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How 2019 laid the groundwork for change in the chemical industry
By Peter Moore on January 15, 2020
The unmistakable signs of a growing resistance to the continued poisoning of the American (and global) public by toxic chemicals were evident in 2019. While federal toxics policy remains mired in year three of the dismal Trump administration, activities in the states, the courts, Congress and the marketplace all signal that the chemical industry's current appearance of dominance is tenuous and temporary. A seismic shift in the public's acceptance of daily exposure to carcinogens, developmental toxins and endocrine disrupters — in our air, food, drinking water, cosmetics, furniture and household products — is just around the corner.
When it comes, elected officials and corporate executives will scramble to keep up with the public's concerns — and finally will distance themselves from fealty, or at best, passivity, to the continued bad faith policies and politics of Dow, DuPont, Monsanto, Exxon and the other chemical giants they have catered to for so long. Science and health — both under attack by the chemical industry with the aid of the Trump administration — are due for a comeback in the year(s) ahead. A few of this year's important developments in toxics are summarized below.
Chlorpyrifos
After a decade of scientific review (prompted by a petition from NRDC and Pesticide Action Network), EPA under the Obama administration proposed a ban on chlorpyrifos, a deadly neurotoxic pesticide, based on evidence of neurological harm in children exposed during fetal development. One of the Trump administration's first and worst environmental actions was to reverse course and walk away from the proposed ban, leaning on the industry-favored excuse that the science was unsettled.
Chlorpyrifos was an early sign that the new "populist" administration would take its cues strictly from the nation's biggest chemical companies. Continued poisoning of rural communities, and the food supply, has followed.
2019 will be remembered as the tipping point when chlorpyrifos started its final deserved slide into oblivion, joining all the other organophosphate pesticides deemed too toxic to be used.
In the face of federal inaction, in 2019 three states — Hawaii, California and New York — took steps to protect people by cancelling chlorpyrifos uses, with more states likely to follow.
A properly functioning system to protect the public from dangerous chemicals would not necessitate a years-long petition process (which lasted through the entire Obama administration), followed by years-long litigation (ongoing) and years-long state-level advocacy in parallel. But, that's the system we have. 2019 will be remembered as the tipping point when chlorpyrifos started its final deserved slide into oblivion, joining all the other organophosphate pesticides deemed too toxic to be used.
In 2020, a federal court in San Francisco will hear oral argument in NRDC's legal challenge to the EPA's continued approval of another organophosphate in pet products (flea collars, powders). Tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP) — like its toxic cousin chlorpyrifos — has been shown to harm children's brains, and exposure is up to 1,000 times greater than levels EPA considers safe. Our legal challenge, as well as pressure on companies carrying products containing TCVP, will be a toxic story to watch in 2020.
Toxic solvents, asbestos and everything else
The Trump EPA's policies are failing with science reviewers and the courts. In 2016, Congress enacted major revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The revised law requires EPA to comprehensively evaluate chemicals to determine whether they pose an unreasonable risk to human health or the environment. The law further requires the agency to consider and protect vulnerable populations — such as children, workers and people subject to disproportionate exposure to chemicals — in its analysis.
Congress directed the EPA to establish overarching "framework" rules for how it would prioritize chemicals for evaluation, and how it would conduct its risk evaluations, and to jump start the process by selecting 10 chemicals to be evaluated by the end of 2019 (with an option for a six-month extension). EPA proposed strong framework rules and announced the list of its first 10 chemicals for review at the end of 2016.
In 2017, when Trump took office, the chemical industry was rewarded with one of its chief lobbyists, Nancy Beck, being placed in charge of EPA's Toxics Office. The early results of that decision were chronicled in a widely read and still relevant article in the New York Times in October. After three years of industry-written chemicals policy being promoted by the Trump EPA, the scientific advisory committee reviews from scientists, doctors and health professionals are starting to trickle in and they have not been kind to the industry/administration approach to administering the new law.
If EPA cannot bring its risk evaluations at least up to the standards set by the SACC review panel, it will be highly vulnerable to legal challenge.
EPA has released draft risk evaluations of six of the first 10 chemicals to be reviewed under the revised law including for the following toxic solvents: methylene chloride (also called dichloromethane); n-methylpyrollidone (NMP); 1,4 dioxane; and 1-bromopropane (1-BP). Each has been peer reviewed by EPA's own Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC), whose reports read like that school report card that you hoped the dog would eat before your parents read it. The peer-review panel repeatedly has blasted EPA's Toxics Office for its flawed assessments that downplay or even bury the health and environmental risks posed by these toxic solvents. Any regulatory actions from these industry-biased assessments could be expected to put people in harm's way, while protecting corporate profits and avoiding liability.
EPA has yet to issue a final evaluation of any of the first 10 chemicals (they're all due by June), so it isn't clear how the agency will respond to the recommendations from the peer review panel. It's an ominous sign that EPA has hinted that it will avoid further review by the panel for the four chemicals not yet made public — including blockbuster toxic chemicals trichlorethylene (TCE), tetra- or per-chloroethylene (PERC) and asbestos.
If EPA cannot bring its risk evaluations at least up to the standards set by the SACC review panel, it will be highly vulnerable to legal challenge — particularly given the law's mandate that EPA rely upon the "best available science" in reviewing the chemicals. Currently, EPA is not even close to meeting this standard.
Meanwhile on the overarching "framework" rules, the Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in November rejected two key elements of EPA's approach:
First, disallowing EPA from refusing to consider so-called "legacy" uses of a chemical — such as the asbestos that still exists in buildings and schools all over the country — in evaluating whether the chemical poses an unreasonable risk.
Second, reading EPA's regulations to require that the agency consider all uses of a chemical, including those that are reasonably foreseeable, and not being able to pick and choose which uses it wanted to evaluate.
It is difficult to overstate the significance of this ruling for the industry's preferred, Beck-designed approach to administering TSCA: The court just flattened it with one punch. EPA has yet to get off the mat and articulate how it will respond to the court's decision.
Amazingly, Beck may be rewarded for her heavy-handed and embarrassing failures at EPA with a nomination to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Beck's nomination process in the U.S. Senate will be an important toxics story to watch in 2020.
PFAS 'forever' chemicals
Chemical giants DuPont and 3M have poisoned all of us for decades with non-stick/non-stain "Teflon" chemicals used widely in consumer and military products and linked to a wide range of health effects including cancer of the kidneys and testicles, thyroid disease, pregnancy-related hypertension, damage to the liver and immune system and developmental harm. The chemicals are in the drinking water of millions of Americans — and estimates surely undercount as monitoring of drinking water has been limited. The widespread use of PFAS chemicals — of which there are thousands — means that Americans are continually exposed.
Despite its periodic self-congratulatory press releases, the Trump administration has done nothing for the public. In contrast, for polluters, the White House helped delay the public release of a draft report from the government public health agency, the CDC, that made a scientific argument that EPA's established Health Advisory was unsafe. Sadly, previous administrations also have failed the public badly on this issue, due largely to pressure from the chemical manufacturers and the military and its contractors.
In response to the outrage of constituents (voters) in both Democratic and Republican Congressional Districts, several important policies recently were enacted with bi-partisan support, as part of this year's Defense Authorization bill. The new provisions — which will increase public reporting on releases of PFAS into the environment, require more monitoring of drinking water supplies and reduce the use of the chemicals in fire-fighting foam (a common use that pollutes waterways) — are all important initial steps to fix a few of the many holes in federal law and policies that have helped create the crisis.
The widespread use of PFAS chemicals — of which there are thousands — means that Americans are continually exposed.
More is needed, including increased authority to regulate the discharge of PFAS to waterways under the Clean Water Act; classification of PFAS as hazardous material under Superfund to compel clean-up of contaminated sites; and a ban on the introduction of new PFAS into commerce, or the new use of existing PFAS under the Toxic Substances Control Act, to shut off the pipeline of PFAS chemicals. That's just a short list. More needs to be done, including adopting Polluter Pays legislation that will hold the manufacturers of PFAS accountable for the cost of cleaning up the environment, including our drinking water.
But nobody believes that the current Congress (due to Senate intransigence) or the Trump administration will fix a problem, follow the science or protect public health. Thankfully, states have begun to enact strict drinking water standards and ban the most prominent and problematic uses of PFAS in products, such as Washington's 2018 ban in fire-fighting foam and food packaging. Product manufacturers are also feeling consumer pressure as evidenced by the recent announcement that both Home Depot and Lowe's will stop selling all carpets and rugs that contain PFAS.
The end-of-the-year release of the movie "Dark Waters" tells the disturbing story of the genesis of public understanding about the harm caused by PFAS — and the appalling cover-up by DuPont of its contamination of the drinking water in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Movies such as this one spread the understanding of this issue beyond those communities across the country that are already aware that they have a contamination crisis on their hands. It is a strong movie of a very disturbing (but ultimately familiar) story: the chemical industry poisoning the public, hiding or downplaying what it knows about the danger of its products, and both the state and federal government doing essentially nothing to protect the public. But, because these are "forever" chemicals, the political problem they have created by contaminating communities across the country may also be "forever." The very thin silver lining to this avoidable disaster is that politicians at all levels ultimately may be compelled to change the law and amend policies to address the crisis, prevent future crises and hold the companies that are responsible accountable.
In 2020, many PFAS stories will follow. Pressure on Congress to address the PFAS crisis will increase. Meanwhile, states will adopt strong drinking water standards, and both retailers and manufacturers act to eliminate the sale of commercial and consumer products containing PFAS.
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Spanning the globe, the ALTN8 line-up is comprised of some of the most revered names in dance music. From the underground to the foreground, the festival brings new and credible electronic music culture to the dance floors across SE Asia.
The team pride themselves on dropping the most recent innovations in technology for each event. After debuting Asia's first 360 degree sound stage at Wonderfruit in Thailand in 2017 and with d&b Soundscape Live in 2018 in Hong Kong, working with the cities best technical production teams to create a truly immersive experience, all within the Central heritage site of PMQ.
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Czech Republic: Trial to start in case of violent death of a Romani man at the hands of police
Kynšperk nad Ohří, 25.1.2014 17:04, (ROMEA)
Markus Pape. (Photo: František Kostlán)
Here in the Czech Republic, the media in general and this news server in particular are often criticized for reporting too often on racially-motivated crimes committed against Romani people. The following example shows that this is not always the case, as there are many such cases that quickly fizzle out without the media following them at all.
The Kynšperk scandal
It has been more than a year and a half since the death of Ľudovít Kašpar, father of three. In February a court will begin reviewing whether two police officers from Kynšperk nad Ohří are to blame for his early demise.
On the night of 5 May 2012, the officers targeted Kašpar, a completely healthy, unarmed citizen, on a public square in the center of town - while he was under the influence of narcotics, he did not pose any harm to anyone at the time. The officers detained him in a way that was so disproportionate that he died two days later in the hospital in Sokolov.
Kašpar's funeral was attended by Romani people from all over the region, who spoke of his death on that occasion as a bestial murder. With a few shining exceptions, the media did not cover the case at all, even though there have been no small number of reports about certain members of the police force violating the law in the Karlovy Vary Region in recent years.
One month after the incident, the Konexe civic association began organizing a demonstration in front of the Sokolov District Police Directorate to call for a proper investigation into the circumstances of Kašpar's death. Due to concerns that unrest might break out, several representatives of the Czech Government Agency for Social Inclusion and representatives of the district police force spent a lot of energy and time persuading Romani people throughout the entire region not to participate in the demonstration.
During those official efforts, ugly, often completely invented gossip about the deceased was spread. The Konexe assembly (a dignified event without any incidents) was ultimately held with the participation of a clergyman, Romani representatives of the Equal Opportunities Party (Strana rovných příležitosti), and the deceased man's surviving family members.
Representatives of the Europe-Roma CZ civic association offered legal aid to the deceased man's family at his funeral. Legal representation of the victim's children was undertaken by Prague attorney Robert Pelikán, who had previously represented those involved in cases of illegal police interventions against those participating in anti-fascist blockades in the towns of Krupka and Nový Bydžov in 2011, as well as the case of a racist assault on a citizen of Beroun by neo-Nazis in 2009 and the controversial death of a Romani youth in Tanvald who was shot in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2012.
In the Kynšperk case, Pelikán commissioned a medical report by an esteemed expert from the Prague-Vinohrady Hospital through the Europe-Roma CZ association. That expert opinion unequivocally refuted the claims of other experts that the police intervention had not caused the death of the deceased.
However, the investigation by the Inspector-General of the Security Corps became disproportionately protracted. The suspects were not suspended from service, and one of the victim's surviving relatives reported that one of the officers involved used to frequently laugh at him on the streets of Kynšperk in the aftermath of the killing.
Indictment: Unintentional killing
At the end of last year, the Regional State Prosecutor in Plzeň charged two members of the police with having committed the offense of negligent homicide in this case, a legal definition ordinarily used to describe deaths resulting from traffic accidents. According to the indictment, the officers committed this offense by violating their professional obligations; they face between one and six years in prison.
Because lower-level offenses are reviewed by lower-level courts, the case was assigned to the District Court in Sokolov. By agreeing to use this charge, the prosecutor saying the defendants never intended to kill the victim - in his view, they "merely" proceeded in an illegal way against him, as was also confirmed by expert witnesses from the field of detective work.
The defendants are insisting on their innocence, claiming they could not have proceeded otherwise and that the detained man died as a result of unfortunate circumstances beyond their control; they have neither apologized to the children of the deceased nor provided them with any financial assistance to compensate for the loss of their father. The case is remarkable in that the police officers testified that they never drew their service weapons to force their suspect to obey them by firing warning shots, but "went directly into action".
As always, the presumption of innocence applies in this case, and the court is only now about to decide whether the defendants are guilty. The decision to open the proceedings is good news in any event when it comes to the area of human rights protections and confirmation of Longfellow's saying that "Though the mills of God grind slowly/ Yet they grind exceeding small/ Though with patience he stands waiting/ With exactness grinds he all" - it "just" takes hard work and a significant dose of patience.
The main hearing in this case will begin on 17 February at 8:30 AM at the District Court in Sokolov, second floor, Room 228 (K.H. Borovského 57, Sokolov) and will continue on 24 February at 8:30 AM. The proceedings is open to the public.
This is not an isolated case
The Kynšperk scandal is not a unique case. People in the Czech Republic die during police interventions as a matter of course, and not just foreigners or members of minorities.
In most of these controversial cases prosecutions are never begun, such as in the infamous cases of the Romani people shot in Břeclav (during an ordinary traffic stop) and Horšovský Týn (during an interrogation at a police station) at the start of the 1990s. A woman who was just passing by also died as result of being shot during a police manhunt on a street in Mělník.
Recently the European Court of Human Rights ruled against the Czech Republic in the case of the death of a young Romani man in Brno whom police claimed had jumped out of a window at the police directorate of his own accord in 2001. While no one was ever criminally prosecuted for his death, the state had to pay compensation to the victim's surviving relatives because its employees had not met their obligation to properly investigate the case.
While other cases have made it to trial, they often end there with reduced sentences because the police officers have had high-quality legal assistance and the courts have not succeeded in proving the defendants' intended to kill. One exception is the case of the death of a citizen of the Vietnamese Republic in his apartment in Brno in 2009, where a member of the police force was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Not just the officer convicted, but the entire Czech Republic must also now pay compensation to the surviving relatives of the victim in that case. Prior to his death, according to the verdict, the public official involved caused the victim to suffer "particularly severe torture".
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A European Ilmenite producer has purchased a 2-stage Magnetic Disc Separator (MDS). The mineral processor originally purchased their first Magnetic Disc Separator in 1995 and the new magnetic separator will provide additional processing capacity as well as guaranteeing continual production. The mineral ilmenite (FeTiO3) is mined for the production of titanium dioxide, which is commonly used as a white pigment in paints, surface coatings, plastics, and paper.
1 2-stage Magnetic Disc Separator (MDS)
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Ilmenite occurs as disseminated grains in basic igneous rocks or as larger ilmenite-magnetite or ilmenite-hematite segregations in gabbros and anorthosites. Ilmenite is commonly recovered from heavy mineral sands deposits where the mineral is concentrated as a placer deposit. The world's largest ilmenite producing countries include Australia, South Africa, Mozambique, Canada, and India. Norway is the largest European producer. High-intensity magnetic separators recover and concentrate the weakly magnetic ilmenite from other non-magnetic minerals. For a dry process plant, many mining companies use the Magnetic Disc Separator.
Magnetic Disc Separators are used to process a wide range of industrial minerals including coltan (tantalum ore), beach sands, tin-ore, abrasives, and quartz for glass manufacturing. The Magnetic Disc Separator (MDS) is a separation system equipped with up to three independently working discs, which generate magnetic field strengths up to 14 000 Gauss. The high magnetic forces generated by the MDS enable the extraction of paramagnetic particles from a free-flowing, dry product stream (100 μm – 1.5 mm).
2 The high magnetic forces generated by the MDS enable the extraction of paramagnetic particles from a free-flowing, dry product stream
The mineralogy of an ilmenite deposit dictates whether the process route is dry or wet, with a preference to dry due to the reduced environmental challenges of initially sourcing water and the management of wastewater. The ability to adjust the magnetic field of the discs in a Magnetic Disc Separator enables the mineral processor to tune the separation to produce a specific grade of ilmenite. In operation, each Magnetic Disc is set at a specific magnetic field to separate a selected range of minerals in accordance with their magnetic susceptibility.
The laboratory-scale Magnetic Disc Separator at Bunting's Customer Experience Centre in Redditch/UK is used to assess the magnetic separation capabilities on a wide range of mineral deposits. Globally-based mineral processing companies send material to the UK, where Bunting's mineral processing engineers assess the optimum magnetic separation techniques to achieve a specific separation objective.
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Raising Cane
Posted on April 17, 2011 by Nicole DiGiose
A feature interview I covered for SUNY Purchase's literary and arts magazine, The Submission Magazine, in April 2011.
A row of eye-catching canes hanging across the open closet are revealed as the brown apartment door opens. They're vibrant oranges, blues, purples, and greens, each in different patterns and sizes. From behind the door peeks senior graphic design major, Nicole Wynn, with her hair pulled back and glasses half way down her nose. After shutting the door, she walks by the collection of canes and heads for the living room.
She jokes that she took over the "messy" room as she looks around at the patterned canes and walkers up against the walls. A wheelchair is between the two couches. It was once black, but is now covered in an abstract design of the sun, its rays bursting. In total, there are 40 fashionable medical aids, most of them being canes that Wynn has designed for her senior project, along with a self-published book about her collection titled, Raising Cane.
Since birth, Wynn has been living with Multiple Hereditary Exostoses (MHE), a rare genetic condition causing multiple bony lumps and tumors to grow on all of the long bones of her body, most of the bones being irregularly shaped. According to Wynn, one in 100,000 people suffer from the condition, which comes with lots of pain and fatigue.
"The main reason I walk with a cane is because I have no hip sockets," Wynn says. Instead, she has tumors growing in there.
Wynn has had the wheelchair, the walkers, and some of the canes for over a decade. As for the rest of the canes, she bought them cheap off of the internet for her senior project.
The medical aids are mixed in with the typical college apartment scenery. The walls are littered in old discs of The Beatles, The Who, and Steve Martin. A Led Zeppelin poster hangs across from a Pink Floyd poster. A green and a red walker are folded up against a dark blue one, leaning on a couch of pillows with different sketches of animals on them.
As Wynn sits at the round living room table, she says that in order for her to use a cane to assist her with walking, it must look good.
"There is no way I'm going to use an ugly cane." She peers above her glasses and nods her head.
Wynn started off using walkers and wheelchairs. At 10 years old, she began decorating her walker with Beanie Babies and key chains. She didn't want anything to look plain; she wasn't happy with plain. Once she began using a cane in high school, she decorated it by coloring on computer paper with markers, then gluing the papers to her cane. In her freshman year of college, her ideas began to expand once she had to think of an idea for her collage class.
"For our final project, my teacher told the class to do something 'crazy and different'," says Wynn. "I did a collage cane. It was a collage of the history of canes on my cane."
She grabs a cane that is up against the wall. All around it are pictures of Willy Wonka, Gregory House, Charlie Chaplin, Cane and Able, Citizen Kane, and photos from The Caine Mutiny.
She smiles as she mentions that she got an A on the collage assignment.
"My work isn't about being disabled, it's about being an artist," she says. She sighs before explaining how irritating it is when people feel sorry for her and see her as a "cripple."
"If someone sees me with a normal cane, the general reaction is 'Oh my god, you poor thing'," Wynn says. "But when I use my decorated canes, people are like 'Wow! That's so pretty. How did you do that? I love the colors'."
Wynn decorates medical aids to reflect the personalities of different people. She doesn't want every disabled person to be seen as similar.
"Disabled people come in all ages," she says. "Anyone can be affected by a disability. In the general decorated mobility aid market, the market is for elderly people." She grips the table as she shifts in her seat. "Unfortunately, not all disabled people are elderly."
Wynn has decorated canes with butterflies and sparkles, and some with rainbows for younger children. She has made one with cars for boys, along with "nice mature patterns" for people who want a simple design. One of her earliest cane designs is one made up of various song lyrics. She has even designed one that says "My grandchildren are better than yours" for the elderly.
She says that after her senior show, she's either going to sell or donate the medical aids to various worthy charities, like children's hospitals.
"Thanks to the internet, I know several people who have my condition and most of them walk with canes," Wynn says. She looks up as she lists. "I've decorated for a 16-year-old, a 20- something-year-old, a 70-something-year-old."
Wynn has met plenty of people who have disabilities. When her grandparents hurt themselves and need a cane, she's always there, ready to design it.
"If my family or any of my friends need a pimped out cane, I'm there for them." Wynn laughs and her eyes beneath her glasses widen.
She says that her project is all about changing people's outlooks.
"Just because your situation sucks, you don't have to sit around and mope," she says, placing her hands on the table. "You can do something about it. Something good can come out of a really, really bad situation."
She gets to her feet while holding onto the back of the wooden chair she was sitting in and grabs the collage cane to help her balance.
"If I can help other people with this project, any of the pain, unhappiness, and discomfort that I've been through is worth it," she says. "That's the way I see it."
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BdREN presents OARnet with a hand-embroidered image.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Nov. 21, 2016) – OARnet is well known for its connections, from POP to POP, main site to disaster recovery and everything in between. Running even deeper than the dark fiber that comprises the network are the connections forged and fostered among the people of OARnet. One of these connections is with the Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN), with which OARnet has worked for several years. Interim Executive Director Paul Schopis recently accepted an honor from BdREN, recognizing the assistance that OARnet has provided in launching the country's first network for higher education.
The group presented Schopis with a framed, hand-embroidered canvas that depicts Shaheed Minar, a national monument in the country's capital that commemorates those who died fighting to preserve the country's mother language of Bengali. The colorful canvas is a simply stitched image, but the work that went into building it and the people that the canvas has touched symbolize something far from simple. The country's mother language not only lives on, but it can also now be shared worldwide through the connections BdREN can offer.
The image depicts Shaheed Minar, a Bangladesh national monument.
During the past few years, OARnet, along with Kent State University and Ireland's National Research and Education Network (HEAnet), has supported the conception, funding search and construction of BdREN. Bangladesh has the world's eighth-largest population (approximately 162 million), but is approximately the land size of Ohio. Because of this, Javed Khan, Ph.D., principal investigator for the BdREN project and professor at Kent State University, initially approached OARnet for assistance with the budget proposal. The request came shortly after OARnet finished its dark fiber expansion project.
The World Bank granted $1.25 million to fund the project, and OARnet continued to assist with the project, providing guidance in network design and engineering. Over the past few years, BdREN staff members have traveled to Columbus to work shoulder-to-shoulder with OARnet engineers and administration to continue to improve and advance the network in Bangladesh.
Schopis said he has seen not only the BdREN staff members grow from new experiences provided through the partnership (such as witnessing their first snowfall), but also the OARnet staff.


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Trade Tariffs Prompt Cost and Supply Concerns
On Sept. 17, the Office of the United States Trade Representative released a list of approximately $200 billion worth of Chinese imports that will be subject to additional tariffs, at the direction of President Donald Trump. The new tariffs took effect on Sept. 24, beginning at 10 percent, and will increase to 25 percent on Jan. 1, 2019.
The list of more than 5,700 products includes float glass and fabricated glass products, such as tempered, laminated and insulating glasses, and mirrors. The list also includes related products, such as opacifiers, colors and similar preparations used in the glass industry.
"We are taking this action today as a result of the Section 301 process that the USTR has been leading for more than 12 months," said Trump in a statement. "After a thorough study, the USTR concluded that China is engaged in numerous unfair policies and practices relating to United States technology and intellectual property—such as forcing United States companies to transfer technology to Chinese counterparts. These practices plainly constitute a grave threat to the long-term health and prosperity of the United States economy."
In response, the Chinese government announced on Sept. 18 the addition of $60 billion of U.S. products to its import tariff list, according to a Reuters report.
The announced tariffs follow previously instituted duties on metal products—25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum. Aluminum and construction industry officials have been critical of the measures' intended economic benefit, and uncertain about their ultimate impact on material costs, the supply chain and the health of the overall economy. "We can't build the case that [the imposition of tariffs] is good for business; it's not going to build our economy," says Jeff Henderson, president, Aluminum Extruders Council, aec.org. "It feels like it's going to be disruptive."
"Tariffs could be a
threat to the business
cycle growth."
"The uncertainty surrounding the international trade tariffs is increasing the demand on fabricators, manufacturers and suppliers—both domestic and international—to provide alternatives and cost management solutions in these times of uncertainty," says Michael Smalley, preconstruction manager, IWR North America, iwr-na.com.
According to U.S. manufacturers, the key concern over the new tariffs is rising costs—that additional duties on products, materials and components coming from overseas will require U.S. companies to pass the increased costs along to their customers, who will in turn pass the increases along to their customers.
Connor Lokar, economist, ITR Economics, itreconomics.com, addressed the issue during a presentation at the National Glass Association's Glazing Executives Forum, held Sept. 12 in conjunction with the 2018 GlassBuild America trade show in Las Vegas. "Tariffs could be a threat to the business cycle growth," Lokar says. "The idea that we can do this without a cost is just not a reality. Prices are going to increase. … That is really going to be a pressure point for the global economy."
The tariffs are already adding cost pressures across the domestic glass industry supply chain, according to several exhibitors during GlassBuild America, which took place before the additional duties on products from China were announced.
"There's a surcharge on all supplier invoices. We have to absorb the cost or pass it along to our customers," says John Weise, owner, F. Barkow Inc., barkow.com.
"There's a 25 percent tariff on Chinese manufacturing. This hurts individuals," adds Frank Lu, general manager, Yuntong Glass USA, yuntongglass.com. "I am going so far as helping my customers file an exemption form."
"For current customers, we are sticking with pricing promised, but soon we will have to add a surcharge for the tariff. … What it's really doing is hurting the fabricators. And ultimately the end user takes the cost," says Heather Monroe, administrative services manager, Machines and Wheels, machinesandwheels.com.
The tariffs, and the cost uncertainty the tariffs create, also affect purchasing decisions and make the bid process more challenging, according to Garret Henson, vice president, sales and marketing, Viracon, viracon.com, speaking during the Supply Chain Panel at the Glazing Executives Forum at GlassBuild America. "The tariffs, and the risk of more tariffs, are impacting short-term supply in the market right now. You might get your glass from North America, but you might buy box spacers from overseas, or interlayers from overseas. … You can walk into someone's office and an offshore product might be one option on the table, but they are trying to make decisions based on what might happen in three months, six months," he says.


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Airline News / Tourism News
LATAM Airlines Peru launches new Lima-San José, Costa Rica, connection
LATAM Airlines Peru has inaugurated its non-stop flight between Lima and San José, Costa Rica, serving the Central American country for the first time.
LATAM will operate three weekly flights between the two cities with Airbus A319 aircraft on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.
From March, LATAM will operate an additional frequency on Saturday with four weekly flights in total.
Flight LA2408 will depart Lima at 13:05, arriving in San José at 15:55, with a flight time of three hours, 50 minutes.
The return flight (LA2409) will take-off from San José at 17:15, landing in Lima at 22:05 with a journey time of three hours, 50 minutes (all times local).
Both outbound and return flights will connect conveniently with flights to/from Santiago, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, São Paulo, Rosario, Salta, Tucumán, Córdoba, La Paz, Antofagasta, Santa Cruz, Montevideo and Asunción.
"This new route is excellent news for tourism and connectivity in Latin America, and strengthens our unique network of destinations.
"Costa Rica is world-renowned for its diverse nature, landscapes and outdoor activities – and our passengers throughout the region will be able to access this destination with connections via our Lima hub," said Enrique Cueto, chief executive of LATAM Airlines Group.
"In 2018, we will continue to strengthen connectivity in the region and Costa Rica is just the first of 24 new routes we have already announced for this year, which include Boston, Las Vegas, Rome and Lisbon."
During 2018, LATAM will offer 66,144 seats on its Lima-San José service.
Located in Central America between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, Costa Rica is an ecotourism destination with nature and biodiversity that capture the interest of tourists from around the world.
San José, is the country's political, economic and social capital and its central location offers convenient access to attractions across Costa Rica including national parks, volcanoes and jungles.
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A review of Little Pieces: This Side of Japan by Michael Hoffman
Little Pieces: This Side of Japan
by Michael Hoffman
Virtual Bookworm Publishing
2010, ISBN 978-1-60264-605-6, $12.95, 199 pages
In a short prefatory note Hoffman disclaims these stories of men and women in Japan as being objectively authentic. They are the fictional meditations of a longtime resident of Japan. One would suppose that the six stories in this collection become as real as the author or the reader could wish.
I have read and reviewed three previous books (The Empty Café, Withdrawal, and Birnbaum) by Hoffman with enthusiasm. He was equally adept as a writer of short stories and novels.
In any collection of stories the opening story, the tone-setter, is especially important. This story, First Snow, is brief. A young woman approaches a younger man and claims acquaintance. She was, it turns out, his babysitter. The man is adrift and without purpose. Their meeting flowers quickly into a friendship, a friendship somewhat muffled by her confession that she and the man's father had been lovers. He awakens in a cold and empty house and flees into an even colder outside where the snow is falling and he is aware of a feeling of contentment that suggests symptoms of hyperthermia. The tone is one of ambiguity and ambivalence.
Dragonflies is a longer story, nearly a novella, and has the richness of a novel. Of two friends who have been friends since childhood, Hiranuma is a writer whose flame has flickered low and suffers the premature onset of old age. His effort to write an essay on Ryunosuke Akutagawa (reminder, he wrote Rashomon) is beyond him, partly because he is unable to reignite the enthusiasm of his adolescence and partly because his wife, unwilling witness to the infidelity of her music teacher, is undergoing a crisis. The other friend Sawamoto also faces a dilemma – he is being phased out as a redundant college literature teacher. Unlike Hiranuma, faithful to his troubled wife, Sawamoto is a dedicated womanizer. It comes as no surprise to Hiranuma when his wife tells him that she slept with Sawamoto thirty years earlier. It is a surprise to Sawamoto since it never happened. As in Withdrawal suicide pacts appear and are rejected. There is a sense that consideration of such a desperate course rejected becomes a springboard to fresh life.
Hoffman's Japan has – or at least his book has and this theme plays a major part in Birnbaum – men and women who are or are conversant with Christianity. Sawamoto quotes the Bible and the young woman of The Miracle is a Christian, one who is always praying because she lacks virtue. Despite her best attempts, her character defeats her and the miracle of the title can be any one of a number of events, all of them ironic. Hoffman does not feel the necessity of doing all the work for his reader.
A woman, Sonoko – in the story of that title – no longer in the first blush of youth, like the protagonist of The Miracle, has a troublesome and troubling mother. She finds herself smothered by more than her home life. The protagonist of The Miracle prayed for the gift of amnesia to escape: Sonoko has a more pragmatic approach. She tells her mother and her fellow workers that she is going to vacation in France. Instead she goes in the off-season to a Japanese resort where she spends her time reading Genji. She lives between dream – a particularly nightmarish one – and reality. She tempts her destiny by an attempt to unite these two worlds.
Concussion describes the late adventures – he is 87 – of a former criminal. He narrates his own story in his own way, whimsically and out of order as his current experiences dictate. We never learn what crime it was that provided him with a probation officer and an unpleasant notoriety. We do learn of a crime that he committed and for which he was never punished. The story, which he himself tells, is as disjointed and as mysterious as his own quirks and self-deceptions. This story too has a Christian background for, although he is not a believer, his parents were missionaries.
And yet more religion – Christian again – in the last story, which has the same title as the book. A triangle that consists of a man and two sisters – or not sisters depending on which character you believe – careen towards death and disaster. Hoffman gives us fragments of narrative and we must piece them together. It is a stunning performance and ingeniously assembled with an ending that is both chilling and unexpected.
Well, I have to ask it – are there nothing but Christians in Japan? Shades of Flannery O'Connor! Another great teller of tales whose convictions make one – or me at any rate – uncomfortable. There are of course characters in these stories who are not Christian but Hoffman doesn't feel it necessary to flesh out there ghostly beliefs. Religion is a trumpery thing. Hoffman makes use of it. It is in the final effect a dampness that has to be noted. The religious background unnecessarily undermines his characters and weakens his stories.
That said and frankly acknowledged as a personal response, Hoffman has style and ingenuity that goes far towards compensating for the ubiquity of ghostly stuff. This book is part of the body of work from a distinguished author who deserves all the rewards of excellence. You will not go wrong to read it.
About the Author: Bob Williams is retired and lives in a small town with his wife, dogs and a cat. He has been collecting books all his life, and has done freelance writing, mostly on classical music. His principal interests are James Joyce, Jane Austen and Homer.
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Adwords Professionals and Google in North Dakota
AdWords Professionals and Google in North Dakota can help your business to get new customers
AdWords Professionals may be able to help you get back on track
AdWords professionals can be expensive. Your business may not have money to invest in an expert now. However, if you choose not to invest in the services of an AdWords professional – you may cost your business more in the long run.
Every decision in life has an opportunity cost. There are some reasons why your business needs the help of an AdWords professionals – ASAP! The first reason is your time. Unless you are a hands-off business owner, your business will benefit more from you running the business. Instead of spending time on your AdWords campaign, you get to spend time doing what you do best – managing your business. Let the experts handle maximizing your profits through a PPC campaign.
Instead of worrying about:
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Many business owners fall into the trap of attempting to manage their own PPC campaign – only to find they are spending more managing their PPC alone; then they would have by hiring an AdWords professionals. Moreover, these owners are investing a ton of their valuable time, too!
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Always an Adventure in North Dakota
Some businesses do not have a huge need for an AdWords professionals. Some of these businesses without the need for agency help even use AdWords in low season. These businesses are the lucky ones. One such business is Rolling Plains Adventures in Sterling, North Dakota.
Owned by Jeremy Doan, the fifth generation living and working on Black Leg Ranch, the company is running on his family's large property just east of Bismarck. The hunting and fishing company was created in 2000 – just as Doan was finishing his college degree and attempting to avoid the grind of corporate America.
As with any endeavor, the beginning was rough. Rolling Plains began growing slowly, but steadily. Jeremy's initial idea was a laid back sporting destination, but things have changed. We've had guests from every state in the U.S.," Jeremy says. "We also have a guest ranch where we host:
…And more with guests from all over the world."
As the business has grown, so has Doan's website and Internet presence. These days the world wide web is vital to the success of the growing adventure company. "Sport shows used to be a huge deal for us, but not anymore," Jeremy says. "I would say 80 percent of our business today comes from the web."
Adwords Professionals
In low season or on the occasional day when Rolling Plains is not completely booked up – Jeremy uses Google AdWords to fill his open spots. He's no AdWords professional, but he gets the job done. Doan also uses Google Analytics to see exactly what people are looking at on his site and how many individuals are visiting – "almost everybody reads the History page," he says.
Rolling Plains uses YouTube to keep people on top of what is going on at the ranch, along with Blogger (Google's blogging platform) to further update clients and potential customers about new offerings. "Those are all key factors in people feeling comfortable about booking with us," Jeremy says.
These factors are especially important with all the growth Rolling Plains is planning for. With their continued growth, Doan plans to bring more jobs to the community and more money into the local economy. As of late, the company has begun plans to turn an old barn into an upscale wedding venue. A winery is also in the plans of Rolling Plains Adventures.
Due to the success and positive impact on the community, the ranch received the North Dakota Governor's Travel and Tourism award in 2012. In 2014, Rolling Plains began to see national acclaim with cover appearances on four national magazines.
While exciting, Jeremy still finds the press, "kind of crazy, when we are
just some small-town North Dakota family." Moreover, he knows the success of his ranch would not be possible without the Internet, as he states, "We would not be where we are today without the web. It is easy to advertise what we offer with videos, photos, and everything."
With the Internet, Rolling Plains has customers from all walks of life. From regular people to billionaires – Rolling Plains understand where the success comes from, "If you do not have a website, you are letting your competition get ahead of you," Jeremy says. "A little bit goes a long way on the web."
Google By The Numbers In The State Of North Dakota
North Dakota is a small state, one of the smallest in the United States. Many in North Dakota live in rural communities. Many times these communities can benefit from using the power of the world wide web the most. Rolling Plains Adventures certainly did – without the help of an AdWords professionals.
Moreover, so did nearly 1,800 other businesses in North Dakota, as 1,800 businesses in the state utilized Google's advertising tools (AdWords and AdSense) in 2014.
Over the course of 2014, these businesses received $75.2 million in economic activity through Google.
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Current nanophotonic and metamaterial elements are characterized by high absorption loss and short propagation lengths, which result in low throughput and an inability to sufficiently control light propagation. The present material overcomes these limitations and offers very high spatial precision, while minimizing optical absorption. This metamaterial could be used in one instance as a waveguide receiver, and then actively reconfigured on the fly by using the PCM properties to refract the signal to another location on the chip. The modular and actively reconfigurable nature of this metamaterial has great promise for a number of applications and fields.
In order to create this material, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) was layered on top of vanadium dioxide (VO2) crystals, a PCM. The natural hyperbolic response of hBN enabled this metamaterial device to capitalize upon the subdiffractional, volume confinement of light in hBN with the variable infrared properties of VO2. Upon application of a stimulus such as heat, electrical current, light pulses, or mechanical stress/strain, VO2 changes phase from a semiconducting to a metallic state, altering its infrared response. These changes dramatically alter the light moving within the hBN, allowing for active, reconfigurable control of light propagation with nanoscale precision. For example, it is possible to design the material such that it first serves as a lens (see Figure 1), and then could be reconfigured to operate as a waveguide.
Figure 1: A simulation illustrating how this novel metamaterial can control and refract polaritons through the use of phase change materials, thereby creating an actively reconfigurable surface.


As a minimum, the criteria need only apply to FairLife Debt. That is debt that arrives marked with a FairLife logo or the words FairLife Debt. This has the added advantage that the original creditor has also agreed to the key criteria of the debt recovery mark.
1. The product or service must be fairly traded and honestly priced.
2. Customers must be informed that they can get free debt advice.
3. The provider must not profit from customers in debt recovery.
4. Non-FCA regulated debt must be treated in the same manner as FCA regulated debt.
5. Customers must be protected when debt is sold or passed on.
When passing on or selling debt within in the UK the recipient must be informed that it is FairLife Debt. If the recipient is not part of the FairLife initiative, adherence to these four criteria must be included as part of the transaction.
Criteria 5 can be achieved easily by passing the debt to a FairLife debt recovery firm.


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Film Institutes in Pune
The Institute has certainly come a long way from its modest starting. The Government of Indiaacquired the terrain where the famous Prabhat film company made films for example 'Kunku', ' Manoos' ,' Shejari' etc. While it was provided for deal and founded the Film Institute in the year 1960.
Presently, the studios from the Prabhat time still maintain to be in use via the students for their different exercises. These studios have been announced legacy sites through the Pune Municipal Corporation.
In 1974, the scope of the Institute was increased to comprise the then quickly rising era of television.
The Television faction, former placed at the Mandi House, New Delhi, transferred to the Institute campus at Pune in the early seventies thus as to getting together preparing in film and television in a common roof, thus justifying the name of the Institute – the Film and Television Institute of India. This faction of the institute has been mainly subjected with conducting in use training to personnel from Doordarshan.
The alumni of the FTII have entered all corners of the Indian Film and Television industry and have polished in all its sections. For example Subhash Ghai, Jaya Bhaduri, Shatrughan Sinha, Mani Kaul, Nasiruddin Shah, Raza Murad, Mithun Chakraborty, Tom Alter, Kanwarjit Paintal, Adoor Gopal Krishnan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Raj Kumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra are alumni of this Institute.
The FTII is an independent body beneath the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. Its policies are determined by a Governing Council. The present director of the institute is Mr. Pankaj Rag, IAS. The Film and Television is a body of CILECT an international association of film schools.
Film and Television Institute of India
Courses in Film and Television
Course: Direction
Duration: Three Year P.G. Diploma
Qualification: Bachelor's Degree
Course: Cinematography
Course: Audiography
Qualification: Bachelor's Degree With Physics as a subject at Sr. Sec. (10+2) level
Course: Editing
Course: Acting
Duration: Two Year P.G. Diploma
Course: Art Direction and Production Design
Duration: Two Year P. G. Diploma
Qualification: Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Painting, Applied Art, Sculpture, Interior Design or related fields in Fine arts or equivalent Diploma
Course: Animation and Computer Graphics
Duration: One and a half Year Certificate Course
Qualification: Sr. Sec. (10 + 2). Preference will be given to candidates having completed Diploma from fine arts colleges.
Course: Feature Film Screenplay Writing
Duration: One year P.G. Certificate Course
Courses in Television
Course: Electronic Cinematography
Course: Video Editing
Duration: One Year P.G., Certificate Course
Course: Audiography and TV Engineering
Qualification: Bachelor's Degree With Physics as a subject at Sr. Sec. (10+2)
Two seats in per course are maintained for foreign students or Non-resident Indians. Seats are kept for SC or ST candidates as per Govt. policy of reservations. Seats are kept for persons with disabilities as per Govt. policy.
FEES STRUCTURE OF THE COURSES
A) Three year Post-Graduate Diploma Courses in Film and Television
Course Title: Direction
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree
Tuition fee per year: Rs. 27,500/-
Course Title: Cinematography
Course Title: Editing
Course Title: Audiography
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in any discipline with Physics as a subject at Senior secondary (10+2) level
Tuition fee per year: Rs. 27,500
B) Two year Post-Graduate Diploma Courses
Course Title: Acting
Tuition fee per year: Rs. 1,00,000/-
Course Title: Art Direction & Production Design
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in applied arts, architecture, painting, sculpture, interior design or related fields in fine arts or equivalent diploma in any of the mentioned fields.
C) One and Half year Certificate Course in Animation and Computer Graphics
Course Title: Animation And Computer Graphics
Qualifications: Senior secondary (10+2), preference would be given to candidates having diplomas form fine arts collages.
D) One year Post-Graduate Certificate Course in Television
Course Title: Electronic Cinematography
Course Title: Video Editing
Course Title: Audiography and Television Engineering
E) One year Post-Graduate Certificate Course in Feature Film and Screenplay Writing
Course Title: Feature Film and Screenplay Writing
Film and Television Institute of India,
Law College Road,
Pune - 411 004, Maharashtra
Tel No.: +91 - 020- 25431817 / 25433016 / 25430017
Short Courses: [email protected]
Computer Section: [email protected]
National Film Archive of India
The National Film Archive of India was started in February, 1964 as a media unit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Its primary aims and activities are: to outline, get and preserve for the use of posterity the heritage of national cinema and a representative gather of world cinema, to diversify and document data related to film and undertake and encourage research on cinema and to act as a centre for the broadcasting of film culture in the country, and to encourage Indian cinema abroad.
With main centres at Pune, NFAI has at present three Regional Offices namely, Bangalore, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram. Ever since 1969 the NFAI has been a member of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) and has played a role in the work of this organization.
Research Programme:
The NFAI expands research and academic activities on each facet of cinema in the field of Indian film history. Researchers and students from India and foreign have got to the film and video collection, documentation section and the library.
This fellowship brings a monthly grant of Rs.2, 000 for a time of one year. Further, a contingency grant of Rs.8, 000 will be paid to travel, secretarial help, stationery etc. The project should be based on original research and could be on any subject or feature of Indian cinema – whether it is history, aesthetics, sociology or economics. The syllabus includes theoretical and practical study of the art and history of film and the development of cinema as a medium of art and communication. Film classics both Indian and International will be used for critical analysis and study.
Those rewarded a monograph project are allowed to a scholarship of Rs.15, 000 as consolidated charge. The project should be finished in six months of receipt of the proposal. The field of the monograph comprises biographical information on any initiating Indian film personality with a complete interpreted filmography, a resume of earlier published material relating to the artiste, a bibliography and 20 to 25 examples comprising some working skills.
Aural History Projects
Per project brings a grant of Rs.400/- per hour of recorded audio time of interview with a maximum limit of Rs.4, 000 for each film personality. First class rail fare and other expenses for example tape recorder hiring charges etc will be repaid. The project should be on any living original film personality and the interview should reveal details of his or her career and emphasize the personality's special contribution to Indian cinema, memorable information about contemporaries and associates, working conditions prevailing during the period etc. A transcription of the interview should be submitted to NFAI along with the audio cassettes. A letter of consent from the film personality to be interviewed should be attached with the application form.
Film Appreciation Course: About three decades the NFAI has been operating a yearly Film appreciation course of four weeks' time in association with FTII. Candidates from different professions throughout India are pictured to the top of Indian and world cinema. Between the major topics taught are the basics of the film medium, cinema as an art, film theory, film history, and the relationship of cinema to other arts.
The NFAI operates small courses on same lines at different other centers in the country in collaboration with film societies, educational institutions and different cultural groups.
The Annual Summer Course in Film Appreciation organized at Pune is primarily intended to gather the needs of teachers interested in initiating film study activities in educational institutions but will be helpful for film society groups, journalists, film critics, Govt. officials operating films and others interested in film studies.
The syllabus comprises theoretical and practical study of the art and history of film and the improvement of cinema as a means of art and communication. Film classics both Indian and International will be applied for critical analysis and learn.
The medium of teaching would be in English.
The applicant should have finished 18 years of age.
The course fee of Rs.6, 000 should be paid by Demand Draft in name of Administrative Officer, NFAI, Pune only after the confirmation of selection. Fees will not be refunded.
Hostel facility will be given through FTII to those who need to benefit of the facility
Hostel charge: Rs.2,500/- + Rs.500/- as service charges total Rs.3,000/- by D.D. only in name of Accounts Officer, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune - 4.
Deposit: Rs.500/-by D.D. Accounts Officer, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune-4.
Deposit Rs.300/- by D.D. only in name of Accounts Officer, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune - 4.
Application duly filled up in the prescribed format along with fee of Rs.200 to be forwarded by crossed demand draft payable to Administrative officer, NFAI, Pune, and can be posted to following address:
National Film Archive of India,
Pune - 411 004.
The illustrious Rajbaug farms extend on a huge area of 125 acres on the beautiful banks of the Mula - Mutha River at Loni-Kalbhor, Pune, owned to the legendary showman of Indian Cinema - Late Raj Kapoor.
Rajbaug was officially handed over to Hon'ble Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad, Executive President and Director General, MAEER on 4th August 2002, via the Kapoor Family. This place was a comfortable place for the late showman who found high relief over here and had desired that the land be used for social or educational need only. To meet his dream, this place will be converted into a huge educational campus though still maintaining its original silence.
This picturesque area shows peace and tranquility and seems closer to mother earth in spite of being placed in nearby of the busy Pune-Solapur Highway. It can be the only place for the 'Sadhana', the desiring of awareness. Presently it is an autonomous program
Graduate Programmes in Design
(Duration: 4 Years 6 Months or 9 semesters)
Interior Space and Equipment Design
Transportation Design
Retail & Exhibition Design
Animation Design
Film and Video Design
Students who have completed higher secondary education or its equivalent are eligible to apply for the graduate programmes in design. After one year of Predesign Course, students may be able to select any of the design disciplines.
Post Graduate Programmes in Design
Students who already have completed graduate level study in engineering (mechanical, civil, electrical, electronics, mechatronics, chemical), architecture, interior design, accessory design or any other related disciplines may apply for Post Graduate Programmes in Design.
Graduates in disciplines not mentioned above who think they not only have innovative ideas but can demonstrate their motivation and commitment to realize these ideas in tangible forms are also encouraged to apply.
Prof. A. M. Chakradeo.
Dean, Design Habitat.
Mr.Vinayak kulkarni
Head Admission.
Mr. Vijay Jagtap
Admission Officer
Supriya Michael
Mukta Khanna
Training and placement Co-ordinator
Address: MAEER's MIT INSTITUTE OF DESIGN
Rajbaug, Loni-Kalbhor,
Pune-412201.
INDIA Tel: +91-20-39210183/122
Fees Structure (Design Programmes) For the Academic Year 2008-09
For Indian Nationals (INR)
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Wendy Williams Disses Stormy Daniels And Aubrey O'Day – Check Out What She Had To Say About The Trump Men's Alleged Mistresses!
It's pretty clear that Wendy Williams doesn't like either of the women supposedly involved with Donald Trump and his son Don Jr., respectively. During her show today, the host slammed both Stormy Daniels and Aubrey O'Day!
When discussing the details of their affairs with the two Trump men, Wendy really went in!
She started by attacking Stormy's appearance before moving on to her stripper past.
As you probably know by now, Stormy Daniels is claiming she had an affair with the current president back in 2006.
She then moved on to Don Jr.'s alleged mistress, Aubrey O'Day, dissing the singer's age and claiming the president's son would not be interested in her ever again following their affair.
The savage host targeted O'Day on Hot Topics next.
'Alright Aubrey, you have to look at this as your glass is half full. You have not done anything since you got fired on 'Celebrity Apprentice', you did not do much before that; You were in Danity Kane and various carnations of your look, but I can still recognize you though… Even though you are 47,' she slammed O'Day.
At this point, a producer corrected Wendy telling her the singer is actually only 35 as the audience laughed.
'I don't mean it in a bad way, she looks better than Stormy Daniels! Sorry Aubrey, but you could pass for a woman in her 40's,' Wendy insisted.


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Five years ago, I seriously started with historical costuming. This was in the summer of 2013. Then, in November, I decided to also start a blog. To keep track of my own progress, share what I learned along the way, and provide a platform to interact with other costumers.
I've learned so much since then, made costumes I could only dream of at first, and have gotten to know a lot of people through this hobby. I have noticed as well that some of the activity which used to be in blogs has now moved to Facebook and Instagram. I love those as well, for sharing in groups, and quick progress images, but I've never considered giving up on the blog. I've learned so much from reading blogs by others, and the written medium just gives more opportunity to explain choices and steps taken, which I think is very valuable.
There's no absolutes in history. There's 'rarely seen', and 'no evidence of', but it's nearly impossible to know something was never done, unless it involved stuff that wasn't invented yet (sewing machines, polyester). There seem to be exceptions to practically every 'rule'. This does not mean, however, that some ways of doing things were not way more common, or are not better supported by evidence, and just a 'you don't know for sure it was never done' is not a good historical reason for doing something in a certain way (although 'I really like it this way' might be all you need to do it). And, the knowledge we have is constantly shifting. We learn more, as a community and in fashion history as a science, all the time.
Be aware of your own bias. You always take your knowledge and ideas with you when researching. When I was looking for the 'corset elastique' I automatically interpreted everything similar as undergarment, because of the term 'corset'. And in doing so, I disregarded the image showing this garment on top of a dress, until someone pointed it out to me. Knowing more about historical fashion can be a blessing, but it also means you take your ideas of 'the way it was done' with you when looking at things. And when doing research, it's best to try to be as aware of that as possible.
The 'corset elastique'. Named a 'corset' in contemporary sources, but it might very well be an outer garment as well!
Studying originals is invaluable. Learning from other historical costumers has helped me so much, especially when just starting out, because this can teach you things about the process of dressmaking that you just cannot get from a picture of a finished garment. But at the end of the day, only the study of originals can truly bring our knowledge forward. There's a number of things 'common' in the historical costuming community, which are so simply because of that 1 existing pattern, or because 'everyone does it this way'. That's not an evil, but studying originals is the only place to really bring 'new' knowledge into the community. (This is why I love the new Patterns of Fashion book so much, for instance!).
Costuming connects people. Making garments is pretty much a solitary business, and I definitely enjoy that aspect of it. However, there's also something wonderful about chatting to other people who have the same crazy hobby as you do, and who are as excited as you are by the same things. (Drooling over original garments, or fabrics, or admiring hand-stitched trim is just so much better together with people who 'get' it). I've been attending more events this past year, a number either alone, or with people I did not know that well beforehand. I haven't regretted a second of it, and am looking forward to meeting more people at future events.
A picture from our second Victorian 'picnic'. We'll definitely be doing more of these in the future.
Never compare yourself to others. In skill, materials, speed or output. I sew as a hobby, and that means the nr. 1 rule is: only do it if you enjoy it. Of course, you sometimes have to get that tricky thing done before getting to the good part. But I have a rule with myself that if I really don't feel like sewing, that's perfectly fine too. This is my hobby, and I do it for me, and me alone. And at the end of the day, it's the process that counts, much more than the end result. Looking at what others produces can be so inspiring, and I love it for precisely that reason, because it excites me to start sewing myself. But it should never feel like a race, because it's not.
It took me about 2 months to pleat this skirt. Not because it was so difficult, but because life was busy, and I didn't feel like it. And that's okay too, and I know I wouldn't love the finished product as much if I'd forced myself through it.


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Human cytochrome P450 2E1 structures with fatty acid analogs reveal a previously unobserved binding mode.
Porubsky, P.R., Battaile, K.P., Scott, E.E.
Human microsomal cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2E1 is widely known for its ability to oxidize >70 different, mostly compact, low molecular weight drugs and other xenobiotic compounds. In addition CYP2E1 oxidizes much larger C9-C20 fatty acids that can serve as endogenous signaling molecules. Previously structures of CYP2E1 with small molecules revealed a small, compact CYP2E1 active site, which would be insufficient to accommodate medium and long chain fatty acids without conformational changes in the protein. In the current work we have determined how CYP2E1 can accommodate a series of fatty acid analogs by cocrystallizing CYP2E1 with omega-imidazolyl-octanoic fatty acid, omega-imidazolyl-decanoic fatty acid, and omega-imidazolyl-dodecanoic fatty acid. In each structure direct coordination of the imidazole nitrogen to the heme iron mimics the position required for native fatty acid substrates to yield the omega-1 hydroxylated metabolites that predominate experimentally. In each case rotation of a single Phe(298) side chain merges the active site with an adjacent void, significantly altering the active site size and topology to accommodate fatty acids. The binding of these fatty acid ligands is directly opposite the channel to the protein surface and the binding observed for fatty acids in the bacterial cytochrome P450 BM3 (CYP102A1) from Bacillus megaterium. Instead of the BM3-like binding mode in the CYP2E1 channel, these structures reveal interactions between the fatty acid carboxylates and several residues in the F, G, and B' helices at successive distances from the active site.
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HASTANE İNFEKSİYONLARINDA GÜNCELLEME: KAVRAMLARDA NEREDEN BAŞLADIK, NEREYE GELDİK ?
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Asteroid 138852 (2000 WN10) passes the Earth.
Asteroid 138852 (2000 WN10) passed the Earth at a distance of 19 050 000 km (a little under 50 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon), slightly before 9.10 am GMT on Monday 11 November 2013. There was no danger of the asteroid hitting us, though if were to do so it would present a significant threat. 138852 (2000 WN10) is estimated to be between 170 and 540 m in diameter, and an asteroid of this size would be expected to pass directly through the atmosphere, striking the Earth's surface and creating a crater 3-8 km in diameter, as well as causing devastation over a wide area and global climatic effects that would potentially last for decades.
The calculated orbit of 138852 (2000 WN10). JPL Small Body Database Browser.
138852 (2000 WN10) was discovered on 20 November 2000 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The designation 2000 WN10 implies that it was the 263rd asteroid discovered in the second half of November 2000 (period 2000 W), while 138852 indicates that it was the 138 852nd asteroid discovered overall (asteroids are not given this longer designation immediately, to ensure that numbered objects are genuine asteroids that have not been previously described).
138852 (2000 WN10) has a 366 day orbital period and an eccentric orbit inclined to the plane of the Solar System that takes it from 0.70 AU from the Sun (i.e. 70% of the average distance at which the Earth orbits the Sun, roughly the distance at which Venus orbits) to 1.30 AU from the Sun (i.e. 130% of the average distance at which the Earth orbits the Sun, inside the orbit of the planet Mars). It is therefore classed as an Apollo Group Asteroid (an asteroid that is on average further from the Sun than the Earth, but which does get closer). However the inclination at which the asteroid orbits means it seldom draws close to any planet other than Earth.
Because the orbital period of 138852 (2000 WN10) is almost exactly one Earth year, close encounters between the planet and the asteroid are a predictable annual event. This has occurred on 11 November since 2012 and will continue to do so till 2015. From 2008-2011 the asteroid passed us on 12 November, and from 2016-2022 it will pass us on 10 November.
See also Asteroid 2013 VN5 passes the Earth - then gets discovered, Asteroid 2013 UJ9 passes the Earth, Asteroid 2013 UV3 passes between the Earth and the Moon, Asteroid 2013 VL detected after it passes the Earth and Asteroid 2013 UK9 passes the Earth.
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– japoński mistrz sztuk walki, twórca odmiany aikido – aikido nishio.

W dzieciństwie trenował judo (6 dan) i karate (5 dan). W 1951 r. sensei Y. Sodeyama, mistrz karate i nauczyciel sensei'a Nishio, opowiedział mu o swojej "walce" z ō-sensei'em Ueshibą (Sodeyama nie zdołał nawet dotknąć ō-sensei'a) i zachęcił młodego Shōji do nauki aikido.

Sensei Nishio stał się jednym z najwybitniejszych uczniów Morihei Ueshiba, otrzymał z jego rąk 8 dan. Osiągnął także biegłość w wielu innych sztukach walki: aikido (8 dan), iaidō (7 dan), judo (6 dan), karate (5 dan) i kendo (3 dan). Praktyka tylu szkół walki zaowocowała stworzeniem przez Shōji Nishio własnego, charakterystycznego stylu aikido, nazwaną od jego imienia: aikido nishio.

Nishio przez kilkanaście lat jeździł po świecie, nauczając swojej odmiany aikido. Jednymi z jego najwybitniejszych uczniów są Ichirō Shishiya (7 dan aikido, 5 dan aiki toho iai), Koji Yoshida (7 dan aikido, 7 dan aiki toho iai), Takao Arisue (7 dan aikido, 7 dan aiki toho iai), Yasuhiko Takemori (7 dan aikido, 8 dan aiki toho iai), Toshikazu Ichimura (6 dan aikido), Yoshiharu Hosoda (6 dan aikido, 6 dan aiki toho iai), Jean-Michel Bovio (6 dan aikido, 5 dan aiki toho iai), Takashi Kuroki (6 dan aikido: Aikido Shidoin of Aikikai Takaoka, 5 dan aiki toho iai) czy Jiří Marek (5 dan aikido, 4 dan aiki toho iai).

Shōji Nishio zmarł 15 marca 2005 w Tokio.

Aikido nishio
Cechą charakterystyczną dla aikido nishio jest nakaz, aby stopa była prosta, a nie (jak na przykład w innych stylach aikido) skręcona na zewnątrz. Kolejną ważną cechą jest atemi, rozumiane jako uderzenia mające zastopować energię przeciwnika. Niekiedy oznacza to 6 lub 7 uderzeń w czasie wykonywania jednej techniki. Atemi są wyprowadzane przede wszystkim po liniach charakterystycznych dla cięć-ruchów miecza.

Shōji Nishio nie tylko stworzył własną szkołę aikido, ale także zaproponował nowe spojrzenie na techniki miecza. Jego aikido toho to zbiór piętnastu form (kata) iaidō stworzony dla lepszego zrozumienia ruchów aikido. Każdy bowiem ruch w aikido nishio znajduje swoją interpretację w walce mieczem.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Yufukan Japan – Nishio Budo centre in Japan
 Yufukan Ukraine – Nishio Budo centre in Ukraine, Organization for Nishio Sensei's aikido in Ukraine
 Nishio Aikido Society of America: Official Nishio Aikido Organization of the U.S.
Yurusu Aikido Association: Official Nishio Aikido Organization of Hungary.

Japońscy mistrzowie sztuk walki
Japońscy aikidocy
Japońscy judocy
Japońscy karatecy
Urodzeni w 1927
Zmarli w 2005

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There are different field properties that can be changed for each field. Depending on the field type, there are different properties for each. You have String fields, Choice List fields, and Date fields. Each field can be expanded upon by clicking on the icon on the field.
Alias: Changes the name of the field for that form.
Readyonly: Makes the field read only if checked.
String fields only have the basic properties that are discussed about above.
Choice List fields have the Options Selector. This allows you to set what choices are available on the form and also reorder the choices in the list. Choices that are on the Right, are available on the form. Choices that are on the Left, are not available on the form. In the second image below, the choices In maintenance, Missing, and Consumed are not available on the current form I am editing.
You also are able to check the box next to one of the choices to force a default choice when the form is first opened. If no default choice is selected, the top choice in the list on the right will be the default.
Date fields have a Default Date Value that can bet set in 3 different ways. None, Fixed, and Offset.
None is shown below, where the user would have to fill in a date when they open the form.
Fixed allows you to set a date that will not change. This allows the user to open the form and not have to keep setting the same date when they use the form.
Offset allows you to set a date of TODAY or a set number of days in the future. The image below indicates how to set the date to default to TODAY's date when the user opens the form. This would be used for something like a Deploy Date, so the user would not have to set it manually. You could also set it to be a date in the future by Days, Months, Years. If all assets have a Warranty End date of 3 years, this could be set here so the user would not have to set it manually.


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Q: AWS Route53 - Hide Server IP I've been using Cloudflare CDN and DNS, the IPs that I've been inserting into its DNS manager were masked/hidden for DNS checkers (e.g., https://www.whatsmydns.net/).
Is there a way to hide the IP on AWS Route53?
So far, I didn't find a way to achieve that.

A: Hiding IP is a CDN feature, not really a DNS feature. Note that the only IPs hidden in Cloudflare are the ones with the "orange cloud", i.e. the ones that have CDN caching enabled.
Route53 is a DNS service only. Amazon's CloudFront would basically hide the IP for you, if you used CloudFront in front of your service, and didn't otherwise publish your server IPs in any DNS records.