A staff member works at an oil-paper umbrella shop in Huangling Village of Wuyuan County Wuyuan County has been making efforts to promote rural tourism by exploring and utilizing its unique natural resources and traditional culture 2024 shows a view of Huangling Village of Wuyuan County A woman dries farm produce at Huangling Village of Wuyuan County 2024 shows a view of Shimen Village of Wuyuan County A villager sells local specialties at Shimen Village of Wuyuan County A tourist visits Shimen Village of Wuyuan County Tourists visit Huangling Village of Wuyuan County A craftsman makes a straw raincoat at Huangling Village of Wuyuan County 2024 shows an interior view of a homestay at Shimen Village of Wuyuan County and hydraulic flushing to boost sediment removal (Taipei Feitsui Reservoir Administration photo) 3235TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Water Resources Agency said Monday that 25.12 million cubic meters of sediment was removed from reservoirs across Taiwan last year The agency said that compared to 2022, 4.62 million cubic meters more sediment was removed from reservoirs last year. Taiwan's steep reservoir catchment areas are highly susceptible to large amounts of sediment during typhoons and heavy rainfall, CNA reported The agency said the average annual sediment inflow to reservoirs across Taiwan is about 17.6 million cubic meters The agency has enhanced sediment removal from reservoirs since 2022 by implementing methods and Tainan’s Nanhua and Baihe reservoirs utilized rainfall from typhoons Gaemi and Kong-rey last year to conduct hydraulic flushing removing 6.87 million cubic meters of sediment The agency said Shimen Reservoir has removed 13.51 million cubic meters of sediment from 2022 to last year The reservoir's average annual sediment removal reached 4.5 million cubic meters marking a 74.96% increase from previous levels The reservoir operates three dredgers for sediment removal They removed more than 4.2 million cubic meters of sediment last year making them the key contributors to the reservoir's cleanup efforts The agency will continue sediment removal operations at the nation's reservoirs It will also collaborate with relevant agencies to enhance soil and water conservation and manage sediment in catchment areas Typhoon Gaemi fills Taiwan’s reservoirs with 210 million tons of water Heavy rain advisory issued for western Taiwan central Taiwan water resources remain tight Rains bring needed water to Taiwan’s reservoirs Water supply in Taiwan’s reservoirs down to three months Taiwan dollar hits NT$29 per US dollar triggering currency exchange rush Taipei MRT reminds passengers of drinking water ban Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes off east Taiwan Vietjet flight makes unscheduled landing in Taiwan Four Vietnamese residents found dead in northern Taiwan Central Bank steps in as Taiwan dollar posts strong single-day gain Taiwan ranked 2nd most innovative country in world Taiwan ranks 1st in Asia on World Press Freedom Index US tech earnings spark Taiwan stock market rally Rising Taiwan dollar over Trump tariffs has pros and cons The dates displayed for an article provide information on when various publication milestones were reached at the journal that has published the article activities on preceding journals at which the article was previously under consideration are not shown (for instance submission Journal of Hazardous MaterialsCitation Excerpt :The geology is dominated by dolomite and limestone with an average pH value and an organic matter content of approximately 6.55 and 19.7 g·kg−1 The residents in a nearby village living mainly along the river and growing vegetables in their backyards (Yang et al. 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To subscribe, please read here.) aiming to become a common public space uniting the two areas.  all images courtesy of DnA unless stated otherwise DnA has converted the abandoned 260-meter long shimen bridge into a viewing platform for the songyi river and the wuyang dam and can potentially be used in many different ways such as a weekend bridge market or for a holiday parade. the covered wooden structure features a pitched roof that represents the local building typology with openings that echo the structure rhythm of the existing bridge arch an enlarged platform planted with tree rows resembles a floating island on the river.  designboom’s coverage of the 2018 venice architecture biennale is in partnership with leading energy company edison. edison is taking part in the 16th international architecture exhibition of la biennale di venezia by initiating a path towards sustainability and the efficient use of resources the collaboration between edison and la biennale is based on awareness that energy is one of the fundamental elements of architecture and of the places AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style Metrics details Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has become a major public health problem in China with mounting evidence suggesting that recent transmission accounts for the majority of MDR-TB Here we aimed to reveal the transmission pattern of an MDR-TB outbreak in the Jing'an District of Shanghai between 2010 and 2015 We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to conduct genomic clustering analysis along with field epidemiological investigation to determine the transmission pattern and drug resistance profile of a cluster with ten MDR-TB patients in combining field epidemiological investigation The ten MDR-TB patients with genotypically clustered Beijing lineage strains lived in a densely populated old alley with direct or indirect contact history The analysis of genomic data showed that the genetic distances of the ten strains (excluding drug-resistant mutations) were 0–20 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) suggesting that the ten MDR-TB patients were infected and developed the onset of illness by the recent transmission of M The genetic analysis confirmed definite epidemiological links between the clustered cases The integration of the genotyping tool in routine tuberculosis surveillance can play a substantial role in the detection of MDR-TB transmission events The leverage of genomic analysis in combination with the epidemiological investigation could further elucidate transmission patterns Whole-genome sequencing could be integrated into intensive case-finding strategies to identify missed cases of MDR-TB and strengthen efforts to interrupt transmission According to the TB Information Management System in Shanghai 3395 TB cases were reported in 2019 with a reported incidence of 25/100,000 with an overall drug-resistance rate of 11.7% and MDR-TB of 3.7% Understanding the transmission pattern of MDR-TB is of great importance to prevent and control TB we identified genotypically clustered strains The largest identified cluster included ten MDR-TB cases of which all the patients were living in the same community and had symptom onset over ten years we performed combined whole-genome sequencing analysis and field epidemiological investigation of these ten MDR-TB patients to further understand the transmission pattern and the cause of this MDR-TB cluster The result of this study could provide evidence to inform more efficient MDR-TB control strategies in urban areas Epidemiological links were defined as follows: "confirmed epidemiological links" were recognized if two patients were close contacts/acquaintances or resided in the same location; "probable epidemiological links" were recognized if two patients resided in a neighborhood or frequently shared common spaces All interviews were performed retrospectively by trained interviewers after obtaining informed consent If the patient was not able to participate in the interview themselves On-site investigation of TB patients was carried out according to national TB control guidelines Eight of the ten patients who visited the same game room frequently in this ally All ten MDR-TB patients were infected with strains belonging to the Beijing family in sublineage 2.2.2 (Modern Beijing strain), and had the same spologotyping pattern (000000000003771). Table 3 showed the drug susceptibility profiles and drug resistance mutations in related genes Each of the ten patients had the same fixed INH and SM resistant related gene mutations (katG-315S/T The other DR mutations were described below in the transmission chain analysis We did not observe any fixed drug-resistant mutations to second-line anti-TB drugs single-nucleotide polymorphism-based phylogeny of multidrug-resistant isolates and mutations of drug-resistant genes among ten clustered multidrug-resistant TB strains This phylogenetic tree was based on 10 sequences with a total 68 core single nucleotide variant positions (MEGA v9.0) indicating the putative early transmission events related to these two patients Based on the alignment of the SNPs of the ten MDR M. tuberculosis strains, we mapped the drug-resistant mutations on the phylogenetic tree of each node (Fig. 1) We observed consistent mutation profiles of drug resistance genes of INH those strains located at the end branch had several unique drug-resistance mutations including the gyrA A90C in 2010–1007 and 2010–1008 These findings provide further evidence of direct transmission of MDR-TB strains and suggest the acquisition of additional drug-resistance mutation during the transmission of MDR-TB strains WGS data can accurately describe transmission direction by comparing differences in SNPs between TB strains in a cluster Transmission tree based on the time-labeled phylogenic tree of the ten MDR-TB patients The star and the change of color represent the occurrence of transmission event or new infection Our investigation found that some of the patients in this cluster had occasional contacts in the game room suggesting that short contacts that do not typically qualify as long-term contacts may lead to infection we were impressed that this neighborhood was one of the largest traditional residences in Shanghai which was eventually demolished in April 2013 there were 2500 households and about 4000 residents living in the area of 40,000 square meters poorly ventilated fast-food restaurants and family game rooms As a result of the relocation and other historical reasons Given the suggestion that casual contacts may lead to successful transmission public health officials should take measures to discover and treat MDR-TB patients among those potentially exposed households to control the transmission of MDR-TB This also raises the limitation that this demolition of the alley could lead to an incomplete contact evaluation Incomplete treatment may facilitate the transmission of MDR-TB Our findings suggest that a surveillance system integrating molecular genotyping may detect putative transmission of MDR-TB strains in the community and inform the epidemiological investigation of the transmission network Routine or ideally real-time implementation of the genotyping and WGS tools may be informative to initial the alarm of possible outbreaks due to the technological and financial reasons the powerful genomic sequencing is not available or at impractical costs in many high TB burden regions including the rural parts of China the WGS cannot be presented as the only solution capable of tracing the epidemiological relationships for the control of tuberculosis in different countries as it has been systematically emphasized in scientific publications on the molecular characterization of M suggesting short-term and effective treatment strategies may be crucial to contain the spreading of MDR-TB we observed a local transmission of MDR-TB in one relocated-community in Jing’an district in Shanghai Our findings suggest that intensive TB screening might help to control local TB epidemics especially in settings where there is a local transmission of MDR-TB public health efforts should increase the intensity of the active case finding of MDR-TB and target interventions to shared spaces that are commonly frequented This is especially true of poorly ventilated spaces rapid diagnostic technology to screen for TB and drug-resistance may enhance the early detection of MDR-TB These intensive interventions could improve the monitoring and management of drug resistance TB patients and may ultimately reduce the transmission of MDR-TB All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article and its Additional file 1 All the sorted BAM files of the sequences were deposited in the NCBI Bioproject (PRJNA679962) WHO: Global Tuberculosis report 2020. 2020. http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/2020 Whole-genome sequencing and social-network analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak Three-year population-based evaluation of standardized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genotyping and whole-genome sequencing to identify tuberculosis transmission to pediatric patients in British Columbia Whole genome sequencing for improved understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 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Molecular-epidemiological study on the transmission of drug resistant tuberculosis and its influencing factors in rural areas of eastern China Molecular and geographic patterns of tuberculosis transmission after 15 years of directly observed therapy The epidemiology of tuberculosis in San Francisco A population-based study using conventional and molecular methods An outbreak involving extensive transmission of a virulent strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis National survey of drug-resistant tuberculosis in China Efficacy and effect of free treatment on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis Download references We thank the Shanghai CDC TB Laboratory staff for providing the TB isolates for this study We thank the Jing’an District Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Second Shimen Road Community Health Center for their assistance with an epidemiological investigation This work is supported by Public Health research Project of Science and Technology Committee of Jing'an District 2020GW01) and National Key Research and Development Program of China (No Zhiying Han and Jing Li contributed equally to this work Department of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Jing’an District Center for Disease Control and Prevention Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention Second Shimen Road Community Health Center and HY contributed to the questionnaire design JL and YZ contributed to the demographic and epidemiological data collection and HY contributed to the epidemiological investigations and YJ contributed to laboratory testing and molecular data analysis and JL prepared and reviewed the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript The study protocol was approved by the Ethical Review Committee at the Shanghai CDC (2014-1) All the participants in this study provided informed consent before they were interviewed in their household or the community health center/clinics An investigation team including at least one local community health worker and one CDC staff conducted the investigation All investigations and methods were carried out in accordance with Shanghai CDC guidelines and regulations The authors declare that they have no competing interests Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Maximum-likelihood tree of ten MDR-TB strains and H37Rv The bootstrap was showed as percentage of 1000 runs Maximum-likelihood tree of ten MDR-TB strains Estimated transmission tree based on the time-labeled phylogenic tree of the ten MDR-TB patients unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06725-0 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker A 26-year-old Kiryas Joel man was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for his part in a plot last year to kidnap and kill a fellow Hasid who had refused his estranged wife a divorce Shimen Liebowitz pleaded guilty in July to conspiring to commit extortion He has already served almost 15 months in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center since federal agents arrested him and two co-defendants in September 2016 so his remaining sentence is about nine months The prison time Judge Sidney Stein imposed in U.S District Court in Manhattan on Thursday was less than the 33-41 months Liebowitz faced under federal sentencing guidelines His two fellow defendants were sentenced in the same courtroom on Thursday a 56-year-old Israeli rabbi who had pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit kidnapping and murder for hire a 34-year-old Rockland County resident who admitted to concealing the plot from law enforcement officers Prosecutors say the men paid a private investigator $73,000 over two months to coerce a Brooklyn man into giving his estranged wife in Kiryas Joel the permission she needed under Jewish law to divorce him The plot escalated from kidnapping to killing the husband The private investigator recorded his conversations with the defendants and turned the recordings over to the FBI cmckenna@th-record.com An archaeological excavation is underway at the Shimen Pagoda ruins in Chujiang town around 6,500 square meters have been excavated and nearly 500 sites houses and tombs from the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century-11th century BC) to Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368) Song and Yuan dynasties have been unearthed and the majority of items are from the Shang Dynasty the excavation will provide new evidence for the traits of the tombs and cultural landscape of the Han Qin Zhengyu suffers from skin cancer - a not uncommon affliction in Heshan village which stands in a part of China that is rich in realgar Mines and chemical plants mushroomed in the area before being shut down in 2011 due to the pollution they caused dust and runoff from arsenic still plague Heshan to this day and villagers say that many have died from cancer caused by arsenic poisoning a pair of tanks stand at a closed plant for mining realgar Arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds - used among other things for herbicides and wood preservatives - are listed as carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization Research in the 1990s showed that arsenic concentration in the mining area near Heshan was up to 15 times the level deemed safe for farm land by Chinese government standards had died of cancer caused by arsenic poisoning in the previous two decades and another 190 had developed cancer due to arsenic poisoning the villagers wrote in a letter to the local government An official surnamed Tan at Baiyun township government declined to comment for this story when reached by telephone Xiong Demin and his wife Wen Jin'e (pictured above) both suffer from cancer which they blame on arsenic pollution left by the mining and processing of realgar Xiong used to maintain machines in the mine and had an operation in 2012 for skin cancer who used to wash clothes in the polluted river was treated for skin and cervical cancer in 2011 Wen pulls down her trousers to reveal a scar – the legacy of her cervical cancer treatment She and her husband each got 10,000 yuan ($1,600) from the local government for their cancer but it was not even enough for one round of chemotherapy and radiotherapy Cancer treatment had drained their savings “We will just hang on for as long as we can there's not much money for medicines," she said "I just don't want to die too painfully when the end comes." is another Heshan resident who has skin cancer With so many people in the area suffering from disease photographer Jason Lee asked Gong if he kept any photographs of deceased relatives Having suffered and been tortured by the disease for so long the relationships between family members become flat,” Gong said A villager washes clothes in a river in Heshan An entrance to a disused mine is sealed up whose husband died from skin and lung cancer a 78-year-old who suffers from skin cancer that developed from arsenic poisoning poses for a photograph as he shows the ulcers on his skin He shows a medical certificate from Shimen People's Hospital confirming that he developed skin cancer as a result of arsenic poisoning Wu Qiongyao shows the skin ointments which her husband uses for his ulcers A portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong is taped to the wall at Gong Zhaoyuan's home Medicines used by 71-year-old Xiong Demin are piled together for a photograph A dog sleeps in front of Wen Jin'e and Xiong Demin's home in Heshan walks towards a bus stop on his way to hospital to have an X-Ray taken of his lungs Damaged cowpea seedlings grow in a field in Heshan A scarecrow stands in a field in the village Journal of Environmental ManagementCitation Excerpt :In order to further explore whether bacteria can still promote algae growth under As pollution conditions a compatibility experiment of strains was carried out 1 mg L−1 and 10 mg L−1 were selected to represent the content of available As in the soil and the highest content of As in the river of the mining area Eight treatments were established as the following: 1 mg L−1 As(V) + C Journal of Hazardous MaterialsCitation Excerpt :Sphingomonas (0.33%−9.10%) and Pseudomonas (0.09%−14.95%) were the dominant bacterial genera in all treatments most of these bacteria genera were heavy metal-tolerant bacteria genera and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and they were significantly affected by different treatments (Li et al. the genera Sphingomonas was active and potentially functional genus in degrading various hazardous organic compounds and tolerant in metal-contaminated soils (Tangaromsuk et al. Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :Little is known about Pelomonas physiology in respect to ochre formation except that some strains can be associated with wetlands as endophytic bacteria (Li et al. together with other bacteria including Rhodoferax are possibly capable of Cr(IV) reduction in CH4 fed membrane biofilm reactor (Zhong et al. Bacteroidetes are regularly reported as constituents of As and Sb polluted environments (e.g. however no clear evidence for Emticicia and Arcicella two abundant species in MDZ.OD.1018.1 sample higher abundance of alphaproteobacterium Sphingomonas has been detected 2021 shows the Shimen reservoir in Taoyuan Taiwan is facing its worst drought in decades with the island's reservoirs at dangerously low water levels 17 of the island's 19 major reservoirs were at less than 50 percent capacity according to data from the island's water conservancy authorities.(Photo: Xinhua) You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Join over 9000 global opinion formers by subscribing to Fathom's influential Weekly Newsletter Professor Moshe Koppel is the founder and executive chairman of Forum Kohelet an influential think tank instrumental in formulating currently being challenged in Israel’s Supreme Court he refers repeatedly to a search for a point of ‘equilibrium’ able to keep Jewish communities Much of the book focuses on models of Jewish life and identity in the United States I will set out below why I am not convinced that Judaism Straight Up actually presents a viable model and certainly not for all times and places Towards the end of the book we are presented with the claim that a new organic form of Judaism is emerging in Israel and it may reach a new equilibrium point after 2,000 years of exilic existence Koppel’s worldview puts ideology in the back seat The question of why we should sustain Judaism is separated from the question of how it is best sustained In line with that choice I will only address the second question here even though we need to debate the first as a priority At some point we will have to consider what makes Judaism good and let that directs us to what might make it work Koppel uses the device of semi-fictional characters to promote his notion of a viable model for Jewish existence who will stay with us more or less throughout the book he has fewer of those external trappings we normally associate with the more closed Hasidic communities Heidi grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household but has become distanced from the traditions she grew up with as they have come into conflict with her modern and liberal values Seemingly based on real people (a friend of Moshe’s grandfather and a student he met at Princeton) they are used as vehicles by Koppel to present his central thesis: Shimen’s community while Heidi’s world of universal values and statism are not we are given a most troubled and rather off-putting character I set out reading the book with high expectations that Shimen’s intuitive Judaism or as Rabbi Elli Fischer put it in his Lehrhaus review ‘The Torah of the Kishkes,’ would convince as a successful and sustainable model for Judaism The reality is that Koppel himself reveals that the shteibel and kugel culture is no more sustainable than many other religious models they having been murdered in the Holocaust and hence we can’t know really whether his Judaism can be transferred across the generations In the book we are offered a metaphor for the location Shimen finds himself on: a narrow ‘cultural’ ridge which falls away steeply on either side Shimen and the idealised form of Judaism that he represents is placed unsteadily at the apex of this ridge but the next generation will not be able be stay there characters who could easily have been his children but we see both slide from the narrow apex of this cultural ridge to the religious and social left and right Yitzy withdraws to Brooklyn moving behind the defensive walls of Haredi society with minimal engagement in the outside world while Ben becomes a substantially acculturated modern orthodox Jew secondary to his commitment to profession and liberal values Judaism Straight Up combines the stories of Shimen and Heidi with ideas from moral psychology to set out a sophisticated argument for an intuitive kind of religion that acts on us more like a first language rather than a set of laws and dogmas Koppel seeks a community-based Judaism able to navigate between a fealty to tradition and a functional engagement with modernity And there is surely much to commend this effort to highlight communitarian ideas as a solution to the moral and social ills of 2021 Somewhat more concisely than Rabbi Sacks’ Morality Koppel uses the image of Heidi leaving her Jewish tradition behind to examine what ails the Jews of postmodern North America as their heritage and tradition is gradually replaced by a statism based on an abstract set of universal values He argues that this switch to universal values this turning away from the traditional communal values cannot sustain itself whereas a community based on the intuitive values Shimen received from previous generations will possess the social capital to do so Heidi’s way of life does not enjoy such resilience We should dwell for a moment on the anti-hero of our story but gradually becomes estranged from her Jewish roots She finds it hard and eventually impossible to square her views informed as they are by modern liberal American society with the Orthodox Jewish approach to feminism we can say she switches attaching importance to loyalty and purity and fairness to a commitment to fairness alone this is the transition from conservative to liberal morality Koppel tells us that he ‘will try throughout to represent Heidi’s views fairly’ but the book paints a fairly negative and patronising picture which only gets worse when we meet Amber ends up (seemingly inevitably) as a Judaism-hating Israel-loathing globalist seeking to tear down all the very institutions that Shimen stands for The regression from Heidi to Amber is not inevitable There other many alternatives for liberal Jews in America Not all millennial American Jews become super-angry or join the radical intersectional circles one cannot but feel sympathy for this lovable grandpa figure who having lost most of his close family in the Holocaust rebuilds his life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan attending a shteibl for the remainder of his days Although not an exact replica of what he might have attended in pre-war Poland the synagogue reminds us of all the good things that were destroyed in Europe Shimen’s own grandfather is most likely to have grown up in 19th century Eastern Europe He may have been similar to Anatevka’s Tevye Shlomo Aleichem’s famed narrating character who became the ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ But what we do know is the Judaism that was passed across the generations for hundreds of years struggled to cope with the onslaught of modernity Modernity ravaged the Orthodox communities Before Reform or Conservative Judaism even existed there was the mass exodus from the ghetto communities to the outside world academia and to acceptance by their European peers The equilibrium described by Prof Koppel was not just disturbed Can any community engaged in the practice of Judaism really rely on a deceptive sense of equilibrium to contend with the changes of the external world There have been many religious responses to the onset of modernity from Reform and Conservative Judaism to the neo-Orthodoxy of Rabbi Dr Samson Raphael Hirsch from the neo-Haredism of the Chatam Sofer to religious Zionism The intensity of the challenge that modern society has presented has remained relentless Each has had its successes and its failures American Orthodoxy was genuinely concerned that they faced an existential threat to the religious way of life but today they are the most vibrant minority in Jewish America The most passionately Jewish communities of the Old Yishuv were decimated in the first half of the last century in Jerusalem people have been giving the last rights to liberal Judaism in America for decades claiming that without a deep commitment to spirituality Towards the end of the book Koppel shares an oft presented view from Israel that sustainable authentic and successful exilic Jewish life traditional but engaging with the outside world from his vantage point of Jerusalem in 2020 sees an American Jewry with only two possible futures: a cloistered Haredi Jewry defending itself constantly from the outside world attempting to reduce its influence to a minimum but becoming a bookish and quite extreme form of religion or not sensitive to the Diaspora’s long history of radical adaption Israelis should approach the diaspora with more humility Judaism survived an awfully long time in exile without Jewish sovereignty Koppel’s notion of an ‘equilibrium’ is too simple Our world is dynamic and changing patterns of human consciousness and understandings of morality do challenge Judaism That is not to say that our religion must dance to the beat of every social change but Heidi’s disillusionment with what Orthodoxy Kugel alone cannot answer all these questions we are shown how Shimen and Heidi’s counterparts get by in Israel the strands of different Jewish living in Israel – secular Perhaps in a sequel we could see how this story might develop I certainly hope to see a Jewsraeli[1] response to modernity and other key Jewish symbols forming its cultural substrate Judaism is Israeli society’s cultural first language We need a quietly confident and socially grounded process that nurtures new expressions of Judaism in line with the realities of being a majority I am confident that learning about and from the Diaspora will enhance our chances of being successful exactly the type of multi-communal living that thrives in the Diaspora is something we are sorely lacking here in Israel This is certainly a point that the book could have made more forcefully that it is through the kinship of diverse communities that we can maybe renew the Jewish equilibrium that Koppel is looking for Judaism Straight Up offers an opportunity to learn from an influential Israeli conservative thinker and to see how he thinks about Jewish survival [1] The term is taken from Shmuel Rosner’s #IsraeliJudaism Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) and the New Taipei City Government have struck a deal to allow the activation of the Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant’s spent fuel storage facility, ending an 11-year legal battle, the state-owned electricity company said yesterday. The dry storage facility, which was designated to be used for the disposal of materials from the deactivated plant in the city’s Shihmen District (石門), could not be completed since the city government had not approved its water and soil conservation plans and delayed the completion date. Last month’s earthquake in Hualien, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, has underscored the dangers of storing spent fuel in reactor cooling pools and the need to build dry storage facilities that can hold high-level radioactive waste, Taipower said in a news release. The company reached a mediated settlement with the city government on April 1 and submitted relevant documents on April 18 for approval, it said. The improvements to the facility’s retaining walls and drainage systems would begin a month after the publication of the construction notice, Taipower said. The improvements would be finished in three months and following that, the storage facility would be activated in four to six months, it said. Plans for another dry storage facility for the Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Wanli District (萬里) are stuck in legal limbo, Taipower said. Taipower hopes to achieve an agreement with the city government regarding the power plant, it added. The Jinshan plant’s storage facility could not be used for storing the Guosheng plant’s spent fuel due to difficulties in transporting high-level radioactive waste and the legal problems that changing the stated purpose of the storage site might cause, Taipower said. The most significant issue with nuclear energy is safety, and the city government took time during negotiations to ensure that no danger would stem from the facility’s proximity to river systems and the stability of the grounds, New Taipei City Deputy Mayor Liu Ho-jan (劉和然) said. The city government hopes that Taipower would build the storage facility according to the specifications and furnish the water and soil conservation plan on time, Liu said. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said that the ministry supports the negotiations. For public safety reasons it necessary to ensure that spent fuel rods could be removed from the nuclear power plant, Wang said. The ministry is mediating the dispute between Taipower and the New Taipei City Government over the proposed dry storage facility for the Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant, she said. Taipower is not able to begin the construction of the nuclear waste depository due to the disagreement, Wang said. The ministry hopes to resolve it soon, she added. Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Article contentSCHOOL: Lambrick Park (Victoria) VICTORIA — She ran her first triathlon at the age of five, and she is contemplating a major in bio-chemistry. And when Shimen Fayad rises off the volleyball court seeking a kill, she does so with a ferocity that has her soon-to-be head coach at Wichita State University speaking in the kinds of superlatives normally reserved for seasoned veterans. “She could be one of the special players in our program,” said Shockers’ head coach Chris Lamb this past November when the 6-foot outside hitter from Victoria’s Lambrick Park Secondary officially announced her post-secondary destination. “We would like her to become the do-everything, go-to outside hitter that doesn’t come around every year.” That’s how special The Province’s 2013-14 senior girls volleyball Player of the Year is viewed outside of B.C. As an unstoppable force this past season, Fayad led the Lions to the B.C. Double A championship title, and in the process was named tournament MVP. And when she’s needed guidance, she has been able to lean on her father Jahmil, a former member of the Canadian national team who also played his collegiate volleyball, in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California. “He has always been there to push me, to get me on the right path,” says Fayad. “And the best part is that he played the exact same position as me. We’re both big jumpers who can also play good defence in the back row. He and I, it’s almost like we’re the same person emotionally and physically.” The talent, the competitive drive and the best bloodlines possible. For Fayad, it has all intersected perfectly and she prepares for the next chapter. And truth be told, she figures that next chapter has already begun. Wichita State players will gather for testing June 31, and when Fayad got her worker program in the mail late last month, she wasted about two seconds of time ripping it open and getting to work. “It was a huge program for mobility stretching, power,” says Fayad. “I went out and did it that same day. I am ready to play and getting the program makes it more real, like now, I am actually doing this.” transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. 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The beloved star, who died at 48 in July, was cremated in August with her ashes laid to rest at Shimen Peak Memorial Park in Wuhan this past weekend saw Coco’s ashes buried alongside her father’s The ceremony was underway when guests spotted two butterflies fluttering in the sky. They were said to have flown in front of Coco’s sisters circling above their heads before lingering at the venue and then flying off Those present were left in awe by the butterflies’ timely appearance they wondered if "it was Coco and her dad paying everyone a visit” It didn’t take long for pictures of the butterfiles to reach Coco’s fans, many of whom echoing the sentiment that “Coco has been reunited with her dad” Another moving comment read: “Coco finally has a father to dote on her.” A statue made in Coco’s likeness was also revealed on the same day. Carved from white stone, the statue has angel-like wings and stands on a stage at the memorial park. 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Contact us A pocket park at the intersection of Nanjing Rd W Shanghai has built or renovated another 61 pocket parks this year taking the total number of such parks to 151 the city's greenery authorities announced on Wednesday Confronting a shortage of land resources in the city Shanghai's greenery authorities are making use of existing greenery in the city's corner areas to create pocket parks the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau said Existing trees in good condition are maintained and foliage and flower beds are added New varieties of plants have been introduced along with paths and benches 1 Road in Jing'an District features a vertical art greenery wall It is planted with plum blossom and red maple and is illuminated at night Another pocket park on Tongzhou Road in Hongkou District features hydrangea English letters and numbers are designed as decorative elements and benches with mosaic decoration and landscape walls are also featured A pocket park on Tongzhou Road in Hongkou District The design of the Caocunyuan Park in Putuo District maintains its original ginkgo trees and draws inspiration from orchid paintings A total of 105 square meters of water landscape has been created and the park also has an ring-shaped walkway amid the greenery a landscape platform and lighting facilities have been added Chinese tallow trees and maple have been newly planted Nearly 20 new varieties of magnolia have been introduced to the magnolia park at the intersection of Chongqing Rd S and Nanchang Road covering about 3,800 square meters in Huangpu District cherry blossom and iris to present more diversified colors.  A riverside pocket park in Huangpu District 1.Comments will appear only after being approved by our team so it might be a while before your comment is posted 2.In accordance with the Regulations on Internet News and Information Services and other related laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China comments should not contain anything that is obscene Please [ Login ] to leave a comment A fisherman was rescued after surviving 38 hours in the overturned hull of a fishing vessel Sunday morning The body of the captain was recovered later the same day sailed out of Keelung Harbor December 7 to fish for shrimp off the coast of Hsinchu County The vessel overturned in big waves while rounding Cape Fukuei on its way back to port the overturned vessel drifted aground at Shimen rescuers cut into the hull after hearing a response from the inside of the boat The rescue team pulled a Chinese nationality fisherman out of the wreck after which the Taiwanese captain was found dead in the engine compartment told TV news reporters that the other crew members were asleep when two big waves suddenly hit the vessel and caused it to capsize Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. this site is affected by big-tech/social media censorship Get Instant notification of latest news by email Taiwan English News is published by Phillip Charlier who is based in New Taipei City, Taiwan. If you have news tips or issues you want covered: Let me know and disruption of cooling facilities at a nearby nuclear reactor are all potential threats posed by the grounding of a freighter near Shimen Township in the waters of New Taipei City is grounded on rocks close to shore after losing power in bad weather shortly after departing from Keelung Harbor enroute to Hong Kong Breaches to the hull resulted in flooding of the engine compartment and damage to a fuel tank After grounding on March 9, 2016, rough conditions hampered efforts to approach the ship, but the crew of 21 was successfully airlifted on March 10. However, the following day, a helicopter landed EPA officials onto the ship to make inspections. While airlifting them off the ship, the aircraft lost control and crashed into the ocean An oil boom was floated around the ship in an attempt to contain oil spilling from the engine room but the rough conditions have limited efficacy of the boom The ship is carrying 447 tons of gasoline and 40 tons of diesel fuel The ship is also reported to be carrying 9 containers of hazardous materials There are also concerns that a significant oil spill could jeopardize the operations of a nearby nuclear power plant that relies on seawater for its cooling systems ​​​Member Login The National Board of Directors (NBoD) serves as steward of the PSAC between conventions Made up of the Alliance Executive Committee (AEC) along with the presidents of the 15 components the NBoD meets three times a year and as needed in order to render major program and policy decisions The Xi'an-Chengdu high-speed railway begins operation on December 6 Xi'an's city wall in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Xi'an City Wall in northwest China's Shaanxi Province The Dujiangyan irrigation system in Chengdu