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ECONOMY | 24-10-2019 16:36
Amazon gets government's nod for data centre in 'Tango' trade zone
The project will cost an estimated US$800 million and generate US$400 million in economic activity, document reveals. Company has until October 31 to present the land deed and then has 360 days to start construction.
An Amazon logo, pictured on a screen. | Bloomberg/Andrew Harrer
Amazon.com Inc's cloud division has won government approval to open a data centre in an Argentine free-trade zone.
The Seattle-based company, through a local subsidiary Amazon Data Services Argentina SRL, has permission to open the facility in the Bahía Blanca-Coronel Rosales districts of Buenos Aires Province, according to an item published in the province's Official Gazette. The areas are called "Tango Sur," "Tango Centro," and "Tango Norte," referring to the country's popular dance. The location confers on Amazon income and energy consumption tax breaks.
The project will cost an estimated US$800 million, according to the document. The province also estimates the data center will generate US$400 million in economic activity, without citing a time period. The company has until October 31 to present the land deed and then has 360 days to start construction.
The planned data centre was previously reported by various outlets, including the Times, Perfil and Bloomberg.
Export cap reversal rounds off chaotic week of agro tensions
Amazon's decision to put part of its cloud infrastructure in South America's second-largest economy is a big win for the Argentine government, which is keen to diversify the economy into digital services, nanotechnology, aerospace and more. Earlier this year, Congress unanimously passed a law creating incentives for tech companies to set up shop there – a major achievement in an election year that has polarised society.
"ADS Argentina and AWS consider that Argentina and the region in general have opportunities that justify such a significant capital investment," according to the document.
The document also approves a fourth subzone, called "IT Park."
Amazon Web Services, the company's most profitable business, has been expanding its infrastructure around the globe to maintain an edge on rivals like Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc's Google. Sales of cloud-computing services and software are expected to total US$214.3 billion in 2019, up 17.5 percent from a year earlier, according to Gartner.
Proximity to an Amazon data centre helps companies reduce costs and improve data speeds compared with having to rely on sites outside the country. Argentina is home to several online outfits, including its largest company, e-commerce retailer MercadoLibre Inc., which uses AWS to host its platforms.
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More snow could mean longer school days or a longer school year for Washoe County students.
According to the Washoe County School District, three contingency days are set aside. Any new snow days could mean extending the school day or year to make up the missed minutes.
Recent snow and flood warnings kept Washoe County students out of school three time in January.
Education tops Nevada agenda
"It is still so early in the process, we really don't know how it's going to look yet," said Washoe County School District spokeswoman Victoria Campbell.
The Nevada Department of Education said it would be open to flexible options, but that every district will be required to meet minimum annual instructional time.
Campbell said one option the district is exploring is extending the school day.
According to state law, a school calendar must contain at least 180 school days, with at least three days designated as contingency days if schools are inaccessible or unusable because of inclement weather or uncontrollable circumstances.
The district's calendar lists June 12, 13 and 14 as contingency days.
"The three days listed as 'contingency' days at the end of the school year may be used to make up the days lost, but it is far too early to make that decision yet," Campbell said.
Campbell said two-hour delays do not count as lost time during the school year and do not have to be made up.
The district said families and employee groups will be notified as decisions are made over making up the missed days.

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Meanwhile, since I'm currently in Sicily, my cannoli research continues! That means tasting a cannoli at a location I've been before, but during September, versus May. This one at La Ruota in Piazza Armerina remains top five!
"The season makes the cannoli taste differently?" You ask? Yes, it does!
Come on the Cannoli Crawl (or with me to Sicily in 2019), to find out why!


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InforMEA harvests and displays a series of data obtained from different Multilateral Environmental Agreements including introductory courses. Effectively addressing global environmental challenges depends on a well-functioning and coherent governance framework and on a common understanding of each actor's role and mandate. Enhanced "interoperability" of information and knowledge systems among Multilateral Environmental Agreements and organizations can greatly assist in overcoming institutional fragmentation. This newly created two-hour course introduces you to the International Plant Protection Convention, an international plant health agreement that aims to protect cultivated and wild plants by preventing the introduction and spread of pests by setting international standards to harmonize phytosanitary measures that would facilitate safe international trade.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate from UN Environment. The course is comprised of four lessons; each lesson includes an interactive module, additional materials and a pdf hand-out. The core content of these lessons is complemented with videos, publications and other web resources. You can also interact with other students and share your stories in the chat rooms and forums.
Please note that a course was created for learners without any prior knowledge of the IPPC, such as new employees of NPPOs, governmental officials, scientists, journalists, etc. and can be useful in preparations to the International Year of Plant Health 2020. While all care was taken to ensure that the information is correct, however due to a nature of a course, some simplifications of processes and avoidance of jargon had to be implemented to make the key message about the IPPC clear. Please note that a course is an introductory course to the Convention and does not cover all areas of activities in detail.


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'It's going to take some looking at' - Danny Wilson gives Glasgow Warriors verdict after 'collapse' at Exeter Chiefs
Rangers' Joe Aribo shines yet again for Nigeria as Celtic nightmare scenario becomes more of a reality
Lee Clark aims to get Kilmarnock back into Europe
Kilmarnock's new manager, Lee Clark, was introduced to the media before he had met his players yesterday and, if he is as frank with them as he was with the reporters, life at '¨Rugby Park could be about to get a lot more interesting.
Monday, 15th February 2016, 11:50 pm
New Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark was introduced to the media yesterday before he even met his players. Picture: PA
The 43-year-old, whose previous managerial experience was at Huddersfield Town, Birmingham City and Blackpool (the latter two being little more than fire-fighting jobs) claimed he was looking forward to the tasks of prevailing in the Premiership relegation battle and returning the Ayrshire club to the European theatre.
But Clark also revealed he would not have taken the job if interim manager (and new assistant) Lee McCulloch had been among the failed contenders, claiming the tension created by such an outcome would have made a working relationship impossible.
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"When our negotiations started, it was before Lee had been in charge against Rangers at Ibrox," he said.
"So I was watching from afar and saw that he made an instant impact. Players who become coaches and then get the chance to become a manager, [even] on an interim basis, can often want the job straight away.
"But what was pleasing for me was that Lee indicated from the start he didn't feel it was right for him and that he wants to get more experience as an assistant and coach.
"That made my decision a bit easier. Certainly, I didn't want to come in as manager with Lee having thrown his hat in the ring and then having been overlooked.
"I would have felt uneasy about [keeping him as No 2]
after that. The big factor, though, was that Lee was always adamant about gaining more experience.
"He has his own ambitions and has shown he's got the talent to be a manager but he believes he still needs to learn the game.
"So that was a big factor for me and another in keeping [McCulloch and coach Peter Leven] on the staff is that they know the club and the players inside out.
"That's a big thing for me because I've got to hit the ground running and they know the Scottish game."
Clark is now contracted until the end of 2018-19 but his intention is to be at Rugby Park for the long haul. Indeed, the protracted discussions he had with the club's directors centred less on the terms than the conditions.
He was not willing to sign on the dotted line until he received guarantees that he would be given the stability which has been lacking in the last six years.
Jim Jefferies, Jimmy Calderwood, Mixu Paatelainen, Kenny Shiels, Allan Johnston and Gary Locke have all been through the revolving door at Rugby Park during that time and Clark believes it is time the music stopped.
"Some things have to change," he said. "There's the recent history, with the high turnover of managers and managers not lasting.
"Their tenures haven't been long enough and the club has been in and around the bottom half of the table for too long.
"So my short-term aim is to keep the club at the top level and then, in the summer, reassess things like the recruitment process, which I'll be doing from day one. I also need to look at how we go about getting the players to take the team into the top six and challenging for Europe.
"As a coach or manager, you want to compete in Europe against the top teams."
However, Clark will not be rushing into action. McCulloch and Leven will take the team for the final time against Rangers while Clark settles for a watching brief.
"Tomorrow is a watching brief," he said. "I've not met the players yet, so Lee and Peter will be in charge."
Kilmarnock could find themselves back in the play-off position should Motherwell earn at least a draw against Dundee United tonight but, after coming through traumatic times at Birmingham and Blackpool, Clark is ready for whatever football can throw at him.
"Coaching courses are terrific things but they never actually prepare you for the day-to-day stuff," he claimed.
'I've read that Lee has said he didn't realise how hard it was until he actually stepped in. I have covered all areas of coaching and being the boss is completely different to all the others.
"When I took over at Birmingham, the owner [Carson Yeung] had been put under house arrest. That involved a lot of cost-cutting inside the club but there were still huge expectations there."
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In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Tuesday, Trump showed his ignorance about NATO's mission—and the difference between defense and offense.
Trump's comment sparked both bewilderment and outrage. "I have no idea where Trump gets the idea Montenegro is 'very aggressive,' " Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and now the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, told me. "It's been independent twelve years and never even came close to starting any war. In fact, two years ago, months before Montenegro would accede to NATO, a Moscow-backed coup attempt sought to prevent it from joining the alliance. If there's been aggression, it's come from Moscow, not Montenegro." The failed coup was a Russian effort to prevent Montenegro, once a part of communist Yugoslavia, from aligning with the West.
NATO has invoked Article 5 of its treaty only once—after the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington. "As part of their obligation, members of the alliance came to our assistance, and that plays out today, including by small countries like Montenegro," Lute said. The war in Afghanistan—America's longest foreign war ever—rages on, with sixteen thousand NATO personnel still involved. In contrast, the U.S. war in Iraq was an offensive initiative that NATO did not have to support—and didn't.
The President's insult to Montenegro is not the first. Last year, Trump was caught abruptly elbowing aside the Montenegrin Prime Minister, Duško Marković, when the leaders of NATO countries assembled for a group photograph. He did not acknowledge Marković—or apologize. The video went viral.
"Please," he told me. "Don't vote for Donald Trump." That sentiment has almost certainly increased since the President suggested Montenegro could start a third world war.


Every 5 years, firemen from all over the world meet in one place: Interschutz! Obviously we wouldn't miss this moment for anything in the world. During the 2015 edition in Hannover from the 8th till the 13th of June, we will present our latest innovations at hall 12, stand n°42. We are thrilled to welcome you there!
Come and discover our innovations on the 121st National Congres of Firemen in Avignon, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October. At the Vidal Protection stand in Hall K nr. 33 you can meet the entire technical team that will be happy to answer all your questions.
The departments of the Midi-Pyrénées region chose our new softshell jacket to equip their firemen. Discover all the features of this new product.


Back to business as usual! Bindi Irwin shared a sweet photo of herself on Friday, Dec. 4, getting cozy with a bird back at her family's zoo in Australia, just a little over a week after winning Dancing With the Stars.
"Home," she captioned the shot, in which she grins widely at a rare bird perched on her hand. Irwin, 17, is wearing a khaki safari shirt in the picture — a far cry from the sequined costumes she wore on the dance floor for the last three months.
Irwin also shared a close-up snap of a large snake in the grass.
Dancing With the Stars Recap: Who Is Heading to the Season 21 Finale?
"Spending time with this sweetheart @AustraliaZoo today," she captioned the photo.
The animal conservationist and her DWTS partner, Derek Hough, took home the coveted Mirrorball Trophy on Tuesday, Nov. 24, to win Season 21.
But even though Irwin made it known that she couldn't wait to return to her hometown — and her mom Terri, 51, and brother Robert, 12 — she's brought a bit of DWTS back with her.
On Thursday, Dec. 3, the Australia Zoo shared a photo of an adorable koala bear named after Hough, 30.
On Australia's morning show Sunrise, Irwin revealed that the dance pro will come face to face with his animal counterpart very soon.
"I am excited because Derek will be visiting Australia very soon to meet his own namesake," she said.


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Opinion For the countless Canadians humiliated by anti-gay policies, healing can finally begin
For the countless Canadians humiliated by anti-gay policies, healing can finally begin
Svend Robinson
Published August 12, 2016 Updated May 16, 2018
Svend Robinson was Canada's first openly gay MP. He is now based in Geneva with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
I join in the celebration of the news that the Trudeau government may be moving forward to acknowledge the legacy of discrimination, violence, pain, suffering, imprisonment and yes, death that has taken a devastating toll on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans Canadians over the years.
But I am also filled with sadness and loss that so many of those who were victims of these inhumane policies are not alive to witness this historic day:
The men and women in the public service and RCMP who were hounded out of their jobs after being subjected to the humiliation of polygraph tests. The countless LGBT youth who felt worthless after being thrown out of their homes, and engaged in unsafe sex – then died of AIDS.
The dedicated members of the Canadian Armed Forces who were fired, deemed "not advantageously employable," after being spied on in gay bars, having their love letters read, and being reported to their commanding officers by colleagues who were forced to name names.
The gay men who were hauled into court on charges of gross indecency, lives shattered, families broken and jobs lost, whose only offence was loving another man.
Background: How Ottawa punished thousands of public servants for being gay
Investigation: Everett Klippert's story: The long, late redemption of a man punished for being gay in the 1960s
Editorial: Gay Canadians, and an apology due
Many Canadians do not know that it was only in 1985 that the offence of gross indecency was struck from the law books. Yes, Pierre Trudeau decriminalized homosexuality in 1969, but it was only legal in private between two consenting adults of 21 or over. If I made love with a classmate when I graduated from Burnaby North that same year, 1969, I was a criminal.
When I came out publicly in 1988 as Canada's first openly gay MP, it was still legal to fire us from our jobs, deny access to basic services, throw us out of our homes, promote hatred and violence and deny any recognition of our relationships and families, solely because of who we loved.
And it was not until 1992 that the Canadian Armed Forces finally struck down the law barring LGBT people from serving their country, in response to the lawsuit brought by courageous and brilliant young Second Lieutenant Michelle Douglas.
As recently as 2001, Aaron Webster, a gay man in Vancouver, was brutally beaten to death with baseball bats in Stanley Park by a gang of homophobic thugs. Still today, trans people in Canada face legal discrimination and violence, and LGBT youth too often do not feel safe and loved in their homes and their communities.
I commend Egale and its Just Society report, sparked by The Globe and Mail's reporting, and the many people like activist Gary Kinsman and lawyer Barbara Findlay who have fought so long and so hard to make this day possible.
But one of the most important elements of the comprehensive federal government response must be an opportunity for those whose lives were affected by these inhumane policies to share their stories.
This is the greatest tribute that we can pay to those whose lives were lost due to these policies, to tell their stories, to honour their memories, to do everything in our power to recognize and compensate and undo where possible the wrongdoing to those still living.
The journey that we are about to embark on can be a very powerful learning experience, not only for us in Canada, but hopefully one that can be shared globally. Canada is truly a world leader on this journey, and I hope that our leadership will inspire other countries to take similar action to acknowledge the wrongs of the past and help to heal those wounds today for those who still bear the scars.
We need to share these lessons so that our world will be a place where all of our LGBT sisters and brothers are treated with dignity and respect. What a great 150th birthday present from Canada.
Gay Canadians, and an apology due
Justin Trudeau to apologize for historic persecution of gay Canadians


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Intelligence is moving to the edges, flowing through networked computers, wireless devices, empowered users and distributed teams. Ideas spread like wildfire. Innovations emerge from uncharted borderlands. Information is in the air, literally. We're exploring a new world called cyberspace, and we're navigating without a map.
How do we make informed decisions in the information age? How do we know enough to ask the right questions? 3 billion web pages. 6 billion people. Who do you ask? Who do you trust? How do you find the best product, the right person, the data that makes a difference?
The answers lie hidden within the strange connections between social software, human psychology, convergent architecture, smart mobs, reputation economies, learning organizations, nanotechnology and literacy.
While the task may seem daunting, I believe librarians have a responsibility to ask these hard questions and an opportunity to play a major role in shaping the user experience at the soft edges of cyberspace.
I've spent the past ten years as an information architecture evangelist, helping Fortune 500 corporations and large nonprofits to structure and organize their information systems, services and products.
A good deal of this work has involved adapting the traditional principles of library and information science for use in the online environment. At my former company, Argus Associates, we explicitly pursued a mission of proving the value of librarians and librarianship to the design of web sites and intranets.
We lived on the bleeding edge, explaining the benefits of controlled vocabularies and thesauri to skeptical executives and engineers, and struggling to convince managers that an effective search system requires much more than a solid search engine.
Along the way, we had the opportunity to play a role in shaping the emerging field of information architecture. As evidenced by the following definitions from the second edition of our book1, we worked to maintain a fairly broad scope for this new and growing field.
The combination of organization, labeling, and navigation schemes within an information system.
The structural design of an information space to facilitate task completion and intuitive access to content.
However, despite our best efforts, last year I began to feel constrained by the very walls I'd helped to build. My professional interests were ranging far beyond information architecture, and yet I lacked a good way to describe my new focus.
As I explored the territories surrounding information architecture, I found Jesse James Garrett's visual, The Elements of User Experience 2, to be an excellent map. Jesse reconciles the notions of the Web as both software interface and hypertext system within a multi-layered, multi-disciplinary framework.
And yet, I still felt there was something missing in both the map and the message, and as you've undoubtedly guessed, that something was findability.
Herbert Simon, a Nobel laureate economist, is credited with the insight that "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." In this age of the pathologically short attention span, it's scary to examine people's use of information.
In other words, people trust web sites that look professional and well-organized. They often don't look deeper to assess credibility and authority, even when relying on this information to make important personal and professional decisions.
This raises all sorts of strange and disturbing questions. For example, in the wake of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent creation of the USA Patriot Act, many articles have cited the Bill of Rights. Despite the availability of scanned images and the full text of this important document online7, how many Americans have gone to the source rather than trusting a reporter's interpretation? How many Americans would know how to find it? How many would recognize a forgery? How many forgeries exist on the Web today?
Google is increasingly finding itself at the heart of similarly strange discussions. The SearchKing lawsuit over the way Google ranks search results is indicative of the power the "Google-Opoly" now wields over what people find and don't find. Users trust Google. Top results are invested with significant authority.
Google is undoubtedly having an impact on the evolution of the English language. I'd be surprised if the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary don't have a secret threshold number of hits needed for new words to become official. "Blog" was recently added (3.7 million Google hits). I'm sure "Findability" is next (3,690 Google hits). Google is changing authority in ways we don't fully understand.
Decision-making behavior is every bit as complex and widely misunderstood as information-seeking behavior. In fact, the two are closely linked. While decisions often appear to be made in the moment, our gut instincts are informed by what we have read, heard and experienced over many months and years.
In our daily existence, we choose to which sources of information we will give our attention and trust. Sometimes it's as simple as relying on the top three Google hits or trusting the web site that looks most organized. And at the critical junctures of our personal and professional lives, these seemingly small (and often superficially made) choices inform the biggest decisions we ever make.
The size and price of processors, sensors and related technologies are approaching a tipping point. Today's expensive prototypes are tomorrow's dirt cheap products. Imagine a world where you can track the location of anything and anyone from anywhere at anytime. Simply affix a tiny sticker to your TV's remote control or to the bottom of your spouse's shoe, and then fire up your web browser.
Of course, there is a dark side to this techno-utopian vision of ambient findability. Clearly, privacy is threatened with total extinction. And information anxiety will keep our stress levels sky high. But I'm more interested right now in a different casualty of the digital revolution.
As information becomes increasingly disembodied and pervasive, we run the risk of losing our sense of wonder at the richness of human communication. In the past, we've been inspired by our buildings, our libraries which have served as cathedrals of knowledge, celebrating the wealth of information we collectively create and share.
In the future, we must seek novel ways to inspire ourselves and others, by finding and creating beauty in our digital information environments.
Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things , and the guru's guru of usable products, is hard at work on a new book entitled Emotional Design . In a recent essay, he explains his newfound interest in aesthetics. "I'm on a campaign to ensure that our products have beauty and emotional impact as well as effectiveness and understandability…attractive things work better."13 I'm encouraged by Don's campaign, but I also see many other paths to inspiration.
I'm inspired by the willingness of folks like Danny Hillis and Stewart Brand of the Long Now Foundation to publicly tackle big hairy audacious goals like building a 10,000 year clock and a 10,000 year library. I'm inspired by the All Species Foundation, dedicated to the complete inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years, and by the Internet Archive which is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Sometimes inspiration comes from rediscovering the beauty we've been taking for granted. In Scrolling Forward , David Levy reminds us of the splendor of the written word.
It is this subtle power of context that intrigues me in the realm of networked information environments. We use people to find content. We use content to find people. Information seeking behavior and social network analysis go hand in hand. In today's knowledge economy, learning and finding are powered by all sorts of invisible links between and among people and documents.
And in the context of e-commerce, I'm fascinated and encouraged by the ability of customer reviews on sites like Amazon and Epinions to empower and inform consumers, increasing pressure on companies to build better products.
Interestingly, these reviews are driven by participation economies that reward the Top Reviewers with attention and trust. Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.
In all seriousness, I'd like to conclude with a cautionary note, that comes in response to Howard Rheingold's recent book, Smart Mobs . In this highly entertaining and insightful text, we read about "thumb tribes," gangs of teenagers and activists, connected in free-flowing networks via SMS text messaging on their cell phones.
I hope that as ambient findability becomes reality, we are able to offset the inherent dangers of group think and mob justice by empowering literate individuals with the ability to find and recognize the truth, make informed decisions, and when necessary act independently. I believe librarians have an important role to play in leading us towards this more desirable future.
Adapted from a keynote presentation for the Online Northwest 2003 conference.
1 Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web," 2nd edition. O'Reilly, 2002.
4 "The High Cost of Not Finding Information," IDC White Paper, July 2001.
5 "UCLA Internet Report," January 2003.
6 "How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility?" Consumer WebWatch, October 2002.
8 Alden M. Hayashi, "When to Trust Your Gut." Harvard Business Review, February 2001.
11 "A Radio Chip in Every Consumer Product." New York Times. February 25, 2003.
Peter Morville is President and Founder of Semantic Studios, an information architecture and strategy consultancy. Peter is also the co-author (with Louis Rosenfeld) of the best-selling book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. A second edition of the book is expected to be on bookstore shelves in August 2002.


It was an honor to participate in the first Art Clay exhibit in Mexico City!
The show will be open through Sunday at the Franz Mayer Museum, as part of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño.
I've been away for a while, and I wanted to thank you for your kind comments on Instagram and Facebook. Your encouragement means the world to me!
I sold my 800th piece on Etsy!
I've also had lots of fun making amulets with Art Clay. The group you see here will be exhibited in the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño from October 18-22, in downtown Mexico City.
I will continue to add to this series next week. Every piece will be available in my online shop.
Before I began to work as a jeweler, I was hired as a translator for a group of Canadian filmmakers who wanted to document the ravages caused by current mining practices in Mexico.
The film crew and I visited a large Canadian-run mine in a colonial town called Cerro de San Pedro, in the state of San Luis Potosí. The San Pedro mountain was originally a sacred site for the local indigenous population, but it was transformed into a mining town when the Spaniards discovered gold and silver in the16th century. For the next 100 years, the metal ore was extracted from underground tunnels using handheld mining tools.
Today, the fine metal ore in the underground mines is scarce, and can only be extracted using a modern system called "open pit mining." This method uses thousands of gallons of water mixed with cyanide to extract metal from huge mountains of previously crushed underground rock, a practice that is highly toxic for the environment.
When I returned from the visit, I had already decided to become a silversmith, so I knew I had to find a way to do it without further harming the planet. I eventually found a local source that supplied sterling silver recycled from x-rays and photographic processes. This is the silver that I use to make my jewelry.


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South America is a 'new epicenter' of the coronavirus pandemic, WHO says
Jeremy May 23, 2020
The epicenter of the global Covid-19 pandemic has shifted to South America as cases in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo explode six months after the new coronavirus emerged on the other side of the world in Wuhan, China, the World Health Organization declared Friday.
"We've seen many South American countries with increasing numbers of cases and clearly there's a concern across many of those countries, but certainly the most affected is Brazil at this point," Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's emergencies program, said at a news briefing from the agency's Geneva headquarters.
"In a sense, South America has become a new epicenter for the disease," he said.
Brazil has more cases than any other country in South America, according to the WHO's most recent daily situation report. Ryan said confirmed cases in the country are now approaching 300,000 and Covid-19 has now killed nearly 19,000 people in Brazil.
Ryan noted that the government of Brazil has approved the "broader" use of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which U.S. President Donald Trump has said he is currently taking to defend against infection from Covid-19. Several studies have cast doubt on the efficacy of the drug as a treatment for the disease. A study published earlier Friday showed that patients who were treated with the drug had a higher risk of death than those who didn't take it.
"The current clinical evidence does not support the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19, not until the trials are completed and we have clearer results," Ryan said.
The majority of cases in Brazil are in the Sao Paulo region, Ryan said, adding that the states of Rio de Janeiro, Ceara, Amazonas and Pernambuco have been affected as well. He said the WHO is actively providing assistance to the government of Brazil.
"In terms of attack rates, the highest attack rates are actually in Amazonas," Ryan said. "About 490 persons infected per 100,000 population, which is quite a high attack rate."
The state of Amozonas, which is among Brazil's most rural states, warned last month that its health system was overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, emphasized the importance for all countries to protect at-risk populations.
"All countries have vulnerable populations and we are seeing a greater impact in terms of disease, disease severity, poor outcomes in groups that are vulnerable," she said. "It highlights the inequalities that we see in vulnerable groups."
In March, the WHO declared that the epicenter of the virus had left China, where it first emerged, and arrived in Europe. The virus has now infected more 5.1 million people around the world and killed at least 335,063 people, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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In order to do this, two things will have to happen: Much more marijuana will need to be grown, and more stores will have to open.
Of these, the more serious issue is marijuana growing. The Board has made the fatal error of allowing a tiny amount to be grown — 2 million square feet, or about 46 acres. This is not enough to supply the state or hurt the black market. In comparison to another crop, hops, just one average farm in the Yakima Valley grows 450 acres — nearly 10 times the legal limit for all recreational marijuana.
It's time the state and the Board got serious about fulfilling their duty. More marijuana needs to be grown, more stores need to open and, most important, the goal of ending the black market needs to be kept in view.


• One more release at Jeepers Creepers! In my opinion the best of the new "Rebel" series, under the name of the "Blue Suede Shoes" song's author: Carl Perkins.
Eponymous Trenchmouth reached the next level in shoe design in SL, and i'm very excited imagining all the amazing creations a stimulated concurrence will soon produce!
400 Lindens. Look at all the available models of the "Rebel" brand at the end of this post.
• With such realistic quality shoes, I needed the best realistic clothes, and so, until now, I needed some Redgrave creations. Maybe they are not the cheapest, but they are simply a pure pleasure to wear. And what are we waiting for from our clothing, huh?
Jacket and Pants, 450 Lindens each.
• To give you a preview (with clothes :-D) of the coming soon "Body Positive" post series, discover today the brand new "Damien" skin from Adam n' Eve. You will see more details of it soon, along with the Jared and Darcy skins, three realistic skins from Sachi Vixen.
1500 Lindens for a skin tone.
• Once more, the faboo "Grownout" from Mystikal Hair design, in black for today, already shown two days ago, 250 Linden for a color; Once more, the third version of the lovely "Leezard" ring from Mhaijik Guillaume, in "Aged Pewter," 75 Lindens; I added to this outfit some discreet and chic glasses from Sergeys, 100 Lindens.


A new revolutionary challenge! Come to discover the new Sessa Marine Yacht Flagship, a boat with a strong personality and a unique style which will change the Yacht segment of 21 meters. The two original glass side openings that remind a couple of gull wings, are ones of the main strength points of this boat. They have a practical and innovative opening system that maximises the brightness and airiness of the main deck.The concept, definitely inspired from the automotive sector, further strengthens the modern, technological design and gritty temperament of the new Fly 21 Gullwing. A perfect mix of space and sportiness, this yacht boasts a Fly that turns out to be one of the most spacious of its size, combined with amazing sailing skill.


The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
It is interesting that the priests of Philistia kind of get it. The ark of the covenant has to be revered, There has to be some compensation, some sacrifice to make things right with this God of the Israelites. But what they miss is it needs to be a sacrifice of blood. It is not about wealth but about life given to compensate for sin. But they do understand it is a guilt offering here. And how great it is that the ark returns to Israel because God made it so. He did not need the Israelites to go capture it again. Unlike Dagon, our God doesn't need our help.


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Student Life » MAS Sports Center
Downloadable Physical Form
2020-2021 Physical Athletics Form
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2019-2020 ACSL Waiver Form
Our Sports Currently in Session
Details to come!
Sports FAQs
How can I join a team?
Opportunities for sports sign up occur throughout the school year, depending on the season. Sign ups occur during student weekly grade level huddles. Communication for sign ups is also sent out to parents prior to the start of each season. Once students join a sports team they must maintain a 2.0 GPA and follow the Albuquerque Charter School League handbook and school related policies and procedures.
How does practice work?
At the end of the school day, students will be dismissed to the gym, where they'll sit down for dinner with students in the free after-school program. After that, they'll move to their practice area together with their coach and team members. Most practices will end before 6:30, so parents with students in the after-school program can pick up their students together.
What should I bring to practice?
Depending on the activity, students should plan to bring comfortable athletic clothing that's appropriate for the sport and the weather. They should also wear appropriate athletic shoes and bring a refillable water bottle to stay hydrated.
What if I miss practice?
Coaches will share their practice attendance policies with their teams during the first few meetings for tryouts and practice. These policies may vary from sport to sport, but some teams may require attendance at practice in order to play in team games to avoid injuries.
When and where are games?
Once team rosters have been established and sports calendars have been set, we'll update this page with more links to game schedules. We will also communicate scheduled game times and locations with families through automated phone messages. Students are responsible for their transportation to away games as MAS does not have activity buses for sports or other extracurricular activies.
Downloadable Athletic Schedules
Our Sports Program
MAS offers a variety of sports activities for students in grades 6-12. The following are some of our offerings:
Co-Ed Flag Football (Grades 6-8)
Girls' and Boys' Volleyball (Grades 8-12)
Co-Ed Soccer (Grades 6-12)
Girls' and Boys' Basketball (Grades 6-12)
Co-Ed Track and Field (Grades 6-12)
Co-Ed Cross Country (Grades 6-12)
Co-Ed Dance Team (Grades 6-12)
Co-Ed Cheerleading (Grades 6-12)
For more information about our athletic offerings, please contact our Athletic Coordinator, Shannon Richardson at: [email protected]


Learning from my experience so far, I went all out for 3 portions today. 80g pineapple, 120g melon (which still only counts as one portion) and 40g each of strawberries and grapes. Surprisingly filling and satisfying and exactly what I wanted today.
Despite the fruit filling me I still needed a mid morning snack of raisins but another towards my 10 a day.
My son decided he'd like a roast chicken. After yesterday's vegetarian day, having some meat was a very welcome idea. Instead of mashed or roast potatoes though I made carrot and swede puree with half and half carrot and swede. The chicken and pigs in blankets was served with the puree (2 portions), green beans (1 portion) and cauliflower (1 portion) making a massive and filling 4 portions for lunch. Amazingly after lunch, I'd already munched my way through 8 portions!
I made slow cooked Chinese pork which I served with a cucumber and sugar snap pea salad. (Also I had cheesecake afterwards but that was just pure naughtiness and no fruits or vegetables. Still 10 portions achieved and more protein than previous days.


The effect "gate" anti-insects !
It's a product for house use, made from Geraniol, molecule of vegetal origin registered in the positive list of biocides. Due to its high concentration (2.5% actives ingredients), it' rejects and eliminates flying and crawling insects.
Repellent than a month depending on conditions.
Suitable for re-treatment of your mosquito net, screen.
Also remember to treat baskets and cushions pets.
Also effective against mites and treating bedding against bedbugs.
To maintain the repellent action, reapply after washing, rain or watering.


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Sulphurised Additives
PAGs
Toll Blending
Hornett Bros & Co Ltd was established in 1912 when Walter Hornett set up premises in Barking, Essex to reclaim fats and oils. Walter Hornett had five sons who all worked in the business. During the 1930's the first soluble oils were manufactured and sold within the UK. Following the death of Walter Hornett his sons continued to expand the business with export sales.
ln the late 1940's under the direction of Walter's sons Ernest and Frederick, the business expanded into manufacturing with the commissioning of a sulphurised oil production facility. At the time all additives were being imported from the USA. This led to major contracts with Shell and BP who were dominant forces in the field of industrial lubrication. By the late 1950's early 1960's the third generation Brian and Michael were well established in the business. The present site in Rainham was founded in 1965 and a new plant, laboratory and offices were built.
By the mid to late 1970's Brian and Michael had taken over the running of the company and expanded the volumes of business with the help of our agents, by visiting established and potential customers, especially in Europe.
The fourth generation John and Keelan Hornett are both Directors in the company and are actively looking to expand the business into new worldwide markets.
Finally, although a family owned business, a good measure of the success can be attributed to the hard working staff over all the generations.
Four generations of this history has shaped us into:
"Your Independent Lubricant Additive Manufacturer"
Your Independent Lubricant Additive Manufacturer
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