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Marine archaeologists have found a shipwreck dating from the 13th century off the coast of Japan
The vessel is thought to have been part of Kublai Khan's massive invasion fleet
More than 4,000 artifacts, including pottery shards, cannonballs and anchors were found near the wreck
In Japanese legend they are known as The Kamikaze – the divine winds – a reference to two mighty typhoons placed providentially seven years apart which, in the 13th century, destroyed two separate Mongol invasion fleets so large they were not eclipsed until the D-Day landings of World War II.
Marine archaeologists now say they have uncovered the remains of a ship from the second fleet in 1281 – believed to have comprised 4,400 vessels – a meter below the seabed, in 25 meters of water off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan.
Scientists are hoping they will be able to recreate the complete Yuan Dynasty vessel from Kublai Khan's lost fleet using a 12-meter-long section of keel. The Mongols ruled China from 1271 to 1368.
According to Yoshifumi Ikeda, a professor of archaeology at Okinawa's University of the Ryukyus, and head of the research team, the section could go a long way to helping researchers identify all the characteristics of the 20-meter warship.
"This discovery was of major importance for our research," Ikeda told a news conference. "We are planning to expand search efforts and find further information that can help us restore the whole ship."
Discovered using ultrasound equipment, the research team says it is the first wreck from the period to have an intact hull, the planks of which are still attached to the keel with nails.
Scientists say its good state of preservation – they were even able to establish that the planks were originally painted a whitish-gray – is due to the fact it has been covered by sand.
"I believe we will be able to understand more about shipbuilding skills at the time as well as the actual situation of exchanges in East Asia," Ikeda told reporters in Nagasaki.
More than 4,000 artifacts, including ceramic shards, bricks used for ballast, cannonballs and stone anchors have been found in the vicinity of the wreck, linking it to the Yuan Dynasty invasion fleet.
Ikeda said there were no immediate plans to salvage the hull and the first step was to conserve the find by covering the sites with nets.
The Kamikaze – perhaps better known as the nickname given to the Japanese suicide pilots of the Pacific War – were a nation-defining event for Japan and set the limits of Mongol expansion in the east.
Historians say the first Chinese attempt to invade Japan in 1274 ended in disaster.
Having initially engaged a numerically superior Japanese samurai force at the Battle of Bun'ei in First Battle of Hakata Bay, the Chinese retreated to their fleet of 300 ships and some 500 smaller craft after just one day of battle on land. A typhoon destroyed a third of the fleet that night and the remnants limped back to port in Korea which was then a vassal state of China.
Seven years later, Kublai Khan amassed an impressive armada of 4,400 ships carrying 40,000 Korean, Mongol and Chinese troops in a bid to finally subjugate Japan. The Japanese, convinced of a second invasion, had spent the intervening years building strategic seawalls which made it difficult for the Chinese to land.
Unable to gain a beachhead after initially taking the island of Iki and Tsushima, the fleet was decimated by a two-day typhoon that hit the Tsushima Straits.
It is believed about 80% of the fleet was destroyed and the Khan's troops either drowned at sea or slaughtered on the beaches by samurai.
According to a contemporary account cited in the book "Khubilai Khan's lost fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada," by maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado, the losses were so great that "a person could walk across from one point of land to another on a mass of wreckage".


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(July 17, 2013) – Today GLOCK, Inc. announced that the Atlanta Police Department (APD) ordered and started receiving 2,300 GLOCK 22 Generation 4 pistols. The APD is transitioning away from a Mass.-based polymer-framed pistol manufacturer with whom they have had a long-standing relationship, dating back to the 1940s.
The APD's decision to break their previous 70-plus year pistol relationship and transition to GLOCK pistols is particularly important, based on its conviction that GLOCK is the best pistol for its officers to carry. The APD orchestrated a full year of extensive testing to ultimately choose the GLOCK pistols due to what they considered best-in-class product reliability. By choosing GLOCK, the APD is helping support the local economy and the approximately 400 metro Atlanta residents that are employed by GLOCK.
"We believe GLOCK offers a trusted, superior firearm for our officers," said Atlanta Police Chief George N. Turner. "They are industry leaders, and with headquarters here in Cobb County, we're expecting superb customer service. Making sure our officers are provided the best equipment possible is in keeping with our mission of creating a safer Atlanta by reducing crime, ensuring the safety of our citizens and building trust in partnership with our communities."
The department-wide transition to GLOCK from the Mass.-based pistol manufacturer has already begun and will continue through April of 2014. The APD Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team has adopted the GLOCK 21 Generation 4 pistol, due to mission-specific requirements for the .45 ACP.
"The long-anticipated transition of APD into GLOCK pistols is a significant win for GLOCK and the APD," shared Josh Dorsey, GLOCK Vice President. "We are very excited to equip our local agency with GLOCK pistols, and anticipate a growing relationship in the future."
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Any album "list" is going to be incomplete. It's going to be filled with albums you agree with, artists you hate and some sort of commentary that you probably disagree with. This list is no different. However, rather than ranking these in order of importance or influence, we decided to pick 30 Albums that Define Cool. It's not a "Best of XXXX" list by any stretch of the imagination (because honestly, that would be presumptuous), just thirty albums that we think are cool. These things tend to spark huge debates, so feel free to let us have it in the comments.
London Calling – The Clash
Long before Punk Rock was about frosted tips and dudes wearing eyeliner, there was The Clash. Anti-establishment, without being destructive, you only need to put on "London Calling" or Google Image search "The Clash" to figure out why they're definitively cool. Amazon | iTunes
Legend – Bob Marley & The Wailers
The likelihood of anyone reading this having heard of Reggae music without Bob Marley is unlikely. More than just a man with a positive message, Marley was a poster boy for positive change in the world. Amazon | iTunes
The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Four words: The Wizard of Oz. Or, maybe, Best Space Rock Ever. Floyd's been on the cutting edge of music for longer than most of us have been alive, and they helped birth a good portion of the music on your phone today. Amazon | iTunes
OK Computer / Kid A – Radiohead
Debating OK Computer and Kid A is like discussing religion or politics in public, so we're not going to. Radiohead gets a twofer because we love both these cool albums like the children we don't have—equally but differently.
Licensed to Ill – Beastie Boys
9 million copies sold. First hip hop LP to top Billboard. Columbia's fastest-selling debut record. Includes "Girls," "Fight For Your Right," "No Sleep til Brooklyn," and, scratch the track listing. Every song on this album is awesome. RIP MCA. Amazon | iTunes
American Recordings – Johnny Cash
The Man in Black's place on this list needs no explanation, but we will say this: To this day, Cash is the only person to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. The name is fitting because this album is the epitome of 'Merica. Amazon
The Black Album – Metallica
Don't even pretend like you don't know the chorus to "Enter Sandman" word for word. Overzealous legal lawsuits aside, The Black Album is one of the few metal records of the 80s early 90s that you can put on today and listen to front to back without snickering. Amazon | iTunes
Live at Wembley '86 – Queen
You can't talk about cool musical albums and not mention Freddie Mercury's Queen. It's too late to experience Mercury's on-stage antics at a live concert, but that doesn't mean you can't go back in time with this album. Amazon | iTunes
Stankonia – Outkast
Even if you remove André 3000's considerable style from the equation, he and Big Boi are two cool dudes. Stankonia blended dirty south with catchy lyrics and even more groove worthy melodies and beats. Amazon | iTunes
Rocket to Russia – Ramones
Punk rock is cool. The Ramones are punk rock. Therefore, the Ramones are cool. Amazon | iTunes
Ready to Die -The Notorious B.I.G.
There are plenty of reasons to call him big poppa, but they all started with this album. It's time to give it another listen remember why. Amazon | iTunes
Blood Sugar Sex Magik – Red Hot Chili Peppers
We're not going to get into the current state of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but we will definitely go back and revisit what made them one of the coolest bands of the 90s with Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Amazon | iTunes
Unplugged in New York – Nirvana
You could easily make a case for this Nirvana spot being occupied by Nevermind, but that's a little too main stream for our tastes. We never got to see Nirvana live, so we choose to revisit the legacy with this unplugged album. Amazon | iTunes
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan essentially invented modern rock music. This particular album ended up on our list because a) it's cool and b) it was one of the first 50 recordings to be added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. Yeah, that's right, even Congress thinks this album is cool. Amazon | iTunes
IV – Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham walk into a recording studio. Magic happens. IV (or ZoSo, Four Symbols, The Fourth Album, etc., etc.) is a testament to four guys throwing a big middle finger to the industry, and it also includes that one song that all drunk people request, well, everywhere there is live music. Amazon | iTunes
Discovery – Daft Punk
If you've never danced to this album, you're doing it wrong. Two awesomely dressed French Robot DJs bringing acid house and techno to the masses in the form of songs that will be stuck in your head for days. Amazon | iTunes
The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
Somehow, Trent Reznor made industrial goth rock cool. Lighter and more refined than Pretty Hate Machine (and featured in Rock Band!), The Downward Spiral takes you right to the edge without going over. Amazon | iTunes
The Queen is Dead – The Smiths
Without Morrissey and Marr's work as The Smiths, it's unlikely alternative rock would exist today. If, somehow, it still managed to limp along (these things happen), it wouldn't sound anything like the emotional odyssey that is The Queen is Dead. Amazon | iTunes
Is This It – The Strokes
No shit, we could listen to this album on repeat for hours in the office and never want to steal back control of the Grooveshark account. Groovy without being sleepy, catchy without being annoying and effected without being affected, this is it. Amazon | iTunes
Appetite For Destruction – Guns N' Roses
For us, Guns N' Roses albums are like Matrix movies—we pretend like the first one is the only one that exists. Bandanas, Slash, top hats, Axl, gravelly vocals and a wicked strut are just a few of the reasons that make Appetite for Destruction cool… and a necessity in your karaoke repertoire. Amazon | iTunes
Under a Blood Red Sky – U2
We're not going to get into the current state of U2, but the guys have, in the past, put out some pretty great tunes. They also made skullcaps and giant sunglasses (kind of) cool again. We dare you not to be moved by "Sunday Bloody Sunday" or "The Electric Co." live. Amazon | iTunes
Oracular Spectacular – MGMT
At least partially responsible for making "indie" music what it is today, the seminal release from MGMT will make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Oh yeah, and sweet vintage keyboards. Amazon | iTunes
Elephant – The White Stripes
The White Stripes made stripped down rock and roll cool again. Percussion, plus guitar and vocals, mixed with an excellently monochromatic color scheme make The White Stripes a force to be reckoned with. For our money, it doesn't get better than Elephant. Amazon | iTunes
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie
Glam rock is David Bowie. David Bowie is glam rock. Without Bowie, music would never have brought space back to Earth. Ziggy Stardust gave birth to the rock persona. Amazon | iTunes
Run-DMC – Run-DMC
Three dudes from Queens put a new breed of hip-hop on the pop culture map with this album. The C in DMC stands for cool. Seriously. Amazon | iTunes
The Chronic – Dr. Dre
Dre left N.W.A. and released a solo album. Not only is The Chronic one of the best hip hop albums of all time, it also launched Snoop's solo career. Need we say more? Amazon
Back in Black – AC/DC
If you can listen to this album without wanting to break shit, be a rock star and sing along, we will pick up your next bar tab. No one needs a description why AC/DC is cool. Amazon
Up Your Alley – Joan Jett
Hot chicks in leather with guitars playing pure rock and roll. Thanks, Joan Jett. Amazon | iTunes
Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A.
Eazy-E, Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, Ice Cube and MC Ren are undeniably cool. This album made N.W.A., and gangsta rap, a certifiably cool force to be reckoned with. Amazon | iTunes
So that's our list. What would be on yours? Tell us in the comments.


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Beginning September 2012, all Hanover Park Fire Department ambulances will carry equipment in order to begin therapeutic hypothermia resuscitation. For the last four years, area hospitals have been using hypothermic treatment when a patient who was in cardiac arrest regains a pulse. Hypothermia is defined as a body temperature below 95 degrees. Studies have shown that the body recovers and heals better at lower temperatures.
Now our paramedics can begin this treatment before they arrive at the hospital. The equipment added to the ambulances is called a Chillcore™ case, which keeps the I.V. fluids at a constant temperature of 39 degrees. The treatment begins after the return of spontaneous circulation is achieved; the crew then begins IV lines of chilled saline and places ice packs around the body in key areas.
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Recent studies have shown up to 62% of back injuries may be related to CPR delivery. In addition, the use of mechanical CPR decreases the risks associated with performing CPR in the back of a moving ambulance. The first generation of the LUCAS™ device was used in Europe in 2002, with its use in America beginning in 2007. Hanover Park is the first EMS provider in our region to implement the LUCAS™ device.
The Hanover Park Fire Department has recently introduced the GlideScope® for use when controlling a patient's airway during an endotracheal intubation. Intubation is the action of placing a breathing tube into the trachea with the use of a laryngoscope. This equipment takes advantage of fiber-optic technology which allows for a video view of the patients airway during the procedure.
GlideScope® equipment has become the equipment of choice for controlling a difficult airway. Fiber-optic laryngoscopy has become increasingly available to pre-hospital providers and is becoming a standard of care in many EMS agencies across the nation; it is currently used in most operating rooms and emergency departments for its success rates with patients who are difficult to intubate. Current published studies show dramatic results for first time success when fiber-optic intubation equipment is used compared to the traditional method of direct laryngoscopy.
The complete line of equipment will allow usage for all patients from a newborn to the adult. Incorporated into the software package with the device is the ability to photograph a still image or record video of the entire procedure, which provides a timeline of a successful intubation to be part of our electronic documentation in the patient care record. The Hanover Park Fire Department is the first provider in our region to introduce this technology into the pre-hospital setting.


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During California Governor Jerry Brown's first stint in the job from 1975 to 1983, he earned the nickname "Governor Moonbeam" for his ability to attract the young, idealistic, nontraditional voting block. He once called the Golden State "the world's largest outdoor mental asylum," saying in 1979, "If it babbles and its eyeballs are glazed, it probably comes from California."
Now in the middle of his second act as governor, Brown worries that too many glazed eyeballs might be a bad thing for America's most populous state. During an appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, Brown said he worried about the ripple effects of fully legalizing marijuana. "The problem with anything, a certain amount is OK. But there is a tendency to go to extremes," Brown said. "And all of a sudden, if there's advertising and legitimacy, how many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?"
Brown said that he will watch Colorado and Washington, which have regulated the growth and sale of recreational marijuana at state-licensed stores, to see if California should extend its own legalization of pot for medicinal use. "I'd really like those two states to show us how it's going to work," Brown said. "The world's pretty dangerous, very competitive. I think we need to stay alert, if not 24 hours a day, more than some of the potheads might be able to put together."
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With E3 going on this week things have been super busy for us here at SCEE. I'm sure many of have been keeping up to date through our blog or other means but let's not forget the usual store update.
PlayStation Plus users, if you haven't seen so already, do check out Ross's post here on the changes and what new content you can expect. You'll get awesome games such as Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, inFAMOUS2 and LittleBigPlanet 2. Definitely not something you want to miss out on.
Available on PlayStation Store today, you can get your hands on Sega's Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown at either a base game level, or Complete Edition which includes character customisations.
We've also got FIFA 12 and UEFA EURO 2012 available as a bundle for you to enjoy, Shellshock Nam '67 as a new PS2 title and of course various DLC pieces for titles such as Dragon's Dogma and Test Drive Unlimited 2.
There's also a host of new trailers going up today and throughout the week for titles shown at E3, so keep an eye on PlayStation Store for those.
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FIFA 12 and UEFA EURO 2012 Bundle
This bundle unites the #1 selling sports franchise on the planet with the one of the biggest football events of the year. You get the award winning FIFA 12 and EA SPORTS UEFA EURO 2012™ expansion pack, the only officially licensed videogame of the 2012 European Football Championship. The expansion pack requires FIFA 12 (included) to play.
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Lace up those boots and shoot to score! The Who Wants To Be A Football Millionaire? Bundle brings together the core Special Editions game with the Football question pack – that's 1800 questions, 600 of which are tailored to the world of football. Put your knowledge of the football to the test, and prove that your general knowledge is a cut above the rest with this all-encompassing bundle!
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The design of this contemporary home, located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, presented a plethora of challenges for Kariouk Associates.
The designers had to created a house that could accommodate the needs of an adult couple as well as their teenaged children while operating under a restricted budget.
The project was completed in 2008.
Chelsea Hill House by Kariouk Associates:
"Design Challenge:
The logistical challenge was to create within a small home a segregation of spaces for the very different habits (privacy, acoustical, tidiness, etc.) of teenagers and adults while avoiding choppy spaces.
Design Solution:
The house is conceived as a very simple masonry volume: "the foundation of the family" which overlooks a beautiful river valley. The spaces most used by the teenagers, their bedrooms, a TV area, and sports equipment storage, are all placed on the ground level.
Durable surfaces such as a radiant concrete floor are used throughout this level. The formal areas of the house, the living area, dining area, kitchen, but also the master bedroom and bathroom, are all located upstairs and, as such, are given the most privileged views.
Here, as well as on the stairway that leads to the main living level, more rich materials such as wood floors and glass railings are introduced with higher ceilings.
While all of the noisy and messy areas fall out of view by being placed directly beneath the living areas, the two levels are joined by the double-height entryway and hallway below.
In this way, the primary living level is perceived to float lightly above the serene vista beyond. Though the home is constructed of fundamentally simple, industrial materials, one significant "cushy" indulgence was included: a bathtub suspended in the double-height space that looks over the valley.
This tub, sunken in the floor, is accessed from the master bedroom and, if needed, is closed off from the adjacent living area by a sliding frosted-glass screen.
The lightness of the interior living area is contrasted by the solidity of the exterior.
In response to the project's very modest budget, industrial concrete blocks were used as the exterior veneer, but in an unconventional manner: the rough material is arranged in a pinwheelpattern yielding a playful façade throwing deep shadows.
Last, because the house is quite small for a large family, an exterior, screened-in living/dining area was designed for the flat roof. When completed, this space will be accessed by an exterior steel stair, linking the interior living area and exterior living area."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New ABC television drama "Nashville" takes inspiration from the city's rich history of country music, yet the brightest star may not be the actors but rather a small record label with big ambitions.
"Nashville," seen by some nine million U.S. viewers on its Wednesday night debut, shows veteran country singer Rayna Jaymes (played by Connie Britton) face off against young starlet rival Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) as she struggles to keep her career together.
But another insight into the industry comes from the show's partnership with one of Nashville's independent success stories.
For Big Machine Records, which landed on the map seven years ago after signing a 15-year-old Taylor Swift as its first artist, "Nashville" presented a rare opportunity for the company to not only distribute the music from the TV series, but to also become part of the fabric of the plot.
The label, which also represents country music stars including Tim McGraw and Rascal Flatts, will exclusively release music sung by cast members in the show each week.
Big Machine Records artists such as rising star Justin Moore will also see some of their songs and performances featured throughout the series.
Scott Borchetta, 50, a former DreamWorks Records executive, who founded Big Machine Records in 2005, said Swift's success gave the label "extraordinary license" to expand into new opportunities.
"Because of the success of Taylor and the momentum of the label and bringing on Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, and also breaking artists like The Band Perry, we're really fortunate right now. There's not really anywhere that we can't at least get in the door and have a conversation," Borchetta told Reuters in an interview this week.
Borchetta said the biggest challenge he came across with his fledgling company was trying to get a foot in the door of an already over-saturated industry.
"We had to go beg, borrow and steal every opportunity and those were the times we couldn't get the door open so we had to kick it down or we had to sneak in the window," he said.
"(Taylor and I) showed up at red carpets we weren't invited to. We were not going to be stopped."
Since then, Swift, now 22, has gone on to sell more than 20 million albums worldwide and won six Grammy awards. Country music is also booming, accounting for 42.9 million albums sold in the U.S. in 2011 - a year which saw Lady Antebellum as the biggest selling band across all genres in the U.S. music industry, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Big Machine Records' collaboration with "Nashville" allowed Borchetta to expand the company across a new, visual platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"You take the craziest parts of the old TV show 'Dallas' and smash it into the Nashville record industry, and you've got this show that might just end up being a huge hit," Borchetta said.
The label executive added that he didn't have high expectations for "Nashville" when he first was presented with the opportunity, but he soon spotted a chance for the label to make its screen debut.
"I love the ability to weave and intersect what's happening right now today on the ground into the TV show," Borchetta said.
Unlike music-rich TV programs such as "Glee" or "Smash," which feature celebrities in cameo or guest-starring roles, "Nashville" producer R.J. Cutler said his show uses genuine country music artists to serve the story.
"It's not a cameo-driven show...those are real Nashville musicians who are greatly respected there and known to people who know about country music," Cutler told TV reporters while promoting the show in August.
Borchetta said he hoped the partnership would help his label grow even more in the industry.
"It could be the biggest hit from the last several years for ABC, or we could be done in six episodes, and that's exciting because we have a chance to help make it a hit," he said.
"This is our first chance to really do it on a big stage so I hope we don't screw it up."
"Nashville" is a co-production between Walt Disney Co's ABC Studios and Lionsgate Television.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy, editing by Jill Serjeant and Carol Bishopric)


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Effect of a commercial pectinmethylesterase on tomato paste consistency María Elvira Zúñiga-Hansen*1,2 · Eduardo Pérez-Torres1 · Eduardo Caballero-Valdés1,2 · José Fernández-Parodi2 1Centro Regional de
Estudios en Alimentos Saludables (CREAS), CONICYT-Regional GORE R06I1004,
Valparaíso, Chile *Corresponding author: email@example.com; email@example.com Financial support: Proyecto FONDECYT Nº 1070258 and Centro Regional de Estudios en Alimentos Saludables (CREAS), CONICYT-Regional GORE Valparaíso R06I1004. Keywords: pectin methyl esterase, tomato paste, viscosity.
Background: Consistency is one of the main traits that define commercial quality and price of tomato paste. Pectins are partially responsible for consistency in tomato paste, therefore enzymatic pectin modification could be used to increase paste consistency. Results: This work reports the effects of a commercial enzymatic preparation of pectin-methyl-esterase (PME) (NovoShape™) on tomato paste consistency taking into account variables as enzyme/substrate ratio (0,1% w/w - 1% w/w), reaction time (0 hr - 3 hrs) and reaction temperature (40ºC-60ºC). The results indicate that NovoShape™ increased consistency when reaction temperature ranged from 40 to 50ºC with an enzyme/substrate ratio of 0.5 to 1 (l PME solution/g tomato paste on dry base). On the other hand, enzymatic treatment was not effective at 60ºC with an enzyme/substrate ratio of 0.1%. Conclusions: Based on these results, addition of NovoShape™ is a good technological approach to increase tomato paste consistency.
Tomato paste is obtained by concentrating tomato juice after removal of skin and seeds. Its commercial quality is associated with colour, lycopene concentration and consistency, therefore, improvement of any of these traits determines a better competitiveness and commercial value in the market (Haley and Smith, 2003; Colle et al. 2010). Consistency of tomato products is strongly affected by the composition of pectins, which are high molecular weight polysaccharides of partially methylated units of D-galacturonic acid (Anthon et al. 2002; Van Buggenhout et al. 2009). Removal of methyl groups from methoxyl pectin by pectin methyl esterase (PME) has been used to increase consistency in some foods by allowing cross linking of divalent cations with pectin molecules (Anthon et al. 2005; Plaza et al. 2008). Based on the above mentioned, enzymes involved in pectin modification could have important applications for tomato industry (Van Buggenhout et al. 2009). The present study proposes the use of a commercial preparation of PME, NovoShape™, as a strategy to increase tomato paste consistency and, therefore, its commercial value. The main variables to carry out the study are enzyme/substrate ratio and reaction time and temperature, which are reported in order to determine the best conditions to use PME preparation in tomato paste industry.
Materials Tomato pastes were purchased from commercial brands Aconcagua Foods and Dos Caballos. A commercial preparation of pectin methyl transferase (EC. 220.127.116.11) from Aspergillus aculeatus, was used in the assays (NovoShape™, Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd, Denmark). Sample preparation Commercial tomato pastes were adjusted to 12ºBrix by addition of distilled water. NovoShape™ was added to previously homogenized samples at 0.1, 0.5 and 1% w/w and incubated at 40, 50 and 60ºC for 3 hrs in water bath with temperature control. Enzymatic reaction was stopped by thermal shock at 100ºC during 5 min and the paste obtained was reconstituted to reach 12ºBrix with distilled water. Samples were measured with a Bronswick consistometer (CSC Scientific, USA). Consistency measurement This method determines consistency of almost any viscous substance by measuring the distance a material flows under its own weight during a time interval of 30 sec in a Bronswick consistometer at 20ºC. Made of stainless steel, unit has spirit level and two levelling screws. Trigger-held gate is spring-operated to permit instantaneous release. Trough is graduated in 0.5 cm divisions and requires 75 mL sample. The details of the present procedure are mentioned in ASTM F1080-93. Statistical analysis Samples were measured in duplicate and significant differences were determined by ANOVA (P < 0.05) using the software GraphPad Prism version 5.01.
Consistency is highly dependent on crosslinking of pectin with divalent cations such as calcium (Slavov et al. 2009; Wei et al. 2009; Yoo et al. 2009). However, the fact that the treatments with 0.5% w/w and 1% w/w of NovoShape™ increased tomato paste consistency throughout 3 hrs of assay (P < 0.05) without addition of divalent cations suggests that consistency is not limited by these elements in tomato paste, which can be observed in Figure 1a and c. It must be taking into account that the lower the Bronswick value of consistency, the higher the sample consistency. A Bronswick consistency value decreased from 6 cm/30 sec to 4 cm/30 sec, which could increase the commercial value of tomato paste in about 50%, and therefore was considered the value to be reached in these experiments. Samples treated with 0.1% w/w NovoShape™ showed similar consistencies compared to control conditions (Figure 1a). Incubation for longer times would probably result in a higher paste consistency; however, those treatments could not be considered because of the delay involved in processing several thousand tons of tomato per season, taking into account the productivity as criteria. Treatment with 1% w/w NovoShape™ increased consistency to 4 cm/30 sec in half time compared to the same preparation at 0.5% w/w (Figure 1b and c). Despite the shorter time necessary to reach the target consistency with NovoShape™ at 1% w/w, this amount of enzyme preparation represents a high cost to be used in practical applications in tomato paste industry. Therefore, treatment with NovoShape™ at 0.5% w/w is recommended when a compromise among consistency, productivity and enzyme cost is considered. A sudden change in consistency was observed at 0.5% w/w NovoShape™ during the second hour of treatment compared to the first one (Figure 1b). This is probably due to a threshold of pectin demethylation necessary to sustain the cross linking with divalent cations in the paste to increase consistency. It has been shown that PME from Aspergillus aculeatus cleaves methoxyl groups in a random way and the determinant factor in gel formation by calcium/pectin interactions is the number of successive carboxyl groups along the pectin backbone and not only their total number (Axelos et al. 1996). Based on the latter, the higher change in consistency observed during the second hour of treatment might be related to the time necessary to have enough successive carboxyl groups free to interact with divalent cations in tomato pectin treated with NovoShape™. Treatment with 0.5% w/w NovoShape™ at 40ºC resulted in an increased consistency from 20 min onwards, meanwhile it took more than 1 hr to observe significant changes in paste consistency at 50ºC (P < 0.05) (Figure 1b). PME from A. aculeatus has been shown to follow a first order model of inactivation in the range of 46-56ºC (Duvetter et al. 2005). Therefore, a higher degree of enzymatic inactivation at 50ºC may explain why longer treatments were necessary to increase consistency at this temperature. Differences between 40ºC and 50ºC incubation treatments were not observed at 1% w/w NovoShape™ (Figure 1c), suggesting that despite the inactivation by temperature, remaining PME activity at this concentration was more than enough to saturate the system.
Our results suggest that NovoShape™ added at 0.5% w/w could have important applications in tomato paste industry by increasing consistency and therefore its commercial value. Availability of a PME less susceptible to high temperature and a complete economic evaluation may help to determine the feasibility of its use in tomato paste industry.
ANTHON, G.E.; SEKINE, Y.; WATANABE, N. and BARRETT, D.M. (2002). Thermal inactivation of pectin methylesterase, polygalacturonase, and peroxidase in tomato juice. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 50, no. 21, p. 6153-6159. [CrossRef] ANTHON, G.E.; BLOT, L. and BARRETT, D.M. (2005). Improved firmness in calcified diced tomatoes by temperature activation of pectin methylesterase. Journal of Food Science, vol. 70, no. 5, p. C342-C347. [CrossRef] AXELOS, M.A.V.; GARNIER, C.; RENARD, C.M.G.C. and THIBAULT, J.F. (1996). Interactions of pectins with multivalent cations: Phase diagrams and structural aspects. Progress in Biotechnology, vol. 14, p. 35-45. [CrossRef] COLLE, I.; VAN BUGGENHOUT, S.; VAN LOEY, A. and HENDRICKX, M. (2010). High pressure homogenization followed by thermal processing of tomato pulp: Influence on microstructure and lycopene in vitro bioaccessibility. Food Research International, vol. 43, no. 8, p. 2193-2200. [CrossRef] DUVETTER, T.; LOEY, A.V.; SMOUT, C.; VERLENT, I.; NGUYEN, B.L. and HENDRICKX, M. (2005). Aspergillus aculeatus pectin methylesterase: Study of the inactivation by temperature and pressure and the inhibition by pectin methylesterase inhibitor. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, vol. 36, no. 4, p. 385-390. [CrossRef] HALEY, T.A. and SMITH, R.S. (2003). Evaluation of in-line obsorption photometry to predict consistency of concentrated tomato products. LWT-Food Science and Technology, vol. 36, no. 2, p. 159-164. [CrossRef] PLAZA, L.; DUVETTER, T.; PLANCKEN, I.V.D.; MEERSMAN, F.; LOEY, A.V. and HENDRICKX, M. (2008). Influence of environmental conditions on thermal stability of recombinant Aspergillus aculeatus pectinmethylesterase. Food Chemistry, vol. 111, no. 4, p. 912-920. [CrossRef] SLAVOV, A.; GARNIER, C.; CRÉPEAU, M.-J.; DURAND, S.; THIBAULT, J.F. and BONNIN, E. (2009). Gelation of high methoxy pectin in the presence of pectin methylesterases and calcium. Carbohydrate Polymers, vol. 77, no. 4, p. 876-884. [CrossRef] VAN BUGGENHOUT, S.; SILA, D.N.; DUVETTER, T.; VAN LOEY, A. and HENDRICKX, M. (2009). Pectins in processed fruits and vegetables: Part III-texture engineering. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 105-117. [CrossRef] WEI, X.; CHEN, Z.; LU, Y.; XU, H.; CHEN, G. and WU, W. (2009). Physicochemical characterization of a pectin/calcium matrix containing a large fraction of calcium chloride: Implications for sigmoidal release characteristics. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 113, no. 4, p. 2418-2428. [CrossRef] YOO, S.H.; LEE, B.H.; SAVARY, B.J.; LEE, S.; LEE, H.G. and HOTCHKISS, A.T. (2009). Characteristics of enzymatically-deesterified pectin gels produced in the presence of monovalent ionic salts. Food Hydrocolloids, vol. 23, no. 7, p. 1926-1929. [CrossRef] Note: Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is not responsible if on-line references cited on manuscripts are not available any more after the date of publication. |


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Obamacare Sign-ups Reach 79,000 People In Ohio
< < Back toFederal officials say close to 79,000 Ohioans have picked health plans in the new insurance marketplace created by President Barack Obama's health care law.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report Tuesday with the latest enrollment numbers covering Oct. 1 through March 1. Officials say 78,925 Ohioans have signed up for coverage ahead of the March 31 open enrollment deadline.
That number falls far short of the 152,000 Ohioans that the government projected would be enrolled by the end of February.
The federal data shows that many Ohio residents obtaining coverage in the marketplace are older. Eighty-five percent of enrollees are getting financial help to pay their monthly premiums.
The report also said more than 193,000 Ohioans were found eligible to enroll in a marketplace plan.


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UPDATE as of October 3, 2016:
The U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari. See ORDER LIST: 580 U.S., published on Monday, October 3, 2016, accessed at https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100316zor_9ol1.pdf , The Court did not give any reason for the denial which it normally does not give. The denial of such a petition is not a ruling on the merits. We will just have to wait until another day.


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Chechen Anti-armor Techniques
Vulnerabilities of Russian armored vehicles
The BMD-1 is a personnel carrier assigned to airborne forces. As such, it is lightly armored.
It was vulnerable to front, rear, flanking and top-down fire. The front portion of the turret is reinforced and, consequently, not vulnerable, but the rear of the turret is.
There is more armor on the BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle. However, its top armor is weak, its fuel tanks are within the rear doors and the driver's compartment is vulnerable.
The BTR-70 wheeled armored personnel carrier showed many of the same vulnerabilities as the BMD and BMP.
1. For a discussion of changing Russian urban tactics, see Lester W. Grau, "Russian Urban Tactics: Lessons from the Battle for Grozny," Strategic Forum, Number 38, July 1995.
2. N. N. Novichkov, V. Ya. Snegovskiy, A. G. Sokolov and V. Yu. Shvarev, Rossiyskie vooruzhennye sily v chechenskom konflikte: Analiz, Itogi, Vyvody (Russian armed force in the chechen conflict: Analysis, outcomes and conclusions), Moscow: Kholveg-Infoglob-Trivola, 1995, 138-139. For the same period of time, forward-support Russian maintenance personnel repaired 217 armored vehicles, while depot maintenance repaired another 404 armored vehicles according to Sergey Maev and Sergey Roshchin, "STO v Grozny" (Technical Maintenance Stations in Grozny), Armeyskiy sbornik (Army digest), December 1995, 58. These were not all combat-induced losses, but it seems to indicate that 846 of 2221 armored vehicles (38%) were out of action for some period of time during the two-month battle for Grozny.
3. Mikhail Zakharchuk, "Uroki Chechenskogo krizisa" (Lessons of the Chechen crisis), Armeyskiy sbornik, April 1995, 46.
4. "Pamyatka lichnomu sostavu chastey i podrazdeleniy po vedeniyu boevykh deistviy v Chechenskoy Respublike" (Instructions for unit and subunit personnel involved in combat in the Chechen Republic), Ameryskiy sbornik, January 1996, 37.
5. Novichkov, 145.
6. Ibid, 123.
7. Sergey Leonenko, "Ovladenie gorodom" (Capturing a city), Armeyskiy sbornik, 31-35.
8. Novichkov, 137.
9. All illustrations are taken from Novichkov, 140-144.
10. Novichkov, 145.
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Open-bound: This past weekend was a big one for 16-year-old Madison Keys. The up-and-coming US teen went through three rounds of tennis to earn a win at the Wildcard Playoffs event in DC, scoring herself a spot in the main draw of the Open. Keys took out last year's media darling of the US Open — Beatrice Capra — in the final, 3-6 6-4 6-0. Keys has played in just one other main draw event in 2011, losing to Patty Schnyder in the opening round in Miami in a third-set tiebreaker. The current world no. 456 lost in the opening round of qualies at last year's Open.
Above, Wilson pits Keys in a great video with professional opera singer Lily Oh. In the vid, the two ladies try to teach one another a few tricks about their vastly different trades. The result? Mostly hilarity.
Below, TSF gets in a few Qs with the NYC-bound teen before her first-ever Open main draw.
TSF: You can use your Wilson racket to do anything other than play tennis. What would it be?
Madison Keys: I would eat every meal off of it.
TSF: Flossing is something ___________.
MK: Flossing is something everyone lies about.
TSF: Say you have the option to play in just one of the four Majors — ever. Which do you choose?
MK: US Open
TSF: Katy Perry's "TGIF" video is _________.
MK: Katy Perry's TGIF video is one of my favorites.
TSF: Speaking of "TGIF," Rebecca Black's "Friday" got removed from YouTube. This makes you feel what? Because?
MK: It makes me feel sad because of the hateful comments, but also grateful that my sisters stopped playing it.
TSF: How did you celebrate your sweet 16?
MK: Went out with friends for a movie and ice cream.
TSF: What's your favorite kind of ice cream?
MK: White chocolate raspberry from Whitey's. [Keys is an Illinois native.]
TSF: Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf offer you to play doubles — with one of them. Who do you choose?
MK: Steffi Graf
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YouTube Queens of the Stone Age are in the process of finishing up their next album, but took time out of their schedule to give fans a little insight (or perhaps none at all) on exactly how the disc is coming along in a new mockumentary short inspired, in part, by 'This Is Spinal Tap.' The band, taking a jab at how many "behind the scenes" features there are concerning acts and the music making process, filmed the humorous 9-minute clip with hosts Matt Berry and Steve Agee. Berry and Agee venture to the band's studio to film their 'Secrets of the Sound' segment, but find the group a little less than cooperative. Bassist Mike Shuman can't be bothered to remove his headphones to answer a question. Troy Van Leeuwen seems more concerned with preening in front of a bathroom mirror before giving a straight answer. And multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita simply sprays Agee with lilac-scented spray before storming off after one question. The bulk of the info comes from frontman Josh Homme , who admits that he's not sure about all of the instruments in their studio, reveals that a fan sent in a human ear at their request so they could test out the way things sound, and he also reveals that he's the Encino Chapter head of the Patrick Swayze fan club. So there you have it — everything you never thought you wanted to know about Queens of the Stone Age and their forthcoming album. Meanwhile, we can tell you that the band has Dave Grohl playing drums on the new disc, with contributions from Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor , former QOTSA member Nick Oliveri and Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears . Watch Queens of the Stone Age's 'Secrets of the Sound' Mockumentary [button href="http://loudwire.com/queens-of-the-stone-age-new-album-manic-and-unpredictable/" title="Next: Josh Homme Discusses 'Manic + Unpredictable' Album" align="center"]
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Around Downtown - A Spotlight on LMDC Funding Recipients
Manhattan Youth Provides Programming for Young and Old A child participating in Manhattan Youth�s after school arts and crafts programs. Manhattan Youth is a recipient of LMDC funding. It's 11 a.m., and as you walk into the door of Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center there is an endless stream of children and strollers. At the front desk a group of senior citizens checks the schedule for senior swim classes. Amidst the bustle, you get sense that this center is designed to provide services for all ages. At three in the afternoon the center focuses all of its resources to provide after school programming, and later in the evening it offers adult programming such as live music, adult swim programs, and dance programming. Take a stroll through the center and you're likely to bump into Executive Director Bob Townley. "Bob," as he's affectionately known to the Lower Manhattan community, has been leading Manhattan Youth for over twenty four years. "I am a community organizer, who just wanted to create sport and cultural programming for the community of Lower Manhattan," Townley said. Before the Downtown Center was opened in 2008, Manhattan Youth operated programs out of three Lower Manhattan Schools, and used Pier 25 at Hudson River Park focusing the majority of its services on children. With the creation of the Manhattan Youth's Downtown Center which is 28,000 square feet, Manhattan Youth has created numerous programs for adults, seniors and teenagers, while continuing to enhance its services for children. The Downtown Center provides numerous programs and services, such as after school programming for children and teens, aquatic programs for all ages, arts and crafts for all ages, music and design programs for teens, cooking classes for all ages, yoga classes for all ages, adult programming after 6 p.m., a variety of senior programs throughout the day, and even offers programming space for P.S. 234 to help with the over crowding of its facility. Besides the amazing targeted audience centered programming and services Manhattan Youth Downtown Center provides, Manhattan Youth has been running the Downtown Basketball league for nineteen years. The league has over 300 participants. Wendy Chapman a member of Manhattan Youth and Lower Manhattan resident said "Manhattan Youth is wonderful place for families to spend time together, and the staff at Manhattan Youth are just amazing." Mrs. Chapman and her family participate in numerous programs that Manhattan Youth offers. Mrs. Chapman said, "The most important thing about Manhattan Youth is that is makes its programs affordable to all of its members". Lower Manhattan residents enjoying an adult dance program at the Downtown Center. Manhattan Youth was one of thirty five community organizations in Lower Manhattan to receive a grant through LMDC Community Enhancement Fund. LMDC awarded Manhattan Youth a grant for $1.5 million dollars for operating expenses of Manhattan Youth's Downtown Community Center. Also, Manhattan Youth was one of 63 recipients of LMDC Cultural Enhancement Fund, which was awarded in 2006. The four hundred thousand dollars grant was used for the installation of the Downtown Centers HVAC System. Townley said, "The LMDC Community grant has allowed Manhattan Youth to keep its membership fees at a reasonable price. The grants allowed the center to have sustainable growth and provide new programs and services to the community during a challenging economic time in New York." Some of the new programs Manhattan Youth will be offering, also supported by LMDC, are Friday Night Jazz and Aquatic program designed for disabled residents of Lower Manhattan. Townley said, "With the LMDC grant we were able to go out and purchase a lift which will allow people with limited mobility to access the pool." For more information about Manhattan Youth please visit http://www.manhattanyouth.org. Learn More |


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China's three main carbon markets – the Beijing Environment Exchange, Shanghai Environment Energy Exchange and Tianjin Climate Exchange – were all formed within two months of each other, towards the end of 2008. At that point, the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) was still struggling to recover from a crash a year previously, which had seen the price of carbon allowance plummet from 30 euros to just a few cents.
The World Bank estimates that carbon trading globally could be worth US$3.5 trillion by 2020, meaning it would overtake oil to become the world's largest market. Spurred by this rosy outlook, China had 100 carbon exchanges in operation or under preparation by late 2011. Most were quickly taken over by speculators, however, while genuine carbon trading remained rare. None of the three main exchanges saw a single real carbon trade in its first year of operation.
On 29 October last year, the National Reform and Development Commission (NRDC), China's top economic planner, announced that carbon trading trials would run in seven of the country's most important cities and provinces: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangdong, Hubei and Shenzhen. Each of these locations already has its own carbon emissions exchange. (Compared with the existing exchanges, these trial platforms will enjoy policy-created-demand and guaranteed customers, and so in theory be free from worry about their sales performance.)
But as part of a clampdown on dubious trading practices, on November 11 last year the State Council – China's highest administrative organ – tightened regulations on all of the country's exchanges, from equity exchanges and commodities exchanges to those trading "cultural artwork". The rules, which were intended to reduce financial risk, included a ban on trading in shares of assets (except from stocks and permitted financial products) which effectively blacklisted the core business of carbon markets.
The two almost parallel announcements highlight the government's lack of coordination on carbon-markets policy. As there is no physical commodity, carbon emission allowances are always traded as shares. The State Council proclamation was in clear conflict with the fortnight-old NDRC document. But, in February, state news agency Xinhua reported in a local news that "The Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange has been designated by the NDRC as an environment and energy trading platform," indicating that the threat posed by the policy restrictions of the State Council document had been overcome.
But those licensing issues are nothing compared to the real problem facing carbon markets: how to make tradable emissions permits appropriately scarce. The 2007 crash in the EU-ETS market was caused by a glut of allocated emission rights, far exceeding demand. There was next to no scarcity.
In 2008, the European Union knocked back proposals from member states for lax emissions caps during the scheme's second phase (2008-2012) and ultimately agreed on an average cut of 7% below 2005 levels. But the European debt crisis has dealt a heavy blow to the carbon price, as well as the wider economy: demand is again much lower than anticipated, and this has impacted investment in low-carbon technology. The EU, with its sluggish economy, has repeatedly failed to accurately predict future emissions, demonstrating how hard it will be for China to set similar targets.
The international media, however, has been less interested in the challenges facing China's seven carbon-trading trials than in what their existence might imply about Chinese climate policy. These pilots are meant to "calculate and cap total greenhouse gas emissions", and have been widely interpreted as a prelude to China setting a national emissions cap, something that would be of huge significance.
This interpretation is both right and wrong.
The Chinese government's 12th Five-Year Plan includes targets for energy-intensity and carbon-intensity cuts of 16% and 17% respectively between 2010 and 2015. In December last year, the State Council formally set reduction targets for provincial-level governments. But in the second half of 2011, the National Energy Administration also started looking at capping total energy consumption. And it's a short step from energy consumption to carbon emissions. Currently, the total primary energy consumption cap for 2015 has been set between 4 billion and 4.2 billion tonnes of coal equivalent, while there is also a total electricity consumption target of 6.4 trillion kilowatt hours.
Provincial targets based on these figures have already been handed down. These figures show that caps at national level are actually being set slightly earlier than those at the trial locations. This means that the targets set at those trial locations will not lead to national level targets.
Moreover, carbon trading pilots don't have to involve setting local emissions targets. There are a couple of reasons for saying this. First, look at the EU-ETS. The initial stage of that scheme only covered certain large emissions sources, accounting for about 40% of total EU emissions. Coverage did not expand until the scheme moved into its second phase. Similarly, China's trials do not need to set targets for their regions as a whole, but just for major emitters in key industries.
Second, differences between carbon trading models determine whether or not an overall emissions target is needed. In its first phase, the Australian regime – which comes into force on July 1 this year – will use a fixed price in kind of "carbon tax". The country's most polluting companies will pay AU$23 (145 yuan) for every tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent they emit, a price set to increase by 2.5% annually. But running a system like this requires the ability to monitor and verify emissions data, the aspect of carbon trading China needs to strengthen most.
A big question mark still hangs over the accuracy of China's energy data, in particular its data on coal, use of which is highly decentralised. Without industry-level figures, the ability of local governments to produce reliable energy statistics is seriously jeopardised – weaker, even, than that of central government. Often, only rough estimates are possible.
Worse, it can be hard to get numbers from large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) because they are not under local government control, or because they say the data is "too sensitive" to release. This makes it tough for local government to verify figures, and if figures can't be verified, then any talk of breaches or penalties is empty. Carbon trading trials based on some key industries and major emissions sources are therefore more realistic and more likely to succeed than a more universal approach.
Carbon-intensity targets can also be linked with GDP growth rates as higher economic efficiency against emission will result in lower intensity. This is a more flexible approach than setting absolute carbon targets. It's also a more realistic approach for China, considering the EU's past two failures. Against the backdrop of China's transforming economy, the carbon market is a flexible and cost effective policy tool that allows local governments room to manoeuvre when allocating emissions reduction targets.
If the visible hand of policy can see its target and the invisible hand of the market can be regulated, China's carbon trading trials will have a good chance of success. But for carbon markets overall the real threat is the very political will that creates them. Carbon markets worldwide crashed almost simultaneously in 2011; not a coincidence caused by failings in market design, but the result of changes in the global policy direction.
At the end of 2010, the largest carbon market in North America, the Chicago Climate Exchange announced the closure of its cap-and-trade market. The wider context of this change was the fact that the Democrats had performed poorly in the mid-term elections and there was scant hope of the Clean Energy and Security Bill passing a Republican Senate. This meant there was no chance of near-term implementation of the bill's emission targets or a cap-and-trade system. California's carbon market, due to start operating in 2013, will be the final stronghold of those who favour a strong American response to climate change.
Meanwhile, the EU sovereign debt crisis was worsening and economic activity slumped. Supply of carbon emission allowance again exceeded demand and the carbon price headed south. The greens pushed hard for cancellation of large quantities of excess quotas, while heavy industry lobbied just as hard against it. In 2012, phase two of the EU-ETS was drawing to a chaotic close – not quite what the Europeans, keen to provide a global model, had hoped for.
They aren't alone in disappointment. The only carbon market in which developing nations participate isn't running smoothly either. Although it was agreed at the UN-led climate change summit in Durban last year that the Kyoto Protocol would continue into a second commitment period, there is still no global emissions target that could support an active carbon market.
The price of Certified Emissions Reductions under Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has slid from 25 euros (200 yuan) to 5 euros (40 yuan). European carbon traders have even refused to pay some Chinese CDM project owners their contracted price, demanding to renegotiate or even seeking out loopholes in the contract. This is a grave blow to hopes for a global climate market and has exacerbated mistrust of carbon markets among developing nations.
Carbon markets trade in a virtual product, created by policy alone. And so policy stability is essential. The outlook for climate change talks is bleak; the EU and American economies are in the doldrums; and economic targets are taking precedence over climate goals. There is no question that China's ability to provide a stable demand for emission cuts will be crucial to getting its carbon markets up and running.
And while policy in China is more consistent than in many other nations, there is another Chinese disease to worry about. Policy should be used to create markets not to control them, but in China markets are often mere adjuncts to policy. Either there is no regulation and the invisible hand runs wild, or there is too much and the invisible hand is handcuffed.
The Chinese stock market offers one of the strangest examples in that it has become a reverse barometer of the Chinese economy; it keeps going down while the Chinese economy is booming. Perhaps this is why Shenzhen was the only non-provincial level location picked for a carbon trading pilot: its two decades' experience running a national stock exchange might come in just handy.
Wang Tao is a resident scholar in the Energy and Climate Program at Carnegie Tsinghua Center for Global Policy.
This article is published as part of our Green Growth project, a collaboration between chinadialogue and The Energy Foundation.
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text: Remember Masende? Harrison's son who you so kindly helped out with his university admission fees? Well, he passed his first year of his engineering degree! His parents are SO proud of him. Both of them are very low earning unskilled workers who grew up during apartheid where there was very limited access to decent basic education for black people, and obtaining a university education was just about impossible for many, so this is a very big achievement for them, as it would be for any parent actually. Thank you to all of you who made this possible xxxxx


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Nice profile of Susan Crawford, highlighting her campaign against telco internet monopolies, by David Carr in today's NYT.
A taste of Telecom's Big Players Hold Back the Future:
Susan Crawford, a professor at [Cardozo School of Law], has written a book, "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," that offers a calm but chilling state-of-play on the information age in the United States. She is on a permanent campaign, speaking at schools, conferences and companies — she was at Google last week — and in front of Congress, asserting that the status quo has been great for providers but an expensive mess for everyone else.
Ms. Crawford argues that the airwaves, the cable systems and even access to the Internet itself have been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and chronically overcharge consumers.
The 1996 Telecommunications Act, which was meant to lay down track to foster competition in a new age, allowed cable companies and telecoms to simply divide markets and merge their way to monopoly. If you are looking for the answer to why much of the developed world has cheap, reliable connections to the Internet while America seems just one step ahead of the dial-up era, her office — or her book — would be a good place to find out.
'Calm but chilling' – that's Susan when she's doing business; she's warm and funny when off duty.


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Job ID 62622
Job Description
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Post : ARM/RM/SRM – Relationship Manager (Area/Senior/Jr.)
Channel: Bancassurance (Partner Bank)
Location: Krishna Nagar, West Bengal (or available nearby work location)
Job Description
At all assigned candidate need to coordinate with bank staff with given territory and convert lead getting from them into the sales and maintain win-win situation.
- Establishing & strengthening relationship with Krishna Nagar Bank branch manager & staffs to gain leads
- Prospecting & meeting walk in customers of the Bank and conducting Quick Need Analysis
- Increasing bank's customer awareness about Life Insurance products and achieve the targeted penetration on cross sell within the Krishna Nagar branch's customer base.
- Creating awareness and motivate bank employees to recommend life insurance products to bank customers
- Delivering consistently on Goal Sheet parameters
- Ensure compliance to internal sales process & other defined sales & service standards
Performance goals & Indicators for the role
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- New Business leads
- Number of Policies Sales
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Knowledge & Skills Required for Insurance Jobs
Educational Qualification Required: Graduation/ Post Graduation (Any field)
Experience Range: 8+ Months in Sales/marketing/BFSI/FMCG/Auto/Pharma Sales or Customer Relationship.
Knowledge Required: Knowledge about BFSI industry Sales (preferably in bancassurance sales in Bank), or any product sales, field sales, FMCG Sales, Pharma product Sales etc
Location knowledge : Candidate local from Krishna Nagar or Native / Must have area knowledge to easy communicate
Skills Required: Effective Communication, Influencing & Negotiation skills
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The Shakers own training ground – Lower Gigg – has been hit by the recent bad weather to such an extent that manager David Flitcroft will only use it one day a week.
That has led to a frantic search for alternative facilities, with the Bury players being put through their paces at Leigh Sports Village and the Trafford Soccerdome, before Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside loaned out the club's Lostock base for a morning last Wednesday.
"It was an incredible gift for us," said Flitcroft. "I said to the chairman that it was the first time at the football club (since arriving in December) that I've felt like a real coach – I could set up the session and we could really enjoy our work on a good surface.
"It lifts everyone and I really want to thank Bolton for that."
Flitcroft's long-term ambition is for Bury to have training facilities to match their neighbours.
"The chairman understands that this is paramount," he said.
"He has been out over the last two weeks looking at different sites and locations and he won't leave a stone unturned to try to find us that plot of land where we can be out morning, noon and night developing people."


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Retro Fett Comic Review: "Jawas of Doom"
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." -Erma Bombeck
Join Cujos' journey as he reviews all Boba-centric comics that dropped before "Star Wars Episode 2". So forget the future because life is too short not to live in the past. Meet old-school Boba as no one has ever looked at him. Revel in my inane observations. Without further ado, I give you…
Star Wars #81: Jawas of Doom
Ship date: November 22, 1983
On sale date: December 13, 1983
Cover date: March 1984
Talent Role Call
Writer: Mary Jo Duffy
Artists: Ron Frenz (pencils), Tom Palmer / Tom Mandrake(ink), Glynis Wein (color)
Get to know Mary Jo Duffy! Traviss, Bulloch, Logan. These are all Fett house hold names; let's add another to that list. Star Wars Comic #81 is the first appearance of Fett since his unfortunate plunge into the Sarlacc, which makes "Jo Duffy" the woman that would raise Boba from the grave. However inauspicious the appearance may be, Fett fans should recognize the woman that revived Boba Fett. This is the first comic to drop after RotJ.Comic Pack 411: This comic was given the honored treatment of a Walmart exclusive comic pack – including a reprint of the comic and figures of "Goo" covered Boba And RA-7 droid.
Cover Art: Well the cover is nothing if not classic Star Wars art. A collage of the characters grace the cover. An adequate cover, forgettable if not for Boba who can be seen striking a familiar pose. 2.5 Disintegrations
Star Wars Timeline: This comic opens the morning after the destruction of the second Death Star. The Rebels have just partied the evening away on the forest moon of Endor – apparently there is no party like an Ewok party.
Boba by the Numbers: Number of times he is mistaken for a droid: 3
Number of times he fires a gun: 1, on the last page of the comic I might add
Number of times he lifts R2-D2 above his head: 1
Comic Summary: This is a Han-centric comic. While Luke, Wedge, and Lando are shaking off a heavy night of partying with the ewoks. Solo is concerned with one thing: getting his money right. It seems that Solo is a little light on credits and is generally feeling restless. Leia is quick to loan Han some money, but any self respecting scoundrel wont accept hand outs! So its off to collect some credits from where else…Tatooine.
Meanwhile a certain bounty hunter has liberated himself from a certain Sarlacc and his unconscious body is collected by some scavenging Jawas. Han's attempts to collect his credits are denied and as he grows more irritated he realizes that R2-D2 is missing, apparently some Jawas have taken the adventurous droid. Raise your hand if you think Boba and R2 end up in the same sandcrawler. After some grand theft landspeeder, Solo and Leia catch up with our sticky fingered Jawas. Solo makes his way on to the Sandcrawler and is confronted by an amnesia-stricken Fett. I won't waste your time with the details of their confrontation, but I will tell you that Fett ends up helping Solo and R2 to freedom while depositing himself back into the Sarlacc. Yes, back in the Sarlacc. Making this something of a cyclical comic, of superfluous events.
Redundancy 411: It is unclear if the events in the story "A Barve Like That," one of the stories in the book Tales from Jabba's Palace (1995), and this comic are companion pieces. They don't reference each other. The general consensus is that the events in the book are canon and this comic is not.
Fett/Solo insight: Might as well discuss Solo as well as Fett here, since they are seemingly two sides to the same coin. The issues in this comic are somewhat mature in regards to Han Solo (as most of us can relate to): being a little short on cash. This problem seems to bring out the worst in Solo as he "borrows" a couple of landspeeders eventually wrecking them. And his overall demeanor in the comic is rattled and without his cinematic swagger.
On to the Fett man, well, it's tough to really discuss Fett on account of his amnesia. So lets talk about that!
"Hi my name is Amnesia": There are two types of amnesia – Anterograde, Retrograde (which is what Fett has in this comic) and even "explosive amnesia" in Futurama.
- Amnesia is common device in fiction often used quite sloppily, Revan, Boba even C3-PO (via memory wipe) are on the short list of star wars characters that have been experienced it.
- List of top grossing movies that are centered around Amnesia (boxofficemojo.com, archive.org copy from 2009)
Reader Participation! In the comment section below, feel free to add your favorite fictional character that has had amnesia!
OK, back to Boba. For the majority of his appearance, Boba is out of it. The Jawas and an RA-7 droid speculate if he is a droid or cyborg. When Fett does come around, he is holding his head in confusion wondering what is going on. After Fett's memory is jogged he snaps into action, but it's too late.
Random Comic 411
- Since the death of Jabba, Jawas have become increasingly aggressive.
- The ewok village is called "Bright Tree Village" … groan
- Garrick is an alouf mechanic in the space port of Mos Eisley.
Comic Epilogue: Rather than dissecting the art in the comic or the story separately I will kill two birds with one: WTF. A comic is a balance between art and story this comic seems to care very little about either. The characters likeness from Solo to Fett are somewhat sloppy and to be honest not really on par for this era of comic book. There are a few frames of decent Boba action but it is a fail.
The story itself is not bad but as they say "the devil is in the details," and these details are suspect to say the least, here is one example: An entire sand crawler falls into the Sarlacc, logistically that's kinda impossible. There are many other events in the comic that leave a discerning reader at a loss but I'm done here. Overall grade: 2 Disintegrations
Should you hunt this comic down? Ummm, no. just no.
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By Barrett Williams
Flying at full speed above Australia in a C-47 during WWII, radioman Alberto Rede heard bullets ripping through the plane, followed by a sputtering engine.
His mind raced: If power to the engines is lost, the plane will become a gliding, uncontrollable mass that could drop out of the sky.
As the plane navigated its way to a safe landing, with tires screeching, Private Rede and the other crew members heaved in relief. Afterward, when the damage was surveyed, Rede realized he was lucky to be alive: One of the bullets came through the floor only 6 inches from his seat. It was later determined it was quite possibly gunfire from a U.S. Marine, he recalled. Had more bullets been fired at the plane, there could have been several men returned to the States in body bags.
Rede was born poor in 1921 in the small West Texas town of Redford, on the U.S.-Mexico border. When he was 5, his family – parents, two brothers and five sisters – moved approximately 75 miles away to the larger town of Marfa, where the children could attend school.
"I didn't know I was poor," Rede said. "I had a very happy childhood."
Since the floor in his house was made of dirt, he recalled using water to harden the soil so dust would not get kicked up. His father, Eusebio Rede, was a farmer and a wise man with no formal education, he said.
Dad spoke only Spanish, but Mom, Antonia Lujan Rede, had some education and learned to speak English.
"She loved English," Rede said. "We got our education in high school and college because she insisted."
As a child, young Alberto worked several different jobs to help around the house and buy items he wanted. He worked as a farmer with his father in Redford, and then for the ore mines in Shafter, Texas, hauling mostly silver and copper to railroad stations. He also worked at a drugstore, earning about $1 a day. He bought his first suit for $30 with money he earned at the store, he said.
Rede attended high school in Alpine, Texas, approximately 26 miles away from Marfa. At Alpine High School, he was active in school recreational activities, playing on the football and basketball teams, as well as running track. If significant tension existed between Anglos and Latinos at Alpine High School at the time, he didn't pick up on it.
"If they were racist or prejudice, I guess I didn't know the difference," he said, when discussing the way Anglos acted toward Latinos.
After high school, he studied for two years at Alpine's Sul Ross College, now Sul Ross State University. Then he was drafted in 1942.
He originally went to basic training in Boca Raton, Fla. He said he loved the training he received because it kept him moving and gave him hope of pursuing a career as a pilot.
"I've always loved the military," Rede said. "Since I was a kid I had wanted to be a pilot."
When he was shipped overseas from San Francisco, he was assigned work as an Air Force radio operator in the Pacific, providing supplies in a C-47 cargo plane. He remembered the water trip from the U.S. West Coast to the Pacific taking 28 days.
Rede considers himself lucky because he was never really close to front-line shooting. The 2,500 hours of flight experience he put in before the war were helpful in flying the supply missions in which no parachutes were brought on the plane, he said. His most precious cargo was $1 million in military pay.
Due to a stint with malaria, Rede was discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant in 1945, and was recovering at a hospital when the war ended. On Dec. 25, 1946, he married his childhood sweetheart, Esperanza Flores, whom he met when he was in the 8th grade. The couple had two children, Martín and Marta.
Rede yearned for education, and used his GI Bill to attend Columbia University, where he earned his Master's degree in Spanish. After 20 years of teaching, he and his family traveled to 14 European countries in a VW camper. Wanting to share his love of education with others, he spent 42 years altogether as a teacher, 27 of those at San Pedro High School in California.
"[Education]'s my life. Get all of the education you can," he said.
Mr. Rede was interviewed at his home in El Paso, Texas, on October 12, 2004, by Robert Rivas.