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March 28, 2005 | General
LANDFILL GIVES BIRTH TO ECOINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
BioCycle March 2005, Vol. 46, No. 3, p. 20
New Jersey's EcoComplex is incubating companies that can grow fish inside a greenhouse heated by landfill gas, produce ethanol from local crops, make compost tea and water filtration systems. Part II
Cindy Rovins
RIGHT at the entrance to the Burlington County, New Jersey Resource Recovery Center is Rutgers University's EcoComplex, a sustainable business incubator housing firms launching innovative enterprises. Further back, there's a flourishing greenhouse heated and powered by landfill gas. One cannot come away from the Resource Recovery Center – described in the first part of this series in December, 2004 BioCycle – without the impression of how well the components carefully complement each other to maximize energy efficiency and reduce/reuse waste.
The primary purpose of the greenhouse facility is to showcase new technologies in "real world" conditions for economic development. Designed by the Bioresource Engineering Department of Cook College, Rutgers University and built by the County of Burlington's Board of Chosen Freeholders, the greenhouse has numerous environmental technologies incorporated into its design. These technologies serve to give the greenhouse a soft footprint on the environment. Operational since 1996, it is one of the largest research greenhouses in the U.S. with over 46,000 square feet of production space and 10,000 square feet of support buildings.
Rutgers University EcoComplex Acting Director Dave Specca is doing his doctoral thesis on aquaponics – the combination of aquaculture with hydroponic plant production. Unlike most research work that is narrowly focused, Specca and the managers of the greenhouse perform a wide-range balancing act with various systems feeding in and complementing one another. In this artificial ecosystem, they have to make sound adjustments to ensure they all function optimally. This is not without its challenges, but by virtue of being a research facility, tweaking the system until it works lays the groundwork for commercial application.
Starting with the heat and power, as described in Part I, microturbines convert landfill gas (LFG) into electricity which is used mostly for the growing lights in the greenhouse. Waste heat is recovered from the turbines and used to heat the greenhouse when ambient temperatures require it. According to Specca, the original system to clear up the LFG for the turbines was insufficient because there was a lot more moisture in the LFG than anticipated. Excess moisture caused problems with the compressor, the siloxane filter that's in the line, and the pressure regulators for the microturbines.
AQUAPONICS SYSTEM
When selecting the aquaponic process to use in the greenhouse, they decided to use that of Dr. Jim Rokacy, whose outdoor unit at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Croix was the most sustainable. Rokacy's design had low energy and management inputs, high water and heat efficiency and didn't rely entirely on a small, individual biofilter. In other systems, if the biofiltration tank crashes, the fish die. Rokacy helped Rutgers design and build an alternative, the first time applied to a greenhouse.
Tilapia are grown in 10-foot diameter, 2,000-gallon tanks, 700 fish per tank. The free ammonia – produced by the fish in high amounts – is toxic to fish. The wastewater proceeds through a series of processes before it is cycled back into the tanks. First it flows into a solids settling tank, where the fish manure and excess food are removed. This solid waste was previously used in the vermicomposting operation in the greenhouse (see TerraCycle report below), but as they are working with other source materials, the fish solids are diverted to the sewage treatment plant. Using the fish solid waste as a fertilizer may be developed later.
The next processing tank is the biofilter, which looks like a stationary tub with water flowing through bird netting. Naturally occurring beneficial nitrifying bacteria, which come in on the fish, convert the free ammonia to nitrate nitrogen, the primary nitrogen source for crops. The water then flows to troughs where hydroponic tomatoes utilize the nitrogen and other plant nutrients. After the plant troughs, the water goes through an aeration step and then drains into a sump that contains a heating coil, and a pump pushes the heated water back into the fish tanks. The pump and the aeration blowers are the only parts which require electricity; the rest works on gravitational flow. The waste heat from the microturbines heats the water for the fish tanks.
The aquaponics is currently operating as a single layer where the fish are at one end of the greenhouse and the tomato crop is at the other end. Specca's plans to incorporate a double layer, where the tanks are under the plants will maximize greenhouse space. The fish tanks can then become a heat reservoir for the greenhouse – if it is cold in the greenhouse, the fish water radiates heat to the crop. Plants are housed on rolling benches, allowing easy access to the tanks and accessibility for the workers to pick the crop.
So as not to compete with the local market for the renowned Jersey tomato, greenhouse production is limited to the end of October through the end of July. As a side note, greenhouse-raised tilapia are not prone to the same circumstances that cause health concerns with outdoor farm raised fish. Being under cover and protected from bird droppings and other exposures, they don't require treatment with antibiotics, fungicides or hormones.
The tomatoes also fare well. They can go through several tomato crops which don't need any insecticide sprays, until the late spring when the season warms up, and they start to encounter insect problems. One strategy used is to bring in beneficial insects to help keep pests under control.
So where will all this tweaking and environmentally soft footprinting lead the greenhouse? Says Specca, "Hopefully in the end we will have a product that is not only profitable to a company, but tested to the point where other landfills can feel comfortable applying the technology."
INCUBATOR BUSINESSES
The Rutgers EcoComplex, a part of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, serves as home to several incubator firms that are developing their businesses with assistance from the EcoComplex via research, facilities use and/or feasibility development. Acrion Technologies, whose siloxane removal system from landfill gas is used in running the greenhouse and the refuse trucks, was featured in Part I in the December, 2004 issue. The other incubator businesses at the EcoComplex are highlighted here.
GARDEN STATE ETHANOL
Development of ethanol is being fueled in part because of increasing levels of water contaminants from fuel additive MTBE. Of the 24 states to use MTBE, 17 have since banned its use. Ethanol can be used either as an additive replacement for MTBE, or in a fuel mix of up to 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, known as E85. E85 fuel mix is available in 22 states, mostly in the Corn Belt states of the Midwest, where the majority of the nation's ethanol plants are located. Most cars today can run on five to ten percent ethanol blends, and many of the newer cars can use up to 85 percent ethanol.
For states in the Northeast such as New York and Connecticut that have banned MTBE, ethanol is shipped by rail from the Midwest. The additive is not yet banned in New Jersey, but there is pending legislation. So the time is ripe to look into ethanol production in the Northeast, where virtually no ethanol plants exist. Enter Garden State Ethanol (GSE) – a partnership with the New Jersey Farm Bureau, Rutgers University, the New Jersey Grain and Forage Growers Association and a core group of farmers and other agribusiness professionals. Formed in September, 2001, the intent of GSE is to build the first ethanol facility on the East Coast. According to GSE project director Henry Capro, there are 100 million bushels of field corn grown within 80 miles of the proposed plant site. This area encompasses New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.
The ethanol plant will produce 40 million gallons of ethanol from 14 million bushels of corn and sorghum annually via dry milling. The by-product distiller grains will be distributed as animal feed. A carbon dioxide partner will be located on-site to take fermentation based CO2 gases. This will be used for flash freezing and carbonated products. Waste heat from the ethanol plants will be used in a greenhouse/aquaculture operation. A biomass boiler fed farm grown and waste wood will run a cogeneration plant that will provide energy for the previously mentioned operations, as well as a plastics recycling facility. This will make it the first low emissions renewable energy ethanol plant. Figure 1 shows a flow chart for these connected operations.
In sharp contrast to the northern part of the state where petroleum refineries line the New Jersey Turnpike (a less than scenic landscape), the ethanol plant site will be in South Jersey, in the heart of most of the state's farmland. The site is located in West Deptford, with direct access to both highway and rail transportation and includes infrastructure that can be incorporated into the ethanol facility. In addition, the location offers the ability to add related agricultural processing production.
With the site design and location under its belt, GSE is seeking investors to fund the land purchase and facilities construction. Between $90 million to $100 million will be needed, all to come from private sector investors. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's site inspection process also will be undertaken. The site approval process may take a year, but it is unknown how long it will take to obtain the total funding. In the meantime, the EcoComplex has played a key role in their establishment.
Manufacturing a vermicompost tea plant food, bottled in used soda bottles with spray lids that are overruns, TerraCycle's product is touted as having a "negative environmental footprint." Founded in 2001, the company grew out of a project by two Princeton University students. Now on "indefinite sabbatical" from Princeton, company founder Tom Szaky, 23, explains that the company is motivated not by environmentalism, but by profit.
TerraCycle does the bottling and manufacturing of the compost tea in a Trenton, New Jersey facility. Vermicompost is received from several suppliers, after testing for best plant growth results depending on the original material being composted.
TerraCycle's research is based at the greenhouse at the EcoComplex. This also serves as a demo site for educational tours for schools and other groups. Here it researches use of the plant food in a variety of applications such as liquid fertilizer, foliar spray and hydroponics. It also tests various materials and mixes for optimum plant growth. Some wastes tested for vermicompost potential are cow manure from local farms, clean paper sludge diverted from the landfill for a carbon source, and coffee grounds, beer hops and corn silage. The company also sees the potential for using preconsumer food wastes from spoilage.
While its waste-into-profit strategy is unconventional, so too is the marketing strategy. Its marketing base is firmly planted in the community within which they operate. TerraCycle offers a school educational/fundraising program where schools can select from several options: an educational assembly, worm boxes for classroom use, banners for children to provide environmentally-themed art work, tours of the vermicomposting demo at the EcoComplex greenhouse, or fundraising through plastic soda bottle collection for TerraCycle – enabling the students to see their efforts end up in a finished product on store shelves.
So far, TerraCycle's diligence has paid off. In addition to many retailers nationwide, it supplies product to Home Depot's on-line sales division and Wal-Mart Canada. Its streamline operation based on waste has allowed them to get a stronghold as a start-up company on a shoestring. Every piece of furniture in its office was salvaged from dumpsters. The gallon containers for hydroponic product are misprints. The cardboard boxes are overruns or recycled.
Just as it experiments with the right mix of compost to stimulate plant growth, TerraCycle tests fertile ground for company growth. It plans to expand to another facility to conduct its own vermicompost manufacturing, develop a product for the leftover vermicompost solids from the tea manufacturing, develop a product label from corn polymers and experiment with new sources for compost such as preconsumer supermarket waste.
HYDROGLOBE
HydroGlobe is the first "graduate" of the EcoComplex. Purchased by Graver Technologies in November, 2004, it is now based out of Graver's headquarters in Delaware. HydroGlobe manufactures material for water filtration systems. Although other materials filter out heavy metals, HydroGlobe is unique by removing lead and arsenic in both its naturally occurring states. The material is used by small and large scale water filtration systems, from kitchen filtration products, to whole house filters, to municipal water treatment.
Born out of a technology developed at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, HydroGlobe got its start in 2001 in a technological incubator there. According to HydroGlobe's President and CEO John Schroeder, "When Steven's incubator program shut down, we could have remained at the facility since the technology was developed there." But the closing of the incubator also dried up other resources available to them. It was serendipity when Schroeder then was introduced to the EcoComplex.
HydroGlobe moved into the EcoComplex in November, 2003, where it utilized office and lab space and had access to administrative staff. The owners used their new facilities to host conferences along with presentations by EcoComplex personnel. By virtue of being in a building with other companies and organizations focused on environmental issues, they were able to gain new perspectives and connections. Certification of the product was facilitated since New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technologies, which works with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to certify environmental technologies, had its office in the building.
Since the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered that by 2006 all water systems meet drastically reduced arsenic levels (to ten parts per billion), removing arsenic and other heavy metals from water supplies has become a top priority of municipalities, small community water systems and individual consumers. HydroGlobe's outlook looks crystal clear.
Cindy Rovins is an Agricultural Communications Editor for Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension.


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Tax reform package no panacea
By Stephen Bowen | Sep 19, 2009
That Maine citizens reportedly collected more than 60,000 signatures in order to force a public referendum on the LD 1495 tax package passed by the Legislature last spring is extraordinarily good news, if for no other reason than that it means legislative Democrats have failed in their ludicrous attempt to prevent a public vote on the proposal.
It is one thing to oppose a citizen initiative once it goes out to Mainers for a vote; it is quite another to actively campaign against efforts to even put it to a vote in the first place, as Maine's Democrats did. A Legislature that is afraid of giving you an opportunity to vote on its handiwork is a Legislature with something to hide.
As it turns out, a careful look at LD 1495 tells you all you need to know about why the Democrats who passed the bill were so reluctant to let voters have their say on it.
The bill was passed with great fanfare, of course, and was hailed as the tax reform panacea long sought-after by policymakers in Augusta. It is "something extraordinary" they claimed, something "historic."
Not really. What the bill essentially does is lower one tax, the state income tax, and raise a whole host of other taxes in exchange. Yes, your income taxes, in most cases, will go down, but just about everything else you do or buy will become more expensive.
The bill raises restaurant taxes, for instance, as well as hotel taxes, rental car taxes, and the taxes you pay on the beer you enjoy at your local watering hole. Tourists pay many of these taxes, it is argued, and so raising those taxes is a good thing. The fact that all of these things will be more expensive for Mainers to do as well is, evidently, a burden we will just have to live with.
The bill also raises taxes on candy, but, this being government, candy must be carefully defined in the law. According to LD 1495, the term "candy" means "a preparation of sugar, honey or other natural or artificial sweeteners in combination with chocolate, fruits, nuts or other ingredients or flavorings in the form of bars, drops or pieces and that does not contain flour or require refrigeration."
Luckily, the good people at Maine Revenue Services have provided some examples on their Web site of what is to be taxed under the new candy regime and what is not. Chocolate bars are taxed, for instance, but Kit Kat, Twix, and Nestle's Crunch are among the chocolate bars that, for some reason, are not taxed. Fudge is taxed, but chocolate covered pretzels are not. Gum and fruit snacks are taxed but Twizzlers are not.
Soft drinks, which are defined as "any nonalcoholic beverage that contains natural or artificial sweeteners but which does not include any beverage that contains milk or milk products, greater than 50 percent of vegetable or fruit juice by volume or flavored or unflavored soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, grain milk and similar milk substitutes," are also taxed. Soda and sports drinks are taxed under this definition, but so is Pedialyte, which is used as rehydration treatment for sick children. Lemonade is taxed under the new law, but the chocolate drink Yoo-Hoo is not.
Revealingly, coffee drinks containing milk are not taxed, which will spare the proverbial latte liberal from having to pay his or her fair share. He or she will not have to pay a tax on yoga classes either, or for the use of a computer at an Internet cafe or for ski lift tickets for a weekend at Sugarloaf. Boat shows are taxed, though, as are amusement parks, carnival rides at state fairs, comedy shows and, unbelievably, haunted hay rides.
And these people want to run health care?
All of this would be laughable if this shift and shaft tax bill didn't do real harm to Maine's economy.
One of the bill's most destructive provisions is its replacement of standard and itemized deductions with a single refundable household tax credit, which is only available to Maine residents. This attempt to shift Maine's tax burden to those living outside our borders could have devastating consequences.
Part-time residents do not qualify for the tax credit, for example. This means that recent college graduates returning to Maine to live and work, for instance, could be hit with a tax penalty of up to $2,200 unless they arrive on Jan. 1. If they have residency in another state at any point during the year, they are regarded under the law as part-year residents and do not qualify for the tax credit.
Welcome home recent college grads!
Nonresidents do not qualify for the tax credit either, which means that people who live outside of Maine but have income from Maine sources, and there were 55,000 such tax returns filed last year, will face a massive tax penalty.
Why should you, as a Maine resident, care?
For one thing, this provision of the bill clearly violates the U.S. Constitution, which, courts have ruled, prohibits states from enacting tax policies that discriminate against nonresidents. It is for this reason, for instance, that nonresidents cannot be charged a higher rate on their property taxes.
Worse still, though, will be this provision's effect on the Maine economy. Workers living on the New Hampshire side of the border will be discouraged from working in Maine, for instance, further complicating for Maine businesses the challenge of finding top-quality employees. Businesses headquartered outside of Maine will have yet another disincentive from investing here, further reinforcing Maine's reputation as a state openly hostile to business.
There is also, of course, the real threat that other states will retaliate with tax shifting policies of their own, potentially costing Maine's businesses and workers down the road.
In summary, LD 1495 is exactly what its critics said it was, yet another broken promise of tax relief. Its repeal, therefore, is worthy of strong consideration, despite what the Democrats say.
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Tech stock bubble warnings rise amid coronavirus rally
By business reporter Rachel Pupazzoni
Posted TueTuesday 14 JulJuly 2020 at 5:04pmTueTuesday 14 JulJuly 2020 at 5:04pm , updated TueTuesday 14 JulJuly 2020 at 10:32pmTueTuesday 14 JulJuly 2020 at 10:32pm
The ASX launched a tech index in February and it is already up 12 per cent despite the COVID-19 pandemic. (Reuters: Daniel Munoz)
Shares in buy now, pay later company Sezzle have skyrocketed since falling to a 35-cent low on March 23.
The ASX's tech index but is now up 12 per cent for where it started in February
The Nasdaq has hit record highs during the pandemic, while the Dow Jones Industrial Index has not recovered its COVID-19 losses
Fund managers are split on whether the current valuations are justified
The US company, which listed on the ASX a year ago, followed the market down as COVID-19 concerns spooked investors.
But just as Sezzle rode the wave down, so too did it surge higher to increase an eyewatering 2,500 per cent to $8.50 a share earlier this week.
That rapid growth in the space of about four months is emblematic of what has been happening in the broader technology space.
As Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said when delivering the software company's third quarter results in April: "We've seen two years' worth of digital transformation in two months."
Sezzle chief executive Charlie Youakim agreed the pandemic had caused a rush on technology stocks.
Sezzle CEO Charlie Youakim expects new users to stay with the platform beyond the COVID-19 shutdowns. (Supplied: Sezzle)
"If there's one thing that's working right now, it's e-commerce," he told The Business.
But, he argued, while his business had been caught up in the investor pile-on, his company was also delivering.
"I don't like to comment on price, but what I can say is I think investors are probably getting excited about our growth," Mr Youakim said.
"We've been consistent every quarter that we give an update. We've had really, I would say, quite phenomenal growth and we've made improvements on our top line."
In its second quarter results last week, Sezzle reported a 243.2 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of consumers using its payment platform and a 219.2 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of merchants using it.
Underlying merchant sales rose 58 per cent in the June quarter to $272.3 million, making an annual increase of 348.6 per cent.
While its user base is up about two-and-a-half fold in 12 months, and its merchant sales has increased three-and-a-half fold, those rates of growth are no match for the 25-fold increase its share price has experienced since March.
It is share price growth like that that has some fund managers wary.
Could history repeat?
Roger Montgomery, who manages $1.4 billion of investments with his firm Montgomery Investment Management, said the rapid growth of cash flowing into technology stocks was concerning.
Investment manager Roger Montgomery says the rush into technology stocks is reminiscent of the dot-com bubble. (ABC News: Grant Wignall)
"There are a few warning signs at the moment that we have bubble-like conditions," he said.
"One is the very significant wave of profitless companies now hitting the technology bourses in the United States and IPOing [listing on the share market].
"Another one is the very rapid increase of prices beyond the growth that can be expected from the underlying businesses.
"And the third warning sign is the huge increase in retail trading in these stocks."
First-timers trade on 'gut feeling'
Thousands of Australians stranded at home due to COVID-19 have started trying to make money playing the share market. But the regulator warns the lure of easy profits comes with big risks.
Mr Montgomery is wary of a repeat of the dot-com boom and bust.
"I can recall vividly the very rapid gains that were made from IPOs just before the tech crash, and the sort of enthusiasm we're seeing at the moment is reminiscent of that enthusiasm back in 2000 and 1999," he said.
The value of Australia's new All Technology Index, which was launched in February this year just as markets started tumbling, has soared back from its March low, earlier this month jumping 12 per cent above its launch rate.
Its growth has eclipsed the broader All Ordinaries, which is yet to return to its February high.
The recovery in technology stock prices is outpacing the boarder ASX index. (ABC News: Alistair Kroie)
It is a similar picture in the US.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 35 per cent from the start of this calendar year to its low in late March. While it has recovered some of those losses, it still remains below its January starting point.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq also saw widespread losses in March, but its recovery has been significantly stronger and it is now about 15 per cent higher than where it started this year.
The Nasdaq is above its January starting point, while the Dow Jones recovery still has a long way to go. (ABC News: Alistair Kroie)
Technology investment fast tracked
Munro Partners CIO Nick Griffin says the pandemic has sped up the transition to e-commerce. (Supplied: Munro Partners)
Nick Griffin, the chief investment officer at $2 billion fund Munro Partners, said the COVID-19 pandemic, which had forced many office-based workers into their homes, was a big reason why investment in technology stocks was soaring.
"The social-distancing side of COVID-19 has meant the digital acceleration has been brought forward," he explained.
"A lot of this was happening already — ecommerce was already taking share, videoconferencing was getting better because of this acceleration in computing.
"It is happening anyway and what COVID-19 has done is accelerate it — how much has it accelerated by, we don't know, and that's creating the sort of bubble-like behaviour."
Munro Partners says the demand for cloud-based workspaces has sped up since office workers were sent home and it will continue to climb. (Supplied: Munro Partners)
He said low interest rates were also sending investors in search of yield.
"Interest rates have dropped to zero, so the discount rate that's been embedded is lower. That's allowing valuations to expand and, in some cases, quite dramatically," he said.
Valuations heading into the clouds
Australian cloud company archTIS has also seen its share price rise during the pandemic.
Its secure online platform Kojensi is accredited by both the US National Security Agency and Australian Signals Directorate for top-secret information sharing online.
It was commercialised last year.
"We've had a number of early adopters, including the Attorney-General's Department, the Commonwealth Ombudsman, and we made a sale to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission as well," archTIS chief executive Daniel Lai said.
archTIS CEO Daniel Lai says demand for secure cloud access is growing rapidly. (ABC News: Luke Stephenson)
Its share price dipped from 13 cents at the start of the year to 5 cents in March, but traded as high as 20 cents earlier this month after signing a deal with American global aerospace and defence technology company Northrop Grumman.
"COVID-19 has seen that challenge of the workforce move from an office environment to a remote environment, of course Kojensi is a software-as-a-service cloud platform for secure content collaboration, so it fits that bill from moving to that work-from-home environment," Mr Lai observed.
He said his company's share price growth had not just been caught up by the broader momentum.
"The geopolitical situation, with the tension between China and Australia, has also affected that and the announcement from the Prime Minister of the unprecedented amount of hacking that's been going on in Australia also highlights that that there's a real need for these sorts of platforms of technologies," Mr Lai added.
While Mr Montgomery was sceptical about the rapid growth in technology stocks across the board, he said data sharing was an area he was looking at.
"We know that demand for data is going up, we know demand for storage is going to increase beyond the coronavirus pandemic and that's an area within technology where we think there's still a lot of opportunity for investors," he said.
If prices do come down like they did in the dot-com era, Mr Griffin from Munro Partners thinks it will just be a blip.
"Computers around the world are getting faster every year and so disruption accelerates every year," he said.
"It's important to recognise that even if COVID-19 went way tomorrow, this will still happen.
"This is the revolution of our lifetime."
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New Durable and Inexpensive Catalyst Reduces Carbon Footprint
The Haber-Bosch process, which is often used to synthesize ammonia (NH3)—the foundation for synthetic nitrogen fertilizers—by combining hydrogen (H2) and nitrogen (N2) over catalysts at high pressures and temperatures, is one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs that has helped enhance crop yields and raise food production worldwide.
However, owing to the process's high temperature and pressure requirements, large fossil fuel energy inputs are required. The hydrogen utilized in this method is derived from natural gas (mainly methane). This hydrogen-production process consumes a lot of energy and emits a lot of CO2. To address these issues, several catalysts have been created to allow the reaction to take place at gentler circumstances utilizing hydrogen produced by water electrolysis using renewable energy. Among them are nitride-based catalysts that contain active metal nanoparticles like nickel and cobalt (Ni, Co) loaded on lanthanum nitride (LaN) supports.
Both the support and the active metal are involved in the formation of NH3 in these catalysts. The active metal splits the H2, whilst the LaN support's crystal structure contains nitrogen vacancies and nitrogen atoms that adsorb and activate nitrogen (N2). While these catalysts are cheap (since they don't need ruthenium, which is expensive), their catalytic performance suffers when exposed to moisture, with the LaN support transforming into lanthanum hydroxide (La(OH)3).
Now, in a new study published in Angewandte Chemie, researchers from China and Japan led by Professor Hideo Hosono from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan, have developed a chemically stable catalyst that is stable in the presence of moisture. Taking inspiration from stable rare-earth compounds containing chemical bonds between a rare-earth metal (in this case, La) and a metal, they incorporated aluminum atoms into the LaN structure and synthesized a chemically stable La3AlN support containing La-Al bonds that prevent lanthanum atoms from reacting with moisture.
The La-Al-N support along with the active metals, such as nickel and cobalt (Ni, Co), was able to produce NH3 at rates similar to that with conventional metal nitride catalysts and could maintain a stable production when fed with nitrogen gas-containing moisture. "The Ni- or Co-loaded La-Al-N catalysts showed no distinct degradation following exposure to 3.5% moisture," says Prof. Hosono.
While the Al atoms stabilized the support, the lattice nitrogen and nitrogen defects present in the doped support enabled the synthesis of ammonia in a manner similar to the conventional active metal/rare-earth metal nitride catalysts. "Lattice nitrogen, as well as nitrogen vacancy in La-Al-N, play a key role in N2 adsorption, with the La-Al-N support and the active metal Ni being responsible for N2 and H2 absorption and activation, respectively," explains Prof. Hosono.
The Haber-Bosch process is an energy-intensive chemical reaction, accounting for about 1% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions. While alternative environmentally friendly approaches for NH3 production are being investigated, introducing inexpensive catalysts could provide immediate benefits by allowing the process to operate under milder conditions.
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On the site, you'll see the refined identity for their master brand Blue Circle and their WholeFoods brand Changing Seas. You'll also see a tour of their sustainable practices, and little details like official certification badges that give the official seal of authenticity to the things they do.


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The galaxies we see in the Universe today are classified according to their shape. Most are mostly either elliptical (about 30%) or spiral (about 70% of galaxies). A few are other shapes. Because we do not understand the origin of galaxies, is not clear how these different shapes arose.


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Appreciating The Awesome Motorcycle Collection of Brad Pitt
ByBenjamin Smith Posted on May 29, 2021 September 29, 2021 Updated on September 29, 2021
Brad Pitt is one of the actors that many people around the world love. He has appeared in numerous films that have raked in huge profits. For twelve years, the talented actor and his wife Angelina Jolie have been a glowing couple in Hollywood. Their separation brought about a lot of gossip. Love, fame and money are the fuels that create stories for magazines and newspapers. People claim that it was Angelina who initiated the process of filing for divorce from Pitt due to irreconcilable differences and other arguments such as his parenting style. The couple has six children. Three are biological and three are adopted. The couple got married in 2014.
He is also an avid motorcycle enthusiast and collector. He has a collection of classic bikes, more than 20 models to be precise. Several of the models are highly valuable. Brad has aged gracefully. Even though he is in his fifties, he has an appealing, leading man factor in the movies he acts in. He also has another cool factor in real life, that is riding motorcycles. Pitt works with internationally renowned builders and stores his bikes in a spacious garage. The actor also possesses rare models that are hard to find.
His motorcycle collection is a sign of his sportiness. Over the years, people have spotted him in different countries astride several impressive bikes. They signify that the actor has a passion for European and Japanese motorcycles. In 2006, Pitt and his wife rode through Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam on a Yamaha R! before they adopted their son, Pax from that nation. According to this site, he loves the quick getaway that motorcycles offer and the fact that they allow him to keep a low profile. Below, we look at the Brad Pitt motorcycle collection. The facts about the bikes range from who built them, his favorite brands and the costliest purchases. They include:
1 1. Shinya Kimura custom
2 2. Ecosse Titanium Series XX
3 3. BMW R1150GS Adventure
4 4. Triumph Bonneville
5 5. Royal Enfield Bullet 500
6 6. Ducati Desmodedici RR
7 7. Husqvana Nuda 900
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9 9. Zero Engineering Type9
10 10. Ducati Monster
11 11. Triumph Trophy TRG
12 12. BMW R75
13 13. Ecosse Titanium Series FE TI XX
1. Shinya Kimura custom
Pitt loves Rad Café Racers and Samurai choppers and that's why he has a customized motorcycle built by Shinya Kimura. The custom bike is a Café Racers with the only recognizable part being the 1974 Ducati engine. The oil cooler of the bike sits next to the headlight providing it with an asymmetrical appearance.
2. Ecosse Titanium Series XX
According to this site Pitt purchased a customized Ecosse Titanium Series XX bike in 2013. This motorcycle is unique and one of the costliest ones in the world at the time. It is estimated that the motorcycle cost 300,000 dollars.
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This bike was manufacture3d by BMW Motorrand in 2005 and it is still one of Brad Pitts favorite machines. This motorbike is powerful and it features a 1130cc horizontally opposed flat twin engine and can reach speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour. This is an excellent choice for both the street and track.
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This is a classic bike that all serious collectors must have in their fleet. The first models used a 6500 cc paradelle twin engine based on the Triumph Tiger 110. The later versions incorporated a new frame that integrated an engine oil tank rather than a separate one.
5. Royal Enfield Bullet 500
This is a beautiful bike that has been produced from the last 75 years. This has a lot to say about its popularity. Over time, the bike has transformed and evolved. However, the model in Pitt's garage is classic and has a reliable engine and attractive frame.
6. Ducati Desmodedici RR
This bike was released at the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello in 2006. Ducati stated that it was the initial true road replica of MotoGP racing motorcycle, and that is why it is unique in Pitt's collection. The RR has a 989cc engine, titanium valves and carbon fiber body.
7. Husqvana Nuda 900
The Nuda 900 R received a lot of praise from journalists and bike enthusiasts around the world. Brad Pitt had the chance to ride one before it hit the market. He owns the first release of the bike, the original 2012 design that features 4 valved engines and 57HP capabilities.
8. Gasoline Alley/Indian Larry
Pitt owned an Indian Larry motorcycle and it is stated that it was made from scratch. Reports also state that the bike was made from steel that was heated to up to 900 degrees and then carefully twisted. The bike's price is $65,000 and above.
9. Zero Engineering Type9
Brad Pitt purchased a Type 9 by Zero engineering from a world-famous garage that the Shinya Kimura firm originally founded. The motorbike features a multi-link rear suspension that has a 4-link mon-shock assembly but appears like a hardtail.
10. Ducati Monster
These models have over 3 decades of success. Brad Pitt owns a Ducati Monster Italia. The bike is aggressive-looking and designed by Miguel Angel Galluzzi from Argentina. When Pitt saw it for the first time, he stated that Marlon Brando would select it for his film, The Wild One.
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It is a long-standing cult motorcycle made between 1956 and 1973. Steve McQueen rode the motorbike in the film The Great Evasion. The film was a commercial success, especially in the U.S.A.
12. BMW R75
Brad owns this bike which the Nazis used for several missions in World War II. This includes missions for recognition of the bike in the battlefield. He bought it at the price of 385 thousand dollars.
13. Ecosse Titanium Series FE TI XX
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Les Setos sont un peuple autochtone, vivant dans le Sud de l'Estonie et en Russie occidentale, de part et d'autre de la frontière, parlant à la fois le seto, une langue sud-estonienne, l'estonien et souvent le russe.

Ils sont environ dix mille, habitant pour leur quasi-totalité en Estonie (dans les comtés de Põlva et Võru) et en Russie (dans l'oblast de Pskov). Leur territoire historique est appelé Setomaa et couvre environ  (dont 420 en Estonie et  en Russie).

Histoire
Les Setos se sont probablement installés avant l'an 600 de notre ère dans la région aujourd'hui appelée Setomaa. Dans les anciennes chroniques russes, ils sont regroupés sous l'appellation de Tchoudes avec d'autres peuples finno-ougriens de la région. À partir du début du Moyen Âge, la poussée des tribus slaves s'est faite toujours plus forte en direction du nord-est. Ceci entraîna un mélange avec divers groupes de populations et leurs cultures. Les Estoniens, dont la langue est finno-ougrienne, furent convertis au christianisme entre le  et le , alors que le Danemark catholique et l'Ordre Teutonique exerçaient le pouvoir en Livonie. L'Évêché de Dorpat en particulier, fondé en 1224 et dont le centre était Tartu, exerçait une pression sur les Setos, encore polythéistes pour les convertir à la foi catholique, mais ceux-ci y résistèrent et finirent, au  par adopter définitivement la foi orthodoxe. Ils conservèrent toutefois nombre de rites païens, de sorte que leur pratique orthodoxe resta d'abord superficielle. Les contacts entre Estoniens et Setos entraînèrent néanmoins une importante influence catholique sur la culture seto.

Les Setos eux-mêmes décrivent leur situation entre 862 et 1920, aux frontières de deux religions rivales et de deux puissances politiques (Ordre Teutonique et évêché de Dorpat à l'ouest, États russes de Novgorod, de Pskov et de Polotsk à l'est), par la fameuse expression katõ ilma veere pääl (« à la bordure de deux mondes »). Le , lors des troubles de la Première Guerre mondiale et de la Révolution russe, l'Estonie se déclara indépendante de la Russie. Par le traité de Tartu (Dorpat en allemand), le Setomaa revint au nouvel État estonien, mais resta une enclave orthodoxe dans une Estonie devenue majoritairement luthérienne lors de la Réforme protestante.

Les trois premières décennies du  peuvent être décrits comme un âge d'or de la culture seto. C'est vraisemblablement en 1905 que le chiffre de la population seto atteignit son maximum. Lors du recensement ethnique de 1934,  personnes se déclarèrent Setos. Mais au cours des années 1930, l'État estonien, de plus en plus centralisateur et autoritaire, commença à exercer sur les Setos une politique d'« estisation » visant à les assimiler à la majorité estonienne.

En 1940, l'Union soviétique occupa l'Estonie et entama une phase de répression d'une durée de , interrompue seulement par occupation nazie qui dura  et fut tout aussi sévère : aucune minorité ne fut épargnée. En tant que communauté orthodoxe, les Setos furent suspects d'être proches de la Russie par les nazis, et d'être restés fervents chrétiens par l'État soviétique athée. Les bijoux d'argent traditionnels en possession des familles furent confisqués, l'usage de la langue seto aboli dans les écoles. Les fermes setos furent reconverties en kolkhozes, et l'économie planifiée instaurée. Nombreux furent les Setos (tout comme une partie significative de la population estonienne) à être déportés vers l'intérieur de l'URSS à l'époque stalinienne. En 1944, la frontière entre la République socialiste soviétique d'Estonie et la République socialiste fédérative soviétique de Russie fut redessinée par Moscou ; elle coupait pour la première fois en deux la zone habitée par les Setos, mais, tant qu'elle n'était qu'une limite administrative interne de l'Union soviétique, elle n'impacta guère la vie quotidienne des Setos.

Depuis la dislocation de l'URSS et le retour à l'indépendance estonienne en , la frontière devenue internationale entre l'Estonie et la Russie divise d'autant plus la zone d'habitation des Setos, qu'elle marque aussi une limite géopolitique entre l'Union européenne, l'espace Schengen et l'OTAN à l'ouest, et la Russie à l'est. Cela complique les contacts entre Setos des deux côtés de la frontière et le retour aux lieux de culture et aux cimetières.

De nos jours, les droits culturels et politiques des Setos au sein de la République d'Estonie sont pleinement garantis. Les défis majeurs que doit aujourd'hui affronter la culture seto sont la globalisation grandissante et l'exode rural de la population la plus jeune, qui vide de plus en plus les villages. Une part importante des Setos vit aujourd'hui dans les deux plus grandes villes d'Estonie, Tallinn et Tartu.

Culture

Les Setos sont l'un des derniers peuples maintenant des traditions folkloriques en Europe. Les femmes portent un costume multicolore.

Le chant est un élément très important dans la vie des Setos et est utilisé tant pour le travail que pour les cérémonies de mariages.

Le village d'Obinitsa, dans la commune de Setomaa, accueille le Musée de la culture seto.

Le groupe estonien Zetod, originaire de Värska, perpétue aujourd'hui la tradition en s'inspirant de chants setos dans ses compositions ethno-folk.

Tradition brassicole
La bière Seto Õlu est faite à partir de pain de seigle brûlé, technique héritée du kvas (boisson gazeuse russe).

Religion
Les Seto sont de confession orthodoxe, liés à l'Église orthodoxe d'Estonie contrairement à la majorité des Estoniens qui sont de tradition luthérienne et pour la plupart non religieux.

Statut et organisation

Les Seto d'Estonie vivent pour la plupart dans la commune rurale de Setomaa, située dans le comté de Võru dont le chef-lieu est Värska. Cette commune, créée en 2017, s'étend sur  et comprend 156 villages et hameaux, mais sur ce territoire les Seto ont aussi, non officiellement, formé en 1994 une micronation : la « régence de Setomaa » dont le roi absent est Peko, ancienne divinité locale d'avant le christianisme, représentée par un couple de vice-roi et vice-reine, les ülembsootska, élus chaque année.

Drapeau
Le drapeau de la « régence de Setomaa », qui est aussi le drapeau ethnique Seto, représente sur fond blanc une croix formée par les broderies décoratives habituellement cousues sur les manches des chemises traditionnelles.

Bibliographie
 Antoine Chalvin, Les Setos d'Estonie, coll. Peuples en péril, vol. 6, Crozon, Armeline, 2015
 L'Esprit de la forêt : contes estoniens et seto, traduction de l'estonien par Eva Toulouze, sélection et commentaires de Risto Järv, José Corti, 2011

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Seto (langue)
 Setomaa, commune rurale, paroisse
 Eva Toulouze, ethnologue

Liens externes
 Site du Setomaa
  Old Seto Ladies Teaching their Songs
 Zetod, ethno folk et culture Seto

Groupe ethnique en Estonie
Groupe ethnique en Russie
Peuple finno-ougrien

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Q: I need to forward from one server to another IP (Non HTTP) FreeBSD This question has probably been asked before. Suppose I have FreeBSD 12, and I have a server with for example ip: 45.***.***.*** and I want it to forward a port like 25565 (Minecraft Server) to another ip: 95.***.***.***

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Nginx can redirect tcp & udp traffic

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On FreeBSD there are three options, pf, ipfw, and ipfilter.
All are able to do this. Personally I think pf is the most easy to learn, but YMMV.
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Q: URI is not being matched when testing Springs RequestMatcher Dependencies in build.gradle.kts:
(Spring is actually determining the version numbers, I just explicitly added them here for clarity)
implementation("org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:5.6.1")

testImplementation("org.springframework:spring-test:5.3.14")

This is the production code being tested:
public class RequestResolver {

  public boolean isWhitelisted(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) {
    return getRequestMatcher().matches(httpServletRequest);
  }

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public class RequestResolverTest {

  RequestResolver requestResolver = new RequestResolver();

  @Test
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Het derde EK kunstschaatsen voor de mannen werd gehouden op 21 en 22 januari 1893 in de hoofdstad Berlijn van het Duitse Rijk. Het was na Hamburg in 1891 de tweede keer dat het kampioenschap in Duitsland plaatsvond. Alleen de verplichte kür werd geschaatst.

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De vrouwen en paren zouden vanaf 1930 jaarlijks om de Europese titel strijden. De ijsdansers streden vanaf 1954 om de Europese titel in het kunstschaatsen.

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Er namen acht mannen uit vijf landen deel aan dit kampioenschap. Noorwegen en Zweden werden dit jaar voor het eerst vertegenwoordigt op het EK kunstschaatsen.

De Duitser Franz Zilly had ook deelgenomen aan het eerste EK in 1891. De Oostenrijkers Eduard Engelmann, Georg Zachariades, Karl Sage en de Hongaar Tibor von Földváry hadden in 1892 voor het eerst deelgenomen.

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Eduard Engelmann, de Europees kampioen van 1892, werd de eerste man die zijn Europese titel prolongeerde. Ook Georg Zachariades op plaats drie veroverde zijn tweede medaille, hij werd weer derde. Henning Grenander op de tweede plaats veroverde de eerste EK medaille voor Zweden.

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Like many other parents, we too will be welcoming the New Year from the comfort of our home. But, just because you are at home doesn't mean that you can't still dress up and be fancy! We are making some yummy hors d'oeuvres known as little cucumber boats! I sliced the cucumbers and scooped out all the seeds then used this Persian Yogurt recipe for the filling. Then I spruced the look up by placing the cucumbers over a sliced grapefruit. Here are a few more items to ring in the new year at home in style.


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Hari Moorthy
Global Head of Transaction Banking
Hari Moorthy is the Global Head of Transaction Banking at Goldman Sachs, where he built the business from the ground up. He first joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 and was global head of the Development Practices Group and chief technology officer of Global Prime Services through 2014. Hari was named technology fellow in 2010 and managing director in 2012. He rejoined the firm as a partner in 2018.
Prior to rejoining the firm, Hari was chief technology officer of trading and counterparty risk at JP Morgan, and subsequently became global head and chief technology officer of banking technology. Prior to originally joining the firm, he was chief architect at CheckFree Investment Services.
Hari serves on the boards of OneGoal New York and Bent On Learning.
Hari earned a BE (Hons) in Engineering and an MSc (Hons) in Mathematics in 1997 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India. He also conducted mathematical research in theoretical computer science and completed a thesis on Godel's theorems. Hari has received multiple US patents in financial software optimizations, risk and trading algorithms.


HELSINKI, Finland, December 7. THE first day of the European Short Course Championships featured a world record in relay action and pair of continental standards in individual competition, courtesy of Arkady Vyatchanin and Otylia Jedrzejczak. Here's an event-by-event rundown of the first-day races.
The European-record holder, Russia's Yury Prilukov took top honors over a pair of Polish swimmers. Prilukov was timed in 3:39.02, more than a second off his continental mark, but fast enough to hold off Przemyslaw Stanczyk (3:39.92) and Pawel Korzeniowski (3:40.40). Italy's Massi Rosolino, looking for his 50th international medal, was fourth in 3:41.60.
Russia made it back-to-back gold medals when Arkady Vyatchanin blazed 1:49.98 to become just the second man in history to crack the 1:50 barrier in the distance dorsal. Vyatchanin clocked 54.03 for the opening 100 meters and brought the race home strong enough to lower Markus Rogan's Euro record of 1:50.43, on the books for one year.
While Vyatchanin finished off Ryan Lochte's world mark of 1:49.05, the Russian had no trouble dispatching Germany's Helge Meeuw, who earned silver in 1:53.45. The bronze medal went to Romania's Razvan Florea, a longtime staple on the international scene who was timed in 1:53.71.
France's Laure Manaudou led qualifiers into the final of the 100 back behind a swim of 58.04. That time was quicker than the 58.30 registered by Germany's Antje Buschschulte and the 58.63 of Ukrainian Iryna Amshennikova. Germany's Janine Pietsch qualified fifth for the final, but could be a medal factor in the championship final.
Germany's Thomas Rupprath paced the semifinals of one of his prime events as he negotiated the 100 fly in 51.60, slightly quicker than the 51.65 of Slovenia's Peter Mankoc. Milorad Cavic was the third-fastest qualifier, going 51.82, and Ukrainian Andriy Serdinov, the Olympic bronze medalist in the 100 fly, was fourth in 51.94.
Leading from the start, Poland's Katarzyna Baranowska mined gold with a performance of 2:09.47. Baranowska split 27.98 for the opening butterfly leg and maintained her advantage to the final touch. She was followed for the silver medal by France's Camille Muffat (2:10.83) and the bronze medal was collected by Poland's Aleksandra Urbanczyk (2:10.89).
A short-course standout, the Ukraine's Oleg Lisogor made himself the favorite for gold in the final when he highlighted qualifying in the 100 breast with a showing of 58.86. The second slot for the championship heat was occupied by Norway's Alexander Dale in 58.92. Lisogor is the Euro-record holder with a mark of 57.57 from January of this year.
Continuing Poland's spectacular day, Otylia Jedrzejczak crushed the European record in the distance fly when she won the race in 2:04.94. Off the world standard of 2:04.04, set by China's Yang Yu in 2004, Jedrzejczak broke the Euro record of 2:05.77, held since 2000 by Germany's Annika Mehlhorn. The silver medal went to Hungary's Beatrix Boulsevicz (2:06.73) and bronze was won by Britain's Jessica Dickons (2:07.36).
Despite his inability to lower his European record in the 200 I.M., Hungary's Laszlo Cseh had no trouble besting the competition in one of his prime events. Cseh touched the wall in 1:54.43, a little less than a second off his continental record of 1:53.46. Cseh was followed in second place by Lithuania's Vytautas Janusaitis (1:56.20) and third went to Hungary's Tamas Kerekjarto (1:57.12).
The Netherlands' Marleen Veldhuis led the way into the championship heat with the only sub-53 effort. Veldhuis went 52.85 and was followed by France's Alena Popchanka (53.10) and Sweden's Josefin Lillhage (53.37).
With a pedestrian time of 21.53, Spain's Eduard Lorente took the gold medal ahead of Serbia's Milorad Cavic, who was timed in 21.60. France's Julian Sicot claimed the final medal with a swim of 21.68. The European record in the event is 21.10, held by France's Fred Bousquet.
The two-lap breaststroke sprint actually turned out to be a runaway as Germany's Janne Schaefer collected the gold medal in 30.43, plenty faster than the 30.88 of Britain's Kate Haywood. Russia's Elena Bogomazova was the bronze medalist in 30.98.
The German quartet of Helge Meeuw, Johannes Neumann, Thomas Rupprath and Jens Schreiber lowered the world record that Germany already owned. The foursome was timed in 1:34.06, under the old mark of 1:34.46 from 2003. Finland was second in 1:34.95 and the Italians were third with a time of 1:35.20. Meeuw split 23.66 on the backstroke leg and Neumann went 26.86 for the breaststroke. Rupprath handled the fly in 22.30 and Schreiber anchored the freestyle leg in 21.24.


The oldest soil analysis of a plot which is still in use was recently submitted by Fré Zijlker from Midwolda. It dates from 1937. He has even older reports at home, from a plot which is no longer used: from 1934. It's certainly clear that the company performed soil analysis right from the very beginning.
For research into soil fertility, Eurofins Agro called on entrepreneurs to submit old analyses of plots which are still in use. By connecting old details with more recent data and with soil management, we hope to gain new insights into the course of soil fertility. Mr Zijlker received the prizes, a spade by Spear&Jackson and a voucher for the CHECK fertiliser examination, from area assistant Bé Tammes. Product Manager Arjan Reijneveld was on hand to provide information about the Eurofins Agro soil analysis.
The former 'Bedrijfslaboratorium voor Grond- en Gewasonderzoek' (BLGG), the earliest ancestor of Eurofins Agro, began soil analyses in 1928. So the report dates from the early phase of soil analysis in the Netherlands. The farm has certainly seen its fair share of history. Fré Zijlker is the tenth generation to run the farming undertaking on Hoofdstraat in Midwolda. The farm has existed since the 16th century, and by being passed on from father to daughter, it's only been in Zijlker hands in recent generations. The farm is currently on the edge of the new and large-scale 'Blauwe Stad' construction project. The stately 'Oldtambster' farmhouse in which the Zijlker family lives dates from 1870.
Area assistant Bé Tammes presents the prizes to winner Fré Zijlker.
Zijlker has a sheaf of old documents in his possession. For instance there's the property deed from 1717, and a map showing the plot division of the time, written on parchment. Zijlker: "The plots became steadily a bit longer through reclamation of the inland sea, the Dollard." The map even shows a church which is no longer there. "The church once was the heart of the village, but it ended up in the water. By the time of this map the church was on the seashore. The church was finally demolished in the 18th century." And that's how old the farm is, and has been in the family too.
Zijlker farms on 113 hectares on a variety of soil types: from light sandy soil to marine clay. He also has several plots on peaty soil. Fré Zijlker: "In the area the high peat bogs flooded, and clay was deposited. The peat is more than a metre under clay. Another part consists of young peat." In recent years he has farmed cereals, rapeseed and lucerne for the drying sheds. The farming plan used to be more diverse: for example there were peas, marrowfat peas, winter and summer barley, canary seed and oats. Sugar beet seed was also a major crop for the Zijlkers. And clover was farmed for the horses. By the end of the 1950s the farm still had some eight to ten horses and four or five permanent employees.
Report from 1937. Two phosphate fractions (plant available and soil stock) were also measured, as well as various texture fractions.


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If your bestie loves catchy hits by bands like Little Mix, Girls Aloud and The Spice Girls, this is the single life send off for her. Warm up, learn individual steps and moves, and then work them into a big routine for the final group performance.
You don't need to be able to move like Nicole Scherzinger. The Girl Group Dance Party is perfect for hens with little or no experience. Each class takes place in a private room with an experienced dance teacher who's great at tailoring dance classes to suit all ability levels. No pressure! Just lots of laughing and dancing with your girls. It doesn't matter if no one gets the steps right at first. The important thing is to have fun.
Way more exciting than simply lying around on Bournemouth beach, an afternoon of getting your groove on to your favourite beats will be the perfect way to wave goodbye to the single life.


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Panel to suggest changes in law to prevent defaulters from fleeing country
The focus will be on those promoters who hold citizenship of any other country so that episodes of Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya are not repeated.
The panel had its first meeting which discussed duel citizenship and strengthening and streamlining of system so that economic offenders do not run away from the country, sources said.
Various suggestions have been received including renunciation of Indian citizenship and changes in the domestic law to deal with such kind of erring promoters.
In an attempt to stop defaulting promoters from fleeing the country, the government has set up a high-level committee headed by financial services secretary Rajiv Kumar to look at various measures and suggest changes in existing laws, according to official sources.
Other members of the high-level panel include representatives from Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), and Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Besides, senior officials of Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs are also part of the committee.
It takes a lot of time to declare a defaulter a criminal in the present system. So, the committee is looking at the way in which red flag could be raised, sources said.
Soon after the emergence of $ 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case and the perpetrator Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi fleeing the country, the finance ministry asked public sector banks to collect passport details of all those borrowers who have borrowed loans of more than Rs 50 crore.
The banks have also been asked to introduce modifications in the loan application form issued to a borrower to incorporate his or her passport details.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya had fled the country in March 2016 after defaulting on loans given to Kingfisher Airlines, which was promoted by his group.
Moreover, the government has come out with the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018 giving authorities powers to attach and confiscate the proceeds of crime and properties of economic offenders like bank fraudsters or loan defaulters fleeing the country.
The law is aimed at quickly recovering losses to exchequer or public sector banks in cases of frauds like the alleged $ 2 billion fraud by fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi
The absence of such offenders from Indian courts hampers investigation and wastes court time and undermines the rule of law. The existing civil and criminal provisions in law are not entirely adequate to deal with the severity of the problem.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley had, in his Budget for 2018-19, said the government was considering to bring in a new law to confiscate assets of such absconders
The Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018 was introduced in the Lok Sabha (Lower House) on March 12, but couldn't be taken up due to logjam in Parliament over different issues.
As the government could not pass the bill, it framed an ordinance which was approved by the President.
The Ordinance makes provisions for Special Court under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 to declare a person as a Fugitive Economic Offender.
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A creative range of labels for more than fifty flavours of this unique, colourless syrup range. Digital print was the obvious choice for such a large variety of beautiful labels.
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This is the only colourless syrup range in the world, and its uniqueness is celebrated with this vast range of quirky labels. There is amazing attention to detail in creating so many designs, all with different backgrounds, which makes this range of labels one of our favourites.


As the name suggests the Pueblo Andaluz has the atmosphere of an authentic Andalusian village with streets and squares and leafy trees.The hotel has 211 rooms distributed among small two-storey white houses that are decorated with wrought iron railings on the balconies. Each room in the hotel is unique and all have a full bathroom. In the little village that is the hotel, you will find entertainment to suit all ages. There are two swimming pools, one for adults and one for children, two tennis courts, one squash court, volleyball, waterpolo, TV lounge and mini clubhouse. The hotel has a buffet restaurant with international cuisine and two fantastic bars, one at the swimming pool and the bodega. The Pueblo Andaluz is in San Pedro de Alcantara just 4 kms from Puerto Banus Marina and the resort of Marbella. The hotel offers a wide range of daytime activities including tennis, squash, archery, volleyball and windsurfing. This area of Spain is also where some of the best golf courses are to be found.


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Richard Hepp (* 23. Januar 1872 in Pforzheim; † 12. August 1929 in Lahr) war ein deutscher Landrat.

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Als Sohn eines Fabrikanten geboren, studierte Hepp nach dem Besuch des Gymnasiums in Pforzheim Rechtswissenschaften in Heidelberg. Während seines Studiums wurde er 1890 Mitglied der Burschenschaft Vineta Heidelberg. Er wurde 1890/91 Vizefeldwebel im 2. Badischen Grenadier-Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm I." Nr. 110, 1895 Leutnant der Reserve, 1899 der Landwehr und 1910 Oberleutnant. Nach seinem Referendariat, welches er unter anderem am Amtsgericht Pforzheim absolvierte, wurde er 1902 Amtmann in Durlach. 1905 ging er nach Heidelberg, wo er 1907 Oberamtmann wurde. 1908 wurde er Amtsvorstand im Bezirksamt Engen, 1914 in Müllheim. Von 1919 bis 1926 war er Oberamtmann bzw. Landrat im Landkreis Müllheim, dann bis 1929 im Landkreis Lahr.

Ehrungen
 1916: Preußisches Verdienstkreuz für Kriegshilfe

Literatur
 Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Band I: Politiker. Teilband 2: F–H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X, S. 302.

Oberamtmann (Baden)
Landrat (Republik Baden)
Burschenschafter (19. Jahrhundert)
Deutscher
Geboren 1872
Gestorben 1929
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Q: Define multi-character parentheses in Emacs In Verilog you enclose code blocks between the words 'begin' and 'end' like this:
if(foo) begin
   x <= 1'b0;
   y <= 1'b0;
end else begin
   x <= x_d;
   y <= y_d;
end

Is there any way to set begin and end as parentheses in Emacs, so that you can use check-parens or similar to find any that are mismatched?
I've tried adding this (and variations of) to my ~/.emacs file, but it doesn't like it...
(modify-syntax-entry ?begin "(end" )
(modify-syntax-entry ?end ")begin" )

Thanks.

A: Sadly, Emacs's parenthesis matching infrastructure doesn't understand much of multi-character tokens.  The new library SMIE added in Emacs-23.4 is partly intended to address this issue.  It lets major modes describe the syntax of the language (in a very limited kind of grammar) after which things like C-M-f and C-M-b will know how to jump over logical elements, e.g. skip from a begin to its matching end.  As LindyDancer notes, such things are usually needed for indentation, and indeed the main motivation behind SMIE was to provide a generic indentation engine.
Now Verilog doesn't use SMIE but it does implement similar navigation commands.  So you could probably try something like
(defun sm-verilog-check-parens ()
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (not (eobp))
      (verilog-forward-sexp))))

Tho I do not know if verilog-forward-sexp will give you appropriate warnings/errors if it bumps into the end of buffer at an unexpected moment.


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War of the Rebellion: Serial 011 Page 0313 Chapter XXII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.
points of communication between Corinth, Miss., and that portion of Mississippi and Tennessee lying between Eastport, Miss., and Pittsburg, Tenn., and herewith present and imperfect skeleton map of the above-mentioned section of country, which map is made without a compass, square, or rule,* as I found it impossible to obtain either.
On Saturday morning, the 8th of March, assisted by Lieutenant Shelley, of Company B, Tenth Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, and Private Staub, Company C, Tenth Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, I left Corinth, Miss., and proceed eastward to the distance of 1 mile, where the road to Eastport turns to the right and passes over a broken country until it reaches the distance of 4 miles, when it makes an angle to the right, distance half a mile to Farmington, a country village. From Farmington the road turns to the left and traverses a broken country until the distance passed is 8 miles, when the road is very rough, and 3 1/2 miles distant from Memphis and Charleston Railroad, following the road until the distance of 12 miles is passed over. The village Burnsville lies three-quarters of a mile to the right and upon the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Beyond Burnsville to 24 miles the road is very hilly and rocky. For information as to the points of defense, see map.
At 25 miles distance is located a grist-mill, and in sight of the mill is a hill between 300 and 400 feet high and rocky. This point covers the defense of the road, and can be made a barrier to almost any advance.
At the distance of 27 miles the road from Corinth to Eastport intersects the road from Eastport to Iuka, and this is the strong point of defense against a force marching from Eastport to Iuka.
At Eastport the enemy can land a large force, and march by column of sections along the Eastport and Iuka road, the road being 25 feet wide and having a firm, rocky bottom. At the distance of half a mile below Eastport is Rocky Point, which stands 400 feet above the level of Tennessee River bank, and commands a perfect view of the river for 3 miles down and 2 1/2 miles up the river. This point, with an 8-inch gun, can defeat the enemy's gunboats, and requires very little work to build a battery, as there is a bomb-proof made by nature-a large rock projecting 15 feet over the position for the gun.
From Eastport to road runs at a distance from 1 1/2 to 3 miles from the river, and so rough and rocky is it, that the enemy will never think of passing from Hamburg to Eastport by this road.
At Hamburg there is no means of defense until at 1 1/2 miles distance, when Childer's Hill presents itself, some 300 feet high, and distant one-quarter of a mile from its base to its summit. At this hill a crescent is formed around the road and formed of the hill, where batteries of light artillery would have a raking fire at an enemy attempting to climb the hill.
Between the point Childer's Hill and the point at George's house, 6 miles, there is no place of importance, and from George's house to the cross-roads to Monterey there are two points, one at a distance of 8 miles from Hamburg and the other at the cross-roads from Hamburg and Corinth road to the village of Monterey, on the Corinth and Pittsburg road.
At Pittsburg there are two points where batteries could be used to advantage, could drive off or sink the enemy's gunboats. These points are on each side of the road, and 100 feet above the bank of the river.


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i love this for filming!!!
Mobile Phone Holder for the Compact Camera Tripod by Kernel770 is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial license.