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This is my take on a traditional Christmas Star block. It would look pretty great in holiday fabric, but I would hate to see it pigeon-holed as strictly that, so I'm calling it Ribbon Star. The tutorial makes a 12.5" block.
• Cut four 3" squares
• Cut eight 2.5" squares
• Cut eight 2" squares
Star (yellow):
• Cut one 4.5" square
• Cut eight 2.5" squares
Color A (pink):
• Cut four pieces, 2.5" x 4.5"
• Cut four pieces, 2" x 4.5"
Color B (orange):
• Cut four pieces, 2.5" x 4.5"
• Cut four pieces, 2" x 3"
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5. Sew each pair together on the marked diagonal.
6. Trim off the excess 1/4" from the seam and press. I always press diagonal seams open—I find it to be more accurate than pressing to the side.


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Weird and wonderful: Amsterdam's exhibitions
Everyone's heard of the big ones, the Rijksmuseum of Art and History, the Rembrandthuis and Van Gogh Museums. They are basically a must for any visitor to Amsterdam. But the Dutch capital also offers an array of more off-beat, specialized exhibitions. How about paying a visit to the Tulip, Tropical or Houseboat Museum?
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Houseboat Museum:
Pure romance? Or just ordinary, everyday life? However you see it, the 2000 odd houseboats still used as homes in Amsterdam are certainly a tourist attraction. The best way to find out exactly how life in a floating home works is to tour the Hendrika Maria. Built as a freighter in 1914, she later served as a houseboat for two decades. In fact, the living room still contains its 1950s furnishings and looks as if it's just waiting for the owners to return.
Houseboat Museum: Prinsengracht 296 K, Tel.: +31-20/427 07 50, www.houseboatmuseum.nl Opening times: all year round except January, Fri-Sun 11am-5pm, March through October also Tue-Thu. Admission: €3.50, reduced €2.75
Architectural Resource Center B.V., Amsterdam (ARCAM):
Amsterdam's future is on everyone's lips here. ARCAM provides a forum for new ideas and projects and debates about the city's future development, which and often fascinating. Dutch architects are among the world's most sought-after and most innovative in their field. ARCAM hosts a permanent exhibition on the history of architecture in Amsterdam since 800, as well as changing exhibitions on specialized subjects.
Architectural Resource Center B.V., ARCAM: Prins Hendrikkade 600, Tel.: +31-20/620 48 78, www.arcam.nl Opening times: Tue-Sat 1-5pm. Admission: free.
FOAM Photography Museum Amsterdam:
FOAM – these four letters have long been internationally recognized as a hallmark for excellent photography. The museum has earned an excellent reputation for its changing exhibitions of famous star photographers and promising newcomers, and houses a library as well as a very nice café with large reading desks, and a commercial gallery. If you simply can't wait to visit FOAM now, why not try the next best thing and order a copy of the English-language FOAM magazine the museum publishes every quarter.
FOAM: Keizersgracht 609, Tel.: +31-20/551 65 00, www.foam.org. Opening times: daily 10am-6pm, Thu/Fri 9pm, closed on some public holidays. Admission: €8, reduced €5.50. FOAM magazine: www.foammagazine.nl
NEMO, Tropics and of course tulips
More an experience than a museum! At the NEMO, visitors are not just allowed but actively encouraged to touch many of the exhibits. The NEMO is a science center where science becomes an adventure, where complicated aspects of biology, chemistry and physics are explained in a way that's both easy to understand and fascinating. How does the brain work? What is DNA? And what holds the world together? The answers to these and other questions are supplied by an array of interactive experiments and games. The NEMO is impressive on the outside, too – thanks to star architect Renzo Piano, who designed the spectacular ship-shaped building. For great views of Amsterdam's old town all year round and a city beach in the summer, don't miss the NEMO's rooftop piazza.
Science center NEMO: Oosterdok 2, Tel.: +31-20/531 32 33, www.e-nemo.nl Opening times: all year round, Tue-Sun 10am-5pm; June through August, during school vacations in the Netherlands and on certain public holidays, also Mon. Admission: €12.50, reduced from €6.50.
Tropical Museum:
Hard to credit today, but nevertheless an historical fact: For centuries the little Netherlands was master of a huge world empire with colonies in the Americas, Africa and Asia. In 1871, a colonial museum opened to exhibit exotic raw materials and products from the country's overseas territories. That museum's successor, the Tropical Museum, today recalls more than just the Netherlands' colonial history. In fact, it is now chiefly devoted to non-Western cultures – and aims to be a place of cultural exchange.
Tropical Museum: Linnaeusstraat 2, Tel.: +31-20/568 82 00, www.tropenmuseum.nl Opening times: daily 10am-5pm, on some public holidays only 10am-3pm or closed. Admission: €9, reduced €5.
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Once the favorite flower of Oriental rulers, later the cause of the world's first stock market crash, the tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands today. The Amsterdam Tulip Museum is dedicated to the fascinating cultural history of this popular flower. The adjoining museum shop stocks antiques and literature on the subject, not to mention tulips and all kinds of other flower bulbs, as well.
Amsterdam Tulip Museum: Prinsengracht 112, Tel.: +31-20/421 00 95, www.amsterdamtulipmuseum.com Opening times: daily 10am-6pm. Admission: €4, reduced €2.
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Sylt, Germany's northernmost island, is known above all for its health resorts, which are popular with tourists. Although Westerland is the town most often mentioned in the tour guides, these also include the villages of Kampen and Wenningstedt. As well as its outstanding hotels and restaurants, tour guides also refer to the traces of the past on Sylt. A particularly interesting tourist attraction is the ancient burial mound, over 6,000 years old, at Denghoog. And Sylt has a lot to offer visitors in terms of natural attractions too, such as shifting sand dunes and tidal mudflats. However, some of these attractions, such as the Red Cliff,
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Two Albuquerque health providers, a married couple, have been indicted for defrauding a 91-year-old Albuquerque woman of over half a million dollars.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Construction Industries Division (CID) of the Regulation and Licensing Department warns New Mexicans, especially those who live in areas recently affected by the Dog Head Fire, to be wary of unlicensed contractors and contractors performing unpermitted work.
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Directions to Maryland State Department of Education
200 West Baltimore Street – Baltimore, MD 21201
From the Northeast (Philadelphia/New York) or Southwest (Washington, DC):
Take I95 North or South, as appropriate to I395 North, Exit 53. As you merge onto I395, move to the left lane to "Downtown/Inner Harbor". I395 becomes Howard Street. Stay to the left until you pass Camden Yards (stadium) and cross Pratt Street. After Pratt Street, move to the right lane and go 2 blocks to Baltimore Street. Turn Right. Half a block on the left is a parking facility. MSDE is next to the east side of the parking facility. (Map)
From the West (Frederick/Hagerstown):
Take I70 East to I695 South (Glen Burnie). Follow I695 South to I95 North. Follow directions above from the Southwest. (Map)
From the South (Annapolis):
Take I97 North to I695 West, Exit 17A. Follow I695 West to MD Route 295 North (Baltimore-Washington Parkway), Exit 7B. In approximately 4 miles, MD 295 becomes Russell Street. Follow Russell Street and bear around Camden Yards (stadium) as Russell Street becomes Paca Street. Cross Pratt, Lombard and Redwood Streets and turn right on Baltimore Street. Cross Eutaw and Howard Street. The parking facility is in the middle of the next block on the left. MSDE is next to the east side of the parking facility. (Map)
From the North (Harrisburg):
Take I83 South to its terminus in Baltimore. I83 becomes Presidents Street. Proceed on Presidents Street and cross Baltimore Street. At the next intersection, turn right onto Lombard Street. Follow Lombard Street for approximately 0.8 miles and turn right on Howard Street. Go one block and turn right on Baltimore Street. Half a block on the left is a parking facility. MSDE is next to the east side of the parking facility. (Map)
From the Northwest (Westminster):
Take I795 to I695 East (Towson). Follow I695 to I83 South (Baltimore), exit 23. Follow the directions above for "From the North". (Map)
The parking facility mentioned above is operated by Arrow Garage and is next to the MSDE Building. Rates are $4 for one hour, $8 for two hours and $12 for all day. There is additional parking located within 2 blocks of the MSDE on Fayette, Howard, Liberty and Lombard Streets.
Light Rail:
The Light Rail travels from Baltimore County's Hunt Valley through the heart of Downtown Baltimore to Cromwell Station/Glen Burnie in Anne Arundel County. Seven light rail stops are in Downtown, Baltimore. There is a stop on Howard Street, half a block from the entrance of MSDE. Hours of operation: Mon - Fri 6am-11pm; Sat 8am-11pm; Sun 11am-7pm.
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Henrico County Recreation and Parks will present "Red, White, and Lights" at Meadow Farm Museum/Crump Park July 4.
Henrico County has hosted a Fourth of July celebration annually since 1981, but this year's event will offer a later start time and expanded hours and be highlighted by new entertainment.
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The Tuckahoe Family YMCA and ReEstablish Richmond will host the third-annual Refugee Community Resource Fair Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to noon at the YMCA, 9211 Patterson Avenue in Henrico. The event is designed to provide refugees in the region information about jobs, local businesses, housing, health care, education and more.
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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: Member State
- Name: Australia
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Full SubmissionAustralia?s Submission to the Rio+20 Compilation Document Introduction The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is a crucial opportunity to renew political commitment to sustainable development, and to set the agenda for the next twenty years. This opportunity comes at a time when human activity is pushing ecosystems towards the limits of what they can sustainably bear - against what some scientists have called ?planetary boundaries? in areas such as climate change, biodiversity loss, stratospheric ozone depletion, chemical pollution, ocean acidification, and depletion of fresh water reserves. At the same time, as the world attempts to improve social and economic conditions across developed and developing countries, the world has emerged from a Global Financial Crisis to face, yet again, the prospect of a waning global economy. In order to meet these challenges, Rio+20 must: " overcome divides between developed and developing countries to support practical initiatives to promote sustainable development that are people- oriented and have tangible impacts on poverty eradication and protect the environment; and " underpin these initiatives with an effective and integrated institutional framework that is capable of managing new and emerging challenges, implementing existing commitments, and better enabling research, innovation and cooperation. Australia recognises that developing countries, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, need assistance to achieve sustainable development. Australia will almost double its Official Development Assistance (ODA) between 2010-11 and 2015-16, to meet the Government?s commitment of ODA reaching 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI). As a dry island continent, Australia shares many of the challenges and opportunities faced by other countries. These include the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in terrestrial and marine environments, reduced water availability, (both of which are likely to be exacerbated by climate change) and the need to effectively manage our mineral resources. Australia is a mega-diverse and resource-rich country which needs to meet the challenge of protecting and managing these endowments for a sustainable and productive future. This submission � addresses both international and domestic challenges that Australia shares with other countries, and seeks to build on past experience and to grasp new opportunities together. This submission sets out Australia?s priorities for Rio+20. These cover three areas: 1. Enabling development of resilient and sustainable economies through: " better management of ocean resources; " sustainable growth of agriculture and aquaculture for enhanced food security; " improving access to water and sustainable energy sources; " conserving biodiversity and promoting the role of indigenous peoples in this; " addressing land degradation; " promoting sustainable mining practices; " supporting innovation, research and collaboration; and " effectively addressing key threats, especially climate change. 2. Addressing cross-cutting sustainable development issues, in particular: " more effectively mobilising finance; " promoting better measurement of sustainability and environmental accounting; " establishing sustainability goals and measuring progress; " using market mechanisms to reflect environmental costs; " continuing to empower women; " promoting and further developing education and training; and " encouraging universal access to modern telecommunication services. 3. Improving the institutional framework to support and drive sustainable development. ?A Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication? Australia recognises that Rio+20?s pursuit of ?a green economy, in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication? is a means of achieving sustainable development. Rio+20 should promote practical actions to address identified gaps in the implementation of commitments from previous summits, as well as new and emerging challenges. Australia proposes the following sectoral and cross-cutting priority areas for action at Rio+20. � ?Blue Economy? and Oceans Issues World fisheries support 170 million jobs and more than 1.5 billion people rely on marine resources for their protein intake. Marine and coastal tourism, aquaculture and other uses of marine environments also provide livelihoods for millions of people. However, the world?s oceans are increasingly under pressure from threats such as ocean acidification, overfishing, biodiversity loss, habitat loss and pollution. Key ecosystems such as coral reefs may soon reach critical thresholds, disproportionately impacting on the people and communities that are most vulnerable, such as small island and coastal developing countries. For example, the World Resources Institute Reefs at Risk Revisited report published in 2011 notes that approximately 75 per cent of the world?s coral reefs are currently threatened by a combination of local threats plus thermal stress. The report states that 90 per cent of coral reefs will be threatened by 2030 and all coral reefs threatened by 2050 if no protective action is taken. The impact this would have on incomes, food security and sustainable livelihoods would be potentially severe. Commitments in Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to address these threats have not yet been met. Progressing sustainable ocean and marine conservation and management to achieve a ?blue economy? is now an urgent sustainable development priority. Ocean ecosystem considerations need to be better integrated into economic and social decisions with the objective of deriving economic and social benefits from the oceans in ways that are efficient, equitable and sustainable in both the short and long term. Within this context, economic and social development strategies should prioritise effective marine management in order to address poverty eradication, food security, sustainable livelihoods and conservation. There are no ?one-size-fits all? actions that can deliver a ?blue economy?. Some required actions are global in scale, but most are required at local, national and regional levels. Australia considers that Rio+20 can play three key roles in promoting a transition to a ?blue economy?. Firstly, to provide a catalyst and framework for action; to escalate oceans issues as a priority for governments, civil society and the private sector. Secondly, to promote and share lessons from existing blue economy- related initiatives, such as the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security and the Pacific Oceanscape Framework. Lastly, to identify and progress actions that require a global scale response. In this context Rio+20 outcomes should recognise a number of ?blue economy? objectives. ?Blue economy? initiatives should promote the development of marine industries which sustainably derive ecological, economic and social benefits from marine ecosystems. They should ensure that ecosystem-based oceans management becomes central to industry and community development decisions. Rio+20 outcomes should build resilience and capacity to adapt to climate change and ocean acidification by communities, industries and ecosystems; while drawing on, and avoiding duplication of, existing efforts such as work being progressed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Finally, Rio+20 outcomes should strengthen and support governance and institutions to facilitate an integrated approach to address shared objectives and challenges. � Rio+20 outcomes should include: " a framework for action to mobilise efforts towards a ?blue economy?, including: o improving information about the ecological, economic and social values of the oceans; o building the capacity of marine managers, policy makers and scientists, including by better linking scientific research efforts with management and policy frameworks, through education and other means; o strengthening existing regional integrated oceans management or establishing new regional frameworks that link national efforts to address shared objectives and challenges (using examples such as the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security and the Pacific Oceanscape Framework); o showcasing and promoting existing blue economy initiatives as a means of strengthening the political momentum and donor support that is key to their ongoing success; o facilitating the sharing of information, experiences and lessons learnt between blue economy initiatives; o engaging communities in the development of approaches to enhance the blue economy; and o developing improved metrics to monitor the state of oceans, coral reefs and other marine ecosystems; " support for the proposed United Nations General Assembly process to ensure the international legal framework effectively addresses the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction by identifying gaps and the way forward, including through implementing existing instruments and the possible development of a multilateral agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); " further strengthening Regional Fisheries Management Organisations and Agreements by promoting sustainable fisheries and ecosystem-based oceans management approaches, to deliver improved economic benefits to developing countries and enhanced environmental outcomes; " strengthening and encouraging the implementation of existing measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;� " elimination of marine capture fisheries subsidies that contribute to over-fishing and over-capacity while recognising the need for appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing countries and least developed countries, and a call for the conclusion of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on fisheries subsidies; and " commitment to optimising fisheries surveillance and enforcement asset allocation to enhance compliance with national and international regimes, including through promoting the wider implementation of principles contained in recent regional agreements* with respect to: o pooling surveillance and enforcement assets among states; and o enhancing the use of modern remote sensing technologies. *For example, the 2007 Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement of Fisheries Laws between the Government of Australia and the Government of the French Republic in the Maritime Areas Adjacent to the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. � Food Security Food security is a central global challenge which needs to be addressed urgently. Growing populations and changing diets are steadily increasing demand, with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) forecasting that global agricultural output must increase by 70 per cent from average 2005-07 levels by 2050 to feed the expected population of 9.3 billion. Experts forecast that food prices are likely to remain higher and more volatile than they were before 2008. Price changes send market signals to farmers to increase or decrease production in response to changed market conditions. However, while higher food prices encourage increased production, continuing global agriculture and food market distortions, land and water resource limitations, rising input costs (such as energy and fertilisers), climate change, and increasing diversion of food crops to non-food uses (particularly for biofuel production), have the potential to restrict the supply response. This is compounded by high fuel prices which increase the cost of inputs, farm production and the transport and distribution of food. Food production is also fundamentally impacted by environmental degradation: in achieving food security it is essential that measures to boost production and productivity are environmentally sustainable. The 2007-08 food price crisis highlighted systemic failures in global food markets, including the impact of longstanding global market distortions and trade barriers, thinly traded markets (for example for rice), and insufficient reliable market information. In particular, decades of subsidised agricultural production in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, together with market barriers, disadvantage developing country farmers and discourage greater agricultural investment in those countries. At the Group of 20 (G20) Agriculture Ministerial Meeting in June 2011, Ministers adopted an ?Action Plan on Food Price Volatility in Agriculture?. The Action Plan focuses on increasing agricultural productivity, improving international coordination (including the reform of the FAO) and the role of increased liberalisation of agricultural trade in addressing food security. More recently, Heads of Government of 53 Commonwealth nations adopted in October 2011 the Perth Declaration on Food Security Principles, namely: a. coordinated and timely regional and global emergency relief efforts to deal with immediate crises; b. undertaking decisive and timely measures to prevent crises occurring, mitigate their impact when they do and build resilience; c. delivering practical measures over the medium-term to make agriculture, including irrigated agriculture, and fisheries more productive and sustainable; d. strengthening support to government-led programmes and initiatives based on the spirit of effective partnerships; e. development of country-led medium to long-term strategies and programmes to improve food security and ensure alignment of donor support to implementation of country priorities; f. scaling up nutritional interventions, including those that target mothers and young children, and incorporating nutrition considerations into broad food security initiatives; � � g. enhancing research and development over the longer term to build a sustainable agriculture sector, including through the promotion and sharing of best agricultural practices, in order to feed and nourish the people of the world; h. strengthening fisheries and marine resource management in member states? waters to ensure sustainability of these resources for national and global food security, including through addressing illegal unreported and unregulated fishing; i. improving international market access for food producers, including smallholders and women, through trade liberalisation measures such as the elimination of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and avoidance restrictions on food imports; j. addressing the impediments that are inhibiting economic opportunities for these important producers, including lack of affordable financing, local value- added and adequate infrastructure; k. collaboration between international organisations, donor countries, and national governments to address production, storage, waste reduction, elimination of post-harvest losses, transportation and marketing challenges; this collaboration could include more effective ways of meeting infrastructure financing gaps that engage the private sector; and l. improving the institutional framework for global food security efforts, including by supporting reform of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisations (FAO). Rio+20 outcomes should commit to a program of action to boost global food security, including: " improved emergency food responses; " increased funding for agricultural and rural development to sustainably boost production and improve efficiency of market infrastructure and accessibility; " concerted efforts to achieve a sustainable blue economy in marine areas; " the liberalisation of trade and the elimination of trade-distorting agricultural subsidies and market barriers; " the sustainable intensification of food production in terrestrial and marine ecosystems to achieve a significant increase in resource use efficiency and reduce negative externalities by 2050, with a particular focus on improving African agricultural productivity as a key potential element of the global solution to food insecurity; " making women a key part of all efforts aimed at enhancing food production and productivity; " increased support for international agricultural research, especially through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; " reform of the FAO to ensure its leadership in the United Nations (UN) in supporting sustainable agricultural and food security initiatives; and " incorporating nutrition considerations into broad food security initiatives. � Water Use Efficiency: growing more food with less water Improved access to safe water and sanitation is fundamental to poverty alleviation. Compromised water security undermines key development objectives, including efficient food production. Despite international recognition of principles for good governance, commitment to water-related initiatives by governments has been slow, particularly in the area of adequately pricing water services and promoting water use efficiency. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " reaffirmation of the importance of improved information on water (including related meteorological and oceanographic information), improved governance, management and pricing of water resources, integrated and comprehensive water planning, enhanced water use efficiency, and recognition of the resulting increase in water and food security; and " commitment to improving water access and water use efficiency at a national level, particularly for food production, through: o domestic institutional and regulatory reforms addressing water planning, and information, and developing markets in water access rights; and o technological innovation (for example in water recycling, crop types and irrigation infrastructure). Biodiversity Conservation Healthy biodiversity and resilient ecosystems underpin robust economies, human health, poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. Rio+20 recommendations on biodiversity should reinforce previous international biodiversity commitments and build on the work of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), which provides a legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and fair and equitable access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. Australia emphasises the importance of cultural practices and traditional management of natural resources in biodiversity conservation. Australia supports managing biodiversity at ecologically meaningful scales, looking at entire landscapes, seascapes, regions and ecosystems to deal with longer-term environmental trends, constraints and opportunities. Where landscapes, habitat or ecosystems are fragmented, measures to enhance habitat connectivity, including habitat corridors, should be utilised. While local problems need localised solutions, these should still be developed in the context of the broader landscape or ecosystem. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " reaffirmation of the importance of biodiversity conservation in a changing climate, highlighting the importance of management at landscape and seascape scale, using market-based mechanisms where appropriate, enhancing habitat connectivity, particularly through corridors, and building ecosystem resilience; " recognition of the role the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services could play in progressing early consideration of monitoring and research programs that meet policy agendas; and � � " recognition of the value of building on indigenous and community-based approaches to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity using local community and indigenous ranger networks, and the opportunity for building practical skills. Desertification The international community has long recognised that desertification is a major economic, social and environmental problem of concern to many countries in all regions of the world. Desertification continues to present a problem today which has impacts on and is impacted by other global problems such as food security and climate change. Rio+20 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the international treaty created to address desertification, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Following the 10 Conference of Parties to the UNCCD in Changwon in October 2011, countries considered how Rio+20 might play a role in further addressing desertification. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " encouragement of Convention Secretariats, Parties and funding institutions to coordinate activities that synergistically progress the aims of all Rio Conventions; and " clarification of the Rio Conventions? roles in addressing broader issues of soil and land degradation in the context of international environmental governance. Sustainable Energy The centrality of energy to sustainable development has been recognised with the launch of the United Nations Secretary-General?s Sustainable Energy for All initiative. From job generation to economic competitiveness and prosperity, from strengthening security to empowering women, energy is the common foundation, and the basis for all modern economies. Access to secure, affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is critical for fostering social and economic development and improving livelihoods. Both the public and private sectors will have an important role to play in realising outcomes from Rio+20 on sustainable energy. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " commitment to achieving universal energy access; " commitment to reduce global energy intensity; and " commitment to expand the proportion of renewable energy used in national energy portfolios. Sustainable Mining Practices When managed properly, mining offers the opportunity to catalyse broad-based economic development, reduce poverty and assist countries in meeting their Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Australia supports actions to ensure the contribution of mining to sustainable development. � Rio+20 outcomes should include: " ensuring mining is conducted under sound environmental management and contributes to opportunities for economic and social development; " promoting comprehensive legal and regulatory frameworks and policies to facilitate sustainable mining practices and address the social and environmental impacts of mining throughout its lifecycle, including post-mine closure; " recognising that open and transparent markets, as facilitated through the work of bodies like the G20 and International Metals Study Groups, are an important element of sustainable mining; " encouraging the mining sector to adopt the Sustainable Development Framework and associated 10 Principles of the International Council on Mining and Metals; " promoting the fair distribution of benefits from mining to the communities and citizens of producing countries according to national, sub-national and local sustainable development priorities; " underlining the importance of transparency by governments and companies in the extractive industries and the need to enhance public financial management and accountability, as promoted by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative; and " enhancing linkages between mining and the rest of the economy to promote income generation, strengthen revenue streams, increase job creation and develop upstream and downstream industrial and service activities at the local, sub-national and national levels. Innovation, Research and Collaboration Australia considers that investing in innovation is critical to respond to the problems st of the 21 century such as climate change, population growth, food security and environmental sustainability. It is at the core of economic transformation and is an important enabling factor for sustainable development. While market mechanisms are key drivers of this change, they also need to be supplemented by appropriately targeted transitional and innovative support measures. By working together countries can leverage off common interests, specialisation and expertise to help foster and spread innovations aimed at addressing these difficult challenges, while simultaneously making better use of resources, spreading risk, and building local capacity. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " promotion of innovative responses to address global environmental challenges and improve social, economic and environmental outcomes; " promotion of participation and collaboration in international research and innovation networks to support sustainable development, with a particular focus on ?grass roots? innovation and the opportunities for growth through increased transfer of developed economy best practice to developing economies; and " inclusion of innovation as an important component of the UN work program on the ?green economy?, through the development of a set of innovation principles, drawing on the United Nations Environment Programme?s (UNEP) � work on the ?green economy? and the work of the OECD on eco-innovation and green growth. The innovation principles could: o provide an overview of the key drivers of innovation; o help to address barriers to improved collaboration, knowledge transfer and commercialisation; and o identify opportunities for countries to improve their innovative performance. Climate Change The scientific evidence that the climate is changing is overwhelming and clear. We already see the social, economic and environmental impacts of climate change. Human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, are triggering the changes we are witnessing in the global climate. Rio+20 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the treaty establishing the international climate change regime, the UNFCCC. Following the 17 Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Durban in 2011, countries will be well-placed to identify the role Rio+20 can play in advancing global climate action. This is the critical decade. Decisions we make from now to 2020 will determine the severity of the climate change our children and grandchildren experience. It is essential to transition to low emission development pathways if the world is to tackle climate change and achieve sustainable development. Cross-Cutting Priorities Finance for Sustainable Development Australia recognises that developing countries, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, need assistance to achieve sustainable development. Australia will almost double its ODA between 2010-11 and 2015-16, to meet the Government?s commitment of ODA reaching 0.5 per cent of GNI. Global sustainable development will require large-scale, transformative investments. In developing countries, this cannot be achieved by ODA alone and will require leveraging private finance and investment in both developed and developing economies. The public sector and the use of public finance, including ODA, will have a key role in providing enabling policy settings, regulations and incentives (such as innovative market-based tools) to catalyse private finance in sustainable investments. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " support for innovative and market-based financial solutions from a range of sources, including both public and private finance, to ensure that limited public resources are invested to maximum effect in sustainable development: o drawing on existing examples such as the G20?s work on infrastructure investment in developing countries, lessons learned from the Green Climate Fund design process and other relevant mechanisms; � o expanding the base of presently-available public finance by means of ODA-backed bonds, such as the model used in the International Finance Facility for Immunisation; and o using public finance more flexibly and creatively to leverage private capital through risk-sharing; and " commitments to increase ODA to assist the poorest and most vulnerable, to achieve sustainable development. Measuring Sustainability and Environmental Accounting Australia supports the development of robust mechanisms to collect, integrate and analyse information. A credible information base, particularly for environmental issues, is critical in this regard. The United Nations System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA), soon to be an international statistical standard, is designed for this purpose, and Australia strongly supports its adoption. Several international organisations and countries, including Australia, have developed frameworks or systems of indicators that go beyond the scope of traditional measures (such as Gross Domestic Product) to focus on broader measures of economic, environmental and social progress. In Australia, examples of relevant initiatives include the Measuring Sustainability program, the Measures of Australia?s Progress series, the National Plan for Environmental Information, and the development of a framework for the production of national environmental-economic accounts. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " agreement to develop credible frameworks for measuring sustainable development outcomes, including robust, consistent and accessible economic, environmental and social information, which promotes the Integration of the information across these spheres; " support for the SEEA as the international statistical framework for environmental accounting; and " expansion of the UNEP?s role as a ?hub? for environmental information sharing. Sustainable Development Goals Australia supports creating a set of internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a means to drive international efforts on sustainable development. In doing so, the relationship between the proposed SDGs and the MDGs framework would need to be carefully considered. SDGs will help ensure that Rio+20 initiates an ambitious agenda with milestones, measurement tools and support for the practical implementation of sustainable development commitments at all levels. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " agreement to develop a set of SDGs; and " consideration of a reporting mechanism to track progress against the SDGs (for example a periodic Global Sustainability Outlook report). � Market Mechanisms and Price Signals Australia supports the use of market mechanisms to ensure the environmental costs of production (externalities) are accurately reflected in the prices of products and services. For example, in countries without carbon pricing fossil fuel prices do not incorporate the cost of the negative externalities associated with the production and burning of such fuels. Putting a price on carbon through taxes, regulation or emissions trading systems can be an effective tool for securing emissions reduction at least possible cost. In many countries the lack of pricing of externalities is further exacerbated by inefficient subsidies for certain sectors of the economy - particularly agriculture, energy, and fisheries. The current global context, in which many governments are experiencing fiscal constraints, provides an opportunity to reduce, or phase out, these inefficient subsidies. This should be accompanied by appropriate measures that protect vulnerable people from the negative impacts of any reform that may be undertaken. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " encouraging governments to set price signals that value sustainability - to drive structural change and move production and investment into more sustainable activities. Empowering Women to achieve Sustainable Development Australia supports efforts to promote gender equality and empower women. This challenge is central to sustainable economic and human development and to supporting women?s rights. As long as the full potential of women to contribute to our economies and communities remains untapped, the debate and action around economic and environmental issues is skewed. Women?s participation in sustainable development is crucial to both the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development. Women face barriers to their full participation in economic, social and political life. Addressing these barriers is critical to reducing poverty, enhancing economic growth and democratic governance and increasing the well-being of whole communities. These barriers persist despite the evidence from both developed and developing economies that the increased participation of women generates faster and more equitable income growth. The World Bank has found that eliminating discriminatory practices could increase productivity by up to 40 per cent. Governments should take up the opportunity of greater sustainable economic growth through enhanced female participation in the workforce by accelerating implementation of international commitments to advance gender equality and women?s rights. This should include a particular emphasis on land and property rights; access to education and training; access to capital; sexual and reproductive health; freedom from gender-based violence; and full participation in economic and political decision-making. � Rio+20 outcomes should include: " measures to reinforce the economic and social justice imperatives for women?s participation in sustainable development; " commitment by governments and the private sector to support women?s economic participation and empowerment, including through adoption of the United Nations Women?s Empowerment Principles; " commitment to greater access to financial and technical support for women, including microfinance and technical assistance in agriculture, o as part of this, commitment to increase significantly the global scope of Women?s World Banking and related mainstream micro-finance initiatives; " commitment to mainstream the role of women in agriculture and rural women in economic development in all new policy initiatives relating to food security, recognising that women make up the bulk of the total agricultural workforce; " reinforcement of the importance of considering the needs of both women and men in the provision of emergency assistance and social protection for the most vulnerable; " commitment to ensure sustainable mining outcomes benefit both women and men; " commitment to ensure that water reforms recognise women?s role in water management in many countries; and " commitment to ensure the framework for measuring sustainable development outcomes measures the impacts on both men and women. Education and Training: Empowering Youth MDG 2 aims to achieve universal primary education by 2015. A good quality primary education is essential for developing literacy and numeracy skills and is a basis for further learning. There is irrefutable evidence that education, especially for girls, is one of the best investments in development. More than 170 million people could be lifted out of poverty if all students in low-income countries left school with basic reading skills; this is equivalent to a 12 per cent cut in global poverty. There are some obvious reform priorities. The global education funding gap is US$16 billion, yet the current architecture of global education bodies lacks an organisation of sufficient scale and scope to tackle this challenge. Both the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) can teach us a lot about how to get a better result for global education. They show us that if we work creatively we can leverage private funds, the value of which far exceeds global overseas aid flows. The time has come for a public/private institution with an explicit mandate for school education. A global fund for school education which is effective and well capitalised would consolidate efforts by development partners and harness the resources of the private sector and the wider community. The global effort to meet MDG 2 will also provide a foundation for the international uptake of education and skills for sustainability, particularly through vocational education and training. Skills for sustainability will be instrumental in driving and � supporting the global transition to sustainable development and innovative, low pollution and resource-efficient economies. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " commitment to building the Global Partnership for Education into an effective and well capitalised global fund for education that can harness the resources of the private sector and assist developing countries to achieve MDG 2 by 2015; and " commitment to ensuring all young men and women are able to access a vocational education and training sector that is high quality, flexible and responsive to labour market needs, recognising that the transition to new sustainable industries will create strong demand for new skills and the need for Governments to facilitate the skilling up of workers for these emerging sectors. Communications and Information Technology Modern communication technologies are critical to social and economic prosperity and enhance sustainability on several fronts. They enable rapid access to weather forecasts, enhancing food security and early disaster warning information. In remote regions, mobile technology can give users access to information and services such as finance, health and education, and can connect small and micro enterprises to the larger market. Australia supports universal access to modern telecommunication services. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " emphasis on the need to ensure universal access to modern communication technology to facilitate access to information. Nineteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development Australia was disappointed at the failure of the Nineteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD19) to adopt a consensus, including text on a Ten Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " incorporation of the key draft elements from CSD19, and in particular the Sustainable Consumption and Production text. ?The Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development? Australia supports reforms of ?the institutional framework for sustainable development? (?IFSD?). Strong, effective institutions are essential if we are to drive global sustainable development. The two UN institutions that cover all three pillars of sustainable development - the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and its subsidiary body the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) - have had limited success in providing coherent governance on sustainable development issues across the UN system. � Reform of ?the IFSD? should achieve a number of objectives in order to be effective. Rio+20 ?IFSD? outcomes should seek to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development in UN decision-making and strengthen the environmental pillar of sustainable development to reflect the equal importance of all three pillars. Reforms should minimise institutional proliferation, streamline resource utilisation and improve coordination and coherence between agencies, including joint program-delivery at a country level, while respecting the mandates of multilateral environment agreements and the autonomy of their decision-making bodies. Reforms should also strengthen links between the UN and International Financial Institutions, the private sector, academia, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders. ?IFSD? outcomes should facilitate and enable the implementation of outcomes agreed under the ?green economy? theme of Rio+20. Finally, it will be important for a reformed ?IFSD? to provide high-level political participation, coordinated governance and strategic direction across the UN system, with heads of UN agencies and from Member States. Rio+20 outcomes should include: " strengthening UNEP, including: o consideration of expanding it to universal membership; o strengthening its governance structures; and o strengthening its role in relation to the science-policy interface; " development of a UN system-wide strategy for the environment to be progressed through existing mechanisms such as the Chief Executive Board and the United Nations Development Group; " a mechanism for promoting sharing of experience among countries and enhanced transparency about national sustainable development efforts; " transformation of the CSD into a significantly more effective organisation with an enhanced capacity to drive Integration of the three sustainable development pillars (for example, a Sustainable Development Council); and " consideration of how ECOSOC can better perform its role as the primary high- level decision-making body for all three pillars of sustainable development and how it would relate to other IFSD reforms. Conclusion Rio+20 presents a global opportunity to recognise past progress on sustainable development and, more importantly, to set the sustainable development agenda for the next 20 years. Australia welcomes the opportunity to work with other countries to share our expertise and contribute to regional and global initiatives. Australia looks forward to maximising this unique opportunity to set the stage for a common sustainable future for the next 20 years - to Rio+40 and beyond.� �


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Rahul Singh, MD, and Wendy Newell, MD, of Wolf Creek Surgeons, recently performed Delaware's first single-site gallbladder removal using the da Vinci robotic surgery system at Kent General Hospital, in Dover. The patient's gallbladder was removed through an incision approximately one inch in size, at his belly button.
Traditional gallbladder surgery is typically done through four small incisions in the abdominal region. With single-site, surgeons make only one incision, offering faster healing and less pain for patients. The procedure takes 45 to 50 minutes.
Neither robotic surgery nor single-incision surgery is new, but combining the two to remove the gallbladder allows surgeons to perform the procedure to a wider range of patients. In addition, the da Vinci system provides a 3D view of the patient's internal organs. This perspective enables meticulous removal of the gallbladder and reduces the risk of damage to nearby organs.
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Sofia - a white patch no longer
Admittedly, even for many travel pros Sofia still feels a bit like a no-man's-land – barely more than a white patch on the tourist map. But that is set to change now that the Bulgarian capital is visibly flourishing and bearing in mind that it has always been rich in historical attractions. Our tour suggestions tell you what to look out for as you explore perhaps one of the oldest cities in Europe
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Traces of Ottoman rule
St. George's Rotunda:
A first human settlement may have been located here on the site of the present-day city of Sofia as long as 8000 years ago. Official records tell us that a Thracian tribe settled here in the 7th century B.C. and that the oldest building in the city has been standing since the 4th century A.D. That building is Saint George's Rotunda, which was originally a Roman building with a hypocaust heating system but was later put to a variety of uses and at one point served as a mosque.
St. George's Church: Nezavisimost Square, located in the rear courtyard of the Sheraton Hotel and the official seat of Bulgaria's state president
Banya Basho Mosque:
Built ca. 1576 under Ottoman rule, this brick building topped by a minaret that can be seen for miles around is one of Europe's oldest mosques. It takes its name from the Turkish bathhouse that originally stood next door - Banya Basho literally means "many baths." Since the fall of the Socialist regime, prayer and preaching have resumed in the building, which, outside of prayer times, is also open to non-Muslim visitors. Appropriate clothing is, however, a must, and women are required to wear a headscarf, which they can borrow at the entrance if they do not have one to hand.
Banya Bashi Mosque: Knyaginya Maria Luiza Bulevard
Boris' Garden:
Boris' Garden (Bulgarian: Borisova gradina) extends over 445 hectares and is even bigger than the English Garden in Munich. Indeed, it is one of the largest inner-city parks in the world. When the park was first created in 1884, fewer than 20,000 people lived in Sofia, the newly declared capital of a Bulgaria freshly liberated from Ottoman rule. Back then, the park was on the edge of a small town; today it lies at the heart of a city of millions. While the northern section of Boris' Garden was designed by leading European landscape architects, the remaining area more closely resembles a forest. One popular spot within the park is Ariana Lake, which is ideal for boating.
Boris Gardens: southeast of the city center
The capital city of independent Bulgaria today
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral:
The imposing, Neo-Byzantine Alexander Nevsky Cathedral recalls Istanbul's Hagia Sophia - and like that great cathedral, it is one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world, accommodating up to 5000 people in its altogether five naves. This monumental sacred building was erected in 1904 as a tribute to the 200,000 Russian soldiers who fell in the 1877/78 Russo-Turkish War. It was only due to their sacrifice that Bulgaria was able to regain its independence after 500 years of foreign domination. Today, the Nevsky Cathedral is the emblem both of Sofia and the whole of Bulgaria.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral: Alexander Nevsky Square
TZUM is where Sofia's wealthy upper class shops for all the luxury articles of every kind. When the seven-story "Central Department Store" was built back in 1955/56, the intention was to supply the needs of the capital city's ever-growing populace. After the demise of Bulgarian Socialism, the previously state-run TZUM was privatized, modernized and converted into an up-market mall with a colorful array of luxury boutiques.
TZUM: 2, Knyaginya Maria Luiza Bulevard, Tel. +359-2/926 06 14. Opening times: Mon-Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-7pm www.tzum.bg/en
Vitosha Mountain:
The peaks of Vitosha Mountain rise majestically behind Sofia, providing a dramatic backdrop to the city's skyline. The mountain is popular with day trippers from the capital, not least because it is close by: The walk from the tallest summit, the 2290-meter-high Cherni Wrach, into the city center takes no more than around seven hours. Depending on the time of year, the mountain offers excellent opportunities for hiking, climbing, mountain biking - and even for winter sports.
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