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First Forum of the Standing Committee - Meeting documents
Date: 28 May 2013
Information for participants (398 kB)
List of participants (116 kB)Report on the First Forum
The recording of the first Forum can be found here.
Detailed information on the panel discussions
09:00 to 09:45 "Strategic perspectives on climate finance"
• Overview of the need for urgent action on the increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events and associated costs;
• Overview of climate finance institutions and work under the UNFCCC;
• Overview of the wider climate finance architecture, including multilateral, bilateral and national finance institutions;
• Overview of current climate finance flows, both public and private.
Panel composition
Paul Oquist; Presidency of Nicaragua
Barbara Buchner; Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
Barbara Buchner is Senior Director of Climate Policy Initiative and head of CPI Europe. She leads CPI's workstream on global climate finance. Her work focuses on international climate finance to address the question of whether it is adequate and productive. A core topic of interest is the effectiveness of implemented climate and energy policies; with a major focus on the EU ETS. Barbara is Austrian Citizen and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Graz and a Masters Degree in Economics within the Economics/Environmental Sciences Joint Program at the University of Graz and University of Technology of Graz.
Previously Barbara served as a Senior Energy and Environment Analyst at the International Energy Agency. Before that, she was working as a Senior Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology within its Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change & Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Barbara serves on various Advisory Boards including the Advisory Board of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN). Barbara is lead author of CPI's 'Climate Finance Landscape' Report and has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as in books. She is contributing author of a recent book on 'Pricing Carbon. The European Emissions Trading System' (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of a book on 'Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme' (Cambridge University Press).
CPI Spaghetti 2012 (140 kB)
Mariama Williams; South Center
09:45 to 11:00: "Financing and investment drivers for mitigation activities"
Dr. Hugh Sealy is Canadian by
birth and Barbadian by descent. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from McGill University,
Montreal, Canada. He completed a Master of Science in Environmental Pollution Science at Brunel University,
Abyd Karmali is Managing
Director and Global Head of Carbon Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and serves on the firm's
Environment Council which steers the bank's USD 50 billion environmental business initiative. Mr Karmali has
worked for more than twenty years on climate change, carbon markets, and climate finance. He is currently Honorary
Special Advisor to the Climate Markets and Investment Association after serving as its elected President from
2008-2013. Over the past six years, his teams have won several awards for innovative climate finance
transactions. Mr. Karmali holds a MS in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Vikram Widge heads climate
finance & policy at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector affiliate of the World
Bank. The unit supports development and deployment of innovative market-based solutions to help mobilize
private capital for climate-smart investments in emerging markets. Prior to this he built IFC's carbon
finance business that he continues to manage. He also leads IFC's engagement externally and provides
leadership internally on climate policy, climate risk and adaptation, and greenhouse gas accounting and related
The role of national development banks (3244 kB)
The role
of national development banks (Spanish version) (3367 kB)
11:15 to 12:30 Group A: "Innovative approaches and case studies by national, bilateral, regional and multilateral organisations and by the private sector"
Neeraj Prasad is Manager of
the WBI climate change team, which focuses on capacity development and practitioner networks on sustainable energy,
climate-smart agriculture, sustainable cities and low emissions development. Before joining the World Bank in 1996,
Mr. Prasad was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, with assignments as a development administrator, in
the federal Finance Ministry, and as Assistant to India's Executive Director in the IMF. In the World Bank,
he supported and led Environment sector operations in Asia, including its single largest Carbon Finance
transaction, the China HFC-23 project. He supported the management of its Carbon Finance Unit.
Mary Gomez-Torres; Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF)
• Industrial Engineer,
with specialised studies in Finances and Economy matters. Wide experience in corporate financial areas, planning,
and environmental financing. Working experience in multilateral banking, public sector, real sector firms and
higher education.
Marc Stuart; Private
Equity Investor, Allotrope Ventures
Avril Benchimol;
Interamerican Development Bank
Avril Benchimol is the program
coordinator of a US$ 7 million regional facility at the Multilateral Investment Fund, a member of the
Inter-American Development Bank. The facility provides technical assistance grants to microfinance institutions
(MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop green lending products aimed at facilitating MFI
clients' access to both clean energies and energy efficiency as well as adaptation strategies to climate
Mobilizing finance for the Private Sector, Innovation in LAC (1971 kB)
GEF's Intervention Models for Private Sector Engagement (149 kB)
13:30 to 14:45: "Financing and investment drivers for adaptation activities"
Mr. Juan P. Hoffmaister is a
specialist on international governance and law, with expertise in adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and
development. He works for the Universidad de la Cordillera, La Paz and as a senior advisor to the Bolivian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also serves as negotiator for the Group of 77 and China in multiple issues related
to adaptation. Mr. Hoffmaister is a member of the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee, representing Latin America and the
Caribbean. He has postgraduate studies in international law, a masters in international governance and ecosystems,
and a bachelors on ecology and environmental policy. He has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed
publications on adaptation finance and the use of development instruments for achieving climate
Mr. Carlos Fuller is the
International and Regional Liaison Officer of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, an intergovernmental
organization established to coordinate CARICOM's response to climate change. Mr. Fuller's primary
responsibility is to coordinate the region in the international climate change negotiation process. He is a
meteorologist, and prior to joining the Centre, he was the Director of the National Meteorological Service of
Belize. He was the country's chief climate change negotiator from 1990 until his retirement from the
government service in 2008. In that capacity he participated in negotiating the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. He also represented Belize at the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development (UNCED), the United Nations Small Island Developing States Conference (UNSIDS), the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), the UN Conference on the Ten-Year Review of the Barbados Programme
of Action (SIDS+10) and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Mr. Fuller was awarded
the George Price Lifetime Award for Emergency Management and the Officer of the Order British Empire (OBE) for
public service.
Smita Nakhooda is a Research
Fellow in the Climate Change Environment and Forests Program at ODI where she leads work on international finance
to help developing countries address climate change. This includes efforts to monitor the climate finance, and to
understand its effectiveness.
14:45 to 16:00: Group B: "Innovative approaches and case studies by national, bilateral, regional and multilateral organisations and by the private sector in providing funding and investments for adaptation"
Daouda, a Senegalese national,
is an Adaptation Officer at the Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat, which he joined in November 2010. His main
responsibilities include the review of projects and programme proposals and monitoring of the Fund portfolio, as
well as support the Board in the preparation of policy and strategic documents of the Adaptation Fund. Prior to
this position, Daouda worked for three years in the Environment & Energy Unit of the UN Development
Program's regional centre in Dakar, covering Western and Central Africa. His main responsibility was to provide
support to UNDP country offices in mobilizing funds from the Global Environment Facility, designing and supervising
the implementation of biodiversity and land degradation projects. Prior to that, he worked for one year at the
Ecological Monitoring Centre in Dakar, Senegal, as an expert and research officer in soil carbon sequestration,
agriculture, and land degradation. Daouda has seven years of experience in the design, implementation and
management of environmental research projects dealing with the biological regulation of atmospheric greenhouse gas
concentrations both in Senegal and the US, including a three-year research associate position at the University of
Louisville in Kentucky. He has authored several scientific publications and communications on the topic. Daouda
holds a PhD in Ecology from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and a master's degree in Business
Administration from the University of Bourgogne in France.
Alexander Fröde is the
Project Director of GIZ's "Global GCF Readiness Programmes" which supports a set of countries
worldwide in the preparation for GCF. He also coordinates the activities on climate finance in GIZ's Competence
Center for Climate Change. He and his team supports GIZ's projects on climate finance world-wide and is
responsible for the development of tools, such as GIZ's "Ready for climate finance approach" and the
CliFAssess tool.
It's not just the money: institutional strengthening of national climate funds (1326 kB)
Capacity development for direct access to climate finance (1156 kB)
Finance Readiness - Preliminary approach and insights from efforts in Southern Africa (308
Andrea Kutter; Senior
Program Coordinator, Administrative Unit, CIF
A physical geographer by
training, Andrea Kutter has been since 2009 the Senior Program Coordinator for the Forest Investment Program (FIP)
and the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Administrative Unit.
Prior to that, she was the Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist in the Secretariat of the Global
Environment Facility (GEF). She has also worked as a Technical Officer for Deutsche Gesellschaft für
InternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Argentina focusing on sustainable land management in dry zones, and she began
her career in the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) working on Agenda 21 and land use
Jorge Barrigh; General Manager of Ecoressources
16:15 – 17:30: Group C: "The role of local investors in mobilizing additional climate finance"
Ulf Moslener is Member of the Standing Committee on Finance. He is professor for sustainable energy finance at
the faculty of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany. As Head of Research of the UNEP Collaborating
Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance his current fields of research are the economics of climate
change, financing sustainable energy systems and climate finance. He was deputy head of the department of
"Environmental and Resource Economics and Environmental Management" at the Centre for European Economic
Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany. His main areas of interest were international climate policy, the analysis of
carbon regulation, carbon emissions trading, and policy instruments to promote renewable energy. Thereafter he
joined KfW Development Bank, where he was dealing with the practice of financing renewable energy and energy
efficiency in developing and newly industrialized countries within the German development co-operation, in
particular related to the German contribution to the Clean Technology Fund. Ulf Moslener holds a Diploma in Physics
and a PhD in economics from the University of Heidelberg.
Presentation Ulf Moslener (527 kB)
Trends in Energy Investment 2013 (4927 kB)
Case study: the Thai Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund (1001 kB)
Case study: Guyana REDD-Plus Investment Fund (GRIF) (659 kB)
Case study: The Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) (520 kB)
Kwame Parker; Head of Project Financing, Standard Bank Nairobi
Jessica Jacob; Director for Social and Environmental Responsibility, Findeter, Colombia
- Supporting Sustainable Development (2294 kB)
Green Protocol (476 kB)
Diann Black-Lane; Ambassador, Government of Antigua and Barbuda; and Konrad von Ritter;
Consultant on climate change and cities
Konrad von Ritter has over 25 years of experience in sustainable development, of which 20 years with the World Bank. He is currently an independent consultant working on climate change and cities, as well as on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and climate oriented crowd-funding and micro-finance. He is also a Director at WEnergy, a Singapore based start-up company offering renewable energy solutions focused on East Asia. As a manager at the World Bank, he created the climate change practice at the World Bank Institute, pioneered a Cities and Climate Change learning program, and initiated a NAMA Practitioner Dialogue. As a project leader he helped introduce economic instruments in environmental management in the Philippines, and started up the first Ozone Depleting Substances phase out projects in Malaysia and Thailand. Konrad holds master degrees in economics and in political science from the FU Berlin, Germany.
Crowdfunding for Climate Change (321 kB)
Dirk Forrister; President, IETA
Dirk Forrister is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Previously, he was Managing Director at Natsource LLC, the manager of one of the world's largest carbon funds. Earlier in his career, Mr. Forrister served as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force in the Clinton Administration and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Congressional, Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. Previously, he was legislative counsel to Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. He was also Energy Program Manager at Environmental Defense Fund. Forrister now serves on the Board of Directors of the Verified Carbon Standard and as a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the American Carbon Registry.
16:15 to 17:30: Group D: "Tracking climate finance"
Stock-taking of existing guidelines and process under the UNFCCC and on-going initiatives for tracking climate related financial flows by other institutions.
Discussion on potential approaches taken by recipient countries and other relevant actors to account for climate and responsible investments.
Panel composition
Form: Roundtable discussion with a Q&A between the audience and the panel.
Dennis Tirpak; World Resource Institute
Dennis Tirpak has worked on climate change since 1985. He has held positions with Texaco and Alcoa and was the Director of Global Change Policy Division at the US Environmental Protection Agency; the Coordinator of Science and Technology at the United Nations Secretariat for the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Head of climate change studies at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He was also a coordinating lead author on the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate He is currently a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C, advising businesses, governments, and international organizations. In recent years he has written extensively on accounting issues under the convention and particularly about climate finance.
Alvaro Umana; Former Minister, Costa Rica
Jane Ellis; Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, OECD secretariat
Jane Ellis has over 20 years experience working on a variety of climate change issues. She currently leads the Climate Change Expert Group secretariat at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The main focus of her work is on climate finance.
Comparing Definitions and Methods to Estimate Mobilised Climate Finance (976 kB)
Updated information on bilateral aid data (469 kB)
CRS dataset on Rio markers
Analytical papers on mobilising and tracking climate finance
Franka Klingel; Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, EBRD
Joint MDB Report on Adaptation Finance 2011 (464 kB)
Joint MDB Report on Mitigation Finance 2012 (462 kB)
Ruta Bubniene; Programme Officer, UNFCCC secretariat


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Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- Two people have been arrested by North Augusta Public Safety for allegedly stealing golf carts in Hammonds Ferry last month.
Dontrell Lamar Washington Allison, 21, and Dytron Kerome Hunter, 22, have been charged with grand larceny and were taken to the Aiken County Detention Center.
The first golf cart was reported missing Jan. 8 around 6:30 a.m. at a home on Railroad Avenue. The homeowner says the key was not left inside. The Club Car golf cart's worth is estimated at $4,800.
The second golf cart was reported missing around 11:30 a.m. on the same day from Manuel's Bread Cafe on Railroad Avenue. A man was caught on surveillance came taking an E-Z-Go golf cart worth $2,000 from the restaurant. The keys were said to be left inside.
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Mtera Member of Parliament Livingstone Lusinde is expected to be the guest of honour at the launching of ruling CCM campaign for the by-election in Lizaboni ward councillorship in Songea municipality, Ruvuma region.
Key opposition party, Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema), launched its campaign at the weekend.
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The Labour Party's Kevin Brennan Tuesday cited singers Johnny Cash and Billy Bragg as people who helped bring music into prisons for rehabilitative purposes.
He said government policy was making it more difficult for prisoners to develop their musical skills.
Prisons Minister Jeremy Wright said he wants prisoners to be able to play guitars solo or in groups but that "some restrictions" had to be imposed.
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One of Cash's most famous songs, "Folsom Prison Blues", depicts the plight of a convicted murderer stuck in prison.


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Friday, September 7, 2012
Rita at Fashion Week
25 comments:
- SACRAMENTO said...
Love your clash of colours and patterns very much too.
Adorable Rita!!!
- September 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM
- Anvita said...
Hi I've only been following your blog for the last couple of days, but I must say, I love it!
- September 7, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- bonjour, i'm rebecca! said...
,,,you both look smashing! and Rita poses like a pro,,,
- September 7, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- The View from Hats and Heels said...
Now, that's how you wear a scarf!
- September 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM
- caitlin of wanderlustings said...
ah! both of you look so wonderful! so glad to hear of the positive reaction as well. such an inspiration for creatives everywhere. keep doing what you do, ari!
- September 7, 2012 at 2:46 PM
- Jennifer said...
She look so pretty! :D
The Celebrity Look
- September 7, 2012 at 3:08 PM
- Cosmee said...
Kiss for beautiful women, Cosmee
- September 7, 2012 at 3:46 PM
- Brant said...
I love the way Rita puts together her outfits; she has an original and yet classic sense of style. She's also kinda quirky, perhaps her character shining through!
- September 7, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Milandailyphoto said...
two sparklings looks!!!both wonderful.
- September 7, 2012 at 5:59 PM
- Constance said...
I looove her look!
- September 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM
- Linda @ DesignInMyView said...
Love you Ari and all that you are doing for Advanced Style ladies (and gents on occasion).
But should you not be the foil and choose clothing for yourself that is background or complementary to the lady vs foiling their moment with an ensemble that distracts from theirs?
Curious what others may think....
- September 8, 2012 at 2:33 AM
- Álvaro said...
I love her glasses!
- September 8, 2012 at 6:04 AM
- Maria the fibrefinger said...
This made my day today, just proving what a positive power visionary style carries! Viva Rita and Ari!
- September 8, 2012 at 6:32 AM
- elaine said...
omg! why so adorable? mix and match, PERFECT!
- September 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- A Well Styled Life said...
Rita looks stunning. Such poise, style and confidence. A stunner.
- September 8, 2012 at 12:57 PM
- Valerie said...
This put big smile on my face too. This lady knows how to model.
- September 8, 2012 at 6:03 PM
- apa essay format said...
Wow so great outfits...she is still looking so much stylish...well I must admire your efforts regarding reviving the fashion in the old feminines...thanks
- September 8, 2012 at 8:21 PM
- Karen Angus said...
Absolutely fantastic:-)
- September 9, 2012 at 3:44 AM
Could you please show women of different sizes more often. Everyone would like to see more options for people like them-normal. Although I love and admire all of them, almost all your featured models are so terribly thin that their knees and elbows stick out and many have no breasts. Please show some styles with breasts. I'm not FAT, but I'm a size 8-10 with breasts!
- September 9, 2012 at 12:44 PM
cute lady......love the glasses.....love what you bring to us Ari.....
- September 9, 2012 at 5:43 PM
- michelle James said...
Ari I totally saw you with her and didn't realize it was you. I found your blog a few days before. I shot Rita as well and she was just DARLING and such a pro! Thanks for bringing her out.
- September 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM
I agree Debbie, Ari is cool now don't get me wrong, but he is upstaging the models with his clothes.
- September 9, 2012 at 10:02 PM
- Gold Bars said...
very pretty dress perfect color.
- September 10, 2012 at 3:52 AM
- Narcissique said...
I love how she is using the shawl and the colors!
- September 10, 2012 at 6:54 AM
- Ania Kot said...
I love her sunnies!
- September 12, 2012 at 6:50 PM


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Advisor: Dr. Carlos Alberto Sanchez
The M. A. in philosophy may be pursued through one of three plans. The plan with thesis is the most traditional and is particularly appropriate for students who wish to pursue a formal written project under close faculty supervision in preparation for a later dissertation at a Ph.D. granting institution. The second plan, called the Reading Intensive plan, is particularly appropriate for students who are pursuing the M. A. for personal enrichment. Students who wish to go on to a Ph.D. program may also use it, for example if they believe that focusing on writing a publishable paper would be more valuable than finishing a Master's Thesis. (It is becoming common for Ph.D. programs not to require an M.A. thesis, and for employers to expect some publications even before completing the Ph.D.) The third plan, with the Applied Philosophy Project, fits well with the concept of San Jose State as a metropolitan university. It connects philosophy in a systematic manner to professional life in Silicon Valley. Students who follow this plan frequently come from the community to reflect, in a sustained and rigorous way, on the ethical, social, and epistemological aspects of their work in the professional and business world. They, then, return to the community with an enriched perspective, a firm commitment to philosophy, and stronger ties to San Jose State.
Core Courses (12)
Phil 290*, 291, 292, and 293 or 157
Elective Courses (12)
100 or 200 level, within the Department**
Plan (select one below) (6)
Total Units: 30*****
Plan A - Option 1: Thesis
- Phil 298 (directed reading in support of the thesis)
- Phil 299 (thesis and oral defense)***
Plan A - Option 2: Applied Philosophy Project
- Phil 298 (directed project in applied philosophy)
- Phil 299 (project report and oral defense) ***
Plan B - Reading Intensive
- 200-level course (on advisement)
- Phil 298 (directed reading in support of independent study) ***
Comprehensive Examination****
* Fulfills University graduate requirement in "written English."
** One or more of 290, 291, 292 and 293 may be repeated as electives when the course content is different.
*** Fulfills University graduate requirement for "culminating experience."
**** Taken after the bulk of the core and elective courses is completed. Given the third Friday of each semester, 1:00 to 4:00 PM. A reading list and sample questions are on file in the Department Office.
***** On approval, when relevance to the candidate's degree can be demonstrated, up to 6 of the 30 units may be from prior post-baccalaureate course work or from course work taken outside the Department during the MA program, who wish to provide a basis for work in an area of applied philosophy.


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At Danzer, we recognize that our company's actions impact individuals, communities and the environment. Danzer's commitment to the resulting responsibilities has been evident since its founding in 1932 by Karl Danzer. To guide the behavior of all Danzer people in today's environment and in the future we have consolidated the vision and purpose of our work in one document, "Danzer's Code of Conduct." The all-encompassing Code summarizes the vision of management, the values of workers, and the expectations of each stakeholder. It describes how the Danzer organization fulfills its obligations to its workers, community, and the planet. If you want to give us feedback please write to info @danzer .com.
This Code of Conduct is established to inform management, employees and associates of Danzer on how to work together to manufacture renewable products in a highly responsible and sustainable way: with special attention to the needs of workers, communities, and other stakeholders.
This Code of Conduct is an information tool for all employees of Danzer. As such, all employees are encouraged, even obliged, to give their feedback on the improvement of this system or report any deviations from it to their respective supervisor or Executive Board member or securely and confidentially through the reporting system mentioned in the employee handbook.
Danzer: Trust. Know. Perform.
Search for new valuable products and services from hardwood.
Customer-oriented, value-added processes and technical solutions from other branches of industry can be integrated into veneer and lumber production as Danzer develops new technology.
Market wood as the preferred resource.
Danzer employees seek out unique opportunities to inform and convince customers and the public about the benefits of wood as a natural and renewable resource.
Innovate with technology to improve the value chain performance of wood.
Improve the product yield for Danzer and Danzer's customers. Regular investment in technology allows Danzer to offer the customer a better product with better yield, while lowering the process cost for them. Also, by maximizing wood utilization, Danzer minimizes environmental impact and helps to maintain a sustainable supply of valuable trees.
Market wood with honesty and integrity.
Danzer's word counts. Danzer employees will meet commitments and fulfill promises; this is basic honesty.
Comply with effective law, applicable standards and this Code of Conduct.
All Danzer employees are educated about the laws and standards relevant to their work and this Code of Conduct. Danzer personnel maintain regulatory review analyses in the relevant databases for Environment/Health /Safety, Rights of People, Procurement, and Good Governance. As part of Danzer's implementation of an ISO14001:2004 based Environmental and Safety Management System, Danzer has developed comprehensive manuals within an employee-accessible database designed to ensure compliance with regulations and best practices from Environment and Safety to Human Rights to Governance.
Treat suppliers fairly and equally at all times.
Danzer sets an example and encourages its suppliers to act consistent with this Code of Conduct (no child labor, no bribery, etc.).
Maintain an open and constructive dialogue between employees (and/or their representatives) and Management.
Danzer has created a culture of constructive pursuit of a common objective. All ideas and criticism are welcomed. Each Danzer location has a procedure in its employee handbook (or see Human Resources or the Executive Board member of the respective business unit) for accessing the appropriate supervisory or management staff with concerns and ideas. All employee concerns are addressed within a reasonable time.
Create a positive work atmosphere where freedom of association is respected.
Danzer provides space for employees to gather to discuss improvements to the workplace. Compensation and time for these meetings is generally dictated by local law and spelled out in the employee handbook of the site or in Human Resources policies.
Provide competitive compensation, health care, and social benefits.
Danzer is particularly proud to maintain a high level of seniority in its workforce. Team work and a strong trust in workers create a positive environment to work in. Seniority cannot be taken for granted by Danzer management, who understand that seniority is due in part to competitiveness of compensation, and health care/ social benefits within the local legislation's framework.
Keep corporate and personal interests separate:
Keep personal interests separate from those of the company so that personnel decisions and business relationships with third parties are based solely on objective criteria.
Cooperate with authorities and government agencies
Danzer communicates information to authorities that is correct and complete and submitted in an open, timely, and understandable fashion.
Commit to the principle of fair competition and, in particular, to the strict observance of anti-trust law.
Danzer focuses on providing value to its customers; not on weakening the competition or otherwise taking unfair advantage in the marketplace (i.e. price dumping, collusion).
Do not tolerate child or forced-labor in Danzer's or suppliers' operations.
The minimum age of hire for Danzer employment is, according to local law, the same as the end of compulsory education - except in the case of student interns who are hired according to local employment law, but never below the age of 15.
Provide a healthy work environment.
Danzer's manufacturing of veneer and lumber involves the transformation of one raw material into another: the primary ingredients are wood, water and energy (primarily from wood). Other ingredients (i.e. glues) are chosen with safety and environmental health in mind. The workplaces have been monitored for wood dust levels and noise to ensure safe levels for all workers. Monitoring will be repeated as changes to operations necessitate. Work stations are monitored by safety personnel to optimize comfort and reduce environmental health stresses.
Provide a safe work environment.
The sourcing and manufacturing of our hardwood products may result in impacts on employee health and safety and the environment generally. Danzer is committed to identifying these impacts and to the continual improvement of environmental management to affect a positive result (see link to employee access ESMS Database).
Provide environmental protection and security.
Danzer has an ISO 14001:2004 certified Environmental and Safety Management System covering all its production units (sawmills and veneer production) in Europe and North America (see link to employee access ESMS Database). Danzer engages third party auditors to ensure its standards are met in the Republic of Congo.
When required to utilize security forces, public or private, do so with responsibility and restraint.
Make all charitable donations legally and ethically under local law.
Charitable donations are made by Danzer for help and support – and not with marketing purposes in mind. Danzer will not advertise where, how, and to whom charitable support is given. In all cases, a committee of responsible individuals decides on donations to be made for causes of disaster relief aid, employees and families in need, and social and emergency infrastructure support in communities Danzer operates in.
Donate to political parties only with fairness to parties, transparently and in accordance with local law.
Danzer has nothing to hide and is transparent in explaining our actions and inactions.
Continually improve our knowledge of socially and environmentally responsible supply chain management practices.
Danzer's principled search for the world's most valuable hardwood resources involves procuring only from those regions where sustainable forest management is possible.
Refrain from involvement in:
a) illegal logging or trade in illegal wood and wood products;
b) violation of traditional and human rights in forestry operations;
c) destruction of High Conservation Values in forestry operations;
d) significant conversion of forests to plantations or non-forest use;
e) introduction of genetically modified organisms in forestry operations;
f) violation of any of the ILO Core Conventions in forestry operations.
Clarify expectations for Danzer's employees and business partners so that actions by and on our behalf do not violate individual or collective rights as defined by the UN Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
Sponsor educational and training opportunities to promote career advancement within Danzer.
A lot of relevant expertise (experience, knowledge and ability) in the veneer and lumber sector is not taught in school. Therefore, in-house training programs help Danzer grow from within.
Choose the longer-term sustainable solution rather than the short-term profit-oriented approach, in case these goals conflict.
For example, Danzer manages its timberlands for the long-term sustainability of the forest resource and not for short-term cash.
Practice integrity in business dealings and cultivate intolerance for corruption.
Strict rules of behavior apply to all Danzer companies to ensure that their business dealings remain free of corruption.
Develop a working culture in which bribery is not tolerated by employees, management, or third parties working on behalf of Danzer.
The prevention of corruption is the responsibility of all Danzer staff. Everyone must avoid any activity that might lead to, or constitute a breach of Danzer's Anti-Corruption Policy.
Protect Danzer's intellectual property rights and respect those of others.
Do not disclose confidential company information to third parties or make it public.
Treat the intellectual property of other entities or individuals with the same respect.
Management actively participates in the continual improvement of all elements of this Code of Conduct.
This Code of Conduct is reviewed annually by Danzer's Executive Board and changes are approved by Danzer's Board of Directors.
Set targets and objectives according to business conditions.
Danzer examines every investment with a non-prejudicial eye and in good conscience.
Danzer employees participate in the setting of objectives and targets aimed at preventing and reducing pollution, improving conservation of air, water, soil and forest resources, reducing workplace injuries, and improving employee health. The regular visible reporting on the success or failure of our objectives and targets focuses the effort toward continual improvement throughout Danzer's workforce.
Management issues annual objectives and targets and provides the resources for achieving them.
Identify environmental and safety impacts of manufacturing and continually improve environmental and safety management to affect a positive result:
Recognize that cultures, customs, and values of local communities are influenced by Danzer's operations.
For Danzer, "to think and act globally," is to act with local expertise and sensitivity. Danzer is implementing a Conflict Sensitivity Due Diligence manual to help ensure conflict sensitive operations in the Congo Basin.
Meet the challenges of operating in environments of underdeveloped social, legal, and physical infrastructure.
Danzer incorporates and follows guidelines such as the OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises Doing Business in Weak Governance Zones into its business planning.
Welcome feedback of stakeholders.
Danzer consults with stakeholders (invites, responds, addresses, and follows-thru) to meet the needs of local populations in all areas where it operates (from consulting with tribal chiefs in the Congo to meeting with Town Planning Commissions in the United States).
Danzer maintains an open dialogue with customers (the best source of new ideas), welcoming criticism to ensure customer satisfaction. "We want the customers to keep coming back – not the products."
Rely on nationally and internationally recognized standards to inform/implement/achieve/maintain/respect:
Good Governance
Human Rights
Labor Relations
Community Relations
Responsible Forestry
Environmental Management
Safety Science
Create an atmosphere in which complaints or reports of non-compliance with this
Code or associated laws are freely given, openly received, and promptly addressed.
Continuing regulatory compliance is achieved through training, inspections, internal audits, external audits, and reporting to management. Danzer will implement and maintain a secure and confidential reporting system to encourage reporting of non-compliance.
Practice responsible forestry and procurement.
Danzer has established traceability and, as a minimum, legality of all wood products supplied from third parties. In medium-to-high risk regions, Danzer works proactively with third-party wood suppliers, encouraging them to meet particular threshold requirements with regard to the provision of information on sources and assurances of legality.
Danzer strives to continual improve sustainable forestry in all areas from which logs are sourced, whether from its own forests or procured from third parties.
Set relevant Objectives and Targets to improve the elements of this Code of Conduct
Management provides leadership so that all progress of Danzer is in concert with company values and provides resources to achieve Objectives and Targets.
Treat employees with fairness and dignity.
Danzer rewards and disciplines employees fairly and equitably by promoting the development of employee potential and know-how. This is how Danzer continues to develop confidently and creatively.
Treat employees equally and without discrimination based on characteristics unrelated to one's ability to do one's job:
Gender, race, religion, color, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national or social origin, property, opinion, or disability. Danzer boasts employees from 46 different nationalities (in 2013). Discrimination on any basis would be detrimental to Danzer's business objectives.
Create a work environment free of harassment, exploitation, abuse, or violence.
At Danzer, harassment, exploitation, abuse and violence are prohibited, and any incidents are reported, investigated, and remedied.
Provide an accessible and accommodating workplace for those with disabilities and family needs.
Danzer succeeds because its workforce is diverse. Danzer celebrates strong employee seniority because it is an accommodating place to work. Supervisory and Management staff will look for creative means to improve the workforce, maintain the workforce and sustain the workforce.
Maintain proper record-keeping and financial reporting.
Danzer has strict policies and procedures within its financial services department that must be adhered to by all employees. These include at a first level, local laws on accounting and record retention; at a second level, Accounting Manual DANZER; and at a third level, ICOFR (Internal Control over Financial Reporting) Policy.
Produce close to the resource so that jobs and benefits are created locally and responsibilities are informed by local knowledge and awareness.
Danzer does not support "labor cost arbitrage:" production facilities are located as close as possible to their resources even where this involves higher costs and delicate political considerations.
Profitably manage business to be able to make important contributions to society.
Danzer views charity as a responsibility: a responsibility to help build a better life for the people in communities where Danzer works and lives. Danzer's strategic decisions are made with lasting values in mind: loyalty and a concern for the well-being of employees, their families, and the communities in which everyone works and lives.
Willingly participate in internal and external audits to prove that Danzer says what it does, does what it says, and proves it.
Danzer has chosen to use the ISO14001:2004 standard for its Environment and Safety Management System and to address the environmental impacts from forest management up to the final product distribution.
Regular audits and inspections at all locations by independent third parties are part of Danzer's commitment to transparency.
Code of Conduct as PDF-file (English)
Code of Conduct as PDF-file (German)
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Code of Conduct as PDF-file (French)
Code of Conduct as PDF-file (Spanish)
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Eang Tan, a board member at a Thai Buddhist temple in Raynham, said Aaron Alexis visited the house of worship on Aug. 18.
Tan said that Alexis asked one of the monks there if he could stay at the temple overnight, but was told that only monks were allowed to stay. One of the monks then asked him why he didn't stay in a hotel, Tan said.
"He said he couldn't sleep there because there was some noise in his head—some voices," Tan said Thursday.
Tan said a monk offered to let Alexis sleep overnight in an old school building nearby that is leased by the temple. The next morning, Alexis came back, thanked the monks and left, Tan said.
"He spoke fluently in Thai," Tan said. "He was calm and he was very polite when he talked to the monk. There was nothing strange or not normal about him."
"We didn't ask him questions. We just said, 'Welcome.' That's our tradition and our culture," Tan said.
The monk who spoke to Alexis contacted police after seeing his face on TV newscasts after the shooting, Tan said.
The modest temple Alexis visited is built inside a home in Raynham. On the same lot, temple officials are building a grandiose 103,000-square-foot temple that Tan said will be the largest Thai Buddhist temple outside of Thailand.
Friends have said Alexis converted to Buddhism and was a devoted Buddhist who prayed at a temple in Fort Worth, Texas. He had traveled to Thailand, where he learned some Thai.
After leaving the reserves, Alexis worked as a waiter and delivery driver at a Thai restaurant in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth. A former co-worker said Alexis spoke to Thai customers in their native language.


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1891. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. The Sacred Books of China; The Texts of Taoism Part II contains: The Writings of Kwang-Tze Books XVIII-XXXIII and The Thai-Shang Tractate of Actions and Their Retributions Appendixes I-VIII. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Opening night jitters, acting preparations, and what it's really like to make it to the Great White Way were the focus of a panel of actors at Fordham's Lincoln Center campus on June 17.
"Making My Broadway Debut," brought together Broadway actors Carrie Coon, Shalita Grant, Richard Kind, Dee Nelson, Jonny Orsini, and Keala Settle, for a free-wheeling discussion about both the business and the craft of acting.
The panel was presented by
Drama Desk
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theatre program
and was moderated by Drama Desk member Robin Milling.
Kind, who won a 2013 Drama Desk award for his role in the play
The Big Knife
and who had reoccurring roles on the television shows
Spin City
Mad About You
, said that he always feels a tension between performing in plays, which he loves, and performing for television, which is less fulfilling but more lucrative.
"It is my happy place to be, it's just that in New York you can't always do the kind of theater that you want to do if you have three children and have to pay [New York] rent," he said.
Dee Nelson and Shalita Grant
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Asked whether they'd ever had to change their acting styles in order to make the transition to Broadway, Settle recalled how she worked with director Neil Pepe, moving from playing eight different bit characters in
Pricilla Queen of the Desert
into a lead role in
Hands on a Hardbody
"I was resorting to all these comedic shtick bits that I'd made a living off of up until that point, and I remember Neil reeling me in verbally, and saying 'You don't need any of this,'" she said. "It was a two-year process of learning simply how to be. And it still blows my mind every day. Doing that, for me, was the hardest thing in the world."
Kind compared live performing to shampoo, because "one need only put a little in their hair" to get a lot of lather.
"It's so concentrated, [presenting] the life of someone in two and a half hours. The life is right there, and you have to be there every second," he said. "In two and a half hours, you go through a relationship, while, in a movie, it might take you six weeks to get through that relationship."
Befitting a craft whose existence is predicated on being performed live, panelists focused on the myriad ways that audiences sabotage performances. Kind described how he once tracked down and berated a theatergoer whose phone had gone off four times during the performance. Settle said she'd once yelled at someone who was filming a show with an iPad. All the panelists greed that February and March were tough times of the year to perform because so many people in the audience have coughs.
Grant said she nearly forgot her lines when she was interrupted during a recent performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Her line was "Beward of Hootie Pie," and someone in the audience yelled "Hootie Pie!"
"I'm like, 'I can see you, AND I can hear you'" she said. "You aren't really part of what I've got to do . . . why do did you just do that? And do you know, my next line? I don't even know anymore!"
According to Coon, breaking character to chastise an audience member is not as easy as it might seem.
"We're concentrating hard, and what we're trying to do is create something magical and transport you," she said. "When that gets interrupted, we have to start over. That's what's so frustrating.
"To berate somebody from the stage doesn't necessarily pull you back to the experience, so it's a really fine balance on how to handle that."
Still, Kind said being an actor is worth all the trouble. Although adults may have laughed as much as 100 times a day as a children, he said that we only laugh two or three times a day as grownups. Acting connects us to that past.
"There may not be laughter, but there is [always] an element of playing a game," he said.
"Who wouldn't want to do this?"
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The question that troubled many during a recent seminar organised by the Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA) was whether the country has given enough attention to the fight against sub-standard and fake drugs, cosmetics and food in the country.
This is especially after comparing the currently available human and technical resources against the task itself.
The gap between resources and the assignment is huge by any standards. Surrounded by eight countries and a long coastline, one needs a strong contingent of a highly technically equipped force to ensure that no counterfeits find their way into the country, which TFDA is yet to get.
What's more, one needs an equally strong internal force to fight internally manufactured counterfeits and sub standard stuff. The authority does not have the manpower and equipment.
Yet there are quite a number of concoctions being touted as cures for various serious illnesses such as HIV/Aids, diabetes, cancer, allergies, sexual dysfunction, to name but a few of the more often referred to ailments. There are people pushing foods they ascribe suspect qualities to. All these have to be verified, before being released to the public.
Those who travel on upcountry buses will no doubt have been treated to such sales campaigns by men and women who promote stuff they claim can cure various illnesses.
Sadly many a desperate ordinary traveler is duped into buying the stuff, without recourse to professional advice, unknowingly putting their lives at great risk.
There are the sprouting unregistered clinics, offering health services at exorbitant fees and the roadside 'pharmacies', selling concoctions, where TFDA says it could do more if it had the resources.
Health and Social Welfare deputy minister Dr Lucy Nkya warned just days ago that the increase in diabetes and other lifestyle ailments in part attributed to fake drugs, cosmetics and food were also noticeable in the younger population. She specifically cited the rise in the number of children suffering from blood pressure complications and diabetes.
That is how serious the problems are. Something must be done, and urgently for that matter, to arrest the situation.
Besides seizing and destroying counterfeits and penalising culprits, TFDA must be enabled to launch a sustained education campaign to sensitise people against falling prey to drugs or treatments which could damage their health or even kill them.
It must be equipped to deal with those dealing in counterfeits, who are daily perfecting their evil work and making it increasingly difficult to tell the difference between genuine and fake products. It needs an enlightened customer, and therefore a conscious public, to check out authenticity before purchase.
TFDA also needs a solid base to successfully carry out surveillance, arrests and prosecution of those making and selling counterfeit stuff. Sadly, the agency says it has not made much headway in this area because of the lack of investigation and prosecution capabilities.
We also urge the government to revisit the penalties against those found guilty of engaging in the counterfeit business. We know those forcing counterfeit products on people make huge profits, so the government must place a high penalty on such offences.
We should not in any way condone practices that put our lives in danger.


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Tracking sense
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James, Demetri and Alistair are three vampires each showing one of three closely related special abilities that can be generally called tracking sense. They can locate the position and movements of a target, generally of a living being, possibly intended as a prey, but on occasion even inanimate things. They therefore are called trackers.
- "He was a skilled tracker, able to sense in advance the most likely moves of his prey."
- ―Entry on James's gift[src]
After crossing the scent of a human or an animal, James could instinctively predict his prey's moves and use it as a means of tracking and then follow his target until he caught up. The hunt may take time, but he was hard to lose his prey.
James's power of predicting his prey's moves wasn't perfect, meaning his target may change course of movement.
As a human, James was trained by his father to track and trap his prey, learning quickly and becoming the best tracker on the frontier.
- "He's a tracker, Alice, did you see that? He's a tracker!""
- ―Edward[src]
In Twilight, James used it to hunt down Bella after the baseball game. Laurent warned the Cullens that this power made him deadly, and they should be very careful around him, since hunting was James' obsession.
- "He is a skilled tracker. He catches the essence of a person's mind and then follows it like a scent over any distance."
- ―Entry on Demetri's gift[src]
By coming across the "essence" of an individual's mind and focusing on it, Demetri can find said individual no matter where he or she is. He is known as the greatest tracker in the world, far superior even to James. He doesn't need to have physically met the person to be able to track him down; by coming across someone else who had met the target, he can pick up the essence through him or her.
Seemingly limited to finding living beings only, Demetri can only link to his targets once he has physically met them or has picked up his or her trail from someone who has meet them in the past. It is believed that only a mental shield such as Bella Swan's can make this power impotent.
Demetri learned to improve his power over the centuries, thanks to his creator Amun. When his power drew the Volturi's notice, Aro replaced him with the previous tracker, who seemed to have a less potent power of tracking. No one had ever been able to hide from his power.
New Moon
- "He's a tracker - a tracker a thousand times more gifted than James was. His ability is loosely related to what I do, or what Aro does. He catches the... flavor? I don't know how to describe it... the tenor... of someone's mind, and then he follows that. It works over immense distances."
- ―Edward's description of Demetri's gift.[src]
Upon leaving Volterra by the end of New Moon, Edward tells Bella that he did not want to touch Aro's hand again, because he did not want him to find out he had discovered that Demetri's tracking ability is mental. Working from this statement from the book it is fair to assume that thoughts linger or leave behind some kind of trace Demetri is able to pick up and follow. The interesting part of how Demetri's ability works is that it would be ineffective on Bella, "her brain being wired wrong".
Demetri is assumed to have accompanied Jane, Felix and some of the other Volturi guards under Aro's orders to study and eradicate the Seattle newborn army. In the movie, Demetri accompanies Jane, Alec and Felix to Seattle and then Forks, hinting that he tracked the newborn army to their locations.
Breaking Dawn
In Breaking Dawn it is also commented that, if Demetri's power did not make him the greatest tracker in the world, Aro would have replaced him by now, as Aro doesn't surround himself with "second best".
The Cullens believed that, because of his skills and capabilities, killing Demetri would be one of their main priorities if it came to open war with the Volturi in Breaking Dawn. Renesmee, Bella and Edward's daughter, was the primary target on the Cullens' side, and they knew that if somehow Renesmee did escape with her life, Demetri would be sent to find her and bring her in for "justice".
- "Alistair can track both people and things. He can sense the general direction of whatever he is looking for, but it takes him a long time to narrow this feeling down to a specific location. If whatever he's seeking is on the move, he may never catch up."
- ―Entry on Alistair's gift[src]
Alistair is the only vampire known to be able to track inanimate objects in addition to living beings.
His power works by focusing on a target to find its general direction; he can also narrow down a location and the distance between them. It is described as a kind of a magnetic pull toward the target, though it is possible to avoid it.
Given that this power can track objects in a magnetic form, this power is likely to be unaffected by Bella Swan's shield.
Though useful, this ability is more limited than those of James's and Demetri's. Alistair mostly feels the general direction of the object he focuses on, and it takes some time to narrow his feeling down to a specific location. If whatever he is seeking is on the move, he may never catch up.
Alistair's power was manifested from his good hunting skills as a human, which converted into a power when he became a vampire.
Breaking Dawn
- "Alistair was a tracker, though not nearly as precise and efficient as Demetri. Alistair just felt an elusive pull toward whatever he was seeking."
- ―Bella's description of Alistair's talent.[src]
Alistair flees Forks after sensing the numbers of the Volturi and their witnesses coming to confront the Cullen family.
Similar abilities
- Alice Cullen has the power of foreseeing. Though this power is not the same as tracking, it can be used in that method to track a target's moves and the direction it is headed.
- Unnamed Tracker: According to The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, the Volturi had another, less powerful tracker before Demetri joined them.


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Monday, December 10, 2012
A Very Busy Week
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- Forest City Fashionista said...
Definitely sounds like a crazy-busy week, but in the best possible way!
- December 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM
- Charmaine said...
If any project is deserving of such success it is definitely yours! Congrats on all the good stuff coming your way, I can't wait to see what's up next.
- December 10, 2012 at 1:16 PM
- art deco dame said...
Beautiful!I love her red hair and lashes!
- December 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM
- Kristin said...
A ***COLOURING BOOK???*** Oh my gosh I can't WAIT! I'll have to buy the Crayola 64 box with the built in sharpener to even BEGIN to have the palette to do these ladies justice.
- December 10, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- Melissa Jackson said...
I absolutely love that I just found this blog! It is phenominal and adorable! I love your photos so much they are fantastic and make me feel great about another year passing and how great I can look !
- December 10, 2012 at 4:32 PM
- My lad side said...
lovely as ever <3
Marc de MyLadSide
- December 10, 2012 at 5:28 PM
Exciting! Tell us about potential viewing of the documentary!!
- December 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM
- Juan Fernández said...
Preciosa! Gracias por compartir. Quiero invitarte a ver mi ultimo shooting Filthy Andy, muévete a verlo. Besos y besos.
- December 10, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Marla said...
Love her gorgeous red hair and those amazing feather gloves.
- December 10, 2012 at 7:28 PM
- Gloria said...
I definitely am interested in the coloring book. It would be fun. Love her gloves. Thank you.
- December 10, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Brant said...
llona, you look wonderful. What a lady!
- December 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM
- Idiosyncratic Fashionistas said...
Ari, We can never get enough of Ilona. She's totally irrepressible. Good luck on your big shoot and your next steps! And Happy holidays!
Jean & Valerie
- December 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM
When you hit the Film Festival circuit, can you make sure you include the New Zealand International Film Festival?! I have been pestering them (in a charming manner of course) for sometime now. Bill Cunningham and The Eye Will Travel have had great audiences here, as I am sure Advanced Style would also.
- December 11, 2012 at 12:44 AM
I love the idea of the colouring book.
- December 11, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- mirka said...
Ilona is Absolutely Stunning!
Wish I could meet her one day!
- December 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM
- Cristina said...
I can't get enough of her feather gloves!!!!
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Latias is a dragon-like Pokémon with features resembling a jet plane. The upper portion of her body is mainly white, while the lower portion is red. She has triangular ears, and a patch of red with a smaller patch of white, on her face. On her back are two jet plane-like wings, and lower down are two fins or flaps for feet. She has red and white arms, that are able to be retracted into her body. On Latias' chest is a light blue triangle symbol. She has large yellow eyes too.
Special abilities
Latias has the ability Levitate. This ability allows her to be immune to ground-type attacks, as well as Toxic Spikes.
Latias is a highly intelligent Pokémon, able to understand human speech and communicate telepathically. Using a glass-like down, Latias can reflect light to alter her appearance. Latias is also the only known Pokémon who is able to learn the move Mist Ball.
In the anime
Latias had a large role in the movie Pokémon Heroes. In the movie Ash and company help Latias to save her brother, Latios, from Team Rocket agents Annie and Oakley. This Latias also took a special liking to Ash, going so far as to give him a kiss at the end while in human form(it is unknown if she or Bianca kissed him). Pokémon Heroes is a Generation II movie.
A different Latias appeared under the ownership of Nurse Joy who used the legendary Pokemon to battle and defeat Forrest's Rhyperior.
Latias does not evolve like most legendary pokemon.
Game info
Game locations
| Southern Island (Ruby)
Roaming Hoenn (Sapphire)
|Southern Island, Roaming Hoenn
|Pal Park
|Pal Park
| Roaming Kanto (HeartGold)
Pewter City (SoulSilver)
|Black 2/White 2
|Dreamyard (White 2 Only)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue TeamYou are awoken by a loud noise. You go outside to investigate, only to get rammed by Latios. The next morning, you go to Town Square where purple Kecleon is raising a fuss. All his TMs were robbed overnight. You go to the dungeon where Latios is keeping the TMs. After you defeat Latios, he comes back with you to return the TMs and to say he's sorry. When you get back to town Latios reveals the battle with you put a lot of damage on him. Purple Kecleon tries to punish him for stealing the TMs. Alakazam stops him and lets Latios explain why he would steal the TMs. Latios explains that he and his younger and beloved sister, Latias, were having a flight one day, when Latias got hit by a meteorite on her wing, and she fell into a giant chasm. Latios explains that he tried to save her, but the dungeon proved to be to much for him. So he stole the TMs to try and get stronger. Purple Kecleon stops being angry and understands why he did what he did, and forgives Latios. You then go on a mission to rescue Latias, since Latios is still in bad shape and must rest in town. Once you make it through the dungeon, Latias hears your footsteps as you approach. She tells you that her wing still hurts, but she's okay. You and Latias warp back to the town. Latias and Latios, happy to be together again, cross their necks in happiness. Green Kecleon sobs of seeing so much happiness. As thanks, they ask if they can join your team.
Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs
In the game if you choose a girl, (A.K.A. Summer) it will open up that the Pokemon Pinchers are after Latias. One of the Guardian Signs is a sign to call Latias. Thus your transportation for the game, besides Staraptor.
Pokédex Entries
- Latias and Latios were the first legendary Pokémon to have genders. Heatran and Cresselia share this trait with them, as they are the only legendary Pokémon in their Generation to have a gender, although Heatran can be either male or female.Also in generation V there are three new legendary Pokémon to have gender they are Landorus,Thundurus and Tornadus.
- Though not a Flying-type, Latias is able to learn the move Fly, as evidenced by her ability, Levitate. She shares this trait with her brother Latios.
- Before it was confirmed that Latias had no Evolutions, many fans believed that Plusle evolved into Latias. This is the same for Latios and Minun.
- Despite being able to have a female gender it cannot breed; this is the same with Heatran and Cresselia. This could also be considered incest, as Latios and Latias are siblings.
- Even though in the games Latios and Latias can't breed, in Pokemon Heroes, the main Latias and Latios were said to be the offspring of another (deceased) Latios.
- Contrary to what some believe, the two Latios and the lone Latias shown at the end of the movie are not the offspring of the main Latias and Latios, as they are siblings.
- Latios and Latias were the first Dragon-type Legendary Pokémon.
- No other Pokémon has the same type combination as Latias and Latios.
- Latias is the only dual-type Pokemon that can learn Reflect Type.
- Although, Staryu, another Pokemon that can learn Reflect Type, has a dual-type evolution.
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- Serebii.net Pokédex data
- Legendary Pokémon data
- The Pokémon Database
- Pokémon Dream Pokédex data
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Today we have the opportunity to take a look at the AeroCool DCC-C900 CPU Cooler, a compact CPU cooler with a transparent white frame and blue fins. This CPU cooler uses three 6mm copper heatpipes in a "U" form to use the DCC or Direct Core Contact technology to cool the CPU. It supports LGA 775/AM2 and K8 CPUs, but unfortunately doesn't support the newest CPU architectures. Installation is a breeze with this cooler, which could fit into almost any size case. Read on further to see what else it has to offer.
Heatsink Specification
Dimension: 82(L) x 50(W) x 112(H)mm /MODULE
Material: 3 x Dia.6mm heatpipes direct contact with CPU Aluminum fin (44 fins ± 1)
Weight: 320 grams (w/o fan)
Fan Specification
Dimension: 92 x 92 x 25mm
Rated Voltage: DC12 V
Operating Voltage: DC6 ~ 13.8 V
Input Current: 0.18A (MAX)
Input Power: 2.16W (MAX)
Air Flow: 32 CFM
Static Pressure: 1.05mmH2O (MAX)
Speed: 1500 RPM
Noise: 18 dBA (Min)
Weight: 75 grams
Operating Temperature: -10°c to +70°c
Bearing: Sleeve
Special Features: Transparent frame/Blue transparent blade
The AeroCool DCC-C900 comes in a relatively small package. The package follows the typical AeroCool color scheme: blue, red, and black. The front of the box shows in image of the cooler along with the various features. The side of the box covers the more specific details of the heatsink and the fan.
The other side of the box shows the features in seven different languages. The fan comes separated from the cooler inside the packaging by a thin piece of cardboard.
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In April of 2010, Camily Wedende, of Sun Cookers International contacted Sharon Cousins, of Solar Cookers International, asking for advice on engaging young people in solar cooking, because he had read about some of her work with young students in the Solar Cooker Review. The result of this ongoing email exchange between a man from Eldoret, Kenya, and a woman from Viola, Idaho, USA, is the first pilot project for the Eldoret Student Solar Cooking Science Projects.
A group of students, ages 10 - 18, working with Mr. Wedende as advisor, took a scientific approach to solar cooking, studying a number of designs and then helping with construction and comparative testing of three different types of solar cookers that can be made from locally available materials. This project is designed to help the students take a creative approach at the outset, then refine and analyze the results using careful observation and methodical and critical thinking skills.Students compared a CooKit, a bowl/basin type cooker with a low back reflector, and a new panel cooker design they came up with themselves that was partly inspired by Ms. Cousins's EZ-3 Solar Cooker. The new cooker does not yet have a name of its own, but it tested the strongest in their comparative experiments, though all three had the power to cook food or pasteurize water. Students have been enthusiastic participants in this pilot project, and have worked hard to come up with ideas, run experiments, and add to the database of information about solar cooking. Twenty students would very much like to make the new cooker design to take home, where the cookers can help their whole families. Ms. Cousins is trying to raise the modest fund for materials that will make this possible, as a reward for the time the students are putting into solar cooking research and development. Students will each receive a notebook and pen along with their cookers and pots, to keep records of how the cookers perform at home, and Mr. Wedende will do follow-up to encourage their progress.
So far, this pilot project has been a huge success. The students are engaged and excited about the ways solar cooking can improve their families' lives. They are learning skills that include creative problem solving, innovation, research, scientific methodology and observation, analytical thinking, construction techniques, and more. They have all learned three different ways to cook food with sun power. The fact that they have also come up with their own unique design that outperforms others is a bonus.
If this small pilot project continues to be so successful, Mr. Wedende and Ms. Cousins hope that a grant or award can be found that might enable Mr. Wedende to do more of these scientific approach student projects in the Eldoret area. Ms. Cousins thinks that many features in this project could be a model for empowering and productive student projects all over the world, to engage more young people in being a part of this sunny solution.
- September 2012 Plans are being made and put into motion for a second group of students to do a basic project. Due to budget constraints, part of the challenge will be to find cookers to experiment with that could be built at a project cost of no more than ten dollars (US) per cooker.
- February 2011 There will be a ceremony to celebrate the successful pilot project on Feb. 26,2011, in Eldoret, Kenya. Students will receive certificates and other awards, and there will be speeches and other festivities. Contact Camily Wedende for further information. Here is an Album from the pilot project ceremony, which was a big success. Report to follow soon.
- May 2030- Feb. 2011: Student success shows independent spread of solar cooking. The Eldoret Student Projects in Kenya, spearheaded by Camily Wedende and aided by long-distance advisor, Sharon Cousins, who serves on the Solar Cookers International board as well as working as an independent promoter, took an important step in that spread with a student team who not only learned how to cook with sunshine but also learned to take a creative and scientific approach to solar cooking. Students researched existing solar cookers—an assignment made possible by the Solar Cookers World Network site on Wikia—then put their heads together, combined ideas, and came up with new ideas to try. They performed comparative tests on an existing model and two of their prototypes. While all three reached cooking temperatures, one innovation showed the strongest performance at their location. The team has named their new design the Panel Stove Cooker. All twenty students built durable Panel Stove Cookers to take home to the camps where they live, where they have been using them to prepare food and pasteurize water for their families and keeping records of their progress and experiments, amazing the neighbors who stop by to see food cooking in a stove powered by sunshine, a stove that children in their community helped to invent. The entire neighborhood has become more interested in solar cooking due to this project's success. At an upcoming ceremony, students will receive certificates of achievement and other rewards and honors, to celebrate their successful science project. Some of the local media have said they will attend. Camily and the team hope that other schools and clubs can use the example of their pilot project to help more youth become scientists for solar cooking, to aid in the spread of this bright idea whose time has come.
- January 2011 Students have been using their Panel Stove Cookers on a regular basis to cook food and pasteurize water. People in the community are amazed to see food boiling just from the power of sunshine and solar cookers. Mr. Wedende and the students are preparing for a ceremony in late February to celebrate this very successful project.
- October 2010 All the students have made Panel Stove Cookers to take home and have received a cooking pot, cooking bag, and the notebook and pen they will use to record their cooking progress and experiments. Visit an album of pictures from this very successful pilot project
- September 2010 The fund having been transferred, students spent time in September building the Panel Stove Cookers they will each get to take home, so they are adding more construction experience to the skill set they have developed on this project. They are very excited about taking their invention for easier, more economical, and cleaner cooking home to use, and they plan to continue the good habits of record keeping they have been developing on the project in the notebook each student will receive. Mr. Wedende reports, "It is a wonderful pilot project." The team promises more reports and photos.
- August 2010 Students report that they have decided to name their new solar panel cooker model the Panel Stove Cooker. The base of the cooker is 18 inches square, and the vertical back reflector is hinged, so that it can be adjusted to make the most of season or time of day. The direction the cooker faces must be adjusted at least three times in the course of the day. The student team recommends working from behind the cooker when possible, to protect eyes from the worst of the glare. On August 30, the fund transfer to Kenya was set in motion, so very soon the students will each be able to build their own durable solar cooker to take home, where each cooker can improve life for an entire family.
External Links
- See Camily Wedende.
- See Sharon Cousins.


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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released its draft framework for a National Alzheimer's Plan, one year after the signing of the National Alzheimer's Project Act. The bill was supported 100 percent by all members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
The effort to bring the disease to the forefront of national consciousness is a driving force for millions of caregivers whose loved ones have been stricken by this disease.
We live in a world where world peace is possible. We also live in a world that could collapse at any moment. "If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand." Mark 3:25.
We live in a world that includes everyone regardless of citizenship, ethnicity, gender, income or merit. Homo sapien, our species, literally means "wise man." Are we worthy of being called wise? Based on millenniums of death and destruction a more worthy name should be "dumb man."
I would like to thank all of you who stopped to help me a couple of weeks ago. I slipped off a curb going to my car and several people ran to help me. It was raining and one man held an umbrella over my head until EMS arrived. Someone put my bought items in my car and another man called my husband.
There are people in this world who care and will stop to help others in distress.
Blessings to all who helped.
Mary Buckley
I would like to respond to Rudy Schmidt's column, "Government run by thieves and tax cheats," in the Dec. 23, 2011 edition of The Lancaster News.
I always enjoy discussions of history and taxes. How the Mesopotamians or the Romans or people in the 1850's or in 1913 were taxed, while interesting, is largely not relevant in our 21st-century world in which technology and society are changing much faster than in the past. History can help us learn from mistakes.
I sat in the County Council meeting on Jan. 23 to listen to the various proposals being set forth for the Lancaster Area Ride Service (LARS) transportation system.
What I heard was an impassioned plea from one user of the system to keep it, her justification being that it wasn't that expensive. I'm sure what she meant was that it wasn't too expensive for her personally.
I heard the Catawba Regional Council of Governments official speak, and I heard something from the J. Marion Sims Foundation representative.
After reading what Moni Basu had to say about Lancaster, I don't believe this person is entirely wrong. I moved to Lancaster about four years ago to be with my grandchildren and I have never seen such a dead town. The saying "they roll their streets up at 7" must have come from here.
I was the witness to the incident where the sheriff's deputy was arrested for burglary.
I want to say since my original phone call to file complaint, I was treated with respect and professionalism from the first officer to arrive to the major.
If this was in my old hometown, it would have been swept under the rug.
My wife and I are very impressed with Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.
John Lage
The person who made the decision to tear up the U.S. 521 bridge and leave it that way for two months or more should leave their office, quit or be fired.
If you had to drive that road every day, you would not be happy about it either.
I would like to know why? There are a lot of people who travel this route. If you don't drive through there then you have no idea how much trouble it is.
I know roads and bridges have to be repaved from time to time, but this ridiculous.
John Lindsey
I'm Dustin Owens and I have been trying to get a skate park open here in Lancaster. It has been almost an entire year since I started going to council meetings. Guess what? Nothing has been done because the city of Lancaster refuses to put in any effort. They tell me the same excuse over and over again.
On Jan. 21, Mane Street Hair Designers hosted an event at the University of South Carolina Lancaster to remember, honor and celebrate the life of Judy Chandler and her many contributions to the community.
My staff and I are humbled by the outpouring of support from sponsors, entertainers, other salons, local businesses and countless individuals – all who helped make this a very special evening.
I have never been more proud to live in Lancaster. This is truly a very special place, where people care about each other.
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