of amateur boxing filed through the Japanese Olympic Committee.
"A lot of the things cited in the document were not true, therefore, what has been reported by the media does not reflect the truth," the JABF said.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the party filing the complaint is a privately formed amateur boxing support group with 333 members, and the letter was sent by mail to the JOC, Japan Sport Agency and Japan Sport Association among other places.
There were 12 specific points mentioned in the letter, such as questionable decisions by referees in official matches and lack of transparency in the financial management of the JABF's Olympic funding.
The group is asking that the JABF be investigated and relevant parties penalized.
Japan Amateur Boxing Federation, fraud allegations