EA-97-251 - Fort Calhoun (Omaha Public Power District)
July 30, 1997
S. K. Gambhir, Division Manager
Omaha Public Power District
Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.
P.O. Box 399
Hwy. 75 - North of Fort Calhoun
Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023-0399
SUBJECT: NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND PROPOSED IMPOSITION OF CIVIL
PENALTY - $55,000
(NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-285/97-06)
Dear Mr. Gambhir:
This is in reference to the predecisional enforcement conference conducted on July 14, 1997, in the NRC's Arlington, Texas office with representatives of Omaha Public Power District (OPPD). The conference involved a discussion of apparent violations of fire protection requirements identified during an inspection at Fort Calhoun Station that was completed on May 2, 1997. These apparent violations were discussed in NRC Inspection Report 50-285/97-06 issued June 27, 1997.
Based on the information developed during the inspection and our review of the information that you provided during the conference, the NRC has determined that violations of NRC requirements occurred. These violations are cited in the enclosed Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty. The circumstances surrounding them were described in detail in the subject inspection report.
At the conference, OPPD admitted all but one of the apparent violations. OPPD contested the apparent violation involving the adequacy of a fire barrier between fire areas 6 and 20, arguing that the NRC had accepted OPPD's resolution of this issue in 1980. OPPD further stated that a calculation shows that the barrier that was installed would meet Appendix R requirements. Documentation provided by OPPD to support its first argument indicates that the adequacy of this fire barrier, which was to consist of a water curtain sprinkler system, was specifically raised by the NRC, including the issue of whether draft stops had been installed around each floor opening protected by a water curtain. OPPD also provided copies of documentation indicating that the NRC issued an SER in November 1980 which accepted OPPD's resolution after this issue had been raised. Although details of the resolution of this issue were lacking from this correspondence, the NRC has decided that further pursuit of this issue is not warranted, particularly since OPPD has brought the water curtain into conformance with the NRC's view of the applicable requirements.
The violations that are cited involve: (1) a failure to protect an emergency diesel generator speed sensing circuit from the effects of a control room or cable spreading room fire, an issue which OPPD identified in response to other NRC findings during this inspection; (2) a failure to have in place a procedure providing operators sufficient guidance for a cable spreading room fire; (3) a failure to equip reactor coolant pumps with adequate lube oil collection systems; (4) a failure to declare the fire suppression water system inoperable and post firewatch personnel during system flushing operations; and 5) a failure to assure that fire brigade personnel received classroom training in fire brigade equipment every two years.
Although Fort Calhoun Station was not challenged by a fire, these violations collectively indicate a substantial failure to fully understand and implement all requirements of Appendix R and the plant's fire protection program. In addition, at least one of the violations (Violation A) had the potential, in the event of a fire, to damage equipment relied upon to achieve and maintain safe shutdown of the facility. Therefore, these violations have been classified in the aggregate as a Severity Level III problem, in accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions" (Enforcement Policy), NUREG-1600.
At the conference, OPPD discussed corrective actions it was taking to address these violations, including: (1) actions to correct the individual violations; (2) enhanced audits of the fire protection program; (3) conduct of a fire protection self-assessment (already complete); and (4) conduct of a safety system functional inspection of the fire protection program, currently scheduled for October 1997.
In accordance with the Enforcement Policy, a civil penalty with a base value of $55,000 is considered for a Severity Level III problem. Because your facility has been the subject of escalated enforcement actions within the last 2 years, 1 the NRC considered whether credit was warranted for Identification and Corrective Action in accordance with the civil penalty assessment process in Section VI.B.2 of the Enforcement Policy. In that all but one of these violations were identified by the NRC during its inspection, and that the remaining violation was identified by OPPD in response to NRC's inspection findings and would not likely have been identified otherwise, the NRC has determined that credit for identification is not warranted. However, based on the corrective actions taken and planned by OPPD, the NRC has determined that credit for corrective action is warranted. This assessment results in a civil penalty at the base value of $55,000.
Therefore, to emphasize the importance of maintaining all fire protection program requirements at Fort Calhoun, I have been authorized, after consultation with the Director, Office of Enforcement, to issue the enclosed Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty (Notice) in the base amount of $55,000.
You are required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the enclosed Notice when preparing your response. In your response, you should document the specific actions taken and any additional actions you plan to prevent recurrence. The NRC will use your response, in part, to determine whether further enforcement action is necessary to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its enclosure, and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR).
Ellis W. Merschoff
Docket No. 50-285
License No. DPR-40
Enclosure: Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty
James W. Tills, Manager
Omaha Public Power District
Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4 Adm.
P.O. Box 399
Hwy. 75 - North of Fort Calhoun
Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023-0399
James W. Chase, Manager
Fort Calhoun Station, P.O. Box 399
Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68023
Perry D. Robinson, Esq.
Winston & Strawn
1400 L. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005-3502
Washington County Board of Supervisors
Blair, Nebraska 68008
Cheryl Rogers, LLRW Program Manager
Environmental Protection Section
Nebraska Department of Health
301 Centennial Mall, South
P.O. Box 95007
Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-5007
NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND PROPOSED IMPOSITION OF CIVIL PENALTY
Omaha Public Power District Docket No. 50-285
Fort Calhoun Station License No. DPR-40
During an NRC inspection completed May 2, 1997, violations of NRC requirements were identified. In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposes to impose a civil penalty pursuant to Section 234 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (Act), 42 U.S.C. 2282, and 10 CFR 2.205. The particular violations and associated civil penalty are set forth below:
A. 10 CFR 50.48.b requires that all nuclear power plants licensed to operate prior to January 1, 1979, satisfy the requirements of sections III.G, III.J, and III.O of Appendix R to 10 CFR Part 50.
10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section III.G.1.a requires that one train of systems necessary to achieve and maintain hot shutdown conditions from either the control room or emergency control station be free of fire damage.
Contrary to this requirement, as of May 2, 1997, the B diesel generator engine control circuitry was not protected from the effects of a control room fire. A control room or cable spreading room fire could damage the control circuits and render the diesel inoperable. This diesel is required to achieve safe shutdown conditions in the event of a control room or cable spreading room fire requiring alternate shutdown.
B. 10 CFR 50.48.b requires that all nuclear power plants licensed to operate prior to January 1, 1979, satisfy the requirements of sections III.G, III.J, and III.O of Appendix R to 10 CFR Part 50.
10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section III.G.3 requires alternate shutdown capability be provided where the protection of systems whose function is required for hot shutdown does not satisfy the requirements of G.2.
Section G.2 specifies barrier separation requirements for redundant safe shutdown trains in a fire area. The separation of safe shutdown trains in the cable spreading room requirement of Section G.2 was not provided at Fort Calhoun Station.
Appendix R, Section III.L.3 states that procedures shall be in effect to implement this alternate shutdown capability.
Contrary to this requirement, as of April 16, 1997, a procedure directing the station operators to perform the alternative shutdown procedure for a cable spreading room fire did not direct the operators to implement alternate shutdown for such fires.
C. 10 CFR 50.48.b requires that all nuclear power plants licensed to operate prior to January 1, 1979, satisfy the requirements of sections III.G, III.J, and III.O of Appendix R to 10 CFR Part 50.
10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section III.O requires reactor coolant pump motors to be equipped with a lube oil collection system capable of collecting lube oil from all potential pressurized and unpressurized leakage sources.
Contrary to this requirement, as of April 21, 1997, an oil collection system was not provided for the upper oil reservoir level transmitter, three resistance temperature detectors on each upper oil reservoir, three drain ports for the shaft air seal, and the lower reservoir resistance temperature detector and level transmitter on reactor coolant pump motors A, C, & D. In addition, reactor coolant pump motor B had no collection system provided for the lower bearing reservoir resistance temperature detector and level instrumentation. Furthermore, on April 29, 1997, the high pressure collection system for pump motors A, C, and D had damaged seals which prevented the collection of all the oil from a high pressure leak.
D. License Condition 3.F of Facility Operating License DPR-40, for Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1, states that the Omaha Public Power District shall implement and maintain in effect all provisions of the approved fire protection program as described in the Updated Safety Analysis Report for the facility and as approved in Safety Evaluation Reports dated February 14, and August 23, 1978, November 17, 1980, April 8 and August 12, 1982, July 3 and November 5, 1985, July 1, 1986, December 20, 1988, November 14, 1990, March 17, 1993, and January 14, 1994.
License Condition 3.F requires that all provisions of the approved fire protection program as described in the Updated Safety Analysis Report for the facility be maintained and implemented.
Table 11.2 of the Updated Safety Analysis Report stated that the fire suppression water system shall be operable, except during system testing, jockey pump maintenance, or training. Table 11.2 also stated that a continuous firewatch be established for the diesel generator rooms, the compressor room and in the corridor between Fire Areas 6 and 20 when the fire suppression water system was inoperable.
Contrary to this requirement, on November 10, 1996, and on February 10, 1997, the licensee performed flushing operations which rendered the fire suppression water system inoperable without declaring the system inoperable or stationing the required firewatch personnel.
E. License Condition 3.F of Facility Operating License DPR-40, for Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1, states that the Omaha Public Power District shall implement and maintain in effect all provisions of the approved fire protection program as described in the Updated Safety Analysis Report for the facility and as approved in Safety Evaluation Reports dated February 14, and August 23, 1978, November 17, 1980, April 8 and August 12, 1982, July 3 and November 5, 1985, July 1, 1986, December 20, 1988, November 14, 1990, March 17, 1993, and January 14, 1994.
License Condition 3.F requires that all provisions of the approved fire protection program as described in the August 23, 1978, Updated Safety Evaluation Report be implemented.
Section 3.5 of the August 23, 1978, Updated Safety Evaluation Report required that fire brigade classroom training be repeated every two years.
Contrary to this requirement, on April 16, 1997, classroom session 1064-03, "Fire Brigade Equipment," was not provided to qualified fire brigade members since the April through June 1994 training cycle, a period of time greater than two years.
These violations represent a Severity Level III problem (Supplement I).
Civil Penalty - $55,000
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Omaha Public Power District is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, within 30 days of the date of this Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty (Notice). This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each alleged violation: (1) admission or denial of the alleged violation, (2) the reasons for the violation if admitted, and if denied, the reasons why, (3) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved, (4) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved. If an adequate reply is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an order or a Demand for Information may be issued as why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Consideration may be given to extending the response time for good cause shown. Under the authority of Section 182 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 2232, this response shall be submitted under oath or affirmation.
Within the same time as provided for the response required above under 10 CFR 2.201, [delete the first part of the sentence for cases where the 10 CFR 2.201 response has been waived] (T)the Licensee may pay the civil penalty by letter addressed to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with a check, draft, money order, or electronic transfer payable to the Treasurer of the United States in the amount of the civil penalty proposed above, or the cumulative amount of the civil penalties if more than one civil penalty is proposed, or may protest imposition of the civil penalty in whole or in part, by a written answer addressed to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Should the Licensee fail to answer within the time specified, an order imposing the civil penalty will be issued. Should the Licensee elect to file an answer in accordance with 10 CFR 2.205 protesting the civil penalty, in whole or in part, such answer should be clearly marked as an "Answer to a Notice of Violation" and may: (1) deny the violation(s) listed in this Notice, in whole or in part, (2) demonstrate extenuating circumstances, (3) show error in this Notice, or (4) show other reasons why the penalty should not be imposed. In addition to protesting the civil penalty in whole or in part, such answer may request remission or mitigation of the penalty.
In requesting mitigation of the proposed penalty, the factors addressed in Section VI.B.2 of the Enforcement Policy should be addressed. Any written answer in accordance with 10 CFR 2.205 should be set forth separately from the statement or explanation in reply pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201, but may incorporate parts of the 10 CFR 2.201 reply by specific reference (e.g., citing page and paragraph numbers) to avoid repetition. The attention of the Licensee is directed to the other provisions of 10 CFR 2.205, regarding the procedure for imposing a civil penalty.
Upon failure to pay any civil penalty due which subsequently has been determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of 10 CFR 2.205, this matter may be referred to the Attorney General, and the penalty, unless compromised, remitted, or mitigated, may be collected by civil action pursuant to Section 234c of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 2282c.
The response noted above (Reply to Notice of Violation, letter with payment of civil penalty, and Answer to a Notice of Violation) should be addressed to: James Lieberman, Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-2738, with a copy to the Regional Administrator, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region IV, 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400, Arlington, Texas 76011, and a copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the Fort Calhoun Station facility.
Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction. If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withholding (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information will create an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790(b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information). If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
Dated at Arlington, Texas
this 30th day of July 1997
1 On July 31, 1996, the NRC issued a Severity Level III violation to OPPD (EA 96-204) for violations which resulted in disabling the automatic operation of the low temperature, over-pressure function of the pressurizer power-operated relief valves.
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Why Pino Tovaglia kept this unpublished work, or what its true genesis is, we will never know. The fact is that his daughter Irene, getting her hands on her father’s materials, found these 24 plates, held together with tape, with an intriguing cover where the Pirelli logo stands out, front and back. The mystery deepens because the managers of the famous brand claim that there is no trace of such a project in their archives; even during the years of the collaboration between the designer and the multinational company nothing leads back to this pamphlet, which appears to be a real prototype.
Whatever its origin, it is in any case an interesting and singular study of the elongated form, which Tovaglia evidently enjoys doing of his own free will. The association with the brand, as far as we can surmise, probably arises by analogy with the content, or vice versa.
The 56 pages of A story as long as are thus a valuable exercise in style, reproposed in its formal integrity, but adapted for a contemporary publication, accompanied by a short text by Marta Sironi, which allows us to investigate and enhance the more human side of one of the most significant figures of Italian graphic design in the second half of the twentieth century.
Dedicated to fans of graphic design, illustration and simple admirers of a great protagonist who spontaneously addresses children, with a hint of mystery…
Illustrations by Pino Tovaglia Text by Marta Sironi Cover by Flavia Ruotolo Book design Bunker and Flavia Ruotolo
21 × 12 cm 56 pages Paperback with dust jacket Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-54-5 First edition November 2022
There are places that exist only in memory, some of them so bizarre that they seem instead to be the figment of a child’s imagination-or perhaps an artist’s or even a designer’s.This is not the case with The Shops of Aoi Huber Kono: the meticulously illustrated facades in this leporello, which Aoi began composing in 1974, correspond to places that did indeed exist, everyday and familiar places.
If we are all accustomed to going to the bakery or the fish market, what happened instead to the confectionery, the dairy, the milliner or the haberdashery? Perhaps someday we will tell our children, as if it were a legend, that toys were not always crammed into the aisles of a shopping mall but that there were stores in which to spend hours looking at them all, magical places to be taken to after being at the doctor’s, or grandparents in secret. Or that once upon a time, when the world was a little less interconnected and much more diverse, there were no places in which to find everything from celery to tires: there were stores.
In this book, whose plates were designed for a small volume in the Tantibambini series, edited by Bruno Munari for Einaudi, Aoi Huber Kono illustrates the facades of 16 stores, making a summary of the most characteristic features of each: some still exist, but who can say for how long?
The title on the cover is a small jewel of design and graphics, the result of the intense collaboration between husband and wife: Max Huber made the curtain strips with colored cutouts and composed the lettering, Aoi embellished it with a punctuated hemming.
Illustrations by Aoi Huber Kono Book design Bunker
23 × 16 cm 16 pages Leporello with jacket Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-51-4 First published July 2022
“What is a sigh made of?” A mother’s sigh is made of worries and tiredness, but the little ones do not know what it is, otherwise they would be… big! What can they do then to make this sigh lighter? And what can daddy do?
This volume stems from the need to recount in pictures the affection between children and their parents, leaving, as is the artist’s custom, the few words associated with the evocative power of images to communicate to us the profound sense of this relationship. The eleven illustrated plates that make up this work tell of small and essential emotions waiting to be discovered.
Lazy Dog’s first book for very young children is dedicated to all mothers and the weight they are able to carry on their shoulders, but also to all the families who bend over backwards to share it.
Text and illustrations by Ayumi Kudo Book design Bunker
24 × 16 cm 24 pages Hardback Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-47-7 First published May 2022
Lorenzo Mattotti, an internationally renowned illustrator, much loved by the public, has always looked to the seventh art as an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
This book, produced on the occasion of the 2021 edition of the Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon, which has dedicated an unprecedented exhibition to the artist, aims to highlight the double thread that links Mattotti’s work to cinema. This double thread has led him over the years to design the posters of films and major film festivals, until signing in 2019 the highly successful animated feature film The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
The volume is divided into four sections: Film festival posters, from the image of numerous festivals in the 1990s, to the prestigious commission for Cannes, to the Venice Film Festival; Editorial illustrations, commissioned by “The New Yorker” during its long collaboration with the famous American magazine; Film posters, including Eros, for which he drew the poetic interludes that open the three episodes directed by Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh; and finally, animated films, from the very first Bluebeard, through Pinocchio to the aforementioned The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily, accompanied by unpublished sketches and storyboards.
The volume concludes with a long and impassioned interview with Lorenzo Mattotti by the Festival’s artistic director Charlotte Serrand, who traces the stages of his journey into the seventh art, which began in his great-uncle’s cinema, Cinema Mattotti.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti With the collaboration of Charlotte Serrand Illustrations by Lorenzo Mattotti Texts by Melania Gazzotti, Charlotte Serrand, Maximilien Schnel Book design by Bunker
19.5 × 26 cm 112 pages Hardback French/Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-43-9 First published October 2021
The result of 6 years of work, Il bacio della lucertola (The Lizard’s Kiss) is the graphic novel with which Luca Zamoc debuts in the publishing world. The story stems from an intense journey of Zamoc in 2013 through the Thai jungle and creeps into the mind and pen of the author until it becomes today a masterpiece of 96 pages, redrawn three times before arriving at the final form. Everything starts from an accident in the Indonesian jungle: the dramatic fate of the protagonist and his companion will be the pretext for deep existential and spiritual reflections, while in the background reality dialogues with fantasy, opening to the reader imaginative, primordial and visionary scenarios.
Also in this case it is possible to find the stylistic code of the authors, who are distinguished by the investigation on the relationship between Man, Nature and Mythology. A journey of exploration in an inhospitable and wild place, in which, however, coexist, together with archaeological traces and tropical fauna, singular spiritual connotations. It is in this way that, at the crossroads between nature and culture, the journey through the forest becomes a profound inner journey. The passages are marked by continuous flashbacks full of tension and surprise, where past and present, escape and search, inexorably mix, pushing the protagonist to look for answers on the border between the environment that surrounds him and his interiority. The figurative complex, here rendered with ink drawings, manages to immerse and involve the reader in the shamanic and mysterious atmosphere.
Aimed at admirers of graphic novels and comics, to discover a new authoritative protagonist.
Illustrations by Luca Zamoc Texts by Luca Speranzoni Cover title Luca Barcellona Calligraphy Lorenzo Bolzoni Book design Bunker
20,5 × 29 cm 96 pages Paperback Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-42-2 First published October 2021
The effect of fireworks at the moment of explosion seems impossible to reproduce on paper, due to its ephemeral and iridescent nature. Yet in late 19th century Japan, Jinta Hirayama undertook this challenge by publishing an extraordinary catalogue.
While the purpose of the booklet was once to show Hirayama Fireworks Company’s customers the variety and originality of its pyrotechnic productions, complete with instructions for use, today the illustrated fireworks catalogue stands before our eyes as a valuable work of graphic art. 86 magnetic illustrations, geometric and elegant, rigorous and striking, that manage to evoke the brilliance and magnificence of the fireworks as they appear at night and constitute the restored reproduction of the original catalogue, dated 1883.
It was precisely in those years that Hirayama’s company distinguished itself in the production of fireworks, making notable technical innovations that culminated in a new expressive horizon: from the exclusive use of orange hues, it moved on to a riot of colours.
As well as being a source of inspiration, the singular illustrations intrigue the beholder with ever-changing combinations, and lead right back to the Japanese etymology of the term: page after page one seems to see ‘flowers of fire’ (in Japanese, hanabi). An unusual and original book, with the unmistakable flavour of yesteryear of an art that has never gone out of fashion.
With a precious childhood memory by Aoi Huber Kono, and lettering on the cover by Luca Barcellona.
With a text by Aoi Huber Kono Cover lettering by Luca Barcellona Book design by Bunker
12 × 18 cm 96 pages Paperback + dust jacket Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-40-8 First published July 2021
Seven incredible drawings of the same landscape, portrayed from 1953 to 1972, and how it changes in such a short time. The debut work by Swiss artist and illustrator Jörg Müller, first published in 1973 and thanks to which the author made an international name for himself, was then something completely new in the world of picture books and is today as relevant as ever.
No words, it is only the plates that speak and a date that marks time: where there was a meadow, a stream, a house painted with vegetable gardens and flowering trees, shortly afterwards there is also a tractor and a train passing in the background. Page after page the forest and the stream are gone, chimneys and industrial plants arrive, the painted house is demolished to make way for a busy motorway and a supermarket.
A landscape that changes face in the space of a few years, a tale in pictures that is not intended to be a nostalgic cliché of the rural environment, but a chronicle of vivid immediacy of the change brought about by the glorious age of progress. The author’s beautifully drawn plates are timeless and without place, painting a scenario that most of us have experienced over the past sixty years: we all remember that childhood meadow that is now gone, and unfortunately we continue to see others disappear.
The edition of this book tries to be partly faithful to the first, original German edition by giving the pictures space and centrality. Dove c’era un prato (Where There Was a Meadow), which won the author the German Youth Literature Award in 1974, is today a great classic on the environment, which triggers urgent and necessary reflection.
With a text by Giulia Mirandola, careful curator of cultural projects that focus on visual reading and the relationship with the landscape.
Illustrations by Jörg Müller With a text by Giulia Mirandola Book design by Bunker
30 × 23.5 cm 24 pages Hardback Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-39-2 First published May 2021
Caleidoscopica takes us on a journey through the last ten years of the career of Olimpia Zagnoli, an internationally renowned illustrator whose sinuous and colourful images have quickly conquered the worlds of publishing, fashion and communication. Her unmistakable stroke guides us through the 148 pages of this anthology in an overwhelming sequence of works – drawings, prints, neon, textiles and sculptures – that are juxtaposed by free association or by clear affinities of theme, colour and form.
The rhythm of this immersive journey is punctuated by a series of texts and thoughts from authors working in the fields of illustration, design and art, offering multiple and original readings of Olimpia’s work. The uniqueness of the publication is enhanced by a series of sketches, contained in notebooks of visual notes and preparatory works that reveal the creative process through which Olimpia, seeking the synthesis of the image, arrives at the essence of the message with the freshness and naturalness that make her unique. The book, edited by Melania Gazzotti, is addressed to lovers of illustration, to all those interested in design, fashion, style and looking for inspiration, and to all Olimpia’s fans. Caleidoscopica will also be an exhibition in Reggio Emilia planned for September 2021.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti Texts by Melania Gazzotti, Kim Hastreiter, Steven Heller, Italo Lupi, Paola Pallottino, Guido Scarabottolo, Leanne Shapton, Peter Shire, Tamara Shopsin Book design by Bunker
19.5 × 26 cm 148 pages Hardback with mirror glasses Italian/English Isbn 978-88-98030-35-4 First published March 2021
“It was a kind of music. Six months later I found an album of oriental paper, and I started to draw a kind of landscape score. I tried to find this music of forms, I looked for my Patagonia from the Patagonia I had crossed”. – Lorenzo Mattotti
This is not the first time that Mattotti has felt the need to make an illustrated travelogue, he had already done so in 2014, collecting a series of drawings documenting his discovery of Vietnam in a precious travel book, later published by Louis Vuitton. On Patagonia, however, the artist does not want to make a full-fledged reportage, as he had done for the eastern country; what interests him about this place is only one aspect: its boundless and virgin nature, not its inhabitants and their stories that had so fascinated storytellers such as Bruce Chatwin and Louis Sepulveda. For Mattotti, Patagonia is first and foremost a place of the mind and that is why he strips it of colour to represent it, synthesising its forms, making it almost abstract to succeed in giving us back a sensation before an image, the sensation that every man feels when he finds himself in an extreme land, in a land at the end of the world.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti, the book presents all the 24 black and white plates contained in the Nepalese paper notebook where Mattotti copied his travel notes, together with a selection of colour drawings made by the artist in a classic Moleskine® notebook while he was in Patagonia. Both notebooks are unpublished and were made between 2003 and 2004.
The world’s best-known Italian illustrator, a never-before-seen exhibition and a book to collect: Patagonia by Lorenzo Mattotti promises to be a not-to-be-missed event for all lovers of contemporary illustration and beyond.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti Texts by Lorenzo Mattotti, Melania Gazzotti, Jorge Zentner Book design by Bunker
28 × 15 cm 116 pages Swiss-style hardback Italian/English/French/Spanish Isbn 978-88-98030-28-6 First published October 2020
Melodramma collects a selection of unpublished illustrations created by painter and illustrator Gianluigi Toccafondo for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The artist has been collaborating since 2014 with the prestigious Roman theatre for which he has created all the posters for the last five opera and ballet seasons, as well as sets and costumes for operatic masterpieces such as Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni and Rigoletto.
Toccafondo approached theatre at the height of a brilliant career as an illustrator in publishing and as the author of short films and animation works, commissioned by television and cinema. Toccafondo brings his incredible ability to create moving images, making cinematographic language dialogue with pictorial language, also to the theatre by introducing animation projections among the elements of his sets.
Melodramma brings together a rich selection of panels that, thanks to the artist’s masterful ability to synthesise forms and expressive use of colour, shows all his dreamlike power. With a text by Carlo Fuortes, Superintendent of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
Curated by Melania Gazzotti, a project by Associazione Flangini with the patronage and collaboration of the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Mantua. On show at the Casa di Rigoletto from 8 September to 3 October 2020.
Curated by Melania Gazzotti Texts by Melania Gazzotti and Carlo Fuortes Book design by Bunker
13.5 × 19 cm 80 pages Hardback Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-34-7 First published September 2020
How many times, on the metro, on the bus, on the train, have we been caught by the people around us absorbed in their digital worlds? Are we able to discern from the use of digital devices, smartphones in the lead, what is useful to us from what penalises us? Are we really able to judge the new practices to which we have become so easily and haphazardly accustomed?
Cremonesi is an artist who expresses himself through images: with an ironic approach and light stroke, he draws people filmed in the daily routine of travelling on the metro, all magnetically attracted by their mobile phones; he shows us ourselves in the mirror, making us smile and inviting us to reflect. The phrases and names scattered throughout the book invite us to delve deeper, urge us to investigate what is behind this… ‘mobilezation’ – a neologism from mobile and mobilisation –, and accompany us as we browse through the plates of the characters, often caught in poses of unexpected plasticity and eloquence.
Dedicated to those who are sensitive to new social behaviour – such as mobilezation – and appreciate the author’s self-mocking and anything but superficial spirit, to those who love illustration and lightness.
Texts and illustrations by Paolo Cremonesi Book design by Bunker
13 × 19 cm 96 pages 45 illustrations Paperback Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-32-3 First published June 2020
The first major work devoted entirely to the film discography of maestro Ennio Morricone. The only one of its kind, it is the brainchild of the collector, author and film expert Maurizio Baroni, who draws from his own boundless archive to create a comprehensive review covering over fifty years of his prestigious career, much of it previously unpublished, including the maestro’s autographed manuscript scores, soundtrack record covers and much more.
Expertly accompanying the over 550 images in the volume are texts by Germano Barban, a journalist and expert on cinema and film music, and impassioned speeches by great directors and actors, revealing some of the background to this extraordinary success and the reasons for the influence that Ennio Morricone has exerted on the collective imagination through his music. A full-scale homage to this great Italian film music composer, undoubtedly the most famous in the world.
Texts by Maurizio Baroni, Germano Barban and Dario Argento, John Boorman, John Carpenter, Liliana Cavani, Edda Dell’Orso, Roberto Faenza, Christopher Frayling, Daniele Furlati, Lisa Gastoni, Giancarlo Giannini, Guido Lombardo, Mauro Maur, Giuliano Montaldo, Franco Nero, Gino Paoli, Nicola Piovani, Quentin Tarantino, Giuseppe Tornatore and Carlo Verdone Cover design by Luca Barcellona Book design by Bunker
22 × 30.5 cm 368 pages Hardback Italian edition Isbn 978-88-98030-30-9 First published October 2019
Franco Matticchio’s women’s faces are serious and enigmatic, he draws them out of the blue on every piece of paper he comes across, from a letter envelope to the page of a book or the “The New Yorker”.
They are the faces he encounters on the street, at the station, that he observes in his daily life and that accumulate and overlap in his personal visual imagination. Matticchio’s attention is captured by women of inconspicuous beauty, whose impassive expressions are united by a certain intensity and pride in their gaze. Over the years, the illustrator has continued to return to this inexhaustible subject, using every medium: pastels, watercolours, acrylics or even simply an Indian ink pen or pencil, always placing these figures against neutral backgrounds or in bare environments without temporal references, succeeding in subtraction to heighten the intimacy of the scenes and create suspended and rarefied atmospheres.
Over time, Matticchio has amassed a veritable collection of female faces, almost never made on commission and mostly unpublished: a conspicuous body of drawings in which one can find the unmistakable style of the illustrator but at the same time find it hard to recognise that surreal and ironic vein that is one of his main distinguishing features. In fact, when Matticchio finds himself drawing a woman’s face, he only acts as a fascinated and discreet observer of the profound and mysterious complexity of the female soul.
The book, edited by Melania Gazzotti, is accompanied by an unpublished text by Ugo Cornia.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti Texts by Ugo Cornia, Melania Gazzotti and Rosanna Padrini Dolcini Book design by Bunker
13.5 × 19 cm 80 pages Hardback Italian/English Isbn 978-88-98030-21-7 First published July 2019
Katsumi Komagata’s ‘Book of Books’, an essential work by the author published in 2013 by Les Trois Ourses, now appears for the first time in a bilingual Italian and English version, in a revamped and updated edition. Komagata needs no introduction: it suffices to mention the two instances with which he revolutionised children’s publishing. Starting from an interweaving of his life with his young daughter Aï and the plastic experiments that characterised his training, Komagata manages to forge a new artistic sensibility through the extreme simplification of shapes and colours.
In his books, the author accounts for the infant’s point of view on the world and, following his growth processes, he follows the development of his perception, realising a true study that is not only pedagogical but also anthropological. Moreover, his way of understanding children’s publishing is revolutionary in that the volumes themselves are true design objects: pop-up techniques, the Japanese art of origami or the tangram are just some of the many examples with which the author recovers the material value of any book, in a rich encounter of colours, shapes and sensory stimuli. In doing so, the sensitivity that transpires from his books cannot but broaden the audience, reaching even adults.
In the 192 pages of this monograph, more than 100 illustrations offer a comprehensive view of his works. The book is aimed at all admirers of the figure of Komagata and what he represents for publishing, design and the graphic arts worldwide. The new edition in Italian and English also includes the titles published by One Stroke, the author’s agency and publishing house, over the last 5 years.
Preface by Stefano Salis Texts by Kazumasa Nagaï, Élisabeth Lortic and Katsumi Komagata Book design by Bunker
22 × 28 cm 192 pages Paperback Italian/English Isbn 978-88-98030-33-0 First published April 2019
Since the beginning of her career as a visual artist in the early 1980s, Emi Ligabue has focused her research on everyday objects, from everyday utensils to the icons of modernity and design, first creating sculptures and installations and then two-dimensional works, preferring the technique of collage. Taking and recontextualising images is his signature style and has allowed the artist to freely experiment with mixing genres, and to reflect on the increasingly blurred boundaries between visual and applied arts.
In the 65 collages of La settimana bianca (The White Week), the title of the exhibition curated by Melania Gazzotti at the Mutty cultural centre and its catalogue, Emi Ligabue measures himself against a different visual imagery: the mountain, as a relatively recent holiday and winter sports destination. This time, therefore, the subject of investigation is no longer the artefact itself, but rather the visual ensemble of snow-covered peaks, skis, snowshoes and plastic poses, placed within a collective phenomenon of custom – which began in the 1960s and is now consolidated – that thanks to artistic elaboration and interpretation becomes evocation and takes on an iconic perspective, anything but free of irony and provocation, as is the artist’s custom.
A book for lovers of illustration, graphics and design and, of course, for die-hard winter mountain-goers.
Edited by Melania Gazzotti Texts by Melania Gazzotti Book design by Bunker
21 × 28 cm 68 pages Sewing stitch Singer Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-14-9 First published January 2019
“So you have to know the trees to design parks; know them one by one, and also know that the design of a park is the design of a ‘becoming’, the proposal of a mechanism of transformation, growth, life and death.” – Franca Stagi
The drawings in the book L’Architettura degli Alberi (The Architecture of Trees) by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi represent an unsurpassed tool for the design of green areas.
The result of a study that lasted over twenty years, the book contains the treatment of 212 tree species, drawn in scale 1:100, with and without foliage, accompanied by diagrams of the projections of shadows during the hours of the day and during the course of the seasons, tables of seasonal chromatic variation of the foliage and 393 descriptive cards for each family (53), genus (128) and species (212), with 185 particular drawings of leaves, flowers and fruits.
A fundamental text, now available again in this renewed edition with a more up-to-date graphic design, appropriately revised, corrected and updated. Aimed at professionals, architects, landscape architects and designers, and anyone who suffers the irresistible charm of the wonderful world of trees.
Texts by Laura Conti, Augusto Pirola and Franca Stagi Introduction to the new edition by Andrea Cavani and Giulio Orsini Original illustrations by Studio Leonardi-Stagi Book design Bunker
25,5 × 38 cm 424 pages Over 550 illustrations Hardcover Italian Isbn 978-88-98030-19-4 First published December 2018

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Yes, you can do this.
The ability of Madness that lets you actually cast it is a triggered ability. It will only go on the stack the next time a player would gain priority, which is after the Collector’s Vault finishes resolving.
So first you fully resolve Collector’s Vault, though you exile Fiery Temper instead of discarding it. Then the Madness trigger is put on the stack. Then that trigger resolves, and when it does you can pay the mana to cast Fiery Temper.
Now if “discard a card” were part of the activation cost rather than part of the effect, (Peace of Mind), then you wouldn’t be able to do this. You would have to deal with the madness trigger before the activated ability resolved.
702.35a Madness is a keyword that represents two abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with madness is in a player’s hand. The second is a triggered ability that functions when the first ability is applied. “Madness [cost]” means “If a player would discard this card, that player discards it, but exiles it instead of putting it into their graveyard” and “When this card is exiled this way, its owner may cast it by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost. If that player doesn’t, they put this card into their graveyard.”
603.2. Whenever a game event or game state matches a triggered ability’s trigger event, that ability automatically triggers. The ability doesn’t do anything at this point.
603.3. Once an ability has triggered, its controller puts it on the stack as an object that’s not a card the next time a player would receive priority. See rule 117, “Timing and Priority.”
117.3b The active player receives priority after a spell or ability (other than a mana ability) resolves.

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It’s been ages since I have written a word. My God I feel guilty. I work and work and work. Seems all my life became nothing but work. My books left on side to get dusty. My writings have been put on hold!
I wish I get some time to be able to simply get back to few things.
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE MY JOB… But my talk, dreams and head seems to be all about work. I need to find a way to get other things done somehow!

domain: psychology


Huawei and Xiamen University to set up ICT-enabled campus in Malaysia
By Digital News Asia February 4, 2015
- Huawei bringing ‘Smart Campus’ to Malaysia after similar initiatives elsewhere
- Xiamen U set up in China by a Malaysian in 1921, now ‘returning the favour’
HUAWEI Malaysia said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Xiamen University Malaysia Campus which would see the two parties jointly plan and develop a “future-oriented ICT-enabled campus” in Malaysia.
Under the MoU, Huawei and Xiamen University Malaysian Campus will consider the deployment of a high-quality, high-bandwidth, and high-reliability campus network with a significant TCO (total cost of ownership) saving.
The two parties are also aiming to establish a joint teaching lab in the Malaysia campus of Xiamen University where students can learn about Huawei’s latest ICT technologies, the telco giant said in a statement.
With this MoU, Huawei said it is bringing its first ‘Smart Campus’ to Malaysia after similar initiatives in emerging and developed markets including the United Kingdom and the United States.
READ ALSO: Huawei’s first global training center outside of China
“We are excited to have taken the first step in what we hope will be a long-term collaboration with Huawei, a company which plays a major role in the global ICT industry,” said Xiamen University president Zhu Chongshi.
“Today’s MoU with Huawei means the collaborations between Xiamen University and Huawei have reached a strategic level. This win-win collaboration will help Xiamen University expand its reputation in Malaysia and it also enables Huawei to enhance its brand among the education industry,” he added.
Xiamen University is a university in China that was founded by a Malaysian, Tan Kah Kee, in 1921. With the Xiamen University Malaysian Campus being set up, it will be the first Chinese university to build an overseas branch, Huawei said in its statement.
The campus will be located in the vicinity of Bandar Kota Warisan in Sepang, a 15min ride from the country’s administrative center of Putrajaya and 45km southwest of Kuala Lumpur. It is being built on a 150-acre site with a planned total floor space of 470,000 sq m, and will provide on-campus accommodation to all enrolled students.
It will offer bachelor, master and doctoral programmes, which are similar to those offered at Xiamen University campuses in China.
“I’m very pleased to see Huawei embark on this exciting journey with Xiamen University, one of the most respected universities in the world,” said Huawei Malaysia chief executive officer Abraham Liu.
“Smart campuses with reliable, high bandwidth networks are essential tools for today’s Digital Natives to feel engaged in university education and compete and win in the digital economy.
“This MoU is just the in line with our ongoing efforts in ICT education and skill development for Malaysian students,” he added.
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COLUMBIA— They’ve all had setbacks.
Losing a job. Falling behind on a mortgage. Being buried in medical bills.
Many of their struggles are not so unique. They are felt by the millions afflicted by a flagging economy and the uncertain outcomes of life’s chances and choices. They are felt by the millions who wonder, “Can anything be done to make my life better?”
Five mid-Missouri residents are trying to answer that question.
During an intensive six weeks, they’ve been meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Central Missouri Community Action Center in Columbia to take part in a small-business startup program. They have a range of ideas — a coffeehouse, a nonprofit youth sports league and a website that caters to the unemployed — ideas they’ve been thinking of for months, if not years.
This was the first time the center, which offers a variety of services for low to moderate-income people, has offered this kind of help.
At the center, staff help refine the participants’ proposals and give them lessons on the countless factors that go into devising a business plan and launching a new operation. What permits do they need? How much will they have to pay in taxes? How do they promote themselves with little more than a semblance of a marketing budget?
In mid-September, the classes ended, and in the upcoming weeks, participants will meet individually with center staff to figure out their next moves.
Ideally, they’ll then receive a loan from the center’s microloan pool. Dianna Moore, the center’s director of economic development, said the average loan will likely be about $5,000. So far, the pool consists of donations from local businesses, but the center also hopes to obtain a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
It’s a daunting time to take on what has always been a daunting endeavor. Economic doom and gloom blankets the news. Banks are hesitant to loan. Consumers are reluctant to spend.
But five Missouri residents are forging ahead.
- Nathaniel Brinkley, Fayette photographer, dreams of handicap-accessible portrait studio
- Paul Wooderson, mid-Missouri entrepreneur, aims for new website catering to unemployed
- Brenda Fant, Ashland resident, hopes to open coffeehouse
- Jason Lewis, Columbia salesman, hopes to start nonprofit youth league

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NEW DELHI: It has been a month since reports of Samsung
’s new flagship smartphone
– Samsung Galaxy S6
surfaced online. And now, there are new reports of a curved variant floating around.
According to a report by SamMobile, along with the Galaxy S6, Samsung will introduce a variant of the phone with a curved display, most likely to be called Galaxy S6 Edge. The screen of the phone is expected to be similar to that of the Galaxy Note Edge.
It could also be something totally new as recently, there were reports of Samsung planning to launch new smartphones with flexible displays.
The report also confirms that the new flagship device, which was being developed under the codename ‘Project Zero’, will officially be called Galaxy S6. Samsung seems to be capitalizing the popularity of the Galaxy S lineup.
According to earlier reports, the South Korean tech giant aimed to start from scratch in order to make its upcoming phone 'the best Galaxy S flagship yet.’
The device is expected to feature a Quad HD (2560x1440p) display, 64-bit Exynos 7420 or Snapdragon 810 processor, 16 or 20MP rear camera, 5MP front camera with 32,64 and 128GB storage with and Broadcom
’s new BCM4773 sensor chip.

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Typically criticising your husband or wife or becoming criticised by these people can make some anxiety in the partnership. Could make one feel like you are always under assault or as if absolutely nothing you do is great enough.
A person becoming regularly criticised will probably believe it is hurtful and demoralising that will raise to resent someone carrying out the criticising. If you discover feedback is almost certainly a challenge inside your connection, it is necessary to nip they in bud before the nightmare comes to be any inferior.
Types of negative feedback
In some cases, complaints is overt, consuming method of remarks or motions which are clearly intended to rile or hurt anyone they’re aimed towards – claiming such things as ‘You’ve gain weight’ or ‘you appear tired today’.
And sometimes critique could be more understated or passive-aggressive, aimed through sarcasm or responses evidently produced as humor.
Dealing with critique
If you’re experiencing criticism in the connection, you ought to find the appropriate:
- won’t retaliate. one back at them will most definitely put fuel for the fire. If needed, take a moment so that the urge lessen.
- Chat with all of them delicately but directly. Let them know how it makes you feel as criticised. You may need to consider using ‘I’ phrases (‘we feel’, ‘I would personally like’) not ‘you’ terms (‘you always’, ‘you don’t’). Because of this, you’re getting obligation for your own personel emotions the partner won’t feel just like you’re targeting these people.
- Remember any dilemmas behind the judgments. It’s not an excellent way to carry out they, but feedback could be a method of conveying dissatisfaction with a relationship. If you are becoming honest with yourself, do you really claim you can find aspects inside practices which can be greater? Consider any difficulties freely and truthfully. Once more, dont word your very own reviews as strikes – but alternatively as authentic tries to know very well what is sugar babies going wrong. If you need assistance with this, you’d like to utilize a Relationship Counsellor.
Converting ‘criticism’ into ‘feedback’
As you can imagine, there will be times when you sense it’s reliable to share with your better half you think they’re doing things incorrect.
In these instances, it is good to attempt to word the information as ‘feedback’ instead ‘criticism’. Try to make your own means a constructive one which means that your partner doesn’t feel as if you’re trying to get at them.
- Focus on the condition or motion, definitely not a person. In place of basically accusing your honey, touch upon the consequences or context. In other words. versus expressing ‘You never ever wanna get out anymore’, claim ‘I feel like there isn’t been outside in a while. Would you like to go right to the cinema next Saturday?’
- Focus on the favorable as well as the negative. Emphasize to these people of whatever you want including all you dont. ‘The way we wish delight in being using your contacts, but I think it might be nice to doing it with each other this weekend’ versus ‘We usually hold off with all your close friends! I’m sick of it!’
- Communicate how it provides afflicted a person. Once again, a case of not just phrasing your own review as a strike. ‘When I feel as if the bad person ahead of the kids, it can make me think add out’, than ‘Stop producing me personally seem like unhealthy dude!’.
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Welcome to Lucknow
The land of etiquette and culture.Explore and Enjoy Lucknow with Genie for City
"Not Rome,not Constantinople nor any other city ,
I have ever seen,appears so beautiful and striking
as this city and the more I watch ,
more its beauty grows upon me."
Explore and Enjoy Lucknow with Genie for City

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There was this joke in the 1990s … old Russian guy goes to a café, orders a cup of coffee and a copy of Pravda.
“Excuse me, sir,” says the waiter, “but they don’t print that anymore.”
“All right then,” says the guy. “Cup of coffee and a copy of Pravda.”
“Sir, they don’t print Pravda anymore.”
“Okay, a copy of Pravda.”
The waiter loses it: “They do not print Pravda anymore.”
“Oh, I know,” says the customer. “I just like to hear that.”
In this spirit, then, though you may have heard it already: “FIBA has announced that it is to ban the vuvuzela from the forthcoming basketball World Championship in Turkey because of…” (please excuse BiE for some snickering at the next bit) “health concerns.”
Clearly FIBA and the world’s sporting authorities are fearing an epidemic of throat-rupturing as was seen during this year’s World Cup.
FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann went all concerned surgeon general in a press release, stating, “The vuvuzela is simply not appropriate in a confined space such as a basketball arena. It’s a very loud instrument and some medical experts believe the decibel level and frequency can be harmful to hearing.”
Kudos to FIBA for becoming “the first international sport federation to officially ban the vuvuzela from all of its events” and R.I.P. in advance to one of the silliest fan traditions in recent memory. And just for old time’s sake, “Blow That Vuvuzela” by the Voodoo Sellers!


Group of 86 NGOs issue letter calling for scrapping of planned Hong Kong security law
The letter, signed by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, among others, was addressed to Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body.
JNU violence: Amnesty International criticises Delhi Police for failing to protect students
The Delhi Police remained "shameful bystanders to...
Amnesty International India seeks review of existing legislative regime governing nationality determination
Amnesty argued that the Foreigner...
Allow right to peaceful protests in Varanasi, Amnesty urges PM Modi, Yogi Adityanath
The global human rights body also sought an independent probe into all cases of police brutality and prosecution of those responsible for violence against protestors.
Modi government faces unprecedented criticism over attacks on JNU students by masked goons
Demands for holding Delhi Police Chief Amulya Patnaik accountable for keeping police as "bystanders" during the attacks, and the removal of JNU Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar for failing to "protect" the dignity of the institute grew louder.
China arrests activist who criticised President Jinping over virus
Police in China have arrested a prominent activist who had been a fugitive for weeks and criticised president Xi Jinping's handling of the coronavirus epidemic while in hiding, a rights group said Tuesday. Anti-corruption activist Xu Zhiyong was arrested on Saturday after being on the run since December, according to Amnesty International.
Death penalty debate rages on as court considers plea of Nirbhaya convict
There are over 50 countries that still allow capital punishment and gruesome crimes such as the Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case serve as a reminder that the issue of doing away with death penalty is not a settled one. The US-based Death Penalty Information Center states that there are 146 countries that have totally abolished death penalty.
Right to information practised by govt: Chidambaram's dig over economic data 'suppression'
The former finance minister's remarks come after a media report cited the latest consumption expenditure survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO) to claim that consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18, primarily driven by slackening rural demand.
CBI raids Amnesty India offices in Bengaluru and New Delhi
"The CBI on Friday conducted searches at the offices of Amnesty International India Private Limited and Indians for Amnesty International Trust in Bengaluru and New Delhi," said Amnesty India in a statement.
CBI raids offices of Amnesty India in New Delhi and Bengaluru
The Central Bureau of Investigation has raided offices of Amnesty International India in Bnagalore and New Delhi over alleged irregularities in foreign funding in connection with violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. A year ago, the ED had raided two of its premises over alleged violation of India’s foreign exchange laws.
ED issues show-cause notice to Amnesty International for 'violating' foreign exchange law
ED said the notice was issued, after completion of the probe, under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
CBI raids Amnesty India's offices in Bengaluru over alleged FCRA violations
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team conducted a raid at Amnesty International Group’s office in Bengaluru on November 15. Raid wa...
Assam is on the brink of a crisis: Aakar Patel, Amnesty India
Amnesty International India strongly urged the Assam Government to ensure that the Foreigners Tribunals function with utmost transparency.
Anti-trafficking bill 'overboard and disproportionate': Amnesty International
The Lok Sabha passed yesterday the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, which provides for confidentiality of victims, witnesses and complainants, time-bound trials and repatriation of the victims.
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- For the starters Download and Install the Android Emulator of your Choice. Take a look at the list we provide here: Best Android Emulators For PC
- Upon the Completion of download and install, open the Android Emulator.
- In the next step click on the Search Button on home screen.
- Now in the search box type ‘Budge World – Kids Games & Fun’ and get the manager in Google Play Search.
- Click on the app icon and install it.
- Once installed, find Budge World – Kids Games & Fun in all apps in drawer, click to open it.
- Use your mouse’s right button/click and WASD keys to use this application.
- Follow on-screen instructions to learn about use the App properly
- That’s all.
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PLAY – LEARN – CREATE – DISCOVER:
-TONS TO SEE AND DO – Each brand has its own portal filled with activities
-NEW CONTENT CONSTANTLY – Regularly updated with exclusive content such as new themed lands, new characters, stickers, games, learning activities, and more!
-INSPIRE LEARNING – Practice spelling, counting, and art with exciting activities!
-VIDEO – Play clips and take pop quizzes!
-EARN & COLLECT – Collect new characters and customize your world with prizes, stickers and more!
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– This app offers monthly subscriptions.
– Users may be offered a free trial of the subscription.
– One free trial per account, on new subscriptions only.
– Users will need to opt-in to a subscription in order to accept the trial period and will have the right to opt-out at any time during the trial period. Users will be automatically charged after the trial period if they haven't opted out.
– Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off before the end of the current period.
– You can cancel or manage your subscription & turn off auto-renewal by going to the Account Settings after your purchase
– You can cancel your subscription at any time, but please note that you will not get a refund for any remaining period of a subscription.
– If you have any questions or need help, please contact our Customer Support at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Please note that this app gives users the ability to take and/or create photos in-app that can be saved locally to their devices. These photos are never shared with other users in-app, nor are they shared by Budge Studios with any unaffiliated third party companies.
BUDGE STUDIOS, BUDGE, BUDGE WORLD and BUDGERS are trademarks of Budge Studios Inc. All other trademarks featured in this app are the property of their respective owners and used under license by Budge Studios Inc.
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Budge World – Kids Games & Fun PC FAQs
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How do I install Budge World – Kids Games & Fun on my PC?
Ans. You can not directly install this app on your pc but with the help of the android emulator, you can do that.
Is Budge World – Kids Games & Fun available for pc?
Ans. No officially not, but with this article steps, you can use it on pc.
How do I install Budge World – Kids Games & Fun on Windows 8,7 or 10?
Ans. This is the same process as we install the app on our pc that is the same process for windows also.
How do I install Budge World – Kids Games & Fun on Mac OS X?
Ans. This is the same process as we install the app on our pc that is the same process for windows also
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While the Boston Red Sox are officially headed back to the postseason, they aren't satisfied just yet.
The Red Sox can clinch the AL East in Friday night's series opener against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
"We've still got some other goals ahead of us," Lackey said. "Hopefully, here in the next night or two we can get a party going."
Coming off a last-place finish in 2012, the Red Sox's magic number to clinch the division was later cut to one with Tampa Bay's loss to Texas. Boston can also clinch if the Rays lose to Baltimore on Friday.
"The next step is a more important one than this," manager John Farrell said. "Winning the East, that's been the stated goal since day one of spring training. That's getting closer and I think that will probably be a little bit more the realization of where we've come from and where we are at that moment."
Boston has to be feeling good about giving the ball to Jon Lester (14-8, 3.75 ERA), who is 4-1 with a 1.81 ERA in his last six outings and 6-2 since the All-Star break.
"It's not uncommon for power pitchers to really hit their stride in the second half of the season," Farrell told MLB's official website. "He's an example of that. His delivery becomes that much more efficient, and he repeats it more consistently. With that rhythm comes power, and that's what we've all seen in Jon over the course of the time here."
The left-hander allowed one run and three hits in eight innings to beat the New York Yankees 5-1 on Saturday, his eighth consecutive quality start.
"He's been doing great," teammate Mike Napoli said. "You can see he's confident out there. He's just getting the ball and throwing."
Lester has gone 3-0 with a 2.80 ERA in five starts versus Toronto this season, improving to 14-7 with a 3.64 ERA in his career against the Blue Jays. Adam Lind (3 for 29 with 12 strikeouts), Brett Lawrie (3 for 22), Jose Reyes (1 for 12) and J.P. Arencibia (8 for 41 with 16 strikeouts) have all struggled in their matchups.
Toronto (70-82) took two of three from the Yankees this week, winning 6-2 on Thursday. Anthony Gose went 3 for 4 with a home run and Lind added a three-run shot for his third homer in six games.
The Blue Jays now turn to Esmil Rogers (5-7, 4.47), who is 2-0 with a 2.32 ERA in his last five starts. After throwing 14 scoreless innings in winning back-to-back outings, the right-hander allowed three runs in six innings and didn't receive a decision in Saturday's 4-3 victory over Baltimore.
"I just think about giving the opportunity to win the game, and try to help the team," said Rogers, who matched a career high with seven strikeouts. "The only way you can get out people is when you make good pitches."
Rogers has posted a 0.75 ERA and struck out 12 in as many innings in two starts versus the Red Sox this year, both Blue Jays wins. Dustin Pedroia is 5 for 10 with two doubles against him.
Boston outfielder Shane Victorino missed Thursday's win with a jammed right thumb, leaving his status for Friday unclear. Victorino is hitting .359 with seven homers, 21 RBIs and 25 runs in his last 26 games.
|Toronto Blue Jays|
|September 17, 2013||Edwin Encarnacion||Day-to-Day||Left wrist surgery - out for season|
|September 16, 2013||Edwin Encarnacion||15-Day DL||Left wrist surgery - out for season|
|September 13, 2013||Brett Cecil||15-Day DL||Left elbow discomfort|
|September 08, 2013||Moises Sierra||Day-to-Day||Left game - lower back tightness|
|August 21, 2013||Jose Bautista||15-Day DL||Left hip bone bruise - out for season|
|August 21, 2013||Maicer Izturis||60-Day DL||Sprained left ankle|
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|September 01, 2013||Shane Victorino||Day-to-Day||Left hip contusion|
|August 29, 2013||Mike Carp||Day-to-Day||Left shoulder irritation|
|August 17, 2013||Mike Napoli||Day-to-Day||Sore left foot|
|August 08, 2013||Brandon Snyder||15-Day DL||Ulnar neuritis, right elbow|
|August 08, 2013||Brandon Snyder||15-Day DL||Ulnar neuritis, right elbow|
|August 05, 2013||Matt Thornton||15-Day DL||Strained right oblique|
BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox waited four years to get back to baseball's postseason. They were more than happy to put off their playoff celebration one more day.
One game after securing their first playoff appearance since 2009, the Red Sox clinched the AL East title on Friday night, getting seven strong innings from Jon Lester to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3.
The victory gave Boston 94 wins, 11 more than the Tampa Bay Rays with only 10 games remaining.
"We're going back to the playoffs," said designated hitter David Ortiz , who joined his teammates in revelry on the mound already wearing a ski mask to protect his eyes from the postgame spray of champagne and beer. "People have got to believe we've got a good team. We're going to take this all the way there."
The Red Sox did little to celebrate after assuring themselves of no worse than a wild-card spot on Thursday. Instead, the team brought out the cigars on Friday after earning their first division title since 2007 - a victory that allows them to skip the one-game wild-card playoff and instead rest for four days after the regular season ends.
"Winning the American League East is something everybody in here should be proud of," said manager John Farrell , who was brought in to replace Bobby Valentine after last year's team won 69 games. "When we got in the playoffs last night - to see there was no response, there was no celebration. That to me spoke as much volume as anything we've done in the year. It's a focused group. It's their time tonight to go and enjoy it."
Lester (15-8) earned his 100th career victory, allowing one run on five hits and two walks while striking out eight to win for the seventh time in nine decisions. Toronto pinch-hitter Adam Lind hit a two-run homer off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth to make it 5-3 before Koji Uehara got five outs for his 20th save.
With the crowd standing for most of the final inning, Uehara struck out Brett Lawrie to end the game and the Red Sox poured out of the dugout and bullpen. On their way to the mound they were given the traditional commemorative caps, along with T-shirts that said, "We Own The East."
It was a stunning turnaround that came just one year after the Red Sox completed a 13-month collapse that started in September of 2011, when they blew a nine-game lead in the wild card and missed the playoffs with a loss on the final day of the season.
"They believed it from the first day of spring training," owner John Henry said. "But they went out and did it."
Dustin Pedroia had three hits for the Red Sox, who have won 19 of their last 25.
Toronto starter Esmil Rogers (5-8) did not make it out of the third inning, allowing two runs on three hits and five walks and striking out two while getting only seven outs. With the fourth-place New York Yankees winning their 81st game earlier Friday, the Blue Jays will be the only team in the AL East with a losing record.
"They've got a great team over there. They really do," Toronto manager John Gibbons said. "They ran away with a good division. It's not even close right now."
The Red Sox took the lead early when Pedroia doubled to lead off the first inning, went to third on a fly ball and scored on a wild pitch. Boston had runners on first and second with nobody out but Mike Carp lined out to the shortstop and Ortiz was thrown out at the plate when he tried to score from second on Jarrod Saltalamacchia 's single.
Daniel Nava doubled to lead off the third inning and, after intentionally walking Ortiz, Rogers walked two more to make it 2-0. Chad Jenkins came in and got Saltalamacchia to hit into an inning-ending double play.
Toronto loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth on a walk, an error by third baseman Will Middlebrooks and a single. But Middlebrooks fielded Anthony Gose 's chopper, stepped on third and threw home to get Kevin Pillar in a rundown for a double play. Lester struck out J.P. Arencibia to end the inning.
Rajai Davis singled, stole second and third and scored on Lawrie's single to make it 2-1 in the fifth. But Neil Wagner gave up four straight singles to start the seventh, including an RBI single by Ortiz to make it 3-1.
Jeremy Jeffress came in and got Mike Napoli to ground into a shortstop-to-home-to-first double play. But Carp hit a line drive to left-center that made it 5-1. After Lind made it 5-3, Pedroia added an RBI single in the eighth.
NOTES: Lester is the 11th pitcher in Red Sox history to record 100 victories, and just the third left-hander. ... Toronto CF Colby Rasmus was beaned by a warmup throw before the bottom of the first inning. He was replaced in the lineup by Pillar. Gibbons said he would get a CT scan. ... Farrell is the seventh manager to lead the Red Sox to the playoffs in his first year on the job. The last was Terry Francona in 2004. ... The Red Sox announced before the game that tickets for AL divisional playoffs to be played in Boston will go on sale Tuesday.


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Food Truck Mania in McKinley Park will continue every second Friday through October. For more information about this and other food truck events, go to the Sacramento Mobile Food Events site at sactomofo.com.

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(2.18.11) General Assembly Sends First Bills to Perdue
RALEIGH — The Balanced Budget Act of 2011 and Protect Healthcare Freedom bill are on their way to Gov. Bev Perdue. Bills attempting to strengthen Second Amendment rights and improve government transparency also were added to the legislative calendar this week.
(2.17.11) North Carolina Lawmakers Push Back Against Federal Government
RALEIGH — Bills seeking to restore state sovereignty may send a message to Washington while having little immediate practical impact.
(2.15.11) New General Assembly Members Seek an End to Forced Annexation
RALEIGH — For years, property-rights advocates, facing stiff, bipartisan opposition from mayors and city councils, have tried but failed to get relief from the General Assembly. Those landowners hope this time will be different.
(2.08.11) Electoral Freedom Act Would Put More Third Parties on the Ballot
RALEIGH — If passed, the bill would lower the number of signatures third parties and unaffiliated candidates are required to collect before getting on the ballot in North Carolina, easing some of the nation's toughest ballot access restrictions.
(2.03.11) Bill Exempting North Carolinians from Health Insurance Mandate Passes House
RALEIGH — Democrats cited the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Republicans argued that the federal power to regulate interstate commerce did not include the power to regulate economic inactivity (the failure to purchase health insurance).
(2.02.11) Freshman Lawmaker Says 10-Bill Cap Could Slow Reform Efforts
RALEIGH — House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, proposed the cap with the intention of making government more efficient.
(1.31.11) NCGA Preview: Week of January 31
RALEIGH — As the second week of the 2011 General Assembly begins today, legislators are expected to discuss bills addressing forced annexation, the cap on charter schools, and the federal health care mandate.
(1.27.11) At Meeting, Charter Struggle Compared to Civil Rights Movement
RALEIGH — The event featured the intensity and fervor of a tent revival or a civil-rights demonstration. In the eyes of the participants, perhaps it was. The cause for celebration? The promise by the General Assembly’s new leaders to remove the state’s cap on charter schools.
(1.26.11) Forced Annexation and Eminent Domain Bills Filed on First Day of Session
RALEIGH — If passed, House Bill 8 would prohibit governments from taking private property for any reason except public use. The bill clarifies that public use does not include “interest in the property for economic development.”
(1.20.11) Uwharrie Commission Stacked with Alcoa Adversaries
RALEIGH — A majority of the commission members have gone on the record backing Gov. Bev Perdue’s request for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deny Alcoa’s license to continue operating four hydroelectric dams, enabling the state to take over the project and gain control of thousands of acres of adjacent property.


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Monday, 18 January 2010
I thought I would also share our favorite homemade bread recipe. This is so simple and always turns out successfully. I have made this with all white flour, all whole wheat flour, and also half white and half wheat and no matter how I did it, everybody loves it. The recipe calls for sesame seeds or poppy seeds on top, but you can leave it plain and then after you get it out of the oven, just rub the top with butter. Also, you can shape loaves and put them on a cookie sheet or put them in a bread pans. Here is the recipe:
Easy French Bread
combine following ingredients and allow to foam
2 T. instant yeast 2 1/2 C warm water 2 T. shortening ( I usually use lard) 2 T. sugar 2 tsp. salt
Stir in 7 1/2 - 8 C. occident flour. Knead until smooth. Shape into loaves (this recipe only makes one large loaf or 2 smaller loaves, so I usually double this) (also, I use a rolling pin and roll dough into a rectangle shape and then roll it up). Place on greased cookie sheet or into greased pans. Make slashes diagonally across tops. Let rise until double (I have found that if you let rise too long it developes a pocket at the top of loaf, also, I sometimes do not even let it rise the full way, for it will rise in oven). Before putting into oven, brush tops with 1 beaten egg, 2 T. milk and poppy or sesame seeds. Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes or until lightly browned on top. Take out of oven and hide them, or they will be devoured immediately!
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Recently, several articles were published on the security and misuse of electronic communications. These tended to conclude that the responsibility for security against abuse lies with the public communications service providers (PCSP), which logically implies that they are also responsible for such misuse. PCSPs are an essential and indispensable part of the TMT sector, and it is, therefore, important to address their liability in such situations for legal certainty.
What is the liability of a PCSP when offering electronic communications services and how far does it extend? In the modern world of communications, abuses occur regularly, primarily due to the ingenuity of content providers on the one hand and the naivety of users on the other. It is, however, the responsibility of the state to ensure that such communications are secure, both as regards the technical and the content parts. The logical question is, therefore, which part of these services is the responsibility of the PCSP?
The primary distinction to be made is what constitutes an electronic communications service in the first place, which is the transmission of signals over electronic communications networks. Users often assume that the content itself and the editorial control over what is transmitted by those signals are part of the scope of an electronic communications service, which is a misconception. An electronic communication service should be interpreted relatively narrowly, purely technically. This means that the transmission of electronic messages falls within the scope of this service merely as a transmission of signals but that the content itself, its provision, and editorial control do not fall within the scope of this service.
As the regulator of electronic communications services, the state protects the individual in the event of abuse by third parties, which is not the fault of the users, by making PCSPs bear the costs incurred as a result of the abuse. It is important that the abuse is not the users’ fault, where the users have taken all reasonable steps to protect themselves and have complied with the instructions communicated to them by the PCSP. This means that the misuse is attributable to the users where the users have unusually used the public communications service, and the misuse is the result of such unusual use. Such a regime sees the PCSP as a stronger and more legally and technically proficient party, with a better economic position than the users. Therefore, PCSP is in a better position to bear the costs of such misuse and to bring any retaliatory action against a third party.
However, as explained, this liability is not all-encompassing. It is limited to the technical part of the service actually provided by the service provider and not to the substantive part itself. Thus, the content cannot be equated with the concept of a communication service, nor can the cost of access to that communication content be equated with the cost of providing a communication service, even though individuals pay the PCSP for both services. In other words, this means that the costs paid by the individual cover the provision of the electronic communications service, but also cover the costs of access to the content, which is, in principle, provided by a third party. It should be borne in mind that the PCSP retains only part of the costs relating to the transmission of signals over the network, while the costs relating to access to content are passed on by the PCSP to the content provider.
Thus, it must be considered that the PCSP cannot be held liable for any abuses committed by content providers transmitted by electronic communication. The PCSP is responsible for the transmission of the signal, but the content transmitted using its service is expressly excluded from its responsibility. This means that a strict distinction must be drawn between the concept of communication service and the communication content.
The liability of a PCSP cannot be interpreted as extending the operator’s liability beyond the security of the network or the telecommunications services in the technical sense. Such a conclusion is further confirmed by the obligation of the PCSP to protect the confidentiality of the content of communications so that it has no possibility of controlling the lawfulness of the conduct of those who provide the content while, on the other hand, it is required to ensure access to such services. The only possibility or obligation that the PCSP has is to comply with the courts’ decisions and to prevent access to such content in case any abuse or fraud is detected.
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Samuel Klempner, MD, explains the rationale for the phase 3 SPOTLIGHT study.
Samuel Klempner, MD, gastrointestinal medical oncologist, Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and faculty, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, explains the rationale for the phase 3 SPOTLIGHT study (NCT03504397) of zolbetuximab administered with 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin (mFOLFOX6) versus with placebo plus mFOLFOX6.
Klempner presented results from the study were presented during the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium (ASCO GI). In the study, zolbetuximab achieved a significant improvement in progression-free survival (median 10.61) compared with mFOLFOX and placebo (median 8.67). Zolbetuximab also showed an overall survival advantage. Toxicity was not significantly increased by adding zolbetuximab to mFOLFOX vs placebo.
0:07 | The whole field of stomach and esophageal cancers is moving towards biomarker selection strategies, and this is great for patients. It helps us match patients to drugs that are ideally suited to have the greatest chance of benefit. That's the idea behind it. The SPOTLIGHT trial, which was presented at ASCO GI 2023, is the latest addition to the biomarker world of gastric and GEJ adenocarcinomas.
0:39 | There were some earlier clues about the activity of this approach in prior work. CLDN18.2 is overexpressed to varying levels in a large portion of patients with stomach and esophageal cancer. It’s seen in roughly around 40% of patients, depending on what cut off you use. There was a prior trial using monoclonal antibody against CLDN18.2 in combination with an anthracycline-based chemotherapy. It showed that the patients who got the zolbetuximab precursor in this case, IMAB362, added to chemotherapy had an improved survival. It was a phase 2 trial called the FAST study [NCT01630083]. It suggested that this strategy of targeting CLDN-high patients for treatment with a CLDN-directed antibody was something that had a lot of potential. That was the background and rationale for the phase 3 SPOTLIGHT trial presented at ASCO GI 2023.