For SEGRO Park Frechen’s 13 300-metre-square first phase the sustainable design includes 5100m² of ArcelorMittal Construction’s Ondatherm® 1003 MG panels for the facade and 229 tonnes of its trapezoidal steel sheets 200/420 for the long-span roof decking Both products were made using XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel The materials were delivered in stages to align with construction progress ensuring regular construction sequences were maintained An impressive 275 tonnes of XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel were used resulting in a significant CO2 reduction of approximately 542 000 kg based on published EPDs SEGRO Park Frechen demonstrates the potential of innovative industrial design and sustainable construction This project not only satisfies strict environmental responsibility but also has a lower carbon footprint for the entire building envelope and the highest DGNB certification thanks to the use of low emission steel for building elements from ArcelorMittal Construction it will serve as an example for future developments showcasing how collaboration and innovation can drive sustainable progress The construction of a new SEGRO industrial park that sets a benchmark for sustainable construction and modern design is underway in Frechen Over 30 800 square meters of flexible rental space are being developed in two phases SEGRO is clearly demonstrating its dedication to reducing carbon emissions through collaboration « Back Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Lena Frechen received numerous warnings about New York before she set foot in Manhattan but one conversation with a former colleague back home in Cologne "'Oh my God, let's see what you think about New York,'" Frechen The ominous tone of the comments might've been off-putting for some "I was always motivated to come and to experience it from my own eyes She has a full-time job as a social-media marketer at a real-estate firm and has no plans to leave NYC anytime soon But that doesn't mean that certain aspects of the move didn't take getting used to — including the work culture Frechen said it didn't take her long to notice how intense NYC's "hustle" culture was compared to Germany's Being a social-media native, she started sharing unromanticized aspects of the transition on TikTok. One of her videos comparing working in Germany to working in NYC has over 720,000 views Nothing sums up the difference quite like her paid time off (PTO) allowance Back home, Frechen worked in TV production. Her former PTO allowance was slightly higher than Germany's minimum requirement of 20 days of paid vacation but it's still over half the amount she said she has now Frechen told BI she only gets 10 days off a year in her current job in New York which she said is "not much" considering she's "used to so many days off." It's not just the lack of time off that threw Frechen for a loop She said it's also how accustomed people she met in NYC were to the rigorous schedule We all have only 10 days off.' 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b) and a lithosphere thickness of 71 km combined with upper- and lower-mantle viscosities of 0.5 × 1021 Pa s and 5 × 1021 Pa s followed by a prolonged period of considerably lower meltwater discharge that increased again after 8.74 ka currently just out of reach of the North Sea SLIP data series The rising limb of P1 as currently resolved (11–10.3 ka) consequently suffers from relatively large uncertainty that can be reduced only by obtaining additional SLIPs by sampling deeper lying and older peats from the North Sea It reflects a combination of the steady melt of ice sheets with the rapid release of water temporarily stored in large proglacial lakes and the associated rapid disintegration of parts of the Laurentide Ice Sheet Dealing with climate change and rapid SLR is not unique to modern society To isolate the much larger Holocene ice-sheet volume loss from the NAISC and the AIS we subtracted the predicted EuIS GIA signal from the observed SLIP value The resulting sea-level signal is labelled ‘residual relative sea-level change’ The residual RSL record (step 4) is of smaller vertical range and spatially much more uniform than the RSL record produced in step 2 The residual RSL record therefore is considered a regional expression of the contribution of meltwater coming from the NAISC and the AIS to early Holocene SLR We prefer this approach of obtaining a residual RSL record over simply using the eight selected GIA models directly to calculate the NAISC and AIS contributions in the early Holocene as this would neglect the independent and observational value of the geological sea-level data and mainly mimic the NAISC and AIS reconstructions that were used in the GIA model itself we determined a sea-level fingerprint correction factor specific to the region and early Holocene time frame and used it to convert the North Sea residual RSL curve to a GMSL curve for 11–3 ka but for P1 peak rates increased almost 1 mm yr−1 and the midpoint shifted by a century comparison of the results from the 1D GIA model with and without rotation showed negligible differences across the study period The main difference between the 1D and 3D models is in the approach used for the calculation of the deformation of Earth (that is the viscosity varies both laterally and with depth As the model was run at a 0.5-ka temporal resolution from 122 ka to 0 ka linear interpolation was used to produce predictions at the weighted mean age of each SLIP To evaluate which of the 1D and 3D viscosity profiles, when combined with the two input EuIS ice-sheet reconstructions (ICE6G and BRITICE-CHRONO), was most suitable for the study region, we calculated the chi-square misfit (Extended Data Table 1) for the range of Earth models and the 109 SLIP RSL observations using: the viscosity decreases from Scandinavia to the west reflecting the transition from the Scandinavian craton to the hotspot environment of Iceland Viscosity also decreases southwards into the North Sea region The lithosphere is not explicitly defined but follows from the effective viscosity; the larger viscosities beneath Scandinavia correspond to larger effective lithosphere thickness there We define that the predicted sea level (total predictedrsl) at any given latitude (θ) longitude (φ) and time (t) can be separated into the predicted (p) contributions from the major ice sheets: To calculate residual RSL change for the North Sea region we first isolated the combined NAISC and AIS contribution to the RSL at each SLIP location using in agreement with our review and calculation All of these simulations indicate that the AIS was smaller than present at some point during the Holocene the combined EuIS–NAISC–AIS contribution is then 39.7 m (2σ range but also suggests that the average ratio is slowly dropping with time These differences are explained by the fact that for 14.65 ka the western part of the NAISC was the modelled source area (at greater distance from the North Sea) the southeastern part of the NAISC is the source area (closer to the North Sea) In a next iterative round of running 1D and 3D GIA models temporal variability of the GMSL fingerprint on the North Sea residual RSL signal may be re-evaluated by tuning GIA model simulations This should improve the match between fingerprint-corrected GMSL curves and the geological sea-level observations Such an optimization was beyond the scope of the current work Bayesian calibration scripts and technical documentation; 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Peer reviewer reports are available Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Six steps are defined and cross-referenced in the Methods section The vertical position and uncertainty of each SLIP was calculated using correction steps for background subsidence Calculation of calibrated age and uncertainty (horizontal axis) included a Bayesian step The curves and dashed envelopes show the rates when excluding one or all of the steps but even without any correction the double peak in the rates remains The subsidence rates and associated spatial pattern are not related to GIA processes Numbered red dots refer to sample identifiers in the database of sea-level indicators (SI Section 1) Blue squares denote the supplemented Rotterdam data cluster This was done for a range of upper and lower mantle viscosities and a lithosphere thickness of 71 km (a and c) and 96 km (b and d) The solid red line is the 95% confidence interval calculated for all ICE6G (a and b) and BC (c and d) models There is no 95% confidence limit on BC with a 71 km lithosphere (c) as all misfits were outside the confidence range They display viscosity at four depths (a-d) The figure illustrates the spatial variation of the viscosity profile blue in panels b-d) denote the SLIP data sites used in this study and from (e) the North American Ice Sheet Complex (including Greenland) In panel a the observations are shown in black Panels b (ICE6G) and c (BC) show the contributions from the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS Note that at times younger than 7 ka (inverted triangles) the contribution of the EuIS only (blue) is predicted to be more than 100% of the total observed signal At these times the Predicted EuIS RSL contribution is lower than the observed which results in the values higher than 100% The upper panel shows the residual RSL-curve together with the residual RSL-data The lower panel gives the number of residual data points per 200-yr bins for the two datasets Results for the observed (geological) RSL data are shown in panels a,b; for the predicted RSL data (all ice sheets) in panels c,d and for the residual RSL data in panels e,f 74% of modelled GMSL is expected to be recorded in North Sea region in the early Holocene) Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08769-7 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science The first reason this company was created is that I always wanted to be an entrepreneur I saw in 2005 the photography printing market changing from analog to digital I saw a huge market for semi professionals There are not so many moments in your life where you can start a promising business I started as a photographer. 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Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.939852 K-feldspar luminescence dating has been widely applied to constrain the timing of Quaternary sedimentation in different environments anomalous fading and partial bleaching are the two potential problems inducing dating uncertainty sand-size K-feldspar grains extracted from 32 luminescence samples from the northern slope of the Khangai Mountains were dated using the post-infrared (IR) infrared stimulated luminescence protocol (pIRIR150 subscript shows the second stimulation temperature) The standardized dose-response curves (sDRCs) for luminescence dating which could improve the measurement efficiency The K-feldspar luminescence chronology has been established after careful investigations of fading correction and bleaching degree of the signals The sDRCs and individual DRC yield consistent ages indicating that sDRCs are applicable for luminescence dating with an improvement in measurement efficiency The fading corrected ages using the two fading correction models are generally in agreement Based on age comparisons between the radiocarbon dates the fading corrected pIRIR150 and IR50 ages the pIRIR150 signal was not fully bleached for several samples some IR50 ages were overestimated due to fading over-correction The investigated profiles have documented the sedimentary information since the last deglaciation but it has rarely been applied to relatively young ages The reliability of the sDRCs was assessed by comparing the ages determined using sDRC and the individual DRCs the apparent ages are corrected for anomalous fading to evaluate the applicability of the fading corrected models and pIRIR150 ages are compared to investigate the degree of signal bleaching and determine the timing of sedimentation in the NW Khangai Mountain area since the Late Pleistocene FIGURE 1. Study area and sampling sites. The red block in (A) shows the study area, including Telmen Nuur (B) and Tosontsengel (C). The Source of the digital elevation model is http://www.cgiar-csi.org Sample information and dose rate determination The selected fraction was then treated with diluted hydrochloric acid (HCl) for 2 hours sodium oxalate (Na2C2O4) for 1 day and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for 2 hours to remove carbonate Heavy liquid separation was conducted after chemical treatment to extract the quartz and K-feldspar grains corresponding to the heavy liquid density of 2.62–2.70 and <2.58 g/cm3 Etching was specially conducted on the quartz grains using 40% hydrofluoric acid (HF) for 1 hour to remove the remaining feldspar grains and etch quartz grains to eliminate the effect of the alpha-irradiated outer layer The protocol of K-feldspar pIRIR150 dating ranging from 3.60 ± 0.16 to 4.54 ± 0.16 Gy/ka Although the dose recovery ratios are slightly smaller than 0.90 (0.88–0.90) only for a few samples the dose recovery ratios for the IR50 and pIRIR150 signals for most of the samples are within 0.9–1.1 It suggests that the natural doses could be recovered by the pIRIR150 measurements within 10% uncertainty FIGURE 2. Decay curves (A), dose-response curves (B), and De distribution for the IR50 (C) and pIRIR150 (D) signals for one representative sample LUM3923. The dose-response curve was fitted using a linear (dashed line) and one saturating exponential (dashed line) equation in Figure 2B Results of pIRIR150 dating for all the samples Histograms of dose recovery ratios (A) and residual dose (B) for the IR50 and pIRIR150 signals for all the samples The dose recovery ratio and residual dose were determined using three aliquots for each sample Construction and comparison sDRC using data from all the samples following Li B et al (A,B) The pIRIR150 sDRCs using data of all the samples fitted by the one saturating exponential (1EXP) and linear functions (C,D) The IR50 sDRCs using data of all the samples fitted by the 1EXP and linear functions The dashed lines show the sDRCs for the individual samples using 12 aliquots FIGURE 5. sDRC construction using data from all the samples following Roberts and Duller (2004) The sDRCs fitted using 1EXP and linear functions using the pIRIR150 (A) and IR50 (B) data indicating that the sDRC in identical shape could be constructed using the two methods although the normalized luminescence intensities are in a different scale Comparisons of De determined by the sDRCs and the individual DRC for each sample (A) and (B) The De value is presented as the mean De of 24 aliquots for each sample (A,D) The results determined using the 1EXP fitted DRCs and those determined using the linear DRCs are shown in (B,E) (C,F) The relationship between Des determined by the 1EXP and linear fitted DRCs The fading corrected pIRIR150 ages determined by the fading corrected De and the environmental dose rate are 0.32 ± 0.05–18.1 ± 2.7 ka the fading corrected ages range from 0.31 ± 0.06 to 38.8 ± 16.8 ka FIGURE 7. Results of fading correction. (A) The determination of the fading rates (g, %/decade) of IR50 and pIRIR150 signals for one representative sample, LUM3915. (B) The distributions of the g values of IR50 and pIRIR150 signals for all the samples. (C) The fading correction approach for the representative sample LUM3915 following Lamothe et al. (2003) FIGURE 8. Comparisons of the fading corrected ages following Huntley and Lamothe (2001) and Lamothe et al. (2003) Radiocarbon dates are used as a reference to evaluate the reliability of luminescence ages suggesting that the fading rates are overestimated therefore yielding the over-corrected IR50 ages FIGURE 9. Comparison between the luminescence ages and the radiocarbon dates for each profile. The fading corrected pIRIR150 and IR50 ages were determined using the sDRC fitted by a single saturating exponential function and fading corrected following Lamothe et al. (2003) FIGURE 10. Comparison between the IR50 and pIRIR150 ages. (A) The relationship between the IR50/pIRIR150 age ratio and the fading corrected pIRIR150 ages. The IR50 and pIRIR150 ages used for calculating the age ratios are fading corrected following Lamothe et al. (2003) (B) Relationship between the IR50/pIRIR150 age ratio and g values for the IR50 signal with the trendline (black solid line) for which the fading corrected IR50 ages are reliable if taking 6%/decade as the lower boundary of fading over-correction the pIRIR150 and IR50 ages are consistent within the uncertainty agreeing with the radiocarbon dates in stratigraphic order The consistency of the pIRIR150 ages and radiocarbon dates in stratigraphic order are observed for profiles P-E whereas the corresponding IR50 ages are overestimated due to fading over-correction The IR50 ages are also over-corrected in profiles P-C The luminescence chronology based on the pIRIR150 ages reveals that the investigated sediment profiles record the sedimentation and environmental information on the north slope of Khangai Mountain after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 32 K-feldspar samples from the north slope of Khangai Mountain The applicability of the standardized dose-response curve (sDRC) and the fading correction models were evaluated The degree of bleaching for the applied luminescence signals was assessed by comparing the associated ages with the radiocarbon dates The timing of sedimentation in explored profiles from the north slope of Khangai Mountain was finally determined The main conclusions are drawn as follows: constructed for both the K-feldspar pIRIR150 and IR50 signals according to the re-normalization and test dose-standardization procedures could yield a consistent De value compared to the individual DRC within ca suggesting that the sDRC is applicable for more effective De measurement of the Mongolian sediments ▪ The fading corrected ages following Huntley and Lamothe (2001) and Lamothe et al. (2003) are broadly in agreement for the IR50 and pIRIR150 signals With the increase in age and/or fading rate the fading corrected age using the model solely for the linear region of dose growth may underestimate that corrected by the model appliable for the full dose region ▪ Some of the fading corrected IR50 ages are overestimated most likely resulting from fading over-correction whereas the overestimation of several pIRIR150 ages is derived from partial bleaching The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/Supplementary Material Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript YL is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (no the Excellent Chinese and Foreign Young Scientist Exchange Program of CAST The field work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Sabine Mogwitz in S3 LIAG is thanked for sample preparation in the 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This article was translated by CNE.news and published by the Dutch daily Reformatorisch Dagblad on March 11 basketball and tennis continue to attract the most attention Intersport hopes a focus on local sports and communities will give it an “edge to stay relevant” in a competitive sports retail environment shin pads and goggles: most people familiar with Intersport will probably remember it as a place they went to buy sports gear for PE lessons and weekend hobbies you would be forgiven for wondering whether the world’s largest sports retailer still even exists on British high streets But Intersport is still very much alive and kicking It has almost 5,500 stores across 43 countries and retail sales closing in on €12bn in 2019 The numbers don’t match the image and Intersport is on a mission to change that which aims to shake off Intersport’s “old and dusty” retailer image and position it as an “emotionally powerful” brand that is a global destination for local sport The crux of this is about becoming more “visible and accessible” to consumers says Intersport’s general manager of marketing who joined the business in 2018 after 15 years at Adidas where there has been a “missed opportunity to better carve out what our DNA is and how can we fully leverage this potential” This is the start of how we increase the quality and frequency of how we engage with the consumer we have faced some challenges in some markets there was not enough focus on having a strong-lasting conversation with the consumer,” Frechen tells Marketing Week “Intersport has been perceived as old and a little bit dusty and just a destination where we push products through there is probably always somebody who can do it a little bit faster and cheaper This is not representing what Intersport can offer.” Intersport’s global marketing team has been working with Amsterdam-based agency We Are Pi over the past year to develop a global brand strategy and multi-category platform This has involved its biggest piece of consumer research to-date with more than 1,600 customers in the UK It found that 66% of people feel like they still haven’t found their place in sport while 88% said that they don’t see themselves as athletes Intersport hopes a focus on local sports scenes and lesser-known sports in small communities will give it an “edge to stay relevant” in a competitive sports retail environment Intersport launched its ‘Wherever You take Training’ campaign at the start of the year It features Scotland’s strongest woman Emma-Jane Smith and London’s Foysol Miah who trains children at the Steel Warriors gym made from upcycled melted down knives tells the story of two German runners: Gorge Heiman who is among the 10 fastest tower runners in the world “This is the start of how we increase the quality and frequency of how we engage with the consumer,” Frechen says “More orchestrated with a clear starting point building this in very consistent and visible way through all the relevant touchpoints.” The most important touchpoint to build an emotional connection with the consumer and the “best recipe” Intersport has is the ability to connect hyper-local information to each of Intersport’s 5,500 stores This means the store staff play a key role in Intersport’s overarching brand strategy and it is critical they have an enthusiasm for local sport as opposed to sports retail and distribution “We want to encourage the local retailer in a way that [it] has enough flexibility in activating those local communities in this very personal way,” Frechen explains “To fully leverage the potential in the way it engages and interacts with the local sports enthusiast who is our core target consumer.” To ensure there is “one brand voice and consistency in the local execution” Intersport has marketing and brand representatives in local operations It is also currently introducing a global marketing team with “key representatives with the strongest marketing capabilities in the group from the Nordics to Germany to France to Greece so that everybody feels included and also that everybody has the obligation to deliver input to make this relevant for every hyper-local sell in the market,” Frechen says Intersport has strategic partnerships with some of the world’s biggest sporting brands including Nike Frechen says these brands are wholly supportive of its strategy to build a brand that goes beyond just selling products So much so that they have made it a joint key performance indicator (KPI) I experienced that building one Intersport brand voice and making this successful is one of the KPIs is our partnerships and building this brand,” Frechen explains “When we pitched this transformation I not only support Intersport in the more conversional support in selling products I support you also in building this international brand Intersport in a way that is authentic and really focuses on the consumer.” All of this falls under Intersport’s wider group strategy which has been implemented by new CEO Steve Evers who took charge of the business at the start of 2019 Key components include initiatives in data management and transparency and making sure Intersport is an omnichannel business “Marketing has the job of framing this,” Frechen concludes “It has so many significant touchpoints it needs to be present in all of the business – in retail The community running organisation has signed up its first sports sponsor in Brooks after admitting it was reluctant to bring a sports brand on board due to their focus on elite athletes It may have taken years to shift attitudes but marketers are finally realising the power of putting female athletes on an equal footing with men Recognising that the future of sports sponsorship has moved beyond megastar athletes performing tricks in front of devoted fans brands are increasingly turning to the grassroots to tell more engaging stories After winning the Premier League last Sunday Liverpool FC’s senior vice-president of digital says the work for marketing is building up to an “even bigger crescendo” offering our view on what they mean for you and the industry From Motorway’s CMO and CFO making their relationship a strategic partnership to Coca-Cola highlighting its “localness” in light of geopolitical tensions The travel industry often finds it easier to “default to visual” but Expedia says the majority of households it reaches via audio are not reached by any other channel CEO Brian Chesky says a paid membership scheme like Amazon Prime would be more “compelling” for the travel brand than a points-based programme You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed The quality of the first delivery must be as good as the last What does the corona crisis mean for Quarzwerke The shutdown of many of our customers in April due to production stops in the automotive industry has dramatically reduced the need for our sands in the past two months which means that we can hardly plan for the following month It will show how and how often our customers will be received in the future We use video conferencing and significantly more emails But good old telephone sales are also experiencing a real renaissance It is important that our customers can reach their contacts immediately In addition to maintaining the customer relationship the tasks of our sales department are primarily to identify the changing needs of our customers and to propose solutions. For example a customer is given the opportunity to meet changed conditions with optimized screening lines Here we make suggestions and procure good logistics concepts But the reference to stable sieve lines and constant chemistry is always part of the luggage when talking to the customer. It is important to us that the quality of the first delivery is as good as that of the last The network of the Quarzwerke locations offers our customers access to equivalent qualities customers appreciate the feeling of security when quartz movements from independent locations can produce alternative products Quarzwerke operates rail loading operations at many of these locations More and more customers are looking for this environmentally friendly logistics alternative in order to use truck transport only for the last few kilometers such as intermodular transport or rail handling with silo storage in the customer region We want to take good ideas from our customers and process them into products and services so that the customer and ultimately we can continue to grow And: we are looking for success with logistics This does not mean to earn more with transports but rather we want to convince customers to use better and more valuable products with intelligent logistics I would like to receive the bi-weekly Foundry-Planet newsletter with all latest news Plus the special newsletters – all can be cancelled anytime and at no cost Chair of Organizing Committee Prof Ng (first from left) invited present Chair Prof Franz-Bernd Frechen (second from left) from Germany to announce the next chair Huang (second from right) from Tsinghua University in Beijing Kuo-Lung Tung (first from right) from NTU in Taiwan IWA Membrane Technology Specialist Group’s present Chair Tung for being elected the group’s next Vice-Chair NTU was ranked 26th in the Top 40 Universities in Water Research in the latest global water research survey released by Lux Research Kuo-Lun Tung (童國倫) of the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTU) was elected the next vice-chair of the International Water Association's (IWA) Membrane Technology Specialist Group during the 8th IWA Membrane Technology Conference and Exhibition for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Singapore in September The IWA is the world's largest organization for water professionals With a membership spanning 165 countries and regions the IWA has nearly 10,000 individual members and 530 organizational members The IWA has established 49 specialist groups to promote discussion and research across a comprehensive range of water issues The Membrane Technology Specialist Group has nearly 2,500 members making it one of the three largest specialist groups in the IWA Tung's term as vice-chair will run from 2018 to 2021 This position will be the highest held by any Taiwanese in the Membrane Technology Specialist Group and is seen as an indication of growing international recognition of the membrane water treatment research in Taiwan Tung has pursued membrane filtration research for more than two decades He served previously as Director of the Research and Development Center for Membrane Technology at Chung Yuan University and established the WINNER Club: Water INNovation Education and Research Club at the NTU Department of Chemical Engineering The WINNER Club focuses on a variety of research topics The Discovery Channel once aired a special report on Prof Tung's materials development research in the area of geomimetic inorganic composite membranes This technological research also earned Tung the top Lite-On Innovation Award as well as an invitation to speak at TEDxTaipei where he discussed the source of his creative inspiration Tung's geomimetic inorganic composite membranes technology is considered a disruptive innovation He and his research team used the technology to develop a startup plan called “IMPRESS: Inorganic Membranes and Processes Revolution for Enabling a Sustainable Society.” The plan won the favor of venture capital firms as well as the approval of the review committee of the Ministry of Science and Technology's (MOST) Industrial Value Creation Program for Academia making it the first NTU plan to be approved by the committee The MOST program will enable the team to set up a startup company for inorganic composite membranes NTU was ranked 26th in the latest global water research survey released by Lux Research making it one of just 10 universities in Asia to be ranked among the survey's top 50 universities NTU's high international ranking in water research is a result of the innovative research that has been conducted by Prof Tung and others over the last few decades. This article was originally featured in NTU Highlights (December NTU wins the 2024 “National Sustainable Development Awards” for exerting influence in higher education Chih-Kung Lee of NTU’s Institute of Applied Mechanics elected NAI Fellow NTU Launches Startup Initiatives at Zhubei Campus 2024 NTU-KU-UHH Trilateral Symposium: Uniting for Sustainable Future and Next Generation Signing Ceremony for the donation of “Next-Generation Smart 3D Geospatial Information Center” at NTU Zhubei Campus No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 106319, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Phone：+886-2-3366-3366 Copyright © 2023 National Taiwan University Heino Falcke’s dream finally came true: on Wednesday he presented the first image of a black hole Vox spent two days with the religious astronomer travelling with him from Frechen to Brussels ‘I have prepared myself as well as possible for this moment A thick layer of fog covers the town of Frechen The roads to the city are becoming congested with traffic but the residential area is quiet and peaceful ‘You are early!’ says Falcke when he opens the door of the former miner’s cottage The professor has had a night with little sleep and still has to send a few e-mails the whole world will be watching the presentation of the first image of a black hole the scientists in his research group have been holding discussions via email with each other and with the European Commission ‘The Commission is not accustomed to holding a press conference with scientists,’ says Falcke ‘The plans for the press conference are changing and we have less and less time to tell our story.’ Almost 200 researchers are involved in the project worldwide ‘Each and every of them has done important work I would like to give them lot of attention tomorrow Falcke closes his laptop ties his shoelaces and rolls his suitcase outside He is taking two of everything to Brussels: two suits Falcke’s wife Dagmar has already left for work She is the principal of a local primary school good luck tomorrow.] she calls out before he gets into the car We drive him to the Cologne Hauptbahnhof train station the professor does not trust our GPS and prefers to give directions himself I know the literal translation into Dutch means funeral,’ he jokes which is Falcke’s hometown and for him is still the most beautiful place in the world The Falcke family has lived here for three hundred years ‘I chose to work in Nijmegen so I can continue to live here.’ who will also speak at the press conference Heino uses the first part of the train ride to prepare his talk and then the four men meet in the compartment between two train cars as the train travels between Liège and Brussels ‘Problems with the Belgian network,’ he grumbles ‘It will be a disaster if it doesn’t work today and tomorrow.’ After getting on the metro Falcke continues to struggle with his phone Only when we are above ground does the device start working again ‘I survived the first crisis,’ Heino jokes Heino’s hotel is adjacent to the Berlaymont building where the press conference will take place tomorrow he quickly takes a few pictures of the building ‘We arrived …’ appears shortly afterwards along with the photos on his personal Twitter page The tweets for tomorrow are already planned On the way to the headquarters of the European Research Council on the Rogierplein the astronomers joke about the Brexit summit that will also take place tomorrow across the street from the ERC ‘Maybe we should invite Merkel to our press conference who likes to stand in the spotlight at such events Then we would get even more attention for our announcement,’ suggests Falcke from the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn ‘Then the politicians will walk away with all the attention once again In a somewhat tatty grill restaurant the astronomers have a quick lunch but not before Falcke has silently given thanks A training session for the press conference is being held at the headquarters of the European Research Council About 25 people are sitting together in a meeting room on the ground floor of a high-rise apartment block the participants include EU employees who are fiddling with their mobile phones and occasionally pacing back and forth nervously an American who work previously for CBS News and CNBC ‘You have the chance to tell your story to the whole world tomorrow half the world has never heard the term paradigm shift.’ the five scientists who will take the floor tomorrow will each have only three minutes to speak ‘Will the EU Commissioner for Science also have less speaking time?’ Heino asks who has been Falcke’s management assistant for a year and half follows the session but also scans the requests for interviews that continue to come in via email the trip to Brussels would be complete chaos Falcke and Konigstein always speak Dutch with each other But if he wants to tell you what he did last weekend Now it’s time to practice the press conference Because the image of the black hole is strictly embargoed the fifteen cameras in the room have to be put away ‘We are looking into space’ are the first words of Falcke’s talk a film plays in the background that starts with a starry sky and ends with the world premier that that will be presented tomorrow: the first image of a black hole he has difficulty saying everything he wants ‘You need to slow down a little bit,’ Holland advises him To practice the round of questions at the end of the press conference Konigstein and EU staff ask some tough questions ‘Your project cost European taxpayers millions of euros ‘I was hoping for a milestone that would reduce climate change or eliminate child poverty but will we only see an image of a black hole?’ ‘How will Brexit affect this type of scientific project?’ The answers given by the speakers are then discussed in the group ‘If everyone practices their talk in front of the mirror tonight ‘I can’t say it enough: have fun tomorrow!’ After a busy day in sterile conference rooms Falcke wants to relax with the other astronomers ‘Three topic are prohibited while we are eating,’ says Falcke as they enter a flexitarian restaurant next to the Royal Flemish Theatre but the other two topics are harder to avoid Falcke walks from the restaurant to the hotel Heino rehearses his talk a few times while pacing the carpet in his hotel room Tomorrow morning he wants to isolate himself After another short night – five hours of sleep – Heino is having breakfast with Eduardo Ros and Monika Moscibrodzka the other astronomer at Radboud University who will soon be addressing the world The astronomers work on their plans for the press conference for another two hours Luciano Rezzolla from Goethe University in Frankfurt orders a light lunch in the sandwich shop next to the hotel ‘We’ve all turned off our phones,’ he says ‘It is lovely to be away from the outside world for a while.’ the five scientists gather in the hotel lobby Five EU employees lead the astronomers through the room where the press conference will take place The plans for the press conference are being changed right up to the last minute Journalists who had already picked out a spot are asked to leave the press room temporarily: a spokesperson wants to test the slides one last time The tension in the European Commission headquarters is tangible In addition to 75 journalists from all over the world many Eurocrats and #EHTBlackHole staff are in the room When the astronomers walk to their seats on the stage ‘Today we are announcing a major breakthrough for humanity,’ says Carlos Moedas ‘We are going to present an image of a phenomenon that one person dreamed of a century ago: Albert Einstein.’ Professor Heino Falcke will soon reveal the image that we have been waiting for.’ Because it takes a while for the film to begin Heino introduces the four scientists next to him: Monica While holding onto the lectern with his left hand 500 billion light years – eh – 500 billion kilometres away from us.’ ‘I never believed this black hole was as big as people said surround by a halo of bright yellow radiation ‘This is the nucleus of the galaxy M87 and this is the first ever image of a black hole.’ After he has given the microphone to Luciano Rezzolla Occasionally he smiles at what a colleague says no one asks the trough questions that were practiced yesterday Falcke gazes into the room with shining eyes journalists and colleagues from the Event Horizon Telescope: everyone wants to shake hands with him A small reception is held next to the press room Moscibrodzka relaxes after speaking to the whole world ‘The last 24 hours I lived on adrenaline and water,’ jokes the Polish astronomer When an interview threatens to run over time ‘I haven’t had any time to call or text anyone,’ Falcke says enjoyment is possible only when you look back on something There is a beautiful Bible text about that You must leave the past behind and look forward ’Thank you for your enthusiasm and support,’ Heino tweets ‘This was a nerve-racking ride for all of us – from observation to publication We can finally share this precious image with the whole world Falcke has acquired another 1,407 followers in one day The professor will stay another night in Brussels: tomorrow he will give a lecture as part of the centenary conference of the International Astronomical Union This will be followed by several lectures at Cambridge and in the Netherlands ‘I don’t know yet what I’m going to talk about.’ Falcke will take a week off after Easter to go to a Christian conference in 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Read our privacy statement if you want to know more about how we use your data daily or weekly update with our articles in your mailbox This can be done anonymously using the form Wij maken gebruik van cookies.Lees meer hierover in onze privacy statement websitebezoek en gebruik wordt gemeten en gebruikersgegevens worden anoniem verzameld Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Employees of the costume retailer Deiters pose in costumes from the series "Squid Game" by the streaming provider Netflix When carnivalists celebrate the Elften Elften and with it the start of the jecken Jahreszeit the influence of streaming series on the choice of costumes will probably make itself felt this time too The demand for costumes from the South Korean series "The Squid Game" is high the managing director of the costume retailer Deiters participants in a deadly game wear dark green tracksuits with numbers on them and there are also guards in red overalls with black masks It is not the first time that Netflix & Co have had a visual impact on the jecke season a conspicuous number of costumed people mingled with the revellers wearing a red suit and a Dalí mask - just like the bank robbers in the Spanish series "House of Money" After the 2020/21 session celebrations - i.e carnival time - were cancelled due to Corona events will be allowed again in the session starting at 11 a.m this ends a long lull in business: the branches had been closed since March 2020 - with a brief period of opening in late summer and early autumn 2020 It was not until October 1 that the market leader in the niche sector reopened 29 branches Two shops had to remain closed because they had been severely damaged in the July floods: in Eschweiler and in Leverkusen The branch business and the online shop are now doing well It was noticeable that customers were very keen on Halloween and carnival and wanted to escape from the grey Corona everyday life Deiters' business turnover plummeted by 90 percent compared to the time before the pandemic but demand was weak there too due to a lack of celebration opportunities music and swaying are huge - and in this context also for costumes," says the manager who is optimistic for the coming months he says it is still unclear whether turnover can return to the pre-Corona level we are going into the next few months with a good dose of humility." It borders on a miracle that Deiters has been able to survive such a long sales slump - it also shows how robust the company is and how good the business model is in principle there is one theme that is not to be found in Deiters' extensive stock of costumes: the pandemic "There would certainly have been sales potential but that would have been in bad taste and just plain wrong." So they don't offer that Most people probably wouldn't have been thrilled to see such a macabre viral disguise anyway you don't want to see it as a costume at carnival celebrations as well.“ Deiters says it has 280 permanent employees the vast majority of whom have been on reduced hours for a year and a half dressing up occasions like Halloween or theme parties are important for the company which also has shops far away from the carnival strongholds in the Rhineland - for example in Stuttgart non-carnival business does not normally account for even a third of Deiters' annual turnover The company from Frechen is the market leader in the small costume sector A competitor with branches is Karnevalswierts from Heerlen near Aachen there are purely online suppliers who offer costumes from the series But anyone who decides to go out and buy from Deiters might be disappointed for the time being: The various "Squid Game" costumes are only partly in stock The reason for the patchy availability is delivery delays from Asia - like many other companies bottlenecks in global freight traffic are causing problems for the Rhineland costume retailer Die Stadt Frechen und RWE Power bereiten die Entwicklung eines Neubaugebiets in Habbelrath vor Das rund acht Hektar große Wohngebiet mit 120 Wohneinheiten soll zwischen der Ammerstraße und dem Rekultivierungswald des ehemaligen Tagebaus Frechen entstehen In einer Planungsvereinbarung aus dem Jahr 2019 hat sich RWE Power verpflichtet auch für Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen zu sorgen Schon jetzt werden Spielgeräte für den  künftigen Spielplatz beschafft und bald auch aufgestellt Davon profitieren bereits die Bürger des benachbarten Wohngebiets „Frechen ist ein attraktiver Wohn- und Arbeitsort Mit dem geplanten Neubaugebiet kann der gefragte Wohnraum insbesondere auch für die ortsansässige Bevölkerung geschaffen werden Mit dem neuen Trampolin und der Nestschaukel auf dem Spielplatz an der Klosterstraße profitieren nicht nur die neuen Mitbürger sondern auch die Kinder im alten Ortsteil“ sagt Frechens Bürgermeisterin Susanne Stupp Die Planungsvereinbarung war ein wichtiger Schritt um das Bebauungsplanverfahren Anfang 2020 fortzusetzen Der Beschluss über den Entwurf des Bebauungsplans soll noch in diesem Jahr gefällt werden Nach Abschluss dieses Verfahrens kann voraussichtlich im ersten Quartal 2021 mit der Erschließung des Baugebiets sowie der Vermarktung der Grundstücke begonnen werden Außerdem sind ein Kindergarten und die Schaffung weiterer Grundschulplätze geplant Auch an diesen Kosten beteiligt sich RWE Power „Frechen ist nach wie vor ein sehr wichtiger Standort von RWE mit diesem Projekt attraktiven Wohnraum direkt am Rekultivierungswald zu schaffen Frechen soll ein guter Platz fürs Wohnen und Arbeiten bleiben“ Bereichsleiter Flächenmanagement bei RWE Power.  Derzeit sind 120 Wohneinheiten in Einfamilien- und Mehrfamilienhäusern geplant Die Grundstücke für Einfamilienhäuser sind 250 bis 600 Quadratmeter groß RWE Power wird die Flächen erschließen und vermarkten Die Grundstückspreise stehen noch nicht fest Das Neubaugebiet wird durch den Rekultivierungswald die Frechener Straße und die Ammerstraße begrenzt Interessenten wenden sich an Andrea Otto von der Abteilung Liegenschaftsprojekte der  RWE Power: Sie ist telefonisch unter 0221 480-1333 und per E-Mail an [email protected] zu erreichen [Foto: Michael Kleinjung --- Enzo Wirtz erreichte in der Torjägerliste den dritten Platz am letzten Spieltag hatte der Meister aus Hohkeppel spielfrei.] Chris-Leon Kayser (SV Bergisch Gladbach 09) Marios-Paraskevos Akrivos (Germania Teveren) Alexander Hürtgen (Borussia Freialdenhoven) Aboudoul Tchadjej (Borussia Freialdenhoven) Leonardo Dos Santos Figueira (FV Bonn-Endenich) Jose Pierre Vunguidica (Eintracht Hohkeppel) Stefano Fragapane (SV Bergisch Gladbach 09) Nikolaos Mavroudakis (SV Bergisch Gladbach 09) Alexander Mironescu (SV Bergisch Gladbach 09) Maximilian Wickum (Borussia Freialdenhoven) Anmerkung: Die Tore aus den Partien mit Beteiligung des zurückgezogenen BCV Glesch-Paffendorf wurden aus der Übersicht genommen Zu dieser Meldung werden keine Leserkommentare freigeschaltet