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Bouncing in and out of muddy pot-holes, I noticed something fairly unusual in Pakistan. In a nation with perhaps the most feverish cricket obsession in the commonwealth, it is almost a strange sight to see boys play anything else. Instead of multiple cricket games being played on dusty pitches, in the decrepit streets of Korangi, one of Karachi's city's violent, sprawling slums, I saw hundreds of children, instead, playing soccer.

Aziz, my diminutive driver hired from the Karachi Sheraton, was an enthusiastic member of a mostly apolitical Muslim missionary sect and, as was required by the sect's goals, was often keen to share with me about his life and sense of renewed faith. When asked about the religious and ethnic milieu that made up his community, he mentioned off handedly that a congregation of Muslim refugees from Burma attended the mosque near his home in Korangi. This piqued my curiosity considerably. I've had an idea for sometime that by meeting people living on the world's geopolitical periphery, I can learn the most about both globalization and its attendant wars.

Aziz was a mohajir, an Urdu speaking Muslim whose family migrated from northern India to Karachi, then the capital of a newly created but ill conceived Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The root of the Arabic term mohajir is hijira, symbolizing the Prophet Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina in the 7th century. This term is used to describe what was likely the 20th century's largest migration that took place in the ashes of the British Raj when the empire abandoned the "jewel of the crown". Aziz was an enthusiastic member of an evangelical, Islamic revivalist movement called Tablighi Jamaat ("Conveying Group"). One of the Tablighi's primary aims is to renew religiosity amongst wayward Muslims and other communities at risk in the Muslim world where the movement believes the influence of the faith has lessened due to political and cultural factors. Tablighi Jamaat was busy influencing a new group of mohajirs, the Rohingya of western Burma.

Saraj ul-Islam, in his 80s, had his farm confiscated and crops destroyed by the Burmese junta.

It was here in the warrens of Karachi's underbelly that the Rohingya founded a settlement after fleeing persecution by the Tatmadaw (the Burmese military). The Rohingya, after suffering acute religious persecution, were a perfect fit for the Tablighi's proselytizing.

Aziz's neighborhood also houses thousands of stranded Bangladeshis who presence in Karachi pre-dates Bangladesh's 1971 linguistic-based liberation war from Pakistan. These quasi-indigenous Bangladeshis have then been joined by more recent Bengali migrants seeking wider job opportunities and a chance to earn a stronger currency. Aziz informed me that the missionaries from Tablighi Jamaat were quite active in Korangi. They were also hugely influential in Bangladesh where the group hosted the world's second largest yearly Islamic pilgrimage after the Hajj.

Rohingya children studying the Qu'ran at the Madrassa Usmani in Karachi.

Arriving in Korangi, I immediately was greeted by a roadside lined with busy fresh fish stalls on one side and a herd of hulking, tar colored water buffalo blocking the rickshaw traffic on the other. I felt like I had been transported into a sliver of Southeast Asia on the Indian subcontinent. The most noticeable cultural contrast to the rest of Karachi was the appearance of the lungi, the ubiquitous floor length national dress of Bangladesh and much of Burma. We went to visit a small Rohingya settlement near Aziz's one room concrete block home. In comparison to the immense suffering I would encounter in Bangladesh, the people I met were relatively prosperous and urbanized with some of them having been in Pakistan for decades. I wanted most to know how they came to arrive in outer Karachi from western Burma, which I gathered to be an immense logistical feat.

Aziz introduced me to a few Rohingya families crouched under a shade tree down the road from the local mosque. A gaunt old man named Saraj ul-Islam spoke up and told me how his journey commenced. The Tatmadaw had come to his farm some twenty years ago and claimed they were doing a census on behalf of the junta. Since Saraj was one of Arakan's land owning Muslims, the soldiers burned his crops, confiscated his land and told him in no uncertain terms that he must leave Burma with his family because the Burmese are a Buddhist people and he "must have come from somewhere else" implying he was of South Asian origin. At first he fled to southern Bangladesh and lived in a majority Bengali village where other refugees had temporarily made their homes. It was not long before the Bangladeshi authorities told him and his family that they were not welcome there either. Like many Burmese fleeing Arakan state, Saraj did not arrive in a large, visible exodus. He and thousands of his countrymen arrived in a quiet yet constant trickle across the Naf river. It was at this point that he and many of the Rohingya in Pakistan morphed from being destitute refugees displaced by the Tatmadaw's brutal coercion into actual economic and religious migrants seeking work in Pakistan.

A Rohingya boy hawks vegetables in a Bangladeshi bazaar in Karachi.

Saraj told me that missionary Pakistani members of Tablighi Jammat had convinced him that Pakistan would much more suit his tastes. Saraj, who stated that he was around 85 years old, said he would return to Burma immediately if he could have his land back and was allowed to openly practice his religion.

A fellow Rohingya friend of Saraj's named Hamidullah, donning a brilliant blue plaid lungi, told me of he and his people's flight to Pakistan. Realizing they had no future as refugees in a country that refused to recognize them as such, they had gravitated towards Chittagong (Bangladesh's 2nd largest city) after being shoved out of Burma. In Chittagong, they linked up with a vast human smuggling network that regularly trafficked both refugees and migrants through Bangladesh, across all of northern India and then south down through the deserts and plains of eastern Pakistan. Along a well worn circuit of bribes, corrupt border officials and rigorous night crossings, and after weeks or months of body numbing travel, the Rohingya continue to arrive in Pakistan. Some of them die en route or simply get stuck in transit and end up stranded in India or a part of Pakistan or Bangladesh that they never intended to be in. Though many of them are voluntarily trafficked, some are sold in prostitution or bonded labor upon arrival in their desired destination city. In other words, the people I met were the more fortunate ones.

As long as General Than Shwe remains firmly in power, Saraj's right of return is a highly unlikely fantasy. While readers in the West may be under the impression that Burma's ultra repressive regime is essentially an isolated outlier on the global stage, it is far from it. General Shwe and his bizarrely named State Peace and Development Council do not exist in a vacuum in an era where hungry economies are vying for scarce resources. In a fully globalized world, every state will be a participant in the ebb and flow of trade regardless of their record on human rights. If Burma's ruling generals can outlast the decline of the world's remaining altruistic foreign policies, they may be able to leverage Burma's now much needed resources to gain a kind of crude legitimacy.

Rohingya migrants posing in front of a garment shop.

In the twisted realm of South Asian proxy politics, India has accused Bangladesh and Pakistan's intelligence services of supporting insurgent groups such as the United Liberation Front of Asom and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland who are fighting against Indian rule. In turn, these groups have taken periodic shelter in western Burma after allegedly being trained in militant camps in Bangladesh. It is quite common practice in South Asia for rival governments to aid in agitating ethnic grievances in the other's territory in order to keep their opponents off balance. The Rohingya, while once being left to fester during the Sino-Indian rivalry that followed China's invasion of India in 1962, are now an absolute lost cause in the noise of this new competition. The economic tentacles of these emerging powers are furiously grasping for influence inside both Burma and Bangladesh. Over the decades since the Sino-Indian confrontation, China supplied arms to anti-Indian war fighting groups in Burma, Bhutan and Bangladesh when irritating Delhi suited Beijing's aims of the day. China also supplied arms to both the Burmese junta and ethnic guerrillas fighting the junta depending on the politburo's mood swings. War by proxy is politics as usual in the region, and Burma exists in its most dim corner.

After hearing first hand accounts of hijira from the Rohingya elders, Aziz and I then visited a bare-walled, local Burmese religious school called Madrassa Usmani. There, I met a group of Pakistani-born Burmese children who were rocking back and forth studying the Qu'ran on a fraying sun bleached carpet. A young maulvi (religious instructor) named Abdullah told me that the people of his generation witnessed mass destruction of their religious institutions by the junta as they were being forced out of their once home country. In Pakistan, it was the Islamic charities who provided aid and "proper" religious instruction for the children of the community as per the standards of Pakistani society. It is from just this milieu where students can be cultivated into fighters. I left with only the hope that these vulnerable, young Rohingya would not fall for the siren song of violent radicalism gripping much of modern Pakistan. As we have learned the hard lessons from the militancy spawned in Pakistan's notorious Afghan refugee camps, it is not terribly difficult for yesterday's victims to become tomorrow's aggressors.

Market scene in Bangla Para, Karachi.

I explained to my driver that I didn't have quite enough material for a story and that we needed to delve deeper into the area. He said it wouldn't be safe to proceed any further without the guidance of his brother. Aziz's brother, it turned out, was an MQM operative. The MQM, which stands for the Muttahida Quami Movement, is Karachi's dominant political force and sometime terrorist outfit. The MQM controls large swathes of this 15 million strong port city with a mix of intimidation and sheer brut force. From the comfort of our air-conditioned sedan, we followed Aziz's brother on his motorbike through alleys strewn with burning rubbish flooding with humanity until we reached an area called Bangla Para (literally "Bangladeshi Area"). When we arrived, our car was immediately surrounded by curious Bangladeshis who looked particularly at me with a great deal of suspicion. I followed the MQM man deeper on foot into the bazaar capturing its life on camera while also inquiring about its inhabitants ethnic identity, a naturally sensitive subject in an area full of illegal migrants living outside the mainstream of Pakistani society. I essentially had the MQM man ask groups of men and boys which languages they spoke and went from there. Many of the Rohingya had come to Karachi hoping they could find work in the fishing industry as they had done in Arakan. The irony of them fleeing Bangladesh is that they seemed to be naturally drawn to settle amongst Karachi's Bengali community. Here they could attempt to blend in with the Bengalis with their colorful lungis and white skull-caps. The people of southern Bangladesh spoke a dialect known as Chittagonian that is somewhat mutually intelligible with the Rohingya's language. Since both groups had essentially fled conditions in Bangladesh (albeit for very different reasons), they also shared the same arduous migration as recent common history.

Speeding away from the squalid neighborhood these former refugees now call home, I naively said to my driver, "I actually felt pretty safe there." Aziz looked at me skeptically and said in his heavy Pakistani accent, "that is the most dangerous area of Karachi." Considering Karachi is one of the world's most violent cities, I would shudder the next day when I read in the nation's leading English-language daily that five men had been shot dead in Korangi during my brief visit.

Upon entering into the overwhelming traffic of Karachi proper, I thought it a strange fate that the Rohingya fled an area where they faced state orchestrated violence only to arrive in another area plagued with rampant crime and anti-state and sectarian terrorism. Karachi may have its dreadful shortcomings but at least here in their relative anonymity, the Rohingya are free. While in India the call centers buzz, and in China the factories hum, in Burma, the generals keep marching.


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I Chose Positivity After Divorce And It Made All The Difference

Looking at myself in the mirror, something clicked in me. I no longer wanted to be beat down and depressed.
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This was my story yet it still hits me, almost unbelievably. I was at such an incredibly low point in life. I felt like I'd lost everything because of the divorce and was completely beat up and defeated. Everything around me appeared to be collapsing.

I had absolutely no desire to get on with life, or to do anything for that matter. Clearly depressed, I would take my sons to school and go home to go back to bed. I escaped the world by sleeping. I'd get up, go get them from school, and pretend all was good in the world until they went to bed. Then my mind would race again.

My spirit -- my "mojo" -- was quite compromised. Non-existent is more accurate. Keeping my head clear and my mind focused while maintaining a positive attitude through one of the lowest points of my life was vital to keeping on not only as a father and an entrepreneur, but also as a man.

Here's the backdrop to the story and how a single encounter helped tip the scales of life in my favor...

Honestly, I wasn't working much post-divorce. Call it my divorce sabbatical. I'm so grateful for amazing people at our company that stepped up and did what was needed. They were very appreciative when I finally swallowed my pride and told the team what was going on at home for me.

That day was the first positive step forward. I put my ego aside and admitted defeat to the whole company. What I expected was judgment. As the leader, I feared being labeled a failure. What I got was the exact opposite: support. Overwhelming support and encouragement. Kind, supportive words that boosted my wilted soul.

A few days after that I was in my bathroom shaving one morning. Looking at myself in the mirror, something clicked in me. I no longer wanted to be beat down and depressed. I was tired of being tired. I wish I could lay claim to origination of this very tiny breath of positivity, but I can't. It simply happened and I was grateful for what became a cataclysmic shift.

Although still emotionally down, I began journaling my feelings. I became aware of my energy levels in relation to my emotions. I logged how food, sleep, actions, thoughts and other people affected my mood.

And then the real epiphany happened: I consciously decided that if I couldn't say something positive, then I wouldn't say anything. No more negativity out of my mouth. No projections of my depression on others. Seems miniscule, but it was massive.

I wrote on my bathroom mirror: Positive or Nothing.

So, I'd chosen not to say negative things; however, I was still thinking them. Those thoughts began to change, too. Within a few weeks, I found myself checking negative thoughts and reversing them.

I changed the writing on my mirror: 100 Days of Positivity.

This little snowball that started with a few supportive words had grown into something with enough inertia to eventually overcome my depression. My counselor worked with that inertia and made it into an even more powerful movement in me.

Within a month I'd added to my own bathroom mirror challenge. Now, I'd decided I must find at least one person every day to positively impact. They could be the grocery cashier, someone at the gym, an employee, or anyone. They could be a family member, a neighbor or a total stranger.

The most amazing thing was that when I reached out and was intentionally positive, humorous, helpful, and/or kind to others, I felt better. My healing accelerated exponentially by positively impacting others. In hindsight, my life reboot was clearly underway.

I found myself giving back, volunteering more in my community and in our world. Spending 10 days in Haiti after the massive earthquake was both humbling and rewarding, but so was serving meals at the homeless shelter downtown. Helping other divorced entrepreneurs and executives became part of who I was, and helping others grow their companies and their lives became my professional purpose.

I'd heard and read most of my life that we attract what we are. Here I'd again learned firsthand how true this is. I still had plenty of self-work to do, but the momentum clearly shifted within me.

I built space in my life and focused on me. The healthy recovery path was finally underway. Focusing on me was not selfish it was selfless. A healthy me meant healthy father-son bonds, a healthy company, a healthy body & mind, and healthy relationships all around.

It was not an easy road. It was not a quick journey. But I got my mojo back and success came with it.

Nobody special, I consider myself an "average Joe". If I can survive the beat-up-and-defeated-post-divorce-syndrome, being pushed to the edge, then I know that anyone can! One thought at a time, one day at a time, one step at a time. Onward and upward!

After all, "Life is a Gift!"

Thirty years of strategic, entrepreneurial business growth along with two brushes with death have earned him the tag "ResilienceGuy". Bill Douglas is an accomplished Mentor, Coach & Speaker helping entrepreneurs & executives with growth and strength.
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Fight Over Fed Powers Stalls $900 Billion Pandemic Relief Plan

Lawmakers on both sides said a provision by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., that would curb emergency Federal Reserve powers was the sticking point.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An arcane battle over emergency Federal Reserve powers foiled efforts on Saturday to lock down an agreement on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package. The deadlock was just the latest stumble in a partisan, months-long fight over pandemic relief and the lack of progress is backing lawmakers once again up against a government shutdown deadline Sunday night.

Lawmakers on both sides said a provision by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., that would curb emergency Federal Reserve powers was the sticking point. Republicans are insisting on the Toomey plan, while Democrats are adamantly against it. After some posturing earlier Saturday, efforts intensified at forging a compromise, and Toomey met twice with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to try to iron it out.

“I think that we should be able to get a deal done,” Toomey said after the first meeting

“I think they agreed to go back and write down what they were saying, so everybody can read it and exchange paper,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

The latest pratfall likely upends hopes for a House vote Sunday and quick Senate action on an agreement that’s virtually ready save for Toomey’s provision.

“That has to be resolved. And then everything will fall into place,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “It’s a very significant difference.”

A new deadline of midnight Sunday for a government shutdown served as a backstop for the tortuous negotiations, which were being conducted in secret largely among the top four leaders in Congress.

“We need to conclude our talks, draft legislation, and land this plane,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Toomey defended his controversial provision in a floor speech, saying the emergency powers were designed to stabilize capital markets at the height of the COVID panic this spring and are expiring at the end of the month anyway. The language would block the Biden administration from restarting them.

Even Toomey said this week that his provision “could be seen as redundant,” but neither he nor his Democratic adversaries were backing down from the fight, though compromise language was being shuttled back and forth.

At issue are Fed emergency programs, launched amid the pandemic this spring, that provided loans to small and mid-size businesses and bought state and local government bonds. Those bond purchases have made it easier for those governments to borrow, at a time when their finances are under pressure from job losses and health costs stemming from the pandemic.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said last month that those programs, along with two that purchased corporate bonds, would close at the end of the year, prompting an initial objection by the Fed. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law passed after the Great Recession, the Fed can only set up emergency programs with the support of the treasury secretary.

But in Mnuchin’s letter closing the programs, he said the Fed could request that future treasury secretaries renew them. Fed Chair Jerome Powell echoed that view Wednesday at a news conference. Yet Toomey’s language would bar the Fed from doing so.

That prompted a rare statement Saturday from former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who oversaw a dramatic expansion of the Fed’s emergency lending during the Great Recession, which most economists credit with helping end the financial crisis.

It is “vital that the Federal Reserve’s ability to respond promptly to damaging disruptions in credit markets not be circumscribed,” Bernanke said. “The relief act should ensure, at least, that the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending authorities, as they stood before the passage of the CARES Act (in March), remain fully intact and available to respond to future crises.”

Democrats in Congress also say that Toomey is trying to limit the Fed’s ability to boost the economy, just as Biden takes office.

“This is about existing authorities that the Fed has had for a very long time, to be able to use in an emergency,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. “It’s about a lending authority for helping small businesses, state government, local government in the middle of a crisis.”

Toomey disputed that charge, saying his proposal “is emphatically not a broad overhaul of the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending authority.”

The massive package would wrap much of Capitol Hill’s unfinished 2020 business into a take-it-or-leave-it measure that promises to be a foot thick or more. House lawmakers will probably have only a few hours to study it before voting as early as Sunday night. A Senate vote would follow, possibly on Monday. One more short-term funding bill will be needed to avoid the looming deadline — or a partial shutdown of non-essential agencies would start on Monday.

An agreement in principle Saturday would be a precursor to more hours of translating compromises into detailed legislation. Lawmakers are eager to exit Washington and close out a tumultuous year.

The $900 billion package comes as the pandemic is delivering its most fearsome surge yet, killing more than 3,000 victims per day and straining the health care system. While vaccines are on the way, most people won’t get them for months. Jobless claims are on the rise.

The emerging agreement would deliver more than $300 billion in aid to businesses and provide the jobless a $300-per-week bonus federal unemployment benefit and renewal of state benefits that would otherwise expire right after Christmas. It includes $600 direct payments to individuals; vaccine distribution funds and money for renters, schools, the Postal Service and people needing food aid.

It would be the first significant legislative response to the pandemic since the landmark CARES Act passed virtually unanimously in March, delivering $1.8 trillion in aid, more generous $600 per week bonus jobless benefits and $1,200 direct payments to individuals.

The new relief aid would be added to a $1.4 trillion governmentwide appropriations bill that would fund agencies through next September. That measure is likely to provide a last $1.4 billion installment for Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall as a condition of winning his signature.


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New lease of life for city’s 220-year old cannons

Two cast-iron sea service cannons dating back to 1798 and originally used aboard ship Richard and Harriet who sent them to Garibaldi for his campaign to unite Italy will be conserved so they can continue to stand guard outside the Hull Maritime Museum.

The original cannons will be conserved to renew their aged coatings. They originally stood outside the museum in Pickering Park since 1912 and have been outside the entrance of the Maritime Museum since its opening in 1974.

As part of the Hull Yorkshire Maritime City project and the volunteer conservation programme, funded by Hull City Council and Heritage Lottery Fund, the original cannons are being conserved, led by Philippa Beesley, Conservation and Engagement Officer along with a team of seven volunteers.

The cannons will be moved from outside the Maritime Museum for the important work will be undertaken. The conservation team will strip back the old paint in order to treat the ferrous metal surface with a rust converter before re-painting the cannons using a conservation grade paint to protect them from the elements. The carriages will also be re-painted and any areas of wood loss will be filled. Once completed, the cannon will return to their current home outside the Hull Maritime Museum.

Philippa Beesley, Conservation and Engagement Officer, said: “This is a really special project to be able to conserve the cannons and preserve their significance.

“There are currently large areas of loss to the painted surface of the barrels exposing the metal beneath to the atmosphere, and there is some corrosion visible. Working with the volunteers we will use a specialist treatment to ensure they are retained for years to come in their well-known stance outside the museum entrance.”

Councillor Daren Hale, Portfolio Holder for Economic Investment, Regeneration, Planning, Land and Property, said: “This is a fascinating project for the team to undertake. The cannon have been in pride of place at the Hull Maritime Museum. They are popular with visitors so it is important we give them some TLC they deserve. This conservation has been made possible from the support of the Yorkshire Maritime City programme, funded by the council and the Heritage Lottery Fund, ensuring we can continue to invest in our historic artefacts and items.”

The cannons were moved from Queen Victoria Square on Monday 13 August and it is hoped the work will be completed later this year.


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Our partner is a fast growing tech company, commercially active in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and London.

We are 75 people and we keep on rapidly growing. We just opened a development office in Romania. And as we speak, we're growing to Berlin & London - with many other European cities next on target.

We’re proud to have gained international recognition by receiving some prestigious awards like the Henry Van De Velde Award 2016, the IF Design Award 2016 and last but not least the Red Dot Product Design Award 2016.

We develop boxes, connected on a platform through our app, where couriers, shops and users meet. Our partner is changing the world of shopping and collaborating as you know it.

More than 102.376 people in close to 100 companies, from international companies to SME's, (think Siemens, G4S, Barco, Mondelez, etc.) and leading hospitals, banks and universities are already using our technology to make their employees happier and their logistics smoother.

You'll be joining our still-expanding Romanian team as we’re setting up our software support team, a great challenge for an ambitious technical support / programmer like you. Our offices are located in Cluj, where a team of 16 are already working on development and QA.

Technical Support / Programmer is a role that combines 2nd-line support with development.With our ambitions in mind, our colleagues in this department have the option to grow and steer their career path towards the role of developer.

That means plenty of perspective!

Your responsibilities will be:

  • Maintain a high availability level for the applications
  • Provide 2nd-line technical support; assist in and/or resolve any production incidents in order to re-establish the service as quickly as possible
  • Taking ownership of technical issues, and working with our Development group to resolve advanced issues when necessary
  • Control and test technical/infrastructure operations on production (Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery tests)
  • Relationships management with Infrastructure teams

You'll report to our Software Manager in Cluj.You and the team will travel to Belgium about twice a year. The Belgian development team will of course also visit Cluj.

What are we looking for?

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • Proficiency in spoken English
  • Experience in direct communication/client site cooperation
  • Team-player attitude

Required technical skills:

  • Good knowledge of MS SQL Server (querying, profiling)
  • Experience with Zendesk or similar ticketing system
  • Knowledge of Microsoft .NET C#, Web services (WCF, ASP.NET Web API) is a plus
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud platform is a plus

In return you’ll get flexible working hours, 24 days off per year and you'll be working in a swanky office in the center of Cluj. Let's not forget the meal vouchers, training sessions, pension plan, medical plan, and sports subscription: a complete package for you, one of the best talents out there.

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A traveller without a map is like a soldier without a sword. Most of the travellers use Google maps and other online maps. Traditional maps are not used any more but this scratch map is a new thing. Scratch maps are not similar to traditional maps in any way. In a scratch map, you can scratch the cities and countries that you have visited making them look colorful and prominent than others. So it gets quite easy for travellers to differentiate between cities they have visited and those that are still on the list. This is another great gift for your friend. It is although, a bit hard to find scratch maps because it is not pretty common and only a few stores are selling it.

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How can we miss a travel bag. Yes a travel bag is not one of the best gifts because almost every traveller has a couple of bags with him. But if you are giving a special high quality travel bag with multiple pockets to your buddy, then this sounds a great idea. I mean there is no need to give an ordinary or traditional sort of bag, rather try to buy a bag that has something special. And I must say, it is not hard to buy a perfect premium travel bag for your friend since there are many brands and stores out there that produce and sell quality travel bags. Buy one for your buddy today.

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  • On the day, the comet, which takes 6,800 years to complete one lap around its orbit, will be at a distance of 64 million miles or 103 million kilometers while crossing Earth’s outside orbit.

What are comets?

  • Comets or “dirty snowballs” are mostly made of dust, rocks and ice, the remnants from time the solar system was formed over 4.6 billion years ago.
  • In the distant past, people thought of comets as “long-haired” stars that would appear unpredictably in the sky.
  • In fact, Chinese astronomers kept extensive records of these comets for centuries, including the time of their appearance, disappearance and their celestial positions, NASA says.
  • The word comet comes from the Latin word “Cometa” which means “long-haired” and the earliest known record of a comet sighting was made by an astrologer in 1059 BC.
  • Comets can range in their width from a few miles to tens of miles wide.
  • As they orbit closer to the sun, like in the case of C/2020 F3, they heat up and release debris of dust and gases that forms into a “glowing head” that can often be larger than a planet.
  • The debris forms a tail that can stretch out to millions of miles. Each time a comet passes the sun, it loses some of its material and it will eventually disappear completely as a result. This is what NASA meant when it referred to C/2020 F3 and said, “The comet survived its recent closest approach to the Sun (on July 3), and is now headed back toward the outer solar system…”, since many comets don’t survive their close proximity to the sun.
  • While there are millions of comets orbiting the sun, there are more than 3,650 known comets as of now, according to NASA.

Why do they get close to the sun?

  • Comets may be occasionally pushed into orbits closer to the sun and the Earth’s neighborhood due to forces of gravity of other planets.
  • The appearance of some comets, like those that take less than 200 years to orbit around the sun is predictable since they have passed by before.
  • These may be referred to as short-period comets and can be found in the Kuiper belt, where many comets orbit the sun in the realm of Pluto, occasionally getting pushed into orbits that bring them closer to the sun. One of the most famous short-period comets is called Halley’s Comet that reappears every 76 years. Halley’s will be sighted next in 2062.
  • The less-predictable comets can be found in the Oort cloud that is about 100,000 AU from the sun, or 100,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun. Comets in this cloud can take as long as 30 million years to complete one rotation around the sun.

Why do astronomers’ study and track comets?

  • Astronomers study comets since they believe that they hold important clues about the formation of the solar system and it is possible that comets brought water and other organic compounds, which are the building blocks of life to Earth.
  • Further, NASA tracks all Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that includes comets and asteroids using telescopes placed all around the Earth, as part of its NEO Observation Program.
  • This program has a congressionally directed objective to find, track and characterise NEOs that are 140 meters or larger in size since they can pose a risk to the Earth because of the devastation a potential impact can cause.

What does it mean to be able to see a comet?

  • Comets do not have light of their own and what humans are able to see from Earth is the reflection of the sun’s light off the comet as well as the energy released by the gas molecules after it is absorbed from the sun.
  • The visibility of a comet cannot be precisely predicted since a lot depends on the way the “outbursts” of gas and dust play out determining how much of a “good show” the comet will put out for observers.
  • According to a 2007 article written by retired planetary scientist Donald Yeomans, only a few comets are virtually impressive so as to be called “great comets”. “Just the right set of circumstances must occur.
  • Far from the sun, the solid portions of comets, which consist mostly of water ice and embedded dust particles, are inactive.
  • They are not large enough to be seen with the naked eye. However, when near the sun, the icy cometary surfaces vaporize and throw off large quantities of gas and dust thus forming the enormous atmosphere and tails that make comets so visually striking.

Source: Indian Express

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Gummed paper tape for the pharmaceutical industry

Gummed paper tape for the pharmaceutical industry

Two important 2018’s provisions, the Falsified Medicines Directive (2011/62/EU) and its derived Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161, published February-18, provide fundamental specifications on how and by whom the authenticity of the medicines must be verified, as well as the safety requirements. The gummed paper tape contributes in a special way to fulfillment of the conditions that these regulations require.

The main of these obligations refers to requirement to use tamper-proof sealed containers and packaging to prevent them from entering in the legal supply chain counterfeit medicines. An estimated 30 billion medicinal packs are sold and handled annually in Europe.

Anti-tampering device and seal has to enable verification of package tampering. CEN standard EN 16679/2014: “Tamper verification features for medicinal product packaging”, serves to define the mandatory requirements to verify handling: the packaging sealing system must show sings if the finished product’s packaging has been opened or manipulated, to avoid the inadvertent entry of falsified medicines into the legal supply chain.

The information provided by this standard mainly serves as a guide for pharmaceutical manufacturers and relevant approval and test institutes, respect to testing of the suitability of sealing systems and it's based on the following requirements:

  • The tamped-proof seal must not prejudice the readability of the prescribed information.
  • The packaging text must remain readable after the pack has been opened.
  • The application of systems to control tampering and handling attempts may lead to an increase in the physical force required to open the packaging, but should not substantially aggravate the handling and opening of the package.
  • The use of opening or easy aids, such as special perforations or starter tabs, may be necessary.

Due to its carbon footprint specifications, the exhaustive and continuous revision of its standards, its efficiency and economy, its sustainability and respect for the environment, gummed paper tape is the appropriate sealing method to support all the above requirements.

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Reflecting Modern Realities: From Implied Powers to Implied Obligations

The General rules of interpretation contained in Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties do not only apply to treaties; they also apply to the constitutions of International Organizations. This paper argues that a textual application of the VCLT that interprets an IO’s constitution “in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context” without applying an extended teleological approach to the constitution’s “object and purpose” compromises its ability to behave as an organization with values and practices that reflect contemporary expectations of accountability. An extended teleological approach to constitutional interpretation is the extension of the doctrine of implied powers to implied obligations, which are obligations that can be necessarily implied from an IO's constitution where there is a close connection between the obligation and one or more of its generic functions or institutional purpose.

Securing the European Space through Technocratic Borders: What Role for International Responsibility?

Border controls have been described as the last bastion of sovereignty. The emerging European integrated border management (IBM) challenges this assumption.
The hallmark of the IBM is its technocratic and depoliticised logic. Various state and non-state actors cooperate in a complex dynamic of securization. In addition, technological advancements are contributing to change the traditional practices of border controls. These evolutions not only puts to test the relation between territory, power, and political control but also require a different understanding of the responsibility ensuing from the exercise power and control in the management of EU borders.
This paper aims to address the question of the responsibility for human rights violations that these practices can trigger. The underlying theoretical question concerns the way in which international responsibility can be conceived where borders are managed by supranational institutions and legitimized in a post-national fashion.

International Law in Domestic Courts in an Era of Populism

This article examines the manner in which the rise of populism affects the use of international law by domestic courts. It argues that populism may have a negative effect on the willingness of domestic courts to refer to international law. It further argues that although such response is understandable, it is regrettable, since incorporation of international law into domestic court rulings can serve as a counter-populism measure.
Maintaining international law as part of the domestic legal discourse is particularly important in a populist setting, for two reasons. First, where constitutionalism is overtaken by populists, international law can serve as an important source on which courts can draw to protect human rights. In addition, referral, analysis and application of international law are means of maintaining pluralism in legal and public debate and, accordingly, of enhancing democracy.


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Iconasys has emerged as the leader in integrated still & 360 product photography solutions by delivering professional grade do it yourself photography solutions. Since launch in 2014, we have gained the trust of thousands of customers globally – including some of the largest retailers (Amazon, Wal-Mart, Macy’s), brands (Apple, Microsoft, Nike, Adidas) and professional photographers. Our software controlled product photography solutions are sure to make creating high quality still and 360 Product Photography easy for users of any skill level, while increasing workflow efficiencies up to 1,000%.

No matter what your photography requirements, whether for Amazon Product PhotographyeCommerce Product Photography or for internal communications, Iconasys has you covered. We offer a wide-range of solutions for still and 360 Medical Photography requirements. Solutions include stand-alone still & 360 Product Photography Software, Professional Grade Lighting Solutions and 360 Photography Turntables.

360 Product Photography: Musical Instruments

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Iconasys is the global leader in still & 360 product photography solutions for small to medium size businesses, enterprises and professional photographers alike. Our customer first consultative approach, paired with piecemeal offerings allows us to deliver solutions based on a customers specific requirements. We vow never to oversell and guarantee best in class software, hardware and image quality, workflow efficiencies, ease of use and functionality.

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All Iconasys solutions are a one-time purchase and have no mandatory recurring monthly or yearly fees. We outcompete on price and offer the lowest cost ownership in the industry.

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Iconasys designs professional grade solutions that can be operated by users of any skill level to easily and efficiently create high quality product photography and video in-house.

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Iconasys has a proven track record of exceptional quality. All purchases include a satisfaction guarantee while our software and hardware provide best in class quality.

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We sell you the product and are here to ensure you make the most of your investment. All purchases from Iconasys include one year free premium technical support.

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Shutter Stream Photography Automation Software  the perfect application for businesses in the Musical Instrument Industry. Shutter Stream combines Image Composition, Capture, Editing and Processing Tools into a single program that allows users regardless of experience to capture high quality musical instrument photography fast and efficiently. It is often that businesses are spending too much time, effort and money capturing images in house. Outsourcing is often not a good alternative as it can become even more costly and businesses lose control of how they wish to display musical instruments online. As new products are introduced often, there is often a need for imaging in many product photography applications.  Shutter Stream is a sure way to save your business time and effort by enabling anyone on staff to create high quality results.

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360 Product Photography Solutions: For Imaging Musical Instruments

A great way to enhance visual communication in the online space is 360 product photography. Iconasys has emerged as a leading provider of 360 product photography software, turntables and integrated turnkey systems. Our solutions automate 360 image capture by controlling turntable start and stop while integrating camera snap at each angle. Users are able to define frame count for the complete 360 rotation and as images are captured, they are uploaded directly into the included Shutter Stream 360 Product Photography Software where users can then batch edit and process the image set. Next users can compose the individual frames into an interactive 360 product view in multiple formats that can be easily embedded into a website

“Whatever I bought had to be simple and create professional results. To my amazement, within 15 minutes of installing software and connecting turntable, I was able to get my first 360 Product View – it worked seamlessly. Easy to setup, easy to use and with fantastic results. Even for a guy who had ZERO prior experience.”
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Global Force Wrestling Adds Announcer To Round Out Team For ‘Amped’ Tapings

global-force-wrestling-2015Global Force Wrestling will round out its announce team for its  “Amped” TV tapings on Friday at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas with broadcasting veteran Cyrus Fees.

Fees, who will handle play-by-play duties, joins analyst and MMA legend Chael Sonnen, who was announced on May 6.

Fees is an internationally recognized voice of combat sports, including mixed martial arts and kickboxing. He’s the current play-by-play man for South Africa-based Extreme Fighting Championship, UAE’s Abu Dhabi Warriors, and European kickboxing organization SuperKombat Fighting Championships.

“Cyrus and Chael are fresh voices to the wrestling industry, but make no mistake. They are refined, exciting commentators,” GFW founder and CEO Jeff Jarrett said. “We feel that these two have the perfect energy for the Amped product.”

While Fees has established himself in combat sports, his broadcasting roots are in professional wrestling. Fees got his start with the NWA Smoky Mountain Wresting brand, both ring announcing and providing commentary.

“MMA and kickboxing has been my world for the last five years, but my first love has always been wrestling.” Fees said. “I’ve waited on my opportunity, and I consider working with Global Force wrestling a dream come true.”

About Global Force Wrestling
Global Force Wrestling is a privately owned professional wrestling and entertainment company based in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2014, Global Force Wrestling is changing the wrestling and entertainment industry with an innovative and groundbreaking approach to fan interactivity, storytelling and overall entertainment to engage audiences across television, digital and social media platforms.


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In the connected world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the starting point is almost always with a sensor. Our design expertise spans a massive variety of sensor solutions from the mundane to the exotic.

Sensors capture every aspect of the world around us. Our solutions will typically integrate a rich blend of sensors from thermal and visible imaging to humidity and chemical sensing.

Our designs have incorporated many different varieties of sensor, some highly complex, others very simple. A push button or magnetic reed switch is a sensor, and so is a GNSS receiver for global positioning, but they require very different levels of understanding and integration skill into a product. Many of our product designs have incorporated GNSS solutions which require good RF design expertise and intricate configuration to get the best performance from any particular device.

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We have developed systems which can analyse motion from accelerometers, gyroscopes and data from magnetometers where signal processing techniques are used to extract relevant data from noisy sensor outputs. This extends to gesture sensing and various ranging solutions such as LIDAR and 60GHz. This signal processing is a core skill that is applied across many other sensors we use.

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We use an array of environmental sensors in our designs to measure temperature, pressure, and humidity. We have also deployed chemical sensors measuring pH in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica combined with sea and air temperature.

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7 Best Joker Comics to Read After Watching the Movie

Quench your thirst more more dark and brooding Joker tales.

It's safe to say the new Joker movie is unlike any other live-action DC film before it. Joker provides an in-depth look at the origin of Batman's most iconic foe, one that eschews the DCU's larger-than-life trappings in favor of a gritty, bleak origin story inspired by films like Taxi Driver.

Director Todd Phillips has made it clear by now that we aren't going to see a sequel or spinoff to Joker. So if you crave more grim and gritty Joker stories, you'll need to turn to DC's comics instead. Check out the slideshow below or scroll down to learn about the seven best Joker-centric comics to read after seeing the movie.

Caution: this article is mostly spoiler-free for the Joker movie, but it does reveal certain comic stories that inspired the movie.
Best Joker Comics to Read After Watching the Movie

Batman: The Killing Joke

The end credits for Joker list artist Brian Bolland as inspiration. That's hardly a surprise, as Bolland illustrated Batman: The Killing Joke, one of the most famous Joker stories ever published. The Killing Joke is also the most significant example of a comic attempting to explore the Joker's murky origin story.
The Killing Joke chronicles a formative showdown between the Dark Knight and the Clown Prince of Crime, one that infamously resulted in Barbara Gordon being shot and paralyzed. But even as the two eternal enemies battle it out in the present, a series of flashbacks show who Joker was before his descent into madness. We see a struggling comedian and family man driven insane by the worst day imaginable, which isn't so different from how the movie handles Arthur Fleck's character arc.

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The Dark Knight Returns

The Dark Knight Returns may well be the most popular Batman graphic novel in existence. It's certainly had a heavy influence on recent Batman movies like The Dark Knight Rises and Batman v Superman. And that influence carries over into the Joker movie, which features a scene directly inspired by the comic.

Written and drawn by Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns features an aging Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement and waging war on the criminals of a decaying Gotham City. And naturally, wherever Batman arises, Joke is never far behind. TDKR's bleak tone and visuals inspired countless Batman comics that followed, and it spawned several sequels (including the upcoming Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child). There's one Joker moment in particular from the new movie that is pulled directly from this classic comic.

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Conveniently debuting alongside 2008's The Dark Knight, Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo's graphic novel Joker presents what is quite possibly the bleakest take on Joker and Gotham City ever -- and that's saying something. In this story, Joker is released from Arkham and ventures back into Gotham's criminal underworld to rebuild his empire. Largely presented through the eyes of Joker's new chauffeur and confidant, Johnny Frost, this graphic novel downplays the superhero trappings of Gotham City in favor of painting Joker and his peers as gaudily dressed, emotionally unstable gangsters.

Tonally, you'll find no better companion to Joker the movie than Joker the graphic novel. It's also worth checking out Batman: Damned, a pseudo-sequel that's equally grim but more supernatural in nature. Damned, you may recall, was responsible for that infamous Bat-penis controversy in 2018.

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Batman: Going Sane

Long-time DC creator J.M. DeMatteis is also credited as an inspiration during the end credits for Joker. While DeMatteis has explored Batman's world in a number of stories, we're assuming his work on Batman: Going Sane most directly influenced the movie.

Originally published in the monthly series Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Going Sane explores what happens after Joker seemingly kills Batman. With no arch-nemesis left to inspire his criminal rampages, Joker unhappily retires and takes up a new civilian identity as Joe Kerr. Obviously, that retirement is short-lived, but Going Sane offers a unique look at Joker's mindset and his co-dependent relationship with Batman.

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Batman #23.1: The Joker

This standalone Batman comic from writer Adam Kubert and artist Andy Clarke offers another possible version of Joker's origin story. Here, Joker reminisces about his childhood and growing up under the tyrannical reign of his abusive Aunt Eunice. Hellbent on ridding her nephew of his attachment to a monkey puppet called Gaggy, Eunice went so far as to scrub his skin with bleach. In the present, Joker forms a fleeting attachment to a gorilla he names Jackanapes.

In terms of plot, there's not much crossover between this story and the Joker movie, although there are some elements that may have informed Arthur Fleck's life experiences as revealed in the film.

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The Many Origin Stories of the Joker

Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus

Joker is a difficult character to cast as a protagonist, hence why even books like Azzarello and Bermejo's Joker end to rely on an everyman character like Johnny Frost as a narrator and buffer. With that in mind, DC's short-lived 1975 series The Joker serves as an intriguing case study. It didn't last long, but every issue shows the Clown Prince of Crime causing mayhem and rubbing elbows with another DC hero or villain. Because of the restrictions imposed by the Comics Code Authority, the series focused more on the comedic side of Joker's antics than his homicidal side. Series writer Irv Novick was listed in the credits as inspiration for the movie.

The recently released Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus is the best way to read this series, especially because it's the first book to include the previously unpublished Joker #10.

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Batman: Death of the Family

Few DC creators have done as much to define the direction of Joker in the modern-day DCU as Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. That process really began with "Death of the Family," a Batman crossover that showcases the iconic villain as his most inhuman and terrifying. One of the very first Batman stories in the New 52 featured Joker cutting off his own face and nailing it to the wall of GCPD headquarters. Death of the Family uses that plot point as a starting point, with Joker resurfacing, reclaiming his face and waging war on both the police and the Batman family.

Death of the Family is about as dark and violent as Batman stories get in the mainstream DC Universe. It also introduces a novel wrinkle to the traditional Batman/Joker dynamic. Joker is motivated not by a desire to destroy the dark Knight, but to prove to him that he's a better hero when he isn't being held back by his partners. The reason we're recommending this one has less to do with its similarities to the movie and more with how it tells an enthralling Joker story that shows him at his most maniacal and dangerous.

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For more on the Joker movie, find out why Joker isn't connected to any of the other DC movies and won't cross over with Robert Pattinson's Batman.

Joker is receiving critical acclaim, winning the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and will be in the running for an Oscar according to the film festival's director. The movie is also tracking to break Venom's October box office record.

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Batman: The Killing Joke

For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point and go mad, the Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane.
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The International Green Purchasing Network launches the Survey on Environmentally friendly product/service and Green Purchasing to Tackle Climate Change, please submit your response until March 30th,2022!

The survey aims to share knowledge among IGPN members and partners, provide suggestion for the implementation by using climate action and sustainable consumption and production in an integrated and coherent approach, through the collection, comparation and analyzation, evaluation and summarization of the real practical practices of environmentally friendly products/services (and/or) green purchasing in addressing the climate change issue.

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Launch of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative Newsletter and fourth round of signatories

The new Global Tourism Plastics Initiative newsletter was unveiled at the beginning of June for World Oceans Day.

Signatories will now regularly receive relevant information on the Initiative and will have the opportunity to showcase their contribution in reducing their plastic footprint.

The newsletter is organized around five sections. The first section, called “featured” will be dedicated to interviews conducted with signatories in partnership with Sustainable First. The June Newsletter notably featured interviews with CHAO Hotel, Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge and Jade Mountain Resort. These interviews are the occasion for signatories to gain in visibility but also to share best practices and advice so that they learn from one another. These interviews aim to celebrate the diversity of the signatories by featuring in each edition different regions and different types of organization.

The following section of the newsletter will allow to share the “latest news”. The GTPI coordination team is proud to announce that new signatories will officially join the 61 current signatories of the Initiative on the 8th of July. This will be the fourth public announcement of new signatories since the launch of the GTPI in January 2020. If you are interested to be part of the Initiative and become signatory, please consult this page.

If you wish to participate to the fourth public announcement, please follow this link to register to the event.

The newsletter also provides access to “useful materials” such as webinars, toolkits, reports to help the signatories in the implementation of their commitments. Additionally, the “focus on” section complements the repository of tools and resources that has been curated by the GTPI team by highlighting the key messages of one of the reports.

Finally, “building back better” section provides information and recommendations to continue reducing the use of plastics during the pandemic and help implementing the objectives.

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July 15, 2021

[SCP] Lego plans to sell bricks from recycled bottles in two years

BBC News, 24 June 2021 By: Tom Espiner

Lego makes about 3,500 different bricks and shapes, but faces the challenge of coming up with a sustainable product that can last years - decades, even.

The goal is to find a product good enough that people don't notice the difference, said Lego's Tim Brooks.

He did not specify how many of its bricks will contain recycled material, adding: "It's too soon to say."

But he added that Lego wants to start using the bottle-made ones "as soon as possible".

Mr Brooks, Lego's vice president of sustainability, said the two types of blocks should fit together and be interchangeable like any Lego product.

The next stage will be to add colours to the prototype bricks, and test them with children and adult fans,.

Lego said it would initially get soft drinks bottles from the US to make its new plastic toy parts. It said plastic recovered from the oceans would not be suitable as it is typically too degraded.

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Libby Peake, head of resource policy at the thinktank, Green Alliance said the recycled plastic plan is "certainly preferable to using virgin plastic" but she "hopes the supply of single use plastic bottles falls in future as people embrace reuse".

A number of firms are making products from recycled plastic as sustainability becomes more important to customers.

Lego said that many customers, both children and adult, were asking for more sustainability when buying products in general, and had contacted the firm to say so.

But Friends of the Earth plastics campaigner Camilla Zerr said that "it's really important that recycling isn't hailed as the default solution to the plastics crisis."

"Manufacturers must ensure toys are made to endure many years of use, so they can be handed down and reused from generation to generation," she adds.

In 2018, Lego set a goal to make all of its core products from sustainable materials by 2030.

As part of these efforts, Mr Brooks said the company had developed prototype bricks made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, with some other chemicals added.

At present, the company makes many of its bricks using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a virgin plastic made from crude oil.

Using PET will also allow the firm to make different shaped Lego pieces.

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Typically, Lego is durable enough to last for two to three generations of humans playing with it, and that is what the firm is aiming for with its PET blocks, Mr Brooks said.

In trying to make its products more sustainable, Lego decided to carry on making them durable, rather than biodegradable, and is banking on people saving the blocks and not throwing them away, he said.

The biggest challenge with the new blocks is getting the "clutch" right, he said.

That is, children being able to stick them together and pull them apart with their fingers, regardless of the ambient temperature.

Some materials they tested couldn't even be prised apart with pliers, he said.The firm has a temperature test, a butter test, and a test to mimic children putting them in their mouths.

"Cleaning it up and getting it to turn into Hogwarts Castle is a challenge," he said, referring to Harry Potter merchandise. "A super-fun challenge."

Lego makes between 110 and 120 billion plastic pieces per year, and about 80% are currently made from ABS.

About 5% are made from a polymer that comes from sugar cane from which Lego makes its plastic plants.

The firm emits about 1.2 million tonnes of carbon per year, and about a third of that is from making its materials.

Using recycled plastic will help to cut those emissions, and the firm also wants to use more renewable energy in its processes, Mr Brooks said.

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July 5, 2021

The SDG 12 Hub: A one-stop shop for reporting and monitoring of progress on SDG 12

The SDG 12 Hub is built to support Member States in the achievement of SDG 12, and is the central location for accessing official government reporting against SDG 12 indicators and thus includes all information needed for the official monitoring and reporting on these. The Hub consolidates and visualizes the results of national reporting on SDG 12 indicators, making these publicly available, allowing Member States to browse progress on SDG 12 by country or by individual targets at global and regional level.

Additionally, the Hub provides governments, businesses, civil society and the public with linkages to existing knowledge platforms, databases, networks and communities of practice through which stakeholders can engage, become inspired and share their own progress, knowledge and solutions for sustainable consumption and production.

As part of a broader inter-agency collaboration to streamline methodologies and processes, the UN custodian agencies of SDG 12 have developed The SDG 12 Hub. Through this collaboration the custodian agencies aim to make SDG 12 and SCP accessible and transparent to governments and others, in terms of measuring progress on the SDGs, nationally tracking SCP progress and accessing solutions to deliver on the 2030 Agenda.

The official virtual launch event for the SDG 12 Hub is scheduled for July 7th at 1:45-3:00 PM (New York time). The event will focus presenting the SDG 12 Hub as a key effort in making progress on SDG 12 transparent and accessible, promoting its implementation through existing communities of practice, and informing voluntary national reviews, international programming, and national policy processes.

What can you find on the SDG 12 Hub?

For government officials, the SDG 12 Hub is your central location for reporting on SDG 12. It allows you to:
· view progress in your country and others;
· report directly on your indicators through the official reporting systems;
· find methodologies, guidance, and resources to support your reporting and implementation efforts; and
· learn from others through exploring resources on policies, solutions, technical tools and best practices.
For businesses, civil society, the public and others, the SDG 12 Hub offers a window to the national progress on SCP and linkages to platforms and initiatives to inform and support your contributions toward SDG 12. From here, you can:
· explore official Member State reporting on SDG 12 indicators by target,
· explore official Member State reporting on SDG 12 by country,
· access national SCP policies reported under SDG 12.1.1

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